| "...but damn was it fun!"; Takara, Ashton, Open | |
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| ArchdukePickles | Mar 11 2016, 08:45 PM Post #1 |
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There wasn't a soul in sight when Takara cracked open the door to the entrance hall and peeked her head in. A devilish grin appeared across her face at the realization; these two were going to have an entire auditorium to themselves; the shenanigans she had planned. After double-checking to make sure that no one was in there, Takara grabbed Ashton by the arm and dragged him into the Vision Hall. "Bienvenue, Ash!" Takara shouted, walking down the rows of seats, arms splayed wide open as though she were presenting the building to her fellow wrestling fan. "What to do first?" Takara said, half to herself, half to Ash. She scanned the titanic auditorium for ideas. Her first idea started a foot or two away from her; the seats seemed like they had a lot of support and could handle a lot of weight. She shrugged, one idea was better than none. Takara, hardly breaking the casual stride she was maintaining, stepped up onto the seats next to her and started walking on the rows of seats. "Hey, Ash, do you want to go see if there's anything backstage that might be fun to mess with?" Takara asked, hopping on down from the seats and pointing towards the stage. |
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Takara Level: PERSONA NOT UNLOCKED Health: 5/5/5 Taurus and Marici Level: PERSONA NOT UNLOCKED Health: 5/5/5 WIP Topic "A very wise man once said that 'that which does not kill you, makes you stronger.' With all due respect to the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, he was NEVER THROWN OFF A CELL!" | |
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| Anonymoogle | Mar 13 2016, 02:09 AM Post #2 |
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Ash gave a whistle as he was tugged along by the suddenly-much-more-energetic Takara, admiring the sheer size of the auditorium. "Daaaamn, you could set up a hell of a ring here. Doubt the school would be interested, but it'd be sweet." He follows her down, also walking bench-to-bench. As he looks around, he notices the projector setups and such towards the top of the room... and wonders where it all connects to. This room would be a cool way to watch movies, on top of being a cool place for events. As she mentions checking backstage, he grins. "Hell yeah. Wonder if we can find how to rig up the projector system? I got my computer, if we can't find something crazier, I've got pretty much everything on there as far as pay-per-views go... at least I got every Wrestlemania, for sure." He follows her on down to the stage, looking around for the door... |
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| ArchdukePickles | Mar 19 2016, 11:12 AM Post #3 |
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As Ash mentioned the projector system and the possibility of watching a PPV or two, a grin stretched across Takara's face as well. "Wrestlemania X-7 or I'm ditching you here." Takara said, jokingly, as she finally located the door backstage. She twisted the handle and slowly opened the door enough for her to peek her head inside. It looked like a second-home for all the theater and performing-arts kids: she spotted a microwave, a shelf covered in a variety of snacks, a small TV(Why would they have a TV back here, they've do realize they have a whole projector system out there, right?), and even a few cheap futons. She could imagine a few people had already spent a night-or-two back here. Besides the amenities left by the students of Ravencroft, there was exactly what one would suspect would be backstage: a few left-over props from previous performances, a large collection of unused equipment, and a few staircases and ladders up to area above the stage for whatever tech-crew needed to get up there. She threw the door the rest of the way open and marched into the backstage area. "Alright, you look for how to set the projector up and I'll steal a few of these snacks." Takara said, making a beeline for the snack shelf. She looked over the wide-selection carefully, picking-and-choosing carefully. "Hey, what flavor popcorn do you want?" she yelled over her shoulder, unaware of where Ashton was at this point. She looked over the flavors like manila folders in a filing cabinet: movie theater butter, caramel corn, kettlecorn, and even cheese corn. "I guess I'll have some of this..." Takara said to herself, pulling a bag of caramel corn out from the mix and tossing it into the microwave. |
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Takara Level: PERSONA NOT UNLOCKED Health: 5/5/5 Taurus and Marici Level: PERSONA NOT UNLOCKED Health: 5/5/5 WIP Topic "A very wise man once said that 'that which does not kill you, makes you stronger.' With all due respect to the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, he was NEVER THROWN OFF A CELL!" | |
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| Anonymoogle | Mar 21 2016, 12:17 AM Post #4 |
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(OOC: And thus marks the first time I had to do research for a post. *didn't get into wrestling until 2007*) Ash gave a double thumbs-up. "Triple tag TLC, I'm down for it. That was a hell of a match. I'll try not to comment on it too much..." He looks around, finding the projector machine on the ceiling... but knowing that SOMEWHERE in the room there had to be one of those remote input systems. He's about to head onstage to where the podium would normally be for an assembly, as Takara mentions popcorn. This brings Ash to a surprising realization. "Wait... popcorn comes in flavors?" He pauses, and turns to head back over where Takara is, and sees the crash pad that's been rigged up in here. "Never before have I been jealous of the A/V Club." He sees her pulling out the different kinds of popcorn, and is seemingly struck by his horizons broadening. "Huh. Is cheese a flavor? If it is, that one." He chuckles. "I'm from Buffalo and I lived in a bar. I've never really liked pre-made snack food. Most of the time if I was hungry I'd just cook up a cheeseburger. Or order a pizza. Or both." He looks down at his gut, feeling briefly embarrassed - it had barely been six months since he'd noticed turning from massive fat kid into the buff lumberjack-shaped body he had now, self-image issues don't just vanish. |
