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ofmanydevices ([info]ofmanydevices) wrote in [info]disappear_rpg,
@ 2009-08-06 22:13:00

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Entry tags:kozue, tom

IS TIEM TO LEARN ENGRISH!!
Who: Tom and Kozue
What: Tom helps Kozue not flunk English
Where: Tom's dorm room.
When: Thursday afternoon.
Why: Because Kozue is devious

The knock on the door was no surprise to Tom. He really hadn't wanted Kozue to know where his dorm room was, In fact he had told her so, but she simply called him back two minutes later with the exact dorm number. Even then he refused, but she insisted over and over that the study session he had agreed to be held in his room. He finally agreed, but still, it didn't sit well with him.

So when the knock came, he opened the door and simply nodded to her.

"Kondo."

He stepped aside to let her in. And inside Kozue would find a fairly different Tom. In his room he had the weapons he usually carried into Paradise hung up by the closet. This meant he didn't need to wear his uniform blazer, so the blazer shirt, and tie were all hung up in the closet themselves, along with three more copies of the Nanakamdo school uniform, one or two appeared to be rather worse for wear.  There was also a black suit, and a few black t-shirts folded up, but that seemed to be it in the way of clothes.
Tom himself wore the uniform slacks, and a snug black t-shirt which was tight enough to rmeind Kozue of the catsuit he'd worn in Paradise for a short time.

The walls were covered in painters tape, creating lines between taped up peices of paper. On them were numerous notes on subjects such as killer, suspects, paradise and so fourth. As well as Pages on persons of interest, though one spot was suspiciously blank. None of these papers were taped any lower then three feet from the floor.

There were three peices of furniture; a bed, that had a pillow, a blanket, recognizeable as one of the bedding packs one could purchase from the school. There was also a desk with a computer hooked up to it.  The desk had a number of books piled up on top of it, apparently this was a new habit, as gnawed on books and torn out papers still littered the floor. And finally sitting on the floor was the standard small refridgerator.

Also on the floor was a small dish with water, one with food and a dog bed, with a Nanakamado blazer balled up on one side. Sitting on the little dog bad was the little puppy, who sprung up the second he heard the knock, and was at Kozue licking her heals before Thomas even had the door closed. 




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[info]anthesphoria
2009-08-07 02:49 am UTC (link)
Kozue, swinging her leather school bag from one shoulder, looked around the room with wide, nearly-terrified eyes. Was this... for real? His entire wall was covered with notes. For the murders? And it was empty, otherwise, except for the school-issued furniture, and--

Puppy! She grinned. "Thanks, Sagaki-sempai, for agreeing to help me." And, as soon as she had closed the door behind her, she was down on the floor scratching the puppy, making aww-baby-puppy-socute noises again. "Hello, hello, Puppy-chan, how have you been?"

After a moment, she glanced up at the person she was theoretically here to visit (ssshh, we all know it's really the puppy), still smiling. "I mean, uh, hi."

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[info]ofmanydevices
2009-08-07 03:00 am UTC (link)
"His name is Max now. Emi named him... Well it was a longer name then that, but we call him Max."

Interestingly Tom pronounced the puppy's name with an English accent. He looked down at the two of them on his floor, a puppy and an adorable girl, any one else might be utterly cowed at this,and it would be a lie to say Tom felt nothing, but he pushed it as deep down inside him as he could, and patted the bed.

"If you want to sit, we can get started."

He moved over to the only other sitting spot in the room, the desk chair, and pulled it around to face the bed where he hoped Kozue would be in a moment.

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[info]anthesphoria
2009-08-07 03:19 am UTC (link)
"Well, what's the longer name? Longer than ..." she stopped, and concentrated, "Maa-ks." Her pronunciation, while not Japanese, was... mangled, at best. She stressed the a, drew out the word into two syllables, and spit out the consonant so hard it that sounded German. Yes, she had a long way to go.

"Alright," she said, rubbing Max's head between the ears one more time before rising and going over to the -- bed? Oh, Tom, Tom, Tom. She grinned, half suspicious and half amused. "So, how much of your research on physical affection did you actually do?" She asked, dropping down onto the bed. Indeed, she, of all people, had very few qualms about such things. And Sagaki probably wasn't even coming onto her - would he even know how?

