inigo

Let's survive and go home together with everyone. Let's grasp that peaceful future together, all right? apartment 3.002 with rui and asseylum!

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            "Then I’m to assume you’ve talked it over with them then? Please consider your spouse’s health—the constant strain can take a toll on them in the long run." Perhaps she’s crossed the line by pressing him further on the matter, but she couldn’t really help herself.

"Actually… tomorrow will be my first day on the job! I suppose you could say I’m a little anxious…"

[casanovistics]

"Well, I hadn't, but--" Okay, yeah, maybe he was jumping to conclusions with just assuming that he could get away without a job, but.. who could blame him? This whole place was new, so trying to make a living here was a little.. ew. "Fine, I will. But even if I were to work, I'd have no idea where to start!"

"Oh yeah? But you're Lucina, so I'm sure you'll do fine." That came off a bit awkward.. Coughs. "I mean, I hiiiiighly doubt you'd fail at the job you choose to do! You're just that type of person who radiates 'bound-for-success'."

[casanovistics]

alright, well, let’s get this out of the way (i’m reusing a prior intro because i’m lazy and i liked it!)

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            ”You would need a job, though—to pay the bills and to provide for your new family.” Unless he planned to live outside, in a dumpster.

[casanovistics]

"Well, actually, the person I'm married to already has a job.. I think we'll be fine. How's your cop life going, though?" 

Besides... the job he would want most was.. er, pretty embarrassing anyway, and besides fighting with a sword, Inigo didn't have many job-oriented skills. Unless he wanted to work at a fast food place, but please, there's no way would he do that.

[casanovistics]

"Jobs, wow. Have fun with that!" Aaaaaand here Inigo will continue to be an unproductive member of society. It's fine. Really.

[galacks]

Not being able to explain it well made sense, but Rui couldn’t help but feel a bit disappointed. He’d wanted to understand this war Inigo fought in, but… there was probably time for that later, too.

Now, what would be a good thing to say? ‘I’m sorry you had to kill people, or watch others die,’ sounded like it’d be a bit of a mood killer. There was also the dilemma of wars tending to be in moral gray areas, and getting into that impassioned discussion wouldn’t make for a necessary first impression. 

"That is interesting. I don’t think I’ve met many people who handle swords.”

Given living in modern day Tokyo.

"And… I’m sorry for the culture shock. It must be hard. I probably wouldn’t fare well in your world. I’m not built for fighting."

That was good, right? Not too, uh… awkward. Rui opened his wallet—not as impressive as it was before,  but he didn’t generate as much revenue here… but it was a livable wage, and that was good enough for him. A tiny bit begrudgingly; makeup was expensive, and so was his wardrobe, and could you really skimp on such things?

"Did you have anything in mind? That you’d like to eat."

Discussions of whether or not whoever was governing this city was playing games with mental warfare could be held off for now, too; there was so much to talk about. It was a little tiring. 

[casanovistics]

While it wasn't very much of an oddity back where he came from, Inigo couldn't help but to feel a bit proud at the suggestion that what he did was unique, and he stood up a little bit straighter without taking notice of doing it. Grinning more than before, he nodded instead of responding, then shook his head.

Fueled with a momentarily new instance of pride, he shook his head. "Culture shock.." What was that again? Well, he figured it was something that Taguels or Manaketes had to go through, when they'd only been around each other most of their lives, right? Not that they ever had that chance anymore, but... still. He could at least understand it with that. "Nope! Well, I'm not even phased." He totally was, judging by how he observed every new thing closely whenever he saw it, but if he wanted to lie, he would lie-- even if it wasn't believable.

"Actually! There's quite a few people that don't, er-- well, you know, literally fight, but I guess it's still fighting, in a way." Anyone could fight in the world he came from, Inigo believed, mostly because everyone had to fight.. especially with the problem of the rising amounts of Risen and even people against them. "Like, mages and all that. I'm sure you'd do fine."

Okay, no, he wasn't sure, but oh well. Back to the food!

Looking around as if that would give him ideas, Inigo let out a 'hmmmm' as he thought. He'd been more excited by getting food, but he hadn't considered the details.. "Do you think they have cookies?"

[galacks]

"Oh, not at all. I haven’t been to one in a while…"

Ah, sadly enough. The idea of eating a pastry freshly-baked instead of pulling it out of a wrapper was appealing, but, again, who was he supposed to be shopping for? Being a sugar daddy must be hard. 

