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Sushi for 2 (DufferXAeron Valentines thread) [Finished]
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Post by Duffer & Kotemon on Feb 19, 2018 17:00:17 GMT
"I won't do it." The boy said, standing outside of the sushi bar. He was dressed in his sunday best (his school uniform, sans school vest), he'd been given a nice clean haircut and he smelled like cheap deodorant from head to toe. "This is stupid and I'm not going to go out with some random girl. I don't even think they have Valentine's Day here..."
"Duffer, we're already here and you've fought me every step of the way." His Kotemon glared at him. "And do you notice who's won each and every single one of those arguments? Me. So get in there. I won't always be around to baby you, you'll need someone to lean on if something happens again, and a girlfriend is an excellent person for that."
Duffer paused. "But... what if something does happen, and we're in trouble?" He sounded more worried, recalling his brush with death two years ago. "I'll be right across the street, watching everything." Kotemon pointed to the arcade across the street, "Relax, be nice, and for the love of Yggdrasil and all of their knights, DO NOT be yourself." "I-" "No buts, you'll scare off more ladies with your horror movie talk than if you showed up coated in blood. We don't know ANYTHING about this lady and she knows nothing about us, and it will be the best if it stays that way as long as possible. Get in there, look nice and presentable, find a nice girl, talk it up, win her over, hope she has a digimon or else things will get very complicated very fast, and if nothing else, enjoy your lunch." Kotemon shoved Duffer into the sushi bar and shut the door behind him, walking away to see the carnage from a safe distance.
The sushi bar was your standard locale, wooden tables and cushioned chairs set up four to one with stools set in front of the bar itself where chefs worked on someone's orders. He'd never been to one of these places before, so he just walked to one of the tables and sat down.
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Post by aeron on Feb 21, 2018 4:52:16 GMT
Aeron really didn't know why she listened to the annoying German girl, at the moment she was walking down the street wearing an elegant white knee-high dress. It was a very nice formal dress but not too fancy, it looked quite nice on her that was for sure. her hair was loose with a white flower tucked behind her right ear, she had a small amount make up, just enough to bring out her soulless green eyes. her right eye was obscured by some bangs going sideways, she has white sandals on and a simple yet slightly big bag.
The whole reason she was dressed up was because of a hyperactive active brat had signed her up for a blind date. Honestly, she should have blown off the teen's idea, but hay she was a university student if she went out on a date now she would get free dinner right. she was brought out of her thoughts by a slight shaking from her purse, her eyes narrowed she opened the beg slightly and looked down at wide green eyes from within her purse "sorry master, I was trying to get comfortable" the black koromon stated. Aeron sighed but accepted the excuse "fine, just stop moving around too much" she said with monotone, the in training level Digimon smiled and nodded "of course master, I'll be good" he said and Aeron zipped the bag up again leaving a bit open to allow her partner air.
It was then that she had reached her destination, she took one look at the sushi place and realized that she had never been to this restaurant before. Aeron sighed once again before walking in, her cold gaze looked around the restaurant searching for the person that was supposed to be her date.
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Post by Duffer & Kotemon on Feb 21, 2018 17:28:59 GMT
Duffer was reading a horror comic, the cover showing a horrible demon trying to tear the head off of a fair young maiden while the back showed the usual advertisement of "buy more comics!" He seemed to have completely forgotten why he'd come here, thoughtlessly scratching at his once-clean and well-barbered hair and ignoring the menu given to him. He set the comic down briefly to take a sip of water and saw the girl standing there. He waved politely, smiling absent-mindedly before returning to his comic. Across the street Kotemon was about ready to storm over and slap him across his soft, delicate head. How could he have forgotten already?! They spent 3 DAYS finding all this stuff in the digital world and now he was blowing it to read some stupid book! If the boy'd not absentmindedly spent all their bits on a radio and not a two way comm, he'd be getting an earful right now.
Actually...