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[info]ofmanydevices
2009-08-07 03:38 am UTC (link)
As Kozue sat Max got up and walked around the bed. That is when it would become obvious that most of the gnawed on books had been taped together and used to make a small set of makeshift stairs for the tiny puppy to get on the bed. Max climbed his book staircase quickly and moved to Kozue's lap, putting his head down on her thigh.

Tom meanwhile slipped on a pair of glasses and watched the other girl, the dogs behavior didn't seem at all odd to him.

"So then where are you in your classes? What are you having the most trouble with?"

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[info]anthesphoria
2009-08-07 03:56 am UTC (link)
"Is 'all of it' a good answer?"

She grinned, and scratched Max's ears again. "Good job not answering the question, by the way, Sagaki-sempai." With her other hand, she pulled out her English workbook and flipped open to the pages they'd been doing that week. "Uh, Describing My Family. That's what we're doing right now."

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[info]ofmanydevices
2009-08-07 04:05 am UTC (link)
"Oh the... uh... the relationship stuff. I read a few books, Not as much since I was focusing on Paradise, and the murders. But yeah... umm"

He reached up and scratched his head.

"So umm... I guess you should tell me about you're family then?"

He shifted in the chair, and grabbed a pad and paper off his desk, and a pen. He fixed her with a look ready to write the information down. After a moment he paused and looked up from the notebook.

"...Do people really do that?"

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[info]anthesphoria
2009-08-07 04:36 am UTC (link)
"In English? Um. Oh dear." She stopped and thought about it. I am Japanese. Hello, my name is... She was drawing blanks on her English, unfortunately. "So you're just inviting girls to sit on your bed for the hell of it?" She grinned.

"And wait, do people really do what?" Blink, blink, blink.

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[info]ofmanydevices
2009-08-07 04:42 am UTC (link)
"No in Japanese.... then I'll tell you what it should be in English. You can go over it and practice writing it out."

"And the bed is because there is no where else to sit... and Max can't climb up on the chair."

Tom tapped the chair, then his eyes went wide.

"Oh because we might have sex?"

He waved his hand dismissively.

"You're very attractive, but I never planned on anything like that."

Then he got a curious look on his face.

"I meant... hugging and that... kissing... cuddling? People really do that?"

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[info]anthesphoria
2009-08-07 05:34 am UTC (link)
She wasn't sure whether she was choking back a laugh or a complaint: "What? You just -- out with it like that?" She managed, and laughed a little, afterward, anyway. "Okay."

Even if part of her was more inclined to ask really, you seriously don't want to? It was... kind of a slight on her pride. She swallowed that urge. "Yes. Seriously, they do." She scratched Max's head again, and the puppy's tail thumped frantically against the too-hard school mattress.

"Okay... my family." She took a breath. "Alright. I have one brother, and when I'm not at school I live with my mother and father, or my grandparents. That's the kind of stuff we're working on in class."

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[info]ofmanydevices
2009-08-07 05:48 am UTC (link)
Tom looked at her for a moment. She definitely seemed bothered by something. He felt an urge to ask. A voice inside him encouraged, just this once to say something. Kondo knew about Max, she was in his room even, the first human being ever to do so, and she seemed upset.

He opened his mouth to say something...

...but then nothing came out. Tom blinked, and again pushed those feelings deep down. He knew how it would go.

"Alright then... your family... Well let's start with your brother."

Her brother was listed first, so Tom guessed that he was the most significant to her.

"In Japanese he is your Anii-san. In English he's called Brother."

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[info]anthesphoria
2009-08-07 07:05 pm UTC (link)
"Mmhmm, brother, I remember that one. So I'd say..." She stopped, and thought, and then tried it in English: "I have brother?" Her pronunciation was still thick and hesitant, but it was mostly understandable.

"Is that it?" She flipped through her notes - not that they were good notes, half-full of scrawling, nonsense doodles and repeating patterns instead of actual notes. "Or did I screw it up again?"

You'd think she might have learned English at home, or to speak with her American relatives, but apparently not. "Is something bothering you?" She asked, after a moment. He seemed uncomfortable; like he'd been about to say something and had decided not to - seriously, he'd even opened and shut his mouth in classic no I can't fashion.

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[info]ofmanydevices
2009-08-07 07:13 pm UTC (link)
"No it's fine."

