call me out v. 13.0

[misheard]

Call out one of the characters from my muselist with a starter, a prompt, a general 'hey can we do something with these characters' comment, a smoke signal, etc., and I'll get back to you with some kind of RP thread!

Old CR, new CR, assumed CR, canonmates, AU, crossover, whatever, it's all good.

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chuu

[hymned]

[ they text every so often, though julius is a busy man, and at least one kresnik might have on occasion helped out with keeping an eye on the toddlers, but still-

the man perched primly in a seat at one of the library's desks, surrounded by books and thumbing through the one in his hands looking for all the world like he belongs there, isn't exactly a regular sight. or sound, as it were, considering the aimless melody he's humming up until he catches sight of any familiar faces, anyway. ]

—Well, there's nothing for it, I guess. Turns out I might as well be as good as illiterate, at least concerning the works here in your world.

What a pity too, considering where we happen to be.

[goatsongs]

[You could've at least told Chuuya you were coming over. Chuuya's eyes light up in surprise and what is definitely happiness, even if he'll deny it to the end of his days, when he spots Julius.]

Want me to read you a bedtime story?

[hymned]

What, from the same collection that you read to Yoshimasa and Fumiya? At that point I wonder if my dignity wouldn't be better served if you just got me the nearest children's picture book to work my way through.

[ it's quipped back, lightly. also no, no warning for surprise visits because then they wouldn't be surprises! ]

[goatsongs]

[With affection:] You had dignity?

[hymned]

I like to think I have some, at least.

[goatsongs]

Keep telling yourself that.

So what brings you here?

just pretend this icon is only the expression and not the [gestures]

[hymned]

I don't know about you, but for us we just got through celebrating the new year. No one's going to want to be doing anything at work right now.

[ ssssoooo. he kind of gestures to the laptop that's set up in front of him, up until now having been surrounded by books and therefore easily overlooked. ]

Technically, I'm working from home. Or from another dimension while visiting a friend, as it were.

[ details. ]

[goatsongs]

You came all the way out here to skip work, seriously?

Not that I'm complaining.

[He's happy to see Julius any time.]

[hymned]

Skipping work while pretending I'm still being productive. Turns out restructuring a company as big as Spirius is a headache and a half, who'd have thought.

[ everyone says julius is a workaholic but look, see, he's skiving off for personal visits? would a workaholic do this- ]

Learning a new written language wasn't quite on the itinerary, but I may have gotten a little carried away.

[goatsongs]

Some of us dead authors were teachers, you should ask them instead of trying to learn everything from scratch. If you're really interested and not just completely incapable of relaxing for two seconds.

[Learning is important, but not actually relaxing.]

[hymned]

Haha. I suppose you wouldn't accept me saying that I didn't want to bother anyone? [ it should be illegal for a grown man to look this level of hangdog sheepish. ] Honestly, I think I might have gotten as far as realizing our writing systems are somewhat similar in structure if nothing else. That's just from pattern analysis though, I could be entirely off base- especially considering all the more complicated characters that pop up.

[ @ Japanese: why do you use three whole sets of character. that's so many. ]

[goatsongs]

Three sets of characters is too many and I honestly couldn't explain to you why we need all of them.

[Two should be enough for any language!]

[hymned]

Oh, good, I was right about figuring out that much.

[ ... ]

Hey, indulge me for a moment, will you? Write out your name for me.

[goatsongs]

[Pulls out paper and pen from his pocket - of course he has those on him at all times - and writes.]

中原中也

[hymned]

... right, so I know your first and last name don't have any repeat syllables in it, and that's too short anyway- so at least that particular set of characters doesn't seem to be phonetic.

Are they used for proper nouns, or something?

[ julius he just said he couldn't explain ]

[goatsongs]

One kanji can be read in a bunch of different ways in the same word, because fuck you, that's why. And no, they're not just for proper nouns, they're for everything. Except loanwords from Western languages, those get their own alphabet.

[hymned]

[ 'because fuck you is why', why are you like this Japanese. he just smiles and nods before snapping the book he's got open closed and putting it aside. ]

Interesting! [ ... ] Well, that's enough of that particular whim for the day.

How've you been, as of late?

[goatsongs]

Not bad. Yoshimasa's birthday was recently, we had a good time.

[Julius didn't get invited because Chuuya figured he wouldn't make time in his schedule for something like that.]

[hymned]

Oh? Happy birthday to him, then. Maybe I should belatedly get him something to celebrate.

He's not older than his brother now, is he? Admittedly I can't quite recall the month difference off the top of my head.

[ julius ..... would have tried, maybe, no guarantee about results. ]

[goatsongs]

About two months, Fumiya's still the older one.

[I cannot be assed to look up exact months right now.]

He won't complain about a late birthday gift. He likes ninjas, and pirates, and robots. And ninja pirate robots.

[hymned]

No need for confusion then, right?

Ninja pirate robots, huh. I can work with that.

[goatsongs]

Oh, there's plenty of things to be confused about, that's just not one of 'em.

[They did come back from the dead decades into the future.]

He's a kid of good taste.

[hymned]

Of course, of course. As all children his age are, I'd assume.

[ What's a toddler and how good are they at not trying to chew on small parts, hmm... ]

[goatsongs]

[Better than they used to be!]

Nah. Just my kids.

[hymned]

[ but does that better mean he can get them the Elympion equivalent of Legos, please advise ]

Right, how could I have thought anything else. Of course your kids have the best taste in the worlds.

[ pause. ]

Do they ever get lonely with no one else their age around? Or do the other authors fill in decently enough, interaction wise?