01 » Video
Jul. 20th, 2013 02:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
topoftheclass[The image that appears is that of a young woman easily still in her teens with short brown hair and brown eyes. The young woman is leaning against a tree a pink fox creature sprawled in her lap, eyes closed in contentment. She appears to be concentrating on getting her gear to cooperate before her features smooth to almost peaceful followed by a murmured 'there we go'. Throughout there's a Pidgey occassionally photobombing the video but for the most part the young woman keeps her cool and ignores the bird.]
I’ve read a couple chapters in the Trainer’s Handbook and skimmed the beginning of the Breeder’s Guide, but I’m still a little at a loss. I understand the concepts of what the handbook and guide are trying to get across, but I really want to know why I am here? I realize it might be presumptuous to think there is a reason, but if there is I would really like to know.
[There’s a pause before her gaze narrows and she leans in toward the gear startling her Vulpix from his perch with a squeak as it slips from her lap in search of more stable ground.]
Yusuke I swear if this is another case and I’m only just finding out about it- [She cuts herself off abruptly and takes a deep breath. Somewhat insecure this one but she has a right to be in some respects. Slowly the Vulpix edges closer, forepaws resting on her leg as it slides into view of the camera and makes a soft sound meant to get his trainers attention. It makes her smile. She continues but she looks a little sheepish from her outburst. She doesn't even know if he's here and she's yelling at him.]
I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to frighten you Kurama, I just realized something is all. [Her attention shifts back to the gear while she pets the Vulpix.] Anyway. My name is Keiko Yukimura. I’m looking for information on what I’m doing here and my friends if they’re here. One is a loudmouthed boy with black hair, brown eyes, and an obscene love for hair gel. Another is a girl with blue hair and purple/pink eyes. She’s a sweetheart, really bubbly and talkative with a big heart. Then there is Kuwabara, orange hair has a heart of gold and has a complicated relationship with the other boy.
[That should about cover the basics, her descriptions covering what most people would immediately pick up on if they met any of her friends. Gently she nudges her Vulpix off her leg and begins to stand the last image is of the ground before the feed cuts out the last thing anyone here's is Keiko calling for the Pidgey to land finally a little fed up.]
I’ve read a couple chapters in the Trainer’s Handbook and skimmed the beginning of the Breeder’s Guide, but I’m still a little at a loss. I understand the concepts of what the handbook and guide are trying to get across, but I really want to know why I am here? I realize it might be presumptuous to think there is a reason, but if there is I would really like to know.
[There’s a pause before her gaze narrows and she leans in toward the gear startling her Vulpix from his perch with a squeak as it slips from her lap in search of more stable ground.]
Yusuke I swear if this is another case and I’m only just finding out about it- [She cuts herself off abruptly and takes a deep breath. Somewhat insecure this one but she has a right to be in some respects. Slowly the Vulpix edges closer, forepaws resting on her leg as it slides into view of the camera and makes a soft sound meant to get his trainers attention. It makes her smile. She continues but she looks a little sheepish from her outburst. She doesn't even know if he's here and she's yelling at him.]
I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to frighten you Kurama, I just realized something is all. [Her attention shifts back to the gear while she pets the Vulpix.] Anyway. My name is Keiko Yukimura. I’m looking for information on what I’m doing here and my friends if they’re here. One is a loudmouthed boy with black hair, brown eyes, and an obscene love for hair gel. Another is a girl with blue hair and purple/pink eyes. She’s a sweetheart, really bubbly and talkative with a big heart. Then there is Kuwabara, orange hair has a heart of gold and has a complicated relationship with the other boy.
[That should about cover the basics, her descriptions covering what most people would immediately pick up on if they met any of her friends. Gently she nudges her Vulpix off her leg and begins to stand the last image is of the ground before the feed cuts out the last thing anyone here's is Keiko calling for the Pidgey to land finally a little fed up.]
video;
Date: 2013-07-22 12:24 pm (UTC)Hey, Keiko. What, you mean this guy?
[The camera pans around to focus on the bird, who makes a soft trilling sound when he sees Keiko on the screen. 'sup, pretty girl!]
Uhhh... nah, that's not Puu. That's one of my Pokemon. Since when was Puu this big?
