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[open] bootstrap disney hangout
WHO: Elan and you!
WHAT: Bootstrap Disney hangout
WHERE: Abandoned fairground (not Disney)
WHEN: May
WARNINGS: N/A
[ Early May, a message is sent out to Outsiders inviting them to an amusement park experience without giant monsters (or corpses of them). At a much smaller fairground in the city's outskirts, Elan and Taryon have got a few rides hooked up and working, including rollercoasters, teacups, go-karts...honestly feel free to headcanon your own it's our castle now.
Most notable is the ferris wheel towering over the park. The view from the air is fantastic but the ride is not without its hitches and the power may cut out from time to time. Don't worry, your technicians are on it. Get comfortable inside and enjoy each other's company...
One half of the park remains out of order. A few rides are functional but rickety so if you are looking for a different kind of thrill by all means...Elan will tell you not to touch them if he sees you he will not be responsible for anyone's deaths!
Dinner's BYO(B) but he's brought a handful of fireworks for people to set off at night. Have at it!
OOC: Consider this an open mingle and feel free to post your own toplevels! You can reach me at![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
ahlyo if you want to hash out anything. ]
WHAT: Bootstrap Disney hangout
WHERE: Abandoned fairground (not Disney)
WHEN: May
WARNINGS: N/A
[ Early May, a message is sent out to Outsiders inviting them to an amusement park experience without giant monsters (or corpses of them). At a much smaller fairground in the city's outskirts, Elan and Taryon have got a few rides hooked up and working, including rollercoasters, teacups, go-karts...honestly feel free to headcanon your own it's our castle now.
Most notable is the ferris wheel towering over the park. The view from the air is fantastic but the ride is not without its hitches and the power may cut out from time to time. Don't worry, your technicians are on it. Get comfortable inside and enjoy each other's company...
One half of the park remains out of order. A few rides are functional but rickety so if you are looking for a different kind of thrill by all means...Elan will tell you not to touch them if he sees you he will not be responsible for anyone's deaths!
Dinner's BYO(B) but he's brought a handful of fireworks for people to set off at night. Have at it!
OOC: Consider this an open mingle and feel free to post your own toplevels! You can reach me at
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Well, I do have my motorcycle. [And he can drive it! Mostly!] Those little carts don't look too complicated, yeah? I'm sure that's a contest you're going to win. [He's not as confident with his driving skills.]
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We've still got a date with those. [He wants to go for a drive with Raidou on their motorcycles, though maybe he can find it in himself not to instantly think it's a race. No promises he won't egg the other boy on at some point.]
Hn. You want me to go easy on you? [Like he ever would. But Bakugo's heading for the carts.]
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I never said that. I will give it my best, as always. [He doesn't think he'll win, but that doesn't mean he won't try.]
Shall we?
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FUCK NO! That doesn't mean he's at risk if he's trapped in an enclosed space with the summoner, dammit! Hmph! Ignoring the pink face over there, Bakugo's heading for the race track.]
Uh-huh. [Well since there aren't many people here, they get the track to themselves. Bakugo moves two karts to the front, then plants his foot atop the hood of one.]
Get in. [Test the comfort, see if they need to adjust the seat. Raidou's a tall boy.]
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Raidou looks the little car over, and slips into the seat. Some adjustment is needed, if only because who knows the last time someone sat in one of these. And hey, he's only 5'9". He puts his hands on the steering wheel, then a moment later takes them off to clap the dust and dirt from them. Well, that's pretty much how everything here has been.
If different than the motorcycle, but it should be easy enough, right?]
How fast do these things go?
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Bakugo helps with the adjustment, finding the lever and clasps down the sides to unlock the rails and get the seat free enough to wriggle. They have to break it out of the proverbial ice before it slides. Gonna need some grease later.]
Fuck, didn't those two idiots say they got this crap ready?
