Boom Boom Boom Boomba

[freshprints]

Who: Kyouko Kirigiri (freshprints) and Kiyotaka Ishimaru (ardent)
Where: The Violet City Pokemon Center!
When: August 29
Summary: In which two super solvin' teenage crimebusters attempt to figure out what a Moomba is. Now contains SPOILERS for Dangan Ronpa.
Rating: G
Log:

[There is a Moomba in her PC.

That's the gist of the situation that Kirigiri's in right now, but while it's certainly the most significant detail of her current circumstances, it's also of course far from the only one. Some of those others include things like the fact that she's standing in the Violet City Pokemon Center at the moment — having finally made it to the city where her friends classmates friends have been waiting for her — or the fact that it's a rather nice day outside (albeit hot), or the fact that the tied-off end of her braid is brushing lightly against her leg as she unconsciously leans forward to examine this strange phenomenon she's been presented with. There's the chatter of the surrounding NPCs and other trainers filling the air, and the white noise of it all is doing its part to drown out the exhausting repetitiveness of the background music, which is assuredly appreciated by now. There's the faint beeping of machines, the clicking and clattering of shoes on flooring, and she is aware of all these things but it's not stopping her from fixating on the enigma that is the PC screen in front of her.

Or rather, the contents of her box that the PC screen is so helpfully indicating.

You see, it seems there is a Moomba in her PC. She is reasonably certain she did not put it there. She is likewise reasonably certain she has no idea what a Moomba is. Her PokeDex has been surprisingly unhelpful; presumably a Moomba would fall neatly between Monferno and Mothim, alphabetically speaking, and yet there is no sign of such a creature in the Dex at all.

Yet here in front of her, the PC is indicating that there is a Moomba inside.

She does not know what a Moomba is.

She does not know how it got there.

And therefore, this assuredly is a mystery, all right.

(Realistically speaking, it's one she might well stand there contemplating all day, should a timely intervention not arrive.) ]

Comments

[ardent]

[Ishimaru has been working in the Pokémon Center in Violet City for some time now; usually he sticks to the back, filing and doing paperwork and generally managing to be efficient despite the repetitive and quite honestly completely boring nature of the task - he doesn't mind the tedium, though, and the general rhythm to it all gives him time to sort through his thoughts as well as the paperwork. Sometimes, however, he's brought into the front; he's still not a master of social grace but he can definitely comprehend that when someone very heavily states that there's someone out front who looks like they need help, he should probably do something about it. Today is one of those days; apparently there's someone out at the PC who's staring at it like they've never seen it before, and since this world is often full of newcomers that are completely technologically-challenged, it might very well be that this person has, in fact, literally never seen one before.

Right. Out he goes. This actually isn't uncommon, given how early into most newcomers' paths they are, and he's far from annoyed; at any rate, there are things he's come to expect from these sorts of experiences, and things that he definitely has not.

The Sort of Person Kiyotaka Ishimaru Is Expecting:

1. literally medieval and therefore weirded out by the machine,
2. from a world that was not completely backwards but did not have computers and therefore fascinated by the 'w' key,
3. previously some sort of animal and therefore still learning to walk upright and trying to get used to, y'know, having thumbs.

The Sort Of Person Kiyotaka Ishimaru Is Not Expecting:

1. Kirigiri.

To be fair, Ishimaru doesn't usually expect Kirigiri, simply because Kirigiri is quiet and a bit of a loner in his experience, and they'd had no reason to talk much back in Hope's Peak - at least, not at his current point on the timeline, and somehow he doubted that would change much unless she proved to be The Psychosis Whisperer and managed to have some sort of breakthrough with Ishida, and given Kirigiri in general, somehow he doubted that. Not that he blames her.

Anyway, however, the surprise is actually a pleasant one, and he just grins and quickens his pace a bit as he comes to join her and omg classmate.]

Kirigiri-kun! It's good to see you!

[...that said, what are you...doing. You are not medieval and he's pretty sure you're used to having thumbs, so...]

Is the machine not working correctly? I can try to get someone to fix it for you, if that's the case!