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[yoraetatsu]

Characters: Tatsu/Ryu (yoraetatsu), Scales/Novak (lizardoverdose)
Date/Time: In the evening of Jan. 1st.
Location: Tatsu's new house, Section 2
Rating: PG? Will edit if needed.
Summary: Tatsu meets his new housemate.

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[lizardoverdose]

It was a little warmer today than yesterday, and so Scales finally dragged himself out of his bad. He didn't have any possessions save for his blankets and his clothes, so it was really easy to head over there. Granted, he did look pretty ridiculous wearing a number of blankets and a tail warmer, but right now shaking off the sloggy, heavy way his body and mind was more important. The blankets did make him feel a little better.

Hopefully this Tatsu guy would be cool. I mean, he was looking for a roommate over the journals, so it didn't seem like he could be that narrow-minded, and their few conversations had gone over pretty well. The guy was new, but Scales didn't mind.

Either way, he headed out there with his blankets. It would be weird, actually having a house - he didn't care about being rained on, but it would be nice to be away from the cold even if not really. At the same time, the freedom of living nowhere was pretty damn nice. Maybe he'd move out if he didn't like it.

Blue hair. Hah!

"Hey!" He said, heading over that way. "Tatsu?"

[yoraetatsu]

... Well, Scales had said he was a lizardman. So he wasn't too surprised by the way he looked. Though something seemed to click in the back of his mind, like he'd seen something like him before.

It was probably nothing. Even if it was something, he couldn't remember anything else related to that. So he smiled and nodded. "Yeah, that's me. You're Scales?"

[lizardoverdose]

Shock! Awe! The guy who said he was a lizardman was, in fact, a lizardman. Well, in the sphere, you never knew, really.

"What gave me away? Was it the shiny green face? No, don't tell me, the tail, right? The tail always gives me up." He grinned and nodded. "Yeah, I'm Scales. Right now I kinda look like a doof in blankets, but that's because it's cold. And I'm not so great at keeping my heat in like the rest of you crazy people."

He glanced up at the little section two place behind them. "So, that's it?" He asked, cocking his head toward the place. It was small, but Scales figure that as long as the house was tall enough and the bed was long enough, he was fine. "Looks quaint."

[yoraetatsu]

"Yeah, this is it. And I don't like the cold, either... I'm not sure why, though." Tatsu went over and opened the door for Scales. This was going to be kind of awkward, since Scales looked like he was a lot taller than him, but they'd work it out, somehow.

"We've got our own toilet, but the showers seem to be shared. I don't know if that bothers you." He wandered over towards the sleeping area and poked the beds with his foot. "But the beds seem comfortable enough, so that's good."

[lizardoverdose]

"Well, I've been here for a while and using the public showers, that stuff really doesn't bother me."

Who gave a crap about a naked guy anyway? Especially a naked lizardman. "Glad to see we have our own toilet, though. Using public toilets really is a pain in the ass, and that pun was totally unintended. I sued to sleep on a bed in Ikea Island. now I have a job though, so now I guess I should have a house too, you know? It's just nice to have the roommate company, I think."

He flopped down on the longer-looking bed and nodded. "Probably because it sucks, you know?"

[yoraetatsu]

"It doesn't really bother me either." He looked Scales over and shrugged. "I guess I can see where you'd have a problem with public toilets, though."

Ikea Island... "That's where the furniture is, right? I took a look around there, but I didn't stay long. I want to check out the dojo some more, but I..." He thought for a moment. "I tried attacking one of the dummies and it felt weird without a weapon."

[lizardoverdose]

"Yep. It's really easy to live there, you know? I mean, I know that's basically squatting, but it seems like no one cares. There was this other kid, Dino, but we lived on opposite sides of the island. Not to say I didn't think he was cool, though."

He laid down on the bed and looked up at the top of the house. It was wierd, not staring at the glass bubble above him when he slept - but comforting, at teh same time. IF it rained, he wouldn't be rained on. That was a good thought. "The dojo's really cool, though. You like to fight? I'll spar you sometime, assuming it's heated in there. But..I dunno, I don't really know if I'd want a weapon. Maybe a knife."

