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The California Chronicles: Thursday December 26th, Evening; Arrival [For the peeps invited on vacation with Shane and Natsumi]
Topic Started: Mar 16 2014, 03:28 PM (809 Views)
The One True Nobody
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"...does this clockwork hand follow you... or guide you?"
Kyo blinked, and frowned. "Wait... when has any name in No More Heroes ever not been a stupid name? In any country?" she asked in an honestly perplexed voice. Then again, she spent so much time around Western pop culture shit, maybe she just had a better sense for that kind of thing than the average Japanese teen? Well, whatever.

Shane quirked an eyebrow at the shoes comment. "Actually," he said, "it varies from place to place. You won't generally find every house has a little alcove for shoes and we usually don't keep indoor-and-outdoor shoes, but some households do make a point to take their shoes off. It depends. A lot of the time they just use doormats to get rid of anything on their bottoms of their shoes, though. Usually it's only when it's muddy out that anyone really puts thought into it, though."

"Fascinatin'," Kyo said dully, leaning her chin on one arm. "So Americans ain't uptight about gettin' dirt on floors they're gonna be vacuumin' just as often anyway. Y'know somethin' else they don't do? They don't care much about usin' each others' first names. Like, complete strangers'll just call ya by your first name like it's nothin'. I mean..."

Kyo snorted.

"That's what I do. But I'm 'obnoxious' and stuff. It's kinda like, the norm here." Kyo looked at Isoroku, raising her eyebrows as if to emphasize her own skepticism. "They also have like, the whole summer off o' school and Saturdays off as well as Sundays. Not as many days off along the way through the school year, though... y'wanna know somethin' else? Instead o' the teachers goin' from class t' class like our schools do, everyone in the classroom has t' get up and go t' the next class! The teachers don't move at all. So after every class, the students have t' make a mad dash t' their lockers and t' the next class with like, five minutes t' do it in, and make it inta class before the bell. Talk about a clusterfuck. Can you imagine Taiyoutono doin' that? There'd be trample deaths every other week! Oh but, the plus side t' that is, people in one homeroom don't all gotta be in the same schedule, so they can all pick different electives and stuff, and wind up in classes with different students at different times. So it's easier t' meet new people, I'd imagine."
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Well, she'd been half-joking when she'd mentioned No More Heroes and habits concerning shoes - it'd been a nudge towards changing the subject of the conversation, but the others had actually started to discuss the matter a little further. Well, her fault for bringing that up in the first place...

"...Fair point." she replied to Kyo's assesment of the stupidity if the names in No More Heroes, and simply listened to Shane go on about the habits of American concerning their footwear. Geez, she couldn't wait to get to their room so she could take her own shoes off for a few moments - she paid a little more attention when Kyo started talking about American schools and their difference with Japanese ones, though. Shane didn't correct her, so she could only suppose that there was some truth to what she was saying.

"Well, with all the folks skipping classes all the time, I guess hallways wouldn't be that crowded anyways." she replied to that in a deadpan tone, though the quip wasn't directed at anyone around the table.



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"Holly Summer's a perfectly fine name, as is Harvey's name." She supposed. She wasn't too hot on her Russian Naming conventions. "Most of the other characters just went with aliases, mind you: Bad Girl, Destroyman, Dr. Peace, Death Metal, Speed Buster…" Letz Shake sounded…eh, she's going to say yes?

It was all really fascinating, how they did things differently in the the land of the free and the home of the Whopper, but her intrest was still dwindling quickly. "Hey, Mayoi-san, do you wanna come see our room now? I think I'm going to get situated there." Whether or not she was interested or not? Hanako was going there.
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Oh my God, I LEFT THE STOVE ON AT HOME!

"I think the point of the names is that they're supposed to be stupid." Hiroko pointed out. "I mean, the main character's a loser with no day job who assassinates people to inflate his ego. The whole game's basically mocking Devil May Cry, when you think about it. Neither Dante nor Travis are as cool as they think they are; they're just narcissistic dickhead layabouts."

"Eh, never played 'em so I don't have an opinion. But you wanna know something that really makes me bitter? American students don't go to school on Saturdays." said Shinta.

"Oh, fuck them!" Hiroko said bitterly, almost spitting the words like venom. "That's bullshit, why the hell do they get more time off from school? Maybe that's why there's a stereotype here that 'all Asians are braniacs', because the American students can't be bothered spending the same time in class as Japanese students!"
Edited by fearjunkie, Apr 3 2014, 05:53 AM.
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-insert something witty here-

Isoroku looked at Hanako when she talked to her about going to see their room. The part-time model smiled and nodded. "Yeah, I want to see it too. Let's go," she got up from her seat. Somehow, she felt a little lonely due to how detached she was to the others, and even Hanako called her Mayoi-san instead of calling her Isoroku. But she couldn't exactly blame her for it because they never talked much before (except that one time when she interrupted both Isoroku and Kakeru while they were having naughty time, and one other time when they were discussing about a particular someone named Nishiyo at the tea club).

"Kyo, we're going to see our room now. I'll see you later," she said to Kyo before she looked at others. "And you guys too," she said to the others. "Let's go now, Ito-san."

And she could use a bed too. Due to the jet lag, she might need to rest her head for a bit.
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"...does this clockwork hand follow you... or guide you?"
"Oh. Well... alright," Kyo said, scratching her head a bit and looking vaguely disappointed. Hanako and Isoroku were going up already? Kyo had been hoping to get her interested in just chatting a bit, but maybe she wasn't feeling it. Shane gave the two a careless wave, evidently not bothered by their departure. A moment later he yawned a bit, and Kyo understood why; while he wasn't likely to pass out the moment he got back to his own room (especially not with a hot, sexy girl there and the prospect of some hot, sexy boyfriend-girlfriend time as an alternative), he hadn't totally adjusted his sleeping patterns yet, and he was mostly in the mind of getting back to his room, too.

Kyo, on the other hand, was pretty much still awake. When she got back to her room, she was probably going to jump Hiroko's bones! And then jump them again. And then maybe drag him out for a late night movie because, pshaw, she loved Western movies, of course she was going to go for a genuine western movie theater experience at least once before the trip was over!

"...Hm, maybe we should all just get set up in our rooms. Plenty o' time for talkin' and all that once we're rested and ready t' hit the town, yeah?" said Kyo, before making a move to wolf down her food about as fast as she could... even though it had been ordered to-go anyway, and she could easily just take it with her. Shane shrugged, and looked to Natsumi as if to say her opinion was his opinion, Mistress.

If there was any significance to Hiroko's talk of narcissistic dickhead layabouts, Shane either didn't notice, or did notice and just didn't care.
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Hiroko seemed to be... strangely irate about the inner workings of the American school system, the consequence of which was to make Natsumi cock up her left eyebrow. Isoroku and Hanako decided to get to their room, and the brunette gave the two a very slight wave - after all, they wouldn't be gone for long.

She sipped at the last of her soda, and looked to Shane. "Yeah, let's do the same and get our things to our room. I could use a cozy breather right now." she said, giving a nod of the head in her boyfriend's direction. "If you guys wanna do anything as a group, well, just come knocking. Pay attention to the sounds in the room before you do, alright ?"

The brunette stood up from her seat, and took her own luggage in hand - she'd wait until whoever wanted to add something had added said something, and then be on her way to their room.
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