"DUFFER!" The boy suddenly freaked out, clutching his ear. "K-Kotemo-?" "Hush! I dug into my savings and got us a comm, put down the comic and look at the lady in front of you. I'm not gonna give you step by steps but you can't just ignore the world and hope it blows over! The lady is there, act like a gentleman!" Duffer looked at the girl again.
"Uh, hi... sorry there was a... bee, I think?" He said, looking around. "It's gone now, I think. I hope." He said, slightly annoyed with Kotemon. "I'm Duffer." He said, smiling and offering a hand. Then he remembered it was Japan, and they did something else here. He stood there for a solid five seconds before remembering to bow.
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Post by aeron on Feb 23, 2018 4:15:58 GMT
Aeron was having a bit of trouble finding her date, not like she would ever admit that. Her empty green eyes, however, spotted a by nearby, she looked at him as he waved at her before going back to his book, for a moment she didn't know what to think of the overly friendly boy. That is until she realized that this boy was her date, one of her eyes twitched, it was settled she was going to kill that annoying girl.
Aeron watched unimpressed as the boy flinched and cupped his ear, her eyes slightly narrowed, was the boy in contact with someone. The boy stood up and introduced himself as Duffer, he also gave a very lame excuse for the wave he had given her when he had first spotted her. Aeron watched with cold eyes as the boy extended his hand for a handshake however before she would shake his hand he seemed to have changed his mind and after five minutes bowed instead. Honestly, Aeron was not impressed, she looked at the boy for a few moments saying nothing. She was tempted to walk right out of the sushi place, hunt down Amsel and strangle the hyperactive German with her purse strap.
However she decided that getting a free meal was a much better option, with a sigh she spoke "its a pleasure meeting you Duffer, my names Aeron" she said coldly.
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Post by Duffer & Kotemon on Feb 23, 2018 21:41:49 GMT
"Well, nice to meet you. Uh, I've never had sushi before so it'll be a treat for the both of us." He tried to ignore her unpleasant demeanor. He took out a seat for her to sit down on then sat across from her, setting aside the comic and looking at the menu. He paused briefly, digging out his phrasebook to help translate some of the more obscure pieces presented to him. "So uh, what uh... what do you do for a living?" He started with small talk, a friendly first step, he thought. "I'm just a student right now but I'm looking for work, you know, tough job market right now."
He smiled, his newly-brushed teeth still giving off the smell of mint and whatever else they put in toothpaste. He ignored his digivice's beeping, and hoped she would as well. Was she a tamer? Or was someone else...? He shifted his focus back to the menu, looking at the various foods. A few salmon rolls with rice would probably be a good first try... if nothing else, he could just eat the rice. He set the menu back down and took another drink of water. So far so good, he thought.
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Post by aeron on Mar 4, 2018 22:18:47 GMT
Aeron watched as the boy explained that he had never had sushi and it seemed like this was a new experience for both of them. He had then taken out a chair for her and sat across from her. Aeron silently sat down, and took up her menu without another word, as she looked through it her attention was brought back by not only Duffer but something beeping and it seemed to be coming from the boy himself. Aeron listened as duffer tried to make small talk with her, she wasn't going to question what that noise was for all she knew it could be his phone.
Aeron put the menu down and looked at him straight in the eyes with her own empty green ones"I'm a college student" she simpley stated. "however I do work at a bookstore in the campus" she said as she watched him with no interest what so ever , however her eyes caught sight of the comic he was reading. NOw that looked like an interesting read, Aeron picked up her menu again and decided on just ordering crab rolls, they looked pretty tasty.
Bones was sitting in Aerons bag he growled slightly at the voice of the male.
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Post by Duffer & Kotemon on Mar 6, 2018 15:49:19 GMT
Eventually, a waitress came around and took their orders, and refilled Duffer's glass of water, giving Aeron her own and asking if she wanted anything else to drink.
