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[mylegacy]

Who: Caesar Zeppeli and u! Also Joseph Joestar's birthday party and u! MULTIPURPOSE
Broadcast: Fleetwide!
Action: Caprine! Because this mess is not happening on his ship.
When: Wednesday, September 23; Sunday, September 27.

video } wednesday, september 23

Someone needs to explain fried chicken to me.

[. . . no, that appears to be the lead-in to this video. Caesar looks a little offended, and he kind of is; this has actually been explained to him, but there are, in his opinion, a hundred better things you could do with a chicken than fry it. Sacrilegious. No one ever take him to an Olive Garden.]

It seems like a good way to dry the chicken out if you're not careful. And frying is so unhealthy. [Why not dunk it in alfredo sauce instead.]

Also, what the hell is coleslaw.

Also, I do need help with some baking. A cake.

[What was the other thing. Oh, yes.]

Joseph Joestar's birthday is this Sunday. He's been forbidden from talking about it, so I encourage everyone to talk to him about it as much as possible.

[What a good friend.]

action } sunday, september 27

[On Sunday, because he is a good friend, an absolute shit-ton of food appears; because he holds the sanctity and cleanliness of his ship to be pretty sacred, it appears in the Caprine's cargo bay. Decorations are hit-or-miss, in part because that's not really his strong suit and in part because he's pretty sure Joseph won't actually care. There's food.]

[Although there are other things too, past the small mountain of non-nutritional-paste foodstuffs. Music, for one thing, although it's a strange mishmash of things that sounded familiar to a 1930s ear, things that didn't totally offend him, and things that other people contributed. About halfway through the afternoon, something roughly analogous to hip-hop crackles across the speakers, startling everyone, if by everyone you mean probably just Caesar.]

[It's a party, y'all. Have fun. Don't let Joseph eat all the fried chicken.]


( ooc; OBVIOUSLY THIS POST WAS SUPPOSED TO GO UP SOONER, but due to Reasons it did not. if you don't mind, please keep birthday mingle stuff under the toplevel i put up for it - otherwise go nuts and have fun! ♥ )

Comments

[mylegacy]

Well, pick what you're best at, bellina.

[ino]

"Bellina"? What is that?

[ Also, she should probably be ... helping. She looks for the frosting ingredients to start putting what she can of that together. ]

[mylegacy]

[He gestures kind of vaguely at the powdered sugar while he stirs.]

It's just a nickname. Like . . . [He thinks.] Like sweetheart, a little, but it means pretty, too. Your name is hard to work with, you know.

. . . Is that all right?

[ino]

[ Ah, there we go. Puttin' that shit together. ]

Eh? Of course. It's cute!

[ As long as it's not "Pig", she's cool with the nicknames. In fact, it reminds her a little bit of Sai ... ]

It's a word in Italian, right? I guess the chip doesn't translate that one.

[mylegacy]

Sort of a word. It's . . . bella is beautiful, but if you add ina or ino to something, it's "little". Just an endearment.

[Like, for example, Caesarino. But anyway.]

It's like your name is trying deliberately to irritate me. Inoina. It doesn't work. So bellina instead.

[ino]

[ She's laughing ]

Well, I was named after my dad. It's not really a "feminine" name, strictly speaking.

[ She likes Bellina, but she's curious ... ]

What about my family name? Can you do that one? It's Yamanaka.

[ "Do that one", like he's doing a magic trick or something ... ]

[mylegacy]

[He makes sort of a face, thinking about this.]

Yamanakina?

[God that's long. He looks at her questioningly.]

[ino]

[ A little laugh ]

I think I like bellina better.

[ At least she does a halfway decent job of imitating how it's pronounced ]

[mylegacy]

It's a little less complicated.

[He picks the bowl up off the pot and stirs the chocolate so it all melts together evenly.]

I like hearing it. Even just little pieces of it, it's good. I think this place . . . blends us together too much, maybe. So if I can keep a little piece of myself for myself, that's what I want.

Do you have the dry things?

[ino]

[ She holds it out for him ]

There's nothing wrong with that.

[ She does her best to do a lot of the things she would do at home, in her own way. But after eight years she's left behind a few things, like calling anyone -chan or -san, unless they specifically call her by it first ... ]

Is Italian the only language you know? Or do you know more?

[ Since he and Jojo can talk easily, he probably knows English, right? ]

[mylegacy]

Thanks.

[He takes the bowl and starts pouring the chocolate in, pretty slowly, folding it in carefully bit by bit.]

English. A little German, it's not so good. That's all, though.

[ino]

"German" ...

[ She hasn't heard that one before. ]

I tried to learn some English, before. It's just so confusing ...

[mylegacy]

It's a stupid language and it doesn't make any sense.

[Fuck that shit, quite frankly.]

Not worth it. Learn Italian instead.

[ino]

[ A laugh ]

Well, sure, if you'd teach me. It's just the letters that confuse me, honestly ... they're nothing at all like how we write at home.

[mylegacy]

Oh. Oh, that makes sense. Maybe just a few things, then.

[He gives her a sly sideways look.]

Jojo doesn't speak Italian, you know. Not really. He gets really annoyed when people don't speak English to him.

[SO IF YOU EVER WANNA PISS HIM OFF.]

[ino]

[ GRINS. ]

Is that right?

[mylegacy]

That's right.

He'd also be extra angry because we were ganging up on him.

[ino]

Well, I'd hate to upset the poor guy.

[ Literally everything about the way she says that indicates she does not mean that whatsoever ]

[mylegacy]

He's no fun when he's upset.

[Which is the opposite of true: Joseph is hilarious when he's upset. It took until pretty recently for Caesar to realize how bad he was at actually playing, having fun, before he met Joseph. It's another little thing to be grateful to him for.]

The best thing to do is to say something with his name in it. All Italian with Jojo right in the middle.

[ino]

[ She's grinning, now, chin in her palms ]

Okay, okay, teach me something to say. I can at least remember how to say it, even if I can't write it.

[mylegacy]

All right . . . let's see.

[He thinks for a second; then:]

Jojo vuole un cucciolo.

[ino]

[ Oh boy. Those are some sounds she is not exactly equipped to make with her accent. ]

Jojo ... buole un kuchalo?

[mylegacy]

[. . . that. Ino. No. There is just a pained expression happening over here.]

Not b. V. Vuole.

[ino]

Nngh ...

Bu ... Bvvvvuuole ...

[ SHE IS TRYING REALLY HARD ]

I can't make that sound!

[mylegacy]

You can, you did for a minute. Try it again.

[NO WHINING.]