Application for Tachibana Sakon and Ukon from Karakuri Zoushi Ayatsuri Sakon

[ukon_sakon]

Tachibana Sakon is a bunraku puppeteer. Ukon is a bunraku puppet made in the 1870 (the series is set in the late 1990s). As Sakon is shy enough to be practically mute without Ukon and Ukon is a puppet, they are together. Sakon is also a master ventriloquist. His mouth doesn't move when Ukon talks and their voices are different. He can also

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[isnotabumblebee]

Perhaps it was some pseudo-magical lure caused by the presence of puppetry at Hogwarts, but for whatever reason, Toki Wartooth came ambling into the Sorting Room, a big, goofy grin appearing his face as soon as he saw Ukon. As he usually did, he ignored the application and went straight to the new arrival- or new arrivals, in this case.

"Wow-wee, thats a nice puppets!" Toki exclaimed to Sakon, genuinely impressed with Ukon- he was of impressive contruction and complexity. "Are you good at using hims? I's a puppeteer, you knows, I wents to school fors it because I wanteds to be the master of puppets likes from the Metallica album. Insteads, I joined Dethklok, but I still gots my old puppets!" Toki tended to forget that people at Hogwarts didn't immediately recognize him, so after a few seconds of grinning at Sakon as if he expected Sakon to know who he was, he added, "Oh yeah, I'm Toki Wartooth, no one's heard of me here, buts I'ms a big rocks-star."

Trailing Toki were the 'eyesball throw-up' children, the four Shoggies who lived with him and Skwisgaar. They lurked behind Toki, examining both Sakon and Ukon with numerous randomly-placed eyes. "Soooo cool," murmured Shoggy 3, observing, "The one person looks like a humans, but its not mades of meat! I can smells that it's not."

[ukon_sakon]

Ukon preened. "Of course I'm a nice puppet! I am a masterpiece by Unosuke Koizumi III! And this guy," he pointed at Sakon with his thumb, "is the grandson of the Tachibana Zaemon, who is a national treasure! Not that he'd be any good without me, of course." He looked behind Toki, though. "What are those?" he asked, confused and somewhat disgusted. "They look like moving mochi."

Sakon looked at Ukon then at Toki and the creatures behind him. "Ah, sorry," he said, smiling a little. "You probably haven't heard of us, either."

"How could he not!?" Ukon demanded, his pride obviously wounded. "And, you didn't answer," Ukon continued, pointing at Toki. "What are those?"

"Ukon, don't be rude," Sakon chided.

[isnotabumblebee]

As Toki had actually gone to puppeteering school, and wasn't as stupid as he tended to appear, he'd actually been educated on the subject. So, he could appreciate that Ukon was indeed a masterpiece of a puppet, and had to admit that Sakon probably deserved the Master of Puppets title more than he did himself. Although he was prone to his resentful moments, Toki was far too delighted with them both to bother with resenting Sakon's remarkable skills, which were to puppetry as Skwisgaar's were to the guitar. He smiled delightedly at Ukon, laughing at the puppet's 'rudeness', which he thought was all in good humor. "Wow-wee, I wish I had heards of you before, because you's the real master of puppets," he told Sakon, presuming that that he'd recognize the generosity of his compliment, despite the fact that he couldn't have heard of Dethklok. Toki-logic often made no sense at all.

Toki's childish tendencies meant that he was happy to address Ukon as a separate, individual being, fully playing along with the ventriloquist's game. "Those ares the Shoggies, Ukon!" Toki told him happily, delighted with talking to the puppet. "They's mine and Skwisgaar's childrens, I was takings them fors a walk. They's real good children." As usual, Toki radiated a parental pride when speaking of the Shoggies, who squelched closer, with Shoggy 10 lifting one of its eyes on a temporarily manifested tentacle-like appendage in order to get a closer look at Ukon. "You be polite to Ukon, Shoggies, and don't drools on him." The Shoggies did obey this order, and merely looked as Toki explained to Ukon, "They's drool acid sometimes, its brutal."

[ukon_sakon]

"You should see his grandfather! He's a national treasure because he's such a good puppeteer!" Ukon boasted, hands on his hips, chest out. "He's still learning," he added, patting Sakon on the cheek. "But, with my help," he pointed at himself with his thumb, "he might be as good as you think he is."

"Umm, by children, do you mean Skwisgaar bore them?" he asked. Since Toki was a male, Skwisgaar had to be female for them to have children, or at least that would be the most logical answer. But, how did they have children that looked like mochi and drooled acid?

[isnotabumblebee]

Toki marveled over Sakon's masterful manipulation of the puppet, laughing happily. "You's gots the best puppeteer I's seens, so's his grandfather's gots to be good." Sakon appeared to be a perfect ventriloquist, which Toki of course had never gotten down. He'd been an enthusiastic student of puppeteering, but, was a far better guitarist.

