Tourist ROAD TRIP (mingle)

[takingkarabusiness]

Who: Touristas and visitors
Broadcast: as needed
Action: The Tourist!
When: The month of June

[ Get bit by the June Bug and mingle to your heart's content! ]

Comments

[pneumo]

Okay, so! You gotta hold up your hand, and make a fist! [ he's so excited for this Winn YOU DON'T KNOW ]

[winn]

Alright - [ are we gonna fist-bump, sascha? he holds his hand up as instructed, happy to let sascha teach him something, even if it'll turn out to be something he already knows. that'll be his little secret. ]

[pneumo]

[ He is totally going to fist-bump you, Winn. He'll bring up his hand, make a fist, and....Bam. FISTBUMP. ]

--Fistbump! [ he's even going to say it out loud because he's a nerd. ]

[winn]

[ his eyes are going to go wide like you just BLEW HIS MIND there sascha! ]

Ok, that's awesome, I think that's our new high-five!

[pneumo]

[ And this is why you are the best, Winn. THE BEST. ]

Hehe! Kirito showed me♥

[winn]

[ he likes you sascha, you're so easy to impress. ]

And who's Kirito?

[pneumo]

[ He really, really is... But Winn is so good at it! ]

He's a kid on the Fleet here--I stalked him for a bit, and then we became super-best friends♥ [ .......more or less. ]

[winn]

You uh...you stalked him?

[ you do realize that's bad, right? ]

[pneumo]

I said sorry after♥ [ It's okay if he apologizes right?? ]

[winn]

Why...did you stalk him?

[ it's better...it's still not okay. ]

[pneumo]

He was buying meat and it looked reeeeeeally good.

[winn]

Oh, so you were stalking the food?

[ yeah, he gets that. he'd stalk the hell out of anyone with some takeout. ]

[pneumo]

Yeah! I mean, I don't really like cooked meat but this one smelled amazing♥ [ And, you know. So did Kirito. ]

[winn]

So you're friends now? That's great. See, people here are pretty different.

[pneumo]

Yeah.... No one's tried to get rid of my once yet. It's....nice. But weird.

[winn]

I know what you mean. [ he nods. ok, people aren't usually trying to kill him (though at times it felt like they were toying with the notion), but being so universally liked and accepted is a bizarre feeling for him, much as it's a welcomed one. ]

People didn't really like me that much back home either.

[pneumo]

But....why?? You're amazing! [ And super-cuddly. What's not to like there, Captain Nobeard?? ] You do high-fives and teach me stuff and everything!

[winn]

[ he smiles a little and shakes his head. he's not going to get into his family drama, and there were plenty of other reasons people disliked him for anyway. ]

I'm a nerd, it means I get really excited about things other people think are boring. And I tend to try really hard to be people's friend, which a lot of them don't like. And I'm not in the best of shape - [ ok, he's a wimp ] so that makes a lot of people look down at me. I'm not what people back home expect me to be, basically. [ he's not manly enough. ]

So when I got here and everyone was nice, and wanted to be my friend - I wasn't sure what to do with it either.

[pneumo]

That's just like me.... [ Well, except for like 90% of that. He means the part about arriving here and being completely disoriented by everyone's kindness. ]

Everyone hates vampire back home--humans always want us dead. But here no one...really minds. Even when I tell them, they don't hate me.

[winn]

Because it's nothing to be hated over. What matters is who you are, Sascha, not what. And who you are is pretty great.