Passerby wannabe [Afternoon; Frog x Zane]

Posts : 2877 Join date : 2014-12-26 Age : 27

Frog never enjoyed the bustling of the Vista Square, yet he had to force himself to endure it each time on his way to and fro school. Countless sheeple swarming like sardines in a can just squeezing within a world much too cramped for their own good, and for what exactly? Going to work? Going back home so they could laze about being useless as fuck all day?

To be honest he was kinda the same. BUT also totally different because he understood what situation he always put himself into.

Pushing his way to the side of the wall and escaping the moving mass of fleshy people, he breathed a sigh of relief as he leaned against it, drooping down lazily for a momentary respite.

Subject: Re: Passerby wannabe [Afternoon; Frog x Zane] Tue Oct 24, 2017 3:19 pm

Man, this place was such a bust. Originally, Zane had been out to shop for some supplies he was currently low on, which unfortunately took him much longer than was planned. Thanks to a rather ditzy cashier who had taken it upon herself to try and help him pick out the best products...even though she clearly wasn't an expert in the field and had no idea what she was doing. Honestly, Zane preferred to not go hating on people, but sometimes this trend of older adults trying to give 'helpful' advice to those that were younger could become quite the annoyance. He knew what he needed to buy, and just because he was still on the younger side, it didn't have to mean he was incompetent, did not now? Tsk.

Well regardless, having wasted extra time already, he had decided to make this a whole afternoon trip at that point and go check out some potentially useful news around the Vista Square. He could use grabbing some magazines as well. The brown and blonde haired young man sighed to himself in mild exasperation as he adjusted the strap of the bag he was carrying on slung over one of his shoulders. Coming here later also meant a bigger crowd. He totally forgot about that. Yikes. Still, he trudged his way through the masses...before he was accidentally knocked into by one of the people in all the chaos, stumbling over right into the wall the other teen was currently resting against. He would rub one hand through his wild hair with an incredulous glance towards the still moving crowd. "A sorry would have been nice man..."

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Frog wasn't looking for anyone to come join him in his relaxing moment, of course, but fate would want it otherwise, as he observed the writhing mass spitting out a male body against the wall right next to him. The male specimen of the mass spoke in frustration at the writhe that gave birth to his form, and Frog raised an eyebrow, glancing at the man. Er, young man.

He really couldn't tell, but judging by Liam this guy was also probably as young as them even if he looked slightly older and edgier.

"Whoever pushed you can't hear you. They're too busy being lameeeee." Frog said as he grinned. He didn't feel like going anywhere yet anyways, and communication skills urged him to actually contact strangers as actual people, so yeah. No harm done, even if he wasn't quite fully pleased with what he was doing.

Subject: Re: Passerby wannabe [Afternoon; Frog x Zane] Wed Oct 25, 2017 11:35 am

Oh right, there was someone else here too. Zane hadn't noticed for a few seconds, having been too busy mentally complaining about the woes of an unlucky day, but his surprise companion's voice snapped him out if it pretty quickly. He would look over at the teen next to him a rueful smirk as he leaned against the wall himself, sticking his hands into the pockets of his jacket. Might as well take a break now that he was already here. He was kind of wasting extra time today anyway, so his plans couldn't get disturbed any more than they have already been. "Yeh, I bet you're right. But I still reserve my right to complain. Maybe karma will reach whoever the asshole was.", he would remark with a weak shrug of his shoulders. If you can vent, might as well. It makes things sound more real at least. "You here hatin' on annoying people too?"

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Frog's smirk grew wider, out of pleasure even. The way this guy was talking was straight up his alley, and the stuff he was saying was the truth he wanted to preach but never could because people around him were dumb as fuck.

Maybe this guy would make a good terrorist? Look at him, already making plans for the future. Frog found himself playing around with a finger on his chin.

"Oh, karma is gonna get 'im. With time, at least." He said nonschalantly, hands behind his back, softening his press against the wall. "I'm here trying to rest from hatin' on them, heheh. Vista Square is such a horrible cooking pot of humanity. The whole center of the city is. Sometimes it gets too much and ya need to just take a breather, no~?"

Subject: Re: Passerby wannabe [Afternoon; Frog x Zane] Wed Oct 25, 2017 11:53 am

Was it horrible? Well, there were worse things than people in the world, but he could certainly agree that dealing with endless crowds could easily become a pain in the ass. Especially when it involved those that no regard for proper manners. You gotta live with what you can get though. "It's quite the pickle, I say. I was tryin' to come here earlier to avoid the typical afternoon mass, but got held up by an overly enthusiastic cashier at a store. Though she was more of a time killer than anything else.", Zane would sigh to himself as he moved his arms up to fold them behind his head. "Guess we don't get a break for as long as we live, eh?"

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Frog shook his head respondedly. "Cashier romance~?" The young man said, mostly in a joke more than anything else. He didn't really have an opinion but that idea was the first one that popped to mind so he rolled with it naturally and spontaneously.

