More MJP for SRWU!

[cloningblues]

1. [It's a calm, beautiful day. Asagi makes sure his bonsai trees are okay, stretches, and leaves his room. This music might as well be playing in the background. Everything is going alright! Maybe for once the day will be relaxing and not full of stress!

And then he steps right into some kind of pandemonium. The music reached the 2:38 part. Calm is replaced by shenanigans. And you're right in the middle of it.]


What is this...

2. [Asagi messed up. Why, exactly? It doesn't matter if it was something big, or something that's irrelevant in the long run, he's beating himself up over it.]


Damnit... Am I going to be one of the Fail Five forever? Urgh...
[He grabs his stomach from stress.]

3. [This time, it's you who looks like you're in trouble! Be it a tough situation in a mecha battle, a personal crisis, or something small, Asagi's big brother instinct flares up and he rushes in.]


Hey! Are you okay?

Comments

[gentlecode_scholar]

Pah! What kind of an attitude is that for a go-getter little monkey like yourself? Do you not fight for justice and the wellbeing of your compatriots and all that? Come on, no more moping, up and at 'em!

1/2

[cloningblues]

Okay, I kinda get what you mean, but why do you think that...

2/2

[cloningblues]

Wait a sec.

...Monkey?

[gentlecode_scholar]

Because you are, of course! And a wonderful specimen at that, if I may add! Why-

[Erik suddenly interrupts himself as smething nags at him. He then gets out a little book and peruses it for a moment before raising his head and speaking again]

A-ha! My apologies! Ape, not monkey, of course! Do forgive my unintentional lack of manners, sir.

[cloningblues]

I am a human. H-u-m-a-n! Did someone put a banana in my hand when I wasn't looking?

[gentlecode_scholar]

Oho! [Interest is piqued] Is there a cultural significance to bananas, then? Would the wearing of a banana mark a different standing within your social group? [And Erik plain gets out his notebook to start making notes]

[cloningblues]

No. What kind of idea is that? It's just that banana is the cliche food of monkeys and apes.

[Pause for considering what the robot might take from this.]

But that doesn't mean that's all they eat. Or that only they eat bananas!

...When did this become an interview?

[gentlecode_scholar]

Jolly interesting indeed! [Erik is furiously scribbling notes in his notebook. What he's getting from this, you'd have to pry it from his hands to know]

Say, my good young man. What is your opinion on these other... erm, I mean, on the various species of apes, to which you of course do not in any shape or form belong to?

[cloningblues]

So it really is an interview. Is this really the best time...?

I don't mind them, I guess. Animals are easy to deal with.

[gentlecode_scholar]

It is always a good time to increase one's knowledge, friend!

[He nods enthusiastically at the second part]

Splendid! Then perhaps you can help me with another little experiment I had in mind, my man! [Without waiting for an answer, the robot's spindly frame twirls on itself as he goes to a nearby door and inputs a code. The door opens.

And behind it, is... a gorilla. Not a plastic one. A genuine, 140 kilograms of ape gorilla. It grunts as Erik gets out of the way (with a surprising turn of speed for something that looks so gangly), and snorts at Asagi curiously]

[cloningblues]

What! How did you get a gorilla here! Is this even allowed?!

[Asagi backs off, looking kinda like a humanoid crab.]

Err... Nice Donkey Kong?

[gentlecode_scholar]

Oh, it just takes some manners, you know. You can get far with a kind word!

[Erik answers from around one of the nearby corners, not missing a thing but trying his hardest to be inconspicuous to not disrupt the experiment. The huge ape, for its part, gets out of the room leisurely, looking around. That is one chill gorilla. It gets a bit closer to Asagi, and sniffs at him before grunting in satisfaction]

Splendid! Simply splendid! As I expected, she likes you! Now try to communicate with her! [Dammit Erik, not helping.]

[cloningblues]

The look she's giving me is kinda creepy...

Ahem. Hello? Can you hear me? [Asagi raises his hand, trying to look calm.]

[Aside, whispering.] You know gorillas can't understand human speech, right?

[gentlecode_scholar]

Of course not! But you have such interesting ways to communicate without words!

[The gorilla keeps snorting at Asagi... and apparently having decided that this was ok, two huge hands go to the teenager's head and begin ruffling through his hair, searching for parasites to clean him]

Ha ha! Yes! [Erik is scribbling like crazy]

[cloningblues]

Gah! Keep away! Do I look like I have any fleas?

[Asagi looks at Erik, unamused.]

You seem to be having fun.