[open] shuten clan mingling

[no_kyouken]

Who ⬤ The Shuten Clan Lost Souls
What ⬤ Post-event drinking meeting
When ⬤ After some Kappa punching, I assume
Where ⬤ The White Koi, Shuten Clan bar
Content Warnings ⬤ Dranking, Shutens

un: majima Get yer asses up an' come to th'White Koi by 7. It's on Shuten turf, corner of Bunyudomachi. We're meetin'. [ The bar is almost exclusively Shuten members, most of them wearied with nightly patrols and clashes. There's plenty of muttering and chatter about the recent assassination, with the common complaint being 'fuck I have to get my funeral suit out of storage'. Majima points lost souls into a slightly more secluded room done up in the titular white koi pattern. ] Siddown, who's heard what. [ He is also weary and bruised from some fights, leaning back against the wall with a cigarette and a drink. ] 🐍 This is a mingle, sure they got together to talk info but they're Shutens so it's assumed they're going to get drunk, yell, and throw hands. 🐍 Lordy please do whatever you want, I'm not the cops. 🐍 OOC info collection 🐍 Toraguma's orders

Comments

[pervy_kappa]

There will probably be a massive service since he was a prominent official and all, yeah? And as representatives of Shuten, I expect we're probably going to have to participate in the ceremonies.

[That was obvious, wasn't it? So much so that even a non-participant like him knew what the next steps probably were.]

Man, I haven't bought anything like that yet, too.

[Here he's just been trying to squirrel away his money to get better living conditions.]

[harimaya]

...

(Current style: An oversized sweatshirt, a little frayed at the cuffs. A pair of jeans, worn and torn in spots. Does he look like someone who knows anything about suits... really, he looks like some guy in university who probably needs to buy his first one still. )

... And it's gotta be western style?

(Raising a hand to his neck and drawing a line down his chest to symbol "tie,")

With a tie and everything?

(This is stressing him out just thinking about it.)

[pervy_kappa]

Eh? Don't tell me you've never learned how to tie one.

[Damn. Was he going to have to help a brat out?]

You never had any older men in your life to teach you that sort of shit or something?

[harimaya]

Never had to.

(Please, he's only had a physical human body for a couple of years.)

No...?

(Is this a modern human thing.... this sounds like a modern human thing........)

[pervy_kappa]

I see.

[Sort of a modern thing? To be honest Gojyo was most probably not the best person to ask in terms of what counted as "modern".

He did offer a sympathetic gaze though. Reaching his hand out and patting Tadahiro on the shoulder.]

Guess someone's gotta take you out and introduce you to it. And since I have to go out and get one myself anyway I guess I'll bring you along.

[And obligation between brothers.]

[harimaya]

(Brushing Gojyo's hand off........)

Don't touch me.

(He's prickly, sorry.)

How hard can it be? It's just clothes.

(He can maybe just do this on his own? No, he can't. )

[pervy_kappa]

[Wow.

Here he's just trying to make friends too.

Not that he isn't used to it at this point. He'll just respond with the same blank stare he pretty much gives everyone when this happens.]

Ya do know if I'm gonna be helping you get this suit than touching is gonna happen. We have to get you properly fitted as well as physically show you how to get that tie around your neck.

[Sorry bub, but proper suits ain't "just clothes".]

[harimaya]

(Stare at him all you want!! He'll just glare back. The more Gojyo talks, the more he dreads the whole thing, though. The last part seems to bother him the most though. It might have something to do with the bandages around his neck, hm.

He opens his mouth to argue back but nothing comes out. It's not like he can really argue against this? If it's going to be Toraguma's orders and it's something expected of the entire clan... Kicking a fuss and making a scene in front of everyone else would just draw more attention to him, too.

Hizen looks away,)

... Fine.

(He gives in.)

[pervy_kappa]

[Yeah. He notices that hesitancy. And although he's curious, he knows better than to ask right off the bat. They did just meet after all.]

Now that's more like it!

[He settles back, properly giving Hizen his space.]

It's formal attire so a lot of it is going to be about presentation. Especially since we're Shuten's new outside members.

Both our clan as well as the others are probably going to be looking at us as a representation of Toraguma.

[Damn. Actually just thinking about it made him antsy. Instinctively reaching into his pockets and pulling out a cigarette to ease the nerves.]

[harimaya]

(Stop, you're making it worse. He kind of hates being watched?)

... They really had to go and die on us, huh...

(Is he........ blaming the Daitengu for this.........)

[pervy_kappa]

Yeah, they really fuckin' suck like that, don't they?

[He can't help but chuckle slightly with that. His body language relaxing as he watched the guy complain.]

And considering the group we seemed to have gotten ourselves caught up with, it seems formality is pretty damn important.

Sucks, but I'd rather suffer looking classy over dealing with Toraguma getting pissy at us.

[harimaya]

(Hizen at the Daitengu's funeral like listen here you little shit--

Anyway, he hates the Daitengu now. This is personal.)

... Didn't expect the oni here to be so weird either. (What kind of oni cares about formality! Appearances!) Fine, whatever. I'll figure it out.

(And he just. Stress eats a cracker.)

[pervy_kappa]

Eh? Weird? How so?

[That actually managed to perk his interest. Lifting his gaze to match Hizen's.]

I mean, they ain't any different from most of the other youkai here, right?

[harimaya]

They're organized.

(Like, an actual organized crime gang? Instead of the wild, careless, and honestly mostly foolish oni from stories.)

They're usually wilder and... (His voice trails and he decides to not just say "stupid" and picks another word,) messier in the stories I remember.

... This whole city's a lot more modern than the stories. It's weird.

[pervy_kappa]

[Gojyo was not ignoring the strange way Hizen seemed to tiptoe around his words.

Like most everyone else Gojyo had run into since he had arrived at Jigoku-Cho, it was super apparent that Hizen seemed to inherently think that being an Oni meant you were also supposed to be a dumbass.

Truthfully Gojyo was starting to feel bad for all the negative stereotyping the poor bastards seemed always to go through.]

'S that so?

[How was it that most people he ran into never seemed to have any tact when talking about youkai?

Well, whatever. Not Gojyo's problem. At least Hizen didn't direct such assumptions somewhere else.]

I take it you never met actual youkai before showing up here?

[harimaya]

(He doesn't miss the way the questions lead and he's quiet for a moment, as if debating how to really answer. It's one thing to admit it out loud to someone one on one but at an open meeting for everyone else to hear... he isn't sure about everyone else.

Still, it doesn't matter too much, does it? In this world, it's stranger to be human than it is to not be,)

... I'm not human.

[pervy_kappa]

... Eh? So?

[That only manages to get the blankest and blandest stare back from Gojyo. You're talking to a guy who has scales on his cheeks and fins for ears kiddo. How did you expect him to react?]

You saying you're youkai?

[Because if so, you certainly have a way about talking about your own kind as if you have never seen them before.]