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the_zone2022-08-01 07:34 pm
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LOG: Jirou and Bunta
Who: Jirou and Marui
When: Marui’s first day on base
Where: the halls of the base.
What: Marui gets murdered and Jirou hides the body
Well, you win some, you lose some. And sometimes you lose multiple times in a row, hard. Back on Mars Marui had a list of people to avoid, and the guys who memorized his upload schedule so they could post first every time were right at the top of it. Sure, Akutagawa seemed nice enough, but he also gave Marui exorbitant amounts of money every months for nothing but posting videos, and come on, the videos weren’t that good. It was either a kink thing, or the dude was crazy. Or both. As he waited in the hall with no way to escape, Marui thought he might be about to find out.
Jirou of course was thrilled that Marui was there. He'd been a big fan of Marui since his esport days. Marui was just... cool. Jirou liked watching him do stuff. And now he could watch him do stuff in person. It was going to be great!
He rounded the corner to where Marui was, bright eyed and bushy tailed and just thrilled to meet his idol. "Marui!!! It's so cool to meet you!!!!"
By the thrilled way he greeted him, this must be Akutagawa. Marui gave him a smile, doing his best to stay cheery despite the fact he was 90% certain he was gonna die. “Hey, Akutagawa. Good to finally meet my biggest supporter.” He braced himself– this was usually the part where people tried to touch him, and this guy looked like a hugger.
Jirou however was too thrilled to meet Marui to touch him. Instead he just let out a cheer. "You're even cooler in person! Lucky!!!!"
He moved to grab as much of Marui's luggage as he could carry. "Let me show you to your room! You're gonna love it here!!!"
Okay, plus one point for this guy, always nice when a fan recognized boundaries. Marui watched the guy scramble to pick up his things, mildly impressed with just how much he managed to get in his arms considering how small he was. Small enough that Marui actually felt a bit bad watching him. “Don’t hurt yourself, we can take two trips. My room’s not going anywhere.” And neither were any of them for the next five years he added to himself mentally as he picked up a bag.
Jirou nodded and unloaded a bit of what he was carrying. "I'll be careful! I just want to look cool in front of you!"
It would be nice if Marui thought he was cool, after all.
“Play to your strengths. You wrote the computer stuff for the whole base, right? That’s pretty cool.” And Marui wasn’t even lying about that, it was really impressive. “You don’t have to do the macho strong man thing to impress me, I’m not a teenage girl.” And to be real honest, that didn’t work on teenage girls much, either.
Jirou looked utterly giddy. Marui thought that his OS was cool. He was clearly the luckiest guy ever! "I can show you how BUNTA OS works later if you want! And help you set up all your video stuff so you can make more videos!!!"
“Sure, I’ve got time.” Lots and lots of time. Off through the hallways they went to the dorms, Marui letting Jirou lead the way. “Dunno which box my camera stuff is in, but it’ll show up eventually. I figured I’d do an easy phone video vlog to cover the ‘day one on Yomi’ stuff and just edit a proper intro and stuff in once I’m set up better. Vlog stuff does pretty well, feels organic, the UEA will like that. And I still got the three months of shuttle footage to work with too…” Marui rattled off his plans as they walked, just assuming at this point that Jirou would be into hearing it.
Jirou nodded his head along as he listened and helped with all of Marui’s luggage, genuinely thrilled to be hearing all of this.
"Was the ride over good for you? It was really boring when I came over, but I had a nice guy with me on the ride so that was good." Jirou explained. "Most of the people here are nice too. Just... avoid the sick bay."
Marui laughed when Jirou asked if it’d been a good trip. “Nope, boring for me too. There’s only so many in-flight movies you can watch til you start losing your mind.” Hopefully by the time they got off this planet, they’d forget about how much the three month flight sucked. But oh, what’s this? Some colony gossip? Marui popped his gum nice and loud. “What’s up with the sick bay?”
"Well, I mean, Ryou is there, and he's nice. But the other doctor is an asshole." Jirou explained, always ready to talk about how Atobe was mean. "He treated me horribly when I went for help with my sleep issues."
Come to think of it, he hadn't even gone to Atobe for help. Atobe had just kind of volunteered his help.
“Oh, that sucks.” Good to know, but also not something Marui was super interested in; he’d been hoping for something juicier. “Oh well. There’s always the sandworms, maybe he’ll get eaten.”
Marui dropped his luggage with a thump in front of a door, double checking the number against the one on his communicator. “Think this is me, hold on.” A second later the door was open, and Marui was dragging his stuff inside. “Not what you’d call 5 star accommodation, huh? Yeesh.”
Jirou laughed at that reaction. Classic Marui!
"Yeah. The rooms are kind of... lacking. I hope you get a good roommate!" He didn’t want Marui to have to suffer rooming with someone like that crazy Kintarou kid or something. "Did anyone arrive with you? They'll probably be your roommate, I think."
