Dante Williams
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Post by Dante Williams on Jan 7, 2007 18:50:54 GMT 1
Dante laughed when Kenji told him to keep Elliot from eating the pieces. Then a librarian shushed him, and he looked around and noticed that everyone was staring at him. "Sorry." He whispered to everyone else.
The he muttered, "Oh sure, stare at the guy who's laughing instead of the seemingly-dead body on the ground." Then he said to Kenji, "You don't have to worry about a thing Kenji. He just get's restless sometimes but he looks pretty tired right now."
Elliot plopped on Dante's lap and yawned. Then he fell asleep in almost no time. "See?" Dante asked, "No worries needed at all."
Then he started to work on the Legos. He got very concentrated on his work the more he worked on them. Put this red piece on the yellow one, insert the rod here, rotate the cylinder.
Whenever he worked on Lego's, it seemed that nothing could bother him, he was also very tense, like he was trying to deactivate a bomb or something. He worked and worked and worked and worked until... Viola!
"It's a robot." He said softly, "When wind it up, it rolls a couple of feet and it moves it's arms." Earlier he would have thought this too hard to do with Lego's but recently his brother showed him an easy way.
He looked over into Raven and asked softly, "So, what are you doing here? Just talking or what?"
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Post by raven on Jan 8, 2007 1:03:30 GMT 1
Raven sat quietly as per normal and put the finishing touches on her house. She added a small window box for flowers and even added those little snazzy new age lego flowers to it. Making it all the more homey. They talked about a few things while she listened and concentrated on her legos but when Dante asked for names she did happen to pipe up.
"My name is Raven." she told him softly.
Going back to her legos she worked with them finishing everything and then setting it aside and began to build a small dog just like Kenji had done earlier. She took the small little peices and made a dog out of the four dot square peices with on long rectangle for the body. Those little round pegs for the ears and two of them on top of each other for the tail. It actually looked really cute and she sat it just outside the house like he was guarding it. That was when Dante got her attention again and the spell of the legos was broken.
"Well, I came here to get books to read and to take home. But, as I live alone, I didn't want to rush back and so I sat here. But I've never seen legos before and so now, I'm learning how to play with these toys." she said with a warm smile.
"See, I made a house with chimeny and a dog to guard it." she said with a chuckle in her thick russian accent. She tucked her black hair behind her ears.
"And you're dog is cute." she said. Reaching out a tentative hand she pet the dog gently in his sleep before bringing her hand back. Looking at Kenji setting down the book he had just started.
"You are done with that book already? You are fast." clearly not realizing what manga was nor how fast you could read one.
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Post by lazy on Jan 8, 2007 1:49:52 GMT 1
"Yes.... I've evolved to be able to read at lightning speeds..." Kai said, wavering between humorous and ernest. Well, it's kind of true. He scowled a bit. And I already read that volume. Just revisiting. Kai watched her put the finishing touches on her house and smiled. "You learn quickly," Kai whispered, watching her work at it. And you're diligent.
He looked back over at Dante and watched as he attempted to make something impossible out of conventional Lego's. "I don't have the Lego's that let you make moveable parts...." he mumbled, making a mental note to go out and buy a set. "I could do more with those...." he mumbled again, biting his thumb.
Cute dog, too.... Kai thought, keeping the words to himself as he watched Raven stroke the furry animal.
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Post by Dante Williams on Jan 9, 2007 23:15:36 GMT 1
OOC: Sorry for the late reply
Dante asked, "Raven? That's a nice name... Very… unique is a good way of putting it." Then he checked out Raven's Lego work, "Whoa," Dante said, "That's an amazing Lego creation considering this is your first day you even learned about them." Then he smiled, "You did the house much better than I could anway, I stink at making houses."
Then the librarian shushed him again, "Sorry ma'm..." He muttered. When Raven commented on how his dog was cute he beamed, "Yup, I got him when I was younger from my grandfather. I trained him so now he knows almost every trick in the book, even some not-so-universally known." Then he chuckled softly to himself. It wasn't very funny but he was always happy whenever he talked about his dog.
Then Dante laughed very quietly when Raven talked about Kenji reading manga very fast, "Well, manga isn't really made to sit down and read it for hours upon hours and have a deep and thoughtful read with symbols, detail, etc. It's made so you can zip through it and go on to the next issue or you re-read the issues that you’ve already read."
