1 Penguin; accidental video

[augustpenguin]

[Some one's SFC is sitting in a pile of discarded clothes, tilted at an angle and facing the sea. It seems pretty calm out there, but after about two minutes of staying focused on this area something comes swimming through the water back to the shore very quickly.

Oh. It's that shirtless blond who showed up in the plaza last week, wearing those same pink and black jammers he arrived in.

As soon as he reaches shallow enough water he comes up sputtering and, eventually, screaming in a shrill voice. He bolts on to the beach and goes rushing by, a blast of sand covering the SFC and his clothes, cutting off the visual part of the feed. His voice fades in to the distance as he goes, though.

And then everything goes silent, until about five minutes pass he returns and picks it up, shaking the sand off. He still looks freaked, breathing heavy and wet hair dripping over his face.]

Th-there's a monster in the ocean! I went out to see how far I could swim a-and this huge thing came up and nearly ate me! WHY IS THERE A MONSTER IN THE OCEAN?!

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[secondcoolest]

[ He will never understand what's so hard to get about this. Or anything, really. ]

When you touch the coral, you give it energy. However, if you never touch the coral, you yourself run out of energy. It's a catch-22. But then, keeping it energized helps us out, given the fact that it keeps this whole place together.

[ hm. ]

Exposition aside, why would you swim out that far, anyway? What if you weren't able to make it back?

[augustpenguin]

So... touch the coral. Okay! I got that!

[Not everyone can be smart like you, Bon. :|]

Weeell... see before I came here my friends and I were doing a training camp for the swimming tournament that was coming up, and we had these three islands to swim between for stamina training. Well... it didn't go very well. I'm way more out of shape than I expected to be! I could hardly keep up when we were running on the island!

[He just looks so disappointed in himself]

So I figured, if there's water here, I could at least try to keep working on it. I didn't mean to go out that far! I know it's dangerous to swim alone, but Mako-chan was out and I didn't wanna bother him...

But I kept thinking 'if I get a little further, it'll be more distance to get back'. Everything was calm so I thought I'd be okay alone...

[And this is when it dawns on him that he really should have been more careful, and he was pushing himself needlessly.]

Ehh... that was pretty dumb... I won't do that again.

[secondcoolest]

See that you don't! Or at least wear the vest that you should have gotten when you arrived!

[ GOSH it's not like he's concerned over a stranger ]

[augustpenguin]

[No not at all.

And ow his ear drums. Even for all his screaming earlier that's loud enough for him to pull his SFC back and flinch.]

Okay okay!

... wait what does the vest do?

[secondcoolest]

[ how are you still alive ]

...It lets you breathe under water.

[augustpenguin]

[He's not really this dumb normally! There's just so much he doesn't know.]

... REALLY?!

[secondcoolest]

Really. Most of this is in the brochure, you know. You should really read that.

[augustpenguin]

... the-- OH! I got that! I just... forgot to read it. After Mako-chan showed up, it totally slipped my mind.

It's still in my room, though!

[secondcoolest]

I suggest you start there.

[augustpenguin]

I will! And uhm. Sorry for being so difficult. I'm still getting used to everything here.

[secondcoolest]

It's alright. You're very similar to a friend of mine, actually.

[ leaping before he looks all day every day ]

Just try not to get yourself killed by doing something stupid like that.

[augustpenguin]

[Just be glad he wasn't skinny dipping, Bon. He has done that before.]

I'll be more careful! I promise!

[secondcoolest]

And don't spend all of your time swimming under water, either!

[ He's a swimmer. It's a fair warning. ]

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

[augustpenguin]

Well yeah. I gotta eat some time, don't I?

[Fair warning, but he's also not Haruka.]