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Kaito Nagano ([personal profile] seafloor) wrote in [community profile] synflux2024-04-09 09:30 am

Guys' Night [OPEN]

WHO: Dudes, dude. Bring all your dudely Outsiders, bro.
WHAT: Man I sure wish I could tell you Cracking a cold one open with the boys
WHERE: The Onsen
WHEN: 4/11
WARNINGS: Alcohol, nudity, dad jokes... This'll be updated accordingly

[ A few days after the girls have had their fun (cause girls just wanna have fun), another blanket text sweeps over the Outsiders' inboxes. This time, it's from Kaito: and he is proposing a very original idea that all the guys should come by the hot springs in a few days' time. Gossip and bathing are optional, but an empty stomach is mandatory.

Several pictures of newly purchased smokers, grills, and even a fucking pizza oven can be seen at various points throughout the message. There are also mountains of stacked beer and soda cases. Kaito's apparently going to be cooking enough to feed the whole base, or so he purports.

Where did he get all the money for this? Whatever, it's free!

He also adds in no uncertain terms that if any girls try to show up and sneak a snack, he will send them home with a stern warning and a bottle of water.

If you take him up on the invitation, welcome! It's a spring cookout and Pitmaster Kaito Nagano is going to be serving up enough barbeque to temporarily turn the onsen area into a Texan territory within Japan. Seriously, there's gonna be a metric fuckton of food and booze, and the hot springs will be right there when you're ready to get hot and hungover.

There are absolutely no plans after food. Feel free to stick around and socialize, but you will not be publicly shamed for just yoinking a plate and dip setting. Probably.

Aside from the barbeque, there are some horseshoes and cornhole boards set up (google it, it's safe, this is not a bit it's just a funny name for an american game) for dudes to try their hand-eye coordination at after having one too many drinks.

If you're feeling particularly brave, Kaito's got an ice box full of artificial fish (all the meat's artificial, let's be real) that you can try to attract a feral cat with. Good luck. ]


(( ooc: hello yes i didn't want The Boys™ to feel left out so feel free to make top levels and just get some general cookout social time in with your boyos. make it as friendly or awkward or awkwardly friendly as possible. go nuts. get naked. cause a ruckus. [ insert toxic masculinity here ] ilu ♥ ))
problemagus: iconmerge @ lj; (As I whisper your new name;)

[personal profile] problemagus 2024-04-09 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
( ... )

Kosuke Moriya.

( That is not his name. )
assassinsgreed: (( 108. ))

[personal profile] assassinsgreed 2024-04-09 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
You must be new.

[ did he really forget the little conversation they had while giving out chocolate? ]

I don't remember guy names well.
problemagus: utenacar; (Will you have the nerve;)

[personal profile] problemagus 2024-04-09 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
( Okay, you know what? This is almost comical at this point. )

Really, tovarish? I've been here since December.

( He owes him a game of poker, smh. )
assassinsgreed: (( 75. ))

2/2

[personal profile] assassinsgreed 2024-04-09 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, yeah. You're the communist guy. Do a favor and keep politics out of this. I don't really care.

[ but still has not made the connection this is the same dude he has blocked on his implant. ]
problemagus: thingamajig; (Her timeless watch is quiet;)

[personal profile] problemagus 2024-04-09 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
( ...He'll take it. )

I'm getting the impression you don't read much, do you?

( Why else wouldn't he want to hear Kiritsugu drone on about theory for five hours? Clearly, the problem is with Toji. )
assassinsgreed: (( 118. ))

[personal profile] assassinsgreed 2024-04-09 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ why does this conversation seem ... so familiar. Toji is racking his traumatized brain up to try and figure it out, and then, it hits suddenly he doesn't even bother commenting on anything else. ]

Hey. I get it now. You're also that guy that threatened to shoot me in the street.

[ a beat. ]

And called me a virgin.
problemagus: thingamajig; (I'd live again that moment;)

[personal profile] problemagus 2024-04-09 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
It took you this long to figure it out, huh?

( He sounds. so impressed. Toji. But he's going to put an end to the virgin thing here and now. )

I wasn't calling you a virgin. What I meant is that I didn't think you'd get laid outside of sex work.

( Because that makes it sound so much better. )

I don't want to shoot you.

( Maybe. )
assassinsgreed: (( 2. ))

[personal profile] assassinsgreed 2024-04-09 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Toji isn’t the one to waste too much effort setting people straight, but he knows for a fact that’s not how that conversation went. ]

You said I’d be content dying without knowing the touch of a woman. Sounds like you’re saying I’ve never had sex. Either way, it’s insulting and you need to watch yourself.