Then Dante looked over Kenji's pile of manga and asked, "Hey, do you have a Fooly Cooly or a .Hack issue in there by any chance do you?"
Then he slightly averted his attention to Raven to ask her if she even knew what manga was and he saw that Raven was stroking his dog gently, then Dante got a horrified look in his face and said, "No, when you pet him he..” And then his dog opened one of his eyes and once he saw that attention was being paid to him he jumped and rocketed up towards Raven’s lap and started to lick her. “…does that…” Dante finished and slapped his forehead. Then he groaned, “I can get him off of you if you’d like.” The only reason he asked was that some people abhored his dog doing things like that, "I'm sorry he's just very playful." He said.
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Post by raven on Jan 10, 2007 23:46:52 GMT 1
Raven smiled as she looked up at Kenji. They both seemed impressed by her lego prowess but she didn't think that there was anything special. I mean Dante had tried to make a robot and she had only made a house and a little dog too. She was petting the dog softly. He was cute and sweet and she was enjoying the feel of his soft fur as Dante was explaining just what manga was and how it was you could read it so fast and she nodded softly understanding.
Her hand pulled away fast when he seemed to look at her in utter horror that she was petting his dog. She bit her lip and then suddenly she found the dog in her lap. She chuckled as she held him softly to her chest and continued to pet him. Dante offered to get him out of her lap and she shook her head no.
"No, I really don't mind at all. I have been thinking about getting a dog myself. I love them, they're so friendly." she said as the dog settled down in her lap and her hand continued to run over his soft fur.
"So.. manga is pictures instead of words? I'm not sure I understand." she confessed furrowing her brow. "I'm sorry, if I"m bothering you I can be quiet it's just.. I've never heard of it before. Guess that makes me ignorant but I... have never seen manga."
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Post by lazy on Jan 11, 2007 0:02:37 GMT 1
Kai was almost lost of words. Never.... heard... of.... manga...?! He shuddered a bit, trying to imagine a world without it. Just superheroes and their tight costumes. The very thought made him want to puke. Well, she's foreign. But they didn't have manga in her country? Russia, I'm guessing. Clearing his throat, he spoke.
"Well, yeah. It's like a story told with a mix of words and pictures, just.... in an Asian style, I suppose...." he said, looking up for a moment. Hmm... she's a bit insecure about how people feel about her presence, I guess.... he thought, remembering her offer to leave him alone if he wished. "No.... it's fine...." he said slowly, looking up again, seeing her reaction.
People around here are strange.
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Post by Dante Williams on Jan 11, 2007 0:22:33 GMT 1
Then Dante laughed when Raven said it was alright for Elliot to be on her lap, "Thank God!" He sighed and noticed Kenji's sense of shock when she said she's never heard of manga.
He laughed, "Calm down Kenji, it's not that big of a deal." Then Kenji's words started to drift apart as he spoke. "You okay dude?" Dante asked while raising an eyebrow.
He thought that he would survive through his crisis and turned to Raven, "You're not ignorant. Well," Then he looked up, "Unless you define ignorant as in you don't know anything then everyone is ignorant." Then he thought for a while, "Come to think of it, everyone is ignorant no matter how you define it..."
"Since when did anyone say they wanted you to be quiet?" He asked loudly when she offered to keep quiet. The librarian shushed him yet again and this time he just hissed when she turned her back. "Geez, one of these days I swear." He muttered.
Then he turned around and talked quietly, "But anyway, like I said, I doubt anyone wants you to be quiet."
Then he looked around and noticed that almost everyone in the library was staring at him, "Me though, I'm a different case..."
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Post by raven on Jan 12, 2007 13:11:44 GMT 1
((Sorry for taking so long, got caught up))
Raven listened carefully as Kenji began to explain just what Manga was. She leaned over a bit and looked at the pages in the book to see what he meant. They were extremely detailed and the little thought bubbles were even in english. So it wasn't like you had to know Japanese, or Chinese.. whatever Asian language they were in, to know what they were saying.
"That is neat. I'll have to look into some, to take home one day." she said.
Dante told her that no one was asking her to leave or be quiet chiming in with Kenji. She blushed softly and nodded tucking her hair back behind her ears as she looked at the both of them. They were nice to her and being very patient with her right now. She swallowed softly.
"I"m sorry, I suppose, I get down on myself from time to time. Forgive me." she said softly as she pet the dog in her lap.
