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

[khajidont]

[He looks a little torn. He could get mad at Ken for causing a fuss unnecessarily, but he can't seem to keep himself from laughing, just a little.]

You are dangerous, kiddo.

[amadaman]

It's a cutthroat world, Jaime-san. Survival isn't just physical.

[khajidont]

[He snorts.]

Well, you got that down-pat. You'll have to start reconsidering your tactics when you start getting a little bigger, huh?

[amadaman]

I'll just have to learn from Minato-san, then.

[khajidont]

He'll hafta teach you the art of the poker face. I bet you could give it a decent shot now, though.

[amadaman]

Mmm, probably. At least, next to the people I live with.

[khajidont]

...it doesn't seem like that would be that hard. They're, uh, pretty good at expressing their emotions!

[amadaman]

... One second.

[Ken looks down at his phone and starts tapping at the screen.


...

Jaime gets an audio file!

If he plays it, it's a compilation of... what sounds like Kaneda and Tetsuo yelling each other's names during various occasions, mixed with the sounds of (a) barking dog(s), cats, something breaking, and Bull laughing, with a very quiet sigh at the end that's probably Ken or the other roommate.]

[khajidont]

[He has to laugh at that.]

So, how often do you go around recording the chaos that goes there? I bet you guys could become Internet sensations if you really wanted to.

[Do it for the vine...!]

[amadaman]

Quite... often, actually. We post them sometimes.

Mostly Koromaru and Capsule stuff.

[khajidont]

Capsule... that's one of your guys' other animals, right?

[Isn't Nonah 005 another one of those import houses with a veritable zoo living in it...?]

[amadaman]

Yeah. Kaneda-san and I found a stray on the way home from Minato-san's house and he we took him in.

Someone shoved him in a box and left him in the alleyway... we couldn't leave him.

Um, we have cats, too. Six. Mr Bull took in some of the kittens Dipper sneezed out.

[khajidont]

...so you guys have eight animals. Is that even legal?

[PROBABLY NOT.]

Wait, don't answer that; it doesn't really matter if it is or not. It sounds like a lot to take care of, though.

[amadaman]

We're victims of inter-dimensional kidnap and enforced militarization that aren't even granted full citizenship, Jaime-san. We should at least be allowed to keep pets.

And Koromaru's somehow become leader of the pack so... we're okay.

[khajidont]

What, even for the cats? Don't cats and dogs fight like...

[Okay, not even he's going to be that lame.]

...you know.

[Maybe at another time, he'd blink at a kid like Ken talking about enforced militarization this, and inter-dimensional kidnapping that, but it's Ken. He's got the vocabulary of an old man.]

[amadaman]

Well, Krem the cat leads the cats, but Koromaru was still the first animal in the house.

They cooperate, and no, not all cats and dogs fights. Here.

[And this time Ken sends a photo of Koromaru sleeping with all the cats plus the golden retriever puppy. Does he just have a gazillion photos of the pets? Yes.]

[khajidont]

Huh. Man, you've got a pretty big collection of photos by now, don't you? You should print the best ones out... maybe you could give them to your roomies as presents. It's nice to have hard copies of these kinds of things.

[They are pretty cute.]

[amadaman]

I already have, actually. They're in my room, on the wall above my desk. I framed the photo Minato-san got Hiro's aunt to print out, though. The one with everyone in it.

[khajidont]

Hey, I have that one hanging in my room too!

[Of course he does! He likes having pictures of his friends around, and that's the one rare occasion where they could actually manage to squish everyone into a photo at the same time.]

I never thought about actually going out and getting frames for them, though... I really should. They're gonna get all crumpled at this rate.

[amadaman]

It's a really good picture. It was nice of her to make copies for everybody -- um, even if you don't have space to get frames for all of your photos, you can always put them in sheet protectors. That'll keep them from getting damaged, at least.