“There were a couple of guys, but I’m not worried about it. I brought games and a TV, no one’s gonna complain about having me as a roommate.” Marui flashed an arrogant grin to go with the arrogant statement.
"I'm more worried about you ending up with someone weird. I mean, there's a feral kid living here on base, so it can get pretty weird." Jirou confessed. "But if you're not worried I'm sure it's fine!"
“They let kids come here?” That opened so many questions for Marui. “What about its parents? Is it vaccinated for rabies??”
"I don't think it has parents? The guy in security seems to watch over it." He looked thoughtful. Was Kintarou vaccinated? He had no idea. "I guess he's probably vaccinated if they sent him here?"
“As long as it's under control, I guess.” Hmm. Many questions. Kicking his stuff further into the room so there was enough room for the next round, Marui turned around to go get the rest, assuming at this point that Jirou was just going to follow him like a puppy. “So like, what do you guys do here for fun? What’s the fun gossip? This place is basically the setup of a reality TV show, there’s gotta be something going on here.” Besides mean doctors and feral children.
Jirou did follow like a puppy, Marui's assumption had been correct. "Oh, well... Sanada and Yanagi may or may not be secretly dating. The guy in charge of the chickens has a separate persona working in engineering, too..." Jirou blinked. "There's a lot more than that, too. Lots of people with crushes or volatile relationships or just overall drama. It's usually not boring here."
“Sanada and Yanagi… that’s the grumpy guy who thinks I’m a waste of air, and the guy with the eyes who’s everywhere important, right?” Marui had been doing his best to keep track of who was in the military, because military affiliation meant UEA affiliation. “Not surprised about the chicken guy though, he seems off. Anyway, that’s good. I can do 5 years in the middle of nowhere, but I don’t think I could handle 5 years of boring.”
Jirou nodded his head in agreement with that. "Yeah. Five years of boring and I'd just sleep the whole time! It's much better when interesting stuff is happening."
“Is that what the whole ‘sleep issues’ thing is about?” Jirou had mentioned something about it earlier and Marui had just assumed it was insomnia, but the opposite of that was a thing too, he guessed. “Wouldn’t have pegged you for a guy who sleeps too much, you seem pretty peppy to me.”
Jirou laughed and scratched the back of his head. "Yeah, I have a form of I guess narcolepsy. I have a habit of falling asleep in a lot of different places. It's kind of embarrassing." He shrugged. "If something is interesting to me I have an easier time staying awake, though!"
“Huh. Sounds like a pain.” Marui was still having a hard time imagining this guy just conking out, but you couldn’t judge a book by its cover. “Good thing I’m here then, huh? You’ve got a reason to stay awake now.” Marui swung his arm over Jirou’s shoulder, giving him a huge grin. Self-confidence sure was something.
Hilariously enough it seemed to be working. Jirou definitely didn't look ready to sleep. He was awake and practically vibrating because it was like he and Marui were friends now.
"Yeah, I don’t need to sleep as long as you're around, Marui!" Jirou grinned brightly. "Well, I should still probably sleep sometimes."
Marui hefts up his second round of luggage (a box this time) and heads back towards his room.“Yeah, definitely sleep sometimes. Pretty sure you need that to stay alive.” This trip is faster thanks to Marui knowing the way, and soon enough he’s dumping more stuff onto his messy pile. Thanks to all the stuff, the room was looking cramped already. “...They really don’t give you a lot of storage space do they.”
"Not really, no." Jirou agreed, nodding his head in agreement that the room was looking cramped. "It will be better once you unpack, I'm sure."
“Maybe.” Marui blew another bubble and popped it. “I still have a lot of stuff in the storage bay, but maybe it’ll have to stay there. Kinda sucks cause I’d rather keep an eye on it, food’s like gold in places like this and who knows how good security is.” Or how many snack thieves may be among them. “You want some, by the way? For helping.” He opened the closest box and started digging through it.
Jirou looked amazed that he would get more of a reward than just Marui's good opinion of him.
"Do you have... any pocky? It's my favorite, but hard to get here." He finally requested, though he had no idea if that was something that Marui would have.
“Everything’s hard to get here, that’s why I came prepared.” Please, Jirou. Of course Marui had pocky. Who the hell do you think he is? A bit of rustling and a moment later Marui was tossing various fancy flavours of pocky onto the bed for Jirou to pick from. “What flavours do you like? I brought basically everything.”
"Mousse pocky!" Jirou cheered, grabbing the box victoriously. Today was such a great day! "Marui and mousse pocky! I'm so lucky!!!"
“Get used to it, cause you’re living with me now.” Marui tossed Jirou two more boxes with a wink. At least with all the other crap that was happening, he was guaranteed one person to bring up his spirits if he ever needed it, and that was worth a lot. (At least three boxes of pocky.)
