IC Contact/Voicemail

[ardent]

[VOICE/TEXT/VIDEO; OPEN TO ALL]

"You've reached Kiyotaka Ishimaru; I seem to have missed you! My sincerest apologies for that - but if you leave your name and state your business, firmly and concisely, I'll return your contact as soon as I can!

Until then, I look forward to speaking to you; do what you can to make your day pleasant and productive, and be sure to keep your head up!"

[Please state in the subject line if OOC planning is preferred and we can handwave like the wind, but otherwise IC will be assumed!]

Comments

[ardent]

[Oh, hey, look who it is -

...

yes okay but how does he go about addressing you because Two-Shoes-kun just sounds strange

...foreign-classmate-protocol is go]

Ah, Jimmy-kun - it's good to hear from you! It's also good to know that you aren't by yourself; maybe I'll see you in Goldenrod soon, then. I'm not going anywhere at this point, anyway.

Give Cherry my congratulations as well!

[awesmazings]

[Jimmy's rather fine with being called just about anything, but.....that is rather odd, yes.]

Yeah, I hope so! I'm gonna be at Nanami's birthday dinner, if you plan to be there too.

I will! She's a looot bigger now than she used to be. She can't ride on my shoulders anymore but I don't think she minds too much.

[ardent]

So you know Nanami-kun as well - I plan to be there, yes. She's [...how to put this. a...friend? acquaintance? not a classmate per se...] from the same world I am, though I didn't know her back home; I've been getting to know her here.

[awesmazings]

Oh, well that's good! It's good that you've got friends from home here.

[Given the fact that his own aren't likely to ever show up. ...yeah.]

Do you know Naegi too?

[Since you two are some of the only people that keep tacking -kun onto his name.]

[ardent]

[...Jimmy, they're called "Japanese people," and if you think they all know each other then does he have some unfortunate news for you.]

I do, yes - he's a classmate of mine. We attended the same high school before arriving here.

[awesmazings]

[He'll probably think so until told otherwise, to be honest.]

So are a lot of your classmates here, then?

[ardent]

[There's no way that's going to backfire someday!]

Yes! There are several from my class, and several from the class above ours.

[awesmazings]

[Absolutely not.]

Neat! That must be nice.

[As far as you know, Jimmy.]

[ardent]

It is! I don't really know most of the older class that well - this is my first time meeting them - but my classmates and I have been through a lot together, and it's good to have their company even if I don't always get along with them.

My brother is here again, which is nice; he was sent home for a while, but he returned recently. One of them was sent home a few days ago; two others just came back. So we come and go, but we're looking for a way to bring everyone here.

[awesmazings]

[...Here's to hoping he doesn't get the two classes mixed up.]

Sounds like people come and go here a lot...I hope the rest of your classmates come back, though!

[ardent]

[Don't worry, they're all former students of Special Snowflake Academy. They'll let you know if you're wrong. Very loudly. godspeed, jimmy-kun]

Sort of. I've been here eleven months so far; it'll be a year in April. We don't know what makes some people stay and what makes them go yet, though.

Do you have any friends you'd want brought here?

[...ishimaru for crying out loud]

[awesmazings]

Uh huh! My two best friends, Beezy and Heloise. We do stuff all the time together, so it's....kinda weird being here without them.

[And be glad it WAS Jimmy. Beezy is something of a hot mess when left to his own devices, and Heloise is literally unable to function correctly without Jimmy around, so there you go.]

[ardent]

Well, like I said, my friends and I are looking for a way to bring people here. Maybe we can help you too, if you want!

What sort of place are you from, anyway?

[awesmazings]

Could you really? Cause...that'd be really great!

Um, well....have you ever heard of a place called Miseryville?

[Since....he actually hasn't started a conversation about Miseryville this way yet, so might as well just try and see.]

[ardent]

What? No, I haven't - is it really named that?

[awesmazings]

It is, really. I figured you wouldn't have, though....from what I know, Miseryville is a completely different world than what most everyone else comes from.

[ardent]

[...Ah. Maybe it's like Mikasa's world, then...no harm in asking, surely.]

Completely different? How so?

[awesmazings]

Well....for one thing, both the sky and the water in Miseryville is always red. It's kinda hot a lot, so I wasn't ready for how cold it got at night here. There are two suns, and lots of monsters...but not like, Pokemon. They're-

[How do you explain man-eating without actually saying that they're man-eating?]

...different!

Miseryville is called Miseryville because our ruler's job is to make everyone's lives as miserable as possible, every day and every night.

[ardent]

...I know a girl who would like it there, if that's the case. She would probably help your ruler, even.

Are you all right with being there?

[awesmazings]

Oh yeah, of course! I love it in Miseryville. I mean all my friends are there, and...it's the only place I've ever lived.

I've been there for as long as I can remember, actually.

[ardent]

I can understand that - I've never really been anywhere outside of the place I grew up, either. Sometimes things were difficult, but it was still home, I guess.

[awesmazings]

Yup. Miseryville might be bad sometimes, but it's still home. You know, I kinda miss it already...and I haven't really been here all that long.

[ardent]

Ah, do you?

I don't miss mine, so I can't say I know what it feels like, unfortunately. It's a shame, though, that you feel that way.

[...youtried.jpg]

[awesmazings]

It's ok! Whether or not I'm here for a while, as long as I have friends to talk to everything will be fine. All you guys I've met so far have made sure of that.

[Admittedly, he wouldn't know what he would do if he were truly alone, here. It's one thing not to have parents or even a guardian to keep watch over you, but it's entirely another to have nobody at all.]

[ardent]

There are a lot of good people here. I didn't really have friends before coming here, but I've made a few since then.