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[forherprince]

[Grocery Shopping]

[Lan Fan is not a good cook by any stretch of the imagination. When most young women would have been learning such skills she was going through grueling training to take her place as a retainer for the Yao royal guard. BUT she does cook well enough to NOT DIE when it’s necessary. It isn’t exactly necessary at this moment, but she is in the mood for some traditional Xingese food and considering she was fairly certain she was the only Xingese person in all five cities there was only one way she was going to get it Xingese food.]

[SO there is a one-armed Asian-looking girl pushing a cart through the grocery store eyeing the produce with suspicion while trying to decide what may or may not actually be in the dishes she wants to make. Is this a disaster in the making? Yes. Yes it is.]

Excuse me, are there bamboo shoots here somewhere?


[Clothes shopping]

[Something else that was long overdo was clothing. She’d been mooching off of Winry for too long, and although Master Ling had no problem doing so indefinitely she couldn’t bring herself to continue considering the extent of everything Winry was doing for her. So for one thing, she needed to get her own damn clothes because she could neither keep wearing the same thing every day nor keep stealing Winry’s.]

[Of course there was also the part where she’d never really shopped for clothes before. That was one ‘perk’… if you wanted to call it that… of her position. All of her clothing had been provided for her since she was a child.]

[And so here she is, standing in the middle of a clothing store and looking just about as clueless as a person can possibly look.]


[Training]

[It’s been far too long since she’s trained in any way, trying to respect Dr. Knox’s orders for recovery and then Winry’s decrees for surgery preparations. BUT DAMN IT, IT’S BEEN NEARLY TWO MONTHS SINCE HER AMPUTATION AND SHE CAN TELLS HE’S GETTING SOFT—and not only that, there was just the fact that she needed to get used to the intricacies of fighting without her arm anyway.]

[So is Lan Fan out in the park in middle of winter doing katas with one arm?]

[Yes. Yes she is.]




[ooc; Kind of dropped the ball with Lan Fan between holidays and personal stuff and meant to do this in DECEMBER oops. Can't backdate that far, but maybe for earlier in January. Being very general as far as WHERE any of this is taking place, but it’s most likely Genessia or Nova or wherever.]

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Grocery Shopping

[youfool]

[Speaking of disasters, who else should be there but a clown? He eyes a sale and does some napkin-mental-math before smiling at the inquiry. His eyes catch a glint of a necklace, and light up a little more for the joy of talking to one real.]

Yes, I believe so in the asian cuisine aisle. I can show you, if you'd like. Say, did you hear about the violent panda bear at the restaurant the other day?

[forherprince]

[Asian. She'd heard that word a couple of times, as well as both "China" and "Japan." Apparently there were a lot of similarities, at least in her appearance to the people of those lands.] I would appreciate it. [At the mention of the panda though... she narrowed her eyes.] It wasn't especially tiny, was it? [She made a motion with her hand, indicating something roughly the size of her hand. If that miniature panda was here then that Chang princess likely was as well.]

[youfool]

[Genessia, oddly, does borrow a lot from Earth. Or Earth from it. Or both from a third; Ted's never been able to find a conclusive answer there.]

Certainly; right this way.

[So many are from Japan that it'd be foolish of any grocery store not to cater towards those tastes. Now where was he?]

No, normal sized. Large and deft enough to operate a firearm, which it used to shoot the server as soon as it was finished before exiting the premises.

The host could hardly believe it, having one of his staff perforated by a panda bear. He had to look up the creature in question to make sure he wasn't suffering some mad dream. Sure enough, he found its entry, which read:

"Panda bear: eats chutes and leaves."

[The joy of new arrivals was that some didn't hear those chestnuts. Doubtless this stale comedy would find fresh hearts to delight.]

[forherprince]

[She is following along, listening closely and thinking it seemed incredibly unlikely--until he got to the end of his story.] [. . .] [She stares at him incredulously.] [Are you fucking kidding sir?]

[youfool]

[Oh no, this terrible dilemma. Was it a bad joke? Or, through her seriousness, did it transcend and become even funnier?]

Is...ahehe...something the matter?

[he can't help himself]

[forherprince]

... I thought you were serious. [She turns bright pink in her embarrassment.]

[youfool]

[another laugh trills up his back and he moves to get a vial of plum sauce. Good idea to come to this section, glad she thought of it.]

About--haha--what, gun-toting bears? I faint to imagine beasts quite so savage. Was your world like that? Firearms and fauna hand-in-hand?

Clothes

[greedyvixen]

[Whether Rin is only looking around or actually shopping here for herself is a mystery, possibly a combination of both too for the most part.

But then she almost literally bumps into the cute girl standing there.]

Hey, don't just -- [Rin sees the look on the other girl's face. ...Huh?] What? Never been to a store like this before?

[It's more like a joke but also the first thing that comes to mind from how clueless she looks combined with how people come here from all sorts of places. Rin on the other hand looks exactly like she knows what she is doing here and with her usual style of twintails, red shirt and black skirt too.]

[forherprince]

[Lan Fan jerks away at the last second, the empty arm of her changpao and coat flapping with the movement, her hand instinctively moving to pull a a cowl up in front of her mouth that... isn't there. Her face instantly reddens. First from her lack of attention (if Rin had been an enemy she would have been dead just now), second from her cluelessness, and third from how obvious her embarrassment was. Ugh.] I haven't. [So. Freaking. Red.]

