Peace is nothing but a result of food [Arata]

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Peace is nothing but a result of food [Arata] May 23, 2018 23:39:42 GMT -4 via mobile

Post by Deleted on May 23, 2018 23:39:42 GMT -4

Hey Sensei.

Sorry to bother you, but I was spending time visiting my folks when the stuff in the group chat happened and, well, yeah. I was hoping we could talk.

if It's not too much trouble could you meet me at the Gundam Cafe by Akihabara Station? I'll treat you.

thanks.

Coming back home should have been a happy occasion. But as she sat there waiting for both her teacher and her Acguy curry, Sam couldn't help but feel melancholy and anxious. She couldn't help it, everything just felt wrong. Being back in Akiba felt wrong, being in a hero school felt wrong... but why? Why did her past still control her feelings so much?

Sam quietly sighed as she took another sip of her Jaburo coffee and watched Nicol Amalfi get sliced in half by the Strike Gundam. Such a tragic way for such a cutie to go. Why did she choose this place to try and cheer herself up again? She knew why, of course.

She had been here many times as a kid. It had always been a special treat for her. It, like so many other things she loved, was an escape. A way to get away from her problems for a little while and just focus on the things she loved. In this case, food and giant robots. It was her hope that those fond memories could make the coming talk easier - for her teacher and for herself. Sensei had proven to be a kindred spirit, a fellow otaku who embraced his joy and passion for this sort of thing. Surely he'd be happy to be here.

Of course, Sam couldn't help but feel like this was probably some kind of weird. From a certain point of view, this was almost like a... Like a date. Not that that was Sam's intent! Sure, Sensei seemed like a perfectly fine match, but he was not her type. Well, he kind of was, but the ways he wasn't were - in her mind - irreconcilable. That made it not weird and not a date... right?

Sam groaned and tried to shake the thought from her head. She had been looking for a distraction from her thoughts, only for more thoughts to show up and take over in a bloody coup that didn't improve anything for anyone and merely installed a new regime that was utterly horrible in entirely different ways. In other words, she was just having Sam thoughts. The young woman massaged her temples as she kept her eyes peeled for her teacher. Maybe things would feel less awkward once he was here.

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Peace is nothing but a result of food [Arata] May 24, 2018 0:26:12 GMT -4

Post by Arata Hayashi on May 24, 2018 0:26:12 GMT -4

Hey Sam~

It's perfectly alright to 'bother me' I'm your teacher you know. ANd of course we can talk~

The Gundam Cafe? Why didn't you say so sooner? We can meet there as soon as possible~

~Signed~ Arata.

The sandy haired former vigilante was rubbing his head, running his fingers through his hair as he pushed his hood back, revealing his entire face as he walked through the city, trying to make heads or tails of the damn map he was reading. He was making his way from his apartment in Shinjuku.

As he moved from street to street, he finally came in to Akihabara, and made his way toward the cafe, that cafe, the best cafe in his mind. What was it with boys and robots? They were cool that's why. Plus, Gundams were a staple of anime, and as an otaku it was his duty to like Gundams. They were also great for drawing references.

As he came in, he would find his way to meet up with Sam, waving to her as he greeted her. "Sam! There you are!" He called out while taking his seat with Sam at the table, taking time to order some Haro cakes and a White Base Cold Brew coffee.

While waiting for his order, Arata would take out of his messenger bag a series of papers and lay them out across the table, they were a bunch of quickly drawn frames, just wire frames. And while waiting for Sam to start talking, he would look at the various mobile suits and gundams on display, and start drawing a robotic frame around that wire, then on tot he next one, he was a speed sketchy it seemed!

"So what did you need to talk about Sam?" He asked while moving his sketches around, one page after the other, if he was going to make something mech based, these would be great for future reference! Though he seemed content in what he was doing, he activated his quirk, letting the gloves come out of the marks on his hands to start drawing and switching pages around so that he could focus on Sam and listen to her, folding his real hands underneath his chin to look at the girl.

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Peace is nothing but a result of food [Arata] May 24, 2018 12:03:43 GMT -4 via mobile

Post by Deleted on May 24, 2018 12:03:43 GMT -4

When Arata came into the cafe, Sam quietly perked up and smiled. It was force of habit, really. She was always smiling when talking with people nowadays. It helped them smile in turn, and if everyone was smiling, then everything is alright, right? "Sensei! Glad you could make it." She said cheerfully, taking her purse off of the chair opposite her and gesturing for Arata to sit.

When her teacher started working, Sam was quick to take note. It was astonishing to watch, from the perspective of both a fan of the medium and as a fellow quirk user. He had such seamless and casual control over his power, and for such practical purposes too! It made the constant, burning ache in her chest feel especially cruel and mocking.

Still, she kept smiling, even as Arata asked her what was going on. "I was thinking about what happened in the classroom chat, when I talked about my quirk." She explained. "I had thought that I had gotten past being mocked for who I am, but... It keeps happening. And I keep telling myself it's fine, I'm older now and don't care. But the truth is? I do. I really do."

Sam set her coffee down and gestured towards the cafe around them. "You know, I used to live here? Not the cafe, I mean, but Akiba. I should love this place, I mean, I do, I guess. But I haven't been here in nearly five years. I don't know how much they tell you about your students, so I don't know if you know all the reasons why, but a big reason was to get away from my classmates, the kids that would keep mocking and tormenting me. My quirk was one of the reasons why they did it."

"What you said, about folks going bad because they hate themselves... do you believe it?" Sam asked solemnly. "Like, real deep down?"

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Peace is nothing but a result of food [Arata] May 24, 2018 22:04:30 GMT -4

Post by Arata Hayashi on May 24, 2018 22:04:30 GMT -4

Arata listened to what she said about her living here in Akiba while he was working on his drawings, he listened to her while sipping away at his cold brew coffee as she spoke about what it was that made her move from here. How she felt about that entire situation that she grew up with. And if what he said was true.

Setting down his coffee, he took a deep breath before giving a stern look right into Samantha's eyes, locking their gazes together, "Let me tell you quite a few things regarding that. A couple of stories. Instances where I have seen it happens in the fictional and real world."

"Imagine you have the power to raise the dead, that you hold the unique power to move the bones of the long deceased, that you were a force to be reckoned with. But you didn't want to destroy the world, on the contrary, you wanted to take command of it and guide it along a benevolent path. Sure you might look like a monster, but those that can get past that appearance will understand your viewpoint and your conviction. Those that react with fear and abandon you without even a second glance, they are the ones that stand in your way."

"Next, imagine you are one person, you are the ruler of a small city and people in a valley, and a greater opposing force is coming to take control over your people, kill them, pillage them, do whatever they may. You have the option to be granted a dark power, the power of what would be considered a vampire. I of course talk about Vlad Tepes. The Impaler. Dracula. In many popular media, he is portrayed as an anti hero who took on the visage of the monster for the sake of a greater good."

"Now consider real world situations where someone is ridiculed and ostracized for one little thing, no matter how miniscule that thing may be, and that it drives them to commit a great atrocity. Random acts of violence, hateful thoughts, mass killings. I feel that if we don't at least learn from fiction, where a better world can be created, we can't make a better world a reality."

He rubbed the back of his neck, getting rather philosphical about this whole thing. "What I mean is that--if you let it keep you down and start to hate yourself for what people point out, you're going to turn it against the world in a negative way. I'd rather see you cultivate that in to something better you know?"

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