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

[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.

[awesmazings]

That's great, Ishimaru! Everybody deserves to get to have friends.

[ardent]

Do you think so...?

[...ISHIMARU YOU WERE ARGUING THIS VERY THING A FEW DAYS AGO]

[awesmazings]

[ISHIMARU..]

Of course I do! I mean...even the worst people have friends sometimes, don't they? Having somebody there to talk to, or to just be there when you need them is something we should all get to have.

[ardent]

I never did before, for a lot of reasons. My brother was the first friend I'd made, and I didn't meet him until a couple of weeks before I was brought here.

[because that's not confusing at all.]

It always struck me as a waste of time anyway, back then.

[awesmazings]

[...Not at all confusing, no sir. Jimmy's not even sure if he should try to figure out what Ishimaru meant by that, exactly. So, for now, he won't.]

....Really? How come?

[ardent]

Ah...I was usually busy studying, because it was very important that I stayed at the top of my class; I couldn't afford to fall behind. I also had my duties as head of the disciplinary committee to see to.

Now I still study a lot, but it's not like it was before. Not to the exclusion of everything else, anyway. I'm told that's a good thing.

[awesmazings]

I see. Yeah, it's not good to do too much of one thing!

[Says the kid who will do too much of everything if you let him.]

...But you're a good person, Ishimaru! So I'm not surprised you've made friends here.