the_brightest_sun | 014th Meatbun ☼ Voice / Action [Backdated to the 25th]

[Voice / Morning]

Welcome to Luceti, New Feathers!! And good morning to all the... Old Feathers?

[All of those who aren't new basically.]

My name's Son Goku, pleased to meet ya! I take care of the okonomiyaki restaurant near the fountain, if you haven't ever had any you should come and give it a try, I promise it's really tasty and good! Ucchan's Okonomiyaki restaurant always has the best okonomiyaki in the village.

[Let's ignore the fact that it's the only place with okonomiyaki in the menu.]

Ah, I also wanted to ask if there are any home tutors or something available. [There's a bit of a long pause before he resumes.] Long time ago I asked for help because I wanted to keep learning and getting better at writing and reading and maths and other things, but... Most of the people who offered to help and helped me have been sent back to their worlds. I want to learn more, niisan says I'm getting better with my handwriting but I know it's still messy and there are still many words I don't know how to write well and many difficult words to read in books.

But I don't wanna go to the school. So no school, but I want help to learn more, pretty please! I can make delicious okonomiyaki for you in exchange!

[Making the deal sweeter with food, that should work, right?]

[Action / Evening]

[At early evening, Goku closes the restaurant, deciding that he has worked enough for the day. After that the kid will be seen around playing by himself despite the cold, making orange paper airplanes and throwing them around before chasing after them. At least until droids appear and attack the kid, knocking him out before he can do much more besides scream and dragging him away.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Is there any reason why you don't want to go to school? I'm sure we could find someone to help tutor you, if that's what you need instead.

I heard that in school there's a lot of people and we have to sit through a lot of time with a teacher teaching us all something. And that classes are scheduled. I don't like having to sit for a long time unable to move even a little bit! And I don't always want to learn the same things, I want to learn everything but sometimes I don't want to do maths and sometimes I prefer to the them than to read. And if there's a lot of people I can't ask as much as I want because it could bore others. And there are things I don't want to learn about yet so.

[Pause.]

'Sides, if I'm with other kids of my age or so I would prefer to play with them, not to study.

[In a way he has a point.]

Asking questions in class is important, even if you do have a lot. You may find that someone else has similar questions, and you could even work together to find solutions. Although if you've never attended yourself, you could always try it out as a trial, when we do open up, and we could work on finding someone to tutor you. I know class structure doesn't work well for everyone, especially if they didn't grow up being used to that sort of thing. I wish I did have more time to instruct individually, myself.

As for the last part, school is a good way to meet new friends your age, and then finding time during recess or afterwards to play if you like.

But I can meet new friends just as fine without going to school, and from what I've been told normally people of my age would be very small. Do people send kids to school even though they are so tiny?

[Because she totally knows how small he means, right.]

Well, you haven't exactly told me how old you are, so I can't answer that question for you. Most students attend at a young age to get a start on their lives.

Ah, that's right! I'm two years old! I thought I was an adult now because I have years, you know? Years in plural, like adults do! But someone told me that I need to have double digits besides having plural for years.

[So he still has to wait eight years before he's an adult, shoot.]

Two...? [Hm. Well, most people who would claim that low a number have unusual birth circumstances.] Are you certain that's right?

Yeah! I have had two birthdays in Luceti and I never had a birthday before. And I know it wasn't my birthday ever before because it hadn't been a year yet since I was born.

[He smiles happily.]

I wasn't sure what a year was at first but after being here I learned it much better.

[He's awfully proud of every little thing he has learned or come to understand better while in Luceti.]

[Hm. Something still doesn't seem right about that.] You never had a birthday because you never celebrated it before coming to Luceti? Was there no one around you at home to help you?

Eh? No, I never had a birthday because it wasn't my birthday yet, that's all. There were lots of people at the village I found when I climbed down the mountain, they were the ones who told me when was my birthday! And after that there was Konzen and Ten-chan and Ken-niichan and they would have celebrated my birthday with me.

So you came from a mountain, looking the way you do now? It sounds like you had a lot of adjusting to do.

Nah, I didn't have clothes on and I was two centimeters shorter!

[Totally not the same as he's now, it counts okay. The last part confuses him, though.]

I had to adjust? To what?

It wasn't difficult getting used to things back home? Most children I know don't walk off a mountain knowing how to walk and talk.

Uhm... I think it was more weird than hard. You know, at first I really didn't know what everyone was doing with their mouths when they talked, words just didn't make sense to me. But after a bit I started to understand when they used them and how to talk myself!

I don't remember having troubles with walking by the time I found the village, though.

[He has never really thought about those things, but he can't say they were difficult. At least they didn't feel that way back then, but back then he didn't know what would be easy or difficult either way.]

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