"So," Duffer said, noticing the growling from her bag. Aeron was turning out to be an odd woman, but he liked odd; just look at him and kotemon. "I think you uh, have a phone call or something." He said, assuming the growling was just her phone on vibrate. "Ah, I was gonna go to college but um... there was an accident." He realized he just contradicted himself. "So now I'm taking online classes. Just uh, general education stuff. What's your major, then?"
He noticed that her eyes drifted to his comic, he blushed and quietly put it away, using this as an excuse to check his digivice. He frowned at the beeping machine, the radar confirming what he'd been worried about: there was a digimon nearby, and the girl was very, very likely a tamer. On one hand, no need to lie to her about kotemon, on the other, groups of tamers seemed to attract stray digimon in his experience. He hated Valentine's Day so much right that moment.
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Post by aeron on Mar 13, 2018 17:10:39 GMT
Aeron thought about it for a moment before shaking her head and answering the waitress "no this is fine" she said her voice as cold as ever. She turned back to Duffer when he had spoken up, however, her attention was diverted to her bag when she heard a very familiar growl. Thankfully it seemed that Duffer thought it was her phone, without another word she put a hand in her bag and pushed it off the table. The bag hit the floor and a yelp of pain emitted from the bag, luckily it was loud enough that only they could hear it.
Aeron then focused on Duffer as he explained about why he couldn't go to college and is instead taking online classes. This made her wonder what kind of incident happened to the male to make him take online classes. It was then that Duffer had put away the comic that she had been eyeballing, so much for asking what the comic was about. It was at the time that her own digivice started to beep, she cursed under her breath and picked up her purse. She opened it and her partner was already holding up the digivice.
Aeron picked it up and held it in the purse so no one was able to see what she had in her hand, it looked like she was simply texting someone. She looked at the map in the device and clicked her tung, there was a Digimon lose, that was pretty surprised she never thought she would run into one in the real world.
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Post by Duffer & Kotemon on Mar 15, 2018 17:19:47 GMT
Duffer coughed, setting his digivice back down. He'd need to confront her about this, but he needed to be subtle about it. He took the comic book out, along with several others. "Uh, here. I'm not done with this one yet but you can read some of my older ones if you want... they're in English though, so hopefully that won't be an issue." He tried to sneak a peak into her bag while she looked in. He thought he saw something pink but that's not a very good lead for if she had a digimon or not.
"So uh... yeah." He coughed a bit. "You uh... like monster stuff? Because uh, there's a story going around about the shibuya river." The boy smiled. "Like that it's so dirty and mucky that somebody tossed a pet in there or something and..." He got a little into his fake story. "Well, something else came out. Something bigger, smarter. Some say it could talk too. But there couldn't be such things, right? Just a bunch of ghost stories to scare tourists."
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Post by aeron on Mar 17, 2018 7:55:51 GMT
Aeron looked at the comics he had offered, she, of course, had no problem with reading English comics. She took one and looked over the title and artwork, she hated to admit it but duffer had good taste in comics
Aeron flicked her eyes up at Duffer, he began to drop pretty obvious hints about being a tamer. The orange haired teen sighed and took out her device. She then interruptDuffer "enough with the hints, yes I am a tamer," he said and held up her device so only he could see it. She set it down on the table and looked him in the eye "so, now that, that's over how are we going to get rid of our current problem" she said cooly, she didn't want to waste any more time on pointless chatter.
She was referring to the wild Digimon on the loose, normally she wouldn't care, but lately, she had been getting pretty bord and taking on a wild Digimon seemed like the perfect entertainment.
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Post by Duffer & Kotemon on Mar 17, 2018 16:29:43 GMT
He smiled as she took to reading the comics. Finally, someone who wouldn't look down on him for 'not acting his age' or 'not getting a better hobby'. The waitress returned with the sushi, setting it on the table at the same time she began talking to him about being a tamer. He looked at her digivice with interest, then set his down next to it.