[Check out that sarcasm! It's pretty obvious that Yusuke thinks Keiko just made a silly comment. The only way it'd be more obvious is if he totally gave away his year of origin and went "duh!", or something. (Oh, the things you don't know about yourself or your Spirit Beast, Yusuke.) Behind his Altaria, one can see quite a number of stout purple houses, which steadily recede farther and farther into the distance with every passing second - a clear indication that Yusuke here is still walking, but backwards now, and not any less faster than he had been before. Being careful is for chumps! Never fear, though, for now that Yusuke's shown Keiko his big fluffy shadow, he whirls both himself and his camera back around so that he's walking normally and his face is on-screen again, continuing to speak once he does.]
I did name him after Puu, though, just 'cause, uh, back when I first got him, he was a lot smaller and he did a lot of the same annoying shit that Puu does. I guess it just seemed like a good fit, all things considered. [He seems a little abashed as he says this, but quickly makes up for it by scowling at her and preemptively snapping:] Shut up.
[YOU TELL 'ER, YUSUKE. That'll definitely dissuade Keiko from teasing you. It's not like years of knowing you has made her nigh-impervious to your bluster, or anything. Keiko then describes his cases to him, and with sort of a vaguely exasperated look (because geez, Keiko, you sure aren't wasting any time getting on his ass about his Spirit Detective stuff), he says to her:]
Yeah, exactly, so like I said, this isn't one of my cases. I don't even have my Spirit Energy.
[The level of chagrin he's experiencing thanks to this is palpable. At any rate, now that they've hit the latter part of this conversation, he's gonna go ahead and ignore all that stuff about him being a loudmouth and her being a nerd so he can focus on something more important: her location.]
Route 29... okay, so you're on your way to Cherrygrove. That's a couple more days on the road. You'll be fine 'til I make it out there, right?
video;
Date: 2013-07-23 03:09 am (UTC)He’s so cute.
[Well doesn’t that have a familiar ring to it? And he’s trilling at her, she’s going a little gooey here. Yusuke why do you keep picking up blue birds that turn her to mush? It’s completely not fair that you are using cute things against her like this.]
He wasn’t when I saw him last. I was still fully capable of carrying him around And he also just hatched recently.
[But now she’s giving him a look because what do you mean Yusuke? Does Puu get bigger? This is important information she needs to know if he does. She deserves every available chance to snuggle the cute little bugger the minute she gets home before he grows into something fucking giant that she can’t hug all tight against her chest. But as he explains her expression shifts to one that isn’t all that impressed by him shouting at her to shut up. Honestly, she was only partially thinking about saying something about how you were actually voicing opinions that weren’t entirely perverse. Though there was definitely a look of ‘see you aren’t entirely the hard edged jerk you think you are’ for awhile before that.]
I didn’t say anything. Sorry. Just in the moment. [She stops and shakes her head. Okay so maybe jumping to it being one of his cases wasn’t one of her finest moments ever. Sorry Yusuke. Forgive her? Expect she’s quickly going from openly remorseful to indignant. Seriously? He was watching when she was being chased by possessed humans right? She totally handled that just fine, she can handle a couple days roughing it in the woods fending off wild pokémon. she’s already defeated an obnoxious Rattata that kept trying to bite her. Kurama handled him just fine.]
Of course, I can handle a couple more days on the road. I have Kurama and FlyGirl to help me out if anything goes crazy.
video;
Date: 2013-07-24 09:21 pm (UTC)But uh, "hatched recently"? That must mean Keiko's from somewhere within the week they spent on Hanging Neck Island - or at least, that's what he's guessing, anyway. He'd better make sure, though, just to be on the safe side. Here he goes!]
Oh, uh, that reminds me... what d'you last remember? From before you woke up here, I mean.
[HEY NOW, don't you start getting indignant with him, Keiko! The only reason why he asked was because he was concerned. Of course, rather than make it easier on both of them and point that out, Yusuke chooses instead to get indignant with her right back, curling his lip a little and snarling:]
Okay, geez. I was just making sure.
[And then he rolls his eyes and grumbles under his breath. Looks like these two aren't wasting any time at all before getting on each other's nerves! Ah, young love.
Fortunately, her choice of names has caught his attention enough to prevent him from falling into a broody silence like he normally would after an exchange like this, so after he's had a moment to
sulkgrouse to himself a little, Yusuke continues the conversation, albeit with a much grumpier attitude than the one he had before. Sheesh, no wonder she doesn't think he should be worried about her. The way she's biting heads off today, he reckons she'll probably end up leaving a trail of partially chewed up purple rats behind her, or something.(Yusuke, you're rude.)]
