This afternoon I was struck by the idea of convenience store cashier yoojin who may very well be canon, but specifically, like, after awakenings and dungeons become a thing.
A han yoojin who works night shifts and, like most people who work night shifts in a convenience store, is very very used to the weird and sketchy shit that people do and buy after midnight. The sky is blue, every action has an equal and opposite reaction, people become deranged after 1am. It’s a fact of life, and that doesn’t change even after people start being able to shoot fire from their fingertips and flood a street with their mind.
But one day, at 3am, the rusted bell above the door rings as someone comes in. Yoojin doesn’t bother saying hello, because most people who come in at 3am don’t want to be acknowledged unless it��s life or death or being asked if they’re paying in cash or credit. He just waits, and soon enough, there’s the familiar sound of items being set on the counter.
He looks up just high enough to see what was deposited on the counter, except he has to stop and do a double take because holy fuck, that’s probably the store’s entire stock of individually packaged chocolate milk. Just—it’s a lot of boxes of chocolate milk. Yoojin knows because he was the one to put them there.
Slowly, he looks up and is confronted by the very pretty face of a foreigner that’s currently looking very contrite. Also, her hair might be a bit on fire. “Look, I know it’s a lot of chocolate milk,” she says, like that’s his issue with the scene in front of him right now. “But hear me out. I’ve been stuck in this dungeon for like a week, right, because the guild master is just a little bit crazy and likes to assign us to dungeons that are a little too high-ranked to ‘test our skills’ or whatever, and I swear I spent at least five of those days craving chocolate milk. So I just had to hightail it over to the nearest convenience store as soon as I stepped out of the dungeon.”
Yoojin reaches up and points at the side of his own head. “You’re, uh, smoldering a bit here.”
“Whoops.” She pats out the smoking section of her literally ashen blonde hair and beams at him. “Thanks!”
“…no problem.”
He rings up her many boxes of chocolate milk and peeks a look at her card when she hands it over. Kang Soyoung, it says, which is a perfectly normal name. Yoojin doesn’t know what he was expecting.
“Enjoy your chocolate milk,” he says as he hands the card back over, and gets another too-bright-for-3am smile.
“I will!”
He waves goodbye and then promptly buries the memory under a thick layer of denial and confusion, writing it off as a one-time thing. After all, what are the chances, right?
She’s back two weeks later.
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despite being the most sleepiest bomber blue is also the cuddliest one
he reminds me of a cat (short story under the cut)
"So, if we plug the red cable into this doohickey right here, the computer should run faster than before."
"Yes! Yes! Brilliant!"
It was yet another late-night hangout session between Blue and Phantom, where they put their minds together to create anything they thought about. The duo currently presented at the laptop, with Blue standing over Phantom's chair.
Phantom Bomber did as Blue said, and sure enough, the computer's monitor booted to life quicker than ever before.
"That thinking of yours impresses me," Phantom noted. He cobbled together some code into the keyboard, and the monitor opened an interface.
"We should make some data chips to use later," Phantom comments offhandedly. "Maybe your siblings could learn a thing or two with them."
"Yeah...sure, whatever."
Blue yawned.
"If you wanna continue or something, you can, but..." He paused, nearly trailing off. "It's kinda late, and I......"
Rather abruptly, he found himself huddled inside Phantom's absurdly massive cape, curled up as he wrapped the fabric around his body. The chair Phantom was sitting on wasn't particularly big enough for two people, though, so he ended up rather close to Phantom in the process of obtaining a restful slumber.
"Wow...this is kinda warm."
"What are you doing?!" Phantom borderline yelled at him, but by then, Blue was already out like a light.
Hey...this is kinda warm.
Phantom continued work on the aforementioned data chips - of course, learning through natural means was easier on the body and frequently more rewarding, but it still helped to have a few data-storing options on your body sometimes. Think of it as like a grocery shopping list- it's there in case you forget something important.
Over the course of the development of the data chips, Phantom found himself leaning more and more into Blue's half-asleep snuggling, to the point where he was eventually fully crammed into the chair as well, with Phantom's arm wrapped around his body.
It was a long night- something Phantom was more than used to, but somehow Blue's presence made it a little better.
Through the window, Phantom noted the rising of the sun, and typed in a few last lines of code before ejecting the disk. One of many, to be precise; the work done tonight was nothing short of a masterful performance, something that could only be done by the magnificent Phantom Bomber.
...Oh, and Blue Bomber, he guessed.
Phantom glanced over at his sleeping buddy; still snoring away, arms huddled around his body, wrapped in his cape without a care in the world.
This is an interesting specimen, Phantom found himself thinking. I would like to study him.
Which was a strange way of wording it, for sure.
A few moments passed in silence, and then-
How am I supposed to get up like this?
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