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Tanjiro-kun's Adventure!; open
Topic Started: Feb 3 2012, 10:05 AM (328 Views)
Prince Arjuna
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"Kyaa~ so cute~" some schoolgirls were squealing happily as they saw someone in mascot costume. That mascot seemed to be distributing balloons to children. The mascot was a cartoonish, anime-esque white pomeranian named Tanjiro, who is also the identity of the shopping center. "Hi, we wanna take some pictures with you, Tanjiro-kuun~"

The mascot nodded, letting those schoolgirls do whatever they wanted. After taking several pictures with many poses (like hugging him, for instance), those schoolgirls bowed thankfully to the mascot. The mascot nodded before he continued distributing the balloons to the children.

"Why am I doing this again?"

"Should I remind you, Edward?"

"Shut the fuck up, Mordred."

Inside the costume was none other than Edward Keller, a professional hitman who ended up working as a part-time worker as a mascot due to some reasons that he didn't like to specify. Sighing, he gave the last balloon to one kid.

"Thank you, mister dog!" the kid thanked him, beaming cheerfully.

"Yeah right, whatever..." Edward rolled his eyes and thankfully the kid didn't see him doing that since he was wearing a costume. Sighing again, he was wondering why would he end up working as a mascot in the first place. If a kid were to see what's inside the costume, he would be scarred for the rest of his life.

Sighing again, he took another batch of balloons, distributing them to children.
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The quiet girl had happily spent the last couple of hours picking over the shopping center's incredibly diverse selection of seeds and pre-potted plants and now the basket hanging off of her arm had a choice selection of seed packets, as well as a small plant that had looked neglected by the staff that she had decided to "adopt." She had paid for the goods and been prepared to leave when she noticed a commotion among some other school girls.

Tanjiro-kun!

She liked Tanjiro-kun. She loved Tanjiro-kun. She had nearly the entire collection of Tanjiro-kun plushies. Her keychain was Tanjiro-kun. Though no one ever called her on it, her cell phone's ring tone was the Tanjiro Shopping Center's barking theme song. If they had a Tanjiro-kun pillow, she might buy twenty just to ensure she had spares.

And he was here! Well, a guy in the mascot outfit was, anyway, which was just as good. Her cell phone had a camera ... A picture with Tanjiro-kun ...

She was approaching before she really could stop herself, and by the time Edward turned back around, Mori was standing there, unable to look the mascot in the "face" as she fidgeted with her phone, flipping it open and shut, turning it over in her hands. "Um ..." she tried, but nothing else followed. "Um ..." it came again. "Uh ... Um ..." Well, at least it would seem she was capable of more than one pronunciation. But then again, maybe it was just an extension of the Um that followed it.

Edward probably wasn't the most patient person, but even if he was, the girl remained there, unable to move past those most basic pronunciations. The desire for a picture with Tanjiro-kun had been strong enough to actually get her there, a Herculean feat in its own right, but it seemed inadequate to push her that last bit.
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Edward was distributing his last balloon to a snotty-looking kid when a schoolgirl came. Want to have pictures, perhaps? After giving the last balloon, Edward, as Tanjiro-kun turned to face the girl. And it seemed that the girl couldn't make out some perfect sentences other than 'um' or something like that.

"Whaddaya want?"
Edward asked gruffly, totally unmatched to his cutesy appearance as Tanjiro-kun.
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He might have physically struck her. She flinched and nearly dropped her phone, only barely catching it and visibly trembling. "Um ... I ... ah ... oh shucks ... uh ..." Her lower lip shook as she tried to gather her nerves, but her cowardice defeated her and she seemed to collapse on herself. "Nothing ..." But the desire for the picture kept her from skulking away, kept her standing there, wavering as she was like a stiff breeze might blow her away.
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Edward frowned (and his frown wasn't seen since he wore the costume) before he noticed the phone in the girl's hands. Sighing, he placed his hand on his head before he asked "You wanna take some pictures?" this time, he tried to not be mean and gruff like he did earlier. He might've frightened this poor girl.
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Mori gave a silent, careful nod. Then, after a moment or two, "... Would that be okay?"
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Sighing, Edward (still in Tanjiro-kun's costume) patted the girl's head. Since he was in his costume, it felt rather puffy. "Right, if you say so."

"You're unusually kind today, Edward."

"Would you shut your fucking mouth for a bit, Mordred?"
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She did say so, apparently, but even so, the first couple shots were clumsy and slow, as if the girl were unsure how to conduct herself. Soon, though, the allure of getting a good picture with Tanjiro-kun was more on her mind than who was inside the suit and the pursuit became progressively less how to make as little a scene as possible and more how to get the best picture. Soon, much like the girls before her, she was trying several poses to find the best one, some just side-by-side shots, some with her scratching the mascot's ears.

The winner finally ended up requiring Edward to kneel down so she could get one arm around his costume's neck, tucking her head between the dog head and shoulder, and stretched her other arm out as far as she could with the camera. Still, that wasn't overly far, and the picture failed to get much more than their heads in it. Edward's opinion would probably have been that the girl wasn't overly good at the smiling portion, as her widest, brightest one wasn't even far enough to break her lips open and show her teeth, but she seemed ecstatic with it.

Withdrawing from the shopping center employee, Mori bowed repeatedly. "Thank you," she said perhaps more than she bowed. "Thank you, thank you, thank you! I'm going to have it blown up into a poster! And a wallet! And, oh, I should get a frame! Thank you so much!"

This excited tone of hers was certainly louder than her opening mewling, but only in the same way first light is certainly brighter than the moments just prior. It was still quiet, shy. Still, the hitman would probably think, mewling.
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Yeah, right, Edward did all those poses the girl was asking him to do, for fuck's sake. After it's finished, Edward nodded as he said "Yeah, yeah, whatever..." in lazy tone before he continued distributing the balloons to other children.

And then, shit happened.

"Aaahhh! Help me!" a woman wailed miserably as a mean-looking guy grabbed her handbag. Man, what a cheap way to get money, Edward thought. The guy ran past Edward (still in Tanjiro-kun's costume) and the woman asked him to catch the guy. Sighing, he pulled out a gun from his bag and fired it at the guy who was fleeing away. Instead of bullet, the gun fired out a blunt projectile that wouldn't be fatal, but otherwise good enough to knock the asshole unconscious.

"There," Edward said. "He's down. Now go and get your handbag."
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Of course, pulling a gun and shooting someone in the middle of a shopping mall, especially in Japan where gun regulations were so strict, produced anything but peace and resolution. People ran, people fled, people screamed, and Mori went with them, disappearing into the mobs until she emerged in a hidden corner far away from the mascot, and she was dialing with shaky fingers the local emergency code.

"Tanjiro-kun's shooting up the shopping mall!" she practicall weeped into the phone when the first voice spoke up. "Please, someone help!"
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