So you named your fox after Kurama, huh.
video;
Date: 2013-07-25 02:10 am (UTC)We were going home… on a cargo ship.
[She’s allowed to get indignant. He has a habit of assuming that she needs him to protect her all the time. The sentiment is sweet and a part of her really likes knowing that he cares that much, but she is an intelligent and independent girl. She can handle a little self-defense without regular rescue. His response though gives her pause before she fires off another flippant comment.]
Thank you. Where do you fall on the timeline? Jin said you’re ahead, but by how much?
[God damnit, she didn’t want to fight. But she was not going to take kindly to him mocking her choice of name for her Pokemon. Especially not when she’s dealing with a train of purple rats and an obnoxious Pidgey that even after she’s agreed to keep is still refusing to get into her pokéball, preferring instead to fly circles just out of camera range. And the girl telling her to embrace her new situation and be all happy whoohoo about it had put her in a less than stellar mood.]
It seemed to fit.
video;
Date: 2013-07-27 09:12 pm (UTC)Naturally, it's as he's thinking this that Keiko mentions that Jin had already spoken to her about it, and though at first he reacts to this news with a mixture of surprise and relief, it's not long before he begins feeling a little chagrined again. While Jin had certainly taken care of the, uh, more mind-boggling part of this whole predicament (and for this, Yusuke is grateful - he's pretty sure he'll feel stupid talking about "timelines" and shit even if he's stuck here for another year), Yusuke still has to let her know that circumstances back home won't calm down the way she's probably hoping they will now that they're off that stupid island, and that... well, that kind of sucks, to be honest. He knows that the option of just not telling her anything at all is there, given that she'll find out about it anyway if she's sent back home, but after she explicitly asked him to tell her when he has a case...
UGHHH. Dammit, Keiko! Why is it that you have to know just how to guilt trip him into actually letting you know what's going on with him? Yusuke's not quite sure how exactly he should proceed with this, but for the sake of not feeling guilty over leaving her in the dark, he bucks up and gets on with it anyway, saying:]
I'm about a few weeks ahead of you. I wanna say things're normal now that the tournament's over - [... for Keiko's benefit, not his; god knows he was more irritable than usual when at first there weren't any new enemies for him to fight] - but the truth is, I was in the middle of a case when I woke up here about five months ago. Turns out one of the plans that the guy in charge of Team Toguro had didn't die with him.
[Wow, foreboding much? Yusuke, predictably enough, neither looks nor sounds outwardly concerned about any of this as he's telling Keiko about it - in fact, to a casual observer, dude might as well be discussing the weather, the way he doesn't seem to be giving a fuck. Given the length of time Keiko's known him, though, she probably knows his Tough Guy face when it makes an appearance; he might not be distressed over this to the point of SHAKING AND CRYING or anything (or to the point of being HOPPING MAD AND READY TO BREAK SHIT, as he initially was when he first got here), but there's definitely a certain rigidity to his expression that strongly suggests that, whatever it is that's going on with this case, it's nothing good. Certainly bad enough that he's not exactly pleased about being here instead of being in a position where he can actually settle whatever kind of disaster it was that he left behind, though to be fair, he wouldn't be even if there weren't some sort of crisis back home. Too many cute little animals, not enough opportunities for him to sucker punch something.
Anyway, while his grouchiness does indeed make it a little hard to tell one way or another, Yusuke wasn't actually trying to make fun of Keiko's choice in names - on the contrary, he was only commenting on it. You can't name something after one of his closest friends and not expect him to take notice, after all.]
Yeah, I guess it does. [And for the first time in a few minutes, he cracks a little grin.] Doesn't have the right hairstyle, though. Maybe you should spike it up in the back or something.
[Seriously, how the hell does Kurama's hair even do that? Yusuke's still a little peeved over Keiko getting tetchy with him, by the way, but if the fact that he's trying to joke around with her now is any indication, he isn't actually all that interested in fighting with her either. He's just, you know, not all that great when it comes to not fighting with people. OOPS.]
Who's "FlyGirl"?
[Sorry, FlyGirl! He was too distracted by Keiko's face to notice you zooming around back there. :I]
video;
Date: 2013-07-29 11:12 pm (UTC)Yet she’s happy that he’s telling her, that he isn’t skipping over it or telling her exactly what he probably knows she wants to hear. And it’s that realization that makes a sad smile form. She saw some of this on the island. Noticed how he seemed to have grown since his return. And he’s actually telling her, yes she’s circling back to this point because not too long ago for her was she threatening Botan with Shizuru to tell her where Yusuke and Kuwabara were.
