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[riptidequeen]

[It's the local blue woman once again on your network making a post.]

So let's say you're trying something new, and I mean super new. You've never done anything like it before...

[A beat.]

And I don't mean a sex thing! [JUST TO CUT THAT OFF AT THE PASS.] Like a legit way to make money, a work thing. Would you just keep going at it on your own or ask for help?

[This is her way of asking for help without asking, ha ha ha.]

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[polypeptide]

[ Well now this is embarrassing. The solution to dealing with these feeling is more agitation, right? Right. ]

Shut up!

[riptidequeen]

[Heck no! She'll still laugh and when she's done?

Hand over her mouth and she's making a fart noise with her hand and mouth, just to mess with him.]

[polypeptide]

[ It's not like his "shut up"s usually yield results anyway, but the response this time definitely surprises him. ]

O-oi! What's that supposed to mean?

[riptidequeen]

It means you're a fart.

[Or just that Lapis is being a brat and wanting to rile this guy up, she's not telling.]

[polypeptide]

[ She definitely picked a good target for that. ]

Try saying that to me face to face!

[ This is an extremely mature conversation. ]

[riptidequeen]

[This is the most PG fun she's had lately!]

This is basically face to face though.

[THE MOST MATURE.]

[polypeptide]

To my actual face! In person!

[riptidequeen]

Sure. Where are you?

[WE ARE DOING DIS.]

[polypeptide]

PrismaPlace. I'll be by the biggest fountain there.

[ And then for some extra huffing and puffing. ]

Don't waste my time by not showing up!

--> Action? Action!

[riptidequeen]

[Enjoy her making more fart noises as a response before she hangs up and heads off to find this kid and make more fart noises at him in person.

She's not too hard to find what with being blue, but she's not making much of an effort to look for him once she gets there. Which probably is a while after she hung up since she had to figure out where PrismaPlace is first and then travel there.

But she shows up!]

[polypeptide]

[ It's hard to say what he's really expecting to go down here, because picking a crowded shopping area as a place to have a yelling match doesn't seem like the best idea in the world. He was honestly just here to hit up somewhere fast to eat, and because he's been busy moping around for the better part of a month and a half after his best friend disappeared on him.

He really needed to get out of his apartment.

What he really needs is to work off some steam with a good fist fight, but he's not such an asshole that he's gonna start that kind of fight with a stranger over something as silly as this. Not outside of the Sanguis cycles anyway...

Mostly he just wasn't thinking at all when he called her out. And proceeds to get increasingly agitated the longer he waits. It's why when he finally spots her he hops up from his seat, and storms over towards her. ]

You!

[riptidequeen]

Me! Hello, fart.

[A public space at least means no one will get hurt. Physically, at least. And she greets him with the biggest smile on her face.

As if she was meeting a friend and not some guy she had made fun of on the network.]

[polypeptide]

[ That's actually something he's weirdly used to, the whole friendly attitude less friendly actions thing. The familiarity of that doesn't seem to do a lot to pacify him though. ]

Don't call me that!

[ Straight back to elementary school name calling. Not that Ryuuga remembers his elementary school days. ]

[riptidequeen]

Okay then, what should I call you?

[Just be glad she didn't lead in with fart noises, which she had considered for a moment.]

[polypeptide]

[ The word is a half-step up from the sound, it's true. ]

Banjou.

[ His family name, but it's what almost everyone he knows calls him. ]

[riptidequeen]

... Banjo? Like the instrument?

[Now she's just doing this to see what reaction she'll get.]

[polypeptide]

[ Surprisingly, not an angry one. ]

Huh?

[ It's not a comparison he's heard before, but he's never left the island that was formerly Japan (and now is Japan again? long story), so he's never come across people that would think of something else when hearing his name. ]

Uh...

[ It's almost an agreement, but he sounds mostly uncertain. ]

Like my name.

[riptidequeen]

[Confusion is also good? She guesses, although calling someone Banjo just seems cruel.]

I guess humans have some weird sense of humour if your name is Banjo.

[And then, she'll introduce herself.]

I'm Lapis Lazuli, by the way.

[polypeptide]

[ He snorts in agitation at that, finally back on track. ]

Like your name is more normal. What the hell is that? Lazuli?

[riptidequeen]

[She bristles at that, only one person calls her Lazuli and it's certainly not banjo boy.]

It's Lapis Lazuli, like the gem stone. Or just Lapis.

[polypeptide]

[ Aha! Finally on even footing. ]

Like that makes it less weird!

[ Not that gem stones are that weird to be named after, actually. ]

Besides, mine doesn't have anything to do with any instruments.

[riptidequeen]

If it has nothing to do with instruments then why does it sound like the name of one?

[She's kind of got a point there. Kind of.]

[polypeptide]

How am I supposed to know? It was a name before it was an instrument!

[ He has no proof or knowledge of this. Just a bullshit guess. ]

[riptidequeen]

[She crosses her arms over her chest and has a look on her face that says "I don't believe you one bit".]

Hey if thinking that way makes you happy, then who am I to correct you?

[polypeptide]

[ This girl!! ]

I'm not just thinking it! It's a fact!