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kaisou2025-06-23 08:55 pm
doubledollar) wrote in kaisou2025-06-23 08:55 pm
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I'm seeing Double
WHO: Wolfwood, Vash the Stampede, and Lighter Lorenz
WHERE: In a nice sit-down restaurant in Kaisou, some jungle theme restaurant
WHEN: Late June
WHAT: Vash bought a date voucher that included a chaperone--while anyone else would see this as awkward, vash has seen it as a bonus as they get to make a new friend.
WARNINGS: Idiocy abound.
[ it'll be around 1pm in the afternoon when Wolfwood will get a text from Vash. It's in his usual, excitable text that's badly spelled due to his inability to type with both hands--but wolfwood should be used to this by now.
he's just leaving the gacha goodwill with a neat voucher in hand, the sketchy guy who ran the place saying something like --"don't worry about it, I'll have the other party called and sent to the location the ticket says. Enjoy your dinner."
This sounded fine to the humanoid typhoon. It'd sound insane to anyone else. ]
yah i hav about 3hr before my shift @ the vogue n u said u had some courier job w/dantes brother around that same time yeah
lets get lunch while we're both in the city then!!!! my treat
i got a cool voucher from the goodwill that says we'll get free appetizers w/it?
its gonna be in a Rainforest Cafe too, those places always look so fun u kno
WHERE: In a nice sit-down restaurant in Kaisou, some jungle theme restaurant
WHEN: Late June
WHAT: Vash bought a date voucher that included a chaperone--while anyone else would see this as awkward, vash has seen it as a bonus as they get to make a new friend.
WARNINGS: Idiocy abound.
[ it'll be around 1pm in the afternoon when Wolfwood will get a text from Vash. It's in his usual, excitable text that's badly spelled due to his inability to type with both hands--but wolfwood should be used to this by now.
he's just leaving the gacha goodwill with a neat voucher in hand, the sketchy guy who ran the place saying something like --"don't worry about it, I'll have the other party called and sent to the location the ticket says. Enjoy your dinner."
This sounded fine to the humanoid typhoon. It'd sound insane to anyone else. ]
yah i hav about 3hr before my shift @ the vogue n u said u had some courier job w/dantes brother around that same time yeah
lets get lunch while we're both in the city then!!!! my treat
i got a cool voucher from the goodwill that says we'll get free appetizers w/it?
its gonna be in a Rainforest Cafe too, those places always look so fun u kno
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care deeply abouttolerate texts you and you can just.you can smell the nonsense. the shenanigans. you've never had fun in your life and you can feel something offensive to your dour senses is about to happen.
you think, for a moment, of crushing his hopes and dreams, but... regular non-genocidal God, he whines so, so, so much when his best intentions go up in flames. ]
what the hell is a rainforest, spikey
if i say no you're gonna get Uncle Scruffy and the brats to give me the big sad eyes for days
fine, fine, what's the address
[ his arm, all but twisted out of its socket here. ]
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when wolfwood agrees, he does a spin in the street where people def arent staring at all, and he'll send him an address, with a handy link on google maps and everything!!! ]
its a forest that gets a lot of rain obviously
lots of animals live there that dont live anywhere else, kni used to show me pictures n stuff in his schoolbooks
dont u remember elephants? we talked abt elephants i think we talked abt elephants
anywayyyyyy ill see you there hehe :)
don't be late or i will call evie and ask her where youre hiding on me ok?
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needlenoggin if i'm gonna have to fistfight some sort of creature for my lunch im gonna get hangry
you talk about so much stuff i have no idea if we've talked about elephants
gimme like twenty im out a ways but it shouldn't take too long
[ especially because Wolfwood can and will drive on a sidewalk if it's empty enough, call the police he'll...
on second thought don't call the police. it'll end badly. either way, he's gonna check the map against his own map and then put his phone away, responsibly, kicking Angelica to life with a roar as he goes to find his man. and the elephants.
whatever the fuck that means. ]
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he's delighted though--that wolfwood isn't arguing and is coming along without much need for the Stampede to beg him to come--he'll just leave out that there's gonna be a third wheel to lunch because that's a surprise and like, also, it's not even a huge deal. making new friends is great?? wolfwood won't mind at all, he's sure of it.
vash is gonna send him along a string of texts that's mostly just annoying emoji as he himself hops to it, the fastest man on two legs walking a brisk pace to the destined place. Opening the door to the outside of the store, it looks normal enough, but once inside--good lord it really is like the pictures out of Kni's book!? there's even moving animitronics and--
His eyes gaze out over the seating area, trying to find out where this 'chaperone' might be-- "it'll be clearly marked with a rainbow flag", the goodwill shopkeeper said.
And it is, a big one, right in the center of one of the tables, but--there's already someone sitting there. He's going to make his way over, pausing for a moment.
