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Post by Tessan Toov on May 26, 2012 21:39:45 GMT -5
Month 8, Week 4, Day 7, at an automobile race, open
Tessan is going to see a race! Better yet, Hotaru Watanabe is signing autographs before the race, and Tessan is in line to get an autograph. Hotaru sure is awesome at driving. Almost as awesome as Override, Tessan thinks. She admires the poster that she is going to have signed and looks ahead in the line - it's almost her turn!
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Post by Override on May 27, 2012 18:23:01 GMT -5
Actually, it is her turn. She's been admiring that poster a bit too long, it seems.
"Hey, sport," Hotaru says with a grin, trying to catch Tessan's attention. "I'm guessin' that poster is pretty interesting," she winks, "but if you bring it over here, I'm betting I can improve it." She holds her pen up.
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Post by Tessan Toov on May 27, 2012 18:36:46 GMT -5
"Oh, slag! Sorry 'bout that," Tessan says hurriedly, and she scoots herself over to the table. She adds after a moment, "Ma'am."
Tessan is not really clear if that is the appropriate honorific or not, but she doesn't think it can hurt. She sets her poster down, looking quite happy.
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Post by Override on May 28, 2012 18:39:51 GMT -5
Hotaru barks a laugh. "'Ma'am'? Just 'Hotaru's' fine." Or 'Hot.' 'Hot' probably works.
She accepts the poster and looks up at Tessan. "So who'm I making this out to? Any special message?"
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Post by Tessan Toov on Jun 3, 2012 20:16:48 GMT -5
"Uhm, make it out to Twin Twist, that's 'Twin' with a 'ksi' glyph, not an 'isk' glyph," Tessan babbles, which would make sense to someone who speaks Cybertronian and English. Otherwise, it is a bit nonsensical.
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Post by Override on Jun 5, 2012 21:30:56 GMT -5
Ah, but then, Hotaru does speak both (a highly specific dialect of) Cybertronian and English - she just doesn't know it right now! She nods, and complies, jotting down the glyphs... and only then she realizes that she doesn't know what Tessan means.
She blinks in confusion, staring at the strange symbols she just marked on the poster. "What... what did I just write?" she asks.
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Post by Tessan Toov on Jun 5, 2012 21:45:58 GMT -5
"Oh, you have nice handwriting!" Tessan exclaims, though pretty much everyone has good handwriting compared to Twin Twist, the robot equivalent of a kindergarten dropout. Then she blinks and explains, "Uh, you wrote Twin Twist. See, that's 'ksi'..." and she puts her finger on the poster and starts going through each glyph aloud. None of the sounds are remotely anything like 'Twin Twist' is in English.
Nothing about the language, as Tessan is clumsily explaining it, is anything like English or Japanese, in fact.
One might call it 'alien'.
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Post by Override on Jun 6, 2012 20:02:16 GMT -5
Hotaru shakes her head. "No I didn't! I've never even seen those symbols before! That's not Japanese! Or English!" Hotaru frowns at it, puzzled, then she just shakes her head and shrugs. "So, uhm... I got it right, then?" Because as weird as this is, she can't spend all day puzzling over this. There's a line! "I... just need to add my name now, right?"
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Post by Tessan Toov on Jun 7, 2012 15:14:55 GMT -5
"It's Cybertronian," Tessan helpfully supplies, "though some of the accents are kind of funny. Some dialect, maybe?" She shrugs and then agrees brightly, "Yeah, it's perfect!"
A smart person would question this whole encounter.
Tessan does not.
She's just going to happily take her poster and then go buy a corn dog.
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Post by Override on Jun 7, 2012 21:06:47 GMT -5
As Tessan walks off, Hotaru stares after her for a moment. Then she slumps back in her chair and stares blankly at the table-top for a moment. "... Cybertronian?" she asks quietly.
And then the next person in line walks up and looks at her with concern. "Uhm... excuse me?" Hotaru shakes her head, snapping out of it, and immediately perks up.
"Hey there!" she says with a champion's grin. "So, who'm I making this out to?"
OOC: End scene.
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