It's a bittersweet symphony (February Catch-All)

[rippingu]

🧙 WHO: Akihiko Kaji, Various and YOU!
⚔️️ WHAT: Random February stuffs
🕒 WHEN: All of February
🗺️ WHERE: All over the open zones that apply?
⚠️ WARNINGS: Surprisingly, no... unless you dislike piercings, cause he turning Ue-sama on to that metal vibe up in here.




A Tall Order

Kaji has already decided which quest he is willing to undertake. Not going to stick his neck out far enough to get it cut off, but willing to do a thing or two that might help. However, he's not exactly rushing off, in fact as he looks over the other quest the man lights a smoke, letting it hang between his lips.

He gives the list another glance with a thoughtful hum, the money from the Pure of heart sounds like a good prize, too good to be true which means they clearly are being asked to do something they should not do. He'd do it, but if he can, he'd rather stick to things that don't make him have to make a large moral decision while out and about in a strange world with people he does not know.

Either way, for now, he's going to stand there and smoke and contemplate the board and hell, even his life at this moment.

Working hard or hardly working:

Kaji has taken a job at one of the local taverns and a cafe, he spends most of his days working in the cafe while putting a shift in at the bar in the evening. He finally had enough with the generous help of his bandmate to purchase the drums and practice is coming along well.

This means Kaji is in good spirits, rather one finds him at the bar or cafe they are sure to find him with a smile, a joke, or outside taking a quick smoke break, really just matters when they happen along.


Wildcard: I am open to any of nonfighty monster quests with Kaji or TDM prompts, if you'd like a starter for one let me know. Or if you want to fling someone at Kai at random, he can be found working in one of the cafes and one of the taverns, so looking for a cafe breve he's your guy. Feel free to fling a random hey, I see you in the street starter or let me know, and I can write it. Long story short, up for anything, so come on at me; I had a rough couple of months but here for all the tags now. He will also be taking part in Valentine's Day Concert with his band, so we can do something with that if you'd like! You can get me bethestorm to plot.

Comments

[uenosama]

There's no hiding the fact that Uenoyama goes a bit pale at the thought of getting infection because of the piercing, but it is what it is. He can handle it, right? If not, he'll find someone with healing powers to fix it for him- here at least he can do it.

"Did you start off there as well?"

Uenoyama had a few other... ideas, that' he's currently not brave to try out.

"Where would you get the piercing this time?"

[rippingu]

Lucky for him here, Haruki has healing magic if something happens he is sure to take care of Uenoyama, obviously the ones bringing them in knew what they were doing. After all, Haruki is definitely the caretaker. A trait he and Ue share in common.

"I did, but it's addicting, after the first one I couldn't stop." This is very true

He thinks over the next question, ticking a few off in his head before deciding.

"I think I'll go industrial, in my right here, basically a bar from here." He points to part one side of his upper ear "Going here.." He points to the other side.

"Or I could get a microdermal right under my eye. What do you think?"

[uenosama]

Addicting... Uenoyama would never think of getting a piercing to become addicting. But considering how many of them Kaji has, it's probably the truth. If it's like that, Ue wonders if he'll want in the future another one. Or maybe that would be too much.

Ue hums as he explains piercings on the ear, but then visibly flinches when Kaji points at the skin under his eye.

"Why would you want piercing there!? Is that even possible? Won't that hurt a lot? Or injure your eye!?"

The expression on his face is somewhere between being impressed by the courage, but also kind of terrified.

[rippingu]

It is, though not for everyone. For Kaji is was probably partly the escape of it. At the time he started with the piercings he had very little control over much in his life, the piercings were proof he was tough and that he had control over something.

Now, well, they've become more a symbol of who he has become, and this moment, getting one at the same time as his bandmate is that step forward with the aesthetic he needs, it takes back that control again and makes the piercings something for him and who he is now, a bonding moment with someone important to him.

Uenoyama may not have realized it, but he is helping Kaji and Kaji did not even it needed to be changed, the motivation for the metal, but he can feel the shift and it's a good one.

"Because they look super badass. But, they can always reject and get infected easier." He chuckles "I could wear an eye patch be a pirate if it did." He can totally pull off pirate, right?

His expression is that I am teasing you Ue-sama look, one Uenoyama should know well by now.