[yoraetatsu]

"I probably would have ended up doing the same thing if I hadn't gotten a job."

He nodded. "I do. I mean... I think I do. I haven't really tried it much. Something seems... I don't know, missing. Besides the weapon thing, I mean." Tatsu sat down on his bed. "I'll figure it out eventually. But for now... I don't know. There's still so much to check out around here... I mean, I've been here a few weeks and I still haven't explored everything yet."

[lizardoverdose]

"It's a big place, man. And some places, I don't even know how you'd there. There's a crazy lighthouse that has like, one shitty wire connecting it to the rest of the place. Crystala's cool, though. But be careful about the Wilderness, okay? Sometimes it turns into something that's totally normal and boring, and sometimes it's exciting, and sometimes it's just like 'well, fuck this.'"

He looked over at Tatsu. "Yeah, I know about that missing thing, too. I think it comes with having all of your memories snatched." A dry laugh. "A problem, yanno?"

[yoraetatsu]

"Yeah, I can tell. It's definitely going to take a lot of time to explore. I think I need to buy some more food and clothing, first of all." He hadn't really gotten rid of his first set of clothing, since he only had that and another set of clothes that he had bought with some of the money he had been given when he was born.

Tatsu sighed. "I'll deal with it. They'll come back when they're ready."

[lizardoverdose]

"I don't know man, it doesn't really seem fair to me, this whole memory-taking thing. You know what I mean? Like, it would be nice if we at least got a vote in the matter, you know? Do you want to lose your memories? Yeah? Okay, to the sphere with you. But you, you know your memories? Okay, we'll leave you where-ever the hell you're from."

He lapsed into a sort of uneasy silence and thought about his memory and his dream. Maybe it was good he lost his memories, if his feelings told him anything at all. He shook it off, though, "Yeah, I don't really worry about that part. I mean, some clothes are good, you know? But being a lizardman kind of keeps you away from the height of fashion. Jeans for me, hoodie when it's this cold."

He tugged his blankets on him more.

[yoraetatsu]

"Yeah. It's really... not fair at all. I don't know who I am or where I came from, or what I was doing... except that it was really important. At least that's what my dream told me..."

He hadn't told anyone about his dream yet. Thinking about it made him uneasy. "I had a purpose. And in my dream... it said if I forgot my purpose, the world would burn." Tatsu ran a hand through his hair. "But it was just a dream... right?"

[lizardoverdose]

"I really want to tell you that yeah it was just a dream and dreams have no meaning. Really, I do. But here... who the fuck knows? I mean, yeah, maybe it was just a dream and it has no significance but..I don't know, I don't buy it. Everyone's got a birth dream, I think, and I was falling, which is so stereotypical for a dream, you know? But the guy in my dream showed up in a memory I got, too. And there was that lighthouse..."

Another hopeless shrug. "What are you gonna do, you know? Go home and fulfill your purpose? Like anyone knows where that is."

[yoraetatsu]

"Yeah... that's my problem. Even if I do have a purpose to fulfill, I can't get out of here right now. So I'll just keep working on things until I can figure out how to get there."

He sighed. On to a different topic. "So... you said you got a job? What kind of job is it?"

[lizardoverdose]

"Oh, I work at Smoke's bar - I'm a bouncer. I think protecting stuff's in my blood - makes me feel good, being a guard. I wanted to guard the hatchery, but the captain of the guard is an enormous dick, so he shot me down for that. He hates my guts, but I don't know why. Kind of a bummer."

He grinned. "It's good, though. I occasionally throw unruly patrons out, but most of them are pretty cool. Where do you work now?"

[yoraetatsu]

"A bar? I saw that, I didn't go in." Hmm. "I don't know why he'd dislike you. You seem nice enough."

At the question, he smiled. "I work on the farm. With the animals, actually. I like working there. The animals seem to do what I need them to do, pretty much. And it makes me feel... I don't know. At peace, sort of. It's weird, but nice."