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SANDA

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CHARACTER NAME

Jun Manjoume

CIVILIAN NAME

Chazz Princeton

TEAM

Brimstone

HOUSING NUMBER

009

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Comments

[blastedass]

[Why's this guy arguing someone trying to encourage him to not just list through his days?! Well, he's Manjoume, for one. At least he doesn't go through with the protest and actually thinks about it.]

Che! You'd be the worst fucking clown in the world. [Manjoume's not funny at all. He's cocky, sarcastic, cool. And can be a bitch at times. But what vocation to do, since dueling isn't a thing here. The sports arena is out, unless he wants to be a commentator or work with the data and displays.]

Just think about what you could do that you'd enjoy better than wasting away in some dead end job. I hate being stuck here as much as you, but at least I like what I do. [That's not to say Manjoume doesn't like what he does. Bakugou knows the guy enough; he wouldn't do something he hated. But it's a shame if he's not reaching for something better that he could get if he tried. At least that's the encouragement idea underneath the gruff exterior Bakugou's giving.]

Unless you wanna jump out the fucking window. [That's why they were taking the stairs. He pushes open the door at the dorm's ground level and heads out into the parking lot.] Car or motorcycle?

[He'll leave it up to Manjoume. Mind, they're going to be hitting different places today, so yeah.]

[thundercrashes]

Car. It'll probably be easier getting around this way today.

[At some point soon though, Manjoume should look into learning how to read a motorcycle, perhaps. Then he could just drive on his own when going places, but for the time being, he makes a beeline walking over to the passenger side of Bakugou's car that's waiting in the parking lot.]

[blastedass]

[Bakugo slips his hands into his pocket as they cross the parking lot. Despite his aggressive nature, he drives safely and probably boring compared to what people might think of him. Mostly because he doesn't want to smear his record with a stupid ticket or points against his license. If Manjoume wants to learn to ride a motorcycle, he can learn from this guy.

Because obviously they would never antagonize each other during lessons...]

If you put on a fucking maid outfit again, I'm gonna stuff you in the trunk.

[See?]

[thundercrashes]

[are you trying to get Manjoume angry and embarrassed because its working as he gawks at the other boy at the reminder of that incident]

The fuck? Why'd you have to go and bring that up?

[blastedass]

[Would you prefer awkward silence? Bakugou unlocks his car, Manjoume's side too, and slides down into it, pulling the door shut after him.]

Cause now nothing that happens today can be worse than that.

[No reason other than to see Manjoume get all flustered about it. He waits for the seatbelt to click before the car rumbles to life and he makes for the street.]

[thundercrashes]

Seriously? That's the reason you decided to bring that up?

[That's such bullshit and he doesn't believe that for an instant.]

I feel like all you've done is jinx us somehow rather than ensuring nothing worse than that could happen.

[blastedass]

I DON'T JINX ANYTHING!!

[He's a fucking blessing and support for any team that has him on it! Look at his record of success, dammit!

Offended Manjoume would even think that way. Bastard.]

I said I'd give you a great day and I'll give you one of the best!

[thundercrashes]

[Okay but now it's Manjoume's turn to be amused. It's very funny sometimes how easy it is to rile Bakugou up a little.]

Yeah? Well you'd better, because I'm holding you to that now.

[blastedass]

[Is that how it's going to be, Mr. Duelist?! Good thing this is his special day or Bakugou would retort with another embarrassing take! He puts on the blinker and switches lanes.]

Che! Like I'd do anything less.

[thundercrashes]

[Good. With that, Manjoume will back off on teasing Bakugou any further for now, since he is in fact grateful that the guy is even making the time to go to the arcade and the like with him for his birthday here. Speaking of which--]

So which games have you played at the arcade already that you would recommend?

[blastedass]

[They better team up at the arcade or Bakugou's going after Manjoume mercilessly! He respects the guy's skill enough to take him on full power. At least the traffic isn't heavy right now, making for an easy trip.

Good question.]

I like the shooters, racers, and fighting games, but their laser tag is fucking great. [Look, laser tag in an self-created AI world? How can you go wrong with that?]

[thundercrashes]

Laser tag?

[Manjoume has actually never played laser tag before in his life, but he has at least heard enough about it to know how its played.]

Can that be played with just two of us?

