01x. Action for Ecruteak City - Fourth Wall Event

[ardent]

[It's been a little while since Ishimaru's been here, and he can be found in...well, the exact same place he was last time he made a broadcast from this area - several stories up, on top of the Tin Tower. However, there's a marked difference from the last time he was up here - whereas he was a bit excited and generally getting his enthusiasm for life fired up and raring to go back in September, he's currently standing stock still in the center of the roof, his expression the sort usually reserved for those who have just had either a religious experience or a really, really spectacular acid trip (that may or may not have culminated in a religious experience, because hey, who are we to judge how these things happen). At least he's...not quite crying, though wow does he look tempted.

He's holding something tightly in his hands - a pair of somethings, really, the first being a ridiculously vibrant feather that glitters in various colors when it catches the light; the second is a small gold pouch containing...something light, from the look of it, but it's difficult to say. Either way, he's seeming a bit overwhelmed.

...to the point that he hasn't...quite noticed the Eevee horde that's trooped up here after him just yet, um. He'll probably wonder where the hell those came from once he's done, but for now they are just kind of...wriggling excitedly and once in a while bouncing, like they're trying to start some sort of tiny, fluffy mosh pit.

...Dangans, man.]

Comments

[ardent]

[What the gently caress - ]

...Y-Yes. That's my sister!

[gummyfrogs]

...Your sister is Alice White.

[...]

Harness-wearing base-jumping blonde-haired Alice...White.

[...]

Oh my god.

[ardent]

Yes, that's -

[Oh.]

...You know her, then?

[gummyfrogs]

Oh my god.

[He's just.

...

Oh my god.]

You're Parker's dead little brother and Heaven is Pokemon.

[ardent]

[That gets a sharp flinch from Ishimaru, but his response is immediate.]

Don't tell her - please don't tell her, she doesn't know!

[gummyfrogs]

[Whoa now, hold on there, no need to — wait, hold up.]

...What do you mean, she doesn't know, she's the one who told us about you. She specifically said she didn't tell anybody ab...

[...]

The hell is going on here?

[ardent]

[Ishimaru just shakes his head at that.]

I...I met her here. We got along very well and she became my sister, but she doesn't know I'm dead.

Please don't tell her.

[gummyfrogs]

...Parker's here?

[Yeah, that's probably the most important thing to establish right now, even aside from the "apparently this shouty uniformed kid is dead" thing.]

And you...adopted her?

[ardent]

[...uh.]

...Yes?

[gummyfrogs]

...Okay, you know what, we're cool, your secret's safe with me. I respect that. Bump it.

[He extends one fist in a companionable sort of way.]

I don't know if she mentioned me or anything, but I'm Hardison. We, uh...we work together.

[ardent]

[...and somehow that has fixed everything. Even if he really isn't sure how. But you know what, let's not question that for now.]

Oh, so you're Hardison! She's mentioned you, yes!

[He just kind of looks at that fist there for a moment before kind of completing the gesture.]

For...morale?

[gummyfrogs]

[Well, that gets a chuckle out of him.]

I guess you do know Parker.

[WAIT FOR IT.]

So she mentioned me, huh?

[ardent]

Yes, she did! She mentioned that you work with her, and that you were the one who made Alice.

[...and that she...misses you, that's probably personal, isn't it, um]

[gummyfrogs]

Yeah, that's kind of what I do.

[...]

Wait, did she say what we do?

[ardent]

Illegal things. To help people.

[gummyfrogs]

Okay, look, it's a little more nuanced than that, but — okay, yeah, that's pretty much what we do, yeah.

Is that why you and her started hanging out? She was trying to help you?

[ardent]

Well, we met because I hadn't been outside in a while before I was brought here, so I was outside looking at the sky and appreciating it! And she found me doing that and asked what I was doing, and we had an awkward conversation about ritual suicide and honorifics and how there was an incident in my school, but I think we became friends quickly after that!

She helped me later with...things, but that isn't how we met; she didn't know about the things she eventually helped me with at the start!

[gummyfrogs]

...Oh my god, you're like a little uniformed shouty-Parker.

[...]

Oh my god, no wonder.

[ardent]

Well, I've been told we seem to understand each other in ways that no one else does.

[...]

My brother also says we're very weird but that's just because we see the world differently, so there's that as well, I guess!

[gummyfrogs]

Hey, man, the geeks shall inherit the earth, and I guess we'll take you weird guys with us when we do. It's cool.

So what's your story, man? Kiyotaka Ishimaru, that's Japanese, right?

[ardent]

It is, yes!

[You are getting a rather crisp salute for your effort, Hardison, before he's back to forming fists at his sides.]

I'm a member of the 78th class at Hope's Peak Academy, selected for my dedication to law, order and justice, and given the title of Super High-School Level Hall Monitor!

[gummyfrogs]

...Okay, right, and what's next, are you gonna whip out a transformation montage and summon your Gundam or something?

[ardent]

No, but I do have something that's very similar - Parker-san gave me a Pokémon that resembles one, his name is Dai-Gurren!

[gummyfrogs]

...Wait, wait, hold up. Dai-Gurren. You mean like Gurren Lagann, Dai-Gurren? Like, used to be Dai-Gunzan but captured by our heroes and renamed by Kamina, Dai-Gurren?

[ 8D ]

My man, up top.

[AND UP HE GOES FOR A FIVE AGAIN.]

[ardent]

Yes, that's exactly it!

[He will actually return that! Very enthusiastically!]

And my Gyarados is named after Kamina, actually!