Tom brushed her off a little too quickly for it being fine, and he moved to get her attention back onto the school work. He looked her notes over with some scorn, but didn't say anything. He was here to repay a debt, not be her tutor, right?

"You said it right. You're accent is kind of thick though. The letters at the end of, and in the middle of Brother are the letter r it's more of an errrrrr sound, less of an elll."

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[info]anthesphoria
2009-08-07 07:23 pm UTC (link)
"Really, it's fine?" She didn't want to prod at it - wait, hell, yes she did. She was curious. What kind of thing would bother Sagaki-sempai, of the strange mind, throwing knives, psychotic room and adorable puppy?

"Brother," she tried again, not really improving all that much. She frowned; "That's not much better, is it?"

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[info]ofmanydevices
2009-08-07 07:46 pm UTC (link)
Tom stood up and began walking around the room. English was easy and he had other things to work on, so he saw no problem with reviewing his notes in between helping out Kozue. It was certainly that, and not a desire to avoid answering her first question. Certainly.

"It takes some practice to do it right. You've lived in Japan since birth right? You're entire life you've spoken a language that doesn't have that letter it in.
Just because you hear a sound a bird makes doesn't mean you can imitate it exactly on the first try."

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[info]anthesphoria
2009-08-08 03:01 am UTC (link)
"You know, we're not graded all that much on pronunciation," she pointed out, continuing to shower distracted affection upon the tiny dog in her lap. "I don't mind practicing that, but I really just want to not fail the English exams."

"That stuff about the bird is pretty, though." She tipped her head back, imagining it. An unusually poetic thing for Tom to say - another contradiction - she usually didn't have trouble making sense of people, but he was a knot of confusing aspects that refused to pull apart under her scrutiny.

"Yes, I have lived here all my life - in Hokkaido, mostly, too. But I heard you lived abroad - did you learn English while you were there? Was it hard?" Obviously, he was fluent - she'd heard him talking, like in the meeting, and he carried around English books like that Paradise Lost thing.

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[info]ofmanydevices
2009-08-08 03:12 am UTC (link)
With renewed affection being showered upon him, Max rolled over so Kozue could provide him with belly rubs, he expected her, like a good human, to understand and react to the commands he gave her.

Tom finished looking around the room, and his gaze returned to Kozue.

"I was born in the United States, and lived there until I was twelve."

He took a few steps closer to look down at her notes.

"Why okay so you said when you are not in school you live with your mother, father and grandparents. So in Japanese you say okaasan, and in english that's pronounced Mother, otousan is pronounced father, and your grandparents would be grandmother for obaasan and grandfather for ojiisan."

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[info]anthesphoria
2009-08-08 03:42 am UTC (link)
"Oh, so was English your first language?" She asked, intrigued, only half following the lesson now. She had learned all these things in class, at least twice by now. "I guess it must have been, if you were born in the US? So, where did you live?"

All the while, Kozue was scratching Max's belly with one hand, and holding her textbook open with the other. Oh, he was such a good puppy! Such a good puppy! She totally got all the puppy-love-cues, and followed them. When she got married, she was definitely getting a dog - maybe her future husband could buy her one as an engagement gift, one of those really expensive tiny ones... Hmmm.

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[info]ofmanydevices
2009-08-08 03:58 am UTC (link)
"Manhattan. It's uh... In New York City. We moved in 2009 right about when the stock market ran into a lot of problems.... That was a bad year."

He spoke the last part just a bit quieter then the rest.

Tom paused.

"You know everyone keeps asking me about my past. Do you guys really think I'm going to give up sensitive information that easily?"

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[info]anthesphoria
2009-08-08 04:43 am UTC (link)
She blinked. "Sensitive information? I didn't know that where you lived was sensitive, I'm sorry, Sagaki-sempai. Although I did tell you where I'm from." She nodded, coming up with this approach rather on the spot. Fairness had seemed to appeal to him before, when she'd gotten him to agree to tutoring in the first place.

"And I know where Manhattan is. I've been there before." She smiled, proud of her rather mundane geographical knowledge. Then again, who didn't know what Manhattan was?

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[info]ofmanydevices
2009-08-08 04:54 am UTC (link)
"No I meant... information about my past. Shaking me down to try and figure me out like an interrogation.

