DON'T STOP BELIEVIN'

[khajidont]

[OOC: This post is backdated to yesterday -- that is to say, before Batman's post on the newest volume of Crane shenanigans!]

[For once, Jaime's not looking pensive when he turns on the communicator, nor is he inside his home. He's just outside his home - which is Heropa #015 for all his lucky, lucky neighbors - standing in front of his front door. He gives the camera a singularly unimpressed look.]

You know what? I wasn't gonna say anything, but I think I have to share, because someone decided that my house needed a little improving. Check this out.

[He swings open the front door, and Journey's DON'T STOP BELIEVING automatically begins to play.]

Which, you know, ha ha. Very funny. But wait! There's more!

[Welcome to his home, imPorts, because you're getting a little walkthrough. He swings open the door to his living room, and goes up the stairs to open the doors of the bedrooms and bathrooms, though he doesn't focus the camera on anything in particular.

As he opens the door, one by one, more Journey songs begin to play.

There's a lot.

Jaime gives the screen an exaggerated smile.]

Oh, but that's not all. It gets better. [He runs back down the stairs, throws open the basement door, and louder than any of the other songs, a popular ditty by good old Rick begins to play. All of the songs are playing at once now in a blaring cacophony of noise. It's awful. There should never be so many guitar riffs in one place.]

Why is this happening to me. I can't get them to turn off! Any of them! [He points accusingly at the screen.] Wally, I freakin' know this was you! Get your ass over here and fix it!

[It was Wally, true, but it was also Mr. Tadashi Sweet As Sugar Hamada. He just hasn't figured it out yet.]

Comments

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[amadaman]

... It's like those birthday cards at Hallmark that sing at you.

video;

[khajidont]

It's like fifteen of them, and they're all screaming at you at full volume.

[amadaman]

How about you close your doors to start with, Jaime-san?

[khajidont]

No way. I need him to sit there and listen to what he's done.

[Pah! You and your common sense!]

[amadaman]

So you're going to sit there and listen to the cacophony of your own house.

You could just record a few seconds of this and set it to loop as a video at him, you know?

[khajidont]

Yes! That is exactly what I'm going to do!

[He's just being a drama queen again, Ken. You should know this by now.]

Besides, my neighbor's gotten into it too, and I need to see how long he lasts before he admits it's terrible.

[amadaman]

Your neighbor? Don't you live next to Hiro and Tadashi's aunt?

... Or Mabel?

[khajidont]

Cass, yeah -- but I'm not doing this to bug her. His name's Cisco, he lives a couple doors down and he had the nerve to say that he likes this racket.

[amadaman]

... If he said he liked it because it annoyed you, that'll be rude, but I don't know. If you weren't playing fifteen songs at the same time, maybe they're not that bad?

[khajidont]

Nope, he's saying he likes them all at once because it's annoying, and he - [read: everyone who knows Jaime] - likes seeing me annoyed.

[A beat.]

And I don't even like these songs one at a time.

[amadaman]

Your friends like annoying you, don't they.

[khajidont]

It's an epidemic.

[Maybe if you didn't make it so entertaining...!]

I'm pretty sure you're the only one who doesn't, Ken.

[amadaman]

... Does even Minato-san?

[khajidont]

...see, the problem here is, even if he did? I'm not sure I'd be able to tell. He probably doesn't enjoy straight up annoying me, though, so I guess that'd make two.

[Unless Minato is being nefarious...]

[amadaman]

At what point do you usually really notice though, Jaime-san? You're really, really patient, but sometimes you don't get upset about things that most people would get mad about either. Even during that trip...

[Jaime may or may not have noticed that if he was walking with Ken and someone bumped into him without immediate apology, it usually came a few seconds later when Ken grabbed at said person's shirt and glared them into submission.]

[khajidont]

Hey, just 'cause I don't get mad about it doesn't mean that I don't notice! You just gotta learn how to tune it out, Ken. Follow Minato's lead and get some really good headphones.

[He assumes, naturally, that Ken is talking about Shinji and Akihiko's bickering. He did not, in fact, notice he was being followed by an angry, overprotective pomeranian of a little brother.]

...you didn't think the trip was that bad, did you?

[amadaman]

I have some. He got them for my birthday.


And no? Why would I think the trip was bad...?

[khajidont]

'Cause you mentioned me not getting upset about stuff most people do, and then you mentioned the trip. So the two have to be connected, right?

[amadaman]

Oh. Well, yes, but that doesn't mean I thought the trip was bad. You really didn't notice?

[khajidont]

Are we not talking about Shinji and Akihiko arguing?

[BECAUSE THAT WAS PRETTY ANNOYING]

[amadaman]

... No I was talking about those people who kept bumping into you and not apologizing.

Sanada-san and Aragaki-san weren't that bad.

[khajidont]

That? I didn't think most people got annoyed by that -- if it's a crowded place, it's only normal that people will bump into you sometimes.

[Huh...]

Besides, most of them apologized eventually.

[amadaman]

It couldn't be helped if it was really crowded, but some people just walked at you like they expected you to move.

Besides, I made them. Apologize.

[khajidont]

Wha -- Ken! You didn't have to do that!

What did you do?

[amadaman]

Those people won't be committing any more hit and runs.