Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
enjoymyatelier) wrote2013-02-02 01:33 pm
enjoymyatelier) wrote2013-02-02 01:33 pm
009 [VIDEO]
[So Kayneth is in a rather unexpected situation this go around; that is to say he is currently in a kitchen that has various objects of cultural significance strewn about.
Judging by the ingredients, it appears as though he is attempting to make Mom's Favorite Chocolate-Covered Pretzels. One would think this was an accidental post, but... no.
That would probably be less of a clusterfuck, honestly.]
I am never really sure how many parallels there are between this world and my own, particularly in terms of holidays-even when it makes very little sense for them to be there for apparent historical reasons. With even recent news broadcasts by the natives dropping hints that Valentine's Day-or something like it-is around the corner, I'm finding myself rather curious about what sort of holidays naturally exist in this world.
I suppose that whatever the natives are celebrating could be some sort of equivalent that came about naturally... or it could be something that they picked up on from people from other worlds and decided to exploit in a fairly typical fashion. After all, why would the companies of this world miss out on an opportunity to use relationship-based guilt in their marketing strategies at some point in the year?
[you... you sound bitter, bro]
My general displeasure with the overcommercialization of this holiday aside, it is regrettably very effective in getting people to want copious amounts of sweets, but if I'm going to have anything like that this season it's going to be made by my own hands. Has anyone attempted the recipe that was brought up in Friday's news broadcast and found it to be less than satisfactory? If not... well, it should be obvious that I'm considering trying to make them.
Judging by the ingredients, it appears as though he is attempting to make Mom's Favorite Chocolate-Covered Pretzels. One would think this was an accidental post, but... no.
That would probably be less of a clusterfuck, honestly.]
I am never really sure how many parallels there are between this world and my own, particularly in terms of holidays-even when it makes very little sense for them to be there for apparent historical reasons. With even recent news broadcasts by the natives dropping hints that Valentine's Day-or something like it-is around the corner, I'm finding myself rather curious about what sort of holidays naturally exist in this world.
I suppose that whatever the natives are celebrating could be some sort of equivalent that came about naturally... or it could be something that they picked up on from people from other worlds and decided to exploit in a fairly typical fashion. After all, why would the companies of this world miss out on an opportunity to use relationship-based guilt in their marketing strategies at some point in the year?
[you... you sound bitter, bro]
My general displeasure with the overcommercialization of this holiday aside, it is regrettably very effective in getting people to want copious amounts of sweets, but if I'm going to have anything like that this season it's going to be made by my own hands. Has anyone attempted the recipe that was brought up in Friday's news broadcast and found it to be less than satisfactory? If not... well, it should be obvious that I'm considering trying to make them.
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It hardly matters what the initial circumstances were. If you care about the woman you intend to marry, courting her properly and not simply assuming that the way you see her comes across is important - if you don't treat her like a woman you love and want to marry, she's likely not going to know that you don't simply see her as an obligation.
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[WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL HIM THIS BEFOREHAND well he probably wouldn't have listened since he's used to always getting what he wants anyway
this is so fucking weird, not always getting what he wants]
I'm... well, I can't say I don't intend to attempt that if she ever arrives here again, but I'm really not sure how to go about it or if she'd even be receptive to the idea, given how poorly things have gone.
[honestly it would just be easier to start from scratch with this...]
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[...Kayneth, please tell him you see where this is going, because he and Armstrong have been wanting to do this for months.]
It's simply a matter of finding others for you to practice on, then.
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...are you sure that's something that will work...?
[...after that, his expression flickers a bit as he mulls it over. He has to admit that he's kind of uncomfortable with the idea on the basis that it feels like cheating even if... literally every time Sola has been here it ended in something that probably resembling a breakup (with the second one being explicitly on the basis that she was interested in someone else)...
...
...
yeah okay if she's going to go after that dead Irish asshole then he can date other people in the hopes that he'll figure out how to court her properly]
...well, I suppose it's worth a go.
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[...Tokiomi, that works a little better if your expression changes to match your wor-
No? Okay then. At the very least, he sounds somewhat relieved; he was concerned that he would have to argue with you about it, so this is surprisingly pleasant. After all, there's no way this logic can backfire; we just have to ignore the myriad ways in which it totally can.]
Major Armstrong and I have discussed this particular course of action already; we'll be sure to find women who are up to your standards, don't worry about that.
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[HE KNOWS IT WAS PRETTY OBVIOUS THAT HIS RELATIONSHIP WAS A GODDAMN MESS AND HE'S DOING THIS AT LEAST A LITTLE BIT OUT OF FRUSTRATION BUT REALLY YOU TWO]
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[a problem
is this one]
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Well, at least you didn't attempt to start anything without notifying me first.
[...he doesn't really think that would have been a problem with Tokiomi, but, well, Armstrong...]
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the way they're going about this was Tokiomi's idea
and the fact that they didn't just jump into it right off is because timing happened to suck]
...I imagine that wouldn't have ended very well, no...
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...Kayneth can definitely imagine Armstrong just springing something like this on him more easily than Tokiomi, so he would be his first suspect...
HELLO MISTER ARCHIBALD I HAVE FOUND A GIRL FOR YOU TO DATE, HAVE A NICE TIME! ALLOW ME TO WISH YOU LUCK BY ALLOWING YOU TO GAZE UPON MY BEAUTIFUL MUSCLES AS THEY SPARKLE FOR NO DISCERNIBLE REASON there's no getting out of any of these things by the way]
It most certainly would not have.