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Prince Endymion (Mamoru Chiba) (prince_endymion) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2008-08-08 08:25:00

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complete, day 10, giselle, mamoru chiba, tuxedo mask

Day Ten
Who: Mamoru and Giselle
When: Mid Afternoon
Where: The games room
What: Teaching about video games
Rating: G, I think. This is Giselle
Status: Complete

To say he hadn't been having a good few days had to pretty much be the understatement of the year. First, discovering that he was in love with a girl he had been annoyed by previously, and all the issues that came along with that like being a prince, and then, of course, the kidnapping. Getting into a verbal spat with Michiru, and a more physical one with a bald man named Riddick. This had not been the best couple of days, that was for sure. He needed some time with someone who wasn't going to attack him, either emotionally or physically.

Maybe, that's why he'd issued the invitation to the innocent redhead Giselle. From everything he'd heard, though he'd never actually met her, she was the epitome of sweetness. He doubted very much he'd have to watch himself very closely around her, and that was refreshing. He never would have thought he'd be seeking out someone like her, but she might be exactly what he needed.

So, as planned, in the afternoon after lunch, he made his way to the games room. As always, the planet seemed to know what he wanted, and there were all sorts of video games as well as consoles to play them on. He started picking through them, noting a couple of titles he hadn't even heard of, and his friend Motoki, who ran a video arcade, kept him pretty up to date on that stuff. Interesting. Maybe he'd come back here later.

For now, though, he started making a pile of various things he thought she might be interested in. Nothing too violent, of course. No first person shooters or anything. Just some simple things, like racing games, dancing games, and a selection of childrens games that he thought would be easy to learn on. He had quite a pile going when the door opened, and he turned around and politely rose to his feet, ready to greet the small redheaded girl he was here to teach.

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prince_endymion
2008-08-10 07:48 pm UTC (link)

This sort of game was huge in Japan, and he'd practiced more than he would probably actually admit to. He and Motoki, who owned an arcade, often had competitions. Mamoru managed to hold his own in them, and he had no problem with the simple tutorial. He was able to look over at her to make sure she was okay, and that she didn't fall over. He'd seen that a few times, from people trying to get it too fast.

But he actually had to smile as he watched her. Not only was she getting it, but much faster than he would have actually thought possible. She must not be lying about loving to dance. Not only was she pretty good already, but she didn't have the bored look on her face that vetrans of this game often got. She was very pretty when she smiled, he decided, and since she pretty much seemed to constantly be smiling, well, it worked out very nicely. Red hair wasn't all that common in Japan, so his eyes kept moving to the shimmering fiery strands that moved as she played the game.

Finally, though, his attention had to be pulled back to the game himself. The tutorial was over, and it was time for them to actually dance against each other. Finding himself strangely eager to reassure her, he smiled a little at her and nodded.

"It is fun, isn't it? Alright, Giselle, get ready! Whoever misses the fewest arrows wins."

On the screen, another countdown was starting, and Mamoru's tall, well-muscled body was poised and ready to go. He was also looking over at her, wondering how she'd do with the faster speed of the real game, as opposed to the tutorial.

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keoughr
2008-08-11 08:25 pm UTC (link)

She glanced up with a wide smile on her face to catch him watching her a time or two. It was so much fun, and he seemed pleased that she was enjoying herself. She consistently giggled as she moved her feet back and forth, side to side. Her red hair bouncing on her shoulders.

She turned to him as the tutorial ended. She looked back at the screen in time to see that an actual game had started. She heard his instruction and concentrated on the arrows and tried to touch as many correct ones as she could. The music was unlike anything she'd ever heard. It had a mechanical sound to it, but it was accented by the sound of their feet touching the platform.

She was alright for a first-timer, but she missed many more than he did. But, if they played the game long enough, she was sure she would be able to do as well as he did. She laughed, and it came out as a halting tittering sound that came out between jumps. She held her arms out slightly, trying to keep her balance. She was breathless when the song finally ended and it was apparent that Mamoru had won. She laughed and tucked some strands of red hair behind her ears.

"That was amazing!" She gushed, resting her hands on her hips.

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prince_endymion
2008-08-11 09:00 pm UTC (link)

When he won, he wasn't really surprised, nor did it mean all that much to him. After all, he was really practiced, and she'd just started. It wasn't time to get up on his high horse or anything. He smiled at her, slightly out of breath as the game came to an end.

