Big Deals in Manhattan! Let's Make a Winner! [active/closed]

[invisiblelasers]

Characters:  Akutare, Rikku
Content:  An awesome movie deal is in the works!  Two strangers meet to flesh out a masterpiece!
Location: Times Square
Time of day:  Afternoon - Backdated
Warnings: None

Comments

SORRY FOR BEING LATE, AUGH.

[machinasmaw]

Rikku found herself struggling to find where exactly this guy was--after all, she knew next to nothing about him. But hey, a movie was always a good way to meet someone, and things had been getting a little bit dull in Manhattan, save for Big Mama and crabs biting and all sorts of nasty things to keep her on her toes. She had brought with her a tool kit she had looted, not for any other particular reason aside from having it around as a way to weight herself down.

She spotted Akutare, guessed it must be who she was looking for, and lifted the hand not carrying the tool box in a fist.

"Yo!" she called, hopping over quite ungracefully.

It's fine! Don't worry!

[invisiblelasers]

Akutare looked up, hearing the voice and saw the girl heading his way. If she was coming here, then she was obviously the one he was looking for, right? Great! Now it was just time to get down to business... Once he got her name of course. "Girl" sounded weird, he couldn't get away with "hey, you" for too long, and he definitely couldn't call her Director.

"Hey!" he called back, pushing himself off the wall and breaking into a wide grin. Not too long after, he noticed the tool box she was carrying around. "What's that?"

[machinasmaw]

"This?" Rikku asked, lifting her tool box. She turned her head to look at it (red metal, scraped, clanging around with the tools inside), and then looked at Akutare as if he were an idiot. "A toolbox. You know, with tools in it? I sto--borrowed it from a store around here. I figured I'd need it eventually, movie or whatever I end up doing, like if I get a job."

When she finally reached him, she dropped the toolbox at her feet in a loud clatter, putting her fists on her hips. Thank God she and Apollo had done that clothing run, or else she'd be going about this chilly weather in a bikini still! The jacket she had on made things far more comfortable, as did her new 'jeans' (that was what he had called them, right?).

"So, anyways," she said as business-like as possible, "I'm Rikku. Who're you?"

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"Hey, I just couldn't see it very well!" he said, trying to cover up the mistake, "It could have been some sort of... I don't know, a giant lunch box or something." He just hadn't been able to see it very well, that was all.

He blinked confusedly. "What, you haven't heard of me? The name's Akutare, the Dark Hero! The greatest star the world has ever known!" He paused a moment before continuing, losing some of his enthusiasm. "But no one seems to know me here. It's weird. Would have thought at least three people would be asking for autographs."

It was probably because this was the human world, but it was still a bit disappointing.