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This was a fun first round of secrets, everyone! Gym leader and trainer alike, it was very fun reading all of your submissions and we would like to thank you on behalf of the entire EV News Staff! The love, the heartbreak, the friendship, the deep, dark, secrets!

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[Blake's a pretty big fan of the beat it out of them method, too]

[shrugs] Why not? I've got nothing better to do.

[Better to keep the brat talking than to let his mind wander back to that image and the little boy waiting to see his father again.]

[That explains a lot.] Comatose or drunk?

[Blake and tact rarely meet.]

Oh yeah, trespassing. That's better. You know those are closed to keep idiots from getting killed climbing on them, right?

Your very own Fight Club, huh? That wasn't even that good of a movie.

[WASH YOUR HAIR.]

[Well. Aren't you just full of surprises tonight, Blake? Yusuke seems a little taken aback, but he answers anyway, telling him:]

Okay, then... I dunno. I've never really thought about it.

[Aside from the fact that it'd taken getting killed in a car crash and then resurrected to become the designated defender of humanity for it to even occur to him that he had a future worth considering in the first place, Yusuke... well, Yusuke is fourteen. Or, well, he's almost fifteen, if you want to be exact, but the point is, even the most well-adjusted people his age don't often know what it is they want to do when they grow up. He knows Keiko wants to go to college to become a teacher, but she's the kind of person who would know which direction she wants to take in life, and what she'd have to do and how she'd have to do it to get there. Him, though... he can't even imagine what not being a Spirit Detective would be like, at this point. Maybe he'll just keep being one 'til he's forty and then call it quits; it's not like he isn't damn good at it, after all.

Fortunately for Blake's brain, that isn't anything Yusuke mentions aloud. Instead, Yusuke shrugs and gives him a blithe grin, and says:]

Maybe I'll become the next prime minister. Or uh, the next-next-next-next prime minister. There's no way I could do the job worse than the current guy does it.

[... not that, you know, he actually pays attention to politics all that much. Hell, he doesn't even know what the current guy's name is, much less his policies and what-not; he just sort of assumes that whoever's in power is corrupt and skips the news to watch sports instead. What a responsible young citizen he is.

And fortunately, Yusuke isn't very sensitive himself - not about this, anyway, and not if they were just talking about his mom's alcoholism and not badmouthing his mom on a more personal level. He won't pretend to approve of Atsuko's drinking problem, but the fact is, well, alcoholism is a disease, which means that his mom's sick, not... deliberately trying to be a bad mother. He knows she cares about him. In fact, after he came back to life, she kept having nightmares about him going back to Spirit World to get away from her, which, while he probably wouldn't put it this way himself (or even talk about it at all in the first place), totally broke his friggin' heart into little itty-bitty pieces. So yeah, as long as Blake doesn't start telling "yo momma" jokes, Yusuke doesn't have any issues with him being blunt. It is what it is, you know? No use dressing up the facts.]

Drunk. 's a wonder I wasn't born with webbed toes, or something.

[Is that even a thing that happens when you drink while pregnant? Well, whatever. Yusuke moves on.]

Yeah. So what? I've never gotten killed climbing on 'em. Besides, I figure it's charitable for me to make it a little challenging for myself. Means I might not totally wipe the floor with whoever it is I'm fighting.

[... aaand whoosh goes that pop culture reference, right over his head! Normally, Yusuke would assume this was just an American thing, say "IDK what that is", and change the subject, but that... actually sounds like something he might enjoy, if, of course, he could find it with Japanese subtitles. Hence why he sounds pretty intrigued when he asks:]

Oh yeah? What's it about?

[WASH YOUR BEARD.]

Edited 2013-05-12 08:39 (UTC)

I never had to. Never wanted to be anything except a cop.

[Not that the kid asked. Had something to do with fighting bad guys to begin with...and maybe more about power and authority later.]

[that politicians are full of shit is a safe enough bet.]

[amused despite himself] It's hard to imagine you in a suit, kid. You know it's all paperwork, right?

[Not a big surprise. There has to be a reason a kid like this hasn't been smacked into line.] Dad's not around either, huh.

Yeah, so far, or you wouldn't be able to brag about it. Can't you fight on the playground like somebody normal?

[mutters half to himself] The kind of shit that's happened just because some kids were playing around a construction site.

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