YOU'RE A DRAMA QUEEN IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN

[frostythehitman]

WHO: James and YOU!
WHERE: Literally anywhere. School, the library, the laundromat, literally. anywhere.
WHEN: throughout the month
WHAT: FIGHT ME, MEET ME IN THE PIT. Or celebrate James's birthday, that too. AKA, November catch-all!
WARNINGS: uh. wanton violence?


fite me.
[ It doesn't matter where you are, or what you're doing, or what James himself is doing. Though he's returned to his more standard attire of band sweaters and pants with copious chains on them, he still has a nasty look in his eye for anyone who dares even look in his direction. He's fine, he'll claim to anyone who asks, but he's really just a powder keg waiting to blow.

So, interact with him at your own risk. Or don't, really--even the quickest of glances or pointing to something in his general vicinity will set him off or whispering something to a friend nearby is all it will take to set him off. ]

hap birf.
[ Come November 13th, James is officially turning 17. Of course, it's the furthest thing from his mind right now and he doesn't bother mentioning it at all, intending to be a grumpy gus on his lonesome all day. But your character, should they find out about his birthday from another source like his sister, perhaps, may want to ambush him and force him into a celebration of sorts...

It's up to you, though, because left to his own devices, he'll scowl his way through the school day and angrily walk his way home from school. ]

(alt) wildcard.
[ I'm setting up a bunch of private top-level stuff for other threads, but if I forgot to write up a prompt for something we talked about then, uh, my bad--please hit up this post with it anyway! ]

Comments

[livens]

[ tbh hinata could also just use james's height to spring off his shoulders but you know what. natsuo is holding her arms out for him, and so once he's boosted off james's hand, hinata...

way too easily catches natsuo's hands. WHY IS THIS A NEW PLAN. ]

Hm, but I kind of like this new idea better than the old one! [ using natsuo's arms as leverage, if she swings him to the side he can hook his own legs up onto the gymnasium and station himself, cheerfully hanging upside down? ]

[buncho]

[ It's a good plan, okay?! Like bypassing challenges in a video game when you're tired of falling a hundred times into a chasm because you can't get the timing right to jump, so you noclip through the section; such things are meant to be taken advantage of, that's why they exist.

She goes ahead and tosses Hinata up, then reaches back down for James' hands to haul him up too. ]

Everyone's getting through the challenges! James, you get Hinata though, I get you though, and I—-

[ ...Crap, if it's throwing, she'll get left behind. ]

I'll get through and meet you guys at the next obstacle! Climbing and balancing and everything's easy, you just gotta go fast enough, you don't have time to fall!

[frostythehitman]

[ oh great, now Natsuo's going to toss him up too? Good god, he has no idea how he's going to land--he's no good with acrobatics. He almost takes the offered hand, but hesitates at the last second. ]

What, are you saying Hinata and I need help to get across but you're good enough to do it alone?

[livens]

Don't be silly, Natchan! We won't leave you behind. With three people, one can get tossed across and then when two are across they can catch or pull the third~! It's fine, it's fine!

[ hanging upside down, he shoots james a peace sign. ]

Why don't you both rely on your teammates a little more, you know? No matter what, I'll do my best! And you both will, too. So let's believe in our own abilities, yeah?

[buncho]

[ James got it. That's basically what she was thinking. She's fought with and against these two people long enough that she's familiar with both their capabilities, but then there's herself, who she's never doubted will find a way to make anything happen.

James isn't grabbing her hand, but that's fine— Natsuo stretches out just a little further and grabs his hands for him to throw him up like she did Hinata. ]

—Then it's on you, Hina! Pull us both up, and we'll keep going! Like a slinky!

[ Like a slinky, but like. The opposite of a slinky going down the stairs. Do your best, all of you, because the real trial would be to find somebody else to be the Ideas Person that is not Mafuyu "Natsuo" Kurosaki. ]

[frostythehitman]

Hey, what the hell--

[ Welp, there he goes. Now that Natsuo's flung him up--with no warning, no less--he has literally zero control over himself in the air. He soars over the jungle gym in a flailing arc and braces himself for injury--possibly death. If he loses another limb on this playground he is going to kill the both of them. ]

[livens]

[ LUCKILY HINATA WILL BE REACHING OUT TO GRIP JAMES' WORKING ARM??? or torso? or something here?

let's save the death for the actual course

HINATA AND MAFUYU DID NOT THINK THIS THROUGH ]

[buncho]

[ WHAT IF THEY DIE ANYWAYS

But nah, if there's one thing Mafuyu believes in, it's the durability of the human body. Natsuo loses her grip on James and he goes flying, her falling backwards with a yelp as her foot gets stuck in between the bars and leaving her hanging upside down, looking up just in time to see Hinata make contact with James right over her head and—- ]

Teamwork! TEAMWORK!! DON'T FALL OVER HERE!!!

