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bitcoin scholar junpei tenmyouji ([personal profile] coolerjunpei) wrote2024-07-01 10:02 am

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[personal profile] incorrigibles 2024-08-06 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ "maybe" may be (ha) his conclusion, but charles just shrugs again and says, ] Well, not for nothing, but I'm glad you're having your birthday here. Glad to get to celebrate it with you.

[ and then, adding, ] Yeah, I know. But I don't really spend money on myself, do I? Don't need food, and I can change clothes by thinking about it. So might as well spend it on something important.

[ he just says it all like it's obvious, matter-of-fact, his tone at once light and serious. then, watching junpei stare intently at absolutely nothing, and arrive at what is maybe the right corresponding month, he just chuckles and shakes his head. ] Sure, mate, if that makes you happy. [ he pauses. groans, ] Bloody hell, I'm gonna have to make some kind of corresponding calendar thing, to keep track of your dates and this place's dates.
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[personal profile] incorrigibles 2024-08-06 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Well — I think you're doing aces, so far.

[ the words are accompanied by a bright, sincere grin — sorry, his friendship doesn't come without unwavering belief and affirming words of support! it's what you signed up for, junpei, even if you didn't know it at the time.

and then he just has to blink in bafflement at the way the conversation goes from calendars to riddles —
] Wait, riddles?

[ sounds... strange, but because he's, as previously established, a supportive friend, ] I mean, sure. Just — there's already two dates per day, yeah? [ why are they... making it more difficult.... ]
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[personal profile] incorrigibles 2024-08-07 12:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but not one like that.

[ in fact, their office in london does very much have a desk calendar, but it's a normal, boring one with holidays marked on it — both normal holidays and those of different cultures and time periods, just in case. you never know when you need to know that the third tuesday of a particular month just so happened to be a significant celebration to a subset of irish fae.

instead of explaining this, though, charles just tilts his head in consideration.
]

Well? [ don't leave him in suspense like this! ]
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[personal profile] incorrigibles 2024-08-07 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he's about to try and explain that one-a-day calendars are a bit weird when you're a ghost and sometimes your best friend forgets about the passing of time when he gets really into studying ancient dead languages and one time spent five weeks immersed in books and charles had already been bored out of his mind then and if he'd had to tear away one calendar page per day he might have chucked himself into a lake —

and then junpei just sort of off-handedly delivers the punchline to his joke-slash-riddle, and any words charles has just promptly dissolve into laughter.
]

I hate you, [ he says, in the tone of someone who couldn't possibly mean it less. shaking his head, he looks around, and seems to finally realise they're still standing up. ] Oh, hell, should we sit down? Like, not on the floor? Can't be good for you, that, or comfortable.
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[personal profile] incorrigibles 2024-08-07 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he sure meant that sitting on the floor is what's not good for him, but instead of correcting him, charles just shakes his head with a fond smile and turns away to the now-abandoned bag to pick him another drink — a beer, since he seems to prefer those, an ipa that he grabbed mostly for the higher alcohol content.

he hands it over as he then falls back to sit on the floor himself, right across from junpei. and with a raise of his brows,
]

No clue, but I'm sure you're about to enlighten me.
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[personal profile] incorrigibles 2024-08-07 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ but i haven't even drunk anything is charles' first thought when the floor seems to lurch under him as he stares at junpei (or maybe it's his stomach doing a full one-eighty, he's not entirely sure here). his second thought is, shit, he's cute. his third thought is just a solid what.

no, you know what, he'll... get back to this later. maybe. possibly.

right now, he's got a joke-riddle to answer, because apparently he's got no defense against junpei looking at him like that.
] Right, okay. Uh, the wings?

[ he doesn't even really think about it — just says the first thing that comes to mind. in all honesty, he's not entirely sure he could reliably describe a chicken right now if he was asked to. ]
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[personal profile] incorrigibles 2024-08-07 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ charles just grins as he gets the answer wrong, as he expected — and then sort of waves his hand a little as if to say, well, go on, when the correction isn't immediately forthcoming —

and then he just. groans, tipping his head back, and then just promptly falling onto his back on the floor for dramatic effect. and then, from the floor,
] Well, if they ever make bad jokes an Olympic sport, reckon you've got a good chance of winning.

