[there is something about Ryuji's sad, defeated puppy expression that somehow strikes him like a tuning fork, to the point where Dave actually starts moving to go fetch some popcorn from the replicators. like, he's pretty much instinctually drawn to fixing that frown ASAP. make up for the popcorn colonel of the SS Haunted Reverie that managed to escape.]
[but he doesn't even have time to do that, or really even consider it, before —]
Billy .... Bonka.
[before Ryuji goes ahead and lobs a copyright infringement-free dodgeball at him. and Dave does not actually make a move to dodge. it just smacks him completely square in the face. he is out. there's no tagging him back in this round.]
[..............]
[no ... don't think about this too hard!! think about ascending to the ceiling, instead, where copyright laws can't follow. he pulls two jackets away from whatever's keeping them pinned to the ceiling, dropping them down without really giving them a second look, because the "whatever's keeping them pinned to the ceiling" is as much strange as it is an old and familiar friend, and that catches his attention instantly. but the jackets are blue. they're warm and comfortably sized. you know which ones they are.]
no subject
[but he doesn't even have time to do that, or really even consider it, before —]
Billy .... Bonka.
[before Ryuji goes ahead and lobs a copyright infringement-free dodgeball at him. and Dave does not actually make a move to dodge. it just smacks him completely square in the face. he is out. there's no tagging him back in this round.]
[..............]
[no ... don't think about this too hard!! think about ascending to the ceiling, instead, where copyright laws can't follow. he pulls two jackets away from whatever's keeping them pinned to the ceiling, dropping them down without really giving them a second look, because the "whatever's keeping them pinned to the ceiling" is as much strange as it is an old and familiar friend, and that catches his attention instantly. but the jackets are blue. they're warm and comfortably sized. you know which ones they are.]
[also, Dave seems to have found a skateboard.]