Third Daydream [Video]

[niepokonany]

Hey!

So like, I've been thinking. I know Mutants Aren't Monsters has been kinda quiet lately, 'cause I've been studying and X-man-ing and in Europe and stuff, but with all this stuff going down lately, I totally wanna get back on it.

Who wants to do a flash mob? It'll be super fun!

Oh, and like, my confessor was all like "the Hail Marys are cool for God but maybe like apologize to your schoolmates too" and stuff, so, um...

Sorry for drunk texting everyone! I made cheesecake, it's in the lounge closest to the dining room.

[That's an apology, right? He grins, a little nervously like he's not used to doing this, and waves a little before the message ends. If you'd prefer action, he'll be in the lounge with the candlestick cheesecake.]

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[wholovesyou]

[Yes. Yes it is.]

See that "maybe" right there? That's what we need to narrow down, sugar.

[niepokonany]

No?

I mean, like, I already narrowed it down plenty!

[niepokonany]

[Feliks will take that and pretend to believe it. Reimu's absolutely right that he doesn't much feel like dwelling on making people worry about him.]

Well, then you can say it's just, like "I felt like making cake" cake if you feel like it. Whatever, you know?

[niepokonany]

Sweet, works for me!

[niepokonany]

For sure, but like, the food's gotta come from somewhere, right?

[Feliks is hardly a model of work ethic himself, but Polish food makes him the happiest, so it's worth the effort if there's no one else who's going to do it for him.]

[niepokonany]

No prob!

[He flops back onto the couch, making himself comfortable.]

So like, where'd you come here from, anyway? I totally didn't ask you that before, right? If I did, I spaced out about it.

[tofudog]

I'm from here! Kinda. I haven't been back in the U S A for more than like, a month since I was a kid. I move around a lot, but we were operating in Brazil for a pretty long time before I left!

[He joins Feliks on the couch as he speaks. Then shovels a forkful of cheesecake into his mouth and speaks around it.]

Hey, this is really good!

[realmenknitplushies]

Senpai? 'S kinda like 'senior' or 'upperclassman' or [waving his hand vaguely - man, translations are a pain.] somethin' like that?

But... sure, man. [Smiling, here. And at least someone like Feliks isn't going to be in a hurry to criticise some things, he thinks.] I'll ask ya.

[niepokonany]

Duh, of course it's good! Like, it's my Babcia's recipe, you know?

[He looks pleased as anything at the praise, either way.]

So can you like, speak Portuguese or whatever?

[niepokonany]

Yeah, that's the one! Sorry, I never actually spoke that much Japanese, and like, it's a little rusty 'cause everytime I tell him to get Skype like a normal person already, he's always like, 'is that like the facebook thing you tried to get me to do?' and makes this face, and oh my god, he's pretty, but he's kinda hopeless, you know?

But yeah! Cool!

[dreamingoftruelove]

[And suddenly, Giselle has an idea.]

My father's studio doesn't have the rights to it, but what about Thriller? If we can have it ready by the last week in October, that could be perfect!

[realmenknitplushies]

No worries. You ain't gotta learn it or anything, so... [Shrug. A little bit of an awkward laugh at that comment about the pretty, though.

And maybe a bit more cake.]

Cool.

[musou_tensei]

I'm not complaining so long as there's cake.

[tofudog]

I can say Hi, Bye, and Bathroom.

[He laughs. He didn't get a lot of interaction with the locals, unfortunately, and while his vocabulary is slightly better than that, it isn't much.]

What's a Babcia?

[niepokonany]

[Feliks laughs. Yeah, languages are hard anyway, man.]

That's like, about as much as I can say in Italian?

"Babcia" is, like, "Granny".

[niepokonany]

I didn't think you would be.

[Because Reimu.]

[Operation: Buy friends' forgiveness with cake is a smashing success!]

[tofudog]

I'm gonna guess you're not from here, then?

[He takes another huge bite of cake. Mmm. He never had a granny to bake for him.]

[niepokonany]

Nope! Like, my family's from Kraków, but I was in Warszawa as a kid, and we've lived in America since, like... 11, 12-ish years ago? God. Forever!

I still go back to Poland for most of the summer, though. There's a ton of work to do there, you know?

[tofudog]

[His face lights up. Oh! Poland! He didn't recognise the city names, but a least he knows where that is.]</small Work to do?

[niepokonany]

Uh-huh!

'Cause like, I know my country's the coolest, but we can always be even cooler! I've got the headquarters for the European branch of Mutants Aren't Monsters over there, and like, another charity promoting tolerance in the Church!

[tofudog]

Whoa! Where do you find the energy? All that, plus X-Men stuff? When do you get a vaycay?

[niepokonany]

Well, like, the X-men stuff is just whenever the Old Man needs me to do my thing, right? And I'm almost done with my classes and my thesis, and there's not actually a ton of students doing Political Science, so there's not a ton to do as TA, either...

Plus, a bunch of the day-to-day stuff for the foundations is someone else's problem. Like, paperwork and organization and filing for nonprofit status and junk is so not my thing, you know? I just kind of come up with ideas on the creative side, and sometimes have meetings or video conferences and stuff like that about it!

So most days, I actually still spend a lot of time kinda hanging around! I did have a pretty rad shopping trip in France this summer, though... And I visited Fai in the tropics for a bit, too!

[The number of things he has going on and his sort of spotty actual work ethic ARE why he's a 5th year senior instead of already a teacher, though.]

[niepokonany]

Right, but he like, explained that one to me, so it's kinda lame if I can't remember, right?

[Then someone else comes in, and Feliks gives Kanji a little wave as he flounces off to bring them cake.]

[niepokonany]

Oh! That'd be kinda fun, 'cause like, we could set up some kind of horror scene first -- like, to mess with the expectation that we're gonna be all scary and stuff, and then the dancing starts, and people are like, "whaaaaat? No way!"

[dreamingoftruelove]

Thriller's such a classic, too. The cards we hand out can say something like "Mutants aren't monsters - we just dress up as monsters for Halloween!"

[She thinks it would be a lot of fun to coordinate the dancing for it, too. Spooky isn't her usual style but she does get into holiday celebrations.]

We could have some safety tips on the back for trick or treating and wish everyone a safe and happy Halloween.