Rui stepped over to one of the store fronts and looked at the cakes in the window display with interest. They were more-or-less all wedding cakes three tiers or more, which was maybe… ironic, and a little off-putting. Maybe just a crepe would be fine…

"Now, then… Inigo, would you mind telling me more about what you do as a soldier? I’m interested."

[casanovistics]

It was lucky that one of them had money, because Inigo sure didn't. Being part of an army had its perks-- things were usually bought for individual members using the money collected along their various raids-- but he didn't really get the time for snack items, let alone something that was completely fresh, except for once in a while.

The actual intent of the cakes displayed went straight over his head for a moment there, but once he noticed, he coughed. How awkward.. Well, in any case, a few, possibly over dramatic thoughts came to mind. "How long do you think they've been sitting there? Waiting, watching-- oh. Food doesn't watch, but..." Well, a point was still a point.

He'd be so preoccupied by the idea of the bakery that he forgot he still hadn't told much about himself.. Explaining his own situation, however, wasn't very easy, either.

"It's... hard to say," Inigo began, his attention falling to the tablet he was still holding, "you know, like this.. Wi-Fi is hard to explain for you." He was a bit proud he'd remembered what it was called-- or was it wrong? Oh well. "But! Well, soldiers fight, obviously.. in battle.. And people died and I helped.." 

--kill them? That's awkward to say on a first meeting. "...I helped fight! I'm a bit of a swordsman myself, although it's not on me right now." Going into details about the actual cause wasn't something he liked to do, so it was better to avoid that for now.

[casanovistics]

"Why is everyone talking about killing their spouses?" 

"Take it easy!"

[casanovistics]

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Getting adjusted to this new world surrounding him was definitely no easy task, but Inigo was trying his best to do so calmly (see: having a mental freak out every time he saw something he'd never heard of before). It was safe to say that, despite it having only been a few days or so (if that), he thought he was doing a pretty good job! Of course, this thinking was all out of some twisted form of overconfidence, but whatever. No one ever said it was wrong to lie to yourself anyway.

With some 'hard work' (okay, not really), he had managed to suppress his surprise at every other thing, instead going about his walk rather normally. He had even found himself with a pair of clothes that didn't look quite so outlandish-- jeans (which still felt a little weird, mind you), a hoodie, and some shoes he couldn't think of a name for if he tried-- and was going about his day just fine when... Okay, no.

There was seriously no way a dead body laying on the middle of the sidewalk was "normal" at all and it just would not do when he was trying so hard to fit in, but here he was, stopped in front of it. It wasn't even a typical dead body, either, you know-- like one that had been stabbed or something. Instead there was a gaping hole in the victim's chest, still fresh with blood, and from what he could see, his... heart was missing? Seriously? What the fuck?

Inigo felt sick. He made a point out of showing this, too, by placing his hand against the nearest building to lean against it. Sure, he had killed before in battles, but that was out of the need to survive and for a better future. He'd never done it so specifically either, as if they had a twisted reason for killing this certain way...

Luckily for him (kind of?), he wasn't the only person around. Looking towards the next guy to walk by (dundunDUN....Will), he made a point out of making sure his attention had been caught on the body, too, by gesturing towards it and spluttering, "Wh... what the..?!"

[galacks]

"Sorry, it’s probably still hard to understand, but X is designed to be user-friendly, so you don’t have to worry. They can answer just about anything, yes."

The screen chirped a ‘hello, Rui, do you need something?' in response, unaware that its creator had handed it over to someone else. This usually would've caused some separation anxiety, but Rui doubted Inigo could do much harm.

"…if we’ll be living together, you’ll have lots of time to learn about things. You can hold on to X, but we should keep walking. I think there are some bakeries around here… and clothing stores… ohh."

Rui, who are you shopping for, here……….

[casanovistics]

Although it didn't seem likely that anything would actually happen, when the tablet spoke back to him, Inigo's eyes widened, and he grinned, mostly out of delighted shock. "Oh! Hah! That's you! It knows your name.." Technology was amazing.

But now that the question was asked, he realized that he didn't actually need anything, at least not now. Inigo settled that he would keep hold of the tablet for now anyway, though, simply because it was cool. Besides, he might think of something while they're walking.

Thinking about the clothing stores was a.. little.. Well. Maybe he should get something more suited to the times, but he was so used to the fashion trends back home (in fact, he liked to think he was on top of them, even though he didn't get much time to shop at all) that the idea of seeing what was in now wasn't very appealing.