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| ArchdukePickles | Mar 26 2016, 11:34 PM Post #5 |
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Takara snickered at Ashton's story of cooking food for himself. "Well, unless you can cook a burger from projector-heat alone or tell a pizza guy to deliver to the two idiots ransacking the vision, you're having yourself something pre-made." Takara joked, grabbing the cheese-flavored popcorn bag from the shelf and setting it down next to the presently-occupied oven. "Care to elaborate where 'Buffalo' is; I'm a bit of a foreigner, pour votre information." Takara asked, her lack of knowledge of the continental United States shining brighter than the lights hung high above the stage. As the microwave beeped, telling her that her sweet snack was ready, Takara figured she might as well elaborate on her own origins, feeling that sprinkling in some of her French didn't exactly tell Ash that she was from Japan. "Oh- uh- I'm from Japan, by the way, not France. I'm a bit of a international mutt..." Takara, quickly added, awkwardly giggling at her "mutt" comment. She threw Ashton's bag of soon-to-be-popped popcorn into the microwave and started following the Buffalonian around, seeing if he needed any help getting the projector set up. |
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Takara Level: PERSONA NOT UNLOCKED Health: 5/5/5 Taurus and Marici Level: PERSONA NOT UNLOCKED Health: 5/5/5 WIP Topic "A very wise man once said that 'that which does not kill you, makes you stronger.' With all due respect to the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, he was NEVER THROWN OFF A CELL!" | |
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| Anonymoogle | Mar 29 2016, 07:32 PM Post #6 |
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"Buffalo's up by..." Ash pauses for a moment. "Wait, you're from Japan? Huh. Pretty good french too... woulda sworn you were from Canada or something." He laughs a little, hesitant at first to explain that he was pretty much the same variety of "multicultural mutt", because it would mean he'd have to mention his father. Not yet, at least. "But, uh... Buffalo's up at the top end of New York, up basically into Canada. I grew up half there, half with my grandparents in Canada itself. I picked up a buncha French from them, but I can't parley vous francey for crap." He says, giving a shrug. "Seriously though, Japan? You... huh, you really look more 'Quebecois' or something over japanese." He says, putting in the cheese popcorn after reading the directions, and following the directions to set the microwave timer to the right time. After a couple moments' pause, he shrugs. "Ah, hell with it, the coincidence is too funny for me to be moping about it - I'm half Japanese too. English and French-Canadian on my mom's side. Speak the language and everything, though... never actually been there." He holds out a fist for a fistbump. "Multicultural mutt brofist?" |
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| ArchdukePickles | Apr 18 2016, 08:50 PM Post #7 |
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Takara gave Ashton's knuckles a light tap with her own, adding a little faux-explosion noise for comedic effect. After their fistbump, Takara sat in silence for a moment, listening to the popping of the popcorn from the nearby microwave as she formulated a new topic for the duo to discuss. She eventually decided to default back to what brought the two backstage in the first place; professional wrestling. "So, what got you into pro-wrestling in the first place?" Takara opened simply, figuring Ash didn't come out of the womb with a desire to suplex and power-bomb folks. As she waited for a response, she guessed what PPV or match probably made a fan out of her fellow international mutt. |
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| Anonymoogle | May 4 2016, 09:37 PM Post #8 |
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Ash smiles, leaning back against the wall. "Daniel Bryan, World Heavyweight Title, Wrestlemania 30. Happiest I've ever been." He smiles, thinking back on good memories. "Begged my mom to get me the Network, and I pretty much binge-watched everything. Got me into weightlifting, but unfortunately not the rest of the fitness deal." He flexes briefly, then rests his hands in his pockets and leans back on the wall. "Unnnnfortunately, I spent most of high school thinking I could make it as an actual pro wrestler. Had a gimmick and everything, got a couple others into it... but it didn't go anywhere." He sighs. "Which... is how I ended up here. I tried out for Tough Enough last year. I lasted through the early rounds, but... didn't get past that." If Takara had watched the previous year's Tough Enough show, she might remember him. He was eliminated in the first round of the competition past the qualifiers, the first round involving the actual on-the-show. Though he'd actually out-wrestled one of the actual Superstars in a shoot-wrestling spot and blowing away fans as a result, he ended up being the first person eliminated. The reason was that while he was a good wrestler on paper, he had the bad combination of being bad at following an acting script and being unsafe in the ring, leading to him basically being told "better luck next time" on stage by the man hosting the event - Daniel Bryan himself. "I'm here to finish up school and... do something with my life, basically." He chuckles about it. |
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