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Post by Sam "Cat" Parker on Jan 3, 2018 7:20:40 GMT -8
The corner of Sam's lips quirked up as she heard the Nik fury comment, but she'd resist any obvious comment there incase Keone hadn't realized exactly what he'd just said. For a brief moment she'd share what the comic book store was like, telling him how it used to just be one floor when she was a kid, but as they added Manga sections and...an adult section she quietly advised him to stay away from for Doujins and the more fanservicey series, it was really a cool place to hang out. They even had a small cafe where you could read the books without buying them, so long as you actually bought something to eat or drink!
"You could totally be the guy in the chair though.I mean, Nik fury's basically that, except with some cool guns and stuff too. You remember that car scene from Winter soldier!? I thought it was awesome Nik could be so cool like that!" She was briefly tempted to say 'badass' but flicked an eye to Kai, wondering just how bad the language these kids were used to was.
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Post by Dasha Laska on Jan 3, 2018 9:27:10 GMT -8
Dasha’s lips quirked up a little as Nalani spoke— and went even higher as Kai clarified. Hhhh that was cute and reminded her of several of her own Pokemon in a way. She’d adopted them or they’d adopted her, or both in cases such as Mint (even if he’d become a sadist in the process). At Nalani’s clarification, however, Dasha gave a nod. “Yeah, I just—“ she paused and chuckled. “Tend to associate sparing with sword training.”
Ah, she’d seen that look on Kai’s face earlier and vague worried about sparking Nalani’s interests too much but here we go. “In my home country~ Era, I learned to swordfight from a knight andwasprettymuchbasicallyaknightmyself…” In her own way, heh. She paused and grinned. “Pokemon battles tend to be more fun though.” Not really but maybe she was trying to curb Nalani’s interests for now.
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Post by Takeki Kaimana on Jan 4, 2018 22:56:12 GMT -8
Fffff this store sounded great? Kanto seemed bigger on manga than other comics as far as merch and stuff went, at least in the parts Keone had looked, so he often had to get stuff online. (Wait did she say something about adult material and a place to read things without buying? Nalani's interest was briefly grabbed and a mental note was made before she went back to listening to Dasha.)
Keone knew exactly what he'd said and had meant it to passively demonstrate that he was okay with some commentary about his eye depending on the context and if he was sort of in on it or not. "Ah! Yeah, I love when Nick gets to do cool stuff!" Of course he remembered everything Sam meant despite his writer having kind of blocked out Winter Soldier, bored by the heavy action, and he would be happy to discuss more with her offscreen sometime even though said writer would not be able to convey it well.
Wait swords?? Nalani's attention had been firmly pulled back and Keone's was drawn a bit, too.
"Dad!" she half whined, half scolded. "Why didn't you tell us your friends were so badass??"
Kai's eyes briefly narrowed at her, and for a fraction of a second she seemed a bit 'oops' about her language, but it was quickly moved past for a more pressing matter. "You know she wasn't rescuing damsels from towers and fighting magical non-Pokemon dragons." ..He assumed. The last part he could safely say but now he half expected to get some funny story about a tower damsel rescue, ha.. Still, he explained-- not to steal that right from Dasha but just to avoid them asking a slew of questions rooted in a fictional idea and potentially sounding mocking-- "Knights are Eran military, it's just a bit different than Kanto or Veria's. She's So show her the respect you would any soldier."
Ohhh... Well that was less exciting to Nalani, but yeah she understood. Though swords still might be something to ask about some time? Mm.. Actually she guessed she could picture herself fencing more than wielding a big heavy sword so it depended what Dasha used... "Guess that makes sense." Her being friends with dad anyway. Looking to Sam, she asked, "Were you a soldier too?"
Keone had to wonder now what kind of place had knights for soldiers, though, and asked, "What's Era like?"
... Kai probably should have gone over some of this before introducing her to the kids. Ah-- again not trying to answer for her, just... letting her know she could get away with a simple answer rather than getting into all the politics if the latter would be upsetting, he vague-nudged, "You've said there were lots of snowy mountains in the part you're from, mm?"
A thought sparked in Keone though. He looked to Sam. He looked to Dasha. He couldn't know that her appearance made this even more amusing on a meta level, and he might regret this. But he very quietly asked, "Does that make you a Winter Soldier?"
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Post by Sam "Cat" Parker on Jan 5, 2018 9:16:00 GMT -8
Sam shifted her attention too as the focus went to Dasha. Fuck yeah she was badass, though she was a little quick to answer Nalani. "Nah I'm no Eran knight, so you're gonna have to tell me why you think I'm a badass too.~" She held a smirk as she rested her chin on her hand, glad the two seemed to find her interesting or badass, but still maybe just wanting to know why in Nalani's case. She kind of assumed it was the motorbike but for all she knew she coulda been a badass for referancing pixar movies.