You already managed to get into my room I don't know that it's wise for me to reveal anymore about myself that you can use against me."
Now that he thought about it, it did make sense; Kondo was here to spy on him for team Persona. Aoi had failed to find out anything, he'd expected Nawanaka, but Kondo had been learning quite a bit as it was.

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[info]anthesphoria
2009-08-08 05:29 am UTC (link)
"What. Shake you down for information? Interrogation?" She stared at him.

"Do I look like a vigilante or a police officer to you? Or -- I don't know, someone else who would interrogate? I'm trying to be nice, Sagaki-sempai, not... make a dossier on you or something." She shook her head, and looked back down at her text books. "And how is this shaking you down?"

Clearly, she was missing the shaking part.

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[info]ofmanydevices
2009-08-08 05:42 am UTC (link)
"You're trying to be... nice?"

Tom looked at Kozue with utter confusion. The same look she would have received if she had also chosen to inform him that she was trying to fly, or breathe atomic breath.

"...why?"

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[info]anthesphoria
2009-08-09 03:00 am UTC (link)
She shrugged. "I felt like it. And if I'm nice maybe you'll tell me the answers for my homework. Which is the right indefinite article: a mother or an mother?"

Yes, that quickly, she was off onto her worksheet; she had a list of questions she had to answer for class tomorrow, and no idea what answers were right. Of course she could have looked them up - her textbook was here, too - but that was time consuming and she had a native speaker right here. Why waste all that effort?

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[info]ofmanydevices
2009-08-09 03:24 am UTC (link)
"A mother, an is only used for words that begin with vowels... oh yeah vowels is going to be a whole... mess."

He rubbed the bridge of his nose. Pretending to be nice to get something out of him made a lot more sense then just because she felt like it. No on is nice because they feel like it.

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[info]anthesphoria
2009-08-10 05:09 am UTC (link)
What, did he think she was really stupid, as opposed to just shitty at English? "I know what a vowel is," she said, rather testy, twirling her pen between her fingers. "So that's the rule. I always forget about how it works."

She checked off the correct box and, to her credit, did the next problem silently, pausing to nibble on the eraser of her pencil for a moment while she pondered "a grandmother".

"I might not speak English, but I have studied for exams in it every year since middle school."

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[info]ofmanydevices
2009-08-10 05:15 am UTC (link)
He shook his head.

"No it's... in Japanese you only have five vowels. In English you have five... sometimes other times... six, and each vowel has multiple methods of pronunciation."

The puppy nudged Kozue's arm, she was no longer paying him the appropriate amount of attention. He tried to push his way under her arm, and into her lap.

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[info]anthesphoria
2009-08-11 05:18 am UTC (link)
"Here, c'more," she said, addressing Max, and letting him climb up into her lap; she smoothed down her skirt a little for him to find a comfortable place, and went back to scratching at his ears and head. "Yeah, long a and short a and... Oh, what do you call those things. Dipthings." She shrugged.

"Okay, let's see if I can get this right."

Gee, did she have to hold his hand while he tutored her? She sighed, and read off the next problem. "I do not have..." a pause. "Any sister. Wait, did I make it - damn, I didn't make it plural." She sighed. "I'm never going to get this, am I."

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[info]ofmanydevices
2009-08-11 05:50 am UTC (link)
"Right... sisters."

He moved to sit next to her on the bed, as he looked over the notes. His hand reached out and began to scratch Max just above his back leg. Apparently this was something Tom had done so often he hadn't really noticed he was doing it.

When she flumped about not understanding it he looked at her, the tone didn't change so he certainly wasn't trying to encourage her, or lying to make her feel better, but he spoke as if the things he said were obvious facts.

"Of course you are. You were able to recognize the mistakes you made without me having to tell you, and you know the differences in English vowels, which is relatively hard to get. English has a lot of different rules, and contradictions to those rules, since it was almost created as they went along. It's not like French, they have a whole school dedicated toward making sure their language is used being used properly.

The fact that you can recognize it when you make mistakes is a good sign of your progress. You seem to be a lot smarter then you give yourself credit for."

He leaned back again and pulling his hand from the puppy, and took a look at her worksheet.

"What's next?"

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[info]anthesphoria
2009-08-11 06:04 am UTC (link)
"I give myself all kinds of smartness credit," she said, eyes closed, voice stuffy, wiggling her head a little just to make the joke obvious--but she broke out with a laugh before she could really finish. "I'm no good at school; that's okay though. I just have to not fail out and I'll be fine."

