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starlogs2017-01-27 04:27 pm
rockthemonkey) wrote in starlogs2017-01-27 04:27 pm
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Catch these hands!
WHO: Goku and open!
WHERE: Training area
WHEN: January 28th-ish
WHAT: Goku is moping and punching his feelings out. It helps a little.
WARNINGS: Bit of violence. Will update as necessary.
[In the training rooms, a young man has been exercising non-stop for the past few days. Bouncing off the walls, punching and kicking the air and seemingly full of limitless energy, Goku greets anyone who he catches watching him with a smile before focusing on his workout again. Honestly, space is boring in Goku's opinion. There haven't been any cool alien fights (that he's been invited to) and he's just been stuck on the spaceship for weeks now. Three weeks. Over three weeks, Goku's pretty sure, though he's never been very good at keeping track of time. Without Sanzo around, it feels like barely any time has passed at all.
Goku shakes his head and refocuses on the punching bag he's been tearing into all morning. Don't think like that. This is different than back then. 'You're not a kid anymore.' He keeps punching and kicking the bag with frightening speed, making it swing around violently. He occasionally jumps and switches sides quickly when it takes too long to swing back at him. He doesn't want to slow down, not when he's finally working up a sweat.
Not like he's been doing anything else worthwhile. Just sitting around waiting for Sanzo and the others to show up, like a pathetic little kid. But what else is he supposed to do? He's too stupid to figure out the anomaly stuff and get back to Shangri'la on his own. He can't even do anything about Ukoku Sanzo- no doubt planning some villainous deeds right now- because he's too weak to fight him on his own. Just a stupid, weak, pathetic monkey, all on his own. The others are all busy figuring out important shit in their world and he's just here doing nothing and- and-
'Right when I finally got to see him again.' The thought makes something inside Goku snap and he strikes the punching bag with far too much force. That's just the last straw for the poor thing that makes it split near in half. Sand spills out onto the floor, the bottom half of the bag hanging by a thread.]
Ah- shit!
[Fuuuuuck... Goku grabs the bag and helplessly tries to put it back together (how he hopes to accomplish that, no one can know), looking around guiltily for anyone who might have seen that.]
WHERE: Training area
WHEN: January 28th-ish
WHAT: Goku is moping and punching his feelings out. It helps a little.
WARNINGS: Bit of violence. Will update as necessary.
[In the training rooms, a young man has been exercising non-stop for the past few days. Bouncing off the walls, punching and kicking the air and seemingly full of limitless energy, Goku greets anyone who he catches watching him with a smile before focusing on his workout again. Honestly, space is boring in Goku's opinion. There haven't been any cool alien fights (that he's been invited to) and he's just been stuck on the spaceship for weeks now. Three weeks. Over three weeks, Goku's pretty sure, though he's never been very good at keeping track of time. Without Sanzo around, it feels like barely any time has passed at all.
Goku shakes his head and refocuses on the punching bag he's been tearing into all morning. Don't think like that. This is different than back then. 'You're not a kid anymore.' He keeps punching and kicking the bag with frightening speed, making it swing around violently. He occasionally jumps and switches sides quickly when it takes too long to swing back at him. He doesn't want to slow down, not when he's finally working up a sweat.
Not like he's been doing anything else worthwhile. Just sitting around waiting for Sanzo and the others to show up, like a pathetic little kid. But what else is he supposed to do? He's too stupid to figure out the anomaly stuff and get back to Shangri'la on his own. He can't even do anything about Ukoku Sanzo- no doubt planning some villainous deeds right now- because he's too weak to fight him on his own. Just a stupid, weak, pathetic monkey, all on his own. The others are all busy figuring out important shit in their world and he's just here doing nothing and- and-
'Right when I finally got to see him again.' The thought makes something inside Goku snap and he strikes the punching bag with far too much force. That's just the last straw for the poor thing that makes it split near in half. Sand spills out onto the floor, the bottom half of the bag hanging by a thread.]
Ah- shit!