As they asked what the region was like though, she was quick to bite her tongue, not about to tell the kids about a civil war or remind Dasha about it either, but with Kai's prompting and Keone's quip, they seemed safe and she was struggling not to laugh. "I mean, we have called her the ice queen around the office in the past, so I guess that's pretty apt!~"
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Post by Dasha Laska on Jan 5, 2018 19:36:47 GMT -8
Dasha’s lips quirked a little too much at Nalani’s reaction— and Keone’s even. She… wanted to tell a story but ended up keeping it to herself as Kai spoke. Ah yeah. A small nod would be given confirming his words instead. As Keone’s question was asked, she smiled a bit— only to glance sideways at Kai’s words— and then back at Keone’s considering Winter Soldier. And then of course: PFFFTFFF Sammmmm. Warmth touched Dasha’s features, and a small roll of eyes came before a more genuine smile pulled at her features. “Closer to queen than a lot of people…” she answered reaching up and curling a few fingers into her hair.
She might have said more, but the image of their current General came to mind. Dasha’s lips pressed together some, and yep that was her changing gears right after that. “Era’s actually very expansive, but the territory I’m from is always cold and snowy, huge mountains and deep valleys…” she explained. “We had some pretty forests and landmarks.” Had she said had? Eh, hopefully they would take that just as the way words flowed. “One of my favorite places is a huge mountain made mostly out of Everstone. Pokemon don’t tend to evolve there, so you see a lot of interesting ways they adapted instead.”
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Post by Takeki Kaimana on Jan 5, 2018 19:52:46 GMT -8
Kai-- Oh Lord, he was glad the others laughed because he would have been struggling hard not to. As it was he still kept his much quieter, but a few sniffs and shaking shoulders would betray him. He hadn't been following Sam and Keone's conversation too much, but hadn't they just mentioned Winter Soldier in some context? Great timing, kiddo.
Nalani was sort of glad that comment took center stage a moment, too, as that spared her having to answer Sam's prompting for another reason she was a badass. Nalani was probably a bit pre-emptive in that regard with Dasha just working on 'knights are cool', and yeah heh. She appreciated the ice queen pun, though, and her brows raised a bit at the 'closer to queen' thing? "Oh?" Ah, she was answering more about the country though; that was cool too.
Keone's eyes seemed to especially sparkle at the description Dasha gave. "I'd love to see that..." He reached over to pet Tyri a little more. "I love small Pokemon." Much more than big bruisers.
Ah... Nalani was still curious though. "Wha'd'you mean by closer to queen though?" In another context she might've assumed that was a personality thing but... "I mean if you had knights... Were you like, a princess?"
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Post by Dasha Laska on Jan 7, 2018 14:59:04 GMT -8
Dasha’s lips pressed together into a fine line, and she sat back from the table some. She could probably get away with dismissing it but she’d been the one who said it so….. Might as well.
“For ages Era’s government was a functioning monarchy: king, queen, nobles, knights— a lot of it was just … historical banter kind of…” She paused to chew her lip before going on.
“My family is the Noble House of Laska. My mom was a Baronness, and for a while my brother was an even higher rank of Duke,” her voice held something not quite akin to pride for maybe a second or two, but her features remained calm sort of matter-of-fact. “We already had a king when I was growing up and a queen later so it’s not like I could swoop in and be a queen queen but…” Why was it so hard to smile? Maybe cause her stomach had tightened a little and because her head might be pounding some.
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Post by Takeki Kaimana on Jan 13, 2018 20:36:40 GMT -8
Each of the three held their own interest in the conversation at hand. Kai know most of this, but was always interested to hear about people's histories more firsthand, see how they presented the information and what feeling came through with it, on top of anything new. Nalani was more interested in the royalty motif even if she was getting Too Old for fake princesses, real ones were still great right? while Keone.. actually hoped she'd talk more about the cool land but this was nice too.
"I mean... You probably could with enough Machevellian politics bu-- hey!" She gave Kai a dirty look. Kai did not particularly react to her, even as stuck her tongue out and then threw a wadded napkin at him. It bounced off unceremoniously.
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Post by Sam "Cat" Parker on Jan 14, 2018 6:56:43 GMT -8
Sam sat there and majorly just listened. Era always did feel like a sensitive topic to push and while she always felt eager to learn more about her amazing BFF it didn't mean that she was brave enough to push a topic like that. With a door opened for the information to flow through, she just remained fully engaged in everything Dasha had to say, taking in every word and trying her best to commit it to memory without asking her own questions and stepping on toes in the process. As she heard Nalani however, she did narrow her eyes a little, though smirked as Kai gave her a little flicker, snickering a little, just mildly focusing on them rather than Nalani's words.