[ As in like. Right on top of her, scrambling to free herself before Hinata steps on her face or James elbows her in the gut. ]

[frostythehitman]

[ He feels Hinata grasp onto his arm and scrambles to grab his back to establish a tighter hold. Of course, now he's falling--directly towards Hinata.

Natsuo, luckily, is safe, despite James trying to throw his leg out to catch him in his belly-flop fall too. You started this, Natsuo, it's not fair that you should get to escape the consequences of this! ]

[livens]

[ OOF. hinata at least will try to catch james' weight so they both dangle instead of like fall to the ground with james but like.

he probably weighs less here so DOWN HE GOES I GUESS ]

[buncho]

[ RIP all of them. Natsuo is pretty bony and not at all a soft landing— especially when she manages to get her foot out at the last moment, take James' foot in the face, and kicks up at whoever's unfortunate enough to be in the way before she faceplants the ground. ]

...

[ THEY TRIED. ]

[frostythehitman]

[ I can't believe all of [Death's Lament] is fucking dead.

Sure enough, they all fall down under the weight of James's flailing. He takes a few moments to groan and take stock of any injury--oh good he's still in one piece--before groaning and rolling over. ]

And that. Is why we can't pull this leapfrog crap on the actual course.

[livens]

Thaaaaaat wasn't fun~!

[ and yet he still sounds singsong. and he definitely got kicked by mafuyu WOW... ]

[buncho]

[ Alright, that's enough dying for today; they're [DEATH'S LAMENT] and not even death wants them, Natsuo dragging herself out from under the corpses and using the bars of the jungle gym to stagger back onto her feet. ]

No, we can do it! I believe in us! Let's just— [ try again? every bone in her body hurts rn ] —take that snack break. Then we can figure out how to do this.

[frostythehitman]

[ James slowly drags himself back onto his feet as well, trying not to look like he's in that much pain from the fall. (He kind of is, though.) He could use a break. ]

Fine, no complaints here.

[livens]

Ouch...ah, maybe we should try it normally...but snacks! Are you both okay with tea, or would you prefer fruit juice~? I can pour whatever, I brought both.

[ james doesn't strike him as the TEA sort. ]

[buncho]

[ HANDS IN THE AIR AND REVITALIZED IMMEDIATELY. ]

Juice! Orange juice!!

[ Who is a tea sort, anyways? Although it might be better for keeping them warm instead of risking getting sick while sitting around in the cold, drenched in sweat... It'll be fine. ]

[frostythehitman]

I'm fine with whatever.

[ Hinata is right in that James isn't the tea sort, but he's also not the juice sort. So between those two options, he really doesn't have much of a preference. ]

[livens]

I have orange juice! Ah, I'll have tea, and you can have orange juice or grape juice or apple juice or the peach tea I have?

[ to james...he'll give options. but anyway he's heading over to where he and james ditched their bags, to start pulling out thermoses and cups and SNACKS. ]

[buncho]

[ Heck yes...! Hinata's snacks are the best. She helps herself to the juice and snacks and starts eating without waiting for the other two, because there's no formalities amongst friends, right? Right.

If they did die back there, then this is heaven. ]

It feels like a real team this way, right? Like how sports teams go out and have barbecue after a tough game... Hey James, how come football isn't like that?

[frostythehitman]

[ James throws up his hand in frustration. ]

I already said just give me whatever!

[ He really could not care less, Hinata. All he cares about are the snacks, so he digs into those instead and then looks over to Natsuo. ]

We do it if we win a home game and it's warm enough to have a barbecue. Or Homecoming, that's always practically a party after the game.

[ But Homecoming hasn't happened yet, so no wonder that's news to him. ]

[livens]

Then grape juice it is! Here you go~!

[ also - ]

A barbecue sounds nice? In that case, we should have one after the actual thing?

[buncho]

[ bangs my desk for the actual thing today!!! ]

With us on the team, we'll win all those home games and the homecoming tournament! [ FULL CONFIDENCE even though she has... no idea what homecoming is ] Ninja Warrior too! Let's use our grand prize money on barbecue!!

[frostythehitman]

A barbecue? In November?

[ He gives them a skeptical look as he takes a massive bite out of his food. By the time he manages to chew it and wash it down with the juice, though, he just shrugs. ]

Yeah, okay.

[livens]

That'd be the best way to spend prize money! Besides, warm food in cold months is good, right? We could invite all our friends~!

[ and like

those other people in ninja warrior, whatever

OBVIOUSLY THEY WILL WIN (they probably won't win) ]