( SEMI-OPEN ) Workout! All Aboard the Train of Mysteries

[adoringpast]

WHO: it's ya model boy sena and you
WHERE: all over recolle but specifically the gym, the dance studio, shooting range + dojo for the closed threads, and the subway
WHEN: all throughout january
WHAT: catchall log; this month is pretty much one longass training montage which culminates to exploring the subway on the second half of the month.
WARNINGS: talks of domestic abuse in the thread with shouto



i. gym
[ right so. he's finally out here in the gym as promised for his nonexistent new year's resolution. he may be accompanied by ann here on some days, but either way you can catch him lifting some hand weights to... little success; he's doing so well with the first few pairs but as they get heavier he starts struggling to lift them up and it's soooo embarrassing, honestly can you find it in your heart to lend this poor boy a hand or leave him to perish? you decide.

or you could see him do some stretches on a mat right before yoga class starts! he's having a bit of difficulty feeling a good pull of his leg muscles though so he'll wave at you -]

H-Hey... could you help me - get my leg up to my head-...

ii. dance studio
[ sena's been a bit of a regular at the dance studio since the live because hey, why not? it's much better exercise than lifting some damn weights and it teaches him to be quick on his feet. he's gotten very good at it too with all the practicing he'd done last month, though he'd still be called a beginner even with his innate ability to dance that he'd gotten from the app unconsciously.

still, he's able to pull off this dance almost flawlessly, but not without some rough patches here and there, particularly the part where he has to sway his hips out very far. so yeah, he's going to hyperfocus on this one part until it's closing time and... you're really not going to let him train in this kind of darkness, are you? ]

iii. subway

[ on the second half of the month you will find sena joining the throng of retrospec users that are brave enough to venture the abandoned subways, sometimes with a sword strapped to his hip like the fucking knight that he is, sometimes armed with a handgun that he'd bought a few weeks back, sometimes even both while carrying a flashlight. he really doesn't know what to expect down there but either way: ]

a. [ you will see him get entangled in a bunch of vines because of course this is how he's starting his adventure off. his sword slides off of his hip and clatters onto the ground, potentially getting your attention. ]

Oi! I seem to be a little stuck here? Hello?!

b. [ or you'll spot him at the dining car, peering at all these stale and dangerous food, and will most likely smack that shit off your hand if you ever so far as hold it or even eat it? ]

That's so gross! What the hell are you thinking?! Did you not even think of eating first before going here?

c. [ or what about the car with all the movies and audio equipment in it? while sena is perusing the broken tapes, the screen starts to play something... very familiar. wait a minute, didn't he just remember this last december? a castle backdrop with rose petals fluttering on the stage, with sena dressed up in a very knightly outfit smiling warmly along with some people on stage - the supposed members of his idol group. it's hard to tell from this angle, but he's faintly blushing at... something he'd just heard but this movie unfortunately cut out the most important scene, meaning that he hasn't remembered it yet.

either way, the bespectacled brunette was all smiles as well, saying that maybe he should stick around this concert that they seem to be in the middle of because he might not see the face that sena's making again in the future. and when asked why, he just winked with a flourish of his cape and said teasingly,

"Ahah, by not knowing what kind of face you’re making, aren’t you failing as a model? You kiiinda look like an innocent little girl in love for the first time, who's just been proposed to by the person she admires!"

the movie stops there, and sena's understandably pissed off, but his cheeks are still positively red and would smack the next person who'd ask about the whole thing because he does not!!! know!!! ]

d. [ and lastly he's at the grand recolle station, checking out these travel guides until he spots one that's very familiar - a blue pamphlet with the YS emblem on it, the words "Welcome to Yumenosaki Academy!" emblazoned beneath it. there's a lot of these around, actually, and if one happens to pick one up the contents are all in japanese anyway, the characters too faded to even make sense of things, but there's are random english words such as IDOL and DREAMFEST scattered here and there.

there are also some pictures of themed concerts that are way too extravagant for an mere school for idols, such as a chess-themed concert, a summery live that takes place by the beach with the fireworks as its background, a ballet performance, and there's even one that features detectives vs. phantom thieves, though the faces of other people are blurred out to hell in those pictures, only showing sena's radiance as always.

feel free to ask him for more info even though he also has no fucking idea what's going on. ]

iv. wildcard
[ this is pretty much his catchall log this month, so feel free to do whatever you wanna do with him this january! if you have ideas on what you wanna play out, PM me or reach me at jikochuu as always! ]

Comments

closed to majima;

[adoringpast]

[ well, at least he's not facing off a muscular catgirl in the dojo this time, but he's still up against majima-san, and majima-san's pretty big. sena's not too scared of his boss though, as he waits for him to arrive. and when he does - ]

So did you actually bring a bunch of swords over or what.

