recolle | (open.)

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

Oh. Well.

[Okay, then. Rosalind tips her head, acknowledging that. Honestly, she hadn't given much of a thought as to where all her memories took place; she'd rather naturally assumed it was England. But . . .]

I wonder if it will match up at all, or be a completely different experience. Did you ask Chri-- ah, Fawkes, did you ask him about the slang yet?

I dunno, I think it'll be different - 'cause the place Kazzy worked is apparently fake an' we used pagers an' shit so it was the 80s?

[ he's figured out a lot, evidently ]

But nah I didn't ask him we were just texting.

Pagers, good grief . . .

[Listen, she was born right in the middle of the eighties, don't mock them too much.]

That makes two of us, at least. Apparently I'm from the nineteenth century.

Dang, Professor-san. That fits ya really well.

[ majima says it like he is very impressed!! ]

[She glances over at him with a slight frown, trying to see if he's mocking her. But . . . no, no, apparently that was enthusiastic.]

. . . mm. I can't imagine how she dealt with all the misogyny, certainly, but I suppose there's an appeal to it.

I didn't think of that. People are kinda awful always, huh?

On occasion. Though not always.

[She says it with a slight, somewhat uncharacteristic smile on her face.]

I suppose it depends on what people you associate with, hm?

[ he smiles, too. he's glad to hear it. he tends to look on the brighter side of people, but he figures she doesn't. he hopes this has something to do with the fact fawkes is spending time with her, and that she calls him by his first name, and that he's teaching her to cook. ]

Yeah, that's true. Carve out a good space for yourself.

It seems as if you have, here.

[And so has she, she's surprised to find. She hadn't expected to, coming to this city, but she's far more settled here than she ever was in England.]

Yeah. There's a good group of people I care about, an' they care about me.

[ present company included. ]

Wouldn't've believed it, if you told me a few years ago. I was a little shit in my youth. Terrorized everyone.

[She actually laughs.]

Another similarity: I was quite angry as a teenager. Although I can't say I terrorized anyone, perhaps save my mother. What did you do?

[ aw he's been blessed. ]

I fought everyone I could. I was the kind of kid who found the biggest bully on the playground and challenged him just ta see what would happen. Sometimes that worked out in my favor, 's how my brother an' I got along. Though he wasn't a bully, just fuckin' huge. Like a goddamn mountain, even as a kid.

Good god.

[She can't relate at all to that, but that doesn't matter; it's fascinating. Though something about the wording of that picks at her, and she clarifies:]

. . . were you and he adopted, then?

[ majima shakes his head. ]

We were never adopted, I mean. But we did grow up in the orphanage together. I just sort of picked him out.

[ so they were adopted....by each other.....]

Ah. I see.

[Huh. It's not as if it changes anything, but still, she hadn't known that.]

Did he ever join you in attacking the largest person in the area?

[ he laughs a little. it's a little sad. ]

Yeah, he did.

. . . where is he now?

In prison.

[ the response is direct, his tone even. practiced. it's a dagger in his chest every time. but every time it feels deserved. ]

Ah.

[Well. That would certainly explain that note of sadness in his voice just now.]

For how much longer?

For life.

[Ah. Well. There's really not much she can say to that, can she? Really, any sympathy she offers will simply come across as flippant or insincere. She is sorry to hear that for Majima's sake, but nor will she patronize him with an awkward I'm sorry.

She hates when people say that, anyway.]

Tell me more about him.

[ for a moment, he busies himself with grabbing another can of something, anything. (green beans, i guess, he's taking green beans home) while he tries to think about where to start. ]

He's very straightforward. Says whats on his mind. Doesn't beat around the bush or shit like that.

Nothing like you, then.

[That's a joke.]

[ he can hear its a joke from her tone, but at the same time... ]

It's true. He's nothing like me. He's strong and solid. He's not afraid of anything. He's a good person.

[ which is, at least quite clearly in majima's estimation, the biggest reason they aren't similar. ]

[She glances over at him sharply, trying to see if he's really saying what she thinks he is.]

And you aren't?

(no subject)

sotenbori - 2017-07-10 06:24 (UTC) - Expand

originallutece - 2017-07-10 06:28 (UTC) - Expand

sotenbori - 2017-07-10 06:31 (UTC) - Expand

originallutece - 2017-07-10 06:43 (UTC) - Expand

sotenbori - 2017-07-10 06:46 (UTC) - Expand

originallutece - 2017-07-10 06:51 (UTC) - Expand