When: Marui’s first day on base
Where: the halls of the base.
What: Marui gets murdered and Jirou hides the body
Well, you win some, you lose some. And sometimes you lose multiple times in a row, hard. Back on Mars Marui had a list of people to avoid, and the guys who memorized his upload schedule so they could post first every time were right at the top of it. Sure, Akutagawa seemed nice enough, but he also gave Marui exorbitant amounts of money every months for nothing but posting videos, and come on, the videos weren’t that good. It was either a kink thing, or the dude was crazy. Or both. As he waited in the hall with no way to escape, Marui thought he might be about to find out.
Jirou of course was thrilled that Marui was there. He'd been a big fan of Marui since his esport days. Marui was just... cool. Jirou liked watching him do stuff. And now he could watch him do stuff in person. It was going to be great!
He rounded the corner to where Marui was, bright eyed and bushy tailed and just thrilled to meet his idol. "Marui!!! It's so cool to meet you!!!!"
By the thrilled way he greeted him, this must be Akutagawa. Marui gave him a smile, doing his best to stay cheery despite the fact he was 90% certain he was gonna die. “Hey, Akutagawa. Good to finally meet my biggest supporter.” He braced himself– this was usually the part where people tried to touch him, and this guy looked like a hugger.
Jirou however was too thrilled to meet Marui to touch him. Instead he just let out a cheer. "You're even cooler in person! Lucky!!!!"
He moved to grab as much of Marui's luggage as he could carry. "Let me show you to your room! You're gonna love it here!!!"
Okay, plus one point for this guy, always nice when a fan recognized boundaries. Marui watched the guy scramble to pick up his things, mildly impressed with just how much he managed to get in his arms considering how small he was. Small enough that Marui actually felt a bit bad watching him. “Don’t hurt yourself, we can take two trips. My room’s not going anywhere.” And neither were any of them for the next five years he added to himself mentally as he picked up a bag.
Jirou nodded and unloaded a bit of what he was carrying. "I'll be careful! I just want to look cool in front of you!"
It would be nice if Marui thought he was cool, after all.
“Play to your strengths. You wrote the computer stuff for the whole base, right? That’s pretty cool.” And Marui wasn’t even lying about that, it was really impressive. “You don’t have to do the macho strong man thing to impress me, I’m not a teenage girl.” And to be real honest, that didn’t work on teenage girls much, either.
Jirou looked utterly giddy. Marui thought that his OS was cool. He was clearly the luckiest guy ever! "I can show you how BUNTA OS works later if you want! And help you set up all your video stuff so you can make more videos!!!"
“Sure, I’ve got time.” Lots and lots of time. Off through the hallways they went to the dorms, Marui letting Jirou lead the way. “Dunno which box my camera stuff is in, but it’ll show up eventually. I figured I’d do an easy phone video vlog to cover the ‘day one on Yomi’ stuff and just edit a proper intro and stuff in once I’m set up better. Vlog stuff does pretty well, feels organic, the UEA will like that. And I still got the three months of shuttle footage to work with too…” Marui rattled off his plans as they walked, just assuming at this point that Jirou would be into hearing it.
Jirou nodded his head along as he listened and helped with all of Marui’s luggage, genuinely thrilled to be hearing all of this.
"Was the ride over good for you? It was really boring when I came over, but I had a nice guy with me on the ride so that was good." Jirou explained. "Most of the people here are nice too. Just... avoid the sick bay."
Marui laughed when Jirou asked if it’d been a good trip. “Nope, boring for me too. There’s only so many in-flight movies you can watch til you start losing your mind.” Hopefully by the time they got off this planet, they’d forget about how much the three month flight sucked. But oh, what’s this? Some colony gossip? Marui popped his gum nice and loud. “What’s up with the sick bay?”
"Well, I mean, Ryou is there, and he's nice. But the other doctor is an asshole." Jirou explained, always ready to talk about how Atobe was mean. "He treated me horribly when I went for help with my sleep issues."
Come to think of it, he hadn't even gone to Atobe for help. Atobe had just kind of volunteered his help.
“Oh, that sucks.” Good to know, but also not something Marui was super interested in; he’d been hoping for something juicier. “Oh well. There’s always the sandworms, maybe he’ll get eaten.”
Marui dropped his luggage with a thump in front of a door, double checking the number against the one on his communicator. “Think this is me, hold on.” A second later the door was open, and Marui was dragging his stuff inside. “Not what you’d call 5 star accommodation, huh? Yeesh.”
Jirou laughed at that reaction. Classic Marui!
"Yeah. The rooms are kind of... lacking. I hope you get a good roommate!" He didn’t want Marui to have to suffer rooming with someone like that crazy Kintarou kid or something. "Did anyone arrive with you? They'll probably be your roommate, I think."
