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maskormenacelogs2015-02-10 08:45 am
anthropophagite) wrote in maskormenacelogs2015-02-10 08:45 am
[ Closed ]
WHO: Kaneki and Josuke
WHERE: Library
WHEN: Afternoon
WHAT: Just friends being friends
WARNINGS: Possible mentions of cannibalism
[ Kaneki likes to stay at the library reading for hours. He already has so many books back home, but being in a place surrounded by books, the incomprehensible whispers of others who are there in the background, the smell of books in a large space, it's something that he strangely enjoys. He was finishing "The Collector", when he decided to take a break.
He grabs the book and walks to the libraries lobby where a coffee machine waits for him. Per usual, the coffee is bland, but that's fine; he decides to add something to it: a small dark sugar-like cube. At least it looks like sugar. After, he sits down on a nearby table, stirring his coffee and also grabs for two pills, popping one into his mouth, while he re-reads the cover of the book.
"Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda. When he wins the pools he buys a remote Sussex house and calmly abducts Miranda, believing she will grow to love him in time. Alone and desperate, Miranda must struggle to overcome her own prejudices and contempt if she is understand her captor, and so gain her freedom."
He is enjoying it quite a lot. ]
WHERE: Library
WHEN: Afternoon
WHAT: Just friends being friends
WARNINGS: Possible mentions of cannibalism
[ Kaneki likes to stay at the library reading for hours. He already has so many books back home, but being in a place surrounded by books, the incomprehensible whispers of others who are there in the background, the smell of books in a large space, it's something that he strangely enjoys. He was finishing "The Collector", when he decided to take a break.
He grabs the book and walks to the libraries lobby where a coffee machine waits for him. Per usual, the coffee is bland, but that's fine; he decides to add something to it: a small dark sugar-like cube. At least it looks like sugar. After, he sits down on a nearby table, stirring his coffee and also grabs for two pills, popping one into his mouth, while he re-reads the cover of the book.
"Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda. When he wins the pools he buys a remote Sussex house and calmly abducts Miranda, believing she will grow to love him in time. Alone and desperate, Miranda must struggle to overcome her own prejudices and contempt if she is understand her captor, and so gain her freedom."
He is enjoying it quite a lot. ]
too much eva on the brain juu?
Choking a little as he sets down the beverage and covers his mouth with his hand.]
I don't drink much coffee...
[Cough cough blegh nothing even to chase that flavor with. Gross.]
...but I'm pretty sure it shouldn't taste like that. Is that from your medicine?
[More dramatic noise and face making! ...why are you friends with this loser, Kaneki.]
Who even mixes medicine and caffeine! Isn't that like, bad or something?
always, it's always there
what should he do what should he say, kaneki doesn't know this is terrible and awful ]
Y-yes, I- it's fine if I do, it's just so it won't taste so bad. The medicine, I mean-
[ god why please someone help him. Look at Kaneki pulling the cup closer please never touch that again!! ]
good, right where it belongs!
Man...I'm really sorry.
[So are his taste buds.]
What're the suppressants for, though? ...you dieting or something? 'Cause you don't really look like you need it!
damn right!
U-uhm- I had an accident, so I needed an organ transplant... [ Kaneki smiles a bit - tries to, he is still a bit shaken ] A kidney.
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...oh.
[Could that be the real reason Kaneki didn't wanna swim at the bonfire?]
I had no idea. Did it happen back where you come from? ...it hasn't been difficult or anything 'cause of the nanites, has it?
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Yeah, back home. After arriving here I talked to a doctor and they weren't sure what to do, since I'm an imPort and have the nanites...
I decided it was better to keep on suppressants, so my body wouldn't reject the kidney. [ yeah, but chances are, it wouldn't make a difference because of his ghoul physiology.
he pauses, and eventually points to his own left (and covered) eye ] This is from the accident, too. [ it's not a lie. And Josuke never asked about the eypatch, but Kaneki decided to tell him anyway ]
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[Josuke means that. It's always better to be safe than sorry. Something he should practice half as much as he preaches, but whatever...thoughts for another day!]
I wondered about the patch but... [He shrugs.] You seemed fine, so I never thought I oughtta ask, you know?
[It's more polite not to call attention to that sort of thing. But, now that they're on the topic...]
What kinda accident was it?
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but the question makes Kaneki pause and look back at his coffee fro a second ]
... well... I- [ UHm. ] I was on date and some metal bars fell on me and her. Rize-san died and the doctors transfered Rize's kidney to me, to save me... [ IT'S. a white lie. No metal bar fell on Kaneki; instead, rize tried to kill him. ]
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[And Josuke would know! He's had flesh picked off his eyelids before, not to mention having nearly been stabbed through with a pen. Some people really like targeting eyes in fights! Talk about a pain in it the ass.
Anyway, he frowns at the second half of Kaneki's explanation.]
...shit. That's awful, I'm really sorry.
[To hear about Rize, because he doesn't know any better, and to hear how Kaneki's always gotta carry a piece of that incident with him from now on.]
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[ that isn't a lie, but it's not going easy for him, to get used to it all ]
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[Because he'd do it. At the drop of a hat.
That's what friends are for.]