video: un: didnot / dated to whenever the statue goes up

[morns]

( Sometimes, getting up early is a blessing because you get to see a wonderful dawn and enjoy the peace and quiet before everyone else starts to rise.

Sometimes, getting up early is a blessing because you run into Elphame's newest statue of the tournament victors. And, as it seems a terrible shame to not drag her friends (and the other three), Kate whips out her phone and does what any good person would do:

Start a slow, circling walk of the statue. Please enjoy the close ups of the loving detail in which every victor is rendered.

And please also enjoy the huff of laughter Kate lets out before she adds a; )

Congratulations.

( You're immortal, victors. )

Comments

[whosaysdajare]

Uh-huh, I getcha! More and more people are reaching that age of a zaddy.

[ Rei being called an old man to his face in yet one more way. ]

[arf]

Mm, but you can't just reach that age and let that be that, you know! You have to have that savvy fair [ he means savoir-faire ] you have to be handsome and in-shape enough to get mistaken for a statue of a god! You have to be successful enough that people think you'd be able to take care of them too! [ That's the 'daddy' part.. ]

Rei-san seems like he's really checking all the boxes.

[whosaysdajare]

[ Ahahaha! If he weren't a pro he'd break out laughing, with Taichi saying all that and seeing Rei's face over on his end. What a definition, even if he ain't all up to it on his loanwords. ]

Right, right! Rei-san's pretty spry for his age and on top 'a that he runs his own biz! [ And surely something seedy on the side. ] Wouldn't ya just want him to be your daddy...? [ Sorry @ all the Yamadas. ]

[groundzeroes]

[Oh my God.

On Taichi's end, the video is still just Sasara. But he'll hear a familiar, slightly exasperated deep voice from offscreen.]

Iris, end the call.

[Yes, Master!

Click.]

[whosaysdajare]

[ Huh?

A-Ah!? Oi!

Sasara taps the screen frantically, trying to interrupt Iris' action. ]

Rei—!!

[ How much of his exasperation still reaches the other end of the call!? ]

Ya ain't Zaddy at all, just a buzzkill!

[groundzeroes]

[Rei takes a long draught of his coffee while Sasara sputters at him. It looks like he's ignoring him, but mostly he's trying to cover up how much he wants to laugh his fuckin ass off. God. Help]

[whosaysdajare]

Teh!

[ Don't ignore him; his weakness... ]

Let's go see that statue 'a yours later.

[groundzeroes]

[AHEM! Rei clears his throat. it's Very Subtle.]

What, you gonna rate its zaddiness?

[STRUGGLING NOT TO LOSE IT]

[whosaysdajare]

[ KLashfdsj; ]

Pictures never do any justice, ya know! I bet'cha it's even more zaddy in person. [ It's a noun, an adjective. ]

Nothing like the real thing, of course! [ Wink-wink, ya know, whatever he does with his eyes here. ] Ahahaha!

[groundzeroes]

[Sasara's "wink" is the final straw; Rei has to crack up, nearly spilling his mug in the process.

When he finally calms down:]

It'll probably look kinda lonely. [He takes a sip of the remains of his coffee.] I'd prefer a Dotsuitare Hompo monument.

[whosaysdajare]

[ Who's gonna shout at them over spilled coffee when Rosho isn't here!?

Ah... that's too sappy!!! All of it! And too easy for Sasara's thoughts to remain one-track. But he keeps his grin on. ]

Heh! We'll get one put up when we win.

[arf]

[ Taichi is just left here tilting his head. ]

"Iris"?

[ what

it's a good thing taichi isn't good enough at his own technomancy to do anything about it, for everyone's mental health ]

[whosaysdajare]