11 - AU!Disc [Audio] In which pineapples are plentiful

[fierybluebird]

Has anyone seen my Ace of Spades?

Linda apparently can't find it. She's good at finding other stuff though, but not Rika's crystals. Which is a shame, I was going to hang them up in the windows. Might liven up all the black. [In the background there's the sound of a woman tsking him and reminding him that he gets to decorate the office, not the apartment, so he should suck up and deal because black is the in-thing.]

Yeah, right, anyway. Got in touch with the Sandwich Factory --
[At this, the transmission is interrupted for a loud THWACK! as something loud was thrown and cracked near the communicator.] NOT YOU LINDA. GOD! PUT THE HEELS DOWN! You're worse than Pops' nurses!

[And a loud woman's voice.] WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?

[And anyone who knows Marco might recognized this silence as Marco's usual deadpan thinking up the right thing to say.] Love you baby? [WELL, apparently that worked because the woman devolves into a bunch of coos and purrs.] Right, I'm just going to take that heel now... before you break things. Haha. Wait. What is that on the plate?

Spam on toast with pineapple! It's your favorite!

That's inedible.

[And that would be the sound of Marco getting slapped and the voice wandering away yelling he can get his own damn food then.]

Right. Okay. Yeah. So uh. I guess anyone who finds this not an ordinary day and has lots of missing stuff, check in. Maybe we can find it together with a giant lost and found or something. Thanks.

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[satellitemecha.livejournal.com]

I don't know.
It could be an illusion.

I'm actually on my way to the place my ID labels as home. I'll see if I can find anything out there, although at this point I kind of doubt it.

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[fierybluebird]

Seems pretty solid.

Now I'm almost glad I have a crazy girlfriend. All right, if it's illusion, see if anything trips it up.

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[satellitemecha.livejournal.com]

I'll see what I can do.

What's your name, by the way? I don't believe we've met before and I'd like to be able to contact you again.

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[fierybluebird]

Marco.

Marco Newgate here. I work at Pineapple Landscaping. Apparently.

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[satellitemecha.livejournal.com]

I'm Yusei Fudo.

And apparently I'm in High School.

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[fierybluebird]

Discedo, eh. Go figure.

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[satellitemecha.livejournal.com]

Yea. I've never even been to school before.

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[fierybluebird]

Me neither.

Is it boring?

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[satellitemecha.livejournal.com]

A bit, I guess, but I think it was because I already knew everything the teacher was teaching. It was pretty basic physics and mathmatics. Everyone else in the classroom besides Japan seemed to enjoy it, though.

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[fierybluebird]

I see. Japan was distracted or just confused you mean?

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[satellitemecha.livejournal.com]

More like he knew all of it as well.
He's much, much older than he looks, I imagine. So it's understandable that it would all be pretty basic to him too.

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[fierybluebird]

Understood. [He and Japan have seriously got to make a club one of these days...]

You think it's only certain age in school? Or seemingly so?

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[satellitemecha.livejournal.com]

I havn't seen enough of the others to say for certain. I imagine that's the case, though.

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[fierybluebird]

Weird.

Maybe it's a ranking system according to age.

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[satellitemecha.livejournal.com]

I believe that's how it works, yea.
The younger kids go to elementary school and learn reading and writing and other basics like that, and the older kids go to high school and take more specialized classes.
I think.

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[fierybluebird]

The whole concept is a bit strange to me. Only the very rich or nobles had formal education in my world. Maybe a few of the exceptionally academic -- though it generally was dependent on what island.

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[satellitemecha.livejournal.com]

The only education I had was basic lessons from my foster mother. Everything else I taught myself.

Did you come from an island nation?

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[fierybluebird]

It doesn't seem like a bad way to learn to me. Especially since you already know what they're teaching in the classes.

More like, I'm from all over.

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[satellitemecha.livejournal.com]

I guess.

So you moved around a lot.

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[fierybluebird]

Yes. I lived most of my life in the New World. Staying on only one island would not have been wise, eh.

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[satellitemecha.livejournal.com]

Why's that, if you don't mind my asking?

{He's too curious for his own good.}

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[fierybluebird]

[Marco doesn't mind. He's still finding it weird anyone even asks and that they don't already know, but it's kind of a nice novelty to him.]

I'm pretty well known where I'm from. In a rather infamous way. Besides, staying on one island is pretty confining to me.

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[satellitemecha.livejournal.com]

I imagine so.
Stuck in Discedo all the time must be very claustrophobic for you, then.

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[fierybluebird]

Not as bad as I would normally worry. They didn't clip my wings and there's someone important to me there. So long as he's alive and happy I'm willing to overlook much.

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[satellitemecha.livejournal.com]

That's a good way to look at it.

I wish I could say the same.