text | un: suohtamaki

[vanity]

good afternoon to everyone! ┌(＾＾)┘ i have a few simple question points i'd like to discuss today. this current home base is much more familiar territory to me compared to my previous kidnaping destination, but! I REFUSE TO FALL INTO THE DEPTHS OF COMPLACENCY!

i notice there are quite a few fellow japanese here, some who are much more culturally acquainted to their roots than i. so i'd like to continue my studies and ask about the following:

- japanese vending machines. i've heard the most audacious things can be found within their cheap plexiglass walls! (;;;*_*)

- japanese baths!! i would LOVE to hear more about this. does the communal experience serve the purpose of bonding with one another? would you say that this could be a family activity?

- have you ever been to karaoke? (´• ω •`)ﾉ please tell me about the experience! (is there a karaoke bar here? one should be made if not!)

- the rapid transit system. have you ever used it? how often? how does it truly feel to be cramped in such a confined space?

- how would you describe the taste of taiyaki? the texture? are the ingredients required to make it available here?

any and all information is appreciated. and if it's possible to recreate any of the above here, i'm set on making it a reality!

Comments

text; un: fireprince

[rediscovering]

so your peasant teas have finally lost their appeal......
nice to hear you're moving on, tamaki.

[ Guess who! Zuko's happy to get back in touch, having already heard from their friends that Tamaki was safely in Avalon as well. But boy, oh boy, even if Zuko's new living space with Azula was much smaller than his flat with the hosts in Prismatica, there was markedly more space just due to the lack of... shitty tea... everywhere... ]

[vanity]

ZUKO! you seem to be mistaken. i'm a man of many talents and the ability to multitask. i'm concerned with gathering all this information WHILE i continue to make my teas.

i'm actually looking into how to officially bottle them. i make them myself now, you know.

❰ and are they truly peasant teas if they're made by a host prince? ❱

[rediscovering]

you’re making the teas now.....?!! it doesnt count as commoner tea anymore if you make it yourself tamaki. you just like the taste now....

[vanity]

on the contrary again! i don't like the taste, i simply find it fascinating. emblematic of the laymen's interest in making one thing supposedly taste like another, but missing the mark entirely!

i will admit to my tea perhaps being higher in quality simply by measure of natural ingredients. when i find a mango here, my version will be MUCH more mucho.

[rediscovering]

so in other words youre perfecting it??

[vanity]

i don't think it can be called perfection when they're two completely different products. mine is simply a paralleled imitation. no corn syrup used in the making!

(mostly because i do not know how to alchemize it yet)

[rediscovering]

youre gifted with an amazing magic power people in my world would kill for and youre gonna use it to learn how to make corn syrup for imitation fake teas all because youre curious what poor people drink.

you know what
more power to you. you go all in and you do what you want. i can respect that. even if it's..... this..

[vanity]

i'm using it for more than just brewing tea!

i'm also trying to learn how to alchemize sand into bottles. i can be a one-man drink manufacturer once i've acquired that skill! what do you think about:

- su-OH!
- TAMOCHA
- KING TEA

1/2

[rediscovering]

you're making a brand......!?!!?

2/3

[rediscovering]

......you know,
this is like
commoner entrepreneurship
starting success from nothing, just on your will power
making it from the bottom to the top, right?

[ Zuko, why are you feeding into this, this is all your fault to begin with, now you're amping him up for your own amusement, sick ]

3/3

[rediscovering]

i like KING TEA

[vanity]

DO YOU? i thought some form of pun might add some punch, but there's also an appeal to being blunt. a king made by a king and for a king.

(i will talk to kyouya about the potential for false advertisement, but it is definitely in the common style of embellishing the quality of things.)

i'm so fortunate that i can truly experience this rise, climbing the stairs of monetary success. I LOOK FORWARD TO THE JOURNEY ୧((#Φ益Φ#))୨

[rediscovering]

yes, peasants like to think the things they're buying are of better quality than they actually are despite the low cost, if you spin it like that
like merchants in the market calling to passerby, claiming they're selling "the finest silks at the best prices" and stuff ahaha
i think it's a good sales tactic.
for your purposes. :)


it's a long hard climb back to the top, tamaki...... good luck

[ He is trying not to crack up reading Tamaki's texts meantime, barely containing his chuckles behind his screen, and it's earning the fellow prince weird looks from his sister and their dragons in the room with him. Zuko doesn't laugh... What's happening... ]