[Just because of that, Bakugo's checking the damn gas tank to see if the car even has gas! Raidou's still an inch and a half taller than him... Anyways.]
Around 35 mph. These aren't high performance karts. [There is gas in there...] Where the hell did those two even find gas?
[He'll give Raidou a quick overview of the gas and brake pedals.]
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Oh. Seems fast for such a little thing, doesn't it? [But in an exciting way. Sure, he could go faster on my motorcycle, where 35 MPH didn't feel like much of anything. It will sure feel like something in this carts.
Now that he knows how it works, he's ready to give it a test. Raidou is not a naturally talented driver by any means. He's very relieved that Bakugo didn't see him when he first got his motorcycle, but he's here to see this. He tests out the pedals, which are sticking a little from the lack of use. The cart suddenly jumps to life a little faster than he anticipated. Bakugo better watch out.]
Ah---!
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[If they're saying the rides are up and ready for people, go-karts included, he expects that status to include cleaning and fueling. Still, if it's just dust and dirt, and everything else is operating, he guesses that can be tolerated. HE wouldn't have accepted that. If you're going to restore something, do it all the way, not a half-assed attempt!]
Who the fuck wants to race in in something slow, Shashou?
[Come on. Use that capped head of yours. But they also can't have a bunch of kids flooring it at 80mph either. Those take homebrewed karts and usually aren't... legal to be out and about. If there were more technologically oriented Outsiders, Bakugo would be concerned about these karts vanishing for joyrides. Not the case as it is.
As soon as he sees Raidou going for the pedal, he swings his leg to the side and stands adjacent to the kart-
Yeah, just for that reason. The quick lurch and jump. You know, he shouldn't tease him, but paybacks are paybacks.]
Wow, didn't think you could squeak like that.
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The pedal got a little stuck. Be careful.
[That, and bless Raidou's little heart, he's just got a very good driver. He does okay on his motorcycle, but it's going to be a long time until Raidou is ever going to beat Bakugo in a race.
Now that Bakugo is out of the path of his cart, he tries again, but it lurches a few times again until he can get it moving a little smoother.]
... Not a word from you.
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Bakugo heads over to his own kart, glancing to Raidou each time the other boy pushes the gas. That lurching path of the novice driver is obvious and he smirks at the warning issued over the summoner's back. Right, cause he's not gonna say shit.
Luckily or Raidou, the explosive teen turns to focus on the kart he picked, getting the seat adjusted and the engine turned on before testing out that gas and break. Ugh, no shit. These things are stuck pretty bad...]
How the hell is it hard to find oil in this place?
[Pumping the gas and break a few times seems to at least shave off some of the dirt and rust, but it's not a smooth ride for the first minute. At least he's behind Raidou and thus out of view. Soon enough, however, he pulls up beside him, comfortable at the wheel.]
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Raidou says nothing. He doesn't even want to look at Bakugo right now. His shoulders hunch over the steering wheel a little, like he was attempting to somehow ball up and disappear while also driving.]
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It's kind of amusing the way the guy's all hunched up. Even if he fits the kart just fine, it's comically becoming a very tall man in a tiny car sort of appearance.] Relax, Shashou! You're gonna pull a damn tendon.
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Oh, was I-- [He straightens back out a bit.] I just-- need to focus, is all.
[Raidou might be good at a lot of things, but alas, one cannot be good at everything. And he's a bit too tightly wound as a person to fully let go yet and just enjoy this. He'll get there, eventually, but definitely not on the first go.]
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You don't have to death grip the wheel. [Bakugo waits for Raidou to ease up a bit.] Lean back in your seat more; you're gonna fuck up your back if you're hunched.
[Can't let him learn bad habits before he even gets in a car.]
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But doing so makes his foot slip off the gas pedal, which startles him a bit, and causes him to push a little too hard on it. The cart suddenly zips forward for a few seconds and then shutters as he tries to get back to a regular pace.
