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WHO: Goro Majima & Anyone
WHERE: Around Town
WHEN: Throughout the week
WHAT: Majima regains losing an eye but he's going to keep doing all his normal stuff to prove he's just fine. Prompt highlights include: playing mahjong! fighting dudes (poorly)! working! and a bonus mmorpg prompt. Some people just have an eclectic taste, what can I say?
WARNINGS: Majima's language and potential discussion of eye wound nothing graphic, though

Prologue (read this and then choose your own adventure from below)

[ Sometimes it's hard to know what to do in situations, especially once you got past the "things I need to do to take care of myself." Like if you wake up one morning and you're suddenly missing an eye, there's certain things you need to do. Make sure you're not still bleeding, try and cope with the fact you're blind on one side. He goes to the drug store to buy an eyepatch to keep people from having to look at that mess. He calls Kiryu, because that feels like a thing he's supposed to do. And then...

The biggest question in is mind is how he's supposed to warn everyone. What, send out a mass text btw i lost an eye don't panic and receive back a million panicked texts? No thanks. On the other hand, not saying anything and showing up to meet someone seems like its ripe for a slew of why didn't you tell me this before, which becomes increasingly more real the longer he goes without seeing people. It was the sort of thing people wanted to know so they could be worried. But Majima didn't want the fuss.

Finally, he decides to just keep going on with his life. Given the discussions he'd had with Kiryu, the lack of an eye thing was clearly part of his old life, so it's not like he stopped living. Or stopped fighting. Or stopped doing any of the important shit he did. Besides, he can't even remember what happened to it in the first place. No use crying over spilled milk...

(Majima no.)

Thus, he resolves to go about his week in the manner he is most accustomed to and you can find him around town, treating everything like it's Just Fine, in one of the following places:]

Mahjong @ The Asian Community Center

[Majima has to admit, regaining Japanese had made playing Mahjong ten times better. For one, he doesn't have to keep second guessing himself on the tiles when they don't have western numbers printed on them and that's pretty sweet. Plus, now he can gossip with the Japanese aunties.

The NPC aunties are pretty shocked about the state of his face but he waves them off and lies and says he fell or something, and besides, he can still play Mahjong so that's all that matters. He's just as enthusiastic, enjoys himself just as much.

If you happened to stop by the Asian community center for some reason other than Mahjong, maybe you'll get to see him hanging with the aunties and playing, or maybe you were invited after talking with him about it so he can teach you. Watch out, though, because they'll give you a real run for your money. Maybe you should ask to play in pennies or just chips.]

Hey, ya wanna play?

Fighting @ Utsuki Dojo

[Easily the most frustrating thing about this is what it does to his ability to fight. He can't go participate in cage matches like this because he'll get his ass kicked. He didn't regain the ability to do things with skewed depth perception and a blind side, only the fact that now he's got those issues.

At least he can go to the dojo where Tatsuo works. He doesn't go regularly, but he's been off and on quite a bit over the years - mostly to visit Tatsuo. It's a good place to spar with someone and work on actual technique instead of just the half-technique half-punch people really hard that he fights with in his matches.

What he really needs is sparring partners. Someone who will try to put him on the floor and won't baby him because of his missing eye. He's gotta learn how to fight in spite of it, how to keep it from being a weakness.

He's determined, at least. And that's a key trait in a time like this.]

Let's Shine Our Best @ Club Sunshine

[If Goro Majima looked like a punk in a tux before he lost his eye, he looks even worse now. Like he's a little out of place in his classy club, a thug who is probably a bouncer and definitely not the owner. Majima can't very well stop working, and he can't just give up and give into expectations. As with most things in his life, he figures if he just tries to handle it and acts like everything is fine it will be. Pushing through things has always been his preferred form of taking care of situations, and this is no exception. If anything, he's resolved to be more charming and more polite like he's aiming for "exceeds expectations" marks.

His coworkers can run into him before they open for the evening, working just as hard as ever to get things ready not a care about his new eyepatch. He won't shy away from talking about it, but he's definitely not bringing it up himself! This may not be the best way to deal with this, but it's his way of dealing with this.

Of course customers will meet him under different circumstances. He'll try not to break his business-character with anyone, but maybe a situation like this is worth actually talking about. Maybe...

No matter what, though, they're all going to shine on together. Having the right attitude is definitely key here.]

BONUS: Last Fantasy XIV

[It's funny, the way how things develop. How a stranger on Retrospec can ask you to play an MMORPG that you say you won't get that deep into but then a few months later you're part of an Free Company and leading new friends into battles for glory and honor. It's fun. It's addicting. Majima plays a catgirl.

In the middle of all of this drama, it's nice to log on and just spend some time messing around in a fictional universe. The irony hits home that he'd made one of her eyes white, now, but he just leans into it all that much harder. So what if Goronyan is blind in one eye?! Goronyan is a badass summoner.

Badassery aside, Majima's always in character and his character is always about helping people. Need a res out in the field? Do you look like you're just dying? Hell yes he's gonna drive by cure you. If you've got the little leaf that marks you're a new player maybe Goronyan will approach you to try and help you out, or maybe you're just surprised someone's in a free company named after Retrospec.]

Goronyan Meowjima signed on.
Goronyan Meowjima Today's the purrfect day to play :3

[Or you could just make fun of this grown ass man for this insistence on cat puns. You do you.]

WILDCARD

[If your character wouldn't be found at any of the above but you'd really like to find him around town, feel free to use this prompt for normal around town things: grocery store, convenience store, buying accessories for the girls, picking out things for the club. wherever you'd actually be caught.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

That's gotta be really rough.

[ he means it - he feels very lucky that he's got kiryu. ]

It is what it is. But it's not like I don't have family here, in the real world.

Yeah?

[ the concept of Family is kind of tough, but family can be people you choose, too. ]

Have you talked to them about it?

...

-May leaned back in the chair, turning her gaze up to the clock on the nearby wall, popping her tongue in and out of her cheek.-

They got they own shit to worry about. They don't need my problems on top of it.

I get that.

[ he gets that it's also a good way to protect yourself, but that that isn't always the reasoning, also. ]

I figured you would... Thanks for understanding. -She let out a sigh, rolling her neck before she slumped forward on the table again.- Sorry for freaking out about your eye.

It's alright, freakin' out about it is probably normal.

[ as opposed to what he's doing, being chill, tbh. ]

Yeah... it is.

Which is a littler weird that you're just sittin there playing Mahjong. Like there ain't shit to be worried about.

[ majima just laughs ]

The fuck else am I gonna do? Can't spend all day freakin' out about it.

Yeah, but did you freak out at all? Are you, like, in shock or someshit?

Well, I definitely didn't plan on wakin' up like this.

... Had a feeling that 'accident' line was a load. -May narrowed her gaze a bit. She couldn't blame him for not being completely forward about it, but still...-

I'm still workin' out what ta tell people. It's hard ta know with this shit.

At this point, I think "maybe retrospect" is a pretty okay answer, after everything that's happened.

Yeah, for people who have the app. What about everyone else?

[ like the nice aunties. ]

Huh... Good point. I don't envy you, chief. I've had to hide my powerlevels, but that's not nearly as tough.

People are just gonna have ta deal with it, I guess. It ain't like there's anythin' to be done for it.

You could get a glass eye!

OH OH! You could get like a custom designed one! With like a skull on it or some shit! -Why was she getting excited about this?-

Shit, I want that.

[ i mean he'd look like a pirate but hes here for it??? ]

See? I'm fulla good ideas! -May beamed, leaning back in her chair.-

Maybe I'll make one look fancy later. Give it a touch of personal style.

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