ota | comin' out the gate, i'm swinging

[tire]

who; sawamura eijun & you!
where: various locations, but particularly tisse & the recolle U rec center!
when: throughout july!
what: a bingo catchall for a good dog. includes some overflow threads!
warnings: it's eijun, it's gonna be stupid



1. THE RECOLLE REC CENTER.
[ eijun's center task seems like it's gonna be pretty easy. he has to organize a sporting event that's not baseball related! that doesn't seem all that bad. after all, there are a million different games that people like, right?

he finally settles on a gym class classic, and sets himself up in one of the big rooms with five balls lined up in the center. he's lined them up very nicely, and eijun settles inside the room, stretching out his hamstrings--it even seems like he's pretty quiet, for once in his life! the room itself is used for racquetball, so it's not huge, and there's a huge sign taped to the glass windows on the room. it reads:

DODGEBALL!!! COME & PLAY. NEED AT LEAST 6 PPL TO MAKE IT FUN.

come get a good workout and play!

or, if you decide to wait a while, you'll find eijun getting very, very bored. he's gone from stretching to laying on his back to...well, entertaining himself.

and he's doing this by hitting the ball as hard as he can against the wall. it goes bouncing off, and he rapidly dodges it-- ] Waoh!! [ then dashes off to grab it, and bounce it off again. his reflexes aren't that bad, and you can hear him laughing from outside. ]

WAHAHAHA!!! I forgot how fun this is!!! [ bounce, dodge, catch! it's mostly like watching a dog play fetch with himself. it's absolutely ridiculous.

how long will it take for him to hit himself in the face?? only time will tell. he takes a dramatic leaping dodge for now, though, and repeats the whole process. ]

2. TISSE.
[ this operation is almost definitely illegal, but like, how could you say no to this adorable smiling face? eijun has a wagon, a biiig container full of lemonade (no one said it had to be homemade), a bunch of ice, and glasses. ]

Come get your lemonade!!! 25 cents each!!! It's really, really good!! [ as he's yelling, a member of some sort of authority spots him and asks, loudly, if he has a work permit. ] Shit-- [ because he doesn't. the cops look angry and start striding towards him, and eijun, well... he takes off running with his mobile lemonade stand rattling down the streets behind him. ]

LOOK OUT!! COMING THROUGH!!!

[ he can be run into easily, or you may catch him stopping beneath a tree to catch his breath, hands on his knees. it's a good thing he runs all over the place with a tire, or else this would be difficult!!! haa... maybe he should have some of his own lemonade? which he will also guzzle. ]

3. EXPRESSIVE COFFEE SHOP, TISSE.
[ being out of school means eijun doesn't have to write, which is awesome, but now bingo apparently wants him to write stuff. most people seem to get a lot of work done at expressive, so here he is, settled at the coffee bar at expressive with a pen and a piece of paper. every now and then, he taps the pen against his lips, very very seriously. he looks like a studious, well read kid like this, even if he's swinging his feet a little against the too tall bar stool.

eventually, he looks to someone near him, though, pen still poised at the corner of his mouth. ] ...hey, do you know what an ode is?

[ no he's actually an idiot. ]

4. WILDCARD.
[ eijun's bingo card is here. anything green is completed, blue is in this log! if you need something for your bingo card, or we've plotted something together, feel free to get at me!! ]

Comments

☼ overflow: dave

[tire]

[ continued from here! ]

[ eijun's eyes light up with that realization, as he's packing his sand into his bucket. ] Whoa...I didn't even think of it like that!

Maybe he's not a jerk. [ he pauses as he's doing that, then abruptly starts patting the sand in faster, like he's trying to scare that particular thought away. ] But--he totally took away colors, no way!! I take it back, he's still a huge jerk!!

[parodeity]

Well, he can be both? I mean, most people aren't like, all one or all the other.

[tire]

[ eijun makes a grumpy noise--it sounds a little like a car starting. mrmrmrmrr.... ]

I just don't want to think of him doing nice stuff cause of all the jerky stuff he did! It makes me mad!! He took away blue!

[parodeity]

[ dave kind of laughs. ]

Yeah, that part was...not so great. Have you gotten the poll thing to vote shit back yet?

[tire]

Like for the colors? Yeah... I voted to get blue stuff back, 'cause I miss my uniform. Plus, looking at Okumura's eyes being all--not blue is freaking me out!