But it’s the mention of plans of one of Team Toguro’s owner that gives her a loop. What plan did Sakyo have that was being carried out post mortem? Yusuke care to throw her a line, she’s drowning a bit here and she isn’t enjoying the feeling at all.]
Plan?
[Maybe he should stop while he’s ahead? Or better maybe she shouldn’t have asked. All those little physical quirks she’s learned over the years, and they scream at her over the feed like neon lights announcing food and lodging along a highway. Whatever this case he’s on after the tournament is she can see that’s it’s bothering him. If he were anyone else she’d try and get him to talk about it, but she knows that probably wouldn’t go too far. He just wasn’t someone that liked to sit there and talk about feelings and she knew this. It didn’t keep her from looking a touch worried.]
Unless you’re offering to share your hair gel that probably won’t happen. [She realizes though that by saying that Yusuke might take that to mean that he is welcome to restyle her foxes hair one day. Not exactly something she actually wants but she also figures that he probably won’t part with his hair gel for something as ridiculous as giving Kurama a spikey appearance. Yusuke’s love for hair gel is probably only dwarfed by his love for fighting.] Besides, I don’t think he’d sit still long enough for that anyway.
[She laughs and tilts the camera back so he can catch sight of her Pidgey doing cartwheels and other aerial maneuvers. Thankfully, this time she doesn’t go dive bombing the camera, and Keiko is more than grateful because that was momentarily scary.] This is FlyGirl, she’s kind of a brat, she went diving at the camera for Jin. [She says all this while the camera is pointed up and then readjusts so that her face is once more the view he’s looking at.] Maybe you can scare some sense into her?
[And that’s more of a joke than an actual question, she would never actually have Yusuke scare someone into compliance. But she’s grasping onto the excuse not to fight with both hands through the joke.]
video; 1/2
Date: 2013-08-04 01:39 am (UTC)There's no use in feeling sorry about things he can't change, though, especially not when he's in the middle of trying to figure out how to explain all of this to her in a way that won't freak her out. He normally isn't all that great at thinking before he speaks, but for Keiko's sake, Yusuke takes a minute or two to do just that, pursing his lips a little as he does. It doesn't help that there's, like, a million things going on with this case. Where does he even start?]
... okay, so - y'know how some people have more money than sense? [There, that's a pretty good way to kick off this exposition mission! Satisfied, Yusuke goes on.] Well, in Sakyo's case, it was more like "more money than screws in his brain". Before that crazy asshole died, he was planning on funding a tunnel to Demon World so that demons could come in and wreck havoc amongst the living. You'd think gettin' crushed under a couple thousand pounds of rock would've put an end to that, and I guess Koenma and whoever else who knew about it thought it had, but then--
[Yusuke pauses, suddenly distracted, as he finally approaches the hotel entrance. The camera stills momentarily as he pulls open the door and holds it there so that Puu can go in ahead of him (shut up), then resumes jiggling around as he strides across the lobby. It's at this point that he also continues speaking, just as casually as he had been before. The Tough Guy Act is strong with this one.]
... then all these humans started gettin' psychic powers, and we found out it was because another guy picked up where Sakyo left off. That guy's name is Shinobu Sensui.
[He begins heading up the stairs to his room.]
See, Sensui - and this is the funny part... [Notice that Yusuke isn't smiling or laughing.] Sensui's a former Spirit Detective who went apeshit after he saw humans torturing demons while he was on a case. Apparently, he was one of those real straight-laced, black-and-white types of guys: if one side of the coin's good, then the other's gotta be bad, no exceptions. He used to think that demons were all evil, but then when he stumbled upon a bunch of crooks in the middle of a gorefest, both the coin and his friggin' lid flipped, and now he's out trying to wipe out the human race. Thinks we're diseased, or somethin' like that.
He's not working alone, either. There're seven others: a bunch of human psychics he recruited by showin' 'em this tape he stole from Spirit World called "Chapter Black". It's basically this compilation of all the bad shit humanity's ever done - kinda like a snuff film, except it's not fiction.
[And that's all that needs to be said about that! Moving on...]
Anyway, when I left home, we'd already defeated two of the seven and convinced one to cross over to our team. [... or rather, they told Mitarai "hey, it's too bad you were taken advantage of and mind-fucked by the bad guy, but if you go back to being part of his team, we might have to kill you at some point", and then they left him to defect from Sensui's gang of his own volition afterwards. Same thing, really.] We were about to go in to deal with the fourth, but just as the doors to his lair were opening...
