ten wild roars ✪ fail!video; id: wild tiger

[earnedmystripes]

[HELLO who's ready for some really shaky/jerky video??? This guy's last phone was of the flip variety so he's now trying to figure out this newfangled """"smart"""" phone and sucking at it royally.

Which means, instead of centering on his face like a normal post on the network, everyone's treated to a good (?) view of his embarrassing old suit from various angles until he loses his patience and just sort of talks in the direction of the camera.]

Heeeeeyyy, so uh, listen, I'm totally down for helping you guys out with the whole hero thing, really I am--Wild Tiger, at your service!

But uhm, no one's in trouble right now are they? 'Cause it'd be super great if I could like, be at your service tomorrow or something, instead. See, my wife's having our baby like right now, and I reaaaaaallyyy need to be there or my ass is gonna be in the hottest water ever. Well, actually, I needed to be there half an hour ago but there was this situation--

Anyway!! If someone could point me toward whoever I gotta talk to, that'd be amazing, I'll owe you one. Or ten. A lot, okay. Thanks in advance!

Now how do I shut this thing...off....

[Pls excuse Screwy Feed v.2 Return of the Revenge while he just starts randomly poking at his comm, and eventually succeeds in shutting off the video but actually just has turned it to audio haha OOPS. SO there's gonna be some obnoxious ambient noise until the post times out.]

Comments

[video]

[tuxedo_magician]

I don't know who to tell you to talk to, but congratulations.

audio! bc old man fails at technology

[earnedmystripes]

Ahh, that's alright. Thanks anyway!! And for the congrats, too!

[You know how they say that thing about how pregnant women seem to be glowing? Maybe that's true for soon-to-be dads, too. Not that...Kaito can see him. But you can hear it in his voice.]

[video] aww, Kotetsu, why so cute?

[tuxedo_magician]

I'll ask around for you, though!

[ He laughs. ]

First kid?

[ Because he kind of sounds how he imagined his dad would've when his mom told him he was pregnant. ]

[resipiscent]

[A reason he has to go back right away...

Riku wasn't going to answer. This guy looks like a doofus. And he kind of sounds like one. But then he got thinking about it -- they're the same, aren't they?

He needs to go back to Kairi just as much as this guy wants to get back to his wife. Both of them are needed just as much, albeit for different reasons.

So against his better judgment, he replies.]

I'm looking for a way off this world, too. Or... the four I've been able to access, anyway. There's someone I need to get back to, too.

permaudio!

[earnedmystripes]

--Ehh?? There're four of them???

[Kotetsu he just means the cities......]

Hey, any of 'em have a city called Sternbild?

permavid

[resipiscent]

... Not as far as I know. They're just the areas I've been able to access through that teleporter.

voice; id: blue rose

[onhold]

( Are you all right? is the question she means to ask, but it doesn't quite come out that way. )

What is wrong with you? Why are you wearing that thing?

audioooooo

[earnedmystripes]

[WOW RUDE]

Oi, what's your problem?? This is my Hero suit!!!

video;

[rideme]

... No, no.

Go back to the suit thing. Do a little turn, yeah?

video;

[earnedmystripes]

[A regular person might realize in this moment that they are being flirted with. But this person is an oblivious one when it comes to these things, not to mention happily married to the love of his life.]

I can't figure out how to get the stupid camera back on. [Huff.] It was pretty cool though, huh?

video;

[rideme]

Push all the buttons until it works. It's what I do.

[Dammit.]

video

[khajidont]

...so I got good news for you, and I got bad news for you. But first the good news: your wife's not gonna have that baby without you there.

[...okay, so he doesn't know that for sure, but he assumes Kotetsu was present.]

AUDIO whoops

[earnedmystripes]

[SQUINTS???]

E-eh?? I don't think--I mean, I got the call just a bit ago, it's really happening right now, I seeeeriously don't have any time.

audio;

[wrongedwright]

[He imitates a voice, deeper and more booming than his own.]

Don't think it's quite that simple, hero.

[...Look, he sees an opportunity for a quick laugh.]

audio;

[earnedmystripes]

....What's that supposed to mean, huh?

[HE CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO TURN HIS CAMERA BACK ON BUT THERE WOULD BE SOME SIDE-EYEING HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IF HE COULD.]

video;

[historiology]

[Here, Wild Tiger. Have a...what, six year old? Somewhere around that age. Who is apparently in awe at the idea of a baby. Because he has never seen one. Even if he knows what they are, in theory.

Just give him a moment to figure this thing out.]

A--a baby?!

video;

[earnedmystripes]

[Oh god, it's a kid. A little kid. Oh crap, oh no, oh hell, he doesn't know how to give The Talk yet?!?! he's supposed to have years to prepare for this, help, help, mayday.]

Y-yeah, uhm, it's what you call, you know, a littler person. Like, you know how dogs have puppies and cats have kittens? That's what um, people are called, at first. Before they grow up.

audio;

[afterlegend]

[The mention of a 'Hero thing' is what keeps Yuri from bypassing the video of what appears to be a very poorly coordinated older man in an even more poorly designed costume.

Is it possible? It feels like it is, like there are more people here from Sternbild than just him, and it even feels as though he ought to know the man speaking of wanting to get back, to be with his wife and child, or at least...

...that's what the burning pain in his chest feels like. Why else should he feel bitter toward this stranger? Excepting, of course, that he hasn't anything half as precious to return to. Just what he'd done, and his mother who might never forgive him.]

I hope you find your way back. You should be with your family...not wasting time playing the hero. Especially if you can't even turn your phone off properly.

[Well! He almost sounded nice. Until he sounded a little disappointed. And definitely more than a little jealous if that teenage tone is any indication.]

wait, i'm dumb. audio.

[earnedmystripes]

[Almost nice, yeah. But then it was...he's not sure what that was. This guy--kid? he sounds kind of like a kid--clearly has a problem with Heroes, though, which makes him kind of grumpy. The weird uncomfortable deja vu the ID tag gives him doesn't help, either.]

Uhh, thanks, I think. M'not playing at anything, though. Protecting people's important; I take that seriously.

[As evidenced by his huffy tone and presumably matching expression, clearly.]

[video]

[rassera]

[SNRK.]

What's with the getup? Going to a wrestling match?



[C'mon man where's your robot suit. That thing was way cooler.]

audio oops

[earnedmystripes]

[wOW WHY DO YOU ALL GOTTA DISS HIS SUIT]

It's my hero suit!!

[amadaman]

[ ... This gives Ken such a sad feeling, knowing what happens to Kotetsu only years after. But he tries not to show it.]

You could've just, you know, not said anything and you would've slipped under the radar, Tiger-san.

[earnedmystripes]

Eh?? But I had to ask if anyone knew how to get home!

[crapbearer]

[ Squinting at the camera, trying to read the chest emblem. ]

Are you sure you're Wild Tiger? Because your suit says tough... top... Topanga?

pretend these are crapsuit icons; also permaudio

[earnedmystripes]

TopMag--it's my sponsor. I'm definitely Wild Tiger!!!