[OPEN] knockin' on heaven's door

[peripheries]

WHO: Kaworu Nagisa and fellow members of Brimston.
WHAT: Being a nosy little brat
WHERE: Brimstone Dorm
WHEN: Soon after arrival
WARNINGS: Nothing now. Will warn if anything comes up.



[Hello, fellow member of Brimstone.

A day or after you arrive, someone will come knock on your door.

Well, technically, first he grabs the handle and tries to open the door. There's a pause and then the knock. It's not a soft, inquiring knock, it's an energetic knock that goes on much longer than really necessary, like it's done by someone who doesn't understand a knock is a request and not a summons.

If you answer the knock, or come across him knock on yours/a day, he'll drop his hand and look at you with an amused curiosity.]

So. Who are you then?

[Yup, that's it. That's the important question at the center of all this knocking.]

((OOC: Feel free to use this post for anything Brimstone related. I am just very busy this weekend and wanted to toss something up in case I miss the text mingle.

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[thundercrashes]

You don't beat around the bush, do you?

[However, despite the offer of friendship, Manjoume doesn't step aside to allow Kaworu entry yet as he squints at the other.]

Is that the only reason you want to be friends? Just because it would be easier if we were while we're also on the same team here?

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I want friends because I want to know what having a friend is like. It seemed easiest to start with the people who are assigned to the same team as I am since we will live near each other and work together.

[He considers the person across from him. Despite not being allowed entry, he doesn't seem offended by it.]


What makes you want a friend? Do you have any?

[thundercrashes]

[... That's kind of sad, when you phrase it like that buddy. Manjoume's scowl drops a few degrees because of those first words, only to then creep back up his face at the question as he scoffs.]

Of course I have friends. A decent amount of them, in fact.

[The old Manjoume of first year would have found having friends at all to be stupid... but at least the person he's become by now is able to admit that he considers some of the people he knows back home are in fact his friends.

But, they're not here right now. As it stands, Manjoume Jun is now alone, again.

Manjoume's stance shifts a bit against the door upon this realization, going from his arms crossed over his chest, to now at his hips in a cockier stance as he seems to come to a decision about something, adopting a more smug tone than before.]

Luckily for you, however, I'm feeling generous today... so if you really want to befriend me, the one and only Manjoume Thunder, then I suppose I could allow you the chance for attempting it.

[peripheries]

[Kaworu smiles up at the other boy and his bluster. It's so interesting the way that humans, no... beings, react to his offer. He's seen such a variety of different reactions. At first he wonders if the suggestion that he has a chance at friendship to be literal, which is curious as it seems unusual as far as he understands friendship. Then he realizes it's something else.]

This is your way of communicating you are willing without right saying it, isn't it? Well, that's alright. I accept.

[thundercrashes]

[Thank Goodness that you are familiar with the language of tsundere, Kaworu. Even if Manjoume ends up predictably frowning a little in slight embarrassment.]

That's not--ugh, never mind. This is fine, I guess.

[Anyway...]

So, Nagisa-san then... what kind of skills do you have? Or, I guess what I'm asking is why do you think you were brought here along with the rest of us?

[Friendship or otherwise, it would probably be beneficial to know what his teammates are capable of in terms of combat or even just in general, if they're meant to be working together somehow on this particular team...]

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Hmm. Perhaps because I was raised to pilot giant robots and fight aliens from birth.

Or maybe it's because I'm an angel.

[His voice lilts as if to add "who can say?" at the end. Because he doesn't know LILITH but he's quite certain it's much like SEELE and they have reasons and plans and all of the recruits will be left in the dark.

[thundercrashes]

What?

[Okay, that sure was not what Manjoume was expecting to hear coming out of the other boy's mouth. He gives Kaworu a very obvious once-over here, clearly trying to look for something off about his appearance, before he speaks.]

You don't look like an angel to me. I mean, aren't angels supposed to have wings and halos, or other stuff like that?

[peripheries]

Perhaps that's how humans conceive of them. But even then, it wasn't always humans thought of angels.

[He extends his arms a little, palms forward, as if presenting himself.]

Angels were messengers from the divine. Gruesome creatures that burned your eyes when you gazed upon them. And so, believing my people to be the messengers of humanity's end, they deemed us "angels".

[thundercrashes]

Uh-huh...

[Manjoume raises an eyebrow, but otherwise shrugs.]

Well, angel or whatever, it doesn't particularly matter here, does it? Unless you're actually planning to end humanity, then it would definitely be a problem since we're supposed to be working together in this place to, you know, not do that.