[ nice, eijun ]

☼ overflow: kaguya

[tire]

[ continued from here! ]

[ eijun blinks... maybe that fall wiped his memory. his cheeks flush a little more. ] Oh...yeah. Haha... well--I totally made it over the thing, right?! That's what matters!!

[ at the comment about his stomach, though, he winces and reaches to touch his tummy. it's all red. ] Yeah--but, I'm tough!! Besides, it's definitely not the first time I've ever done a belly flop!! And I made it over the thing!!

[ his optimism is unending... that declared, he doggy paddles his way back over to try and push himself back up out of the water. ]

[saburai]

[ It's honestly kind of impressive, how he's able to look on the bright side. But he's not wrong, either. ]

That's certainly true.

[ He did what he said he was going to do, after all. He can take pride in the jump itself, if maybe not the landing. ]

It was a good jump, and you didn't hit the post at all.

[tire]

[ !! yay, success!!! she praised him, too, which makes eijun pretty happy. he hops right out of the water, pushing himself up fairly easily on those baseball honed muscles. in retrospect, he probably shouldn't have jumped in the water considering he's a shitty swimmer, but, hey.

popping out of the water, he grins as he brushes himself off, giving himself a thump in the chest. ] Then you'd agree I jumped over it with "dramatic flair", right? I gotta get this bingo square!

[saburai]

[ A bingo square... well, that certainly makes this all make a fair amount of sense. ]

There certainly was a lot of build-up beforehand, and a very dramatic finish... I'd say it should count.

☼ bingo: yukine

[tire]

[ standing outside the good bean is eijun, on a bright and sunny day in july. he's perusing his phone, deep in thought about what kind of person yukine is while he's waiting for him to show up. after all, okumura is...okumura. he and eijun have been friends (?) since the day they met, but eijun had never really been sure that okumura was capable of "friends". after all, they argue a lot! and eijun almost never gets in arguments with people.

so what kind of person does koushuu really, really like...? for some reason, he's curious about it, so when he spots who he thinks is yukine, he extends his arm to wave. ] Hey--Yukine! Over here!!

[ and hey, any new friend is a good friend in eijun's book! if okumura likes him he's either going to be really cool or...really scary... ]

1,000 apologies

[secare]

( sometimes things just work out. the planets align, the stars are position, and then the object of his best friend's affection presents him with an opportunity to get to know him and further the power team matsuoka operation: "just do it, idiot!". who even has this kind of great luck?

no one. that's who. it's going to balance out later and something is going to go terribly wrong to allow for this, but yukine figures he'll just accept whatever it is. that's how life works after. for every good thing, something bad happens elsewhere.

when he spots eijun, he lifts a hand in a light wave before closing in on him. )

Yo. You ready for a good time?

shhh no apologies here it's all good

[tire]

[ eijun is completely unaware of any sort of stars aligning. he's just fulfilling the duty of his bingo, here, and the duty of his bingo is to hang out with a friend of a friend!

....though, sawamura's not really sure if he'd call okumura his friend. on a good day, definitely! on a bad day, it's more like having a pissy, angry dog who bites your ankles when you say the wrong thing. so, that's part of why he's curious to know about yukine, who okumura considers his best friend. is he part dog? is he part alien? how does he know okumura so well.

well, no matter. he brightens when yukine comes over and shoves his hands in his pockets, including his phone. ] Hell yeah! We've gotta do something with the employees, right?

;_;

[secare]

Yea. We gotta ask for "magic beanstalk beans" from the "secret menu".

( he makes the air quotes with his fingers as he talks, clearly sceptical about the secret menu, much less any frickin' magical beanstalk beans. he assumes that this is really just the app insisting that they play a prank on the employees, which is fair enough. for them, not quite for the employees who may or may not have been going through this since the bingo came out. )

They might insist we leave tho. All that matters is that we ask, yea?

( so he's pushing open the door to let eijun inside. )

2

[esperimental]

... That was quite a sight.

[ Ritsu's just going to judge while you drink your wares, Eijun. Then again he's always judging. ]

[tire]

[ there's an abrupt, loud cough as he clears his throat, smacking his chest when he promptly chokes on his lemonade. eijun looks at the person talking to him, his eyes big and wide, his cheeks flushing a little. ]

Don't tell me you saw all that--!!

