homo pcs: kyoko

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week 2, monday

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[ simon will — probably predictably — be spending a good deal of time in the pet shop now that that's a thing. kyoko can find him hanging out at the gerbil pen, watching them run around and sniff the air.

despite the cuteness of the gerbils, he's just emanating a heavy aura of anxiety and notably no joy whatsoever! ]

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[Kyoko, on the other hand, seems to be operating at a low hum of calm.]

Are you alright?

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[ man what is that like

he turns around and smiles. ]

Huh? Y-yeah, sure. Why?

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Something about you feels very stressed.

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Um, well... I think that's just kind of... me...

I'm not really great with anxiety and stuff.

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The stress of this game can't be helping with that.

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N-no, it... it definitely isn't...

I still don't get how you can be so cool about all this stuff all the time.

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Me?

Hm... I'm just treating the game like it's work. If I view it that way, and slot it into something I know, I don't feel uneasy.

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Uh... Somehow I don't think that's a thing most people can do. I mean, work's usually a pretty stressful thing in itself.

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[The calm hum... hasn't changed at all.]

What did you do for work?

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Oh, I'm in the circus. Hence the, uh, monkey the other day...

Even if I do get some pretty serious stage fright sometimes, it's not too bad... but if I was still doing retail or food service or something, I'm pretty sure that'd be another story.

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Where is he now?

That's surprising. I'd think being on stage would be much more stressful than bagging items.

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He's hanging out back at the warehouse. I wasn't sure I could trust him not to mess with some of the other animals here.

[ shakes his head... ]

Yeah, but customers are real big jerks sometimes... lots of bad managers and stuff tooo.

w5: Monday

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[ She's down in the lake area, looking though all the fishing equipment. ]

Feel like fishing?

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Oh... I've never actually tried it before, but. Sure.

[ it's confidence week so it can't be that hard!! ]

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[She just goes ahead and hands him a pole.]

Have fun.

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...Thanks!

[ he takes it and then just kind of looks at it like uhhhhh ]

Um... you need like, bait for this, right? Do we have that?

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I have no idea, I've never fished.

[ But she will look around for anything that looks like bait. ]

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Oh, you haven't either?

[ could have fooled him... ]

I think there's usually, like... worms or little feathery things...?

[ or so cartoons have led him to believe. anyway he will also look. ]

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I live in the city. Not a lot of time to go fishing there.

[She does find a little feathery thing after some rummaging. Surely this does work?]

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Yeah, same...

[ oh, feathery thing! ]

Oh, yeah, I think that's it! And then you just stick it on your hook, I guess.

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I suppose this is convincing enough for something that doesn't have good eyesight.

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Which is probably most things that live in underground caves...

[ yay, they can each grab one and stick it onto their respective hooks.

all right, time to... uh... cast...? he thinks that's the right verb. ]

I guess we're not going to have convenient shadows in the water to show us where the fish are like you usually get in fishing minigames.

[ since it's. pretty dark down here. ]

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If only it was that easy. Just cast and hope you feel a tug?

[Two people who've never fished in their lives.]

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I think so. I'm pretty sure it takes way longer in real life than in games too, so... we might be here for a while.

[ but all right, here he goes!!



thankfully neither of them are qualified to know whether that was a good cast or not. anyway, it's in the water, so that's something. ]