[ because damn. ]

[sotenbori]

Yeah, I did.

[ he drops a bag between them and then gets down on the ground to open it. it is indeed full of swords. ]

First things first, 'cause I don't wanna fuckin' break ya on the first time -- [ he pulls out two kendo swords and tosses one to sena ] Trainin' wheels.

[adoringpast]

[ neatly catches the kendo sword with his hand and gives it a few swings. okay, no problem, he did take a really short kendo lesson with baren all those months ago, but a smug pretty boy like him is nothing compared to ex-yakuza over here. ]

Right. [ just grips it with two hands, in front of him. ] And then?

[sotenbori]

[ i mean at least he recognizes that right... ]

Try ta hit me.

closed to eren;

[adoringpast]

[ the sound of guns firing will never not scare sena, but he braves the shooting range nonetheless. eren better knows what he's doing or else sena will pop a glock on his ass with or without proper gun training.

but they are here for the latter, so. ]

Everything's so noisy here - this place should have a pair of headphones for this kind of thing, right?

[usurpers]

[ if you dare bust a cap in his ass, he will be gone tHOT your own chapped booty

but, making all the preparations, eren’s picked out a few pistols based on sena’s structure, some of the style of what he could pick up by far. the noise doesn’t bother him, he has to do this every day— and luckily, he’s known enough here for the shop owner to give a little bit of leeway. so, they’ve gone over all the range rules, signed the forms for sena (while eren flashed his af id).

it is noisy, especially being an indoor range, so eren comes prepared to their little bunk, offering goggles for eye protection and in-ear muffs. there’s also a headphone-like exterior muff that’s separated for him. ]

There— and put both of them on.

[ he will not be responsible for your deafening and neither does he want to hear whining about I CANT HEAR MYSELF!!! ]

[adoringpast]

[ as expected, as soon as the headphones slip over his ears, sena immediately looks around in confusion before landing his gaze on eren - ]

H-How am I supposed to hear you like this?!

[ said a little too loudly than usual. well, this is off to a great start. at least he can still remember the range rules, and he's just going to go through them in his head for a bit: muzzle of the gun should be pointed down at all times, only shoot at the target and not on the floors, ceilings anywhere else...

right. he's ready, and he nods at him to let him know that. ]

III-C obviously

[originallutece]

[She hadn't been following him at all, though she'd been pleased to see him in the distance. They've gone on one underground adventure together; they might as well go on another. She's a little less pleased to see the damn gun in his hand, because it doesn't matter how long she lives in this country, she's never going to like the sight of guns. Especially not in her students' hands.

But that's neither here nor there. He disappears into the subway car and Rosalind follows, just in time to watch . . . all that. Good lord.

She glances over sidelong at Sena for a few seconds. There's an awful lot she could say to that, and frankly, it's rather hard not to indulge her sadism and tease him mercilessly about it. But she'll be nice. It's a nice day today, why torment him. So:]

That's an oddly specific look for someone to cite.

[So that's how it is in his canon.]

[adoringpast]

[ he didn't expect the professor of all people to explore the depths of the subway at all since she's not entirely built for combat, isn't she? but oooooof course she has to see this particular memory of his. he turns at her, surprised, before looking affronted as hell. ]

That's how he usually is anyway. At least in my memories. Do I even look like that in the movie at all?

[ just because he looks a little flustered it doesn't always mean he's being proposed to??? ]

[originallutece]

[SHE'S ENJOYING THIS . . . at least she's not being nasty about it, though.]

You look a little like it. I wouldn't have chosen that phrase, though. Who on earth was that?

iv, Modelling

[glaciers]

[Shouto has never enjoyed modelling. It reminds him way too much of the pageants his father put him into as a child, just sit here and look pretty, obey the directions, don't move.

It's worse now that he has a giant facial scar marring the left side of his face. Of course he took the job, he needs the money for moving out at the end of the year. But that doesn't mean he's happy about it.]

Do they really need full body models for ice cream?

[adoringpast]

You can't expect tubs of ice cream to model for themselves, right? They're inanimate.

[ there's always animation, but it seems halo top wants to take a different approach for the new year. namely hiring its poster boy along with baby actor kid here. though sena understands shouto's hesitance because eugh, that scar leaves nothing to the imagination at all. didn't he post about it in the app some months ago too? ]

Where's your makeup artist? Or have you finally learned how to put on makeup to hide that burn?

[glaciers]

[He's definitely sulking right now. After he got this scar going on camera was officially titled the worst.]