[esperimental]

[ Well... ] Not all, but some of it.

I think you've at least successfully lost them.

[tire]

Phew... [ well, embarrassment aside, at least he's not gonna get arrested!! ]

Thank goodness!! I'd be in trouble for the rest of my life! [ a pause. ] I can't believe they'd give us these dumb bingo cards to do something illegal with! [ eijun that's just because you're doing something illegal.


there's a long pause. ] ...Hey, do you wanna buy some?!

3

[lecturehall]

[Even in the summer, Keito isn't free from school. Aside from a summer course there's also summer studying he has to do to prepare for the next semester. A coffee shop is perfect for that, especially when his roommate blasts Ancient Aliens at full volume all day.

Still, it's tiring. He's been here for hours and still has roughly eighty pages of reading to do. The question catches him off-guard but gives him an excuse for a much-needed break.]

An ode? Isn't school out of session for you?

[Maybe it's a summer assignment? Well, either way he can't say no to helping someone.]

An ode used to be similar to a hymn with a specific meter structure but nowadays it's more about the topic. Basically, any song about a girl or a guy could be an ode. "Shape of you" could easily be an ode.

[He fixes his glasses.] Does that help?

[tire]

[ eijun somehow knew the guy with glasses was going to be smart. it was like a no-brainer! and sure enough, he gives eijun an explanation!! he glazes over for the first part of it, but! he at least knows that song...

eijun nods his head, energetically. ] Yeah!! Thanks!!

[ there's a moment of silence as he returns to tapping his pen against his mouth, focusing. it's a fairly long pause, and keito might think it's just a one off little conversation but... ]

[ in a stage whisper: ] Hey. Do you know how to write an ode?

[lecturehall]

[Isn't this... cheating? Maybe not. If this kid doesn't know how to write an ode he definitely isn't smart enough to scam a bingo game. Keito sighs.]

Why are you whispering? And take that pen out of your mouth. What will you do if it explodes?

[Here. He'll just remove it for him.]

Like I said, just pick your favorite love song. You have one of those, right? You must. They're the only thing they play on the radio anymore.

[tire]

Mmft. [ he makes a little noise when keito just straight up takes his pen, but...at least he's not leaving little black marks above his lip anymore. he sure was just a second ago.

he frowns down at the paper. ] Hrmmm....hrmmm... [ ok. ] I don't really listen to music a lot! [ a pause before he slumps over his piece of paper. ] And I suck at poetry! And writing. [ and school, really. ] This is dumb! What kind of a bingo square is about poetry!!!

steeples fingers

[undergrowl]

[ So.

Koushuu has some interesting things on this stupid bingo card, and he has plans of doing ... one of them, at some point. It's easy enough. But others, he's less inclined towards arranging or even really thinking about. Admittedly, one thing could happen with Eijun. Knowing him, anyways, it's something that could happen.

But the one thing that he knows they need to do regardless of the bingo card is checking out camping supplies. So he makes his way up to Eijun's floor, knocking his knuckles against his door and messing with his phone in his other hand. He did promise that they could go camping, test it out... ]

time to get up to some mischief

[tire]

[ camping supplies!!! eijun had mostly forgotten about going shopping for them, overwhelmed with all of the hustle of bustle of recolle and bingo, so when koushuu comes to the door, it's a surprise.

he opens the door still in his sweats and beams. ] Okumura!! What's up?

[ you can like literally hear the are you gonna catch for me in his tone, he's pathetic and easy ]

They're such budding deliquents...

[undergrowl]

[ Koushuu looks up from his phone when Eijun opens the door.

Koushuu then looks down when he sees what Eijun is wearing.

With a heavy, aggrieved sigh, he pockets his phone and points back into the apartment. The real downside of Eijun living alone is that no one can tell him how to dress himself for public consumption. Sweats are one thing when there's no plans of going anywhere. But he's going somewhere. ]

Go change. We're going out. [ His tone says maybe later, at least. ]

truly

[tire]

Wha-huh? Why? Where? [ eijun looks down at himself. his t-shirt's an old relic from middle school, just a little too short on his torso, but his sweats are sort of clean...!! ]

I'm dressed!! Where are we going!? Do I need my glove?!

[ just listen to the nice model son when he tells you to change clothes jfc ]