Oh, what the hell, did Wolfwood get here first? the sunglasses wearing man isn't looking up at him--assumedly looking at the menu or his phone or his nails or something, he can't see the full frame of his face but that's pretty unmistakably wolfwood!
he's gonna dash in and go to grab him in a hug--only to stop short with his arms in the air, frozen, as he... gets a weird sense, here. ]
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Hey, Nick, you said you'd be a minute so--How'd you?? Get here before me??
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But when said man practically heard someone rushing to him like a cartoon stampede (ha), he turned around with his guard up.
Only to see an unfamiliar person approach him, arms raised as if in a hug but someone pressed the pause button. And Lighter is just... staring at him.
There's a flash in his mind of someone else he knew that moved in such a comical way. Only a flash as it was overpowered by sheer fucking confusion. Obviously this guy wasn't out here to throw hands. And was looking for someone that... was not Lighter.
But Christ on a Bike this is awkward. Lighter was just waiting for the clients for this job!! If they come around this is going to look so strange.
The time has come. For Lorenzo's Ace in the Hole.]
Uhh... Lo siento, pero no hablo inglés.
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his arms come down in a sort of noodly way, snapping to his sides in a comical fashion as he gets it instantly: this man is not wolfwood. even though you could really convince him that it was. both his deep, rumbling voice and the way his eyes barely peeked out from behind those thick, wayfarer shades.
he instantly bows, crooking his body in a nearly perfect upside-down L shape as he apologises. ]
--Oh mygod I'm so sorry I SWEAR you were a friend of mine, I--I came here to meet him for dinner with a chaperone and--sheesh this is awkward, you--
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[ yeah this rambling is definitely familiar, isn't it? But. he then pauses, poking his fingers together, one arm moving a little disjointedly from the other, the fingers mechanical in nature. ]
3/3
[ sorry lighter this IS your client ]
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third-wheelingchaperoning this date. He convinced himself that it was in the name of professional decorum.But with the confusion sort of evening out and this guy's rapid flailing and tone changing on a dime from cheerful to confused to demoralized.
... It made Lighter's chest ache. He finally remembered Billy's name thanks to Anby, but.
Remembering someone meant missing them even more.
But, that was for later Lorenzo to contend with. It's weird as hell that someone apparently looks just like him while this guy seems so much like Billy it]
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Oh, you're the client! [He pulled out the little card with the given names.]
Vash, I'm guessing. Sorry about that, I do speak English. I didn't mean to lie, I was just making sure someone I didn't know kept away from your table.
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Maybe a normal person would be upset that Lighter pretended not to speak english, or to try to have chased him off--but not Vash. Nope. He goes from confused and upset and apologetic to immediately all smiles--even reaching out one of his hands to shake Lighter's as if none of that awkward stuff just happened. Nope. ]
Omigod, Hi, then. I'm glad it was just a misunderstanding! Gosh, you really do look just like my best buddy--you'll see when he gets here, you'll see!! [ this is a threat. ] You were just doing all of that to protect my table?? You're a really cool guy after all, then. I knew it was the best idea to buy this whole 'make a new buddy' ticket. Or whatever it was called. I don't even remember.
Vash the Stampede!! And your name is? [ ...is he . maybe he's... wolfwood's reincarnation in this world...? ]
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[At the very least, Lighter was glad that Vash wasn't offended. He'll at least sit with that relief so he doesn't have to heed this pain in his heart. If Vash was anything like who he resembled to Lighter, he was a nice person.]
I take my work seriously, even if it's just making sure some stranger doesn't take up your table.
[And also he's being paid by the weird Goodwill Guy. Still not his shadiest payment source, honestly.]
"Vash the Stampede", huh? That's a really cool name. Lorenzo's mine, Lorenzo Fuentes. But just call me Lighter.
[Said in the most deliberate and coolest possible tone he could muster!! He must also be cool!]
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It's like. Totally uncanny!!!
[ dont mind if he sits down hey buddy we're gonna become friends now. ]
I thought it was a pretty strange concept, a coupon for a meal at a cool looking restaurant with a new friend... I really don't know why most people avoided grabbing it, it sounded great to me.
[ watch his eyes sparkle for a moment tho ]
Lighter is a way cooler name! Stampede just came from--you know, how like, when people give you a bad nickname and you sort of just get so used to it that you reclaim it? That's the sort of name it is.
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[It will only lead poor Lighter down a confusing rabbit hole conspiracy he didn't have a clue about.]
I thought it was strange too, but when the Shopkeeper approached me about it I thought it was an easy enough job. Far be it for me to turn easy money down.
[Get that bread, Lighter. His smile weakened just a bit learning why Vash is called "the Stampede" but it held strong knowing the guy reclaimed it.]
I see. That's quite a reasoning. I guess "Lighter"'s kinda like that for me, too so I get where you're coming from. [In this life, anyway.]
Feel free to call me whatever you like, I don't mind either way.