video; un: jean | Business

[rustyhonesty]

[Magic is being weird, so Jean has floofy German Shepherd ears on his head. Clearly he's just doing this for this particular promotion and not accidentally though. Yes... that's what it is.]

So this is a weird time to start a business, but since I'm ready to open it anyway. Besides, it might provide something nice to do?

[Anyway... he clears his throat.]

I'm opening an agility place for animals named Barkour. [He looks sort of embarrassed by the name, but he's trying his best not to show it. Though his ears kinda go down when he says it.] It has indoor and outdoor facilities and is designed for all sort of animals. It's also a good place for any animal mages to come and practice their magic.


[And there's one more thing. A moon rabbit kit can be seen in front of the camera, photobombing Jean. Hello! What is this? Sniff sniff. Shake shake... gnaw?]


... please come help me with the moon rabbit kits, they're everywhere and won't listen to a thing I say.


[A good start for his business: the moon rabbit kit season.]



[ooc: info on his business. Might do a log later this month.]

Comments

text; un: didnot. | wym hiatus

[morns]

( did that name get a snort from her?

maybe, she's not telling. )

nice name.

[rustyhonesty]

Thanks. Wasn't my idea though.

[He takes no credit or no blame for this.]

[morns]

long as it works.

( it doesn't matter who came up with it. names are hard. it took Claude to give her place a name, okay?

speaking of; )

you got flyers or owt?

( she's got space to advertise this venture if he wants. )

[rustyhonesty]

flyers, yeah. want to do an exchange?

[morns]

exactly.

( they're similar enough businesses. it only makes sense to advertise each other. )

bring them by sometime.

[rustyhonesty]

I'll bring them next time I come in for a parkour run.

[morns]

works for me. you know our hours.

( and she's always around as long as the place is open. )

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[unhappy]

[ Groans ]

Did you really name it that? Cheesy.

[rustyhonesty]

Yeah, but I didn't come up with the name. You can thank Weiss for that.

[And Mikasa for joint efforts.]

[unhappy]

Suddenly it makes sense.

[rustyhonesty]

Doesn't it?

[He sighs. But he's starting to warm up to the name. Slowly. Very slowly.]

Next time I need to think about a name for something I'll think away from her.

[unhappy]

She's even worse at it than Yang.

[ They're both awful. Emerald wants to make fun of them with Mercury, but she can't, so this will have to do. ]

What made you go into the dog training business?

[rustyhonesty]

There was a Yang at the parkour contest last month... I wonder if that's the same one. Not that I had a chance to talk with her.

[How many people named Yang could there be. He mostly remembers her because he lost to her.]

I've been working at the Shelter for a while now and know some animals there need more exercise... and besides, when you have two dogs yourself you want to have a place for them to run around. And well, the parkour race also inspired me more.

[unhappy]

Blonde haired... goofball with anger issues, if you see her again.

[ There's a brief hanging of the word "haired" as she fights her previous assessment of Yang and refrains from using the word "bimbo" again. She's dumb but not like that dumb, and she's an allyish now. ]

"I can't afford my own dog park so I'll make other people pay me to use it," huh?

[rustyhonesty]

Sounds familiar, at least the hair.

[He didn't interact with her a lot, so no idea about the anger issue part.]

If you want to look at it that way.

[unhappy]

Definitely it.

[rustyhonesty]

I mean, it's probably partially the reason. Just not the full truth.

[unhappy]

Is it your heart's true passion to look at all the cute animals?

[rustyhonesty]

Uh... Maybe not my whole heart's... but you know I wouldn't mind that kind of a life either.

[unhappy]

Wow, that's kind of embarrassing to admit, isn't it?

[ HE JUST WANTS TO LOok AT THE CUTE ANIMALS... EMBARRASSING ]

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[prismatically]

Oh my God, do you need any help? Like, volunteers and stuff! I'll totally come over and do it!

[ if it sounds like she just wants to play with dogs... you'd be right! ]

[rustyhonesty]

I'm definitely looking for volunteers and staff members... especially if you help with these rabbits first.

[He can't play tag by himself.]

[prismatically]

I get to play with bunnies, too... this is too good to be true!

[ She sounds like she might just burst. ]

Is it okay to bring familiars along, too? Macaron's a unicorn, but she plays nice!

[rustyhonesty]

[It's her lucky day!]

Yeah, of course. Familiars are also free to use the facilities... as long as they're careful enough.

[prismatically]

Yesssss. I'll come right by! What kindsa facilities are there?

[rustyhonesty]

There are both outdoor and indoor ones. The ones indoor are meant more for smaller and medium size animals and there's also a pool for water theraphy. Outdoor ones are more fit for medium to large sized ones and have a bigger variety of places... like trees and tunnels and also a pool for water agility.

I'll definitely give you a tour of the place once you get here.

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[starshaper]

[She's... Still laughing at its name by the time she hits reply.]

OH MY GOSH, THAT'S AMAZING! And by that I mean the name and everything else too, what a wonderful idea, Jean!!♥ It's going to be so much fun practicing animal magic there and Marshmallow is going to love it so much too!♥

[also still laughing at those moon rabbit kits and giggling at his question about coming to help with them because she was going to offer help for that anyway.]

As fellow Moon Rabbits, me and my familiar will come help you with their kits!♥

[rustyhonesty]

[It's not hard to tell what she's laughing at - but Jean expected that reaction from some people. And Emerald's groaning reaction as another.]

Fellow moon rabbits? Sure your familiar is one but.. what?

[starshaper]

[... Oh. She's somewhere between calming down from laughing and sighing at how he still doesn't know that.]

