one; voice - japanese; translated

[guyshaveitgood]

[the post starts in the middle of the poster’s sentence. the voice is fairly androgynous and more importantly, panicked.]

Where is my house!? I walked in through my front door, so I should be at the genkan*. Instead I’m in…I’m…where am I?

As far as I can tell, this is a message board of some kind, right? Someone tell me where I am!

[[OOC: Genkan

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[voice]

[born_from_mist]

Genkan...? W-what's a 'genkan'?

[voice]

[guyshaveitgood]

It's the place where people take their shoes off before they go into a house, in Japan.

[voice]

[born_from_mist]

Really? I-I've never heard of that before.

[voice]

[guyshaveitgood]

Well, I guess it's something that people really only do in Japan and maybe a couple of other places, too. So it makes sense that a lot of people might now have heard of it...

[voice]

[born_from_mist]

Oh. It's polite to take off your shoes when you go inside then?

[voice]

[guyshaveitgood]

Where I'm from, it is.

[voice]

[born_from_mist]

...I-I wonder if we have to do that here...

[voice]

[guyshaveitgood]

Ah...I hadn't really thought about that...

[lol shoes weren't really her first thought when she suddenly walked through a door to a huge mansion]

[voice]

[born_from_mist]

...

Well no one's said anything about it before... s-so it must be okay.

[voice]

[guyshaveitgood]

That makes sense...

Ah! I'm Yoshino, by the way. Yoshino Takatsuki.

[voice]

[born_from_mist]

Oh, uhm... I'm Vivi. Vivi Orunitia. It's nice to meet you, Mister Yoshino.

[voice]

[guyshaveitgood]

[oh wow, being called "mister" is pretty frickin' awesome. if you could ever hear a smile in someone's voice, now would be that time.]

It's nice to meet you, too, Vivi. But you can just call me Takatsuki, if you want. That's what my friends call me.

[being addressed by her first name is so weird...]

[voice]

[born_from_mist]

Okay, Mister Takatsuki.

[Wow that was a bit of a mouthful. He wondered if these people from 'Japan' all had strange names like that.]

You probably already guessed t-that you're in another place. It's called Wonderland and there's a lot of different people h-here.

[voice]

[guyshaveitgood]

[she's about to open her mouth to say that "Mister" isn't necessary, but...what the heck? it sounds nice and she likes the feeling.]

Yeah...there's a lot of people that have already told me. Thanks, though.

[voice]

[born_from_mist]

I h-hope you don't find this place too scary.

[voice]

[guyshaveitgood]

Ah...not really. It's strange to be taken away from my home, but this place isn't scary by itself...