seasonality ✦ yamato

[commandertoolbelt]

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week 1, monday

[commandertoolbelt]

[ today we are exploring the bowling alley!! of course valdez had to check out the place with the arcade? he’s at the m*rtal k*mbat game, and will wave yamato over! there’s a ring of text circling his wrist like a bracelet that reads burning someone but we can just ignore that, leo sure is! ]

Hey! Want to go a round?

[ghoststrums]

[ yamato's pretty covered, wearing even the school blazer rather than just his own clothes with the sleeves rolled up as usual. wow! i wonder what could be hidden behind that sleeve! truly, a mystery. so he very nicely sees the tattoo but looks away from it ]

Ah... sure. [ is m*rtal k*mbat appropriate in these circumstances? it doesn't matter because yamato is not actually that familiar with games, and he'll admit as much when he walks over: ] I've never played that one, though, so I probably won't be much of a challenge.

[commandertoolbelt]

[ definitely not but at least it isn't smash! ]

Don't worry about it. The controls on these old things can be kind of weird sometimes, so you'll still stand a chance if it shorts out me.

[ghoststrums]

[ these old things... they are old arcade machines, but on the other hand, yamato is having futaba flashbacks, so while he steps up to the machine, he has to ask: ]

What year is it for you?

[commandertoolbelt]

[ how dare you make me do math in pjo ]

2009. Why?

[ i mean TECHNICALLY but it's one of those wibbly wobbly universes where time doesn't actually matter u know ]

[ghoststrums]

[ haha, suffer ]

Oh, that's not so bad. It's 2005 for me, but 2021 for Futaba-chan, so the technology difference was...

[ ... ]

A lot.

[commandertoolbelt]

Really? Huh. I don't feel like things changed that much from 2005 to my time, but I haven't had any problems keeping up with her.

[ because rick is a cheater ]

You at least had cell phones, right?

[ghoststrums]

[ it also doesn't help that despite going to a place called the digital world absolutely NONE of the kids have any interest in computers, but yamato shrugs ]

Yeah. They were flip phones, though. These ones took a bit to get used to.

[commandertoolbelt]

Flip phones... Wow. You were really living in the dark ages, huh?

[ he will just reach over to give yamato a pat on the arm. there, there. ]

But maybe you'll be able to take the smartphones back with you when we get out of here! Then you'll be ahead of the times.

week 3, monday

[ghoststrums]

[ wow they're somewhere... on campus... where? listen you think i can brain locations AND memories? no, but yamato raises a hand in greeting to leo when they cross paths only for a very long and mildly incomprehensible memory to flash for both of them. which i decided on because yamato talked to leo about going inside the computer and so i think it's very funny for him to see it i'm so sorry the clip is 7 minutes long

for yamato, it's relieving the stress, fear, worry and finally relief of that memory all at once, and he's taking a moment to cover his mouth and blink a little in shock as he wonders what the fuck just happened. ]

[commandertoolbelt]

[ this is so much for a kid who probably didn't even experience dialup ]

Um. What was that?

[ghoststrums]

[ yamato is trying very hard to figure out a succinct way to explain Everything that just went on ]

... Taichi and I going into the Internet?

[ that is one of the things that happened in there. yet. ]

[commandertoolbelt]

That's your internet? What, were you fighting a virus?

[ghoststrums]

... Yeah, actually. Kinda. [ good guess?? ] Diablomon is a Digimon created from computer viruses. It was causing bugs all over the system. And he'd managed to hack and launch a nuclear warhead from the US. That's what the clock was about-- if we could stop him before the clock ran out, it wouldn't detonate.

[commandertoolbelt]

Seriously? The internet's a lot smaller than I thought.

[ do nuclear warheads work that way, what is this anime logic ]

But, uh - congrats on not blowing up, I guess?

[ghoststrums]

Well-- this was just one area of it. We'd pinned him somewhere.

[ and yeah! do nuclear warheads work like that. who knows. not our war game. yamato kind of shrugs awkwardly ]

... Thanks, I guess? It was a pretty harrowing half hour.

[commandertoolbelt]

If only it were that easy to track down a virus in real life.

[ as if? it wasn’t real life for yamato?? ]

No kidding. You -

[ and now it’s yamato’s turn to see a memory of leo’s! it’s only fair. ]

week 4, monday.

[commandertoolbelt]

so, fun fact?
turns out mabel has kidnapped a boy band before
so you might want to watch your back around her, mister rock star
you know, just in case

[ hello ]

[ghoststrums]

I'm pretty sure she doesn't like me.
besides, you're the one she asked to the winter formal.
so if you ever go missing I'll know where to look.

[commandertoolbelt]

wow, you really wrote me off just like that, huh?
good to know i'll be able to rely on you in my time of need

[ghoststrums]

I said I'd look, didn't I?
but it might take me a while to notice.

[commandertoolbelt]

are you saying i'm not loud enough to be missed?
because that sounds like a challenge

[ghoststrums]

it definitely wasn't.
do not buy a megaphone.

[commandertoolbelt]

thanks for the idea!

[ghoststrums]

NO.