sirenspull_logs | [OPEN] Look in front of you NOW. Do you have a waffle?

Who: Replica Riku, AKA: Joe Fieldman ....and OPEN to everybody!
When: Wednesday, 1pm
Where: Brinners, in the Underground Mall Food Court
Summary: It's Wacky Waffle Wednesday, and who can turn down food that just costs a buck, and comes with all the toppings you want?
Warnings: This could get unreasonably silly.

Joe Fieldman didn't always know a great deal when he saw one.

But waffles-for-a-dollar with a loaded waffle bar included? Sounded like a great deal. Enough to make a trek down to the mall for them, anyway, and loudly inform his whole apartment, if anyone felt like tagging along.

Of course, the trouble with great deals, especially when they were announced over the public newsfeed, was that a lot of other people seemed just as eager to take advantage of them.

So Just-a-Buck waffles turned out to be over a fifteen minute wait, and by that time Joe had seen so many people pass by with Tantalus Torture piles of whipped cream and strawberry syrup and chocolate chips and sliced peaches and sausage gravy that he decided to buy himself a stack of about <i>eight</i>.

Luckily, he's brought along a old half-forgotten journal he'd found underneath his bed last week (Ciel Phantomhive had managed to make him so self-conscious about the state of his bedroom that he'd actually decided to give it a clean) to amuse himself. He couldn't for the life of him remember where or who he'd gotten it from (Christmas before last, maybe? Or for a 'birthday'?), but it came with all sorts of entertaining instructions for what to do with the pages, and so he went about doodling bubbles and poking pencil holes, dog-earing pages and blackening the edges while he waited to aquire some food to stain the stain log with.

Okay, so it was slightly immature. So were overly-loaded waffles, but plenty of people seemed to be perfectly fine with partaking.

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"Exciting sometimes. I'd say it's more... troubled. The fact that I do a lot of exorcisms isn't really a good thing."

He shrugged though, not really wanting to go into it. An entire history of his world, the kor, and where they came from wasn't necessary. Thankfully he didn't have to worry too much about that coming up either since Joe had brought up a much better discussion topic.

"You know, I do have one here. A hawkzile. It's not the same and it can't do as much, but it does fly."

"So it's like a weird bird?" He grabbed a container of maple syrup and poured some on the remnants of his wafflepile. Why not. "I've got a cat at home, but he's just a regular cat."

Though Xact did get Roxas to do pretty much whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted. So maybe that was a special kind of power too.

"Roxas has got a hoverboard." Joe contributed heartily to this conversation of flying machines, cuffing his friend soundly on the shoulder. "Mr. Wayne made it. It can't fly too high, but there's no wheels, so you can go pretty fast."

"The ones at home are part bird or dragon and part machine. Here it's just a machine. I'm still tweaking some of it, but it can get higher than hovering now."

Of course it was also a big risk to fly it the way he was, but Frau didn't care. In fact, when he considered crashing, he was more worried about ruining the hawkzile than himself.

"You have a cat too, huh?"

"Two, if you count Xion's. They both live with us anyway." At least this was something he could contribute knowledgeably to the conversation.

"Cats are cool. They don't just automatically like you because you give them food. You have to show them why they should be your friend."

"But even then, they're not always such a good friend back." Joe frowns, rubbing at the back of his wrist where Xact scratched him, earlier in the week.

"I think dogs are okay. Amaterasu was always really cool."

Frau snorted. Tolly certainly enjoyed not being Frau's friend. At least not openly. Frau and his cat were pretty similar in that respect.

"I've never owned a dog. The only one I've had real experience with was... ah."

He cut himself off and fumbled with how to fix his little mess up. Saying the dog had been a ghost probably wasn't the best way to go.

"Different."

"Dogs are all right." He didn't know enough about them to say what was different or not, though.

"Kind of drooly, though. And they jump on you." Yeah, he was just fine being a cat person.

"Well, that's okay, some cats are also different." Joe assured Frau, nudging his tray forward in friendly offering to share a waffle, one last time. "Aslan's a lion, but sometimes he's sort of like a big cat?"

"Someday, I'd like a dog. The landlord's less picky about cats, though. I guess that makes her a cat person too."

"Cats just aren't as loud."

At least Frau assumed that was why cats were preferred. He'd never really thought much about it though since he hadn't exactly been planning on getting a pet. Tolly had just been a slight accident soon after he'd arrived.

A quick glance at the waffle was all Frau needed to shake his head. He really had no desire to share in Joe and Roxas' friendship food. It just didn't look appealing.

Roxas scoffed at that. "They are if you don't feed them promptly at dinnertime, trust me." Sure, Xact and Blue couldn't bark, but they could whine and yowl. And did.

"Anyway, if you want a dog, Joe, you have to make sure the cats are okay with it first. The landlord won't pee on your pillow if he's mad at you."

"So what would I do-" Joe scoffed, because that sounded a bit silly. It wasn't like Xact could have a conversation with him, about getting a new pet. "Test bringing a puppy home first? See if they're okay with that?"

...at least the fact that cats peed on pillows to show they were mad at you was one strike against them.

Nothing personal about Xact or Blue. Mostly, they were alright.

Frau couldn't help chuckling. Listening to these two bicker like this was almost calming. He liked it. For once he thoughts weren't being jerked around to places he didn't want them to go. He didn't even need to try to make the distraction work. It just did.

He shook his head again at the mention of peeing on pillows. Thankfully Tolly hadn't tried that. Not that she showed any desire to get near his coffin in the first place.

"Sure. Why not?" He shrugged. "Just find someone who does have a dog and see how the cats react."

It made perfect sense to him.

"But what if they only like some dogs?" he counters smartly. If animals were sort of like people- well, there were people he'd certainly mind having as roommates, and others he wouldn't want.

"I guess we should wait and see if we get a bigger apartment someday anyway, before we get a dog. It would't be fair to make it even more crowded- especially if it's a big dog, not some little sissy one."

Frau knew very little about how pets were handled anywhere, and even less about how they would be here. Personally he had to think there was a way to bring the cats to where the dogs waiting for adoption were housed, but he honestly had no idea if that was true or not. It wasn't like he really cared all that much either. If Joe was serious about the whole thing, he'd figure it out or at least get some help from someone who could. Frau definitely wouldn't be that person.

"Hey, it's a start." Roxas laughed. It was probably a moot point for now anyway...though he'd still want to make sure it was okay with the cats before they ever brought a dog in. Somehow. "But yeah, we're definitely too full right now."

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