caughtinanetwork | nineteenth flame: video { fun with office chairs and fire

[Even though this feed is coming from one Rin Okumura's SFC, it seems to be focused on Death the Kid, leaning against a low wall outside the Villa. He's looking right, silently, at something off camera, intently focused on it. There's a good two minutes of nothing before he speaks.]

This really is a terrible idea...

[There's no actual response, verbally at least, but what does happen is... interesting to say the least. A blur of... mostly varying hues of blue goes zooming by at an impressive speed. Impressive if only because the person going by appears to be on a rolling office chair. Not something one would equate to speed. But Rin has got it going pretty damn fast because he's actually using his flames to propel himself across the stone entryway of the Villa like a rocket.

And it seems to be working pretty well. He's crouched on the seat, almost like a surfer, palms out and blasting his blue fire down at the ground, and so far appears to be maintaining decent balance. He even manages to zip back around with a gentle coaxing of his flames to the right, guiding the normally unwieldy chair in to a nice turn. He lets out a very loud whoop as he goes zooming by Kid even faster, prompting the reaper to just roll his gold eyes and suddenly walk off.

Rin doesn't notice he's gone, and makes a few more laps (with varying cries of victory) before Kid returns, a bag of ice and first aid kit in either hand.

He knows where this is going.

And true to his silent prediction, Rin decides to pick up a little more speed the next time around by increasing the intensity of his flames, and just as he gets past where the SFC can view, there's a very loud CRASH!

Kid moves off his perch and follows the path Rin took.]

I warned you, Rin.

Owwww...

((ooc: Death the Kid

symmetrophile used with permission from Dawn. Replies will probably come from both Kid and Rin.))

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...that still looked kinda fun.

And highly dangerous. Don't go following his example.

I couldn't anyway.

It wasn't that bad a fall, was it?

Not for someone with as hard a head as Rin, but I can't speak for the safety of anyone else.

[A beat of silence, and:]

His case is unique.

[HEY.]

Yeah, I know. He's pretty tough.

You two know each other?

[Oh, they haven't been acquainted yet! Although distracted by his efforts to clean Rin up (and possibly apply a bandaid somewhere), Kid's golden gaze briefly focuses on the SFC with genuine interest.]

I don't believe we've met. My name is Death the Kid.

We're friends.

I'm Roxas. ... Do I call you Death? [Even to Roxas this is kind of a strange name.]

Lord Death is my father. You may call me Kid, my other friends do.

[Because, yeah. Kid is just going to assume that since Roxas and Rin are friends, that he, too, is entitled to a shot at this friendship.

Spoiled bratty grim reapers.]

It's nice to meet you, Roxas.

[Roxas misses the implication behind "other." You're just not friends with someone until there's been ice cream-- or the destruction of an ice cream shop, in Rin's case.]

Nice to meet you, too.

I guess you're not from Rin's world. You made friends here?

As far as I can tell, we're from very similar worlds. I may be wrong.

[But there were still distinct differences.]

I only met him here, in Vatheon.

Does your world have demons, too?

Yes, but not in the way that Rin's does.

[Fortunately for Roxas, he won't let a fellow inquisitive soul go without some answers.]

Rather... a corrupted soul that feeds on the souls of others would inevitably become a twisted monstrosity we call a Kishin. Stories would call them demons.

They're functionally similar, either way you look at it.

...that doesn't sound like Rin at all.

[Sounds more like Heartless.]

That's because Rin, unlike most demons, defines himself by his humanity and strives to be the good person he is.

[And he's only half-demon, to boot. That makes him a pariah to certain groups in either demographic, Kid is sure.]

[Roxas frowns skeptically, but.]

I guess you'd know more about it.

[He read all about them in a book, so it must be true!]

I've done my homework. If you're interested by the subject, I have a book you can borrow.

Any friend of Rin's is welcome to my modest collection.

Um. Thanks, but- I'd rather learn about people first-hand.

[Learning in any form is great -- but without using books? At all?]

I suppose that's fair enough. After all, had I relied only on the information held within one book in particular, it might have altered my first impression.

Yeah. And that can really suck sometimes.

Killjoy...

[Rin your head is still bleeding, stop that.]

[He's going to be withholding the makeshift ice-pack until he has dabbed at any scrapes with a cottonball soaked with hydrogen peroxide, and god help you if you try to resist, Rin.]

Anyone could have told you the risks of rolling office chairs. Honestly.

[He's hissing a lot and making noise, but certainly not resisting. He's gotten this treatment enough times from Yukio in his life that he's accustomed to holding still and letting the person work.]

Risk my ass! I've seen people roll around in 'em before! I just... took that last turn bad. Yeah. That's it.

They don't roll around on them going mach one.

[Slight exaggeration. And this time, he might be laying on that cottonball a little harder.]

Just be glad you didn't run someone over.

Oooooowww--! Hey I made sure it was clear! I wasn't gonna do it when some one was walkin' up. 'sides, I coulda stopped at any time.

[He doesn't mean to sound like an addict, it just comes out like that. What he means to say is he could have ceased his flames at any time, but he's unaware that at the speed he was going, momentum would have kept him moving.

Apparently not having Yukio around again means blatant abuse of his powers is now in play again.

Idiot.]

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