[greedyvixen]

[Well (un)fortunately Rin also knows how to defend herself with magic and martial arts, so they may have avoided a sparring match there...

Red is the best color, according to Rin's shirt and taste at least. Rin on the other hand looks cold, figuratively speaking, while the other Asian here looks like she suddenly... has a fever??? Maybe some red to Rin's face wouldn't hurt either but it's not happening, at least not yet.]

Oh... Well, lucky for you I'm not too busy at the moment, so what do you need?

[She's offering help???]

[forherprince]

[orz, I meant Rin could have killed her my bad] [Something to cover her face with for starters. In leu of that she fiddles with the edge of her coat.] Um... ... Something... [she eyes some bright pink thing on a hanger next to her] that doesn't draw attention... and that I can fight in... [And she is in the wrong spot because it looks like a teen pop idol fairy exploded in sequins and glitter this particular section of the store...]

[greedyvixen]

[XD Ohh... I blame the time and my insomnia combined with them both being amazing asskickers, no worries! Also lmao my next one here may be a female idol, what a coincidence.

Rin may notice her fiddling thing with the coat whenever that happens but she doesn't say anything about that part. Fighting? Interesting? Rin will get back to that part in a bit but first... She glances at the pink/pastel/rainbow glittery department and then looks at her again.]

You can start from those if you're planning to fight by becoming an idol or a magical girl ...Or if you want to confuse and blind your opponents. [There are much better and actually working ways for blinding, yes, she knows but saying that anyway....] Though if you also want some cute clothes in general, I'm sure they have less fancy and non-glittery options too.

[forherprince]

[no, it's cool, they have the same pronouns so which her is her haha oops \o.O/] Nnno... [She'll stick to confusing and blinding her opponents by sneak attacks with smoke and flash bombs...] I just want something simple but it all seems to be like this... [someone get this poor girl to the athletic department...]

[greedyvixen]

[ ... oh okay well not cute clothes today for her then. Rin hides her amusement on the other girl's way of saying no to that.]

I see. [Even if she can also see this stranger in cute clothes but the reactions remind Rin of Saber in a way.]

I'm on my way to another department myself, I guess you can come along and find what you're looking for there.

[Or that Rin doesn't mind if she'll follow her... Or in other words that hey, sorry Lan Fan but you're running into a tsundere today, so apparently Rin won't just say that she can show the way.

Also, she starts walking already, more or less expecting her to follow.]

[forherprince]

[UM. WAIT. IS THIS HOW PEOPLE-ING WORKS? DOES SHE FOLLOW? She should probably follow... SHE IS SO MUCH BETTER AT JUST PUNCHING PEOPLE AND BLOWING THINGS UP...] ... [So she follows along like a little lost puppy X__X]

[Training]

[prideofhoshido]

[The Prince's job was consuming more of his time along with his family, however now was his day off and time for some training to get his mind off of things. Things were still so strange here that finding normalcy in training brought him back to life.

In his area, he spotted a young woman resembling a ninja training. Ryoma approached noticing she only had one arm. He commented when near enough with an impressed smile]

You're very impressive if you can do all that with just one arm. I would be afraid to see you with both arms.

[forherprince]

[Lan Fan noticed the man long before he spoke, debating whether to continue or to stop to observe him... observing her. It was approaching two months now with no issues. There were no direct threats to her here and her charge was not present to worry over. Because of that she neither attacked nor fled.] [She finally paused after a backward flip (that was closer to disaster carrying through with one arm than she would care to admit) to watch him. She wished for her mask for probably the hundredth time since her arrival, not liking the fact that the man could both see and remember her face... or the fact that he would be able to see the slight flush creek into her face--though that could be attributed to her exercise and the cold rather than to embarrassment.] [She nodded to him an acceptance to the compliment--though she would have preferred if it hadn't called attention to her glaring fault.]

[prideofhoshido]

[Ryoma nodded back, not getting that he embarrassed her. The prince only got that she was cold, or perhaps tired. That wasn't his business though.]

Mind if I train alongside you? I do not want to stand in your way, but I can't look away at your skills. They're a bit like the styles in Hoshido.

[forherprince]

[She shakes her head to his question. A partner, if he was willing, would be helpful.]

Hoshido... [She repeats back, frowning a little.] Is that in this "Chai-na" or "Ja-pan" I keep hearing of?

training

[westernwinds]

[ Rudy was out on patrol when he noticed Lan Fan there. He also noticed that she only had one arm, and without thinking he squeezed his left arm. That...incident was much too fresh in his memory for him to feel comfortable talking about it; maybe it was the same for her. Couldn't he just not call attention to it?]

Aren’t you cold?

[ He certainly was, on top of bundling up maybe a touch more than the average person. ]

[forherprince]

[She paused after a series of flips, at least one nearly ending in disaster as she tried to compensate with only one arm to spring off of--but she managed not to fall. She could worry about grace later. For now she just needed to relearn her weight and balance.]

[She looked over to him, shaking her head.]

It is tolerable if you keep moving.

[If she stopped for any length of time she would certainly turn into a Fan Fan-cycle.]

[westernwinds]

[ Wow. One may have almost ended in disaster, but even that was more than he could do. That was what he thought, anyway. ]

Really...?

[ He wasn’t so much questioning her methods as he was glancing away and quietly considering the prospect. ]

Is there a way I can help?

[forherprince]

[She straightens to look at him, breathing a bit heavily.] How are you with hand-to-hand? [Hey, you asked. Put up ur dukes!]