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Who: Guren Ichinose & YOU!!
Where: All around town
When: Anywhere from 8/15-8/31
What: Guren around town! Some open prompts and also this will be a catch all.
Warnings: None really? Prompt D may have more gore mentions depending on how it goes, tho.

A. Siren follow up

[On the day that everyone returns from the island, Guren gets to the docks looking like an even hotter mess than when he'd left. His injuries may be gone, but anyone might catch that he definitely faceplanted on the docks and stayed there for a minute before being convinced away to take a nap somewhere.

Immediately after that, he comes back to make sure everyone's had something to eat and been bandaged, if not healed. He looks a little less filthy, thanks to Dextera's purification, and his wounds are all completely healed! His uniform sure is torn up, though. It seems like he's nonstop even now, going between people, bringing plates of food or just sitting next to anyone who looks deep in thought.

If you don't catch him then, he stays at Dextera's house the night of, and the following day, he's back to wandering around the town or working on his laptop in his own house. Feel free to catch him if you want a follow up thread from the event!]

B. Training montage

[As always, Guren doesn't let up on his training. He can be found close to the forest for things like this, usually as early as 5 in the morning. Stretches, jogging, exercises, things like that. It seems like he's taken to altering some of the peasant clothes to be workout worthy. Sleeveless, loose pants, and so on. When he's not doing that, he has a number of fuda (paper spell tags) that he's shuffling through, taking some sort of inventory of what he has on him. His sword is currently leaning against the base of one of the trees, and though no one else can see her, Mahiru is watching on with a curious gaze.

Don't stare for too long, though, or you'll get roped in. Hiding or not, Guren can sense someone looking his way, and he sighs, stopping whatever he's doing to stare over in that general direction.]

[He'll put you to work!!]

C. Cooking...?

[What's a little more rare is seeing Guren walking around with a bag of what seems to be... vegetables and various foods hanging over his arm. He's stopped at one of the gardens, crouching over one of the food plants and holding it in his hand, brow furrowed like he's trying to figure something out.]

[Eventually, he bites back some of his pride and turns to whoever he sees next.]

D. Anime rooftop prompt

[It's funny, but sometimes Guren seems to appear out of nowhere in the middle of the town, looking worse for the wear. He's definitely wiping blood from his mouth as he leaves from his hidden apothecary this time, but more than that, he's carrying himself a little differently. Shoulders heavier, eyes tired and dark. Testing drugs on yourself isn't a fun time, it turns out, even if your demon heals you.

After that, he heads back towards his house, but it's one of the buildings with a flatter rooftop that he ends up on, instead. He's watching the sunset, leaning back against the wall near the doorway to the roof, looking lost in thought. But he won't chew out anyone if they want to join him.]

(OOC: As always, if you want to plot anything, I'm

zeloser and zlos#3826 on discord! Feel free to make up your own prompt if you want something different, or work something out with me if you want.)

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ Hmmm.... ]

Any other sort of soup should be fine. And some vegetables are good if you just grill them with seasoning. [ He takes a step closer, leaning in to inspect the exact vegetable. ] You can do a lot more if you have any spices.

Soup is a little underwhelming.

[It's... a cucumber! It looks perfectly ready to take, if he wants to, but he's waffling on that.]

I've made plenty of it, but I'm wondering if it's possible to make anything a little nicer with the ingredients we have in color.

[ Fair enough on the matter of soup. Gaku thinks for a moment longer. ]

You could simmer apples together with chicken or pork. Or roast them with peppers and squash.

[ He pauses. ]

I think you can make a stew out of fish and papayas...

[ Sorry, Guren. He mostly knows soups. ]

[HE DOESN'T WANT SOUPS, GAKU!!! But he's busy thinking of those first suggestions, so mercifully, he doesn't snap about it.]

Apples with chicken or pork, huh... that might work.

[But he realizes he's kind of thinking aloud and glances back to Gaku, abandoning this cucumber.]

Thanks. Everyone else in my house usually bothers with this for me.

[ You'll make your soup and you'll like it, Guren.

Regardless, he's not exactly surprised that Guren usually lets other people handle this. It seems pretty common in this place. Still... ]

Are you trying to surprise them or something?

...No. Anything I make wouldn't be good enough for them.

[That's his line of thinking, anyway, though now he wonders if he should be attempting regardless.]

I know a pair of brothers who aren't used to eating real food like this at all. I want it to be something nice. Solid, filling... but with our limited ingredients.

[ Aha, that makes a little more sense. Gaku gives it some more thought before he speaks again. ]

There's not really a way or marinate anything here, but if you rub the chicken with spices, wrap it up, and let it sit for a while it'll make it more flavorful. And if you have the time to make stock from the rest of the chicken, you can mix it with butter and flour to make a sauce out of it.

That's not a bad idea.

[It can't be that hard, right... He can figure a suggestion or two out like this!!]

Thanks. We haven't met before, have we? [He knows they haven't but shh] I'm Guren Ichinose.

Gaku Yaotome. We haven't met.

[ However... ]

I've heard of you, though. You're the one that runs the defense force, right?

I guess that gets around. [He rubs his head as he considers that. Well, it's good... He wants new members all the time.]

Yeah, that's me. [Runs a defense force, can't think of basic recipes.] Hopefully you've heard good things.

[ Gaku can't judge the differences in specialization. He knows a guy that lives in Tokyo and doesn't know how to use a train pass. ]

Nothing bad. [ People haven't exactly been singing their praises, but... ] We've be a lot worse off without it.

I guess that's one way to look at it.

[He still feels like he has to be doing a lot better, trying a lot harder, growing a lot stronger. But. That's just his life.]

Well, I'll have to try one or two of your ideas, and now you know what I look like in case you have any trouble.

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