真島 吾朗 🔪 Majima Gorō (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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jigokulogs2022-04-22 08:42 pm
no_kyouken) wrote in jigokulogs2022-04-22 08:42 pm
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Who ⬤ Majima, Emily, Izo
What ⬤ Trading cups
When ⬤ Nowish
Where ⬤ Lush Tortoise Inn
Content Warnings ⬤ N/A
[ Before the funeral, Majima takes them to an out of the way izakaya tucked away in some damp side street. It has low lighting and sectioned out little booths along one wall and freestanding shoji screens that separate the room further. The appropriate setting for a small piece of yakuza business. He motions them into one of the booths and asks for sake. When there's no sake to be had, blood still does, but the spirit is still generally considered a sacred substance for such rites.
He rubs his face once with a sigh. It's weird explaining this to people who don't already know. Nobody around here really seems to understand even the basic tenets of the gokudo. ]
So, listen. Ya swear up with th'yakuza an' one of the most important things is loyalty. Ya make oaths an' ya don't break 'em. Even if somebody kills ya over it, ya go t'hell with respect because ya kept yer word.
[ There are a multitude of ways that the yakuza make themselves out as 'noble' and this is just one of them. ]
One of th'promises ya can make is to yer brothers.
[ Well. Now sisters. It's weird that Jigoku-cho clans let women be involved, but he's not here trying to throw that to the wind even if he doesn't agree with it. ]
Ya can take on a kyodai an' that person is yer brother for life. You're responsible for each other an' most importantly... it ain't decent settin' kyodai on each other. Betray your kyodai an' you ain't decent either.
[ The tray of sake gets put down for them, three cups and the tokkuri. He pours them out one by one and shares them out. ]
So that's what we're doin' here. Everyone drinks outta each cup, then ya keep one. Makes us blood in th'eyes of th'yakuza.
[ There's other shit, stipulations and possible problems down the road but it puts up a barrier where they're likely going to need it knowing the scheming bullshit of this world. ]
What ⬤ Trading cups
When ⬤ Nowish
Where ⬤ Lush Tortoise Inn
Content Warnings ⬤ N/A
[ Before the funeral, Majima takes them to an out of the way izakaya tucked away in some damp side street. It has low lighting and sectioned out little booths along one wall and freestanding shoji screens that separate the room further. The appropriate setting for a small piece of yakuza business. He motions them into one of the booths and asks for sake. When there's no sake to be had, blood still does, but the spirit is still generally considered a sacred substance for such rites.
He rubs his face once with a sigh. It's weird explaining this to people who don't already know. Nobody around here really seems to understand even the basic tenets of the gokudo. ]
So, listen. Ya swear up with th'yakuza an' one of the most important things is loyalty. Ya make oaths an' ya don't break 'em. Even if somebody kills ya over it, ya go t'hell with respect because ya kept yer word.
[ There are a multitude of ways that the yakuza make themselves out as 'noble' and this is just one of them. ]
One of th'promises ya can make is to yer brothers.
[ Well. Now sisters. It's weird that Jigoku-cho clans let women be involved, but he's not here trying to throw that to the wind even if he doesn't agree with it. ]
Ya can take on a kyodai an' that person is yer brother for life. You're responsible for each other an' most importantly... it ain't decent settin' kyodai on each other. Betray your kyodai an' you ain't decent either.
[ The tray of sake gets put down for them, three cups and the tokkuri. He pours them out one by one and shares them out. ]
So that's what we're doin' here. Everyone drinks outta each cup, then ya keep one. Makes us blood in th'eyes of th'yakuza.
[ There's other shit, stipulations and possible problems down the road but it puts up a barrier where they're likely going to need it knowing the scheming bullshit of this world. ]
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[she's close enough that she can touch his arm, a gentle but certain thing. he doesn't need to be worrying that he'll be driven off, when they'd both just agreed to bind themselves in a way that completely ensures that they can keep that loyalty to him even under pressure. even if it wasn't as fancy as it should be, even if it wasn't as formalized, it meant something to them, and they would all testify to its truth.
one day, she hopes, they all will be able to breathe and not startle at the slightest thing gone amiss.]
I don't exactly know if I should be celebrating my promotion, though...I'd like to ensure I can stay anonymous.
[being ignored means she can probably do whatever she wants without someone looking too closely at her.]
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[ A month in and nobody's lost a finger, what more can he ask for. He's just relieved everything hasn't gone entirely to shit yet. He calls for the server to come back. It's a traditional restaurant, there's about to be a bunch of sushi and hotpot on this table. Majima blames the snake for spending all his money and then he does shit like this, so really they're as bad as each other.
They do both happen to agree that one should eat well when you can and find any excuse to celebrate, you don't know how quickly it will be snatched away in the yakuza life. ]
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If ya say so...Jus' wanna make sure I keep gettin' better. [ So he can be trusted to do the work he's best at. ] Don't wanna disappoint th' boss.
[ Disappointment meant getting ousted. He can't go through that again. ]
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As long as we keep doing what we're doing, there's nothing to fret about. Really, I know you're both smart enough to keep your heads above water.
[read: to not go against the bosses and to stay alert as to what's going on. she's managing well enough with the Daitengu being fully absent, but she can easily see some of the people she's met trying to cause problems. time will only tell how bad of a move that is, and Emily considers herself lucky that she can bow her head and fade into the background.]