[open] we're all the same

[nyahilistic]

who: Ichimatsu nyahilistic, members of House Matsuno, OPEN.
what: Ichimatsu building a greenhouse.
when: Early February-- likely during Fajro, but before Quantum Tentacles.
where: House Matsuno, specifically the roof, but also anywhere else.
warnings: Swearing, emotional constipation, Ichimatsu.



[The roof seemed like a good place for a greenhouse. Plenty of sunlight, it would be the warmest place, and it was out of the way. He'd probably have to deal with Karamatsu playing his guitar up there, but maybe he could con him into looking after the plants sometimes for him that way.]

[He'd dragged his chest of weird plants, now re-labeled and with proper notes taken on their names and effects, and had the living plants in small planters with the lid to the chest open, the dried ones separated and organized in their own way. He'd never really built something like this before, so he was cross-referencing a few books and videos as he went, but over the course of about a week he had a pretty good structure going. As it stood, he was sitting on the edge of the roof with a bottle of water, taking a break with Nyanko and the kittens Gintoki had given him. He still hadn't decided on their names.]

[By all means, feel free to bother him from the street, or actually come up and figure out what the hell this weird antisocial cat guy has been doing on his roof for a week straight.]

Comments

[nyahilistic]

[All in good time, Katsura-- the kittens are right attention whores, most of them, surely they'll wake up and be all in your business eventually.]

Ah, yeah. Planet called Bajikan.

[unos]

Bajikan...

[ Katsura mulls over that word, breaking it up a few different ways - 'baji-kan'? 'ba-jikan'? 'ba-ji-kan'? - but after a moment. ]

Never heard of it.

[ Which he supposes eliminates the possibility that Ichimatsu is from he and Gin's world in any form other than a soccer player. ]

Are you a merchant, then?

[nyahilistic]

I hadn't, either.

[Not specifically, but probably similar iterations. Sharing a director, and all. Also he would suck at soccer as an adult, good thing he only did it as a child.]

Not really. I ran a shop that weird plants that had interesting effects suited.

[unos]

Shop owners are like merchants.

[ But he doesn't seem the like entrepreneurial, space-faring sort, so maybe he's less of a mess than Sakamoto.

Even so, he adds, bluntly: ]

That makes it sound like you were selling drugs.

[nyahilistic]

[He tilts his head in agreement, not quite nodding but not disagreeing with the statement. He's possibly less of a mess than Sakamoto because he doesn't have a bajillion irons in the fire all of the times, and he exhausts his ambitions pretty quickly, even for as small as they tend to be.]

[He snorts a short laugh and shrugs.]

You aren't the first person to say that. It's not dissimilar, really.

[unos]

[ ... Huh. That's a surprisingly honest response to a weighty 'accusation'. Katsura doesn't have the greatest history with drugs and people that deal them, but if Ichimatsu was running a proper shop them it was probably more like a pharmacy, right? ]

You must already have a preferred method for testing new products, then.

[nyahilistic]

I mean I planned to test them on myself in a couple forms-- eating them raw, eating them cooked or in something, smoking them... Maybe infusing them like tea.

[He has no real sense of self-preservation, and ultimately they're plants, which could make them drugs depending on their effects, to some. So he's not going to pussyfoot around it, it'd just be more troublesome.]

[unos]

[ Katsura knows someone else that'll eat anything that she can chew (and some things she won't) so rather than worrying about Ichimatsu he assumes he's simply durable. ]

Tea seems like the least unpleasant method, doesn't it? Cooking them into a meal might not be bad either, though...

[ Katsura likes tea, and if he tried to smoke he'd probably cough and choke constantly like a wuss. ]

[nyahilistic]

[He shrugs. He's not Kagura, but he's also got no self preservation or will to live so if something poisons him, it's fine. He's also got a pretty healer friend who would help.]

The Starry Milkweed was generally intended as tea, I figure both of the ones from Acedia would work, since they're meant for relaxation in the first place. Some of these... Are gonna require sort of specific circumstances to even really be tested effectively.

[unos]

[ Cool, he was right on the money with his tea suggestion - in more way than one, it seems. A tea that's meant to be relaxing seems pretty on the nose. Naturally, he follows up Ichimatsu's statement with yet another question. ]

What sort of circumstances?