pc catchall for junpei (crashout)

[uncurtained]

IM PUTTING THE TIMON GIF IN HERE LATER YOU CANT BEAT ME

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[crashout]

Not a party kind of guy. [That would, like, imply having friends and stuff. But at the second question he takes a drink.] The haircutting wasn't recent, but it happened anyway.

[Hum....] Never have I ever...held down a job for more than a year.

[uncurtained]

I guess you don't seem like it. Not in a bad way or anything, just... I can't really picture you at a rave.

[She takes another drink, cupping her face with her free hand as she looks at him.]

Something's gotta pay tuition. What about you? Bad luck, or something else?

[crashout]

[He wonders if that's something he would have done if his life had proceeded normally. It's a cute thought, maybe.]

Something else. [No, elaborate. Use your words.] I didn't really care about the ones I had, so I've changed a couple of times.

[Tuition. So she's in college, okay, he can figure that part out. She's a little older, so grad school? Sure.] I was thinking about changing again before I came here.

[uncurtained]

Yeah? What did you want to do next?

[She pauses to think.]

Never have I ever broken a bone.

[crashout]

[...hah.] Classified.

[But there's a drink.] When I was a kid, I broke my wrist because I jumped out of a tree.

[He's at least easing into this conversation, so that's nice.] Never have I ever had a sibling.

[uncurtained]

Ooh, mysterious. Wait, you jump out, not fell out? What happened?

[Another sip!]

Clyde and Anya. At least I'm not the only one who didn't luck out in the naming department.

[crashout]

Nothing happened. I was just...y'know. A kid. [Stupid, he means. But...huh.]

I can't say I'm envious of any of you. I'm not surprised you go by Beck.

[uncurtained]

Sounds better than Guinevere, that's for sure.

[She shifts slightly, drawing her knees up so her legs are tucked in front of her on the chair.]

Never have I ever been on TV.

[crashout]

[It's easier to say, too, but he's leaving that alone. She's getting more comfortable and he's...still leaning, but kind of settling to perch on the arm of a couch. He's getting there.]

That's a negative for me, too. [A tilt of his head.] Never have I ever had any of my writing published.

[uncurtained]

[She looks down at her glass, then towards him.]

How are we defining published? Widespread circulation, or school newspaper level?

[crashout]

Let's say read by a general public and not a classroom full of people. [So yeah, school newspaper would count.]

[uncurtained]

[She takes another drink, then.]

You caught me. Creative writing student.

[crashout]

Somehow I figured. Most people wouldn't have prose as a skill. [...this isn't never have I ever, but maybe it says something about him that he's asking her on his own.] What do you write then?

[uncurtained]

You read it already, huh?

[She laughs. Of course, she's thinking of everything else written about her there, so it's a little self conscious.]

Mostly poetry. I want to write a book, though.

[crashout]

I like to do my research. And it's nice to know that some things are true. [He doesn't seem to mind in any case.]

I've never really understood poetry. Kinda goes over my head, but...sounds pretty ambitious. [It's not a bad goal for someone who seems to come from a normal life.] A book of poems, or something else?

[uncurtained]

Not everything is true.

[Even if she's not keen to explain what she's referencing, she looks away for a moment.]

No, fiction. I'm not sure what it'll be about yet.

[crashout]

Don't they say that there's some truth in fiction? Write what you know and whatever? [That's not to counter what she's said, but just saying.]

[uncurtained]

Yeah, that's the plan. Just a matter of... narrowing it down.

Anyways, never have I ever been in the hospital for longer than a day.

[crashout]

[There's a slight grin that's almost like understanding. It's a subject to pursue later then.

At the question, he drinks.] Have you ever even been to a hospital?

[uncurtained]

Yeah, I got my tonsils out when I was... Eleven or twelve, I think. What about you? Unless that's also classified.

[crashout]

[A wince.] I've been lucky to avoid surgery. [He looks at his empty glass for a minute before he refills it.] Couple of years back I got really sick with the flu and got sent to the hospital by one of my boss's. Nothing too exciting.

[But also not the best. Hm...] Never have I ever owned a car.

[uncurtained]

Must have been a pretty nasty flu. It's good they were looking out for you.

[She doesn't drink.]

I just borrowed my mom's when I was in high school and needed one, or rode with my friends when I was in undergrad.

[crashout]

[There's a shrug. They did, but he still hates hospitals thanks.]

I've never been able to afford one, so I'm out, too. [...] I lived in walking distance from work and where I was going to school, and now I hitch rides with some of my coworkers.

[uncurtained]

[She nods.]

What'd you major in? We talked about my writing thing, now it's your turn.

[crashout]

Well I...I didn't graduate. So I didn't really major in anything.