35th Candid Photo

[pygmalion_perv]

[It's Sunday!  A glorious, sunny, springtime Sunday!  And there's no school tomorrow!  Clearly, this is the perfect time for a date with Shirley!  That's Hachibe's general thought pattern as he heads over to 1664 Nelson Street, anyway.  Of course, when he gets there, he's confronted with a cheerful drone asking him about the homework they got assigned to do over spring break instead.  Shoving his way past her, Hachibe storms up the stairs to her room, rummaging through closets as the drone yells at him for being a pervert and going into a girl's bedroom without permission.  After a while of tearing through stuff, he doesn't find what he was looking for, and excuses himself and leaves.]

[Action; around town]

[After leaving Shirley's house, Hachibe can be found slinking back home looking like a kicked puppy.  Contrary to his usual upbeat demeanor, he's got his eyes cast downward and his hands in his pockets as he trudges along.  Every so often he sighs deeply, lifting a hand to rub at the corners of his eyes before continuing on.]

[Phone; unfiltered]

Hahahaha!  Who needs love anyway!  Am I right, guys?  How could I ever have been so stupid?  I knew it all along - it's all about the parts!

[Denizens of 1250 Williams Road will find Hachibe up in his room late Sunday evening cleaning up his room and rearranging things.  In particular, he can be found cutting the eyes out of all the pictures of Charlotte Yeager that used to be hanging up around his room and putting them in shoeboxes in his closet.  After staring for a while at the last such picture, he tucks it into the back of a book and puts it in the back of one of his desk drawers.  After that's all done, he can be found sitting on his bed lazily flipping through some of the porn magazines he regained a few months back, looking at it with an almost bored expression on his face.]

Comments

[pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com]

Well, it's usually easier to get by if you keep your head down, I guess.

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

"I guess.. Still, it is depressing."

[She blinks]

"I've... Been not helping, haven't I? I apologize, I've been a bit of an idiot as of late."

[pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com]

Nah, it's okay. I just need to deal with it.

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

"Well, if you need someone to listen, I can do that, I can also bring sodas. Much more than that, I do understand many things just have to be done on your own."

[pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com]

[Hachibe sighs a little, but then smiles.]

It's nothing anyone can really help. My girlfriend is gone.

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

"Well... While I've never been in love, or had intimate feelings for anyone... I know what its like to have lost family. I don't think that its a pain that goes away quickly, but, tomorrow, for Easter, I think they're starting a bunny girl motif here. Sometimes maybe its best to try and distract yourself from the initial pain, till, it becomes more a numb hurt..."

[pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com]

That's okay, bunny girls were never really my thing. But I'll still come visit you and Taiwan anyway.

And yeah, distracting myself is probably a good idea.

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

"Maybe a book or a video game then? I am sorry, especially given the timing."

[pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com]

Yeah, maybe. And I'll probably still go to the prom anyway.

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

"Then you can tell me how it was. As it stands right now I'll probably be here."

[pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com]

Really? No date? Or do you just not like dances?

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

"I've never been to a dance, and no one has asked me. So, why spend 4 weeks wages on a dress that I'll wear once and stand in the corner for the evening when I can just do something else?"

[pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com]

I guess that makes sense.

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

"The number of non drones in my age range isn't very high so, I never really had much hope anyways."

[She shrugs]

[pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com]

I guess if you don't like dancing anyway, there's not much point.

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

"I can't say, I've never done it. Well, I did on television for a few contests, but that was just me, and it was kind of embarrassing. Omoikane and Megumi put me up to it."

[pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com]

Friends of yours from home, I'm guessing?

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

"Megumi is. Omoikane is my computer, and he's set up in my house.

[pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com]

Oh, are you an otaku? I know a lot of guys like that who name their computers.

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

"No. Omoikane is a supercomputer AI, originally designed to handle operations of the battleship Nadesico. I'm the computer operator for him."

[pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com]

...Something like that actually fits in your house? It sounds like it'd have to be pretty huge to run a whole ship.

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

"The power systems take up about 1/3 of the garage and the actual mainframe takes up about half of my room. Why?"

[pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com]

I guess I'm just impressed that you managed to make it fit.

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

"I could have stored it in the basement too... But... Tom is always down there... Keeping his snake happy.... I don't even want to know, let alone have that happen near my computer."

[pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com]

...Wow, yeah, that's probably for the best. Especially if that's what he's doing down there all day.