[... POKEMON HAPPENED. Keiko can probably tell that's where he was going with that sentence just by looking at the sheer force with which he is linefacing. :|
Yusuke shrugs.]
So yeah. That's pretty much the gist of it. [He pauses again, seeming a little uncertain. He doesn't really know how Keiko's dealing with all of this, so he figures he ought to at least try to soothe any concerns she might be having. Here he goes!] I dunno if you've spoken to Botan yet or not, but she's from the future. Like, a couple years into the future. She says this case'll turn out all right, so don't... stress out about it, or anything. All I've gotta do is kick Sensui's ass and save Kuwabara and everything'll be fine.
[... okay, not really, but this conversation's grim enough as it is without him getting into all the other stuff Botan told him about. Best to just keep doing what he'd been doing for the past several weeks and avoid talking about any of that King Enma stuff altogether.]
video; 2/2
Date: 2013-08-04 01:41 am (UTC)Speaking of Kurama and hair gel...]
Well, I did just buy some... [And here he lifts the entire bag of newly purchased hair gel into view so that she can see. He doesn't have a problem, okay? At least, not with hair gel specifically. If he were inclined to shoplift alcohol just so he could use it for his hair, he would. It works just as well!
Anyway, damn, that sure is one energetic bird. Yusuke gives Keiko a bit of a wry look in response to her suggestion, and tells her:]
I could, but then you'd hit me.
[... not that that's ever stopped him from doing annoying shit before, of course. She's lucky he didn't immediately propose the idea of roasting FlyGirl on a spit.]
Maybe you should sic her on a couple of those wild rats. I bet a good fight'd calm her down.
[That always works for him, at least!]
video; 1/2
Date: 2013-08-12 02:04 am (UTC)Keiko was a little pale and she doubted Yusuke could really blame her. That world wasn’t exactly one she was entirely comfortable in. At least not when it looked like that world would be responsible for Yusuke dying a second time. He allowed her to feel safe when surrounded by blood thirsty monsters and more or less stranded for a week. And she pales even more as he explains that the dude now putting this crazy ass plan into motion had his job before him. That fact alone sends a terrifying shiver down her side and Keiko is more than a little glad she’s taken a moment to pause in her travels otherwise she might have stumbled. As it is her Vulpix can be heard cooing in concern off camera. Swallowing Keiko heaves a deep breath in an effort to pull herself back together and after a few moments color returns to her.
Her grip on her gear tightens making her image shake a little, he’d already gone through that much trouble for his new case. And he still had five more to go… She can’t help it there’s definitely a few flashbacks to his fight with Toguro running through her head at that moment. And they aren’t really helping her any and she does not want Yusuke to see her freak out again, because she can handle this she knows she can. She just needs a little time to wrap her head around what he’s saying. The danger of that particular situation and remember that he should be okay. He made it out of the tournament okay after all.]
Oh my that’s … Can you hold on?
[And with that her feed cuts out because she needs to think. Answer trivia questions to refocus and bury that niggling worry that he could die this time despite surviving the Tournament. And for the moment it doesn’t matter how Botan has assured him that things turned out alright in the end.]
video; 2/2
Date: 2013-08-12 02:05 am (UTC)She looks much calmer now as opposed to before, there’s even a trace of a small smile almost like his explanation of where he’s from hasn’t happened. She’s clearly refocused on the latter half of what he said and didn’t have to do with crazy former detectives and psychics.]
Jumbo bottle? [There’s a hint of teasing in her voice and she simply nods because FlyGirl is a bit of a strange one although at this point she’s more interested in flying along above her and crowing out warnings for wilds than entertaining an audience with her acrobatics.]
I probably will, though she’s doing better now. I guess she didn’t like sitting around in one place for very long.
[She falls quiet as she toys with a thought that crossed her mind during her radio silence. It couldn’t hut to ask since he’s been here a while and she could really use a little tutoring despite her reading a few of the early chapters in the handbook before setting out. Okay that’s it she’s going to do it and if he laughs in her face she’ll just hang up on him for awhile, easy solution. Now if only she could not feel so uneasy with working up the nerve to do it. Part of it had a lot to do with her already not finding the concept of forcing these creatures to fight for her as inhumane.]
Hey, could you give me pointers with battling when we meet up?