Too Tired to Think of a Name

Tatsuko Onizuka

Revelations upon revelations have been piled atop Tatsuko recently. She has found herself trapped within a strange prison. She is being judged for murder by three amnesiac wardens with silly matching names. The prison can read her mind and everyone is going to see it.

Confronted with all this new information in need of processing, Tatsuko has decided…

to take a nap. Hey, she can only process so much.

Which is how she finds herself heading back to the very cell she woke up in. A prison bed is better than no bed, after all. Might as well make herself comfortable.

Erin | Vincent Churchwell

It really was exhausting just Existing here, or maybe existing at all after all of the events that had brought him to this situation in the first place. And yet, Vincent wasn't quite in the mood to sleep himself, instead pacing just outside of his own cell, which is in itself not that far away from Tatsuko's.

So in his own head as he is, Vincent admittedly isn't fully paying attention as Tatsuko herself comes walking by, and only barely avoids actually bumping into her before he freezes and stares at her directly. …Well, stares Down at her anyways, with how much taller than her he is.

"…Ah. Apologies." …Person who's name he does not yet know- Though Vincent does not in fact take a step to correct this missing information, figuring it can always just come about later. Staring as he is, though, the first thing he notices is, in fact: "Horns. They look good."

Yeah, thanks dude.

Tatsuko Onizuka

To be fair, Tatsuko also wasn't looking where she was going, but it's surprising that she somehow managed to miss the 6'4" goth man. Maybe he blended in too much with the brutalist prison interior, or maybe Tatsuko's eyes automatically glaze over anything too black, white, or gray.

"Yeah, you should be," Tatsuko says, even though she should definitely have noticed someone so tall and could have moved out of the way herself. There's no real bite behind her words, though, more like Vincent's given her an out of apologizing and she's taking it.

She stares back up at Vincent, completely unaffected by being stared down at.

"Yeah, no duh. That's why I wear 'em! Gotta stay on brand. You look very…" Tatsuko scans Vincent up and down, searching for an appropriate word. She thinks the piercings are cool, but he looks a bit too… professional for her. What's a word between cool and boring? "…Ambivalent." Which doesn't quite fit, but it might be one of the biggest words Tatsuko knows, so she's expecting lots of clapping and cheering.

"…So. You come here often?" Well, it's not like he can go anywhere else.

Erin | Vincent Churchwell

Vincent nods to that. Yeah, she’s right that he should be. There’s nothing really more to say that he hadn’t already about it, though. Enjoy your out, Tatsuko.

As for the other things…

“On brand? And what brand would that be?” Vincent asks, raising an eyebrow. Branding did imply some kind of work, usually. His brow also remains raised for her choice of word for himself. What did she mean by That, exactly?

“…Thank you…? I suppose I am feeling somewhat mixed on the situation.” If that Was what she’d meant. And Come Here Often… At least that one sounded like an opening to some kind of joke, though Vincent opts to take it seriously anyways. “…Surprisingly, no. This is my first time being in any sort of prison, though I’m sure it’ll remain a familiar place to me now for some time.”

He does Not think he’ll be free anytime soon, yeah.

Tatsuko Onizuka

"Uh, I'm a dragon, duh." Was that really supposed to be obvious? "That's what they call me at the circus, at least!" That… doesn't actually explain a lot, even though she says it as though it does.

Vincent is free to brush off whatever Tatsuko says that doesn't make sense. Which might be most of what she says, actually. Besides, it was either think of the most vaguely fitting word she knows or come up with her own. Clame? Cooloring?

"Oh, well… good for you, I guess? Congrats on making yourself all comfy. Couldn't be me. I don't plan on sticking around long."

If she knows that's not up to her, it doesn't look like she actually cares.

Erin | Vincent Churchwell

"Ah, are you a circus performer, then?" …Dragon definitely hadn't been Vincent's first assumption, but he supposes he can see it now that he gives her horns another glance over. The circus bit potentially makes more sense for why that might be though, assuming she meant that literally. "I can't say that I've ever visited one before, so I'm not fully familiar with what acts are in them."

And that's not even getting into any potential circus cultural differences if that's a factor.

"…Comfort is probably not what I'll be achieving, nor do I find incarceration something to be envied." Or in other words, prison's gonna suck bad but there's not much he can do about that. Vincent raises an eyebrow at the mention of her not staying long, though. "Oh? Is that to say that you think you'll be released without jail time, or that you're planning to break out?"

Tatsuko Onizuka

"Mhm! Since like, dragons breathe fire, I eat fire, same difference. Either way, it sounds cool, so I like it." She grins. "You should come see us sometime! Add some excitement to your life! Seems pretty boring to me right now, but that might just be 'cause of the whole "prison" thingy."

"Ok, fine, enjoy your suffering then. Sounds like a you problem." Tatsuko rolls her eyes, seemingly annoyed that someone has realistic expectations for what a prison is like. "I won't have to think about it once I figure out how to break down one of these walls and get the hell out of here."

"…Wherever here is."

Erin | Vincent Churchwell

“Ah, you’re a fire eater, then? That does explain the dragon status. That’s also something I’ve never seen before in person, though I’m aware of the practice at least through the internet. That’s impressive.” As for visiting to go see the performance… Vincent is meanwhile well aware of the fact that he can’t do that, though will conveniently ignore the prison part of that- “…I’ll put it on my itinerary. Though, location may prove an issue, if you don’t travel to Texas generally.”

Calling his life boring was also… Well, fair enough, he doesn’t feel the need to dispute that. And he’s just going to… ignore the ‘enjoy suffering’ comment too, because that would would just be talking in circles-

“So a breakout, then. That’s… daring, especially to say so where the wardens may be able to listen in,” he says in an entirely observational tone, not sarcastic or judgmental sounding in the least. “I’d assumed ‘here’ to be somewhere in Texas initially, but… given there’s so many people from places like Japan here as well, I now truly have no idea.”

Tatsuko Onizuka

"Uh… Texas? Shit, where is that again? Wait, wait, don't tell me, I've got this. Texas… Texas…" She ponders over it for a few moments. "That's… in America, right?" Considering she slept through any and all history or geography lessons, it's impressive that she knows this much. Don't ask her anything else though. "Yeah, uh, we don't really go there. It'd be cool to get our name out there, though! Uh, do you think the magic translation'll stay?"

"Hah! The wardens? I'm not fucking scared of them!" Do you see how short they are. Tatsuko is taller than all of them. She could totally take them. At least she thinks. "Weird mix of people we've got here, that's for sure. Maybe we're in, like, space or some shit. That'd be cool."

Erin | Vincent Churchwell

"Yes, Texas is in America." Yeah, he certainly doesn't fault her for taking a moment to remember that one, even with it being one of the more well known states. As for 'translation magic'… "I… have no idea what the cause of the translation is, so I don't know if the effect would stay outside of here either. Circuses rely a lot on visuals over spoken word though, yes? So that much would work fine abroad, at least." There might be some verbal elements, but… adaptation could be made.

Not scared of the wardens? Well, with these wardens, he could understand that, they didn't seem the most… coordinated? That happens when you have no memories, he guesses.

"Mmm… If anything, I think the walking 'jackalope' was more intimidating, yes. And it's also hard to say if they have backup here as well we haven't seen." He assumed they probably did, because it would be silly not to- But hard to say if they were directly on site or what. Vincent gives a hum. "Well, space is something like international waters, even if the idea of having been ejected from Earth already without knowing would be concerning."

But what wouldn't be concerning, at this point? Fuck it, maybe they're in space.