3rd Social Link ▫ [Video]

[jivitadana]

[Slight backdate. The screen on the communication device was a dark, reddish color. Minato had ended up converting a room near his own into a darkroom. The sixth room on the Third Floor was free, and he went ahead and made use of it. He hoped no one would mind. Besides, the Gallery was also next to it in the fourth room, and if anyone did protest, he could always change another room close by.

Inside said darkroom, Minato wasn't alone. While Minato used film clips to hang up a few photographs to have them dry off, Souji used his bamboo photo tongs to place more photo paper into the chemicals in the development trays he had prepped per Minato's instructions.]

Why scenery?

[Souji looked up at the pictures hung on the line, and at some of the ones that were off to the dry side of the room. Minato smiled a little as he answered.]

... I had a request to take color photographs of outside since the other side of the mirrors is black and white. Is that spoiling them?

[Especially after everything that's happened? Souji shook his head, returning the smile, and continued to monitor the photos and their development.]

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[eatsyourscience]

[Souji pulled one of the photos out of the developer and looked at it before slipping it into the next pan.]

Did you learn this at school?

[jivitadana]

[Minato nodded.]

It was one of the culture club choices. I almost picked Music, but Fuuka was in Photography Club.

[eatsyourscience]

[Souji smiled.]

We had band and theater.

[jivitadana]

You were in band and played trumpet, right?

[eatsyourscience]

[He nods.] Right.

Have you gotten your violin yet?

[jivitadana]

[Minato nodded.]

I started to practice a little. But I think need more help.

[eatsyourscience]

I'll come play with you any time. I'm not an expert, but I've been playing for a few years. I took lessons when I was younger.

[jivitadana]

Mn, maybe after this?

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[irrelevance]

I heard the ones on the other side of the glass are all bad news. [ so what's up with taking photos for them? not that he's sincerely judging, just tossing out a rumor. he's more interested in the darkroom. ]

Nice set-up.

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[eatsyourscience]

[Souji gets to the device first to respond.] Not all of them are. But it is a good idea to be careful around them until you know them better.

[As for the setup...]

I'd like to take credit for it, but I don't know much about this stuff.

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[jivitadana]

[Minato finished clipping up the last picture from the first set. He nodded, agreeing about the Mirrors that they weren't all bad. Not all of them.]

It helps that the rooms change to how we imagine them. You can come use it at some point too, if you want.

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[irrelevance]

How can you tell the difference? [ he asks to the first response. he's having a hard time grasping that there are people in the mirrors at all. but either one of them is welcome to answer his questions. ]

Thanks. I'll have to take you up on that. Where's the room at?

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[eatsyourscience]

[Souji will stick to the Mirror questions for the moment. Of the three of them, it seems like he's got the most experience with them.]

You have to talk to them. [Which itself can be risky.] Some of them will pretend to be the real thing to trick us, but not all of them do that.

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[irrelevance]

The real thing. You mean one of us, don't you?

Don't they all want over here? [ he doesn't see how that could make them good, if they want to replace what's here, even unintentionally. ]

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[jivitadana]

It's on the Third Floor, Room 6. The door's unlocked all the time.

[Minato slid that answer in when he could, mostly leaving the questions about Wonderland up to Souji.]

Some, I guess. It's hard to tell. Souji would know more.

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[likesimpossible]

[ The Doctor just watches Minato and Souji moving around before commenting: ]

I didn't know you liked photography, Minato.

[ He sounds pleasantly surprised; this is what he likes, anyway, learning new things about his friends. ]

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[jivitadana]

[It was Minato's turn to get to the communication device first.]

Hi, Sensei. Mn, it was for a school club, but I wanted to continue learning it here.

[Somehow. Well, there's always trial and error to these things.]

Oh, do you know Souji?

[He indicated over to Souji who was nearby.]

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[eatsyourscience]

[Souji joins Minato and waves, peering at the screen.]

Nice to meet you...sensei? [He glances at Minato for confirmation.]

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[likesimpossible]

That makes sense, though. With the time we have between events, why not put that to good use?

[ It's why he spends so much time tinkering with various objects trying to build one unusual device or another. But, look, there's a person he hasn't met yet, so he beams and waves. ]

No, never met him before this. Hello, I'm the Doctor, nice to meet you!

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[jivitadana]

Mn, it's a good way to pass the time.

[Minato nodded over to Souji. He was called the Doctor, but Minato changed it up to call him Sensei instead. And he thought he should qualify the introduction with the following:]

Souji's from my future.

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[eatsyourscience]

It's nice to meet you, too. [Souji waves, smiling.] It's the future, but only by about two years.

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[likesimpossible]

Oh, it definitely is.

[ The Doctor said, nodding his agreement with what Minato had said. ]

I've got a friend here who's from the future too. Martha Jones, maybe you've met her.

[ And it honestly drives him up the wall, knowing there's things she knows that he doesn't yet. ]

Video; KRISTEN SENT ME BACK HERE BUT I DIDN'T REALIZE IT WAS SO LONG AGO I'M SORRY I'M LATE GUYS

[thneedifestdestiny]

[The Once-ler squints, trying to see what's going on in the video better. He had no idea there was a darkroom in Wonderland - kind of old fashioned, but whatever floats their boat.]

Why would they want pictures? I mean, I get that it's all grey over there, but wouldn't it be...I dunno, kind of depressing?

[He's not criticizing them really, but the Mirror who asked the favor. He's also a huge hypocrite, because he willingly wallows in things that depress him, but that's also not really news.]

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[eatsyourscience]

[Souji considers the question.]

I don't think so. It could be, but it doesn't have to be.

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[jivitadana]

Since I was asked, I thought I should go ahead and develop them. It isn't any trouble.

[Minato liked his photography hobby too anyway, so it wasn't out of his way.]