[blastedass]

Yeah, they can generate targets in the VR arena. It's played with headsets to work with the ocular.

[Bakugo's played solo several times in order to get a workout of his reaction and aiming skills, as well as vent some irritation in the process.]

[thundercrashes]

Ohh, I see. Sounds like it should be worth giving a shot, then.

[Now for whether they would be playing as a team or against one another... maybe even both depending on how many games they decide to play with the laser tag.]

[blastedass]

If your aim's at least decent, you might put up a good challenge.

[Of course he's taunting him. If another group wants to go in there as a team vs team, then they'll kind of not have a choice, but if it's just them, then they can either 1v1 or go versus AI opponents.]

[thundercrashes]

That's what I should be saying to you: if you don't prove yourself to be a good challenge if we end up against each other, I'll be disappointed.

[Taunting you right back!]

[blastedass]

I'll kick your fucking ass in an instant!

[Screw birthday etiquette! Manjoume's going down.]

You better let me know now if you need some training lessons before you go in.

[Mature friends. That's what they are.]

[thundercrashes]

We'll see about that.

[Manjoume wouldn't want someone potentially going easy on him just because it's his birthday anyway, as he also blows off the training offer pretty quickly too.]

Pfft, I don't need training lessons. As long as I know how to use the laser tag gun, I'm sure I could figure it out pretty easily from there.

[blastedass]

Don't disappoint me.

[That'd be a sucky waste of time to have Manjoume screw up a minute after getting in there. Bakugou ducks his head slightly to check the lot number as he pulls his car into the entertainment sector's parking lot. It's a pretty big place, even if he's mostly focusing on the game and rec centers.]

Out.

[Time to see what Manjoume's got. Once they get in an all.]

[thundercrashes]

[Manjoume doesn't need to be told twice--upon realizing they've arrived, Manjoume has already begun unbuckling his seatbelt, already hopping out of the car just as Bakugou tells him to get out.

So maybe he is a little excited, like any teenager probably would be on comimg here as opposed to being completely indufferent. Sue him. (Or don't, he has no money from the Manjoume family to pay off lawsuits right now.)

And okay maybe he does get a little distracted as they go inside the game center, looking around at what's available, but thankfully not so much in a way that he tries to drift off somewhere away from Bakugou's side to look closer at said games just yet.

They have laser tag to try first, because Manjoume was in fact serious about playing and proving himself here. Not that it should be that difficult--he managed to figure out how to use a harpoon gun when they were fighting those whale kaiju a few months back, so this should practically be a cakewalk in comparison!]

[blastedass]

[Tch, it's good to see the guy get excited about something like this. Manjoume always tries to carry himself proud and broody, but Bakugo's seen he's got plenty of stupid goofy under his surface. Given his history, the duelist never really got to have "fun" as he grew up, huh. Stuck living in someone else's demands for him. Bakugo knows someone else like that...

The game center's pretty large, with sections for various games all over the place. Sports games like basketball and bowling, racing games with those big plastic motorcycles and car seat setups, shooters with both rail-types and free gun handling, fighting arcade games (generic or knock off series...), skill games for massive points, the VR corner for fully immersive experiences, a physical section with rock climbing walls and obstacle courses, and a lot more. Anything and everything to distract people from the struggles of living in Neo Tokyo.

Bakugo heads for another large section in the back where they house the laser tag fields.] They have two physical courses and the rest are all VR for augmented play.

[thundercrashes]

Are we going to do the physical course, or the VR? I am good with either or.

[Or maybe it depends on how many people are around for them to decide on one or the other.]

[blastedass]

The VR courses can be anything you want. Jungles, beaches, city.

[The group has to agree on which one, but it won't matter if it's just the two of them.]

[thundercrashes]

Well, if we're going to do VR, then we should do a setting we haven't done yet before from training in the VR courses back at the base to keep things interesting... but, if we do the physical course, I guess that wouldn't really be a concern at all.

[blastedass]

Lets do the physical course first. [Let Manjoume get a feel for how it works before throwing in the distraction of multiple landscapes and obstacles.

Bakugou heads up the stairs, taking them to another bunch of games and entertainments. There's even a theater to the side, but it's only an offshoot of the main theater elsewhere.] They've got a good court downstairs if you wanna eat there.

[Mostly junk food.]