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destinystrings2013-12-23 03:57 am
anotherdirkstrider) wrote in destinystrings2013-12-23 03:57 am
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Welcome to Hinoto-Ri
Who: Dirk Strider and OPEN
Where: Pisces District, street outside of the apartment building. Late afternoon/sunset.
Summary: Dirk arrives suddenly and without ceremony, finding himself lost and alone in a city full of people. Somehow, all of the people around is a lot weirder to him than the whole waking-up-in-another-world part. Well, guess it's time to gather data, get bearings, and maybe actually talk with someone face-to-face. There's a first time for everything.
Warnings: None (Yet?)
[Dirk feels like he should be more perturbed about waking up in the middle of a completely foreign location, ripped from his own universe and transplanted into another, and yet here he is—not so baffled by the situation (after all, SBURB was supposed to have been something similar), but very much stymied by the presence of so many people.
They are everywhere—all over the streets, down his hall, making noise that made him jump after being conditioned for so many years to regard every external sound with deep suspicion. He is used to waves. Whirring machinery. Seagulls. What he is not used to is ambient conversations picking at the fringes of his thoughts, people laughing and shouting and milling around on streets (and even the notion of actual streets not just sunken deep beneath the surface of the sea is borderline absurd).
It's beautiful. Real streets and cars and inhabited buildings, not just sunken ones. Had he been a softer person he might shed a (completely ironic) tear. The light is golden over the tops of the buildings and everything looks like it's too clean-- too perfect-- for it to be real. His brain churns with all of this new information and can't stop reeling with the prospect of what this means about everything he'd ever known and this is almost too much and if just being here felt like a lot he can't even imagine trying to talk to another person--
He's getting weird looks now. People seem strangely uninterested in a guy walking down the street with a sword and a puppet and a very baffled look on his face, but maybe it's that he ends up standing in the middle of an intersection, only to be jostled from thought by a car honking loudly at him to get out of the way before he becomes a pancake. Dirk flashsteps out of the way and appears back on the sidewalk, bumping into something and turning to realize that it's actually someone instead.]
Oh. Uh.
[Shit. Well, guess his first conversation is going to happen sooner than he thought. Dirk takes a moment, trying to remember what to say.]
Um... right--yeah. Sorry. About that.
((OOC: And sorry on my behalf for the wordy first post, please don't let it intimidate you! I don't write this much usually, I promise-- just wanted to use my writing sample intro and then ended up writing more than I had planned. ^_-; Yeah. Hello there everyone!))
Where: Pisces District, street outside of the apartment building. Late afternoon/sunset.
Summary: Dirk arrives suddenly and without ceremony, finding himself lost and alone in a city full of people. Somehow, all of the people around is a lot weirder to him than the whole waking-up-in-another-world part. Well, guess it's time to gather data, get bearings, and maybe actually talk with someone face-to-face. There's a first time for everything.
Warnings: None (Yet?)
[Dirk feels like he should be more perturbed about waking up in the middle of a completely foreign location, ripped from his own universe and transplanted into another, and yet here he is—not so baffled by the situation (after all, SBURB was supposed to have been something similar), but very much stymied by the presence of so many people.
They are everywhere—all over the streets, down his hall, making noise that made him jump after being conditioned for so many years to regard every external sound with deep suspicion. He is used to waves. Whirring machinery. Seagulls. What he is not used to is ambient conversations picking at the fringes of his thoughts, people laughing and shouting and milling around on streets (and even the notion of actual streets not just sunken deep beneath the surface of the sea is borderline absurd).
It's beautiful. Real streets and cars and inhabited buildings, not just sunken ones. Had he been a softer person he might shed a (completely ironic) tear. The light is golden over the tops of the buildings and everything looks like it's too clean-- too perfect-- for it to be real. His brain churns with all of this new information and can't stop reeling with the prospect of what this means about everything he'd ever known and this is almost too much and if just being here felt like a lot he can't even imagine trying to talk to another person--
He's getting weird looks now. People seem strangely uninterested in a guy walking down the street with a sword and a puppet and a very baffled look on his face, but maybe it's that he ends up standing in the middle of an intersection, only to be jostled from thought by a car honking loudly at him to get out of the way before he becomes a pancake. Dirk flashsteps out of the way and appears back on the sidewalk, bumping into something and turning to realize that it's actually someone instead.]
Oh. Uh.
[Shit. Well, guess his first conversation is going to happen sooner than he thought. Dirk takes a moment, trying to remember what to say.]
Um... right--yeah. Sorry. About that.
((OOC: And sorry on my behalf for the wordy first post, please don't let it intimidate you! I don't write this much usually, I promise-- just wanted to use my writing sample intro and then ended up writing more than I had planned. ^_-; Yeah. Hello there everyone!))
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Generally he's been so tense just having all of these people around, just wound tight with having to get used to the sheer volume of outside human(oid) presence-- sure, there is the very real possibility that this is what his paranoia would have him believe and that everyone here is just putting on an elaborate ruse in an effort to lower his guard and kill him, but this entire situation increasingly seems more and more real the more time he spends in it.
And then there's Nano, who is so apologetic and unobtrusive. She looks so flustered, so... moe. Dirk practically holds himself back from a facade-breaking weeaboo squeal.]
No worries, no harm done. It's my fault. I allowed myself to get distracted, it won't happen again.
[He offers a lopsided, closed-mouth smile. It's weird, having to think about facial expressions so much.]
...You okay?
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Ah!
[But then he starts talking and everything is fine. Conversation she can handle.]
Yes, I'm fine! Please don't worry about it.
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[It's around now that AutoResponder chastises him for such invasion of robotic privacy, and it takes much of Dirk's patience to ignore the snarky tone of voice he uses; even if AR is right.]
Sorry, don't mean to be such an intrusive dick about shit. It's your business 'n all.
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Ah... um...
[It's enough that she just sort of stares blankly back at him until he gets done apologizing.]
N-no, it's all right. I actually don't need the key to function, it's just there because it's cute.
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[Goddamnit, she's fucking adorable. Like a puppy, or a kitten or something. He feels bad for making her uncomfortable and tries to explain himself--]
I build stuff. Androids and shit. It's sort of a thing I do. I-- uh, I didn't mean anything by it or whatever...
[Dirk's gone sheepish as fuck. Well, this is awkward.]
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[Nano nods, still looking a little sheepish herself.]
...Oh! I never introduced myself. My name is Nano Shinonome.
[Taking a step back, she bows politely, hands clasped in front of her waist.]
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[Because clearly that's what everyone in Texas dresses like all the time.]
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Heh. I do, but I don't wear it. As much as being a cowboy and riding horses across the plains would be awesome.
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Yeah-- though I'm no gunslinger. My best bro is. I just stick with my katana. Not exactly a cowboy's weapon but it's mine, and it's what I do. So, yeah. It works.
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