Thirty-Fifth Theory [Voice]

[i_speak_softly]

[Donatello has been 98.7% certain that this rather bizarre experiment has passed him by, as he remained snug and warm in House 55, in accordance with the semi-natural hibernal habits of mutated terrapins. As he reflects on the past few days, though, he notices that the frequency with which his brothers have been informing him that he is spouting excessive quantities of facts and data is statistically unprecedented. He decides to test a theory.]

Someone ask me a question.

((Don's effect is that he's even more of a super-brain than usual. Please test the mun's research abilities.))

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[i_speak_softly]

[You're naked under your clothes too, human. 8|]

Do you cook for them often?

[count-gardios.livejournal.com]

[Even moreso than Don is.]

Yup, I do most of the cooking. I like it!

[i_speak_softly]

I'm looking forward to eating your sushi, then.

[count-gardios.livejournal.com]

Ah ha, don't get your hopes up too high. I kind of learned how to make this in the great outdoors.

[No Guy is a Superhero Househusband. This is canon.

HERE HAVE SOME SUSHI!]</small.

[i_speak_softly]

[A sideways smile.] Where do you think I learned to make it?

[Don will eat that sushi and give every indication that it is delicious.]

[count-gardios.livejournal.com]

Haha! Then you can appreciate the scores of failures it took to get to where it is today.

[He sits down across from Don with some tea, coffee brewing up at the counter. He loves that coffeepot btw.]

How's school treating you? Or...are you still out? [Guy remembers Raine suggesting they suspend classes.]

[i_speak_softly]

[How did you get a working coffeepot, you sneaky person.]

I remember.

I've - been on an extended break.

[count-gardios.livejournal.com]

[He STOLE IT. And has a second one to PLAY WITH. ♥ ]

A personal one? Everything all right?

[i_speak_softly]

[FROM WHERE.]

I just needed some time off. [He doesn't really want to talk about it.]

[count-gardios.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. Anything I can do to help?

[i_speak_softly]

... No. [Please can there be subject change.] So what do you do? Since you're not in school?

[count-gardios.livejournal.com]

Oh, I run Good Spirits for the most part. That takes up the majority of my time.

[Don's coffee seems to be done filtering, so Guy heads over to pour some for him and supplies him with sugar and cream should he so desire it.]

[i_speak_softly]

[That would be why he'd never met you in person.]

Thank you.

[A little sugar.]

Is it interesting, working there?

[count-gardios.livejournal.com]

It's a great place to people watch! You can learn a lot about someone just keeping an eye on them, really.

And I like having a place where people can forget their troubles for a few hours.

[i_speak_softly]

[He had forgotten his own troubles for a whole night. Of course, the next morning he felt even worse.]

It is busy most nights?

[count-gardios.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I think that might have more to do with the fact that there's only two bars in a village of hundreds.

[i_speak_softly]

[He sips his coffee.] What is it about alcohol that makes it so popular?

[count-gardios.livejournal.com]

I doubt it's the booze bringing people in; this isn't exactly a village of alcoholics, and the regulars I do have mostly come in for the company.

It's probably just because no matter what world you've been to, there's always been at least something a lot like a bar. It's familiar and comfortable, and because we stock a lot of types of drinks that are unique to different worlds it's a place where someone can actually feel pretty close to home.

[i_speak_softly]

[The first time he'd been in a bar was that dive on D'Hoonib. It hadn't exactly been a pleasant experience. Maybe that's why bars hold no appeal for him.]

You know, there's a movie in my world that has a famous scene about a bar full of people from different planets. I guess it really is universal.

[count-gardios.livejournal.com]

Camaraderie is universal, at least. Which is a comfort for me at any rate.

[i_speak_softly]

[He eats another piece of sushi.] You're used to having a lot of people around?

[count-gardios.livejournal.com]

I'm used to having at least a few. All the cities I've lived in have been of the bustling variety, so.

[i_speak_softly]

[Don has managed to live in one of the biggest cities in his world whille remaining in almost total seclusion.] But friends, I mean, people close to you.

[count-gardios.livejournal.com]

Mmm...yeah, I suppose. It varies, and I've lived both alone and with company. Why?

[i_speak_softly]

Just curious. I didn't mean to pry.