The smell of good food, however, was. Stopping upon seeing the first of the before-mentioned bakeries, Inigo stared towards it eagerly.

"Let's go there! Do you mind?"

[galacks]

"You were… I mean, you’re a soldier? From a different time than me… or universe, maybe? Hm…"

Rui Ninomiya, trilingual and intelligent enough to teach, like, Calculus AP, maybe, was at a loss for how to explain a Microsoft Surface to Inigo without using terminology that would fly right over his head.

"It’s not magic. It’s electricity, mostly… and Wi-Fi."

Damn it.

"See, it’s a computer…"

"Listen… since we’re—" married? "—together…" Still sounded weird… "You can look at this." Trust-building exercises on the first date. Naturally. "Be nice to X."

He tapped the A.I. on the home screen gently.

"They’re an artificial intelligence. That means I created them from scratch and made it so that they’d get smarter by learning things on their own… like a human. X is better at answering questions than I am, anyway. And I’ve still got a gift to buy you. " 

[casanovistics]

"It must be something like that, although it all still seems pretty weird to me? Like how is that even possible anyway? I mean, you'd think there's only one universe, but obviously there isn'--" Ah, he had rambled without thinking about it. Rolling his shoulders back, he exhaled and offered a smile instead of finishing.

Wi-Fi, okay. He made a mental note of finding out what that was later. If he didn't remember most of this, Inigo would at least remember to do that.

Although he still hadn't exactly processed how it was that you worked this thing, he opted to gently take the tablet since he was given permission to look at it, right? But instead of doing anything, he just ended up staring.

"Ohhhh.." Gods, this was actually really confusing. It was way too hard to become so advanced in technology within a day. "So I can ask it questions? And it knows?" Holding the tablet up a little bit above his head as if that would do anything, Inigo wrinkled his nose and squinted his eyes. "Hi? Will it respond? I don't really get it--"

[galacks]

Oh, was he thrilled to be asked. Rui had been mulling over whether pulling out his tablet would’ve seemed rude or not, but now he brandished it and swiped it open.

"I work with programming, mostly. I made GALAX from scratch… see, this application, and people communicate through it…"

Though the thought of its active userbase dropping nearly 95% since coming to this new city… ah, Rui didn’t want to wallow in the end of his baby.

"It’s… it’s meant to encourage people to help each other, is all. Just because it’s the right thing to do. Um… enough about that, though. I’d like to hear about you." 

HE’D BE TAKING NOTES, NOW, INIGO. 

[casanovistics]

That's great and all, he wanted to say, except I have no idea what that even is.

Actually, the whole time he'd been here, Inigo had been amazed left and right at a bunch of different new technology. Coming from a place with.. well, none of that, his first instinct was to assume it was some sort of magic.

Looking over Rui's shoulder, Inigo pretended that he understood what he was saying and tried to hide his inner amazement for now. He was doing a pretty good job at it, too, if you asked him. "Help each other?" Right, he could pick up on that at least.

"It feels like that's hard to find nowadays, especially with these circumstances, but it's still a good thing to keep in mind." After all, he had a white knight side to himself. 

Talking about himself and his background wasn't exactly easy when it came to a stranger, but he couldn't hide it forever. "As for me, I'm a soldier-- sort of. Actually, where I come from, we never had any of... those.. Uh. Things." Cue him gesturing to the tablet. "What kind of magic is it using, anyway?"

[galacks]

Rui felt awkward, too… well, really awkward, but Inigo seemed like a… nice person? Well, Rui wasn’t sure how to put it, either, but he felt that Inigo’s intentions couldn’t possibly be harmful. It was a nice change, for once… 

"You don’t have to feel bad. I’d like to get something for you. For now, though…"

"Ah, we can go wherever you’d like. I’m…"

Screen name, real name. Was there a point in keeping up a farce in this place?

"…I’m Rui. It’s nice to… meet you."

[casanovistics]

He might have been a soldier and everything, but off the battlefield, Inigo wouldn't hurt a fly-- well, no, he'd hurt a bug, but a person? Nah. He didn't really have the capacity to be harmful in any other way besides physically, either.

He figured it was best to smile now, despite his somewhat shy feelings, and so he did so, laughing sheepishly to accompany his change in expression. He couldn't crawl back into the shell he abandoned just because of this, after all.