"Give you a couple more tries at this, and you'll easily win. A natural."

He stepped down off the platform, and offered her his hand to help her down. As they moved away from the arcade game, he tried to decide what else would be fun. She clearly liked being active, and he wondered if video games were the best choice for her. Still, he was supposed to show her. He shrugged and led the way over to the large television, which had pretty much any console you could think of, and big comfy beanbag chairs in front of them. He searched through the stack of games until he found a simple game, and he popped it into a PlayStation before handing her a controller and sitting down in one of the chairs.

"Alright, this is a game called Bubble Bobble. You have to match up the different colors, like that, see?"

Without having to much think about it, he demonstrated aiming and firing the colorful 'marble' on the screen towards the other 'marbles' if it's own color. He glanced over at her to make sure she had gotten it, and couldn't help but notice she was still breathing a little hard from the exercise. Maybe this rest would be good for her.

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keoughr
2008-08-16 02:39 pm UTC (link)

She giggled when he said she'd easily win with a few more tries. She took his hand and followed him toward the video games. She looked at the range of options for sitting and decidedly avoided the beanbag chairs. After yesterday's fiasco with them, she was not about to attempt it again. Rather than make a fool of herself in front of the handsome young man (by herself was one thing), she sat down on the ground while he thumbed through all the video games.

She took the controller and watched him fit himself into one of the bean bag chairs. They were rather large, but he looked slightly comical. She grinned at him and looked toward the screen that had just lit up with bright colored balls. "Oh, how pretty!" She giggled and tucked her legs under her gown, leaning forward with her elbows on her knees, her delicate fingers grasping the controller.

She looked back at him when he began to explain the directions of the game and nodded. Watching the colorful marbles disappear when they were struck with a similar colored marble, she grinned. It seemed easy enough. She played with the controls on the object in her hand, trying to figure out what each little button did. She realized that even though she was supposed to be learning from this young man, she knew nothing about him.

"Mamoru, tell me about yourself?" She glanced sideways at him a moment before the game began and she tried to make the controller do what she wanted it to.

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prince_endymion
2008-08-17 10:18 am UTC (link)

Her delight really was very contagious, and he found that, somewhat to his surprise, he was nowhere near as grumpy as he'd been before she'd come into the games room. He wasn't the sort that was easily cheered up, and even when he wasn't particularly upset about something, he tended towards seriousness and stoicism. But she was unrelenting, and real about her happiness. He didn't understand it, but he did like it.

He watched her as she grinned and giggled her way through the game, having never seen anyone react to things the way she did. Even the children he'd seen play this game were more jaded than her. It was a simple, easily learned game, and he wasn't needed much. So, he just watched her. Not in a creepy way, or at least, he hoped not. Her question, though, put him off guard. He didn't talk about himself much, and usually avoided questions like that. But it was absolutely impossible to think of being rude to her, like he would to most people.

"There... isn't much to tell, Giselle. I'm from a place that I don't think you've ever heard of, called Tokyo. I'm a college student."

He shrugged. Of course, there was so much more to tell, about how he was a guardian and a prince, but he wasn't quite used to talking about those things. In fact, he couldn't remember a time that he'd actually said the words to anyone, admitted who he really was.

"What about you? Where are you from?"

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keoughr
2008-08-17 11:27 pm UTC (link)

She idly watched the game, not as interested in it as she had been in the dancing game. It was still fun to watch the brightly colored balls fly toward the rest. But it was quickly apparent she wasn't quite as coordinated with her fingers as she was with her feet. The balls built upon each other until it reached the point of no return and a big "Game Over" flashed up on the screen.

She pouted for a moment before turning to him. She'd listened to him speak of himself, but he didn't say much. At least nothing he wouldn't tell a complete stranger. "I've heard of Tokyo. It's in Japan, right?" She'd been in New York long enough to learn about a few other places in the unanimated world. But she'd never been there. "What's it like?"

"College? That's schooling, isn't it? What did you study?" She turned toward him from her place on the floor, having to look up at the tall man who was seated above her in the beanbag chair. "Other than these games, what do you do for fun?"

She settled the controller on the gown stretched over her legs and leaned back on her hands. It was easier to look up at him that way. She giggled before she began to speak, knowing that he would neither know where she came from, or be able to fathom it. But, she told him anyway. "I come from a land called Andalasia, and I don't think you have heard of it because no one else I've met has."

