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[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

WHO: Kotetsu, and other folks interested in seeing a darned inspiring Justice League Building.
WHAT: Getting this thing up and running!
WHEN: Various times.
NOTES: srsly you should probably help this guy.

He'd offered Anemoi to others, of course, but it didn't stop the slow memory trickle that apparently happened naturally around here. Having him remember a particularly notable incident from when he and Tomoe met -- not to mention a certain big lug named Antonio -- isn't really helping that overall melancholy that comes with having your chief end goal ripped away from you permanently by reality.

Thankfully, there's a distraction. A great, big, hurking distraction.

Kotetsu's throwing himself into the fixing up of the new Justice League building with gusto -- a quick patchup there, dusting here. He's working with such a passion that it would be easy to mistake it for whole-hearted enthusiasm for the project rather than a way to distract himself from slipping off to a bar to get so smashed he forgets things again.

So you might be helping him with:

1. Painting! Wallpaper! All the stuff that makes a building look, you know, not condemned or something. He probably missed a spot or two though.

2. Furniture! Geez, people throw out a lot of perfectly good furniture at the dump. What's up with that? Just a little fixing here and there and it'd be good as new.

3. Lunch! ...hey, a guy needs a lunch break sometimes. Man, he really likes his mayo.

4. Finding out how freaking expensive security fences are! Well, crap.

How does a guy his age have this much energy, anyway?

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[stinglikeabat.livejournal.com]

Joachim's used to heroing on a budget, and is not at all fazed by this new roadblock.

"Well... we can make our own, can't we? Or take our own! There's plenty of unused buildings out there, after all."

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[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

"Hey, that's a good point! All those weird unpopulated areas, right? There's gotta be a few we can use there!" This is a brilliant idea that can't possibly go wrong. "Got any places in mind we can start at?"

[stinglikeabat.livejournal.com]

"Now that you mention it, I did see an old factory when I was out a while back. Care to take a look?"

Surely this will be an entirely uneventful affair.

[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

"Let's do this!"

Tigerbat van, awaaaaay! Okay, it's really just a regular van they got to take care of things like this, and it's seen better days, but that's just boring.

They reach the factory soon enough. "This the place?" Kotetsu asks.

[stinglikeabat.livejournal.com]

Joachim makes a note to himself to at least paint some sort of logo on it. But that can wait after the manly quest of fence acquisition.

"That's the one! I'm pretty sure they used to make soda pop. Or robots, one of the two."

He hops out and begins sizing up the chain link bounty. It's in pretty good condition aside from a gouged-out bit here and there and there's a lot of it. Not much rust, either.

[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

"That seems like something you'd kind of want to keep straight. I mean, it'd kind of stink if you tried to open a nice, cold soda and it turns out you were opening up some poor little robot, wouldn't it?" Kotetsu comments idly, getting out and looking over the fence himself. Shouldn't be TOO hard to remove, though he's got his Hundred Power if he HAS to.

[canthandleacape]

Booster, of course, has been at HQ the entire time. He's been kind of all over the place himself, sometimes helping Kotetsu with whatever task he happens to be tackling at the moment, sometimes holing up for a while in his little office (still on the second floor despite all better judgment), and sometimes running off to the nearest coffee shop for a fresh latte.

It's right after one of these latte runs that Booster suddenly stops thoughtfully and asks straight out of the blue, "Do you think we should put logos on the chairs?"

[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

"Huh? Why would we wanna put logos on the chairs?" Kotetsu asks, stopping in the middle of programming an answering machine. Boy, he's pretty sure even Hero TV didn't need to go that far.

[canthandleacape]

"It's part of the League's classical image." Of course, the version of the Justice League that Booster was actually on didn't uphold that tradition, but this is apparently not a fact worth mentioning. "Makes everybody seem individually important, good for morale. We could put a star on mine, Danny's weird D thing on his, and--hey, what kind of logo do you use?"

[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

He stares at him. "Uh, logos weren't... really a thing where I come from," he replies, slightly shiftily. In all truth, PERSONAL logos weren't really a thing. Now CORPORATE logos, that was another thing altogether.

[canthandleacape]

"Oh, really? So much for the chair idea, I guess." He looks vaguely disappointed as he takes a sip from his latte before suddenly adding, "Unless you want to come up with a logo. I mean, you've already got the tiger theme, right, how hard could it be?"

