RP log: Kurobane, Niou

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Date: Monday, September 17th <3
Rating: G, desu!
Summary: A phaser's powers kill electrics. :D Fortunately, White Hats can fix them. For the most part. 8Dv


Niou whistled an off-key tune, walking down the hall with his old laptop in his hands. It wasn't that he was happy, per se: even if the school day was over, he still had tomorrow's lessons to prepare, and reading to do for uni -- but so long as he didn't have to actively help anybody, it was all good.

In fact, he was the one getting assistance for a change. If that Bane dude was in, anyway. "White Hat~?" he sing-songed, poking his head around the staffroom office door.

For most part, Bane did not want to bring work home. At least not from Ryuhana. He'd rather stay a bit longer and finish everything here, then go home and laze around or just go out. Unless there was just no way he could finish everything quick. Today was not the day, thankfully, and he was already finishing up for the day.

His shoulders twitched a bit at the voice calling out -- he had to wonder why Niou took to calling him that, instead of just Bane, like everyone else. Not like he minded, after all it was a part of his journal name too... Though he also pondered if Niou even knew what it meant, maybe, maybe not. Maybe he'd ask one day. "Yes, Niou-kun?" He turned in the swivel chair to face the other, remembering then why Niou was here. Right, the laptop. Which was there, and Bane could easily tell it was... quite dead.

The phaser laid the little computer down on a clear side of Bane’s desk, with all the dramatic aplomb befitting a fallen comrade. Which, in a way, it was. It was tough working with Niou, if you were electronic. Never knew when he was going to slip up and get you killed by accident <3 This old laptop never saw it coming. And worse, until now, Niou’d never known a way to get her fixed.

He turned Brilliant Smile number Two in Bane’s direction. The one that said, Please~? <3 via teeth alone.

That expression Niou graced him with was... charming yes, but in a way also hilarious. Bane couldn't help but laugh out loud. When his laughter dissolved into quiet snickers, he reached out with his thoughts to prod and poke at the laptop. It was dead. Pretty much, but it was something fixable. "You killed it," he said, grinning, partly focused on the notion of joining the signals and repairing the circuit of the poor laptop. "Permanently," a wink, more prodding and he just patted the sleek lid, "But thankfully I have the power to revive her~. 's fixed."

Surprised, Niou blinked twice, though his grin didn’t waver. “Huh, already? <3” He didn’t doubt the word of a mutated Nice Guy, but. “Y’fix ‘em almost as fast as I kill ‘em <3” He picked the laptop up, and casually flipped it over in his hands a couple of times. Didn’t feel any different – but then again, neither did it when he phased it out of operation.

Surprised, Niou blinked twice, though his grin didn’t waver. “Huh, already? <3” He didn’t doubt the word of a mutated Nice Guy. “Y’fix ‘em almost as fast as I kill ‘em <3” He picked the laptop up, and casually flipped it over in his hands a couple of times. Didn’t feel any different – but then again, neither did it when he phased it out of operation in the first place. Unsurprising <3

Then curiosity got the better of him, and his grin turned lopsided. Slightly self-depreciating. "So, tell me what was wrong with it?"

"Heh," Bane shrugged, "In simplest words, the circuit was broken. Signals disrupted~? That kind of thing," he didn't really feel like going into more complicated and professional details. And he didn't really expect Niou'd understand them anyway. Bane couldn't help, but be amused when the phaser checked the computer over, as if it was supposed to look or feel different. True enough, he didn't really touch it, so maybe Niou doubted it was fixed? "You can switch it on if you want." He offered with a grin. "I promise it's gonna work nicely~."

Niou grinned back. “Nah, ‘s not mine now anymore, anyway <3” He’d promised her hand in marriage to that newest new kid. Kai or something. Whatever. Niou hadn’t technically asked. Shrugging an arm out of a strap, he slipped the laptop into his backpack, and turned back to Bane.

“So… y’ c’n fix stuff?” The expression on his face might best have been described as ‘psychotically content'. He didn’t really like killing things when he didn’t mean to </3 It wasn’t cool. And since computers were the most technologically complex things Niou accidentally phased, well maybe...

“What about the light <3?”

Eyebrow quirked, Bane looked at the lamp. "Well," he made the lamp blink, on-off-on-off-on-off-on and left it at that. A little showing off never hurt, except it would give him a headache if he kept at it and used more sophisticated electronic equipment to do so, "I can do that, but..."

Hn. Convenient for just staying in bed after reading, when you were too lazy to get up and flick the switch, Niou thought. But that wasn’t his main question. “But so, what if I--” A phased hand went through the bulb, fizzing it out like a day-old soda.

Bane sweatdropped when the light bulb died for good. Oops. He'd have to change it tomorrow. Or have someone change it, "Buuut unfortunately I can't fix the light bulb."

('Obviously?') “Oh,” Niou said. Weird guy. Laptops were no problem, but not the simple tech? He waited a beat, for his eyes to adjust his eyes to the new semi-darkness. “Well… <3 That sucks.”

He tipped his imaginary top-hat, grin bouncing back as he turned toward the wall. “Kai says thanks for the laptop, but <3”

"It does, a bit maybe," but it wasn't like Bane cared and he shrugged. He already could do a lot, and that was quite enough for him. And Niou probably didn't really have a clue of what exactly he did. It was okay, maybe a talk for a different time. Right now, Bane decided that the light bulb burning out was a sign for him to go home. And maybe rest a bit, he sure felt tired all of sudden. "Heh, tell him he's welcome," he said with a wink, stretching his arms over his head. Sore -- a part of him wished for a massage, but it wasn't going to happen, sadly.

“Yeah,” Niou grinned, phasing through the wall with a two-fingered salute. “’Til next <3”