"What is it. You two enjoy doing for hobbies and things?" she asked softly changing the subject and hoping to further along conversation.
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Dante Williams
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Post by Dante Williams on Jan 12, 2007 23:49:58 GMT 1
OOC: Sorry for the short post.
"Forgive you?" Dante asked softly, then sighed, "I give up..." Then Raven asked what were there hobbies, "Well, I love to act, in fact I act for a living at a theater here. I absoloutly love reading, hence the fact I'm here, I love watching and collecting anime and manga..." Then he told Raven, "Anime is like an animated version of Manga."
"I also like playing with my dog, and riding on my bike." Then he turned to Kenji, "So, what about you? You obviously love manga, and lego's... But other then that you've been a kind of a mysterious character."
"And you Raven, what do you like to do?" Dante had a habit of wanting to know everything about everyone, and also he liked to tell almost everything about him to everyone, there were no deep mysterious past he had, the worst thing that happened to him ever was his grandfather dying, and that was pretty bad, but not meant to be a secret.
Usually no one actually told him any information, he usually just got hit or the cold shoulder instead... Now to stop daydreaming and get back to reality! Dante reminded himself.
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Post by lazy on Jan 14, 2007 1:42:46 GMT 1
"I.... like to play with Lego's," Kai said, wondering if what he just said was humorous. It's pretty obvious. Maybe I'm being sarcastic.... in a mocking way? He thought for a moment and spoke again. "I also enjoy car tuning...." he said, thinking of his pride and joy in the parking lot of the library, only a minute's walk from their present location. What else do I like to do? He looked down at the object in his hand. "I like to read and draw too, I guess," he said simply, and kept silent. His eyes popped up over the book at Dante's voice.
He sure enjoys socializing....
"Mysterious?" he quesioned Dante's adjective for him. I never thought of myself as that. Maybe quiet, even wimpy, but not mysterious. You can tell a lot about me from a glance....
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Post by raven on Jan 15, 2007 2:39:35 GMT 1
Raven listened to the both of them as they began to talk about what they enjoyed doing. Dante seemed to like to act and he had that outgoing personality that would be perfect for something like that. She wondered how good he was and mentally made a point to go see one of his plays when ever she became aware of one. And Kenji told them that he liked to play with legos as if that wasn't obvious already. But it didn't matter, Kenji seemed to like to keep to himself and Raven could understand that.
"Well, for me, I run.. a lot. Im on the track team at school and I run in my free time too. I read and write a bit. But mostly I cook and bake. Those and running are my main passions." she said softly.
She smiled softly at the both of them and fiddled around with the legos on the table but not working on building anything else. Her creative juices seemed sapped at the moment with the creation of her house and her dog. But she just didn't know what else to make. It was nice that she had met some knew people in the library.
((OOC: Sorry for the short post))
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Post by Dante Williams on Jan 19, 2007 3:30:59 GMT 1
OOC: Soooo sorry for the late reply
"Well, for me, I run.. a lot. I'm on the track team at school and I run in my free time too. I read and write a bit. But mostly I cook and bake. Those and running are my main passions."
Dante raised an eyebrow, "Track? And cooking?" He thought for a while, "Kind of a strange pair of hobbies, buuut harmony always comes in different packages. No offense intended." Dante didn't really know if what he said could offend, but it was always safe to play on the safe side.
Then he rested his head on the table softly and clicked his tongue twice. Elliot hopped on his lap and started to nap again.
Then he turned his head towards Kenji, "Well. You like to draw? That's a neat hobby. I doodle once in a while for my own pleasure but let's just say that writing isn't my... best quality."
Then he noticed that Raven was working with the lego's and it looked like she didn't seem to have a goal on what to make, "Don't have any ideas?" Dante asked, "Or are you just clacking them together." Funny word, clacking. Once you say it and listen to yourself say it. It almost seems like it's not a word, kind of like the word scoot.
"A good way to get ideas is to randomly put pieces together like you're doing now until you see a creation in the lego's. Then build upon that idea." Then he looked for an interesting book in his book pile. "I wonder if this place has any Fooly Cooly..." Dante muttered.
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Post by lazy on Jan 20, 2007 1:10:45 GMT 1
Man, he's a social butterfly, alright.