Says the guy whose logo is just a star.

[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

...Right. Kotetsu, as much as he loved being a hero, was generally used to keeping the hero part and the "salaried worker" parts separate, and the idea of wearing his identity on his chair just like that seems a little... weird, somehow? "I'll... think about it, huh?" he replies as diplomatically as he can.

Logos. Seriously. Shouldn't just them by themselves be distinctive enough?

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[bishonenbunny.livejournal.com]

Hey, he's only tagging along because he's worried about what would happen if Kotetsu is left on his own for more than a minute. Right now he's taking a break from pushing around chairs and looking up the catalog to eat his (non-bug-infested, thankfully) sandwich.

"Squirting that much mayonnaise on your food will do you more harm than good, old man," he remarks, glancing at his partner's own food.

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[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

"Oi, it's bad enough you gotta follow me around like this, you're gonna give me the third degree on my lunch too? I just like it like this, that's all," he grumbles, taking a huge bite out of spite. "Besides, I bet you've got a bad habit here or there."

[bishonenbunny.livejournal.com]

"I don't show them as much as you do, though," he replies, then bites into his sandwich, and swallows it before he adds, "And contrary to your belief, I don't follow you around either."

Which is a lie.

[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

"Hey, I'm just honest about who I am, that's all!" Also lies. "What can I say? I'm a pretty loose sorta guy."

[bishonenbunny.livejournal.com]

"At least don't drown your food in mayonnaise," he replies, though it's more a light-hearted jab. "Can you even taste it anymore?"

...well, someone's trolling today.

[a-civil-service.livejournal.com]

"Good afternoon, Kotetsu." Yuri has a way of approaching without making much noise--not that it's difficult to approach quietly compared to all the noise Kotetsu is making.

"I've brought you some sandwiches. I thought you might be hungry."

He eyes the furniture Kotetsu is working on. "Those are some--interesting pieces."

[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

Whoa! Oh, hey, it's Yuri. "Hey Yuri! Yeah, some of this stuff is sorta weird, but we don't really have the money for fancy stuff yet, so gotta take the DIY approach." He wipes his brow. "Gotta admit I'm not too good at this sorta thing though, you know?"

The improvements are definitely a little rough, but he's probably selling himself a little shorter than he needs to. "Oh, lunch! Great!"

[a-civil-service.livejournal.com]

He nods. "I'd be willing to donate money to allow for the purchases of at least some items. Furniture repair is not a task I have much experience with, myself. But yes, these are--adequate. I admire your fortitude."

He holds out the bag containing the sandwiches. He's already eaten, himself.

[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

Fortitude is nothing, really, compared to the power of being able to distract oneself. But at least it's a productive distraction. "Hey, that'd be great, thanks! Gee, you're really helping out a lot, Yuri! We appreciate the hell out of it!"

He takes the sandwiches. Probably no extra mayo, but don't look a gift horse in the mouth. "Anyway, it's not much. I'm sure once we start making a name for ourselves, we'll be able to get some higher quality stuff. The money might be useful for not crappy chairs, though."

[a-civil-service.livejournal.com]

"It's not a problem, Kotetsu. I do what I can to aid the cause of justice." He smiles thinly. Kotetsu's enthusiasm can be catching at times, though he's not one for being effusive himself.

He nods. "I'd be willing to donate for that purpose. My job does pay, yet I have few needs, considering that I also receive a stipend. Not that the current furniture is as bad as you say." He feels he should give the man some credit for his hard work. "It looks quite serviceable."

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[totallynotaspaz.livejournal.com]

When Danny enters, he looks around, glancing at every nook and cranny the eyes could see.

"It looks good!" he says as he walks further in. "Although it's...kind of lacking in the, uh, stuff department."

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[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

"That's what I'm working on right now! Hand me the wood stain, would ya?" asks Kotetsu as he works on a somewhat beat looking but still useable desk.

fieja SORRY FOR THE LATE

[totallynotaspaz.livejournal.com]

Danny looks around for a few moments before he spots the wood stain and brings it over.

"You know, I could...probably help out with building some more stuff. Being able to fly and also being stronger than usual is pretty good for this sort of stuff."