She grinned, waiting for him to affirm her belief that no one had any idea about the land she came from but her. "It was a wonderful place, but I liked New York and Mirage better. I do miss my friends from New York, though. And my animals friends from Andalasia. But I have made some animal friends here, too. Still, I don't think anyone can replace Pip." She smiled wistfully before brightening once more. It seemed nothing could keep this Pollyanna down.

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prince_endymion
2008-08-18 12:02 am UTC (link)

As he'd thought, the girl lost interest in the game. It didn't really surprise him, since she really had seemed like she had too much energy to sit around in front of a television for very long. Slowly, but gracefully, he pulled himself out of the beanbag chair, standing up and stretching. Then, he knelt down to be more on her level.

"You can't be comfortable down there..."

He offered her his hand to help her stand, and again, it was far more polite than he would be to most people. He didn't do stuff like that, helping people up and stuff, not all that often, not unless they were hurt and needed it. But with her, it seemed natural, and he went with it.

"Yes, that's right, I'm from Japan... not born there, but raised." He smiled, a little amused by her constant stream of questions, and kept going. "I hadn't picked a major yet, I was taking all sorts of subjects. I'd almost decided to go into Computer Science but I don't know if I could be that inactive all the time..."

He frowned when he realized he was talking up a storm, for him. That was more information than he gave anyone. It must be her open personality that encouraged the same. Very strange. And, oddly enough, he couldn't remember the last time anyone had asked him about what he was taking in school. Even Rei had never seemed to care.

"Andalasia... I've never heard of that, no." She seemed to expect that, and honestly, he'd been a little surprised when she'd heard of Japan earlier. And then that comment about New York as well. He surprised himself once more with his question, since he didn't normally care overly much about talking to people, finding out about them.

"I'm missing pieces of the puzzle... tell me your whole story, Giselle. How did you come from Andalasia to New York?"

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keoughr
2008-08-18 09:05 am UTC (link)

"Oh, I don't mind sitting on the ground. It isn't that bad." She quipped cherrily before accepting his hand up. She stood fluidly, and gracefully. She clasped her hands behind her back and bounced on the balls of her feet. She listened to his description of classes and schooling and decided she had no idea what he was talking about. She kne what computers were, of course, but she didn't know there was any sort of science behind them.

"Oh." She nodded, smiling, she could appreciate not being able to be inactive for long periods of time. She guessed that his course of study would have made that a requirement if he had continued to go to school. "If you were not born in Japan, where were you born and how did you get there?"

She was not purposefully trying to pry, but he seemed so interesting. He was so tall, and from the different nationalities she had seen in New York, most Asian's weren't as tall as he was. He must have felt a little strange being able to see over the tops of people's heads everywhere he went.

Giselle giggled when he seemed perplexed about where she came from and when he asked her to explain, she obliged. "You see, I was born and raised in Andalasia. Then I met Edward and we were going to be married. But on my wedding day, an old hag pushed me into a well and I ended up in New York. Robert and Morgan found me and let me stay at their apartment until Edward could come for me." She paused a moment. "Which he did, eventually. But before I could go back to Andalasia with him, I was pulled here."

She bounced again, hoping that her explanation was clear enough for him to understand. She knew that being pushed and pulled into different worlds was not very common. But, it had happened and she didn't know how else to explain it.

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prince_endymion
2008-08-18 11:23 am UTC (link)

Her explanation didn't make a whole lot of sense to him, but one thing he understood. She'd been pulled away from the person she'd been intending to marry, not once, but twice. Before, he wouldn't have cared very much, but it was a little bit too close to his own experience to brush it away that easily.

Still, it was a surprise to him, which seemed to be happening quite often in this conversation, when he bagan talking. As he did, he dropped her hand and walked over to a couch, large and much easier to get up off of than the beanbag chairs.

"See... when I was pulled away from Mirage I'd just found out... I don't know, some things I wasn't expecting. But there was this girl, Usagi, and I'd realized I had feelings for her... well, there's more to that, actually."

He sighed and rubbed his temples with his fingers, fighting off a headache. That had been much more information than he normally would have given to anyone, even the few friends he had. Quickly, he changed the subject, because it was coming too close to too many secrets that he'd kept for too long.

"No, I wasn't born in Japan. My mother was American, have you heard of California? She had me there, and then a Japanese couple adopted me and took me to Japan."

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