WHO: Okada Izou and "friends". WHAT: Catch-all for TDM/event prompts. WHERE: Various sites around Kyoto. WHEN: Most of May. WARNINGS: Animal gore, BDSM talk???. Will update as necessary.
Only if I ain't too far-gone myself. Though I doubt he could ever drink me under the table.
( izou's usually the one that needs a lift home... and now that the conversation's calmed down a good bit, he glances up at the worn red of the gate. tries to recall exactly how it felt to last pass through it and who he was with, planting both hands on his knees.
but it's not that important of a memory, and izou dashes it away as he rises to his feet off the bench, stretching an arm out behind him. )
Anything else you wanna know 'bout this place, or are we good to go?
[ she doesn't know if he'll be able to answer it, but there's always more writing on the opposite page. malkuth remains seated, staring at her hands and then up at the gate in thought. ]
How was it for the other side? The people you paid.
[ no service comes without consequence, and it's important to remember every living being. to her, anyway. ]
And we're never getting that close, Izou! I meant living conditions! I'm not naive enough to think that a pleasure district would've been someone's first choice for a job, at least not in my world it wouldn't be.
[ with all the love in her heart....... definitely a backstreet boy. ]
So? I don't think I have to worry about you treating them disrespectfully, since you're rude and uncouth but a nice guy, but were they treated well?
he follows-up that up with the disgruntled scowl of a scolded child, rubbing a hand along his back. that shit better not happen again. )
They had food and a place to stay. Some of 'em even had it better than me, I'd say, long as their rank was high. 'Specially the tayu—you'd better be out the way when they come down the street, petals bein' scattered everywhere.
( his mouth sets in a thin line. )
But yer right. I'm not gonna sugarcoat it none—most of those girls were sold into the role and had to put up with a buncha crap, I'm sure.
[ don't assume she wants to hear about your sex life and it won't. for different reasons than march, nothing izou could do would scare her.
but she'll stand now, brushing off her backside. ]
I figured as much. But food and a roof over their head is more than enough for some people, even if that's less "living" and more "surviving"... not that I would know much about it myself.
[ that much she can admit, even for the more middle class life she'd lived. not as bad off as lisa and enoch, but nowhere close to daniel. she fiddles with her camera. ]
( he can't lie and say he gave it too much thought back then. the women there comforted him, listened to him—but at the end of the day, it was all a transaction, regardless of whether he bed them or not.
he gestures with a tilt of the head past the gate, at the winding street and its ancient, abandoned bicycles and homes. )
Down wherever. Can't say much of this place looks familiar past here. Maybe we'll spot something I remember before it starts to pour.
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( izou's usually the one that needs a lift home... and now that the conversation's calmed down a good bit, he glances up at the worn red of the gate. tries to recall exactly how it felt to last pass through it and who he was with, planting both hands on his knees.
but it's not that important of a memory, and izou dashes it away as he rises to his feet off the bench, stretching an arm out behind him. )
Anything else you wanna know 'bout this place, or are we good to go?
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How was it for the other side? The people you paid.
[ no service comes without consequence, and it's important to remember every living being. to her, anyway. ]
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( he pauses mid-stretch. )
You better not be askin' me how well I performed. We ain't that close.
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her cheeks flare and she hits his back. ]
And we're never getting that close, Izou! I meant living conditions! I'm not naive enough to think that a pleasure district would've been someone's first choice for a job, at least not in my world it wouldn't be.
[ with all the love in her heart....... definitely a backstreet boy. ]
So? I don't think I have to worry about you treating them disrespectfully, since you're rude and uncouth but a nice guy, but were they treated well?
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he follows-up that up with the disgruntled scowl of a scolded child, rubbing a hand along his back. that shit better not happen again. )
They had food and a place to stay. Some of 'em even had it better than me, I'd say, long as their rank was high. 'Specially the tayu—you'd better be out the way when they come down the street, petals bein' scattered everywhere.
( his mouth sets in a thin line. )
But yer right. I'm not gonna sugarcoat it none—most of those girls were sold into the role and had to put up with a buncha crap, I'm sure.
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but she'll stand now, brushing off her backside. ]
I figured as much. But food and a roof over their head is more than enough for some people, even if that's less "living" and more "surviving"... not that I would know much about it myself.
[ that much she can admit, even for the more middle class life she'd lived. not as bad off as lisa and enoch, but nowhere close to daniel. she fiddles with her camera. ]
Where to next?
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( he can't lie and say he gave it too much thought back then. the women there comforted him, listened to him—but at the end of the day, it was all a transaction, regardless of whether he bed them or not.
he gestures with a tilt of the head past the gate, at the winding street and its ancient, abandoned bicycles and homes. )
Down wherever. Can't say much of this place looks familiar past here. Maybe we'll spot something I remember before it starts to pour.
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but she'll take a picture of the road ahead first before starting off that way. ]
I haven't been caught in the rain before, so if we are I don't really mind! It'll be fun to experience at least once.