[Fuuuuuck... Goku grabs the bag and helplessly tries to put it back together (how he hopes to accomplish that, no one can know), looking around guiltily for anyone who might have seen that.]
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... Yeah. [Nods to all of that and scratches the Tenko's ears.] Back home- [and even though they're traveling, anywhere with Sanzo is as close to "home" as Goku can imagine] we've been traveling for a while. This is the longest I've been in one place for nearly two years.
[You'd think someone who spent five hundred years in one place wouldn't be bothered by three weeks, but you would be wrong.]
We've been fighting all that time too, so it's weird just sittin' around like this, you know?
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Why were you traveling and fighting so much anyhow? [Mio's curious, and her own questions about learning to fight and all can wait while she attempts to unravel the Mystery that is Goku.]
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Aw, you know! Stuff! [Why would she know, Goku]
[Still half focused on the tenko, he gently tries to coax it onto his shoulder... That's where Jeep always likes to sit. Other animals should like it too, right?] We're heading West to stop some bad guys, so they keep telling other bad guys to come kill us or something. [Like that's totally normal.] An' then there's people who wanna eat Sanzo and other bad guys we've gotta beat up an' sometimes Gojyo steals my pork dumplings.
[So of course Goku has to fight him too. All those causes are of equal significance.]
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The tenko takes a few tries before she realizes what Goku wants, but she scrambles onto his shoulder dutifully. SHe doesn't curl up there though, preferring to stand on her back legs and rest the upper half of her body against Goku's head, flattening his hair to get a good look around.]
Eat him? Why? [WHAT.] Who else were you traveling with? What were they like? [She thinks he mentioned them before, but she can't quite remember. The more she learns the more she wants to know, and the less she has to say about herself.]
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I don't really get why, it's pretty dumb. Sanzo doesn't even look tasty. [Too tough and bitter. Also, this is definitely the face of a young man who has spent time considering how all his friends would taste.] There's me and Sanzo and Gojyo and Hakkai- oh! And Jeep. We're all traveling together.
[But hm, what are they like... Goku ducks his head a little to let the Tenko see better while he thinks about his response.] Sanzo's Sanzo. Hakkai's real smart and nice... Gojyo's a jerk cockroach, you don't want to talk to him.
[Mio's too pretty to talk to Gojyo, he'll hit on her.]
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Sanzo's Sanzo. Helpful. 'Jerk cockroach'?? Hakkai so far sounds like the only nice and normal one, but Mio kind of laughs anyhow, amused.]
Well, they sound pretty great. I know you'll see them again, but I hope it's soon. Don't know if the ship will be able to handle it all, but it'd be pretty cool to see. [The last thing the ship needs is bullet holes in it, but whatever.]
You're lucky to have a close group of friends like that... [Mio's a little jealous, maybe.]
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They're okay. [THEY'RE GREAT HE LOVES THEM but boys.] I know I'll see them soon, but it's kinda lame just sitting here waiting for them. [He's an action hero, damn it!
Goku hesitates before asking this next question, knowing instinctively there's a risk it's not a happy topic.] ... Do you have friends like that? What about your sister?
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It was inevitable a question about herself would come up here, but she tenses automatically anyhow, arms crossing over her chest and weight shifting uneasily.]
...Not really. [She says at length, reluctant to admit it.] I knew people from school and all, and my dance classes. People I would hang out with in class or lunch, maybe once in a while outside of it, but... No one close. [Which just sounds rather sad to admit now that she's saying it out loud. But at the time, she hadn't felt particularly like she was missing out on anything.]
But I had my sister Mayu, yeah, so I wasn't lonely. We're twins, so we're closer than normal siblings or normal best friends-- she's literally half of me. We're never apart; Wherever I am, she's there too. [Mio pauses and looks to her side, as if in a spot where Mayu should've been. Her voice grows a bit hollow] ...Well, she was. She... [Mio pauses, struggling with if she should continue or not. She hasn't really said it out loud since she got here, and the length of time between it happening and now is still too short. She doesn't think it'll ever be easy, though.]
