Cause I can't change the way I see the world

[rassera]

WHO: Kaneda rassera and YOU!
WHERE: All Cities, all places!
WHEN: All month long (November)
WHAT: Catch-all Post for anything and everything Kaneda. From fighting, training, finding pets, and going on dates, it all goes here! Feel free to call him up via the network on this post to do actiony things too, if you want!
WARNINGS: Violence I guess? Punches. Training. It's Kaneda.



Nonah 05

[Kaneda has been pretty much status quo as far as Nonah 05 goes. He wakes up, he eats, he heads out for awhile, and he comes back. Lather, rinse, and repeat if need be. With Bull now knowing about fight club, he's not so secretive about his plans. He doesn't wait for people to be out of the room to leave, he doesn't give anyone lip before he leaves. A lot of stress is off his shoulders. Granted, it's only a little bit when looking at the mountain of stress.
But every little bit helps, right?
Although, he has been coming home with plastic bags full of aerosol spraypaint and a fan, pulling both of them into his room and locking the door for what feels like hours. Those days, Capsule's out and about in the house, or maybe with Koromaru as he works. What is he working on? Well...

His room, and maybe a little something else as well, thanks to his talk to Manolo about keeping friends' spirits alive. When he eventually comes out, he's covered in paint, splattering his white tanktop and pants, continuing on with the rest of his day.

If you need him, at least he's not hard to find, right?]

Around Nonah and Maurtia Falls

[Ever since he and Koromaru found his jukebox, Kaneda's been freqenting Maurtia Falls', trying to see just what else he could find. The Jukebox, that blanket and Tetsuo's clothes...Tetsuo had BEEN here, and he could see why. There was something...comforting about it. As odd as it was to say, this was the most like Neo Tokyo. Especially from his time period.

A pile of rubble. Weird that -that- would remind him of that place.

Guess it was pretty much a trashheap.

But as he wanders through the junk, he smirks, eyes practically glittering as he skips onto a piece of metal, and then another, making his way up to the top of a pile to inspect something. ....Huh, nothing of great importance.

Onto the next one.]

[ooc: Maurtia Falls is the one above, but he frequents junkyards in Nonah too, so you can find him there doing pretty much the same thing!]

Underground Fight Ring

[3-4 days of the week from 9pm til past midnight Kaneda heads out to Maurtia Falls for his other job. What is this other job? He stars in an underground fighting ring to make some 'extra' cash.

Most, if not all the times he visits will be him actually fighting, although you can find him spectating a fight every now and then if that's an easier way to talk to him. He'll most likely come home with bruises of some sort, as his fighting strategy does tend to lead to him getting beat up more often than not.

As to specifically where you can find him, he'll most likely walk home. Or if you want to catch him going TO Maurtia Falls, that can work as well.

Or if you even want to see him in the ring! He can be found there, using a strategy of 'wear the opponent down, soak up as many punches and dodging as it takes to do so, and then wreak havoc on their face. Kind of masochistic, but it works with Kaneda's durability power.]


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[amadaman]

[Nothing could possibly be going wrong, right?]

November 3; nighttime

[amadaman]

[There were lots of questions. How did it happen? Why did you wait so long? Are you okay? What happened? The doctor was curious, almost even furious. Ken stumbles into Nonah later that night with a brand new splint and his nail freshly drained, feeling a lot better physically and mentally. It was nice to talk to Jaime. It was nice to get mom hugs. Now he's home, and he skirts around the house until Koromaru assures him Tetsuo isn't home and walks inside to attempt to escape straight to his room]

[rassera]

[Unfortunately for Ken, there are four other people in this house, and avoiding one doesn't necessarily mean you avoid the other three. It's not long after Ken sneaks his way in that Kaneda walks out of the hallway, nearly bumping into him at the 'doorway'.

His eyes flick down towards the small little bean trying to work his way past.]

Hey! What's the rush?

[amadaman]

[It's a good think it's only nearly bumping into because that would've hurt. Ken jumps back almost an entire foot when he sees Kaneda in front of him, blinking rapidly.]

Kaneda-san...!

I'm uh -- nothing?

[rassera]

[Kaneda takes a step back too, not actually wanting to collide with the kid. Unfortunately for Ken, though, that leaves the finger definitely in the line of vision, and his eyes narrow.


Settling on that splint.]

The hell happened to you?

[amadaman]

[Oh god damn it. Go away, Kaneda. More than Tetsuo, this is what he wanted to avoid.]

Doors can break fingers, Kaneda-san. I got one closed on me accidentally.

[rassera]

[Wow last he checked he was allowed to live in this house too you pint sized butthead.

He hisses though, reaching over to take a look at the damage. The splint did it justice, certainly, but if Kaneda knows one thing, it's injuries, and this one had to hurt]

School?

[amadaman]

[It did hurt. Now that a doctor's taken care of it it's looking better, but the discoloration of his skin and nails, the way they're slightly crooked, and the scabbed up scratches around his knuckles tell bad it had been. Ken doesn't try to move away but he stares up at Kaneda nervously, not entirely comfortable with other people around his hurt hand. He shakes his head.]

A friends house. They didn't realize my hand was fhere.

[rassera]

[Kaneda gingerly lets go, letting him pull away if he has to. No sense in looking any more at it.]

Shit. Must've been hell of a door. [Or the friend was REALLY wanting to shut that thing.]

One of your school friends?

[amadaman]

Yeah, sort of. There was an argument, so their sibling kind of...

[He shrugs.]

I actually just got back from the hospital with Jaime-san? I didn't... realize it was broken.

[rassera]

...

[That seems to fly with him, as he eases off the issue of 'how' and 'why' it happened. The point is it happened.

