bingo threads & overflow

[sotenbori]

WHO: Majima & everyone
WHERE: Watch out, he's everywhere
WHEN: July
WHAT: Bingo sure is a thing!! New prompts (please come and hit him up!!) + some overflow threads
WARNINGS: majima swears a lot.



i. never gonna give you up (open.)

[ majima's at work, but "working" is maybe not the adjective that would describe what he's doing. he's got give pink shirts in various stages of being bedazzled. they all read I <3 Retrospec (in comic sans.) but are adorned with all kinds of different things. one has hearts made out of gems, another dragons drawn on it, a third with a flowers. ]

Damn, they're turnin' out pretty well.

[ he says to no one in particular!!! also, he may be a bit too optimistic about how they're turning out but it's one of those #DoItForTheBingo things that he can't turn down. He's going to sell these shirts!! even if he only sells them to irony crowd.

if anyone happens upon him he will show off one of these hideous pink beauties:]

Wanna buy it? It's $5.

[ look bedazzling isn't free. ]

ii. never gonna let you down (open to anyone feasibly a stranger.)

[ the hardest squares are, of course, the ones he has to actively find strangers for. it's hard to pick out people who are at once a stranger but also definitely on retrospec and he spends more than a little bit of time looking through different profiles to get a sense of what people look like who are on the app but he doesn't know.

whenever he spots one, at least, he has no problems walking up to them to engage about bingo. ]

Hey! Can ya do me a favor? It's for this bingo shit.

[ feel free to take him up, or run quickly in the other direction if you're totally over bingo at this point. it's true that people have been roped into all kinds of weird shit lately. and with majima this could be as simple as getting sung to -- or it could be fighting, and does he really look like a dude who wanna take on? ]

iii. never gonna run around and desert you. (open.)

[ ok, real talk: the bingo-ing does get exhausting for everyone, even someone used to randomly running errands for other people. at a certain point you just gotta take a break. eat an ice cream, walk in the park, whatever. bingos may indeed continue to find you, but maybe for awhile you take a break and relax.

at least, that's what majima's trying to do. balance the substories with the plot, you know? maybe you're a fellow traveler looking for shelter from the onslaught of carolers singing never gonna give you up, or people asking you to duel them. you can hang out and talk about something not bingo related for a little bit.

or maybe you'll just fall into the trap of filling that one last square, anyway. ]

iv. TWISTER PARTY. (closed 2 the twister party ppl.)

[ the twister party one seems like a ridiculous square but between majima and mista they manage to phone a small group of friends to come over to play twister. hopefully everyone is a stranger to someone in the group - or at least, all the people in the group who need the square.

majima agrees to hold the twister party at the club where there's plenty of space to lay it out. you'd think maybe he'd dress more casually, but, nah, he's still in his tux. he's fought in it before so i guess he's plenty flexible even in it. look, sometimes you gotta be ready to work no matter what the time. old habits die hard.

he does bring out a few bottles of beer and some fruit. if they're gonna party, they're gonna do it right, damn it. now he's just gotta wait for this party group to show up.]

v. wildcard.

[ use this for your bingo needs. ]

Comments

[crudest]

["And someone else" - Baren was making some odd attempt at blackout when he had free time, which is why despite expectations he's probably walking in because Mista invited him.

He waves a hand at Majima when he walks in, then his gaze falls on Shuji.

He freezes.

He takes a step back.]

On second thought—

[thesettingsun]

Wait, wait, don't go!

[Shuji did not consider that Baren might be the mysterious other person, but now that he knows, he really doesn't want to consider anyone else.

Okay. Maybe Chuuya.]

[sotenbori]

[ whoa.... ]

Uh, you guys okay?

[ he'd assume this was some weird love triangle thing but he's pretty sure shuji is in love with mista???? damn y'all we need shipping charts to keep track of this drama. ]

Neither of ya bite, far as I know.

[crudest]

[when is baren not in the middle of some love drama

but Baren responds to Majima's comment a little too comfortably:] I wouldn't even if he asked.

[MOVING ON]

I don't know if bingo is worth this.

[thesettingsun]

[Shuji turns a little redder at Baren's comment. Why are you like this...]

It's a completely normal Twister game and I am completely okay.

[sotenbori]

[ this is definitely love drama. at age 24, majima's getting too old for this ]

Ya don't have to stay if you don't wanna, Baren, I'm not gonna force ya. [ he stares MEANINGFULLY into baren's one good eye with his one good eye tho ] But it'd be pretty nice for Mista if ya did.

[crudest]

I don't really care what's nice for Mista.

[HE SAYS THAT TOO COMFORTABLY - 'cause he actually likes Mista, but he's also 98% sure Mista would say the same thing for him. It's just how they talk to each other.