Don’t know why you have a sudden change of heart, but it doesn’t change the fact I want nothing to do with you.
problemagus: curtainfire; (Each word summons;)

[personal profile] problemagus 2024-04-09 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
( Well, being insulting was the point. Not that he seems to care about elaborating on this tangent, further. Anyway!! )

Your son and I were assigned to the same team. I get the sense he has something of a strained relationship with you, though I've not been able to puzzle together as to why.

( Apart from Kiritsugu gathering that Toji seems utterly repugnant, that is. But he'll keep that opinion to himself. )

I want to know how to better help the boy.

( Which is to say: he's invested in Megumi's life now, so there's no getting rid of him. )
Edited 2024-04-09 22:36 (UTC)
assassinsgreed: (( 14. ))

[personal profile] assassinsgreed 2024-04-09 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ why do people keep prying their nose where they aren’t supposed to. ]

It’s not any of your business as to why.

[ a beat, and then: ]

Stay away from him.
problemagus: utenacar; (Is it better to reign;)

[personal profile] problemagus 2024-04-09 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
( ... )

Sorry, I don't take demands.

( Nor does he expect Toji to take responsibility. )
assassinsgreed: (( 94. ))

[personal profile] assassinsgreed 2024-04-09 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ What kind of guy pries his nose where he’s not supposed to? It’s like Nanami said before he disappeared that being brought here gives Toji another chance, and up until now, Toji had not realized he had been taking it by trying to make amends with Megumi.

They were making progress. Slow progress, but progress anyway. Maybe now he can finally follow through with what his wife said on her dying bed: take care of Megumi.

Toji closes the space between them a little, stature looming as he gives Kiritsugu a twisted smile. ]


You’ll stay away from him if you want to live. I don’t kill for free, but maybe for you I can make an exception.

[ He spits, having enough maturity to aim at the other man’s feet instead of his face. ]

That is my son.

[ FATHER-SON RANK UP??? WHO KNEW?? ]
problemagus: malagraphic; (Even real;)

Why are they like this?

[personal profile] problemagus 2024-04-10 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
( When Toji closes in the gap between them, Kiritsugu doesn't even so much as flinch. Any trace of fear had long been beaten out of him, left discarded on some forgotten battlefield long ago. He is met with the intense void of Kiritsugu's eyes, ones clouded by a lifetime of war, of bloodshed, of loss, casting him a look that can only be described as 'pity.'

And he reminded him so much of those other men. The countless mages that died at the hands of his gun, done in by their own overconfidence, their hubris. But this was hardly the time or place, and moreover, he could feel the affliction in his heart flaring up again. Why, exactly, was he compelled to feel anything for a man so petty? )


Parents don't own their children, but you owe a responsibility to them. ( The words tumble from his lips, as though he's doling out an inconvenient truth. ) You do this whether or not they grow to even care for you. And if the thought of who they choose to associate vexes you, then I would advise you take a deeper look at yourself.

( Threaten him all you like, Toji. Kiritsugu doesn't seem to care. )
assassinsgreed: (( 13. ))

[personal profile] assassinsgreed 2024-04-10 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ Not the time or place, and with as cool tempered as Toji is, this guy really is putting his nose in business he shouldn’t, and it’s a sore spot for Toji. ]

You said it yourself, that you don’t understand our relationship, so stop acting like you know anything about it.

You have no idea of anything involved in it.

[ No idea why their relationship is strained, he just said it. He’s been given a second chance here, but he hates this guy so much already he’s not wasting his breath on any explanation. ]

How would you like it if I started fucking around your family situations? A situation that didn’t involve me. Megumi hasn’t ever said anything about you to me.

For all I know you’re just a stranger bothering my kid. Isn’t that what you’re wanting? For me to be protective of him?

[ newsflash, he always has been. ]
problemagus: utenacar; (I'll call you Monet;)

[personal profile] problemagus 2024-04-11 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
Interesting that you automatically assume bad faith on my part, when I wouldn't be so brash to brush off someone with concerns about my own child. Ostensibly, I should be your ally.

( It takes a village, after all. But tbf, Kiritsugu's bitter sarcasm isn't exactly helping matters, and at this point, he can only feel the conversation wearing on him, casting off an air of exasperation. )

Nor was I aware we lived in some fantasy land where teenagers are fully open with their parents. My bad.

( It's at that point, he shifts his head to the side, focusing on much of nothing. It's clear he's not out for a fight, not really. Especially not while Kiritsugu feels swallowed by the intense sadness radiating from this man. Toji was not that different from him, was he? )

The olive branch is in your court, if you want it.

( And with that, he begins to walk away. )