He nudges that shoulder a little.]

C'mon, I'll make tea.

[That should help.

But why does he get the feeling that there's more to the story than there is? Kaneda...don't think too hard on this.]

[amadaman]

You can make tea? You leveled up while I wasn't looking.

[There is. There always is, isn't it? But Ken's acting the same as usual aside from his initial shiftiness, making fun of Kaneda as usual and turning himself around to head to the kitchen this time. Down below, Koromaru gives a bark and starts moving further into the house in search of his other canine friend.]

[rassera]

[It's hard to place just what about it is so strange--but then again, that's how a lot of Kaneda's intuition worked. It was right a lot of the time, but proving it was always impossible.

'A hunch' doesn't exactly justify your actions, no matter how many times he's tried.]

's what happens when you go to your friends house and get your fingers jammed. You miss all sorts of shit.

[A hand reaches over to ruffle Ken's hair as they walk past, smirking at what a long, scruffy mess it'd become in the past few months.]

[amadaman]

[Usually, Ken would protest loudly. You're messing it up, don't treat him like a kid, stop!!

But today? Today, Ken lets his head be rocked back and forth by Kaneda's hand, blinking as a stray strand of hair falls into his eyes, and he ducks his head to smile after.]

You're right. I should be watching more carefully. Let me go get the cups, then.

November 22;

[amadaman]

[Sometimes, shit just happens. And shit has been happening for them but they both had the resilience to push through with their daily lives despite it. Ken went to school. Ken even just went and healed his broken fingers so he could keep playing soccer. And Koromaru picked him up. Sometimes Kaneda also did. It was the routine that kept them strong through the chaos.

Except strangely today, Koromaru wasn't on time. His usual departure time came and yet he didn't get up from his nap. Maybe it had something to do with the no-longer-so-small golden retriever puppy using him as a pillow, or maybe he just trusted Kaneda to go get the kid as he left. Anyway, he's not here today. And although the bell rings and the kids leave, there is no sign of Ken. Or that boy Dipper concluded was Ken's boyfriend. Where could they be??? Would Kaneda like to ask some of the kids that are, as usual, starting to crowd around him?]

[rassera]

[Words couldn't describe what that normalcy did for Kaneda. For all the chaos that had gone down, there was some sort of routine he could fall on. Ken went to school, Koromaru left to pick him up, they came home, Ken visited Kaneda's room, sometimes watching him spray paint awhile before doing his own thing. Coming back to sleep at night. It took his mind off of Tetsuo, which was the important part now.

It let Kaneda slow down for once.

Today was one of those days when he went to pick Ken up. Waiting at the gate as usual. Koromaru was strangely nowhere to be found, and he couldn't help but wonder where he could be. The dog went with Ken almost everywhere...it wasn't just 'odd' that he wouldn't show. If Koromaru wanted to show, he would've shown.

Maybe Capsule held him up, maybe he did trust Kaneda to go by himself today...who knows. For as human as that dog was, he was just as hard to read as any other dog.

The bell rings, and with a soft push he cranes his neck to look at the mass amounts of children filing out. Some recognized him, running over to say hi, but none of them were the kid he was looking for. Ken was surprisingly absent from the usual crowd, and his nerves seem to stand on end. First Koromaru doesn't show up, and now Ken's missing. In the back of his mind there's worry--despite knowing that Ken can more than defend himself. But that didn't stop him from worrying anyway. Ken was one of his own, after all.

With a sideways glance at the door, he asks a kid if he's seen him. If anyone would know where Ken was, it was one of these kids.]

[amadaman]

[The kids are so excited to be spoken to by an imPort they take a few seconds to chill out. One girl squeals, and a boy ogles him with his mouth hanging open. But there's one who recovers quicker than the others and she smiles up at the visiting teenager -- they do see him a lot lately, so they're getting used to him -- and nods, hopefully to settle Kaneda's worries. With a cheerful smile she turns to point her finger toward one side of the campus where, beyond the building where she's pointing, just visible, is the edge of a grassy field.

The kids aren't actually friends with Ken. But Ken is one of the few imPort kids their age so they of course know who he is. She announces happily that Ken should be at practice today, so you're free to go take a look, mister. He plays soccer, y'know!]

[rassera]

[Kaneda follows the boy's finger, towards the grassy field that lay in the distance. Ah, the soccer field then? He could head in that direction. With one wave to the crowd of kids, he quickly weaves his way through and setting off in that direction.

Truth be told, he never really thought much about Ken's extra curricular activities. He seemed to avoid them.

But it doesn't take him long to arrive, setting foot on the green and squinting. Trying to pick out the one boy of the group running back and forth that belonged to him.

AH, there's that mess of brown hair...]

[amadaman]

[That sure is Ken. There are other boys that have brown hair, too, but Ken's is probably the messiest... though it's actually pinned back off his face right now. He usually doesn't care about his hair but when you're running around as much as he does on the field, it gets aggravating to have hair flipping and flopping in your eyes. The pushed back hair stands up at the top of his head like a rooster's comb, bouncing up and down as he runs around.

And he's good, really! Ken gets more exercise than most kids, and what he gets is infinitely more rigorous. He kicks the ground harder, runs faster, makes sharper turns and keeps a better eye on the other boys, skills honed from fighting for his life every night against a bunch of monsters.

There's one big difference between those nights and right now, though, and that's the look on his face. Ken's usually somber expression is brighter than usual as he chases the ball with his team, and he seems to be grinning and cheering along with them every time a goal is made. Right now Ken isn't an imPort, or a Persona user, or an unsung hero who fought to save the world back home.

He's just a kid. As he should've been.]