Ichiban catchall

[disingenuous]

Everything is yakuza

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Week 2, friday

[disingenuous]

[ roxana is in their lounge, seated on one of the couches. There is a book in her lap, and she lifts a hand in acknowledgment. ]

[frotag]

[ ichiban trudges in sometime in the liminal point between late morning and early afternoon. i guess that's like actual literal noon leave me alone words can mean whatever we want them to mean. but yeah, he waves back and bows his head a little. ]

Ah... hey, Roxana. [ beat ] Roxana-san? I never know what to use with people who aren't Japanese.

[disingenuous]

I don't mind any titles or honorifics or if you leave them off.

[frotag]

What about Roxie?

[disingenuous]

You haven't earned that yet.

[frotag]

.........Roxana it is, then!

[ LAUGHS WEAKLY... ]

[disingenuous]

[ thanks for accepting that so quickly, ichiban. ]

Are you ready for tomorrow?

[ it's four bodies... ]

[frotag]

[ he knows his place. ]

...can anyone ever say they're ready for this kinda shit? No matter how many times we go through it.

[disingenuous]

You can be as ready as you can be.

[ she seems a little tired, saying that. ]

Even if it's only so much as resigned.

[frotag]

Well, when you say it like that... yeah, I wanna figure out what happened. How well we're gonna do is... well, you know. But we gotta try as best we can, if not to solve anything, but for the victims' sake.

[disingenuous]

All we can do is our best. For whatever reason. How that ends...

[ well. they'll see. ]

[frotag]

Mm.

[ he lets the silence hang for a moment before he peers over at her. ]

Uh... what are you reading?

[disingenuous]

[ she holds up her book so he can see the title. it's jane eyre. ]

[frotag]

[ :beegun: while ichiban is ignorant to what the future holds... ]

Huh... is she the author? Where's the title of the book?