I Mickey NY
Nov. 7th, 2010 03:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
onlensreflexWho: Ash, Pukamon, Maria, and Leormon; briefly NPCing Ash's buddy
When: Sunday August 15th, evening (the most epic backdate evar)
Where: Central Park and beyond, New York City
What: On a road trip up the Eastern Coast, Ash and Pukamon get shown around the Big Apple by a local and meet some Chosen for the first time in America.
New York City. Neither Ash nor Willa, one of his best friends at Disney, had ever been: Before Ash's College Program Ash and Pukamon had only been to New Zealand and Japan; before hers Willa, a Pennsylvanian, had only been to Ohio. After busing in that morning for one last trip together before Willa returned to the real world and Ash returned to work, the three of them had had a busy day being the kind of tourists they laughed at in the parks: Lost, unable to follow simple signs, and paying through the nose for cheesy souvenirs. Willa was wearing a Statue of Liberty crown (though they hadn't been able to face waiting three hours for ferry tickets to actually see the Statue up close), Ash had acquired an umbrella printed with a map of the subway, and even Pukamon had an "I ♥ NY" shirt probably intended for a small child (Ash already sported the Disney version, "I
NY"). They'd mostly stuck in Manhattan, taking the obligatory photos by the Empire State Building, the World Trade Center Site, Rockefeller Center, and Times Square. Here, far away from Disney property, Ash was much less concerned about being seen with Pukamon; indeed, no one really seemed to care.
They had settled for the evening in Central Park. Pukamon was munching on a pretzel as Willa got increasingly excited about the performance of Much Ado About Nothing she was going to watch. As much as Ash would have preferred to stay with her (she was a hot girl in a strange city; he had to worry about leaving her on her own), Pukamon regularly fell asleep in Shakespeare plays, and Ash had similar difficulties staying awake if he didn't know a performer.
"So, how long did you say it was going to be?" Ash checked.
"Intense Googling gave me two hours," said Willa, "but that was in a different park and this is their first weekend doing Much Ado in Central, so might as well bump the estimate to three."
"And if it's not?"
Willa held up her cellphone. "You've been on speed dial for months. I'm a big girl, Ward."
"You're mouse height," Pukamon pointed out. "You fit kids' costumes."
"The second you're done clapping," Ash clarified, before he could agree with Pukamon.
"The second," Willa agreed, bemused. "Listen, Ward, it starts in fifteen so I'm gonna go get a seat. You'll call if your Internet Chosen turns out to be a creeper, right?"
Willa had turned out to be surprisingly understanding about Ash's wanting to meet some Chosen Child he had only talked to online, even though said online kid was a lot younger than them. If anything she had the usual concerns about Internet safety.
"Definitely."
"Go have fun," Pukamon urged.
Willa beamed at the two of them and ran off with a wave.
"And now we wait," Pukamon said.
"And now we wait," Ash agreed, pulling his phone out of his pocket to txt Maria landmarks of where they were. Once that was done with, he turned his head slightly to glare at Pukamon, who was hanging out on his shoulder. "You're getting crumbs on my bag!"
"What, it's a good pretzel," said Pukamon, spraying more crumbs everywhere.
When: Sunday August 15th, evening (the most epic backdate evar)
Where: Central Park and beyond, New York City
What: On a road trip up the Eastern Coast, Ash and Pukamon get shown around the Big Apple by a local and meet some Chosen for the first time in America.
New York City. Neither Ash nor Willa, one of his best friends at Disney, had ever been: Before Ash's College Program Ash and Pukamon had only been to New Zealand and Japan; before hers Willa, a Pennsylvanian, had only been to Ohio. After busing in that morning for one last trip together before Willa returned to the real world and Ash returned to work, the three of them had had a busy day being the kind of tourists they laughed at in the parks: Lost, unable to follow simple signs, and paying through the nose for cheesy souvenirs. Willa was wearing a Statue of Liberty crown (though they hadn't been able to face waiting three hours for ferry tickets to actually see the Statue up close), Ash had acquired an umbrella printed with a map of the subway, and even Pukamon had an "I ♥ NY" shirt probably intended for a small child (Ash already sported the Disney version, "I
NY"). They'd mostly stuck in Manhattan, taking the obligatory photos by the Empire State Building, the World Trade Center Site, Rockefeller Center, and Times Square. Here, far away from Disney property, Ash was much less concerned about being seen with Pukamon; indeed, no one really seemed to care.They had settled for the evening in Central Park. Pukamon was munching on a pretzel as Willa got increasingly excited about the performance of Much Ado About Nothing she was going to watch. As much as Ash would have preferred to stay with her (she was a hot girl in a strange city; he had to worry about leaving her on her own), Pukamon regularly fell asleep in Shakespeare plays, and Ash had similar difficulties staying awake if he didn't know a performer.
"So, how long did you say it was going to be?" Ash checked.
"Intense Googling gave me two hours," said Willa, "but that was in a different park and this is their first weekend doing Much Ado in Central, so might as well bump the estimate to three."
"And if it's not?"
Willa held up her cellphone. "You've been on speed dial for months. I'm a big girl, Ward."
"You're mouse height," Pukamon pointed out. "You fit kids' costumes."
"The second you're done clapping," Ash clarified, before he could agree with Pukamon.
"The second," Willa agreed, bemused. "Listen, Ward, it starts in fifteen so I'm gonna go get a seat. You'll call if your Internet Chosen turns out to be a creeper, right?"
Willa had turned out to be surprisingly understanding about Ash's wanting to meet some Chosen Child he had only talked to online, even though said online kid was a lot younger than them. If anything she had the usual concerns about Internet safety.
"Definitely."
"Go have fun," Pukamon urged.
Willa beamed at the two of them and ran off with a wave.
"And now we wait," Pukamon said.
"And now we wait," Ash agreed, pulling his phone out of his pocket to txt Maria landmarks of where they were. Once that was done with, he turned his head slightly to glare at Pukamon, who was hanging out on his shoulder. "You're getting crumbs on my bag!"
"What, it's a good pretzel," said Pukamon, spraying more crumbs everywhere.
