turbo heaven 🌼 chrono

[outdistanced]

this boy's hair is so mystifying

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[outdistanced]

You're really just going to say all that and drop it like that?

[ rude! but fine. he'll watch. ]

...You really are into this robot stuff, huh.

[clockpunk]

If I explain everything there won't be any impact to watching it.

[ he nods, not the slightest bit embarrassed about it. ]

Yeah? It's fun. Kamui-san got me onto it after some of his friends made a movie.

[outdistanced]

Whatever you say...

Hold on, one of your friends just made one of these things?

[clockpunk]

His friends, yeah - I only met 'em once. [ and he fanboyed so hard it was really dumb. ] They had a whole team behind it. It wasn't as high-budget at this, but it was really cool.

[ okay it's starting. whaps him. pay attention. ]

[outdistanced]

Ow - hey!

[ FINE FINE he'll shut up and watch

but not before lightly hitting chrono back on the arm. hmph. ]

[clockpunk]

[ yeah yeah acceptable retaliation. he's settled comfortably in the blanket pile, more relaxed than he's been in days.

in the spirit of not threading a whole pacific rim livewatch chrono will scatter vaguely excitable commentary through a few scenes. ]

Man, the suits are cool. And the kaiju, how they glow. Can't remember the word for it, but it's great.

[outdistanced]

[ absently, ] They kind of look like those things in Kaworu's world.

[ he would ask what a kaiju is but "giant monster" seems to fit well enough. the logistics of fighting these things seem a little wonky to him, but maybe this is the way if you don't have powers...

every now and then he glances at chrono, amused at how exited he is about it. ]

There's a word for it besides "glowing?"

[clockpunk]

[ ah. he hasn't seen them, but kaworu mentioned pilots... so that's what it was? oh he really does not want to unpack that now. filed away for later.

they're big-ass monsters! even with powers that'd be hard probably, right. and yeah he's not as excited as he might have been in better circumstances but he's still into it. ]

I think so? Bio-somethin'. [ shrugs. ] Not important. --oh, there's a really good fight here.

[outdistanced]

...Illumination? I guess it is kind of like how Lotus fins glow.

[ he's been reading his stupid book too much. he'll shut up for the fight since chrono warned him, but after... ]

I'm kind of glad we don't have these things in my world. Seeing one of these fights in real life would be freaky.

[clockpunk]

Not quite, but... [ snaps his fingers. ] Bioluminescence. It was in my biology textbook.

[ lotuses have fins?? more things to ask about later. but he nods in agreement. ]

Yeah, definitely. But it's cool in fiction, the scale of it and all the different ways they fight.

[outdistanced]

[ i don't know if they teach biology in the tower. maybe the very basics, but deep ocean probably never came up. ]

As long as it isn't real, sure. Like, what do you mean you can just punch a giant monster?

[clockpunk]

Are you kiddin'? That's the best. You gotta just put realism aside for a bit and enjoy it.

[ the fights do get progressively more elaborate, each monster having a new form, etc. it's monster fightin'. he's into it. ]

The effort in designing all this is super impressive. Imagining choreography at that scale.

[outdistanced]

Hey, I never said it was bad. Just - insane.

[ he's still a teenager of course this is cool as long as it isn't real. though some of the monster designs do freak him out a little, making him recoil a bit from the screen. ]

Choreography? Like, dancing? But it's a fight.

[ what's battle choreo ]

[clockpunk]

[ HEH. nudges him with an elbow. ]

Relax, man, it's fake. Like the fighting, it's all designed that way, same way as a dance would be. [ considers for a second. what would someone smarter say here. ] Different forms of art, or somethin'.

[outdistanced]

I-I know that!

[ don't embarrass him over something he's never seen before? it was an instinctive reaction okay!! ]

...Oh. I didn't know people thought about fights that way.

[ fighting as an art?? ]

[clockpunk]

[ HEH!!!!!!!!!!!

but he nods, considering through his amused smugness. ]

Not real ones, probably. But sports like fencing and fights designed like this? Why not, right?

[outdistanced]

[ refusing to look at him! if he doesn't see then the smugness isn't there. ]

What's fencing? [ he's picturing people jumping over fences and is very confused about it. ] Regular fights I could see, yeah. Just never thought someone might plan something like that.

[clockpunk]

Fencing's a sport using swords. It's French, I think.

[ all that fancy rich person stuff was french in his mind.

he hums in acknowledgement, point sort of made, but then tilts his head. his tone is a little sombre despite the action on screen. ]

You ever think about what you want to do as an adult? A career, if you could pick something?

[outdistanced]

Why would they call it that? Just say swordfighting.

[ rhetorical question but he just thinks it's dumb.

anyway that... makes him pause glancing over with raised eyebrows. ]

I never really thought about it. I always just assumed I'd be assigned some job in the Tower. Outside of that... I don't know.

[clockpunk]

Right? [ rhetorical but he actually knows the answer, so he puts on like a fake snooty tone and pushes up imaginary glasses. ] But, ahem, it originates from the same-- [ falters. ] -word... place as "defense".

[ guy who doesn't know the term "root" for words. guy who didn't hear this from someone who wears glasses. idiot

he does hum in vague agreement, giving him a considering glance. ]

You could probably do some really cool stuff with the teleporting.

[outdistanced]

[ nice try. laurence may not know how accurate that is, but he has to laugh a little at the faltering. ]

I guess a fence is a kind of defense, but it's still swordfighting. [ french people please. ]

...Maybe. [ considers this while watching the fight on screen. it's still a little hard to imagine using his powers in everyday life. ] I guess I could always ask Ven if he'd have a job for me with the Moon Mercenaries, but that whole arrangement was supposed to be temporary.

[clockpunk]

It is. Swordfighting for rich people.

[ oh it's the bit with the sword and the robot falling out of the sky. he's kinda glad they mostly talked over the character deaths. ]

Those people from your memory? [ hmm. ] Can't say that "mercenary" has an encouraging ring to it, since you're so insistent about stayin' outta dangerous stuff.

[outdistanced]

[ makes a noncommittal noise because he doesn't know enough about the world to comment on that. ]

I know. [ he doesn't necessarily like it, but it's the only option he knows is out there right now. ] But if I'm really going to leave the Tower, I'll probably have to deal with dangerous stuff, anyway. So I'll need to at least learn some self-defense or something.

[clockpunk]

Plenty of people here you could ask to learn from.

[ so many fighting types. ]

Mm, well, gettin' out's the first step. You don't have to make up your mind now, or anythin'. I didn't start thinking about it until last year, either.

[outdistanced]

[ he bites his lip, eyes dropping to the floor. ]

Yeah. Guess so.

[ shakes his head. ]

It's fine. I'm leaving once we know where to find Iris and get him somewhere safe. It's just after that that I'm not sure about.