fukuda what the hole

[sengokus]

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week one, monday

[sengokus]

[sloth is.... an indulgence. and mineo is a little too easily predisposed to it sometimes? for example, when he's in the planetarium and he - after trying to jump high enough to touch the ceiling enough times - just... lays down on the floor? yeah. he sprawls out, gaze to the starry "sky" and seems like he's just thinking.

honestly not that bad in here, he thinks.

but he shifts when he hears someone else enter and then - ]

Oh... It's you, Fukuda-san. Hey.

[he's a little spacey, but he is polite]

[holeful]

[He's mostly just been wandering but hey!! A friend.]

Mineo. [He nods.] You look like you've been overwhelmed by the enormity of the universe.

[sengokus]

I mean.... kind of?

[he'll admit it and shut his eyes]

This isn't even my universe.... I don't think.

[he's like. not good at math or science but he doesn't recognize these planets even?]

[holeful]

[Fukuda looks up at the scattered stars for a long moment.]

No? I never liked looking at the night sky, so I don't think I could tell the difference.

[sengokus]

Huh...? How come?

Do you get - uh, "overwhelmed by the enormity of the universe" too?

[holeful]

[Fukuda is quiet for just slightly too long.]

Ah, I suppose you could say that.
[He is looking up at the stars now, though?]

[sengokus]

[ . . . hm.]

How'd you describe it, Fukuda-san? I'm not really a mindreader or anything - I'm not good at that stuff...

[holeful]

... I suppose the simplest way to put it is that there are too many stars.

[sengokus]

[wh

what]

.... uh, how many stars do you want there to be?

[holeful]

[He thinks for a long moment. It's not really the number that's the issue, but if Mineo is going to ask that;]

Well, three is always a good number.

[sengokus]

... just three stars...?

[he looks up again]

Doesn't that sound kind of empty?

[holeful]

It does. But it would be easy to count.

[He's been looking up at them all the entire time without seeming too bothered, though?]

[sengokus]

[ . . . . ? ]

Is that what you wanna do? Count 'em? Aren't they just like... nice to look at?

[holeful]

I don't want to count them. They are nice to look at.

[That's why he's looking at them now!!]

[sengokus]

[ . . . . . what the

what]

.... you're a hard guy to understand, Fukuda-san....

[holeful]

Haha, you think so?

[A pause before he sits down next to where Mineo is sprawled.]

I think most people are hard to understand, really.

[sengokus]

[well he looks over at him at that]

Oh yeah?

Not a lot of experience dealing with 'em?

[holeful]

Most people don't have the patience you do, Mineo.

[He gets cryptic or weird and people leave him alone.]

[sengokus]

[he just

pauses]

Where the hell do people keep getting the idea that I'm patient from....

Fukuda-san, can I ask you something? I can't promise I won't punch you based on your answer though.

[holeful]

...
[Well. At least there's something familiar about this.]

Sure, ask me whatever you want.

[sengokus]

How come you wanna put holes in people?

And are you planning on doing that here?

[holeful]

[Ah. He's asking if Fukuda is a threat. That's fair.]

... Only if someone wants me to. I think that's the best way to do it. That's the way it can help the most.

[sengokus]

[ . . . ]

How the hell do you think that can help somebody?

[holeful]

It helped me. It's helped other people, too.

[There are other hole people apparently;]

I met a woman who was able to grow closer to her important person because of the hole in his head.

[sengokus]

[ALL THESE HOLE PEOPLE (mineo voice) yea that's what fucking happens when you're a serial holer]

.... but it goes through your brain, right?