Video: UN: BRUNO

[wedonttalkabout]

WHO: Bruno and you
WHERE: Network, his place
WHEN: End of January
WHAT: Bruno has a vision
WARNINGS: Weird future bullshit

[The video feeds starts a little out of focus - Bruno's still getting to grips with technology in general. There's some muttering before finally, it comes into focus with Bruno squinting at the screen close-up. ]

Did I get it? I think I got it!

[He pulls back with a grin- his rats are mingling in the background and the one nestled in his hair seems to be wearing a tiny little bee costume. He does not explain this. At any point. He waves at the camera, a little awkwardly.]

Okay, um- hi. I'm Bruno, for...people I haven't seen yet which is most people because...I'm not great with the people thing. But! I have this...gift from home? I can see the future- which is way less fun than it sounds, trust me. Anyhoo, I decided to try and see into the future of this place a little? Mostly to see if I can get me and my sobrina out of here- full offence - don't wanna stay here. Didn't see that, but I DID see this!

[He picks up a green, glass slate, which he turns to them. On it is a very crude image:



He turns to look at it, grimacing a little.]

Honestly? They usually look better than this. Like, they don't normally look like a five-year-old drew them. And I couldn't see the vision very clearly anyway, so I think something's wrong with my gift? Weird. I saw this rodent that was shooting lightning and a net being thrown at it. They're not my rodents, FYI- they can't shoot lightning. [He snort-laughs like that's the funniest thing ever.] Like, what are they? My sister? Hah.

[He lifts the plate up again, so people can see the...really ugly picture.]

Soooooo if weird lightning rodents and nets mean anything to anyone? This might be yours? Our ours? Who knows!

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VIDEO: UN:SUZUME

[suzume_odori]

[In your hubris, the five year old was summoned.]

....my nets look better...

[Shots have been fired.]

[wedonttalkabout]

[This what he deserves. ]

Oh wow an actual kid. Where's... how are you here? Were you stolen too? Do you have an adult? You probably need an adult.

[Bruno, YOU need an adult half the time.]

[suzume_odori]

[Well, first of all-

She's going to wrinkle her nose just a bit.] People can't be stolen, they're people...

[Ah, sweet self-kidnapped summer child,]

Mn...I walked with Hoshi, and the one who's like mister Donut.

[Only 'like'. She's not sure of a better nickname yet though.

...oh right, adults. Hm.] ...That's what lots were saying... ...and then the zodiac person brought me and Hoshi here, and said they were the adult now

[It really is what they said too; mostly because when Suzume politely asked 1, why they were cooking for them, and 2, what they were going to do about this whole 'you need someone to look after you', it was one of the attempts to get the concept of having a nanny across.]

[wedonttalkabout]

Of course, people can be stolen, that's what kidnapping is.

[He's teaching IMPORTANT LESSONS!!]

I uh...Mister Donut?

[He's kind of staring into the middle distance, trying to understand this. God, he is so out of practice with kids.]

And they...weren't before? But they are...now?

[suzume_odori]

[Huh! ...Huhhhhhhhhhh... A head tilt.] ...Can people steal themselves..?

[Important questions...

...Maybe not the most important though.] He's not Mister Donut, he's like Mister Donut. [Get it right man!] He wasn't all see through like Mister Donut.

[hey, what-]

...mn...He said his mom and dad would be mad if I went to his house, so the Zodiac people would know what to do, [she explains while nodding.] So I live here now.

[Apparently anyway!]

[wedonttalkabout]

I think that's just running away.

[Or hiding in the walls without anyone knowing about it. Either or. ]

Is- sorry, is he like...the food ? Or like like the food?

[Hmmmmmm, should he be concerned? He feels like he should be concerned about this small child.]

And here is?

CW: It's vague, but people Are going to guess that's a fatal injury on a ghost so

[suzume_odori]

What if there's planes and boats..?

[There was a very small amount of running involved in running away here.

Anyway. Suzume doesn't really get what the difference between 'like' and 'like like' is here, so she just settles on answering why Mister Donut is....Mister Donut.]

Umn, he's got a donut hole- right over...um... [She moves until she can set the phone down, and then makes a sort of circle over her middle.] Right there, so you can see through all the way, instead of just a little way like the rest...

[child you're haunted]

[wedonttalkabout]

[Jun already tried to explain planes to him but he DOES know boats.]