Kai never looked up from his book, but he could hear the boy's voice clearly, and loudly. After all, he was the only person speaking so loudly in the library. He looked over at one of the librarians, who was clearly annoyed. She pursed her lips to shush him, but stopped mid-motion. He hadn't stopped before. He wasn't likely to stop this time. For a moment, Kai wondered if she was going to call security.
"What's Fooly Cooly?" Kai asked, as a thought ran into his head. A quote from a movie: Sounds like baby shit. He looked up at last, curiosity a bit sparked, but somehow, he doubted he'd be impressed by it.
((A no prize to the person who guesses what movie that's from.))
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Post by Dante Williams on Jan 20, 2007 1:49:48 GMT 1
OOC: No clue, Kenji
When the librarian shushed him, Dante looked back at her and nodded. Then he turned back and sighed quietly, "Time for me to tone it down..."
Then he snapped back up and whispered excitedly to Kenji, "Well, Fooly Cooly is the best manga and anime series EVER. They only made six episodes though, buuut It's about Seventh grader named Naota who one day gets run over by an Alien girl in a motorcycle and it's a completely deep, and not to mention story." Then he thought for a while and then whispered, "But it's completely hilarious!"
Then he just shrugged, "You'll really have to read it or watch it for yourself. I suggest the anime though. Gives more of an effect if you know what I mean."
Then, two men burst into the library and picked up the guy on the floor and put him on a stretcher. "About time." Dante muttered, "That guy's been there before I got here, and I got here, about...' Then he checked his watch. "An hour ago? Whoa, time flies by fast..."
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Post by lazy on Jan 25, 2007 0:40:48 GMT 1
I thought they'd already picked him up.
Kai absorbed the information Dante was feeding him. He bit his lower lip and sifted through his mental archive of manga. Sounds like.... Gin Tama.... He nodded, understanding what he meant. If you're lazy, you watch anime. If you're not, you read manga. He looked over at Emily, who'd been kinda quiet for a while. Not that he especially cared, but Kai felt like she was being excluded. Can't do much though. She's not familiar with manga, or even West-side culture. As Boswell would put it, she's a "gaijin," he thought, looking away before she felt eyes on her.
He looked at his watch. He'd been here for over three hours, reading endless volumes of violence put into pictures. He almost smiled at the thought of it. He considered leaving. The conversations had died down, and he felt boredom drift in, but something held him in place. He wanted friends, and he was afriad that if he left right here and now, he'd lose an opportunity to make a few.
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Post by Dante Williams on Jan 31, 2007 5:01:52 GMT 1
((Sorry for the short reply I was waiting for the posting order to continue...))
Uh-oh... Dante thought, The conversation's dying down, which means people which means people will leave! And I can't have that happening. I'm trying to get some friends, so I can't have them leaving...
"So... uhhh...." Dante said as he tapped his finger on the desk repeatedly, and sighed, "Whatcha' reading?"
Then he scorned himself That's kind of a stupid question! 'Whatcha' reading?'
Then he sighed.
"Soo, are you one of the Varron transfers or one of the Hircinians?" Dante asked, "Me? I'm from Varron."
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Post by lazy on Feb 4, 2007 3:10:17 GMT 1
((Sorry, but this isn't really going anywhere anymore.))
"Neither," Kai replied, implying the fact that he was a transfer, simply from a school other than Varron. Bah. Now we're simply asking questions to keep each other here. He frowned slightly, and flipped to the last page of his book, flinging it aside. I think I've had enough manga for a day, he thought, and stood up to leave. It was nice while it lasted. Maybe I'll see you two at school, he thought, putting the Legos into his backpack.
"It's been a pleasure," he said to the new acquaintances, and nodded his head slightly to the two of them. Such a shame. We only just met, the words ran through his mind as he picked up the keys to his S2000.
"I'll see you two at school....," he said, trailing off as he walked away. There would be a loud roar a few minutes after he left, and then silence.
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Post by Dante Williams on Feb 4, 2007 18:49:28 GMT 1
((Too true Kai...))
Dante watched helplessly as Kenji left. "Well," Dante said slowly as he got up, "That's my queue to go..."
Then he looked at Raven, "Sorry I couldn't stay longer, it's just that there's nothing really to do here..."
He picked up his dog slowly and waved to Raven, "I'll see you later too!" Then he left without another word.
After he left, the librarian sighed of relief....
((Sorry for the short post...))
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