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[Hey, it's some guy standing in his bedroom wearing street clothes. But in the next moment, with a rush of power, he's adorned in a set of armor. It's a mingling of steel plating, chain, and coarse fur draped over the shoulders, topping a cloak down the back. The giant hammer was lifted, swung like it weighed nothing, and settled against the fur-covered pauldron. The grin he gave the camera was pretty toothy.]

Yo! Name's Kanji. I said I'd go all out and be myself, so here I am.

I make stuff! Y'know, dolls, knit blankets, a whole bunch of cute shit. And there ain't a damn thing wrong with that, y'hear me? But I'm officially offering my services in makin' stuff like that for... y'know, birthdays or whatever.

But this right here's my gear for my Berserker Asterisk, and I can put somethin' together for you guys, too. I'm takin' commissions for job outfits, either to make 'em myself or work up design sketches to have made later once your mind's all made up.

...Uhhh... [He paused, and his expression faltered as he tried to think of something. Then a gloved hand went to mess with his hair as he gave a small, unsure growl in his throat. He had to be forgetting something, and it wasn't coming to mind.]

Yeah, I think that's it? Never advertised before. But I gave it a good shot.

[He nodded to someone off-camera, and the feed cuts.]

[An hour or so later, it's time for a private message. However, it was a technical oversight sort of evening. In contrast to the guy showing up earlier with slangy, slouchy confidence, he seemed a bit fidgety this time around.]

Y-... yo, Naoto! So this ain't a huge deal, but I'm almost done with your birthday present and I, uh... I need to make sure it fits. Normally the person would put the stuff on and see if somethin' needs to be looser or tighter and I'd just fix it no problem, but I wanna keep the final outfit a complete surprise.

So that means... w-well, it... that means I'd...

[His eyes turned away from the camera, his face an awkward pink.]

I-I need to take a couple measurements later if- if that's cool with you!

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Huh, I never would have figured. Guess you can't judge a book by it's cover, huh?

A little late for my purposes though, unfortunately.

Edited 2018-04-25 04:48 (UTC)

Nope. You can't.

No worries. Just felt like putting it out there!

Yup! Ren and I just... blew all of the money we did have on Makoto's birthday party yesterday. (Worth it though)

[ The downsides of not having shadows around to beat up for extra cash ]

But yeah, it's actually pretty cool! If anybody gives you a hard time lemme know and I'll give em what for!

[ rebels against society's expectations gotta stick together! ]

Edited 2018-04-26 04:15 (UTC)

Good way to go broke, that's for sure.

Thanks for the backup. So far nobody's given me shit, which is kind of weird but pretty cool at the same time.

How did Makoto like her birthday?

[ There's a pause on her end - not that it's easy to tell, given the medium. The warm kind of pause that comes with happy memories - even if they're really recent ones! ]

It went pretty well!

A little quiet, but we were in some kinda book cafe. So that was probably a good thing.

Edited 2018-04-26 05:00 (UTC)

Cool. Quiet's the way to go. Big parties always sounded obnoxious.

Wait a sec, why don't we just do a sketch or something? Get a rough idea, sleep on it, gives me some drawing practice.

I guess? I mean... yeah, a lot of loud noise and people sounds like a pain, but it still kinda felt weird with just the three of us at first.

[ Noise was okay when it was the right people. There was a comfy sort of feeling just being around the others, even if she wasn't directly contributing anything.

Thankfully others had stopped by at Makoto's party, and that had helped. There's that weird moral dilemma thing about wanting the others to be here, but if they're all going to end up here anyway, she hopes it's sooner rather than later.

His next statement distracts her a bit though. ]

A sketch? [ Like Yusuke????? ] What do you mean?

Like the fashion designers! They got these sketchbooks full of outfit ideas... I had something like that back home, and it was always pretty cool to kind of unload an idea that's stuck in your brain to come back to later.

Oh. Right. One of those.

[ Makes a bit more sense, but... ]

I hadn't like... actually thought of anything specific yet.

Oh, OK.

...What asterisks did you get, anyway?

Astrologian and Puppetmaster.

I was hoping there'd be something more tech oriented, but given how patchy it's been here I guess I'm not surprised.

Well, besides Magitek Knight but pretty sure I wouldn't be able to move with all that armor and stuff.

[ Picture a tiny Futaba inside all that heavy armor. Kinda like so. ]

Really? I saw the demo with all the armor and stuff. I'm not a tech type, but -I- was tempted to give it a shot! Hell, I might.

Who knows when some giant alien queen might show up and someone needs to forklift that shit into deep space?

[ This is another situation - like the one with Amanda - where nobody knows how funny the joke is except her. She doesn't want Makoto to call her out again though, so she won't comment. There is a lot of snickering going on her end though. ]

Nah, I'll leave that kind of stuff to you guys. I'll just give you a Balance so that you can really knock em outta the park.

[This is too much power. TOO MUCH. At least it's not Arrow.]

Oh man, I get to Ripley!?

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