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明智吾郎 ([personal profile] forfeited) wrote in [community profile] crescentview2022-12-10 01:38 pm

🔪 i'm a fish inside a birdcage; open with some closed prompts

🔪 WHO: Akechi and anyone who chooses to tolerate him (I'm sorry).
🔪 WHAT: December Shenanigans
🔪 WHEN: Nebulously December, possibly into January, time is fake.
🔪 WHERE: Wherever, whenever, we're meant to... No, actually.
🔪 WARNINGS: Strong language, emotional constipation, Childe, Twister. Any NSFW will be tagged within the thread but it may happen. Also Kaeya and Akechi are making out, so that's a thing.



🔪 b-b-b-bingo!

[Frequently, Akechi can be found just about anywhere within Crescentview perched neatly on something chair-shaped. He has one leg folded over the other like a prick, one arm folded against his ribs and the elbow of the other resting on his wrist, allowing him to set his chin in his hand. It's a pretentious way to sit, but it's stable, and comfortable despite how it looks. He's poring over his Bingo card for the umpteenth time, and should anyone come within a five-foot radius of him, he snaps his head up.] For our mutual benefit, would you mind cross-referencing cards?

[He's made figurative copies of his card-- on the backs of old casework from his briefcase, he's hand-written out a few lists of squares, content to always ignore the smut squares when interacting with anyone. His penmanship is neat and concise, and there are occasional footnotes alongside them.]

🔪 mountainside farming

[He has no idea how to be a farmer. He has no idea how to be self-sufficient without the internet and a paycheck garnered from murder, he's realizing, but he does have a vague know-how of a variety of things included in farming. Planting seeds, for instance, he has some degree of understanding of. His farm is set away from others, blissfully allowing him solitude, but by no means unreachable or even remotely difficult to find. He's found some old shitty tools and an old shitty sun hat, and his slacks are rolled up to his knees. He's given up on his shirt entirely, given it's white, and his shoes and socks are somewhere out of eyesight, leaving him barefoot and shirtless attempting to tear up the earth for planting things with a rusted old backhoe. There is only so much his shitty little twink arms can handle, someone want to teach him proper technique?]

pt. 2; paddle boats. [Childe]

[At some point he's given up on tearing up his land, and is standing at the bank of a small lake near his farm. More specifically, he's staring at a paddle boat just chilling, rope-tied to a questionable dock. It's pretty gnarly, covered in grime and algae, but if there's one thing Goro is relatively decent at in household tasks, it's cleaning.]

[Tartaglia will find him scooping water in and out of the thing, the legs of his slacks still rolled up to his knees-- not that it really matters anymore, given he's basically swimming fully clothed. His hair is tied back with some kind of twine into a dinky-ass little ponytail, and he pauses with some manner of bucket half-poured into the second bucket seat of the boat to look up at the ginger.]
Does your staring serve a purpose, or should I pretend you're less conspicuous? I don't believe we've met.

pt. 3; twister. [Lucia]

[He's yet to figure out how to solve the issue of proper lighting, so he's moved his bizarre find while dusting out to the front yard of his plot of land. Said bizarre find, as it happens, is a classic old game known as Twister, in a banged-up old square cardboard box. It's simple enough, the spin-board in tact and the mat suffering only a few questionable stains, and Goro is seated cross-legged beside the mat reading the instructions for what has to be the fourth time. It's a very straightforward game, but he keeps waiting for something to leap out at him from between the lines to make it more complicated.]

[Movement in his peripheral vision catches his attention and he angles his head toward it, but his eyes remain on the paper until he finishes the sentence he was in the middle of reading. His eyes then meet Lucia's, and after a beat of silence, she can likely see the gears in his little rat brain turning. A slow grin pulls his mouth crooked.]
Care to test something with me?

🔪 wildcard

[Akechi spends most of his time at his farm to avoid others, trying to figure out how to make this whole farming thing work without being sociable or accepting, much less asking for, help. His plotting post can be found here, but I'm open for literally anything. I can make additional prompts or you can toss me whatever you like! Please harass my shitlord. :>b]
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farming

[personal profile] blankpoint 2022-12-13 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ah, the elusive noodle boy in his (un)natural habitat. Be careful, you don't want to scare him, lest you activate his defense mechanism and he reverts to his feral state of being.

Mira watches him, and while they won't say that he's obviously struggling, they'll sure think it. They kind of feel bad for him, actually. Being spirited away to a completely new place, only to have to jump headfirst into something unfamiliar?

Yeah, it sucks. Mira clears their throat lightly. ]


Do you want some help?

[ There's at least no hint of pity, just an offer, asked simply. ]
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[personal profile] blankpoint 2022-12-14 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ They only raise their eyebrows when he turns to them and gives them that look. For a moment, they consider walking away and leaving him to suffer, but they think that might be just a little bit too mean. And they're not about to go around making enemies when it's far from necessary.

Besides, they get it. Not knowing how to do something is relatable, and it's endlessly frustrating. They walk over to him, nodding. ]


I don't think you're the only one, at least. She-- [ and they can't entirely hide their disdain for the goddess ] --didn't exactly bring only people who're familiar with farming.

[ They gesture to the hoe. ]

May I? Showing you is a lot better than just explaining.
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[personal profile] blankpoint 2022-12-21 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks.

[ What are they thanking him for? Who knows. Anyway. They take the hoe and walk him through their own process. Their movements are measured and precise, and it's pretty clear that they have a lot of experience with this. ]

--That's the gist of it. Do you have any questions for me?