[closed] Look but don't touch

[alcheregis]

WHO: Haen Hithiel, Kotetsu Kaburagi
WHERE: A street in Heropa
WHEN: Sept 29
WHAT: Some overzealous imPort fans are getting a little grabby...
WARNINGS: N/A

Haen quite liked having fans, truth be told. There were only a few genessi that ever achieved anything like a celebrity status, and she'd never wanted that for herself for fear it would be discovered her unusual alcheregis mutation. Here, she's still something of an oddity, but it's a kindlier sort of attention, and she doesn't mind it most of the time.

Today, however, a group of perhaps a dozen 'fans' are getting very insistent on trying to touch her Tracerie, and she doesn't like it. Not only is it a delicate thing, the filaments especially, but she doesn't have anywhere to get replacement parts if it breaks!

"No, dear, I said to look only," she says, a bit more sternly than she would typically speak. "That's-- excuse me! It's not a toy-- please stop that! Or I will give you a case of the rickets and then we'll both be very displeased."

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[earnedmystripes]

[Ah, imPort fans. This kind of scene isn't exactly new to Kotetsu, having both lived in this world for three years and having been part of Hero TV for more than ten (not that he was all that popular in the later part of his career but shhh), but it's still a little odd, how intense they get over them when many of them are just trying to live their lives as normally as they can.

When he sees the "discussion" with Haen getting a bit heated, Kotetsu sliiiiides on in the middle, raising his hands in a placatory gesture.]

Heeeeey hey hey. There's no need for anything like that, right?? Say, if you guys chill and leave that be, we'll totally take a picture with you!

[Kotetsu's not exactly the most well-known imPort out there, especially since he still does his heroics under a secret identity, but his REGISTERED tattoo is nice and visible on his arm, so he hopes that will be enough.]

What d'ya say, huh?? One of those selfer thingies to put on the internet, yeah??

[Selfie. It's a selfie, Kotetsu. y u so old.]

[alcheregis]

[ Haen breathes a quiet sigh of relief as the fans' attention is briefly diverted with Kotetsu's arrival, allowing her to slip her Tracerie into her bag where it was more protected. Then she takes her cue from him and offers the fans a more natural smile. ]

Yes, a picture for you all to share!

[ She doesn't correct Kotetsu's terminology, let's not derail the fans so quickly. Besides, she hadn't known what one was either before coming here. ]

How about you on this side, dear, and you're quite tall, how about standing here...

[earnedmystripes]

[A couple of the fans laugh at the usage of the wrong word, but they don't correct him either, instead coming in to get their (free!!!) pictures, which they'll probably be posting all over rumblr and bwitter and hashtagram in like an hour.

Kotetsu leans into the picture, one arm slung across Haen's shoulder and the other around the kids that have gotten in on the shot with them, making peace signs with his hands for the camera. He probably looks unreasonably goofy, especially since he needed to hunch his vaguely giraffesque spine a little bit to get his face visible....but then it's done, and the kids run off gleefully, with nary a thanks in the wind....ah, fans.

He lets out an exhale as they leave.]

imPort fans, huh? [He shakes his head.] You're okay, right?

[alcheregis]

[ Fans indeed! Haen offers Kotetsu a wry sort of ragged grin when they dash off. ]

Yes, I'm all right... I'm not used to them being quite so insistent, though! Good guanines, if they'd damaged my Tracerie, I don't know what I'd have done.