Shoot Your Shot, Idiot

[mansbestend]

Sender: Denji
To: Everyone
Subject: Heads up?

[The top of the page is... weird. It's stained red at the top corner, and it was creeping in about an inch or two before it stopped. Touching it does nothing as it just feels like paper. Someone spilled ink. Or something. Hours later, there's writing:]


its me again
no ass-kicking requests this time, sorry to disappoint
I wanna try lookin for a friend who shows up in my dreams sometimes so its dreamwalk time

dont know how its gonna go, but if you see alleys or bits of Tokyo sometime soon that's me, ignore it

also if you're a lazy fuck and want lunch, dinner, groceries or coffee delivered to your place, write to me. givin part-time work a shot. i can take your stuff over, or if you want my dog can bring it. i mean, who doesn't want a cute dog bringin them coffee, right?

Maple Leaf is really big but she's nice. likes people.

anyway thats all I got.

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Sender: Denji
To: Octavia of the Ars Goetia
Subject: [Untitled]

[This is written really tiny. Super fuckin' tiny, and in a corner of the page. He went out of his way to try and sneak this over-]

hey so if you're not busy sometime, would you be down for hangin out goin out on some stuff?

[Fuck. This was harder than he thought.]

Comments

sender: percy jackson

[judoflipped]

did you spill red win on the page or something before you started writing

[mansbestend]

nah, I was bleeding

[judoflipped]

do i wanna know why

sender: Octavia

[systemofadowny]

(On a first read through, it read simply enough. Just hanging out with Denji like they regularly do. But with all the scratched out bits in place just to ask to do stuff, it made her wonder. Then a thought comes to mind that delays her response.

What would make it so hard to just ask to hang out? It's normal for them to. Unless...it's not just a normal hangout? Oh sweet Satan, is he asking her out? Is she officially at that point in her life? Okay, Octavia, don't freak out. Don't make it weird. He's a friend! And this is just...a normal thing. Right?)

Yeah! There's plenty of stuff to do!

(Fuck, are the exclamation marks too much? Is this really something she's worrying about now? Funny how after the past few months, she finally has a reminder that she's still a teenager.)

Like hang out somewhere until we get bored and hang out somewhere else.

[mansbestend]

[Search him. He's kinda flying by the seat of his pants here, as there's no real wrong way to... wait, there's plenty of wrong ways to ask someone out... whatever. Fuck it. Brain still healing.

HOLY SHIT IS THAT AN AFFIRMATIVE?? He needed a minute to finish choking on his late breakfast that decided to head down the wrong tube before scrambling up the quill.]

hell yeah! reverein's huge and there's still places we haven't been to that shouldn't shoo us off for ~*loitering*~

we can grab take out wherever you want. is tomorrow night OK?

[systemofadowny]

Yeah, totally! And we can cap it off by getting some cake, if you want. There's loads of different flavors and kinds and probably some dream stuff we can't try anywhere else.

I've got no plans for tomorrow night! Where do you wanna meet up?

(This is really happening, isn't it? Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap. She's gotta figure what to do and what to wear and holy fuck, what does she do if Stolas and Blitzø find out? Should she tell them? Should she not? This is suddenly so much to think about and boy is she glad she wasn't asked in person. She'd be so much more awkward...)

Sender: Gokudera

[bakudan_bambino]

I’m not a lazy fuck. I just live in a treehouse and would like coffee delivered. I doubt your dog could climb, or is that wrong?

Do you already have a job aside from the part-time work you’re looking for?

[mansbestend]

I hunt nightmares and yank people outta bad dreams

For a delivery, I can work sumthin out

[bakudan_bambino]

Blitzo told me I should talk to some person named Dante about working for him. You’re one of their employees?

Where are you getting the coffee from?

Sender : chalcedony

[virtues]

Next time you go on an adventure that requires fighting call for me. I'm a knight and I'm used to exploring dangerous places.

[mansbestend]

yeah?

do you fight like dragons and evil wizards?

[virtues]

Of course, it's the will of a knight to defend the weak.

In my world there are monsters known as Xeroms and they're not to be taken lightly.

What battles have you experienced yourself?

Sender: Sleeping Beauty

[ibarahime]

Is the dog the noisy kind?

[mansbestend]

She can be chatty with me since I can talk to dogs, but she's OK with a quiet delivery if I ask

[ibarahime]

In that case, it might be okay to ask for you or the dog to bring me something to eat, as long as it's not too noisy of a delivery.

[There's a pause, and then...]

Um, what's a good place to order from here that you would recommend?

Sender: Norimune

[kikuichi]

Well, I wouldn't mind taking up your offer. This old man would love to be your customer.

Maple Leaf sounds cute. Would she allow me to pet her?

[Very important question.]

[mansbestend]

OK. what do you want?

just asked her even if I know the answer and she gave a solid FUCK YEAH and wants to go over there now

twist her leg, right?

[kikuichi]

Nothing much, just some snacks from the store. Perhaps tea leaves as well, but I can always get those myself. A simple enough first job, yes?

If you do well, I might give you a bigger, more important one.

[May... be...]

Uhahaha! Then if I see her, I'll make sure to spoil her.

Sender: Gen Asagiri

[fun_thementalist]

what do you charge for your food delivery service, my friend?

[mansbestend]

money's not really a thing here, but I'm tryin to make better rollerblades, so stuff I can trade for parts or even parts would be pretty awesome if you know what rollerblades are

[fun_thementalist]

actually, if that’s what you want - I know a guy.

my friend could probably build you a set of rollerblades if you’d deliver food for both of us

Sender: Shinjiro Aragaki

[mortal_son]

you do whatever dreamwalk shit you need to but

bits of tokyo and allies aren't that unique

[mansbestend]

got me there

I guess if people see it really recently it could be me

my dreams tend to be in places like that

sender: beat

[stillarhino]

who ya trying to find in your dreams?

[Beat knows how it feels to look for someone over a long period of time. So he's curious to know.]

[mansbestend]

I wanna find my buddy Pochita

He's in my body and why I'm still alive, so

I wanna try and find a way to talk to him some more