recolle contact

[wordcarvings]

koutarou kurashiki

Let my art be the sound of my soul / Let it reminisce of the good times / Let it scribble the lines of the bad times / Let it bloom with excitement / Let my art be a representation of me / Just let it be me 

VOICE | TEXT | VIDEO | ACTION

lemon leaf (landline)

This is Takao at Lemon Leaf at [street #, Apprassage]. I apologize for not being able to take your call at the moment, but leave a message and I will get back to you as soon as I'm able to.

VOICE | ACTION

Comments

bingo!

[sharplydressed]

[SO A DAY AFTER THE BAR Kiyomitsu is dying of a hangover and some unpleasant new upgrades to his already annoying abilities, but he's got a promise to keep here! So at the designated time and place, he'll be chilling out and waiting for his chocobo-racing comrade to show up...

In a sunhat and sunglasses, even though it's a pretty mild summer day.]

[wordcarvings]

[ Koutarou is not very hung over at all, which honestly, he probably should be, but he’s never really had a problem with that for years. He wouldn’t have been late to his appointment with Kashuu even if he had been hung over though. ]

Are you very hung over?

[ Because he seems like it. He remembers how it was like when he first started drinking. He should have brought him something greasy or something, to help against it. ]

[sharplydressed]

Ugh-- A little, yeah.

["A little very hung over". Well, it's not strictly incorrect...]

I went out drinking with a guy who really, really knows his way around bars... It was a lot. So, uh... sorry for like, all of this.

[GESTURES just to his entire self.]

[wordcarvings]

[ A guy like that, huh? ]

I've done that in the past too, but there are ways to avoid making it get too bad, you know.

[sharplydressed]

Yeah, I just got way outta hand. Too excited, maybe?

[He's just weak to hype and there's nothing more hype than a 21st birthday being celebrated at multiple bars throughout the night.]

I should be fine for the day, though. I'm pretty tough.

[wordcarvings]

That might have been it.

[ There is something called 'TOO hype' though. He should be more careful next time. ]

That's good, but if you need a break you should take one.

[sharplydressed]

[He discovered firsthand what "too hype" looks like... He'd sworn off drinking in the morning, even, though of course that won't actually happen.]

I will, don't worry. [Take a break, that is. HE'S NOT SELFLESS ENOUGH TO KEEP GOING IF HE NEEDS ONE...]

But aaanyway, are you ready to go meet V?

[wordcarvings]

That's good. [ Yeah, don't treat the hangover too badly. ]

I am, yes.

[sharplydressed]

Let's go, then! He doesn't live too far from here so finding him shouldn't be a problem.

[TIME TO GO INTO THE WOODS, exciting...]

[wordcarvings]

Alright, please lead the way, then.

[ Because he sure doesn't know where they’re going right now. ]

[sharplydressed]

Just this way!

[And away into the woods they'll trundle, until they get to a point where it's difficult to see back through the foliage and into the city itself. Around then, he'll pull what appears to be a little bar of granola out of a bag...]

V! V, c'mere!

[Silence...

And then a distant wark!]

[wordcarvings]

Oh.

[ He has been around chocobos a few times before, but only to sketch them. He doesn’t actually know much about them. ]

[sharplydressed]

[He's about to learn a little more, because here comes V, barreling out of the nearby bramble...! He's very large and very grey, unfortunately.]

V! Here you go, get over here.

[V also apparently loves food, since he immediately trots over to snatch up that oat bar with a happy wark.]

[wordcarvings]

[ Since Koutarou doesn't know if the bird was grey or not before, it’s fine that it’s grey. ]

He’s very big.

[sharplydressed]

Right? Isn't he cute?

[MAYBE NOT THE RIGHT WORD...]

D'you wanna feed him a little after the race? We can start at this rock and go over to that tree.

[wordcarvings]

Quite so.

[ Though he honestly prefers horses because this with chocobo's doesn't ever stop feeling weird - it's nothing against chocobo's, it's just the entire art history having been changed, which. he. hates. But still, each to ones own and all that. ]

It would give me an opportunity to get to know him at least a little bit, at least. [ Is that the race track? ] Okay...

[sharplydressed]

[Kashuu also isn't too fond of chocobos on a whole, honestly. Mostly just V, who he became ridiculously attached to for no real reason...]

You'll like him! He's really sweet.

[And he'll start leading V over to the "starting line" now... This janky race track.]

Should we do a three-two-one countdown?

[wordcarvings]

Is that so?

[ He smiles at both of them, and follows Kashuu and V. ]

I suppose. But, um, how is this supposed to work, exactly?

[ Do they compete against the chocobo. That's also a chocobo race. Sort of. ]

[sharplydressed]

[THAT IS... a very good question.]

I guess we could race him? We'd definitely lose, though... Or someone could ride on him and race the clock instead!

[Both are certainly types of races!]

[wordcarvings]

Well, seeing how far behind or how close we come could be something we could see, by racing him. He would not be spooked by that?

[sharplydressed]

Nope! Probably not, anyway... We've run all over the place with him and he mostly just gets upset if you drop his food on the ground.

[Which is why he's extra careful handling V's treats now...]

[wordcarvings]

That’s good to know. It would be a shame for food to go to waste. But if he won’t get scared of it then maybe we could do that.

[sharplydressed]

Mm, yeah! It should be fine.

[SHOULD BE.

But no it'll be fine, V is hard to spook! He'll lead him on over to their appointed starting space.]

You can do the honors of the countdown!

[wordcarvings]

Okay. Ah, on 'go' then.

[ They just have to line up then, right? So once that's done... ]

Three, two, one, go!

[ And, well, he's actually pretty fast and nimble, which probably will help in this case. ]

[sharplydressed]

[V also just seems content to play along, and starts running when they do just because?! Why not, probably.]

Wow! You're fast!

[V IS ALSO FAST so it looks like this'll be a competition between him and a zoomin' chicken, since Kiyomitsu falls behind pretty quickly. Mostly because he doesn't want to risk breaking a heel out here in the woods...]