"Ah, well, only if you say so!" Who was he to deny gifts (multiple times), anyway? "I'm Inigo. It's nice to meet you too! I hope it stays nice, since it seems like we're going to be spending a lot of time together."

Oh yeah.. A location. Hmm.. He could think of something. Beginning to walk already, Inigo hesitated to look back to make sure Rui would follow. "Sooo... Um, what do you do?" 

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{  ✿  }       Too bad flirting goes right over her head. ❝ Even so, we’re friends now..or at least we know each other, don’t we? So I’m expected to give you a gift now as well. ❞

                 ❝ Inigo-san..I won’t forget your name. ❞ A mental note has been made in her mind not to forget him now, you never forget the first person whom you meet after all. ❝ Perhaps we can meet somewhere else in the future, I wouldn’t mind. Or you could visit me, whichever is more convenient. ❞ 

[casanovistics]

Damn, friend-zoned again. Fortunately for Inigo, he was totally used to this, and wouldn't let it get to him-- most likely.

"I'm glad to be friends, since I don't really know many people here.. Actually, you're the only new person I know..." It was a little embarrassing.. "But okay, if you insist!"

"And, weeeell, I won't forget yours either, if I can help it." Because the world was unpredictable and who was he to say he couldn't somehow get amnesia or something? It was a total possibility, or maybe he was just being dramatic. Whichever works. "Riiight, that'd be nice! Well, I'm.." What was that number again? Ugh.. "...in apartment 3.002? Something like that. What about you?"

[galacks]

Rui was supposed to be… married to this person, right? Well, he’d never had friends before, let alone a spouse… 

"Ah… happy birthday. We could go out somewhere… and I’ll buy you something. I’m not sure what you like, and… maybe it’d be beneficial to get to know each other."

[casanovistics]

Oh, this-- this was 'the person'.. Of course, putting it in those terms was pretty, well, rude, but Inigo didn't know what to think of being married to someone he didn't even really know-- at all.

...It made him feel sort of jittery, actually.

"Oh! Well, thanks, you know.." What was he supposed to be saying? Despite flirting with many people before, he'd always been rejected, but this was a different scenario, right? Kind of... "But.. you don't actually have to spend your money on me, considering you just met me! Still, maybe going somewhere would be a good idea. I have a feeling we have things to... talk about, haha?" Right, real smooth..

[valsebrouillard-blog]

{  ✿  }       ❝ You’re very welcome. ❞ Giving a kind word to someone on their special day was enough for her. ❝ Like me? You’re too kind, I’m flattered really. ❞ Compliments were nice, but she has a fiancé now and he..probably wouldn’t approve. 

                 ❝ Even so…I do feel sort of bad about not being able to get you anything. I’ll..try to work something out in the future. For now, we can just start with names so I’ll know who it is I’m speaking to..my name is Lenalee. ❞

[casanovistics]

"Ah-- there's no such thing as being too kind!" At least not to someone he's trying to flirt with, anyway. Inigo's very aware of his own engaged status, but let's be real: a true womanizer can never be tied down (or so he'd like to think).

"No, no, don't worry about little ol' me! If anything, I only expect gifts from people who were supposed to give them to me, like my friends, buuut.." That's kind of out of the question right now, isn't it? Well, anyway. "Lenalee.. What a pretty name! I'm Inigo, but you can call me anytime."

[kakkugans]

He gets that reaction a lot.

"But how would they know what to get you if you don’t tell them what you want? Would you rather them get you something you don’t like, rather than them getting you nothing at all? I’d think empty space would be much more useful than something lying around that you don’t like."

[casanovistics]

"Actually, I'd much prefer something I don't like than nothing at all!" He actually felt pretty adamant about this. Him, Inigo Lastname, not receiving a gift for his birthday?

"Aren't your friends supposed to know you well enough to know what you would want? That's what they do!" Or so he assumed that's how it went with normal friends. He had quite the colorful assortment himself..

[solotheory]

"Today’s your special day, isn’t it?" The female spoke up, laughing softly at the other’s musing towards his birthday. "What were you hoping for this year? Maybe you’ll be able to get it before the day ends!"

[casanovistics]

"Yeah, I guess it's better to keep my hopes up about it, huh?" Inigo smiled now, never one to frown in front of a lady! "Well.. You know, I'm not picky,"--yeah, he is--"but just some cake would have been nice, at least!"