(first punch) action; disguised multiple choice

[youngnobelman]

[If anyone comes into the infirmary today, they'll find Touma refamiliarizing himself with where everything is (some of it has changed since he was out on a mission), and organizing medical files (there's a growing pile of files for people who are no longer here, according to the latest list from admin).]

[At lunchtime, he hits the cafeteria, surveying the food with some slight distaste. Ah, cafeteria food, he has not missed you. As he loads up his tray with more food than it looks like he'd really eat, he has a device in his hand, which he occasionally talks to:]

What do you want in your wrap?

Do they still have that dressing I like?

[... Yeah, that thing just talked back.]

[Later on, when he gets some downtime from the infirmary that coincides with classes being out, Touma heads for the boxing and martial arts classrooms. He puts on a pair of boxing gloves and starts punching a heavy bag, a little rusty to start with but soon with the fluidity of several years' practice.]

(OOC: Despite the fourteen-year-old icons, Touma is twenty in this game!)

Comments

[forcerounds]

Yeah, I am. [Thank god! Someone from Earth!]

[youngnobelman]

[A miracle!] I'm half. It's nice to run into someone from home.

[While Touma's probably actually spent about as much time in Austria as he has in Japan, he was more at ease in Japan, further away from his father and grandmother's expectations of him.]

[forcerounds]

[Yeah. 'Norstein' told him European, but... mhm, 'Touma' definitely sounds more Japanese than whatever Norstein is supposed to be. (Hey, he's not that smart.)] Yeah, it is. ...I lived in Tokyo. [Random factoid. He doesn't even notice that use of the past tense.]

[youngnobelman]

Ah, I've been there a couple of times; it was nice. [Pity Touma's not from Frontier; those kids were from Shibuya.] I was based in Yokohama.

Sorry for the lateness :c

[forcerounds]

[He nods. Never been there, but everyone knows it's a pretty good place.] 'Based'? [The logical conclusion would be that he used to work there for a company or something, but even those kinds of people wouldn't say 'based'...]

not a problem! :)

[youngnobelman]

... That was a bit clinical, wasn't it? [Even for him. He'd never really thought of Yokohama on its own merits: While he liked living there, it was more because of the people he worked with, the facilities available, and a shamefully sentimental attachment to where he'd lived with his mother than the place itself.] I lived and worked there for several years.

[forcerounds]

[Oh, that's better.]

Uh-huh. What did you do?

[youngnobelman]

I... [Where does he even begin to explain DATS.] worked with the police in Digital Accidents at first, and I also did medical research there.

[Related: They're now getting pretty near the infirmary.]

[forcerounds]

Digital... Accidents? [What. There was nothing you could do on the Internet to warrant a 'Digital Accidents' police force, was there? Maybe part of the central government, but not the police.]

[youngnobelman]

[Ah, those little differences between Earths...]

My world has a digital world parallel to the planet earth I lived on. The inhabitants of that world sometimes came into ours and caused chaos; the Digital Accidents Tactics Squad, or DATS dealt with that.