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Latooni Suvota (латунь суббота) ([personal profile] ineedthemforanalyzing) wrote in [community profile] destinystrings2012-10-08 04:46 pm

Frills

Who: Latooni and OPEN
Where: Cancer Ward, and later a maid/EGL café in said Ward
Summary: Lat gets a job
Warnings: Maids will be assaulted Just kidding that would be mean. None.
It had all started when she decided to go electronics shopping in a dress.

The simple fact of the matter is that Latooni had been transported here with a selection of the more elaborate dresses Princess Shine and various slightly overbearing superior officers had gifted her over the last few months, which meant that on nice days at least she could easily wear them as casual outfits. Naturally - both being accustomed to the dresses and noticing there were plenty of people here with even less practical outfits, many of them natives - Latooni had gotten dressed on Monday and headed out to the Cancer Ward to price any potentially useful storebought equipment. And maybe scope out the arcade, you know, just in case Ryuusei ever showed up looking for her. Not that he was any more likely to lead a rescue mission than, say, Lt. Kyousuke, but she'd like to be able to tell him about it, just in case...

Anyway, she hadn't gotten through more than half the shops without coming to the conclusion that anything useful here would cost more than she could afford on her Visitor stipend. She didn't eat much, but she knew her basic nutritional requirements. It was around this time that she was interrupted by a few different conversations, one of which turned out to have a solution to this problem.

It was a few hours later that the enthusiastic, outgoing, and frankly gorgeously-dressed woman who had addressed Latooni on the street finally finished getting Lat set up as a new employee. During the entire process, the pilot took in the details of the job dutifully, nodding along even as she couldn't help but compare the manager to Lt. Excellen, if only because she couldn't think of any other attractive, hyper-enthusiastic women who would open a café in between two hobby shops. Attractive, hyper-enthusiastic men sure, but that's another story.

At any rate, Latooni went out to train on her new job dutifully, expression only slightly changed by bemusement at the idea. Wear one of her dresses - she'd show images to the manager and was assured any of her "costumes" would be fine - go out and take drink and snack orders from the (mostly) men who wanted to take a break from their electronics shopping to have some refreshments and talk to a girl in cute clothes. A year ago, Latooni would have been terrified at the idea, but now the setting was only slightly strange and the job just about mechanical - memorize orders, repeat them, return regularly to check on the customers. The older girl in a maid outfit that she was following for training purposes made it seem extremely simple, though Latooni doubted she could ever talk that much unless someone here wanted to have a serious technical discussion with no eye contact involved. That said, the manager had insisted that being "cute and quiet" was perfectly acceptable, and offered her wages she knew were statistically very generous for a service job, plus tips. After seeing the prices on hardware she could use to upgrade the Wildraubtier's sensors or her own COMP glasses, she had (quietly) accepted, and was now learning the differences and locations of more types of tea than she had ever expected from a themed restaurant...

((Open for tagging either for shopping around Cancer Ward (above the break) or while training at a Maid/EGL café that I will invent a name for if asked. The job application isn't technically approve yet, but we'll say she's trying it out until that clears OOCly. At-will part-time employment for the win. Anyway, tag either, just let me know which.))
ikayakisuke: (2 Flame)

[personal profile] ikayakisuke 2012-10-30 08:37 am (UTC)(link)
"The world I came from didn't have tall buildings everywhere. Big castles in two places, but the rest were covered in nature. No 'TVs' or all the bright lights at night." Kisuke replied, doing his best to describe. Technology sure was underdeveloped from where he came from, and that was the biggest thing he needed to get accustomed to while being in this world. "Still get surprised by how quick and how bright the lights are."
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[personal profile] ikayakisuke 2012-11-02 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"Suppose so? The bracelet said something about time travel." Kisuke replied as he scratched the back of his head. "Not real keen about traveling through time, though."

If only he knew that one of the cursed blades he would have later acquired would be able to cut through time, he may have had a slightly better grasp at all this time travel nonsense.
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[personal profile] ikayakisuke 2012-11-03 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
Kisuke looked over at the worker just as Latooni looked over. "Ah, sorry. Maybe if I were a customer it'd be less annoying for your boss."

He did have some change on him, whatever currency that this place used.
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[personal profile] ikayakisuke 2012-11-03 07:50 am (UTC)(link)
"No need to worry about repayment, I'm pretty curious of how the store is myself." Kisuke replied with a small smile back as he entered, and then he looked around the store curiously. He didn't know what a cafe was, after all.