"We's adopted the Shoggies, Skwisgaar broughts them froms the Sortings Room one day," Toki replied, with Shoggy 18 adding, "Skwisgaar gaves to us the eyesball sandwiches, it was sooo cool." Toki went on to explain, "We don't know where the Shoggies came from before we adopteds them, they's either from outers space or from under the water, or from Antarcticas." It was a nebulous point, as, the Shoggies had declared themselves as coming from all of these places- which in fact, they had.

[ukon_sakon]

"Outer space?" Ukon said, tilting his head as he looked at the creatures again. "That would make sense," he allowed, nodding sagely. He turned to Sakon. "Don't let them eat your eyeballs. That wouldn't be 'soooo cool,'" he added, mimicking the Shoggy's declaration.

Sakon smiled, the pride in his grandfather obvious. "If I knew how to get home, I'd insist you come to a performance of his," he said. "But, we do seem to be a little lost.

"He read the map wrong," Ukon declared.

[isnotabumblebee]

"Yeah, they's don't need space suits or nothings, I thinks they can live anywhere. They can eats anything too, but I thinks that their eyesball sandwiches gots candy what looks like eyes ins them." Toki had learned this through trying one of the Shoggies' strange sandwiches one day- they were actually pretty tasty, for being bread stuffed full of candy shaped like eyeballs. "The house-elves, they's the weird little wrinkly guys withs the huge creepy eyes, they's can brings you anything you want, most of the time."

Toki grinned at Sakon, telling him, "I would likes to see him perform! Maybe you'll find a way to gets back, and I's can see him then. We gots a way home, Shoggies made it." The Shoggies had accidentally made a portal between Dethklok's Dethtub at Hogwarts, and Mordhaus- it hadn't been exactly intentional, and it was extremely questionable if they could duplicate the results.

Toki laughed loudly as Ukon declared their arrival Sakon's fault. "He might have reads it wrong, Ukon, but even if gots it right, you might still have come to Hogwarts. It just sorts of. . .happens."

[ukon_sakon]

Candy eyeballs were definitely odd. "Eugh," Ukon said about the food, making a face of disgust. "Sushi is better," he said.

"Raw fish or eyeball-shaped candy?" Sakon said amused.

"Sushi is proper food," Ukon declared, crossing his arms over his chest.

Sakon shook his head slightly. "We could perform for you, if you'd like, though we are missing the others." He frowned slightly.

"There's the tape," Ukon suggested.

"That's true," Sakon admitted, "though, I did forget the stereo," he added regretfully.

"And, why would we have been here anyway?" Ukon asked. "The train was supposed to go to Hokkaido and he fell asleep on the train."

[isnotabumblebee]

"Sushis?" Shoggy 10 quivered excitedly, perking up several of its eyes. "I wants the fish!" "I wants the fish too!" piped Shoggy 3, after which the other two added their vocal desires for fish. "We can gets you the sushis fish!" Shoggy 4.6 told Ukon excitedly, seeming to have accepted him as 'real', despite being made out of wood. The other Shoggies likewise appeared to accept that Ukon was a wooden individual in his own right, not being exceptionally bright.

"You's performing real great already," Toki told Sakon. "But I'd likes to see a show! Maybe you can see one of our shows too, ifs we have one here. And if you needs a stereo, I can gets you one! I know this guy what teaches guns class, he's got some stereos and TVs and cameras stuffs in the class, too, not just guns. I can borrows them all whenevers I want." This wasn't entirely inaccurate, as the Baron was quite taken with Dethklok, or at least their lead guitarist- thus, he was likely to indulge Toki's requests, even if these were to run around the school with his guns. A stereo would be a minor request in comparison.

"I don't knows why you're here, Ukon. But I'm glad you ares, we don't gots enough puppets here. It's a magic school, so I guess thats you got broughts here with magic." Toki didn't have a better explanation, but still felt he should console the puppet. "But, it's a pretty fun place, even if it's not at alls metal. There's the guns class, and the drugs class, and the town what's got the magic candy shop, and we gots a dragon son too, and sometimes we get to pal around with him."

[ukon_sakon]

"It's okay," Sakon said quickly to the offer for sushi. "We don't want to trouble you. Though, your kind offer is appreciated."

"Usually, we have to perform first," Ukon added, laughing as he put his hands behind his head. He looked over at Sakon. "This is nice, not having to work so hard for our supper."

"I should make you work," Sakon murmured softly, meant mostly for Ukon. "Blaming me for us arriving here."

Ukon's hands went to his sides and he leaned forward, suddenly more interested in Toki. "Guns? Drugs? Dragon? What do they teach here?" he asked.