He shrugged at the other thing he said. That was also the thing that made him shake his head earlier. Frog glanced to the side away from the guy. "Nah, we don't, but that's a good thing, unlike everything else we said." He said calmly. "Dealing with people like that is what makes you open up to the possibility of something more. The bitterness and the adaptation, like the cliffs against the shore, shaved by the wind and the sea. At least how I see it."

Subject: Re: Passerby wannabe [Afternoon; Frog x Zane] Wed Oct 25, 2017 12:09 pm

"Hah, I wish. At least that would've been funny. She was just tryin' to be smarter than she really was." On second thought though, he would probably not have appreciated being flirted with while simply trying to shop either. There's way better places to go and get a date at than having to resort to charming people while at work. Especially at one like that. Chocolate brown eyes would observe the mass of people passing by half-boredly as he gave a faint whistle at the 'deep' statement from the guy. "You're gettin' pretty poetic there man. Is that an adaptation of 'experience helps you get better'?" Sounded kinda like it. And in a way, it was probably true, though some days it would be nice to do away with the negative factors of life and just throw back for a while.

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Frog was joking about the flirting part but the guy seemed to disregard it immediately. Trying to be smarter, heh...what a point of view. Did he then think Frog was trying to be smarter than he was too by saying what he'd said? The young man snorted slightly when Zane whistled at his words.

Frog'd gotten way too comfortable around this guy, apparently. Well nothing to do about it now, except pull back somewhat. "Or just 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger'. It's edgier and more fun if you think of it that way, hehe." He grinned again. "Someone's gotta be poetic too. Art is born of free thought. If you don't like what I said, so be it. Just my opinion." He'd taken that 'poetic' remark as an insult of sorts, obviously, even if it may not have been. This stranger probably didn't give much of a fuck about his existence anyways, so yeah. His words probably carried no weight at all. Frog was always way too personal and squishy.

Subject: Re: Passerby wannabe [Afternoon; Frog x Zane] Wed Oct 25, 2017 1:19 pm

Well, every person was different. The cashier girl gave him proof to believe she was just trying to show off. This guy here...he couldn't know, really. A lot of people did deserve getting knocked down a peg, but getting riled up about everyone wasn't a very productive way to spend time either.

"That saying's got some sharp edges for sure. You like livin' on the edge?", he would comment, glancing towards the guy out of the corner of his vision, kind of curious. This one seemed to show himself as a bit of a rebel type, if nothing else, which was an interesting change of scenery. Zane would shift to fix up the bag strap that was starting to slip off his shoulder a bit. "Nah, I just found it amusing. Art sure does take some creative thinkin' to pull off." After all, his own job was a form of art in its of way. Just not through words. He would probably not be the best literature writer, honestly.

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Talking edgy about edge in a sarcastic way was great and really damn fun. If nothing else, this guy was good at least in this one niche way. A normal defensive reaction at being referred to as 'edgy' is to just outrigh diaregard it, first mentally and then outwardly. Frog snorted again, as such, and gave a slight frown, especially considering the Pee Tee stigmata. "Livin' on the edge, kindaaaa........I was never one for thrill rides or anything. But in this world living on the edge means just thinking outside the box. It's sad. I can claim to live like that, but the brutal honesty is that we all just conform." Some more poeticism. Frog was just wanting to get bullied or something, at that point.

Subject: Re: Passerby wannabe [Afternoon; Frog x Zane] Wed Oct 25, 2017 1:41 pm

"Crikes. Well, I suppose that's true, as much of a pain as it is. We'd be in hella trouble if we didn't live as we are supposed to. Sucks though. I think a bit of thrill would help kill some of the boredom of this stale city." Zane would huff lightly. Too bad you can't, or you get labeled all the wrong things for going against the built up system. Man, society is a strange thing, isn't it?

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The conversation was spiralling downwards. Not in an entirely negative matter, mind you, but very much downwards into a lulling form of broody and edgy philosophies. Frog, realizing he was still basically talking with a stranger, suddenly felt insecure about continuing on with the conversation and let out an exhasperated sigh. He still felt like this guy had some potential in him, despite the...hair and everything else about him.

But that wasn't for him to decide.

Slowly, he grabbed hold of his bag and pushed himself onto his feet. "I should get going, really. It was fun talking with ya, strange stranger person guy." Frog grinned, looking at Zane, and waiting for a moment to see what the other was going to do.

Subject: Re: Passerby wannabe [Afternoon; Frog x Zane] Thu Oct 26, 2017 10:33 pm

Was it broody? Eh, maybe in a way, but it was also the truth. Not that the tone of the conversation really bothered him though. Zane was just kind of going long with the situation, and the other guy had been fueling this particular subject as well, in a sense. What do you chit-chat about with random people you meet anyway? Might as well be some existentialism, apparently.

He would offer the guy a faint smirk and a peace sign. "Have fun with the human traffic then, man. And I suppose strange is better than some other things. Name's Zane though." He didn't mind the adjective all too much, but adding stranger person to it sounded like a bit too much of a mouthful, didn't it?

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Frog waved the guy goodbye. As he told him his name, Frog just smirked.

"I'm Frog. Let's leave it at that." He muttered before disappearing into the crowd.

[Frog - Exit]

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