"Uh, well, I've been spending most of my time in the digital world ever since the incident." He coughed. "I don't know what problem you're talking about." He took a drink of water. "But uh, have you tried reasoning? That can't solve all problems, of course. Like that guy with a knife in the alley isn't gonna listen to you, no matter how charismatic you think you are. What I learned back in Minnesota is that if you need to fight, make sure they get the first swing in so you're doing it in self-defense... Of course, I always lost my fights... unless I took out my bat, then they just ran away." He took out his baseball bat and showed it to her, passing it over so he could eat his sushi. "Doesn't work as much on digimon, naturally, but a bat's a bat."
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Post by aeron on Mar 26, 2018 15:36:07 GMT
Aeron set the comic down and looked at Duffer, no she had never tried reasoning mostly because any wild Digimon she encountered would attack right away. Then when they realized they were outclassed they would beg for their lives, of course, she deleted them either way.
Aeron narrowed her eyes and shook her head no." every other wild Digimon I come across always attacked first, there was no time to "reason" with it" she said as she took a sip of her water. Bones who was getting pretty thirsty at the time, whined as he watched his master drink her water. Aeron looked down into her purse and after a moment sighed before lowering the cup of water allowing her Digimon to take a sip.
Bones perked up and wasted no time in lapping up the cool liquid,"thank you, master, ~" the little black in training chirped between laps of water.
Aeron merely huffed.
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Post by Duffer & Kotemon on Mar 28, 2018 15:22:33 GMT
"That must be your partner, then?" He asked, looking back down to the purse. "Yeah, Kotemon's across the street at the arcade... he didn't want to interfere with my first dating experience." He turned to the window and waved, kotemon frowning and trying to shift his attention back to his date. "As for wild digimon, I find they're usually looking for food or trying to protect their territory. If they keep ending up in the human world they probably uh... naturally act aggressively. It's why werewolves are dangerous, they're almost always in unfamiliar territory to their animal instincts and without a pack or trainer to keep them in line they're impossibly violent."
"What I'm saying is that if you find out where they keep stumbling in from they'll stop attacking people and, hopefully, you can also stop any incidents of normal civilians accidentally stumbling into the digital world the same way." He began eating another piece of sushi. "Anyways, doesn't it worry you that we don't know what happens to a deleted digimon in the human world? Like, do their data go back to the digital one or are they just dead?"
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Post by aeron on Apr 1, 2018 0:48:29 GMT
Aeron nodded, she would have explained what he was if the other hadn't already said that he had the same partner, only he was somewhere in the arcade. Apparently, the Digimon partner was all for his tamer dating, she stayed silent as she heard him explain about wild Digimon that came to the human world. So from what she had gathered from Duffer was that for some reason wild Digimon that appeared in the human world were mostly after food and territory, that still didn't mean that some could be reasoned with, she wanted to say but she kept her mouth shut.
Aeron took a bite of her roll when Duffer had asked a very easy question in her opinion to answer, she swallowed her food and took a sip of her water before answering "no" it was short, simple and sweet, yet it spoke valumes about her personality.
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Post by Duffer & Kotemon on Apr 15, 2018 14:47:49 GMT
"...OK." He responded, unsure how to respond to that. "Uh... well, tell me a bit more about yourself? Any hobbies, a job, interests?" He thought that the date was going well, but his companion was unfortunately silent. Was it him? Did she just not like him? He ate some more of his sushi, now worried. Maybe he should've brushed his teeth before this. "Could you excuse me for a moment?" He asked, standing up and heading to the restroom, grabbing his digivice. He got into a stall and called the radio. "Kotemon, I'm floundering here, I need advice!" "Have you tried a mating dance?" "...What?" "What?" "You don't actually know anything about human dates, do you?" "Do you?" "I... no. But that's not the point here. I need help!" "Alright alright, I'll come over in a bit." The digimon answered. "Just stay cool and I'll introduce your better half to her." "Better half?" "Me." The digimon hung up.
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