[isnotabumblebee]

Unfortunately, the Shoggies had decided that they wanted fish whether or not Sakon desired any. Toki and Skwisgaar had taken the Shoggies to get wands from the box in the Ancient Runes classroom, as part of their attempts at 'good parenting'. Where exactly the Shoggies had been keeping this wands was a very questionable thing. They didn't carry them around visibly, but, managed to produce them at will, apparently from somewhere inside their amorphous bodies. The Shoggies did just this, and began waving the wands around in pseudopods, piping accio fish! Of course, they were in the castle, which did not bode exceptionally well for their fish summoning. Still, Shoggy 10 managed to summon a fish from somewhere, which came flying through the Sorting Room, possibly through a high window, and landed near the Shoggies rather messily. This failed to discourage them from attacking the fish hungrily, the entirety of which was gone in moments.

Toki seemed to have no idea that this sort of behavior from his 'children' might well be considered somewhat disturbing, and just kep smiling happily at the new arrivals. "Oh, yous get whatever yous want here, and don't even have to pays for it. But you got to make sure thats you don't drink the stuff what turns you into a lady." Toki was still convinced that his manager had attempted to turn him into a lady by means of potion, when he'd actually been given some veritaserum.

"Hogwarts is a school for magic, likes the Shoggies did." He grinned broadly at Ukon and indicated the Shoggies, who had fortunately stopped attempting to summon fish while indoors. "I haven't been to a magic class, they's not very metal since you gots to wave the dildos wands around. But they's got other subjects too, the drugs class is Potions, and the guns class is whats the wizards call Muggle Studies."

[ukon_sakon]

Ukon recoiled, his hands coming up to protect himself from the flying fish. "Ugh!" he complained before covering his eyes. He peeked through his fingers at Toki. "Into a girl?" he asked. He turned to Sakon. "Don't turn into a girl. You'll be like that Shiho, I know it!"

Sakon blushed, though. He was still young, but old enough to have heard of 'dildos' before. "Ah, thank you for the explanation," he mumbled. He turned to Ukon. "I wouldn't try to take you apart like she did," he protested.

Ukon just crossed his arms over his chest and huffed.

[isnotabumblebee]

"I'm sorry abouts that, Shoggies try but don't gots great aim," Toki apologized to Ukon, seeming to find it perfectly appropriate to apologize to the puppet instead of his puppeteer. "I think if yous got turned intos a girl, you'd turns back," Toki told Sakon, adding by way of a somewhat misguided attempt to be reassuring, "We got turned into kids once, along withs our dragon son Smaug ands his boyfriend Elric, but we all turned back alright. Smaug's all grown up now, we's real proud of him. And Skwisgaar gots turned intos a mermaid-guy, but that's been fun." These incidents did have something in common, now that he thought about it. "I think it's at parties thats you might get turned into stuffs. And I don't know if puppets can get turned intos stuffs."

The subject of parties reminded him of a couple of things. "You shoulds come to the Hufflepuffs party, whenevers we gets around to havings it. Skwisgaar's the prefect, so's its going to be a real good party. Hufflepuff's the most metal house, and it's gots the food libraries I put in when I was the prefect. And since you's at the Sorting Room, I guess I gots to sort you. Do you know what house you wants? They's all dildos, except Hufflepuffs."

[ukon_sakon]

"Um, I think we shall trust your judgment," Sakon said, though he sounded uncertain. The talk of dragons and their boyfriends and turning into kids and girls was starting to make his head swim.

"You want us to perform?" Ukon asked, turning to the next subject, one that seemed safer.

Vote: Hufflepuff

[isnotabumblebee]

"Well, you's cool, so you cans be in Hufflepuffs, since it's the best one," Toki told Sakon- Sorting him into his own house was a mark of approval from Toki. "And yous can be in Hufflepuffs too, since you's the best puppets ever," Toki then told Ukon, feeling that they both deserved equal consideration as far as Sorting was concerned.

"I definitely wants yous to perform, whenever yous want to!" Toki was extremely enthusiastic about the idea of a 'real' performance from the pair, if this wasn't one. "And I's can help, ifs you need it. I still remembers my puppeteering lessons, and can gets my puppets if you wants." Toki didn't figure that such a masterful puppeteer would require puppeteering support, but it seemed like it might be fun if he did. "Or whatevers else you need. I's a big supporter of the puppets-show art."

Re: Vote: Hufflepuff

[ukon_sakon]

"Thank you," Ukon said, puffing up, his hands behind his head. "We didn't bring many props or costumes, but performing for an appreciative audience is always good."

"We would like to see you perform, if it's possible," Sakon asked softly, bowing his thanks. "What type of puppetry do you do, if I may ask?"