A Picture's Worth

Who: Anyone in Japan!
What: Shopping
Where: Some random shopping mall in Tokyo - unspecified ward so you don't have to try and justify your character being there :)

If there was anything Ash found harder than saying no to his girls, it was shopping for them. Or shopping for anyone but himself, really. It didn't help that his brain insisted on converting every pricetag into Australian dollars, wondering if things would be cheaper at home.

As a distration from his own instinctive arithmetic, Ash flopped onto a bench and looked at his shopping list. The Japanese half of the list would hopefully be easy enough, as he was fobbing them off on Kenzie and Katia, but on the Australian side, he'd so far only managed to get Pukamon out of the way, buying his partner the rather tongue-in-cheek gift of a Tamagotchi. That left his parents, his sisters, Katia, Tegan, and possibly Wallace. He had a rough idea of what to get most of them, now he just had to find them.

Ash checked the list again. Kenzie had requested a yukata, but apparently you shouldn't buy them just going off measurements, and he didn't know any girls in Japan her size. He was enlisting Meg-neechan's help to buy Katia some silk, and his host parents' help to get his parents' presents. So unless another visit to the toy store gave him some genius ideas on what to get Nic and Dani, that really only left Tegan's present. She'd asked for Death Note yaoi doujinshi, and he'd naïvely agreed before finding out what exactly yaoi was. Now, on the way to K-Books, he was beginning to have third thoughts (the second thoughts having hit him when Tsubasa-kun had blushed and told him what yaoi entailed).

He stopped in front of the bookstore, tossing up whether to go inside or to just tell Tegan that you could only get doujinshi at conventions and he'd managed to not go to any. After getting bumped into and probably sworn at by three people, he moved off the main walkway, but continued to simply stare at the bookstore...

(OOC: Come shopping! Even in the likely event that Ash has never met you!)

Livejournal is sending me alerts that it's Jou(-sempai?)'s birthday. So: Happy birthday, Jou! ...sempai! -san! Yup, I'm confused. Sorry!

Nothing much has been happening with me, though I still haven't found kaasan a birthday present. But I did one of those stupid Internet...memes? to practice my Japanese.

Choose a fictional character that you believe is similar to you in looks and/or personality and answer the following questions. Then tag 5 people to do the same. I'm sure you have better things to do with your lives.

1. How is this character like you?
We both didn't trust our partners until they saved our lives. And, uh, it has yellow fur and I'm, well, blonde-ish. At the moment. Somebody tell me when my roots are showing because I don't pay much attention. Oh yeah, and I'd hate to be shoved into a tiny ball too.

2. What differences are there between you and this character?
...I can't electrocute people without technological aid.

3. Do you like or dislike this character?
It always annoyed me that it beat everything.

4. Would you date this character if they existed in real life?
I'm sure there's laws against that sort of thing.

5. Are there any canon relationships this character has that are similar to ones you have?
We both spend half our time trying to keep something smaller than us out of trouble?

...yes, I watched Pokemon as a child. :/ I was always Ash, never mind that I look and act nothing like him, but I had the name and that was all that mattered when we were eight. My sister Kenzie was always Misty because she's got red hair. Oh, but you call them something different in Japan, don't you? Satoshi and Kasumi or something? (Wow, Tegan's ramblings came in useful for once.)

Wallace, you've been in Japan longer than me and I'm a little tired of Shinjuku, want to show me around your ward? I know I want to check out the rugby stadium, but I'm sure you know more tourist attractions than me.

(OOC: Ash isn't linking that himself, Wallace-mun, I'm just trying to help out ;D)

Jun, how's the job hunt going?

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