Also still running away if you're alone.

[...What the googly mcfuck???!!!]

I'm- I'm sorry. Are you telling me that he has a hole in his stomach?

[suzume_odori]

I had Hoshi and Mister Donut though.

[Doesn't really count if no one can see either guardian kiddo.]

Is that where the...um, st'm-ak is..?

...what's the stum-ack?

[You can't just THROW words at her like this!!! She thought the tummy went there!!

Also apparently the answer is a Solid Yes.]

[wedonttalkabout]

[Bruno's still no clearer as to who Hosi or Mister Donut are and he's starting to feel he might not get an answer. ]

Uh- the place where food goes? [He's used to Antonio who's definitely much more together than an average five-year-old, he realises. ] Your...tummy?

[suzume_odori]

[Antonio, to be extremely fair, has the supreme advantage of a massive family and also Actually Experiencing All Five Years.

She's working on this. And hey, she's no idiot either- as soon as Bruno says that, Suzume blinks.

...And frowns.] Why are there two words for that...

[Mister Bruno that's not very fair.

anyway] ...Mister Donut doesn't eat, so it's okay. Food goes through him.

[wedonttalkabout]

[He does indeed have all that going for him. Bruno blinks, nervous.]

I- um- I don't know? You'd...have to ask the people who make the words?

[The people who make the words. Those people. ]

He- wait. Is he a...living person?

[suzume_odori]

[She doesn't much look like she believes him! But that's how it goes.

But that's an important question, isn't it? Is Mister Donut Alive?]

He said he's not. [He certainly growled about it enough.] That's why no one else sees him, he said. He's not here though.

[wedonttalkabout]

[He's just gonna stare a little longer, before making a long, drawn-out ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh sound. ]

Okay, I get it now. He's your imaginary friend! Okay, phew, wow, I was weirded out for a second there.

technically bruno will hear 'grandpa' not jiji, it's just, jiji is nicer to type, oop

[suzume_odori]

[????????]

...That's not a nice thing to call someone... [She eventually says, shaking her head with a frown.] Mister Donut's real, he's just lonely since only me and Hoshi and Jiji can see him...

[wedonttalkabout]

...And now I don't get it.

[He's...just gonna reach for the off button- trying to escape a conversation that's got a little too confusing for him. If it were in person, he'd have walked off, but modern technology is saving him from this! Hazzah! Luckily he doesn't quite know how to work this thing properly so it's a lot of fumbling. ]

Any-anyway, I'm gonna... go stuff to do. Rats to feed. You know how it is.

[suzume_odori]

[Perhaps far, far more fortunate, Bruno has presented AN ALTERNATE TOPIC.]

Oh-!

[With a gasp, she leans toward the phone.]

...can I see the rats..?

[wedonttalkabout]

[Uh oh. He freezes, hand on the power button.]

Uhhhhh....sure? Hang-hang on.

[He vanishes off-screen and for a while, it's almost as if he's gone, but then he reappears with a black and white rat in his hands. ]

This is Sofia.

[suzume_odori]

Ooohhhhhh...

[Is it possible to see something closer through a screen??

...It isn't, so she'll move back to a normal phone distance- she's clearly having trouble containing her excitement however. Practically vibrating on the spot, she carefully greets-]

Hi Sofia.

....you're very cute, like a cow...

[Those are cow colors, ergo-]

[wedonttalkabout]

[She is a very pretty rat, and people appreciating his rats will always earn major brownie points with Bruno. He lifts her to look at her, her little rat nose snuffling at his face as he does so.]

You know...you're right. She kind of does look like a cow.

[suzume_odori]

Is she very soft? Does she get lots of cuddles?

[Only the most Vital of questions about rats here folks!]

[wedonttalkabout]

She's very soft, and yeah, she sure does. They all do.

[suzume_odori]

Ohhhhhh....

[That is the sound of longing, big time. Oh! To be able to hold a soft cuddly rat!

wait] All of them..?

[Is it actually possible to fit that much tiny awe in one even more tiny child?

Yes.]

[wedonttalkabout]

[Rat therapy is REAL therapy!!!]

Hah, yeah. I uh... I've got four so far.

["So far" because he knows there's always going to be more rats. ]

gosh i can't wait until i have the right icon for this lmao

[suzume_odori]

Ooooohhhhhh...

[That's so many more than one...]

...Is it okay to see all of them..?