[Open] It's getting hot in here

[showsnopiety]

Who: Caren and anyone visiting the hot springs!
When: Post dungeon, could be right after fail/success, could be days after
Where: Hot Springs of course
What: There's a hot springs, so now there's a hot springs episode.
Rating: Could be a p-13 and beyond because some people are only wearing towels in this place.





[Win or fail, everyone needed a reason and a way to relax. With the fall of the towers, there was all sorts of good things to come from it. Some would say it was the birds; and others would say it was the hot springs.

The large, large pools of heated water. Sure, they could be used as a way to get all steamed up (or even steam punk) but after all that hard work, everyone deserves a break!

Bring your swimsuits, your towels, your drinks and snacks-who knows, you should be able to find them in the bazaars, or even on Airy. It's time to soak in the heat!]

Comments

> That's a Minato half underwater. This seems a bit dangerous.

[sky_sharkling]

[...the indecent he doesn't really care about. Akito could really care less when it comes to that, it's not like it's a secret or anything.

He does however care about Minato possibly drowning which is why he's just going to...swim over and poke him in the arm gently] Hey. Hey, hey. Wake up.

[burnmydread]

[ The water is nice. It's so nice and warm and comfortable and exactly what everyone loves in a hot spring soak. It's perfect, why would he want to move? Why would he want to leave?

When he's poked, he twitches a little and sinks a bit further into the water. A few bubbles and he inhales some water...

...and it just kind of sits there. He's not awake yet.

> Poke him harder?
> Let him drown? ]

[sky_sharkling]

[.....the level of relaxed/lazy is amazing. How on earth does Minato do that? Anyone else would be flailing and coughing about now, but nope. Snoozing. Akito's...well, he's sort of impressed, but at the same time this doesn't seem like a good thing to be, so should he be impressed? He's not sure.

Thankfully he's also a good person so he'll opt for poking him harder rather than...just watching and waiting to see if he wakes up before dying] Heeey stop that, you're gunna drown! [Poke nudge poke.

Does he need to call his carrier over from where it's swimming to bite you Minato. Is that what it's going to take]

[burnmydread]

[ He has truly reached the maximum level of Chill, maybe to the point it's circling back around to being a little too chill. Biting would probably help, but luckily for the both of them, this bout of harder poking seems to do the job. (And isn't as dirty as it sounds.)

Minato stirs aaaand...inhales again, this time choking on the water, which is enough to wake him back up. His eyes fly open as he gurgles.

COUGH. HACK. ]

...

[ Hopefully he didn't hack any of that up in Akito's face. ]

[sky_sharkling]

[Ack he has totally be coughed on. At least he manages to not get any in his visible eye! Sometimes wearing an eye patch was a life saver of some kind]

Bleh. [Wiping water off his face] Are you okay? [Still more worried for the other than himself]

[burnmydread]

[ Saved by fashion! Or rather by trying to keep your other self under control. Close enough, right? Either way, Minato didn't mean it. Thankfully Akito seems nice enough to not blame him for it, anyway, even if falling asleep in the hot spring was totally Minato's own fault to begin with.

After a few more coughs--this time not right at Akito's face--Minato is able to get a few deep breaths in. ]

Y-Yeah...

[ HUFF. ]

...Did I fall in?

[sky_sharkling]

[Both worked!

Akito doesn't mind, he will be staying nearby until he is sure Minato is okay]

That's good. You nearly did, you were blowing bubbles and everything.

[burnmydread]

[ Blowing bubbles. Well, that part is good, at least. It means he's still alive (or just drowning). ]

...Like a fish, huh?

[ TOTALLY NONCHALANT ABOUT ALL OF THIS. ]

[sky_sharkling]

[Still amazed at the amount of chill on display here]

Kind of? I think fish blow less bubbles though. [Actually...thinking on this...]

[burnmydread]

[ He's sure there are some fish that blow a lot of bubbles, but that's honestly not his area of expertise. The image is cute, though, and isn't that what matters? ]

...Fish can breathe underwater. Maybe not like a fish.

[sky_sharkling]

[Images are always what matters, fact!]

Maybe like a dolphin. They blow bubbles to play with, I think, but they can't breath underwater.

[Are they really having this conversation]

[burnmydread]

[ They are totally having this conversation. That seems to make Minato perk up pretty quickly, actually. ]

...I like dolphins.

[ That makes all this better. ]

They breathe through their blowhole, I think. It's on their head.

[sky_sharkling]

[Oh cool that makes this infinitely more awesome then. Making people happy rocks]

Dolphins are neat~ They're so clever.

[He nods, trying to remember what he knows of them] Yeah, that sounds right. So they can surface to breath without having to stop swimming or jump out of the water.

[burnmydread]

But they're cuter when they jump out of the water. [ A pause. ] Through hoops.

[ They do that, right? He's pretty sure they do that... ]

[sky_sharkling]

Like at shows and stuff? I've seen that sort of thing on TV before, they are cute when they perform. They really like showing off and making people happy.

[He hasn't seen it for himself, but TV makes everything better sometimes]

[burnmydread]

[ He nods. That's exactly what he meant. ]

Maybe we should find someone to jump through hoops.

[ For their amusement? Yes. ]

[sky_sharkling]

Hm. I'm not sure people could jump through hoops as well...though some might be able to with magic I guess.

[Considers this]

[burnmydread]

...I know someone who has, like, magical hands that can move stuff.

[ CLOSE ENOUGH? They need an adult. ]

[sky_sharkling]

Move the hoops to make it easier? Or move the people to help them out. It almost seems like cheating either way.

[And they can't have cheating now can they]

[burnmydread]

But what if it made the dolphins happy?

[ isn't that what's most important? ]

[sky_sharkling]

I suppose you could make allowances then...if it's to make someone happy, you can always cut corners a little.

[Making people and dolphins happy was pretty important!]

[burnmydread]

You should meet Unagi-kun.

[ He says as if this all somehow relates to dolphins? Maybe it does. Don't worry, there's a story behind it. One that his roommate should know. ]

[sky_sharkling]

Unagi-kun?

[He is all for story time]

[burnmydread]

He's my pet.

[ Not...his carrier, though. That's different. Akito has already met Shirosaba, his cat, by their living arrangement at least. ]

He's a fish.

[sky_sharkling]

[He's differentiates the two words enough to realise Minato doesn't mean his carrier. Akito doesn't usually call his own a pet after all, they're different after all!]

Oh, I didn't know you had a pet Minato-san. What kind of fish is he?