[ he takes a moment to think of something, and remembers something junpei had told him, about the alternate histories and the movie reference. so... ] Why'd someone want to have a DeLorean as a second car?
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[personal profile] incorrigibles 2024-08-07 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ charles, still sprawled on the floor, pushes himself up on his elbows and grins the kind of sunny smile that precedes him being impossibly annoying. ]

So they can drive it from time to time.

[ see, he can do this too! not as well though, and his arsenal of jokes is definitely not quite as good, but. ]
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[personal profile] incorrigibles 2024-08-08 12:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[ meanwhile, charles' sunny grin turns into something less pointed and more fond, yet doesn't really dim in intensity at all. he gives a slight shrug, still leaning on his elbows, and says, ] Just for you.

[ and really, he did pick it on purpose! and it seems like he might say more but then he's distracted from words by junpei laughing some more, and just stares at him for a while there. take a picture, it'll last longer, his inner crystal voice pipes up inside his head, dry and sarcastic, and charles tells her to kindly shut the hell up.

which is why he's a bit slow in responding —
]

Yeah, I know, it came out when I was in secondary school. [ the i'm from the 80s you numpty is implied. fondly. ]
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[personal profile] incorrigibles 2024-08-08 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ charles can't quite help the pleased smile at his continued laughter, because the joke was so stupid and definitely not deserving of this much amusement, but — it makes him feel lighter, somehow, watching junpei laughing, the most carefree he's seen him, yet.

he hauls himself up to a sitting position, slumping forward a bit to lean his elbows against his knees.
]

Well, it's a classic, innit? Think I even saw it in the theaters.

[ he's seen a ton of movies in the theaters over the years, because sneaking in as a ghost is really easy, so he's sort of lost count of what movies he's seen and where... and when. ]
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[personal profile] incorrigibles 2024-08-08 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ in turn, charles is used to this — talking about everything and nothing, whiling away hours by debating the differences between modern clothes fabrics and turn-of-the-century ones, or maybe going off a tangent about whether he'd be able to win against a kraken with his bat if he really tried, or a number of other things; he's never had trouble to find things to prattle on about, and it's easy to fall back to the habit, here. ]

Some theaters, yeah, [ he says with a shrug, ] But the one nearest to where I lived was real small. With luck you'd get popcorn. [ he pauses and adds, ] Tickets were cheap, though. And then after, well, no one's gonna check if a ghost has a ticket, yeah? So it's unlimited movies any time you want.

[ another pause and he chuckles under his breath. ] You know, I'd go see movie productions sometimes, too. Sneak onto the set, go around, see how stuff gets filmed. It's pretty cool.
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[personal profile] incorrigibles 2024-08-08 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ nodding, charles tries to pick the highlights of everything he's stumbled across over the decades. ]

Well, there was this one action movie where they had a chase sequence and it was pretty aces, had this one guy jumping from the car to a moving train and all. The fight training's cool to see, too, when they do the choreographies, you know? And sets in studios, some of them are insanely detailed and you kind of feel like you're walking in the movie.

[ remembering a particular incident, he snorts and shakes his head. ] One time, we actually put our disguises on, went around pretending to be inspectors for set safety. Had to spend days convincing Edwin to do that. But we got a whole tour round the place, got to talk to the stuntpeople... wish we'd done it more often.
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[personal profile] incorrigibles 2024-08-09 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ charles, for all his issues with his short attention span, has always been a good listener when the subject matter is interesting — idly, through his amusement at picturing the scene in question, he thinks that he could probably sit here for hours and just listen to junpei tell him random anecdotes of his life. because, well, he knows the broad strokes, but this? this is the first time he's referring to anything specific like this, the first time he's mentioning anyone by name, and charles feels a bit blindsided with how badly he wants to know more.

he laughs, then, shaking his head with a fond little sigh.
] Not very professional of you, yeah? Was he mad? Seven, I mean?

[ but, ] Right, if we're trading stories... one time I freed this owl from a mausoleum, thought it was this dead witch's familiar, but, uh, turned out it was a forest deity and it was really insistent it owes me a favour, so... it took me to draw this sword out of a stone, you know, like a whole King Arthur thing and all. It also turned into a dragon, which was less cool, but anyway, that's how I got my sword. Never used it much cause I prefer the cricket bat, but... [ he shrugs and laughs sheepishly. ] Edwin made me promise to stop freeing random animals that hang round dead witches and to stop talking to random animals if they talk to me and want me to follow them.

[ a pause. ] Your turn.

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