"I just watch some American movies is all, so I know what it sounds like. They're my mother's favorites, you know?" She trailed off, and looked back down at the problem sheet. She shifted on the bed, debating what to do. She could scoot further away--but the dog was in her lap and Tom was petting Max. She could move to the chair, but... same problem. She could move closer to him, too. But he'd specifically said he wasn't interested, and she was dating someone and it wasn't as if Keiichi wouldn't find out if--really, he'd said he wasn't interested. And she wasn't the kind of person who paid for help with her homework like that.

So what was he doing over here then? She couldn't quite figure it out.

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[info]ofmanydevices
2009-08-11 06:28 am UTC (link)
Tom shook his head and waved almost dismissively at her claims.

"Despite how stubborn, and paranoid I am, you managed to find a way to get into my room. You are the first human being to ever set foot in this room. Even if you have trouble keeping your marks up, that does not negate the fact that you are obviously intelligent."

Tom slumped back, and very distinctly stopped petting the dog. He looked away from Kozue and spoke quietly.

"My mother preferred some American music."

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[info]anthesphoria
2009-08-11 06:45 am UTC (link)
Luckily, he was looking away when she smiled, feeling profoundly flattered. Her response, though, was careful, slow and meticulous. After all, he'd gotten angry the last time she'd tried to pry personal details from him.

"My mother's hafu - I didn't know if you knew, but..." She trailed off and shrugged. Some people did; some people didn't. And maybe it would make Tom feel more comfortable. Of course, Kozue was now predicting the if you're half-American why don't you know English questions that she usually got - her English teacher in Middle School had even lectured her about that, on more than one occasion: how he expected more from her, based on her family background.

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[info]ofmanydevices
2009-08-11 04:00 pm UTC (link)
"I did know. You're hair is a dead give away. Even if you'd dyed it, and curled it, the curls wouldn't stay in all day."

He stood up and moved back to the chair. He sat down and leaned against it. Tom's responses were also of the careful variety. It seemed he was determined not to give any further details about himself.

"You're mothers life must have been difficult."

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[info]anthesphoria
2009-08-11 05:10 pm UTC (link)
"O-oh. Yeah." She brushed a few strands of that curly and utterly non-Japanese hair out of her face. Right. Of course. She sometimes got the impression that everyone knew about her background, but was just too polite to mention it to her face. (Because naturally, any mention of it would have to be bad, right?)

"She takes it all in stride really well." At least, she took it in stride much better now that she lived on a different island from her in-laws. But Kozue's voice, and the little lift of her chin as she spoke, proved that she was in fact quite proud of her mother. "But yeah - my grandparents haven't really made it any easier on her."

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[info]ofmanydevices
2009-08-12 04:46 am UTC (link)
"My family... is... "

Tom paused, as if searching for the words. After a moment he sighed like he was giving up.

"... nothing."

He shook his head. And his expressions became steel.

"They're nothing. We should get back to your notes, you didn't come here to discuss family."

He crossed his arms.

"...Except for how to translate it... to english."

Tom signed again.

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[info]anthesphoria
2009-08-13 03:17 am UTC (link)
"You don't have to talk about it," she said, shrugging, looking back at her homework to hide her grin. Right; eat your words. We're not here to talk about family. "I just think it's more interesting to chat while I work." Another, smaller shrug, and she circled another answer; it was probably right.

"Do you have some homework you have to do? Or..."

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[info]ofmanydevices
2009-08-13 03:55 am UTC (link)
Tom shrugged and spoke in an almost offhand manner.

"I finish all my homework as soon as I get it, so I can focus on the case.

Since I do a lot of research on my own, I have a pretty good idea of where most of the information I need to do it is. So I get it done quickly.

I've also been faking my grades so they keep me in easier classes. It's entirely possible that I could have graduated already if I put my efforts towards my school work. Or at the very least some kind of advanced class meant to challenge very intelligent students."

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[info]anthesphoria
2009-08-13 04:35 am UTC (link)
Kozue blinked. And blinked again. Well, that was... direct, she supposed. And completely without humility. I could have already graduated if I wanted? Wow. She hung out with guys with real egos, and that was still unusual.