“There were a couple of guys, but I’m not worried about it. I brought games and a TV, no one’s gonna complain about having me as a roommate.” Marui flashed an arrogant grin to go with the arrogant statement.
"I'm more worried about you ending up with someone weird. I mean, there's a feral kid living here on base, so it can get pretty weird." Jirou confessed. "But if you're not worried I'm sure it's fine!"
“They let kids come here?” That opened so many questions for Marui. “What about its parents? Is it vaccinated for rabies??”
"I don't think it has parents? The guy in security seems to watch over it." He looked thoughtful. Was Kintarou vaccinated? He had no idea. "I guess he's probably vaccinated if they sent him here?"
“As long as it's under control, I guess.” Hmm. Many questions. Kicking his stuff further into the room so there was enough room for the next round, Marui turned around to go get the rest, assuming at this point that Jirou was just going to follow him like a puppy. “So like, what do you guys do here for fun? What’s the fun gossip? This place is basically the setup of a reality TV show, there’s gotta be something going on here.” Besides mean doctors and feral children.
Jirou did follow like a puppy, Marui's assumption had been correct. "Oh, well... Sanada and Yanagi may or may not be secretly dating. The guy in charge of the chickens has a separate persona working in engineering, too..." Jirou blinked. "There's a lot more than that, too. Lots of people with crushes or volatile relationships or just overall drama. It's usually not boring here."
“Sanada and Yanagi… that’s the grumpy guy who thinks I’m a waste of air, and the guy with the eyes who’s everywhere important, right?” Marui had been doing his best to keep track of who was in the military, because military affiliation meant UEA affiliation. “Not surprised about the chicken guy though, he seems off. Anyway, that’s good. I can do 5 years in the middle of nowhere, but I don’t think I could handle 5 years of boring.”
Jirou nodded his head in agreement with that. "Yeah. Five years of boring and I'd just sleep the whole time! It's much better when interesting stuff is happening."
“Is that what the whole ‘sleep issues’ thing is about?” Jirou had mentioned something about it earlier and Marui had just assumed it was insomnia, but the opposite of that was a thing too, he guessed. “Wouldn’t have pegged you for a guy who sleeps too much, you seem pretty peppy to me.”
Jirou laughed and scratched the back of his head. "Yeah, I have a form of I guess narcolepsy. I have a habit of falling asleep in a lot of different places. It's kind of embarrassing." He shrugged. "If something is interesting to me I have an easier time staying awake, though!"
“Huh. Sounds like a pain.” Marui was still having a hard time imagining this guy just conking out, but you couldn’t judge a book by its cover. “Good thing I’m here then, huh? You’ve got a reason to stay awake now.” Marui swung his arm over Jirou’s shoulder, giving him a huge grin. Self-confidence sure was something.
Hilariously enough it seemed to be working. Jirou definitely didn't look ready to sleep. He was awake and practically vibrating because it was like he and Marui were friends now.
"Yeah, I don’t need to sleep as long as you're around, Marui!" Jirou grinned brightly. "Well, I should still probably sleep sometimes."
Marui hefts up his second round of luggage (a box this time) and heads back towards his room.“Yeah, definitely sleep sometimes. Pretty sure you need that to stay alive.” This trip is faster thanks to Marui knowing the way, and soon enough he’s dumping more stuff onto his messy pile. Thanks to all the stuff, the room was looking cramped already. “...They really don’t give you a lot of storage space do they.”
"Not really, no." Jirou agreed, nodding his head in agreement that the room was looking cramped. "It will be better once you unpack, I'm sure."
“Maybe.” Marui blew another bubble and popped it. “I still have a lot of stuff in the storage bay, but maybe it’ll have to stay there. Kinda sucks cause I’d rather keep an eye on it, food’s like gold in places like this and who knows how good security is.” Or how many snack thieves may be among them. “You want some, by the way? For helping.” He opened the closest box and started digging through it.
Jirou looked amazed that he would get more of a reward than just Marui's good opinion of him.
"Do you have... any pocky? It's my favorite, but hard to get here." He finally requested, though he had no idea if that was something that Marui would have.
“Everything’s hard to get here, that’s why I came prepared.” Please, Jirou. Of course Marui had pocky. Who the hell do you think he is? A bit of rustling and a moment later Marui was tossing various fancy flavours of pocky onto the bed for Jirou to pick from. “What flavours do you like? I brought basically everything.”
"Mousse pocky!" Jirou cheered, grabbing the box victoriously. Today was such a great day! "Marui and mousse pocky! I'm so lucky!!!"
“Get used to it, cause you’re living with me now.” Marui tossed Jirou two more boxes with a wink. At least with all the other crap that was happening, he was guaranteed one person to bring up his spirits if he ever needed it, and that was worth a lot. (At least three boxes of pocky.)