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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 4:43 pm
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 4:47 pm
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Sasha? Taavi blinked, experiencing a moment of gender confusion. Sasha was a... girl's name right? He guessed the stranger could be a girl? Maybe? Um. Well it was none of his business anyway. "Um, hi Sasha," Taavi smiled and reached out to take the hand, resolving to avoid gendered pronouns if at all possible unless he got a steer from Sasha. "And there's bands playing at The Warehouse tonight, I was just on my way there. I'm going to see The Hellenes mainly," he gestured at his top, "but uh there's also Destiny Bond, The White Wednesdays, and Grasp the Thorn on. Oh! Um, sorry, and I'm Taavi, hi, nice to meet you!"
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 5:25 pm
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 12:10 pm
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"Oh, heh, thanks," Taavi smiled, tucking a braid of hair behind his ear and shrugging slightly. "It's Finnish! I know I don't look very Finnish but...." Now he was just being socially awkward, wasn't he? Time to move on!
"But yeah! Um, sure," Taavi nodded, still smiling as he gestured vaguely up the street. "I'm sort of on my own tonight so it's not like you're interrupting anything. And I suppose we balance one another? With knowing stuff recently and less recently. Sort of. I only arrived in Camphoreon a... month and a half ago now... err... though it's really only the last week or so I've been checking out bands and stuff. One of my coworkers introduced me to his band last weekend and they've got another show - err, gig? - so...." Auto babble! Stoooop! Also was it gig or show? Was he embarrassing himself on that too? "So here I am," Taavi concluded with a little laugh and a shrug. "Sorry, um, auto babble."
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 4:12 pm
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 4:22 pm
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Taavi smiled, or rather he hadn't stopped smiling yet and though he was fidgeting with his hair still our of slightly anxious energy the smile was a genuine one. "Oh, you're Russian? That's cool!" That probably explained the name! Phew, one less thing to worry about. "And ah, that sounds about right? I guess show then? Or a big gig I guess. And yeah it really is! Um, they're doing well locally apparently so they might be able to go full time soon." He'd miss Gary if he went but he hoped that he did go, it wasn't like any of them were working at Meat Palace because it was a dream job.
"So um, do you just come into Camphoreon for the night life then Sasha?" Night life. He'd never really been involved in anything you could call a night life, the idea was exciting and exotic. This was a new place, right? Nobody knew him, he could do what he wanted to! Going to cool gigs could be part of his identity and nobody would say 'since when do you do stuff like that?' His mother would hate the idea of him going to listen to a band fronted by a man with half clipped hair and that made it even better.
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 4:33 pm
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 4:39 pm
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 4:52 pm
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 5:00 pm
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Well, okay, Sasha didn't see the appeal buuut he didn't make that sound like it made it awful? So that was okay then. "I loved it," Taavi replied, smoothing a hand back over his hair and beaming. "Every day is different; helping lost trainers, guarding rare nest sites, rounding up pokemon who've got where they shouldn't be and moving them on, making sure rights of way stay clear, and sometimes just watching and recording numbers and things like that. Most nights I'd go home to my apartment which - heh was approaching civilization I guess! - but there was usually one or two nights every couple of weeks where I'd need to camp out, loved that too. It was...." Taavi trailed off, his smile a little faded now as he shrugged. "Yeah, it was a really rewarding job."
He missed it, he missed it like mad. That didn't mean he regretted his choice though, the right thing to do was often hard and this was the right thing. He was sure it was the right thing... but he still missed his job, and his friends and.... But tonight was going to be a good night! And Sasha seemed nice, maybe they'd end up being friends?
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 5:35 pm
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2015 2:54 am
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"There were long trips sometimes," Taavi acknowledged with a wry grin and a shrug. "Loved those too, the big trips were always in groups so thee was a great atmosphere and we'd all bring our pokegears so we weren't out of touch with the world. Some people had laptops too! Heh, everyone missed hot showers though and I missed hairdryers." Taavi gestured to his mass of thick wavy black hair. "This lot dries pretty slowly on its own!... But yeah, I guess I am pretty homesick for it. Working at Meat Palace doesn't really compare." At all. He'd never been well paid as a ranger - it wasn't something anyone went into for the money - but he'd had enough to pay all the bills with a little left over most months for fun or savings, right now he was feeling guilty for coming out tonight even though Gary had given him a free ticket. It wasn't the money worries that were the worst part though, it was... Well everything else about the job; the dullness, the gross messes, the lack of respect, the uncertainty about his hours, the fact that his name badge said Mark.
"But moving away from friends and all is never easy I guess. I'm hoping to find something a bit more fulfilling soon," Taavi said with a slightly wan smile. "I don't think Kodo has rangers? From what other people have said. But. Um. Something to do with Pokémon would be fine... But you didn't ask to hear all that. Heh. Better stop before I born you to death with my whole life story!"
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2015 2:34 pm
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