I guess I never told you, huh?

[rustyhonesty]

Never told me what?

[What secret is he about to find out? Is Usagi actually a moon rabbit disguised as a human?]

[starshaper]

[It's not even a secret! But you know what, that's close! Besides she kinda is that here with her animal magic!]

The meaning of my name! It's Japanese because I'm from Japan -- Tsuki means moon, Usagi means rabbit and when you say Tsukino Usagi there, it means Rabbit of the Moon. So apparently this world couldn't resist the joke of giving me Mochi the Moon Rabbit as my familiar~!♥

[rustyhonesty]

[Oh. It was a name thing. He thought it would be something a little more exciting.]

Do all Japanese names have meanings like that, then?

[starshaper]

[It was supposed to be funny???? Amusing?????]

Most of them if not all of them, yeah.

[Wait wait wait, she can think of something, that will excite him, so Usagi winks at Jean!!]

Do you already know what Mikasa means~?

[rustyhonesty]

[Wait what? Jean's ears perk up.]

Her name is... Japanese? And has a meaning?

[starshaper]

[Usagi is so surprised by those questions! Blink, blink, almost dropping her phone!]

Wait, what you didn't know any of this? How-- Oh, you don't have Japan where you come from?

[But also her eyes kind of look excited about telling the next part to him??]

Mm, yes, her name is Japanese and mm-mm, Japanese names can be written in various ways with our writing system called kanji, or that's the most complicated part of our writing system, and names have different meanings depending which kanjis are used to write the name. There are pleeeeeeeenty of kanjis and other name meanings for her, do you want to hear~?

[rustyhonesty]

We don't really have names for places, except for villages, towns, districts. I don't even know what the "country" I am is called, or if it even has a name.

[His world is weird, okay.]

Sounds complicated... but I'd like to hear them, yeah!

[starshaper]

... Oh. Right, that... Come to think of it, that doesn't really surprise considering what I've heard of it by now.

[That Titan World sure is one of the worst ones... Weird too, but it all just makes her wish she could help them as Sailor Moon.

Ah, moving on from depressing topic??]

It's complicated, kanji can be so hard to learn but then you start looking at it like it's pictures and then maybe you have easier time to remember it... But I bet it's also really fun time for parents to come up with name meanings for their children with them!

Okay, first of all we had Battleship Mikasa, which was a real battleship once upon a time -- but we also have Mount Mikasa, that's part of mountains, where its name means bamboo hat because the mountains look like three bamboo hats.

Mi is really common in names and most of the time, I think, people write it so that it means beauty. But it can also mean fruit and kindness! Sometimes it also means progress.

[She smiles. She's seen Mikasa, she's beautiful.]

Then you continue with kanji for ka from that and it has meanings like beautiful, lovely, summer, incense, flower, song, among some others, that I really can't remember right now.

And sa means things like bloom, sand, vividness, color, help someone... But we can also write her name with two kanji only and then the meanings would be something like three shade, beauty formation, beauty umbrella.

[She also sends all of those as text to Jean, so that he doesn't have to try to remember all of these nor go back on the video to hear it all again.]

So which ones are you favorites?

[rustyhonesty]

[Jean appreciates the text and all of this information and just absorbs it like a sponge since it's about Mikasa and all. It would probably be fascinating even without the additional Mikasa bit, but because it was about Mikasa's name it as even more so.

A lot of things about beauty. That is very appropriate. Many of the other words fit very well as well and Jean thinks about the various combinations in his mind.

... but when asked.]

A-All of them?

video; un: vforvenus

[reloves]

[ For once - for once - Jean saves harassment from Minako, despite the fact that his dog ears could be the butt of so many jokes.

Mostly since Minako has a priority here. And said priority is moving to hold something up to the screen. Said something being her familiar - a rather chubby, lazy-looking white cat. Minako herself isn't visible (purposefully so, since she's still recovering) since she made the cat take up the entire screen. ]

Are you saying you're running the kind of place where you could get even this guy to move? [ Because that would be a small miracle, in Minako's opinion. ]

[rustyhonesty]

Well, I can't exactly force anyone to move... but I can try to persuade animals with animal magic. Well, at least when my magic works properly. [Since the rabbit wasn't moving!! Still gnawing at the phone. Gosh. Not even afraid of the cat in the screen.] In the case of familiars though... my familiar is around to challenge anyone to a race? He can pretty convincing.

[reloves]

I give you permission to try pretty much anything.

[ Anything. Minako is a desperate girl here. It's why she replied to the post, despite still being in recovery. She can't miss out on this chance. ]

I've tried so much, and yet he totally refuses to move.

[rustyhonesty]

Well, if you bring him over sometime, I'll see what we can do.

[Will they succeed or not is a different story completely.]

How are you feeling, though? Last month was... tough.

[reloves]

Oh, I'm fine.

[ The camera moves down a little as she sets the cat down on a table - so the cat is still taking up the view, it's just that she doesn't have to hold the chubby thing up anymore the entire time. ]

I'm the type who can get through anything, you know? [ Please, Jean.

You can never expect any answer other than that out of Minako. Ever. It's how she functions. Who ever admits to hardship? ]

[rustyhonesty]

Uh huh. Is that why you're not showing your face on camera?

[Just saying.]

[reloves]

[ Wow, Jean. Rude. ]

Do you always ask girls why they don't want to show themselves on camera?

[ Not that he isn't right as to the reason in this case. But it's a convenient excuse to hide behind right now for Minako - pretending that maybe she just has a zit, or something like that. Something that suits the kind of girl she's pretending to be much more.

Rather than having just gotten through an illness that literally could've killed her. ]