[ so guess who got an emergency makeover?? it's futaba! she looks a little stressed but luckily the insistence on "clothes you can run away in" meant she's not As dolled up as one could get. thanks manwol.
but fleeing early means now she's stuck waiting and thinking and waiting and- if something doesn't happen in the next 5 minutes she's throwing herself into the moat ]
[Denji, who had already thought Futaba was cute, is taken out for a few solid seconds when he sees her waiting there and his reaction is very visible but then he recovers somewhat and walks up with as much of a casual, relaxed air as he can]
Hey!
Was kinda thinkin' Taichi was just tryin' to trick me, but wow you're here!
[at Taichi's insistence, he's a bit dressed up, wearing a nice jacket over his suit from formal, his hair somewhat tamed—there's still a trace of blush as he stands a respectful distance away
I'm also laughing because Denji would have been an hour or two early from nervous excitement, so just imagining that this is happening like, way before their agreed upon time to meet up]
[ I'm in more tears. somehow their date now starts two hours earlier.
but the real secret is her legs have been paralyzed in fear for the past fifteen minutes. sometimes? you run away to escape well meaning aunties? but then end up giving yourself Too Much Time to panic. so she just laughs, waving that away. pay no attention to how she seems to be impressed with the glow up while she does so ]
No way! Taichi promised me I could explode things.
What're we waitin' for then? Let's go! Science date!
[excitement overcoming teenage nervousness, he grabs her hand and runs off towards the Stem Lab (although he will let go immediately if she protests or pulls it away or really calls any attention to it whatsoever)]
It's not my usual field but it's not like I have anything else to do but learn new things.
[ that said, she manages a squeak of huh-? before denji spirits her off to the labs! she's rapidly turning neon but she's not pulling away? honestly, she's giggling a little ]
[denji possibly needs to be...gently corrected about the location of the Stem Lab because he has not been before, but they do eventually arrive, probably flush with the excited running]
First stop: Super Cool Science Lab!
[he turns to futaba, eyes a-glitter with anticipation and the promise of mildly dangerous mischief]
Dunno if I can help much with makin' the explosion stuff [he can't read] but I bet I can definitely make you somethin' good to blow up [a grin]
well, for the moment things are still cute and exciting for these two]
It's pretty easy to make fire, so can't be that much harder to make stuff blow up, right?
[he starts scrounging through the wood, plastic, garbage, and other places for the raw materials needed to make some kind of gross, Devilish monster for them to fill with their bootleg fireworks]
So what's a "programmer" anyway? That a computer thing?
Fire's reaaaaaal easy to do. That's why there's so many safety protocols!
[ time to forgo every last one. futaba will be poking at the 3D printer she's fallen in love with and waking up the tech half of the lab to get things started ]
But yeah! It's people who know how to instruct computers how to do tasks.
Lotsa people here have talked about it. It's like a buncha books on the computer but also like a phone? Can you do any fun stuff on it?
[side note: I was curious to see how widespread internet use was in normal Japan history circa 1997 and somehow found this writeup from 1998?? tl;dr: not a lot, so definitely not denji!]
[he's gathered a collection of raw materials and junk onto a tabletop and is looking around for tape and nails and the like to start assembling it into....something!]
So you can make friends and learn how to blow stuff up with the internet?
Well, since we don't have the internet here I'm glad I got you to teach me this kinda stuff!
And...I'm glad I could meet you and hang out with you, too. [he sneaks a shy look and smile at her, before carefully studying his garbage monster work]
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Date: 2021-07-07 05:20 am (UTC)but fleeing early means now she's stuck waiting and thinking and waiting and- if something doesn't happen in the next 5 minutes she's throwing herself into the moat ]
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Date: 2021-07-07 06:28 am (UTC)Hey!
Was kinda thinkin' Taichi was just tryin' to trick me, but wow you're here!
[at Taichi's insistence, he's a bit dressed up, wearing a nice jacket over his suit from formal, his hair somewhat tamed—there's still a trace of blush as he stands a respectful distance away
I'm also laughing because Denji would have been an hour or two early from nervous excitement, so just imagining that this is happening like, way before their agreed upon time to meet up]
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Date: 2021-07-07 06:38 am (UTC)but the real secret is her legs have been paralyzed in fear for the past fifteen minutes. sometimes? you run away to escape well meaning aunties? but then end up giving yourself Too Much Time to panic. so she just laughs, waving that away. pay no attention to how she seems to be impressed with the glow up while she does so ]
No way! Taichi promised me I could explode things.
