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Bakura Ryou [獏良了] ([personal profile] shiromadoushi) wrote in [community profile] soul_logs2012-05-14 07:16 pm

[Open] Taking over the High Scores

Characters: Bakura Ryou & anyone else near, in, or around the arcade
Location: The arcade
Rating: ...N for nerdy?
Time: Feb 17th, afternoon & evening
Description: Uncomfortably familiar weird stuff is starting happen around Bakura in addition to the drama across the hall, so he's avoiding dealing with it by sinking far too many quarters into machines at the arcade.



It had started when he noted that something he had left in the fridge to have for the next day had been missing. He didn't pay it much mind and had just assumed that he had absentmindedly eaten it the night before. But it seemed like it kept happening... And things he was sure he had put away properly were winding up in other places entirely.

Like they had back in Tokyo.

But he wasn't losing any time this time. Sure, he still would lose track of time when he was playing his games, but realizing that it was suddenly 2am and he had finished the game was different than realizing that it was 5pm and he couldn't remember where he'd spent the last 2 hours. Or why he was in a different part of town than he'd started.

Rather than think on it, after finding the drawers in his dresser looking almost as if someone had been searching through them, he'd headed out to the arcade. What better way to avoid a problem than to play games, right?

Of course, the fact that he was still there, packing away high score after high score on his favorite games after the sun was starting to set when there a possibly serial killer lurking out there, was it's own problem, but when had he ever given things like that any consideration?

want_the_world: (innteresting)

[personal profile] want_the_world 2012-06-24 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
"How is it, then? You'd rather be liked than respected." He cocked his head to the side, genuinely curious how someone could become like that to this extent.

"Why? That just lets people know they can take advantage of you."
want_the_world: (shadowy)

[personal profile] want_the_world 2012-06-25 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
"You overestimate people. They're inherently selfish. If you give them something for nothing, they're going to take it."

Mello considered himself an optimist, in that he'd trained himself to expect the best possible outcome for most things. That didn't mean he was naive when it came to people.
want_the_world: (ponytail)

[personal profile] want_the_world 2012-06-26 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
It wasn't a huge leap of logic to guess that L had been availing himself of Bakura's eagerness to please. L's interest in the kid was one of the reasons Mello had decided he shouldn't be dismissed outright, after all. Of course, L's attention was reward enough, Mello felt, even for someone who lacked the context for understanding why.

Like L, Mello liked to think of himself as someone who wouldn't let a debt go unpaid.

"I'm not like that. I don't like taking something for nothing."
attentionwenches: (you know that I was free)

Hm--can we skip through Bakura teaching Loki to play games to Storytime With Loki?

[personal profile] attentionwenches 2012-06-27 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
The evening passed quickly enough. Loki was a fast learner, and though he could hardly hope to beat Bakura, he mastered the basics of each game his host showed him. Unhealthy snacks were probably also involved.

It was so late at night it was very nearly early morning that they finally turned in. Loki would accept whatever bedding Bakura provided; he would not insult Bakura's hospitality by turning it down.

"I can't say my brother would care for many of these games, but my father might," Loki said after they were both settled in, staring up at the ceiling. "Strategy is not beyond him. I'd like to teach him chess."
attentionwenches: (I can't hear a thing)

looks good to me!

[personal profile] attentionwenches 2012-06-27 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Loki laughed -- not out of any kind of mockery, just out of a combination of mild amusement and happiness. "I'm sure I could commission a metalsmith to construct an adequate chess set. I could even shape one myself, with magic."

He sighed. Being able to do magic was something he missed very much. Magic had been his most respectable talent -- and the one he felt was coolest. "I wish I were still able to do it. ...do you have any talents that were taken from you when you arrived?"
attentionwenches: (you're breaking up on me)

[personal profile] attentionwenches 2012-06-27 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"How terrible," Loki exclaimed, all sympathy. "An enchanted artifact is a treasure indeed. I am sorry you lost it." Even he hadn't had anything comparable.
want_the_world: (innteresting)

[personal profile] want_the_world 2012-06-28 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes, but you're determined to see the best in people, even if they haven't got a best."

His tone verged on teasing. Mello was enjoying this, now that the question of what to do about Near had been successfully shunted aside.
attentionwenches: (I'm kinda busy k-k-k-k-kinda busy)

[personal profile] attentionwenches 2012-06-28 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
"It wouldn't have been much use to you here, anyway." Not with the way only one type of power worked in Death City. Still, Loki was sad on Bakura's behalf.

"I wish I had had a magic relic," Loki sighed. "They weren't common in Asgard -- there wasn't much use for them. Not with the warriors' preference for nonmagic combat. I was fortunate enough to find a sorceress teacher, much less a sorcerous device."
attentionwenches: (you know that I was free)

[personal profile] attentionwenches 2012-06-28 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
"But that's very useful!" Loki argued. "You've no idea what I would give to own the likes of that."
attentionwenches: (I can't hear a thing)

[personal profile] attentionwenches 2012-06-28 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"I can imagine. In a world without magic, such things would be even more valuable than they already are."
want_the_world: (ponytail)

[personal profile] want_the_world 2012-06-29 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
"Never met Yagami, then," Mello said dryly.

He suffered from no qualms at all about warning people about Light. Of course, if his assessment of the kid's character was correct, Bakura would've found the bastard charming and well-spoken.
attentionwenches: (I'm kinda busy k-k-k-k-kinda busy)

[personal profile] attentionwenches 2012-06-29 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
"What a pity," Loki said. "If I could be sure we were from the same reality, I would offer to look for clues in our library when I return to Asgard. I'd wager we have far more information on magical items than the libraries in your world." Since Bakura's was all but without magic and everything. "I could also ask Amora," he added, as the thought occurred to him. "She might know."

Amora's name would not be familiar to one who had only read Norse mythology. However, to anyone with more than a passing familiarity with comic books, the name would ring a bell as a scheming but beautiful sorceress.

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