...She died, before I came here. [There really isn't a softer way to reveal that.]
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Goku nods at the first part, looking like he understands. For a while, it was just him and Sanzo, right? The temple monks were around, but really it was just them. He follows Mio's gaze to the empty space next to her, already realising where this is going. Yeah, maybe Mayu is just back in Mio's world, but he's met so many people who have lost someone important that he's grown to recognise the tells. So it's like that... What should he say? Apologising makes no difference, he knows that. Saying he knows how she feels just sounds dumb.]
... She's still there. [The words are out before Goku has a chance to really think about them.] I mean- I don't really know anything about souls but- [... But he's thought about this before, hasn't he?] ... Those precious memories of her are still inside you, right? So I think... she is too. And one day, if she takes form again then...
[... He's getting that familiar feeling in his chest again. The one he can never really explain.]
Then she'll definitely be with you again.
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And it's annoying to know she's not angry at Goku so much as herself. Her throat hurts. Ugh. Take form again, like the butterflies, but maybe beyond that, maybe some day-- But she doesn't want some day she wants now and she's not going to get it.]
I guess.
[is what she finally goes with, biting her tongue to keep from saying something she's going to regret later.]
'One day' doesn't really help me now. [Okay she's not quite successful, but at least it's not bitterness and anger directed, er, directly, at him, but as soon as it's out in the air she deflates and shakes her head.]
...But I get it. Thanks. [Even if she doesn't sound too thankful, she can appreciate the effort he's putting in and the intent.]
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... I didn't mean it like "so you should feel better" or somethin', I know that's not something I can really help with but... It's just what I think. [It's what would happen if he lost his important people. It sounds right, and it makes the heartbreak a little less painful for him. But that's him.] If you wanna get mad instead, that's fine. Punchin' stuff helps sometimes.
[Fighting is so much simpler than everything else.]
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...Show me how to throw a punch, then. [not how she wanted to ease into asking for this, but it works. Anger is a good motivator.]
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[No one will suspect him if they're on the opposite side of the room. He's brilliant. Just follow him.]
You don't know howta punch?
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I mean, I know you make a fist and like... Punch. [She knows the basic idea of it okay] But I've never had to fight before-- not a real person or anything, anyhow. Spirits are kind of different.
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Never? [Hmm, he knows normal people don't fight as often as he does but it's still so strange...] Well, fightings easy! You just hit people real hard till they stop movin'!
[Monkey Style]
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That's a little... [Simplistic?? Mio rest her hands on her hips and frowns at him] There's gotta be something more to it than that.
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[Goku is already a Bad Teacher. This is what happens when you talk to someone who finds fighting as natural as breathing. He slips into a cliche martial arts pose, fist at the ready.]
Come on, give it a try! You can have one free hit.
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Are you sure? What if I hurt you? [Somewhere in another universe there's uproarious laughter at this]
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[Not going to assume Mio can't hurt him because if anyone knows that looks can be deceiving, it's Goku! He holds up his fist for her to look at.]
Just like this, it's easy!
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It... it probably doesn't do anything to Goku, honestly, but it has Mio shaking her hand out with a pained noise. Her punch might have hurt herself more than him, honestly.] Ow...
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... Wow, you're really crap at this! [Like... wow!!] You weren't kidding!
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[Mio shoves at him in retaliation, face turning red in embarrassment] But I can't let everyone else protect me forever!
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[Why shoving??? He is an innocent monkey.] ... You can say that all ya want, but it won't help if you don't get any stronger.
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I just don't know how to get stronger. And I know it won't happen fast, but... [But she doesn't want 'slowly but surely' dammit, even if she's aware she has to settle for that.]
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You need to start by building up your strength, I think. [It's hard when Goku doesn't remember how he started- he's been able to fight for as long as he can remember. But he's pretty sure that's right.] You can exercise with me for a bit, if ya want, and then try punching me again.
[He's very well meaning, but an hour trying to lift weights with Goku is probably going to kill Mio.]