walksthebounds: (confident)
[personal profile] walksthebounds
Jamie ought to be getting back to the Bounds soon - but it's been a long year, and he thinks he's entitled to a day or two of taking it easy somewhere familiar before he plunges himself back into trying to learn a new world and new customs.

Fortunately, he's got a standing offer of a place to stay. He's never taken Laini up on it before - it's easy enough to get his own room - but now he's broke(r than usual), and tired, and it seems the easiest option.

He gives a perfunctory knock, and then pushes the door open.

Date: 2009-11-13 04:00 am (UTC)
maxwellsdemon02: (Default)
From: [personal profile] maxwellsdemon02
"Hey, I'm totally taller than you, shorty." In the official art, anyway. It's hard to tell when you're that pixelated who's really bigger.

"Besides, I think we're done with the dinosaurs. It's on to weird turtle-things. And the occasional rugby player who also turns into a frog."

Look, he didn't make this game. Don't ask him to explain it.

Date: 2009-11-13 04:18 am (UTC)
maxwellsdemon02: (Whatever)
From: [personal profile] maxwellsdemon02
Duo squints at the screen. "Wait, he was wearing a helmet. Maybe he was an American football player. Oh well!"

Then, Mario hatches a strange egg on the screen. Up pops Yoshi.

Date: 2009-11-13 04:23 am (UTC)
maxwellsdemon02: (Doubtful)
From: [personal profile] maxwellsdemon02
"I'd really prefer not to think about what this guy is. Because it's definitely a guy...yet he lays eggs." Too many mushrooms, Duo supposes.

Date: 2009-11-13 04:36 am (UTC)
maxwellsdemon02: (Is that so?)
From: [personal profile] maxwellsdemon02
Duo eyes him a little. He's having trouble conflating just why males laying eggs would make it easy to get a babysitting gig.

"Yeah? Where was that?"

Date: 2009-11-13 04:48 am (UTC)
maxwellsdemon02: (Contemplative)
From: [personal profile] maxwellsdemon02
"That is so weird. I mean, I don't give a lot of thought to the language thing, here. But really, you and I could be speaking something totally different, and neither of us would ever know."

Duo pauses.

"But then again, if I try and speak something else, like Japanese, it comes out sounding right to me. And a couple other people have heard it like that too."

Date: 2009-11-13 05:02 am (UTC)
maxwellsdemon02: (Black hat)
From: [personal profile] maxwellsdemon02
Duo looks up at the ceiling for a moment, considering exactly what to say.

"壁に耳あり、障子に目あり," he says.

Date: 2009-11-13 05:21 am (UTC)
maxwellsdemon02: (What the shit is this?!)
From: [personal profile] maxwellsdemon02
"No, but it seemed apt, considering what we were talking about. I don't think I'd sleep here if they really did."

He picks up his controller and immediately heads off to the Yellow Switch Palace for an easy extra life or two.

"I'm guessing you heard that the way you were supposed to."

Date: 2009-11-13 05:27 am (UTC)
maxwellsdemon02: (smirk)
From: [personal profile] maxwellsdemon02
"Maybe if I talk in Spanish it would distract you more?" Duo offers cheerily as he hits the little 'P' switch and picks up a pile of coins.

Date: 2009-11-13 05:32 am (UTC)
maxwellsdemon02: (*snerk*)
From: [personal profile] maxwellsdemon02
"Oh, you'll like this next one," Duo says as he finishes his level and handy yellow blocks shoot all over the map. "It's got cliffs."

He tosses his controller down and climbs up off the couch as Mario reappears for his turn. "Want anything to drink?"

Date: 2009-11-13 05:39 am (UTC)
maxwellsdemon02: (Is that so?)
From: [personal profile] maxwellsdemon02
Duo snorts. "I'd say you stay here long enough, you're pretty much guaranteed to get corrupted before your time." He rummages through the mini-fridge.

"Iced coffee, water, soda, toxically colored sports drink?"

Date: 2009-11-13 05:56 am (UTC)
maxwellsdemon02: (*snerk*)
From: [personal profile] maxwellsdemon02
Duo passes him one. It's...green. If you're being generous. Don't bother to ask the flavor. It's green. But fortified with electrolytes and vitamins!

He gets himself a can of coffee and sits back down.

Date: 2009-11-13 06:03 am (UTC)
maxwellsdemon02: (Doubtful)
From: [personal profile] maxwellsdemon02
"D'you think he eats them?" Duo asks, nose wrinkling. "Or snorts them up his mustache? Or maybe just absorbs them. In some kind of weird osmosis."

Date: 2009-11-13 06:10 am (UTC)
maxwellsdemon02: (Bangs)
From: [personal profile] maxwellsdemon02
"Nah, he grows, after. They obviously have some kind of effect on him." It's logic!

Date: 2009-11-13 06:12 am (UTC)
maxwellsdemon02: (Spittake)
From: [personal profile] maxwellsdemon02
Duo almost chokes on his coffee.

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