turbo heaven 🌼 chrono

[outdistanced]

this boy's hair is so mystifying

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[clockpunk]

...do you know how to dance?

[ smooth deflecting good job

oh it's bad. he makes a truly undignified squawking sound and tries to pull another chunk of frosting out of the mussed-up spiral. ]

--ow. Man, I didn't think those cake bunnies got me that bad.

[outdistanced]

Yeah? They have a ball every year at home, so they make us take dance classes from when we're kids.

[ sorry he's just. laughing at chrono. ]

Short hair has its benefits.

[ he says with frosting still in his hair ]

[clockpunk]

Mine's not that long! It's just- shut up!

[ throws a bit of frosting at him!! his hair is pretty long but due to anime hairstyle reasons he forgets. ]

[outdistanced]

[ blocks some of it with the mirror and the rest splatters on his face? still funny tho ]

Long enough that it'll take you a while to get it all out.

[clockpunk]

[ he's too mortified about the prospect of getting all this out of his hair to even laugh at him :(

clicks his tongue and throws his hands in the air. whatever!!!!!! god. back to subjects that aren't this. ]

Guess I'm not too surprised you'd know how to dance, actually.

[outdistanced]

[ man he can't really keep laughing if that's the vibe... oh well. wipes the frosting off his face and flicks it to the ground. ]

I'm more surprised so many of you didn't have lessons. I thought it was normal.

[clockpunk]

It's extracurricular. You have to have the time and money for it.

[ rich people things... ]

My friend and her girlfriend [ "are they not both your friends chrono" no ] are idols - performers, and I got roped into helpin' em once. An' there's Shion's parties, where he complains when I step on his feet. So that's my whole experience.

[outdistanced]

...So it's another "privilege."

[ he's been told by a couple of people already that tower norms are pretty much only for rich people so this tracks but it's still a bit of a culture shock. ]

Of course you wouldn't be that good at it if you weren't ever taught. Maybe this Shion guy should've thought about that before making you dance.

[clockpunk]

The formal lessons are, kinda. But there's plenty of hobby dancers who learn on their own, and some people who are just talented.

[ he makes an exasperated face, but the emotion is traitorously fond. ]

No, he's one hundred percent doing it on purpose to watch me suffer. He's just like that.

[outdistanced]

So all your talent went to card games.

[ he sees. kinda funny to watch someone else be the tsundere for once though. ]

You wouldn't do the same if your positions were reversed?

[clockpunk]

Nice of you to assume it was talent and not luck.

[ doesn't even need to contemplate this one. we're proving the question of the week here. ]

Oh, for sure. Kinda do already. Tryin' to watch a guy with a chauffeur buy a peasant subway ticket is hilarious.

[outdistanced]

A little of both, maybe.

[ anyway. penny can hold into the mirror for now, he'll toss the chocolate coins at chrono.

but also the vibes just turn to ?¿? ]

...I'll have to take your word for it.

[ what the fuck's a chauffeur or a subway ]

[clockpunk]

[ pff. --oh. catches them, mostly smoothly, with a puzzled look.

ah right. clarification! he's genuinely happy to do so. ]

The guy's got a private driver. When he had to take public transport, the train with us, it took him twenty minutes to work out how to buy a ticket even with us helpin' him.

[outdistanced]

[ he's not going to keep everything himself!! ]

Like, someone that drives his own train? [ he knows what a train is thanks to heaven! ] Getting a ticket can't be that hard, can it?

[clockpunk]

Nah, expensive car. It's totally private transport. A ticket's really not that hard, it should take about thirty seconds max.

[ speaking of trains!! station. ]

But yeah. Dancing. You seem like the type who would be good at it anyway, so it's not surprising.

[outdistanced]

[ he does not know what a car is but he's getting self-conscious about asking questions again. ]

I guess it's different if you're not used to it.

[ cannot say with confidence that it wouldn't take him an embarrassingly long time either. thank god they don't need to buy tickets here. ]

Just because I grew up with it?

[clockpunk]

[ he'd usually put a hand on his shoulder to encourage him to Stop That but they're gross right now... hm. ]

I can show you in the cloud cave sometime, if you want. I showed Maomao was a plane was there, too.

[ egh wait he doesn't want to explain this reasoning. sighs. ]

Well, that, yeah. And because you're tall, and the running means you have to move well anyway, right?

[outdistanced]

...I haven't seen an airplane before, either. [ thoughtfully. ] Sure. When we're not covered in sugar.

I'm not that much taller than you. [ maybe he just has tall energy? i wish i knew how tall he was actually shakes vel please give me stats

can't deny the running thing, though. ] Dance lessons started before I really got into running, but yeah, I guess I do.

[clockpunk]

[ nods. correct priorities.

chrono just shrugs. taller than him is "tall", even if he's just painfully average in height. but laurence kind of does have tall energy?? who knows ]

Right, it just kinda fits. I dunno, learning properly might not be so bad. It'd probably help with physical training to know how to move better.

[outdistanced]

[ shrugs. ]

If you try some of the tougher ones, maybe - those really need good coordination. Depends on what you're training for.

[clockpunk]

Space stuff.

[ he still feels sort of vulnerable, having talked about that. very few people took his goals seriously. ]

Physical training's the one bit of all that I can do without too many problems already.

[outdistanced]

You need physical training for that?

[clockpunk]

Oh yeah, absolutely. Gotta be in shape given all the weird shit your body's gonna have to deal with. Lack of gravity, artificial atmosphere, quick movement in emergencies... stuff like that.

[outdistanced]

Wow. Okay. Space travel sounds harder than I realized.

[clockpunk]

Yeah, man, it's not easy at all. But that part's kinda fun, so it's fine.

[ train's here. please let's go and get clean. ]

Why'd you decide to start running?