forever homeless but voice test ohboy what am I doing

[likemynana]

Well gosh. I appreciate y'giving me a voice here young lady. Guess telling yourself not to pick up any more muses isn't going to be enough to get yourself to slow down.

Life is fast paced enough as it is. Heh...Trust me on that. When you're workin' the same job day in and day out, time seems to go faster than a car onna' racetrack. I wouldn't have it any other way, personally, but ahh...'spose it's not for everyone.

Can't be stayin' here too long though you know. I'll have a lot of disappointed youngsters on my hands if I'm not around to open up the arcade.

[OOC: Just a heads up, Mr. Litwak's backstory here is inspired by this fic! It's a good read, I highly recommend it <3]

Comments

[danmakuboundary]

Circuit boards can get corrupted due to power surges or even the slightest bit of static electricity bouncing off a quarter lined up on the screen. A single byte of data getting changed can be enough to bring a digital empire to its knees.

It's inevitable, but it's always harsh to lose a child that way, is it not?

[Yes, Yukari has definitely pegged the machines in Litwak's arcade as his babies.]

[likemynana]

[Well that's....one way to put it.]

..Right...I usually try to keep all the cabinets up to date with maintenance, though. Most of the time they just end up going from simply being around for so many years, but... they're durable. Not your average consoles y'got at home, that's for sure.

[Again, he falters, especially at her referring to the machines as children. It takes a moment before he can continue.]

...Of course. Sometimes there's just...nothing else you can do for 'em.

[danmakuboundary]

[Even still, she can't bear to tell him that by her time, his arcade will be a single island barely keeping afloat - arcades were a dying breed, even ones as great as his. At the same time...]

Get used to the fighting and racing games, they're gonna be the next big thing.

[likemynana]

[Perhaps he won't have to be around to see it come to that. His hopes are that even by the time he retires and lets his son take over the family business, he'll be able to watch the arcade thrive from the sidelines.
An aging man can dream, right?

He chuckles.]

Yeah, the kids seem to really be into those these days. Not quite as into the retro games as they were back when I had a little more hair than I do now.