"So why stick around? The case?" Or because you've got superpowers? She had a sourish expression on her face, although she tried to dull it and look more pleasant--less judgmental. The incredulity in her voice, she disguised slightly less. If he was really smart, why would he purposefully screw up on school-work? Especially if it was easy for him?

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[info]ofmanydevices
2009-08-14 04:07 am UTC (link)
"I didn't say that if I would graduate, I said it was possible. It's far more likely that they would stick me in some kind of class where I would get all kinds of work that would require me to actually do the school work or get thrown out."

Tom shook his head and looked away, both from Kozue and Max it seemed.

"Either way, once I graduate, I... won't really be anything, while I'm here I can do something."

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[info]anthesphoria
2009-08-18 03:08 am UTC (link)
Kozue pursed her lips, puzzled, trying to figure through Tom's claims. It was odd; she wasn't sure what to make of it--at least, aside from the fact that Tom was being awfully fatalistic with that whole 'do the work or get thrown out' thing. It was a little more nuanced than that, Kozue knew, from her own brushes with slightly less than average grades.

"I don't know if that'd be enough to get you chucked out..." She shook her head, ignoring her homework completely now. "I mean, not that I know--really, you know." She stalled, and her face softened a little as she went through what else he'd said. He'd be nothing? She felt a pang of sympathy, and immediately decided she was probably imagining it. "What do you mean, nothing?"

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[info]ofmanydevices
2009-08-18 06:48 am UTC (link)
Tom frowned slightly at her insinuation that not doing the work would get one thrown from the school.

"It is with my reputation." Tom paused and thought. "...That is, the reputation I had when I joined the school, not the one I've made since I came here."

Tom looked at her, slightly confused, and ran a hand up his arm. He wondered whether her question about nothing was in reference to his family, or his future. He decided on which of the two questions he wanted to avoid answering less.

"Well I don't think I'll take over my families company, I have my doubts about the police force.
I dunno... maybe I could... I guess if Paradise isn't a one time thing I could maybe do something with that."

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[info]anthesphoria
2009-08-24 03:28 am UTC (link)
"Huh. How would you make a career out of Paradise?"

Kozue wasn't sure if she felt skeptical or intrigued; she was sort of wobbling between them, wondering how someone would even go about that. What, could he run tours? Or sell Persona Power or something?

Actually, if Kozue had been a more entrepreneurial person, she might have been much more engaged by ideas like that, since she had the general impression that it might work out really well, but as it was, they just seemed bizarre to her.

"Is it not a family-run corporation in that way? Like, you have..." She rolled her hand in a circle, looking for business terms. "Stock-holders or trustees or whatever? Or you've got older siblings who'll take over the company instead?" Since those were the only two options she could think of; the two options that made sense in her world. Either some silly corporate rules blocked Tom's father from giving him the business, or there were other, better suited siblings somewhere.

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[info]ofmanydevices
2009-08-24 10:29 pm UTC (link)
"I would travel around informing Persona users. I would be able to explain to them what happened."

Tom shrugged. He didn't seem bothered when he spoke, just his usual distant tone.

"I guess there's not a lot of money to be made from it.

I'm sure my father, or his company would pick whom they believed would be the best qualified to run the company. It's not some sort of Dynasty. And I know he doesn't want me involved... with... anything in his life really."

Tom pushed the chair closer to the desk, and looked away from Kozue.

"We're getting off topic though. You have homework you should be doing."

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[info]anthesphoria
2009-08-31 02:47 am UTC (link)
"Do you think there are other people who can do this? Somewhere?" She seemed genuinely interested; she's almost piped up when he'd first brought it up, but held her tongue out of politeness. He wasn't done speaking, after all.

"I kind of thought we were the only ones..." Her voice sort of deflated, and she looked back down at her homework. But only briefly. This was a more interesting discussion, and she'd take weird Paradise stuff over her English homework any day.

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[info]ofmanydevices
2009-08-31 09:43 pm UTC (link)
Tom moved toward his computer and flipped it on again.

"Well, that's a valid possibility, given that no one has ever found anything like this as far as we know.

Like I said in the library, I've been researching anything online that may sound like Paradise, to see how far it goes, or if there is a history around just Nanakamdo.

It's also possible that only certain people have the potential to be persona users, so we may be the only ones."

He looked over toward the first year.

"Though at the end of the day, we're th eones who have th epower now, so we're the only people who can stop the killer."

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