[OPEN] Hell in Bottles

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Who ⬤ frogmarched / Kawase and fuckdogramagra / Tamamori
What ⬤ September Substories time baybee!!!! (also a general bookstore prompt, and some closed headers...)
When ⬤ All throughout September
Where ⬤ Literally anywhere in Jigoku-cho, Tama had gone mad over EMBER Go!
Content Warnings ⬤ Will add if they come up!

EMBER GO!: Substory #1
EMBER Go! may well have taken Jigoku-cho by storm- the amount of active users had jumped about as fast as the Enma Department’s sudden spike in "breaking and entering" calls. Not that, uh, Tamamori would know anything about that latter data point…because he’d not been caught yet, thank you very much! You can find him hunting for shiny Little Lost Souls all over Jigoku-cho, especially those of his close CR…what might be more surprising is that he’s roped Kawase along with him, who was decidedly not trying to hunt down little souls on his phone, but still seemed to look perpetually annoyed as Tamamori dragged him (literally sometimes) around the city.

DRIFTER GRIFTER: Substory #3
It’s been more than a week since the mysterious ’Drifter in Black’’s first con, and almost all businesses in Jigoku-cho are on high alert for suspicious individuals. la sonnerie is no different, except…well, the twin owners of the cafe have their non-existent eyes on the theoretical prize, more than anything. While Melody dreams of the social media boom that catching a crook would bring, and Harmony wonders if this would allow them to meet one of the faction leaders in person for helping out, Tama is stuck helping his bosses’ plans by keeping his eye on suspicious customers and disheveled wanderers while waiting tables. The only thing keeping him from losing the plot and suspecting random people is the presence of his much more level-headed boyfri best friend Kawase, who has a much better head for noticing suspicious individuals, as well as unraveling mysteries. Between the two of them, surely they’ll be able to catch the grifter- but feel free to distract them as much as you want. Tama’s still on the clock, after all, and it feels like Kawase’s been sitting at the same table with a view of the front door for hours.

IN PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE: General prompt
Dog Ears has become the favorite book store of the Aizu trio for a number of reasons. The impressive stock is certainly near the top of the list, and he’d come here to buy countless books for his projects, but Tama had never imagined he would be taking advantage of that selection to look at…children’s books. A "junior reader" corner had been set up to promote the Jigoku-cho READING IS FUN! program for young yokai, and that was exactly where a little two-foot tall frog was holed up, with a cozy-looking sweater on, and squeaky-sounding galoshes that were a bit too big for him. Every time the frog spotted a book that made his overly-round eyes (literally) sparkle, he would inevitably spot another and rush off to check it out. Honestly? Tama joked about being a father, but at times like this…he did sort of feel like one.

(On the other hand, Kawase seemed far less interested in fatherhood, and was more inclined to not read everything in the children’s section. Most of the time he ends up drifting off to the romance and classics sections, before returning to the father/son pair.)

[ Please let us know if you want only Tamamori or only Kawase; otherwise we’ll default to both! Frog Man/Kerosan also available upon request. ]

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[fuckdogramagra]

[ Sadly, Tama is entirely engrossed in his book- Dial M for Murder, of all things -and doesn't realize he's been peeked at whatsoever. But Kerosan has been reluctantly standing closer to Tama because his 'dad' is absorbed in his reading, and does catch Fukuda's curiosity, looking wider-eyed than usual at the staring and tugging insistently at Tama's hakama. ] T-Tamamori-san...Tamamori-san!!

I'm going to lose my...oh! [ Tama is at least getting better at looking around when Kerosan drags him back in to reality, quickly spotting Fukuda purely because he is just so tall, and then waving his arm (and book) excitedly at him. ] Fu~ku~da! Are you buying books too...??

[ The poor inugami who owns Dog Ears probably gave up on trying to shush Tama being loud long ago. ]

[frogmarched]

[Eiichi's there, just on the other side of the shelf, holding a book from off the top of one of Fukuda's weird stacks of books. He was thumbing through it curiously, without paying attention to Fukuda or whatever he was actually doing.]

...Stop being so loud in a bookstore.

[Is what he helpfully contributes to the conversation, still standing off to the side with the book in his hands.]

[holeful]

[Fukuda startles a bit because the quiet nature of a bookstore was why it was one of the "safe" locations for him to go back when he was more of a shut-in. He glances from Tamamori, to Kerosan, to this new person who's... well Fukuda doesn't know who this is actually??

But to be helpful to the owner and other patrons, after a moment of reluctance he trots over to Tamamori so he has no excuse to yell.]

Aah, I was-
[However in his mild anxiety he momentarily forgets his Tail and it knocks one of his Stacks over, hopefully not onto Eiichi's foot??]

Oh no.