menial | 10 ~ comparing those worlds to this boring, normal life [audio/picture]

['Well. It sure got cold pretty fast, huh? Which means that I'm rapidly approaching the one-year mark, so I should really be proud. Or something. After burrowing myself away to avoid complications from refugees, my antisociality has reached a certain limit.

Unfortunately, I also have nothing to contribute beyond the observation about the weather which I already blithely used up there! Not that people can read my thoughts, but if they could, they'd find out. Well, they'd find out a lot of things. But who would want to anyway? It would just go on and on without any point.

Anyway, I guess I'll poorly disguise my attempt to see who's up for a random conversation with some kind of opener. Hey, if I were at home, this would be a mind-scarring Omegle session or something. At least I'm pretty sure I won't run into the usual problems stranger-chatting over the journal.'

...and so:]

So I found this in a book the other day.

Maybe this doesn't work as well over the journal, but I thought it was cool, anyway. Or at least different from discussions about fire and eternal suffering, continued kidnapping, disappearance, reappearance, cross-dressing, and so on.

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Hey...I've never thought about that before! I guess there are all kinds of reasons people can give their kids weird na...urk...

[Suddenly realizing she's an example of that.]

S-So, I guess some people are just weird no matter how much money they've got, huh?!

[ .. give her a moment to think of how to say this while maintaining some dignity. ]

I don't need some concept like 'hobbies' for my free time. [ good job, ange, now that just makes you sound like a weirdo. ]

Really? Do you have more of them with you? [ she seems rather enthusiastic now.. ]

I want to see more of them, hehe!

Do you want me to answer that honestly? Because I can. But you might never look at me the same way again.

The face is much easier to see like this.

See?! So she's got this.

Don't make fun of me! Here!

[And then she drew it in.]

...see! She's rescuing her teddy bear, too!

[Yes, that totally is a teddy bear. Do not doubt Kari's art skillz!!!]

Oh. Uh... r-right. [He thought that was just jigsaw puzzles.]

Only in that it would be more consistent.

[blithely:]

Yeah. I mean, my name's a little weird. And what about yours?

...

So what do you do with your free time instead?

['Good old reliable cuteness, erasing memories of stupidity since nineteen ninety--... Wait, what year is she from anyway?']

Uh, hm... Yeah, I found another one here somewhere...

[flipping...]

Here.