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Date: 2021-07-07 08:56 am (UTC)You ever made any before? [in the midst of his Looking Respectfully at date-mode Futaba, he is also Looking Impressed]
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Date: 2021-07-08 06:58 am (UTC)[ clappy hands in chaos ]
The big gyoza maker C.... Caiman and I built was mostly from materials in there.
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Date: 2021-07-08 08:18 am (UTC)You can build stuff like that? You're amazing!
What're we waitin' for then? Let's go! Science date!
[excitement overcoming teenage nervousness, he grabs her hand and runs off towards the Stem Lab (although he will let go immediately if she protests or pulls it away or really calls any attention to it whatsoever)]
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Date: 2021-07-08 08:51 pm (UTC)It's not my usual field but it's not like I have anything else to do but learn new things.
[ that said, she manages a squeak of huh-? before denji spirits her off to the labs! she's rapidly turning neon but she's not pulling away? honestly, she's giggling a little ]
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Date: 2021-07-09 10:26 am (UTC)First stop: Super Cool Science Lab!
[he turns to futaba, eyes a-glitter with anticipation and the promise of mildly dangerous mischief]
Dunno if I can help much with makin' the explosion stuff [he can't read] but I bet I can definitely make you somethin' good to blow up [a grin]
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Date: 2021-07-11 09:55 pm (UTC)too bad how this ends up though, huh?]
It's a deal! I'm more a programmer than an engineer anyway but I'm sure we can make something fun.
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Date: 2021-07-12 12:02 am (UTC)well, for the moment things are still cute and exciting for these two]
It's pretty easy to make fire, so can't be that much harder to make stuff blow up, right?
[he starts scrounging through the wood, plastic, garbage, and other places for the raw materials needed to make some kind of gross, Devilish monster for them to fill with their bootleg fireworks]
So what's a "programmer" anyway? That a computer thing?
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Date: 2021-07-12 09:49 pm (UTC)Fire's reaaaaaal easy to do. That's why there's so many safety protocols!
[ time to forgo every last one. futaba will be poking at the 3D printer she's fallen in love with and waking up the tech half of the lab to get things started ]
But yeah! It's people who know how to instruct computers how to do tasks.
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Date: 2021-07-13 05:05 am (UTC)How'd you learn all that stuff?
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Date: 2021-07-13 08:15 pm (UTC)[ she's beaming right back ]
But I taught myself. The internet helped a lot.
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Date: 2021-07-14 11:38 am (UTC)Lotsa people here have talked about it. It's like a buncha books on the computer but also like a phone? Can you do any fun stuff on it?
[side note: I was curious to see how widespread internet use was in normal Japan history circa 1997 and somehow found this writeup from 1998?? tl;dr: not a lot, so definitely not denji!]
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Date: 2021-07-15 10:52 pm (UTC)So many fun things! There's games, and videos, and music, and chats, and- and- anything you can think of!
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Date: 2021-07-17 08:31 am (UTC)[he's gathered a collection of raw materials and junk onto a tabletop and is looking around for tape and nails and the like to start assembling it into....something!]
So you can make friends and learn how to blow stuff up with the internet?
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Date: 2021-07-18 04:48 pm (UTC)[ she's half watching him build this ... thing while she pulls out the more explosive schematics to add to the mess. ]
It's honestly far too easy to find how to blow things up.
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Date: 2021-07-19 01:52 pm (UTC)And...I'm glad I could meet you and hang out with you, too. [he sneaks a shy look and smile at her, before carefully studying his garbage monster work]
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Date: 2021-07-19 05:57 pm (UTC)Y-you're welcome! It's been great!
[ why is she allowed to interact with people, please kill her now ]
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Date: 2021-07-20 01:53 pm (UTC)[a smile, as he also starts to flush red]
Y'know, if ya got time and...want to
[he quickly finishes attaching something and starts building another garbage monster, still carefully avoiding any direct eye contact]
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Date: 2021-07-20 06:30 pm (UTC)Yeah.... Yeah, we could.
[ and then Thursday happens ]
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Date: 2021-07-21 09:30 am (UTC)So how's our custom-made firework explosive things comin' along?
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Date: 2021-07-21 03:55 pm (UTC)We've got some fun stuff here. If we use this and mix it with your tower I think it'll work perfectly.
[ "this" being an accelerator of some sort. you know, exactly the sort of things teens shouldn't be playing with unmonitored. ]
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Date: 2021-07-22 08:09 am (UTC)Alright! Should we maybe take it all outside in case it, I dunno, makes some deadly chemical smoke or somethin'?
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Date: 2021-07-23 05:08 pm (UTC)That's probably for the best. [ time to move everything to the outdoor section!!! ] It'd be really silly if we stayed inside for that.
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