[OPEN LOG]

[nukeoleptic]

Who: Jade + literally anyone
What: Jade bribing people into her restaurant with free things.
When: Day 355.
Where: The Highwind, in Heimdall's district.
Rating: PG-13 for language at most!

EDITED TO ADD: Also, totally feel free to threadjack and use this as a mingle log IF YOU WOULD LIKE ♥

[ It had worked once before, back in the heat of late summer in Asgard, so Jade was trying it again. She had dragged the sign out to the front of the store, right in the middle of the sidewalk, and written in huge letters:

free hot chocolate! :D
just come inside ♥

The temperature hadn't broken the sixty degree mark today - it was getting chilly fast. Both Orihime and Annabeth were gone, and the store was oddly quiet. Jade will be found keeping herself busy throughout the day with odd little chores when it's completely empty of customers - sweeping, dusting, and occasionally dozing in a booth near the door when the boredom becomes too much to bear. ]

Comments

[tonsofpun]

This isn't even the first time?

[5thchild]

Once before arriving and once in Asgard. [ besides this one by the gentlemen.

And yes, Kaworu is dead in his world. Kind of. It's complicated. ]

[tonsofpun]

[Ellie gives a little shiver.]

... shit. Sorry, I didn't know.

[5thchild]

It's alright, it's the way it was meant to be. [ Kaworu smiles. It really doesn't matter to him and he was meant to die. At least in his world. And honestly, he recently died by the Gentlemen because he didn't want Shinji to be the one to die, so he also thinks it was necessary ]

Either way, things are much calmer and Shinji is no longer upset, so it's good. [Shinji not being upset is the most important ]

What have you been doing of late, Ellie?

[tonsofpun]

... not that much, honestly.

[She's still kind of shaken up, and it's difficult for her to switch conversational gears like this.]

I'm trying to find a job? I actually might work here.

[5thchild]

[ Oh Ellie. Kaworu simply doesn't care about his life, so talking about dying is nothing that upsets up. At all. ]

With Jade. That sounds nice.

Have you worked before? [ in her world, probably ]

[tonsofpun]

[In contrast, surviving is 99% of Ellie's life. Just staying alive has been a daily struggle and everything else revolves around it. She absolutely can't fathom someone not giving a shit. In fact, it scares her. A lot.]

... sort of. I was in a military boarding school. I had about two years left before I became a soldier, so I did plenty of jobs around my school.

[5thchild]

Military boarding school? [ he never heard of something like that. ]

Did you like it?

[tonsofpun]

It wasn't so bad. It was a school. I've been to a lot of them.

They're all pretty much the same.

[No matter what she says, just her body language alone says that no. No, she didn't like it that much.]

[5thchild]

[ he smiles a little at her body response ]

To a lot of them? Why not just one?

[tonsofpun]

Kept getting kicked out. Fighting, insubordination, sneaking out... you name it. It wouldn't have been so bad if I didn't look like an easy target. So I had to keep proving them wrong.

[She shrugs. No big deal -- that life seems aeons past.]

[5thchild]

Fighting and insubordination? Do you dislike to be controlled by others?

[tonsofpun]

Who likes it?

[5thchild]

Some people take duty as something very important to them. Others believe doing what other people tell them will make them liked. Others simply have no opinion on it, so it doesn't matter. [ that last one was himself. But he is a weird one. ]

[tonsofpun]

... yeah. I've spent a lot time just kind of skating by, but if I ever had to go back to someone telling me "who to shoot and where to shit"-

[Ellie shakes her head, for a moment looking inexplicably sad.]

Fuck that.