1st Chestnut: Arrival [Action/Voice]

[comicallyheroic]

Action/Voice

[People who happen to be making use of the Hot Springs might take note that there's a stranger in their midst. A short, bald man with six little dots on his forehead is laying down and sleeping on one of the deck-chairs near the edge of the tub. He's dressed, at least, but that doesn't change the fact that he's just there, dozing away with a journal for a pillow. Occasionally he lets out a little sigh of contentment, mumbling to himself in his sleep and seemingly oblivious to the world around him.

After a while, he does wake up though, and looks around, completely lost. In his flailing he notices the journal he's been laying on and grabs it up.]

Huh? What...? Well how the heck did I end up in a hot spring? And...what's with this thing? Oh man I hope that blinking light doesn't mean it's gonna explode or something. That'd be just my luck...

[There's the sound of random buttons being pressed and the picture flickers a few times before Krillin realizes that the blinking light means that it is, in fact, recording. He sounds immediately apologetic, and just starts speaking normally, if somewhat formally.]

Uh...sorry about that. My name's Krillin and ah-hehehe I don't know who's Capsulepad this is, but I found it and I wanna return it. The book model is really cool, I didn't even know they made them, but I'm not a thief. If you can hear this, then let me know where you are and I'll return it right away. Only, I guess it'd be great if you could give me some directions too.


[Later, after he's finally departed and begun to poke around his new surroundings, Krillin makes a beeline for town, whizzing along through the chilly air and cursing his luck. It's cold, and his clothes are freaking gone, and he of course missed the teleporter. Once he finds and swipes some clothes, he'll start poking his head around trying to find out where he can get some food and more information. So, expect him to turn up in the Item Shop, Bakery, and Welcome Center.]


[OOC: Please feel free to break time on the action portions of the thread! It's more fun that way.]

Comments

[tsundroid]

[SUDDEN ANGER.]

What does it even matter who the father is!

[comicallyheroic]

[He takes a step back, not quite cowering, but definitely blushing]

I'm just curious, is all. S-sorry, Eighteen.

1/?

[tsundroid]

[She eyeballs the smaller man a moment. She was dead set on not breathing a word but now that she's standing here, it strikes her as stupidly mean not to. And then she has to take a moment to be angry over the fact that somehow it seems wrong to keep this sort of thing from him.

But well, in spite of everything and any hopes he might have had (because she remains unconvinced that people can just do nice things for each other without gain), he had helped her. More than once.]

2/2

[tsundroid]

[Nrrrgh. She's going to regret this. So why is she saying anything?

In the end she mutters it out.]

You.

1/? because I don't even know

[comicallyheroic]

[And Krillin couldn't be more dumbstruck if you'd hit him with a stick. He just stands there, poleaxed.]

[comicallyheroic]

[He...had a daughter...]

3/?

[comicallyheroic]

[W...with...]

4/?

[comicallyheroic]

[Android 18?]

5/7? Maybe

[comicallyheroic]

[He can't help it]

...r-r-really? M-m-me?

6/8, for sure

[comicallyheroic]

[He has a daughter in the future. With a beautiful, powerful, dangerous android woman.

This beautiful, powerful, dangerous android woman.

Oh...that hurts his head and he's having a lot of trouble processing it.]

7/8

[comicallyheroic]

[And then he thinks about it even harder, and suffers a bit of an overload.]

I...have...a daughter?

[Aaaaand now he's on the ground.]

8/8

[comicallyheroic]

[And he twitches once. Completely stunned. Then in the corner of the screen, the Krillin Owned counter ticks up to 2]

1/?

[tsundroid]

[The more he stammers and stutters about this, the redder she gets. How do you think she feels, Krillin? HUH? HOW?]

2/?

[tsundroid]

[She's almost ready to demand how he can accept it so easily the further he goes on about it. Doesn't it seem absurd to him? Doesn't her having a child with anyone seem absurd?]

3/?

[tsundroid]

[And then he just hits the ground. Boom, down for the count.

... Okay, she wasn't expecting that.]

4/4

[tsundroid]

[She stands next to him a moment.

And then she nudges his side with the toe of one boot.]

[comicallyheroic]

[He lays there dazed for a minute before he opens his eyes and looks up at her.]

O-oh...I'm sorry, Eighteen. I just...I thought...I heard you say you and I had...a d-daughter.

[And he's visibly bracing for an impact. Or getting yelled at...]

[tsundroid]

[At that she draws her foot back... and places it right back down as she sighs out.]

That's because I did, you moron. Is it that hard for you to imagine?

[comicallyheroic]

[He sits up, looking at her for a long moment before he sighs.]

Honestly Eighteen? Yes. You're...well...you're way too good looking for a guy like me. And I think it'd be really great and all, but I just don't think I'm lucky enough to be with a girl like you. But that doesn't mean I wouldn't want to.

[And he looks away quickly, pretty much expecting her to punch him, but like hell is he going to lie to her, since he pretty much told her that back at the Lookout.]

1/?

[tsundroid]

Of course I'm too good looking for a guy like you. At least you're sensible about that fact.

2/2

[tsundroid]

[That said though, she adds:]

If you go around with that sort of attitude, any girl is too good looking.

[She tucks her hair behind her ear, the other arm crossed under her chest.]

Part of the game is confidence. If you want something, you go until you get it. If you stop for excuses like anyone being way too good looking, you'll never get anywhere.

[Perhaps that's what confused her about him. He had enough determination to smash the control device and try to save both her and Sixteen. So where had that confidence he had then go to? Because in those scant few moments, he went from a short little nothing with a pitiful power level to an actual man. And she hadn't been able to quite dismiss him entirely since.]

[comicallyheroic]

[Well when she doesn't hit him, Krillin stands up, and nods. He does understand what she's saying. He was more or less just sort of reeling from the question, the bombardment of information, and basically everything else that's been thrown at him in the last hour or so.

But what she's saying makes sense. Complete sense. And it's something he learned with Marron, too.]

Fine then.

[He crosses his arms over his bare chest, looks her right in the face, and for just a minute he's silent, studying her with a rather determined look. Because hell, he may as well just say it. Worst she can say is no, and then he'll just try again in a few weeks.]

Eighteen. When things settle down a bit more and I figure out just what the heck is going on with this Luceti business, let's go out to dinner. Just you and me.

[tsundroid]

[She draws back like he just shot her.]

What.

[comicallyheroic]

[He smiles and nods]

I just asked you to dinner sometime.

1/?

[tsundroid]

[This is the part where she tells him off. Naturally when she talked about confidence, she didn't mean with her. Nope, no sir, not with her.]