[tri OOM] Yamato and Quentin

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato's room is as neat as ever, apart from all the maps and notepads on his desk, where he's been working out repair plans and routes.

The video games he mentioned are also readily apparent: There are three on the kitchen work surface, the boxes still in their outer plastic packaging: What looks like a brightly coloured kart racing game, Rodrigo's Super Kart Racing; an equally brightly coloured fighting game, Deadly Iron Brawl X; and what seems to be a fairly serious looking flight simulator game, entitled Jet Flight Simulator 2006.

"I haven't actually played any of them yet," Yamato notes.

Comments

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Wry: "He's a pain. Loud, obnoxious, drunk half the time, weirdly obsessed with karaoke."

[heatherandsteel]

"There's karaoke in the Digital World?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Yeah, the whole reason we -- well, Mimi, Taichi, and Jyou -- met TonosamaGekomon in the first place was because he'd gone to sleep for a hundred years after losing a karaoke contest," Yamato says, completely deadpan. "And the Gekomon wanted Mimi to wake him up."

[heatherandsteel]

"The Digital World is so weird."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Please, like you've never gone to sleep for a century because you lost a singing contest," Yamato teases. "I bet it happens to you all the time."

[heatherandsteel]

"Only if someone hits me with elf shot."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Elf shot? What's that?"

[heatherandsteel]

"Oberon's Law says that Fae shouldn't kill each other so elf shot was created. When it hits a Fae, we fall asleep for a hundred years."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Seems like a circuitous way of getting around that law," Yamato murmurs. "Kind of missing the point, too. Surely the idea when he made that law wasn't for people to just find an alternative that wasn't technically killing."

[heatherandsteel]

"It was meant to be merciful and to keep us from fighting, but didn't work."

He sighs and leans against Yamato.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"People aren't simple enough to be deterred by something as small as 'don't kill each other,' I guess," Yamato murmurs. "Nobody can wipe out violence entirely."

That thought makes him furrow his brow a little, because it's an uncomfortable reminder of all the arguments he and Taichi have had on the topic of late.

[heatherandsteel]

"No, especially when they're ambitious and we can be really ambitious."

That's what's behind this current kidnapping because Duchess Riordan is ruthless.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Like this bordello owning noble you're dealing with right now? She seems to really creep you out."

For reasons that are not wholly unclear.

[heatherandsteel]

"She looks at me like she wants me to add to me to her decorations."

Which is unnerving, at least Toby sees it and is protecting him.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato frowns at that, curling his arm a little tighter around Quentin.

"Yeah, well, nobody's going to let that happen."

[heatherandsteel]

"I know." She still made him nervous.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"I wish I could tell you that you'll never have to see her again after this, but if she's an influential player at court, I guess that's a pipe dream."

[heatherandsteel]

"I"ll probably be seeing her again when Toby comes back. She knows where Chelsea is."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"At least you'll have Toby as back-up. Or I suppose maybe you'll be her back-up, but either way."

[heatherandsteel]

"Yes, we'll find a way out of whatever happens."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"How many cases have you done with Toby by now, anyway? You must be getting pretty experienced with all this stuff."

[heatherandsteel]

"Four so far, yeah, this is the fifth one. I don't always feel like it since every case is so different."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"That just means you're getting a broader range of experience. Nothing wrong with that."

[heatherandsteel]

"No, I'll be prepared for a lot especially involving disappearing children."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Wryly: "If any children get abducted in mysterious Digital World circumstances in my world, I'll be sure to bring you in to help."

Beat.

Frowning a little: "Again, I mean. If any children get abducted again."

He's not even counting the time where he was one of the abductees, this is just a suspiciously common thing to happen in his world.