maskormenace | 010 ★ Voice

Alright, my birthday's in a few days! This one's a big one, too—I'm gonna be eighteen! Which means I'm either throwing a party at my place or I'm pulling out all the stops and doing something huge someplace else!

[Sounds exciting, right? But hold onto your hats, there's a catch.]

Problem is...I don't got any ideas!

[There we go, that sounds about right. Josuke, you slacker, you're supposed to plan this shit ahead of time!]

This'll be the second birthday I've celebrated here, but...a lot's different from when I first arrived.

[The faces, it's the faces that are mostly different. A lot of people that Josuke knows have come and gone, and that makes this birthday one that will be largely different from the last. Which is kind of the reason he wants it to be special in the first place, something he can do while surrounded by all the friends he's made here, the family he's got left, and maybe even some new folks, too. The other part of course having everything to do with the fact he'll finally be a legal adult and that's pretty fucking awesome! Who doesn't wanna do something exciting for that?]

So I got to thinking, maybe while I'm asking around to see if people are even gonna be free, you guys could tell me a little about what you like to do for birthdays? And let me know if you wanna come along and all, too.

More the merrier!

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Yeah, like, think of all the shit that means we can do!

[And get away with if they don't get caught!]

Josuke, we could ALWAYS do that stuff!!

[Yeah but it looks less suspicious from an adult, Kaneda. No one hounds you for anything.]

I know that! But there's some stuff that was a real pain in the ass to try and do before that'll be easier now. Like playing the lottery!

...

They have that here?

It's America, there's not a lot they don't have!

[Except pachinko parlors. Stupid America.]

[Darnit, he would've loved that one.]

Okay...you might have a point here. How about we go out and get you one to celebrate?

[His hand fiddles with the coin he keeps in his glove on the other end of the feed. If he could just...get it on good luck that day...]

Rite of passage or whatever.

[Yeah, so would Josuke. He spent a lot of time playing pachinko back home, he misses it.]

Hm? Sure, why not!

[It's an inexpensive gift, so Josuke doesn't feel bad accepting it. Not that he'd feel bad normally accepting expensive things, it's just...he's kind of springing this last minute on people, so the gifts aren't the priority here.]

Who knows, maybe if I hit it big I can take a bunch of us to Disney World or something.

[Lucky...the people who owned his pachinko parlours had STANDARDS and wouldn't let him in! That's what happens when you're 16 years old and 5'6''.]

Consider it me paying you back for that chain.

[If he can get Josuke a little cash for the gift, why not?]

...

What's Disney World.

[Must be hard being such a short shorty of course Josuke wouldn't know :'D]

Heh...alright, fair enough.

[A pause and then...]

Oh, Disney World's like, this huge amusement park resort thing. I've never been there! But I've seen a lot of commercials for it on television and apparently everyone goes in the summer! So I really wanna go sometime.

[Because this kid wants everything with a shiny looking commercial, lbr.]

[You were probably born at 6' weren't you.

Kaneda's eyes widen as he listens to the description of the place. Truth be told, from what Josuke's saying, it sounds totally ridiculous. An amusement part for...Disney? He knew about Disney.

It's just the idea that they made a park out of it.]

...

With rides?

[That you can actually go on?]

[It's pretty fantastic, right? But for Josuke, that's part of the appeal.]

There's a fuck ton of rides! And like, all sorts of attractions, everything from animal encounters and stage shows to shit like game simulations and interactive play? And apparently there's like, educational culture screenings or something, too!

It's huge, Kaneda!

[That sounds fake but okay.]

...

Shit.

[Great, you stunned him into silence.]

In AMERICA?

That's what the commercials said! I'll be pretty pissed if they were lying!

...I've got to check this out.

I've never been to one.

[And if he was, it was in the Old City.]

Wanna make it a thing we do this summer? The place looks like it'll be more fun with more people.

Hey...why not? If you can talk Tetsuo into it.

I got him to agree to come to my party, how hard can it be to convince him to go to a theme park?

How far's Disney World?

Cause try road tripping with that guy.

I dunno, like a few hours or something.

Think we could survive that long in a car with him?

Nice knowing you, buddy.

[Is he joking? He could be.]

[Josuke's willing to bet he's not.]

Alright then, what if we invite a pretty girl along he can chat up? Or um...one of those handheld video games!

Surely that'd work?

Video game.

Girls are a bad idea right now.

Fair enough.

[He wants to ask why. He really wants to ask why.

But...some other time, maybe.]

...I think I got a handheld around my place somewhere with a couple racing and fighting games.

[There aren't enough facebook statuses in the world for how complicated that is, Josuke.]

...

I think he'd really like that.

Great! We got ourselves a Tetsuo survival plan, then.

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