They're not here yet.

... I don't think I'm doing my own makeup properly.

3D! headers help

[pronounces]

[ nazuna has never been happier to be in a semi-lit place in his entire life. since he found sena, he's mostly stuck by his side, tsuchin tucked into his sweater to keep him from running off again. it's been easier to stick together, because for some reason sena is armed (nazuna does not want to know) and seems to have at least an idea of what he's doing, so.

when he picks up a packet, nazuna leans over his shoulder to look at it. yumenosaki... ]

That's the school, isn't it? [ and he touches his chest, about where the emblem was in his memories. ]

[adoringpast]

[ he has to be extra prepared, okay. but like most of the chucklefucks that ended up here, sena also has no idea what he's doing, but he'll do his best to investigate.

he grunts an affirmation to nazuna, opening the pamphlet a little wider and shining his flashlight on it some more so that nazuna can see more of the contents. ]

I can't read most of these, though... Here, hold this for a bit.

[ hands him the flashlight - just give him a moment as he changes out of his contacts for his pair of glasses. ]

[pronounces]

Mmhmm. [ taking the flashlight, nazuna takes the pamphlet too, letting sena change. yumenosaki... he still doesn't really know that much about it, but that's the whole point of something like this, right?

there's nothing in here that's all that familiar. the ballet costume that sena's wearing is--he's got that in his own memories, handing him a flower in something similar, and he pauses on that page, light reflecting on the blurry faces. ] I don't know how much your glasses are going to help, Mizukichin...I can't see them either.

No one except you, anyway. [ and he moves the flashlight across the page towards one of his pictures. ]

i

[servileness]

[ Clover's been told she needs to find some chill and flexibility in her life and she also needs to stay fit, so yoga is a good enough combination. She's more or less done with her own stretches, so she's fine to answer Sena's request. ]

All right. I'll commence.

[ She'll slowly help push his leg up until he says stop. ]

[adoringpast]

[ so far so good, and he's groaning in a good way - but the thing is that he hasn't regained the flexibility he'd gotten from years of ballet practice in the past, so clover might have gone a bit too far. ]

Agh- S-Stop! Stop!

[servileness]

[ She stops as soon as he says so and lets go. ]

I apologize. Usually when people ask me to help them stretch, they're almost too flexible. I should've asked how far you wanted to go before I started.

d

[strayknight]

[Oh this was so gold. Ritsu does like the outfit but this was a new memory he hadn't had so it was all Sena. Then there was the comment from the brunette and Ritsu had to move a hand to his mouth to hide his laughter. This was too good. Right as he was about to comment he feels the smack to his head.]

Ouch...that was mean Secchan.

I THINK YOU MEAN C, THOUGH??

[adoringpast]

You deserved that.

[ this is ritsu's life now, apparently - being sena's punching bag in times like these. sena crosses his hands together in a huff, staring at what's left at the screen. ]

How did you even get in here in one piece anyway?

YES OMG

[strayknight]

Why it's your memory...

[He is beginning to get used to this. Though he knows Sena is embarrassed which is kind of endearing.]

I was lucky...How did you?

iii-a

[infreefall]

[ The sound of something metal hitting the ground hard makes Ochako jump about three feet in the air. Even with her flashlight and the sounds of subway cars in the distance, it’s been pretty quiet down here so far. She certainly isn’t expecting to shine her flashlight on a sword. She stares blankly at it until Sena yells for help, making her jump in surprise yet again. ]

Ah! Right! Just hold on a sec…

[ One problem: she doesn’t know how to get through the vines, unless she… uses the sword, but she’s never done that before. Maybe if it were a knife, it’d be fine, but Ochako doesn’t want to accidentally cut off Sena’s hand or anything. But since there’s nothing else, she hesitantly picks it up to start sawing at some of the vines. ]

How’d you get stuck like this? I didn’t even notice these vines before.

[adoringpast]

Are you really that blind? These vines are all over this side of the subway and apparently they're sentient.

[ he still has the gall to lecture at the time at this, huh. ]

Just be careful with that thing, all right? I just borrowed that from someone, and the last thing I want to tell them when I return it is that it had chopped off someone's hand because they were being careless with it.

[ im so sorry......... ]

[infreefall]

[ ...What if she left him here. Though the thought is tempting, Ochako exhales with a soft puff, ignoring his tone to focus on cutting the vines. It’s a slow process, but she’d want be careful even if he hadn’t told her so. ]

Well they didn’t go after me… Maybe they just didn’t like your attitude.

[ Sentient vines have feelings too. And who talks like that to the person trying to help them, anyway?

she's joking.

mostly. ]