He does take a split second to tug his hat back into place, the brim going a little lower to cover his embarrassed face.]
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Lead foot! Everyone does that their first time. [He did. And in a real car too. Freaked the cop out who was teaching him, then got red in the face when the guy laughed at him. Bastard. Bakugo acknowledges Raidou fixed his positioning too. Good.] Get ready to slow down. [They're coming to a straight.] And... stop.
[Give Raidou a moment to ease off the adrenaline rush.] I want you to try something this time.
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He does come to a stop when Bakugo tells him to, though it's not the most smooth one ever. He's a little further ahead of Bakugo than he meant to be.]
... What?
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Use the straight to test your speed. Push the gas pedal slightly, then back off. Don't brake. Do it again, but a little harder, then back off. You'll get a feel for how fast you go with how hard you push the petal.
[Without curves or changes to distract him. No focusing on the wheel. Just the ratio of foot press to speed.]
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[He's going to give it his best shot. Slowly off and on the pedal. He starts, and it's a jerky start-and-slow progress, but he's moving and that's what matters. Maybe if they're both lucky, he'll get the hang of it.]
It's... better, yes?
[He can only hope.]
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Uh-huh. Remember how it felt when you learned to rev the motorcycle with your hand. You're doing it with your foot this time.
[While he's never seen Raidou on his motorcycle, he knows the guy's worked on it, so applying the same idea can help too.]
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... It took me six weeks to get at all good with that thing.
[But he never crashed! And he even managed to take Yuji on a ride and neither of them died. Progress.
He mastered that,and it's much more complicated than these carts. He can do this. He mutters to himself quietly.]
Smoother. Smoother...
[It does seem to help, at least. He's not going much faster, but he's not bouncing around so much.]
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[Balance! Grip the handles! Rev the engine! How the hell can it take six weeks?! Now he's imagining Raidou looking out the window at the motorcycle on Day 1, acknowledging its existence, and then going back to his usual day, thinking it's the first step in training accomplished.
Bakugo's far too used to picking things up easily. The idea of struggling to learn something you're trying to learn confounds him. Hence beating Kirishima over the head with a rolled up book... Shitty Hair couldn't figure out math!!
Fuck.
He drives forward, catches up with Raidou, then brakes his kart by the side to watch him finish up.]
That was better.
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I had never tried anything like it before it.
[His 1920s self does alright with technology here, but it's been a pretty steep learning curve. That motorcycle is no exception.
He's relieved that Bakugo didn't catch him trying to learn, as his first day was sitting on the bike and... not moving.
He slows down, eventually braking to a slightly less janky stop next to Bakugo. His response to his comment is a nod and letting out a held breath.]
Now if I only had six weeks to practice this.
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[Then again, Raidou said six weeks to get "at all" good, not just learn the basics, so guess that's more forgiving. Some people have been driving for years and are still idiots about it.
Yeah, definitely would've grouched at Raidou for the first day being that. Then again, he's also the kind of person to research something he plans to do a little bit at first, so if Raidou was reading an instruction manual or a guide book, he'd probably get a pass. That or learning to balance. Anyways, neither here nor there.]
You don't need six weeks. You already understand how motorized vehicles work from the bike. [Raidou's not looking around for the proverbial horses pulling the vehicle.] Hold onto the wheel and take your feet away from the pedals.
[Because Bakugo's hopping out of his kart, going around to the back of Raidou's, and abruptly grabbing the back end's crossbar to lift it up and turn it around on the track. That puts Raidou back on the straight for another round of uninterrupted practice. And lower.]
Try it again until you're familiar with how fast you go compared to how much you press the gas.
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[It's a miracle he found any. He keeps an intentionally full schedule.
Suddenly, he's being lifted quickly and turned around. He blinks up at Bakugo, who's giving him instructions as if this was a real driving lesson. He can't help but grin a little.]
Alright. But if we're here for awhile, you're not allowed to get mad at me.
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