. . . that said, he's also pretty mission-oriented so.]

Anyway, that guy's lying but I'll deal. Can we get this over with?

[thesettingsun]

[Shuji visibly bristles at that first bit, since he very much cares about what's nice for Mista.

But, alright, an agreement is an agreement.]

I'm ready whenever everyone else is.

[sotenbori]

[ too bad the air in here is like ten times colder now. ]

Guess we should wait for Mista, though.

[protegge]

Wow, who died?

[shows up late without Starbucks and what the fuck is going on here. He looks from Baren, to Shuji, to Majima. Back to Baren like, what did you do, and then he lifts a hand to wave.]

Hey, boss. I can't leave for a second, huh.

[crudest]

[the look back at Baren actually just makes him laugh - because the frigid air actually just... strikes him as kinda funny....

who has a really shitty sense of humor, it's baren]

You're too popular, Mista. We wither away without you.

[thesettingsun]

Mista!

[What icy atmosphere? It could be literally subzero in this room and Shuji would still sparkle when Mista walks in.]

Obviously it's much better with you here! If you didn't come back soon we might have had to talk about the weather or something.

[sotenbori]

[ shuji's response to mista renews majima. his crops are watered. his pores are clear. youthful romance, goddamn. ]

Damn Mista, ya must be related ta the pope after all since you're such a savior.

[ i

im sorry ]

[protegge]

[How do you solve a problem like Baren . . . You don't. It's impossible. Better to focus on literally anything else. Shuji is here, gonna focus on Shuji. Big grins.]

Oh yeah, for sure. That's why I was late, I was talking to God and stuff.

[kinda sacrilegious my guy but ok]

We all okay to get started? [Admittedly this question is mostly for Shuji, because. Look, if somebody's making somebody miserable in this room, the miserable party is gonna be Shuji, the most easily bullied person in the world. And Baren's probably the culprit, because it's Baren, and Majima's too perfect to be involved in whatever just happened.]

[crudest]

[Joke's on you, Mista, Baren got in trouble because you're the one he was making fun of for once - but regardless even if the question isn't for him, Baren is... now way too excited to leave. Being in the same space as his fanboy makes him feel weird, even though he has some kind of weird residual urge to shove Mista and Shuji both into a closet and lock it.

Maybe another time.

He wanders over to the Twister mat and sheds his jacket - ]

Let's go, let's go!

[he might also want to win but that's just pride talking]

[thesettingsun]

[Any problems Shuji might have had were erased when Mista walked in the room.]

I'm all ready. Who's going to do the boring job of referee first?

[If you thought he was going to be weird about Baren taking off his jacket: this is a reasonable assumption but even Shuji knows you have to have a better range of motion than wearing a jacket will allow if you're going to win at Twister, so it doesn't even get a comment.]

[sotenbori]

Uh, shit, you wanna be the ref, Mista?

[ maybe?? he doesn't know??

but if baren is going to strip off his jacket, majima's going to strip off his jacket AND his shirt because that's what men do when they fight and twister is no joke.

of course underneath it he's got no small amount of ink but eh ]

[protegge]

[Mista's mouth twitches. He knows Shuji well enough that he's pretty sure Majima with his shirt off is going to be at least a minor thing. He didn't plan for this, but he's okay with it.]

You got it, boss. Get in position, kids.

[crudest]

[why are people okay with this

Baren's just going to laugh because - ]

What the fuck? Okay.

[why! did he take his shirt off!! at least baren just thinks it's funny.... and lazily stretches out as he waits for instruction on one corner of the mat]

[thesettingsun]

[Mista knows Shuji well and he is a parody of himself, but he doesn't gawk or anything weird!! Just gives the tattoos and very nice chest a once-over before joining Baren and Majima on the Twister mat.

It's not his fault Mista's boss is hot, okay.]

Ready.

[...without taking off any clothes.]

[sotenbori]

[ honestly you guys are lucky he wears a shirt at all. he's definitely gotten memories back where he was wearing only a jacket with no shirt underneath.

majima sits down, too, stretching out his long limbs. he's so ready for this. ]

Spin the dial!

[protegge]

[PULL THE LEVER, KRONK]

[Someone give Mista a prize for not laughing already. Instead, showing both great restraint and admirable flair, he spins the dial. Whoosh.]

Looks like we're starting out with right hand red, folks, choose wisely!

[crudest]

[CHOOSE WISELY is what mista says but Baren definitely just slaps his hand down at the closest red to him.

nice]

[thesettingsun]

[I mean, what else are you supposed to do for the first one, really

Shuji ends up with his right hand on one of the middle red circles but it was still the one closest to him, so eh]

[sotenbori]

[ majima meanwhile goes for one way on the other side. strategy kids ]