"You guys make a cute little family...~"
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Post by Dasha Laska on Jan 14, 2018 10:46:22 GMT -8
Pffff, Nalani was a girl after her own heart almost, kind of, maybe. Dasha’s lips quirked but quickly sobered up again at Kai’s intervention. Yeah, imposed dictatorship was probably not something to be encouraged considering… Yeah. They saw how well that fared, didn’t they? She had no belief that becoming queen would have saved her country. Not after it’d already torn itself apart. Ah, her stomach was tight again.
She… took Sam’s cue to sort of switch things up a bit, yeah. “I’m sure you’ll enjoy getting to know Veria, though, it’s got some beautiful cities.” Faraday was beautiful, really. The first time she’d seen it, Dasha had to admit her jaw had dropped a little. Era was scenically beautiful but… structurally Veria was advanced.
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Post by Takeki Kaimana on Jan 26, 2018 16:08:32 GMT -8
... Kai did his best to keep his relieved sigh silent. He really was going to have to explain later a bit about the whole civil war thing, but he was glad Nalani's comment hadn't sparked any real response right now.
"Faraday does look really pretty so far," Nalani agreed. "It's like... as tech-and-business-heavy as Saffron but a little more nature-y like Celadon, from what I've read?" She looked to Kai. "That about right?"
Kai considered it, but slowly nodded. "Suppose so, though there's plenty of differences in all three."
...Was Keone the only one who heard Sam? Okay... "Thank you, by the way, Miss Sam..." he mumbled.
Ah, Kai had heard, but was more focused on the other issue and... may have felt just a bit awkward now that he let himself think about it. It's not really the whole family, is it. Brain could you fucking can it? "Thank you both, really. For coming out to meet them."
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Post by Sam "Cat" Parker on Feb 1, 2018 4:39:00 GMT -8
Smirking at Keone as they seemed to be the first to acknowledge her words, she gave a "You're welcome. Just saying what I see.~" In turn, her eyes turning to Kai himself before reaching over the table and lightly shoving his shoulder. "Oh shut up you, you offered us the chance to hang out with you and see some, reportedly, and now confirmably, very cute kids. How on earth could either of us say no?~" She turned her eyes to Keone and Nalani, smirking softly. "I know it sounds dorky but you're dad's honestly pretty cool. He's like, my third favorite person in the office. It goes Dasha, Charlotte (Dasha and Kai would know that as the night shift janitor for the offices), then your Dad.~" Of course Kai was actually her second favorite, but it felt a nice way to tease them. Charlotte was pretty cool anyway, she always sorted her pens if she had to leave the office in a hurry.
Thinking for a second as she sorta just...took in the cute little family infront of her, she may have stepped over what Kai had planned as she spoke without thinking. "Hey, either of you two want ice cream before you go home? My treat? I know a nice place that shouldn't be too far from your dads." She smirked to Kai and added. "I can even walk them there after they unpack or something, give you a chance to rest...." She shot Dasha a brief look and quietly added, hoping to be more cheeky than accusatory or guilting. "Maybe leave Dasha between you an the drinks cabinet before I go?" With any other kids she'd have felt that was a risky thing to say, but Nalani was so blunt about that fact earlier it...seemed fine?
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Post by Dasha Laska on Feb 3, 2018 7:33:28 GMT -8
Hmm. Dasha realized she didn't… really know much about Saffron or Celadon aside from brief images in a pamphlet that she may or may not have remembered accurately anyways. As Kai supposed that there were similarities, however, Dasha nodded a little along with it.
Blue eyes flickered sideways to Keone and Sam after Kai spoke, however, and a small smile curled on Dasha's lips. "I'm… glad to have," she answered a bit more awkwardly than intended. It was… nice? To meet Kai's kids and to go out and have fun like this? Even… if that weird situation had gone down before that she still didn't have any context for. She didn't even know if she wanted to ask Kai about it later or not. Probably not actually. Yeah.
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Post by Takeki Kaimana on Feb 3, 2018 23:48:43 GMT -8
Kai.. wouldn't show how vaguely flustered he was beyond a slightly sheepish (and somewhat tired) smiled and a 'heh' at Sam's touch and teasing. He.. was not going to get over how grateful he was to have friends again any time soon, was he? Probably not.
The ice cream offer did earn brows raised from Kai, but Nalani piped up, "Sure, I could go for desert~!" Sssh nevermind they'd already had cookies. Keone nodded in agreement.
Then Sam had to get in that last jab, and internally Kai tensed. Externally, his smile mostly faded, but he wouldn't let it leave entirely. It was just a thin facade now was all. "Ah... It's fine," he replied. "We can take them on the way home. It'll be fine." Yeah... Yeah.
Everything was... not at all fine.
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