entranceway | [video] VALENTINES (backdated to the morning of the 14th)

[Hey look, it's everyone's favorite walking talking cinnamon bun. His frog is sitting on his head.]

Guys, it's Valentine's Day! Even though the calendars are all weird and it's supposed to be like, I think, closer to Christmas maybe, I definitely didn't forget! Look, I made my Valentine's box already, so it's good to go!

[He holds up a shoebox with a hole cut into the top, just like the kind you make in elementary school. He's decorated it with red and pink construction paper, heart stickers and copious amounts of glitter. Listen, Valentine's Day is super important at this age, even if girls still have cooties. The amount of valentines you got in your box could determine your entire future.]

Hey, I've got a zillion valentines for everyone! And they're the good ones. They've got Spidermans and Batmans and stuff on 'em and also chocolates! The good stuff! So, if you guys but your valentines boxes out by your doors or somewhere, I can drop these all off. Even I can't eat all this chocolate, but I could totally try, but it would probably be bad for everyone. And I don't wanna eat 'em all! It's Valentine's Day, and that means giving out valentines and chocolates to everyone you care about. And I care about everyone here!

If any of you need help making a box, don't worry! I'm pretty much a valentine's box champion.

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Do I get a valentine even if we haven't met yet?

[Give chocolate to Souji, Greg. Give it.]

Yeah, that's like the whole point of valentines!

I don't have a box, though. You said you could help with that?

Of course I can! Do you have a spare shoebox?

[Souji glances around like one might be sitting right next to him. He holds up a finger at the camera, then disappears for a couple seconds. He rummages, and comes back with a shoebox that looks a bit chewed on one corner.]

Tefra got at this one, but it's mostly there. Maybe I can use the hole as the opening.

The hole usually goes on the top, but I guess there's no reason you can't have it on the side. I guess it's thinking...outside the box!

[YEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!]

[...

snerk.]

Okay. So...

[He leans out of view again to retrieve some scissors. Then he trims a hole hopefully big enough for a valentine to go through. Not that he expects many valentines, but arts and crafts are fun.]

Okay. I've got that part done.

[Souji you don't understand you're going to get so many valentines, Greg will even sign different names to all of them.]

Now you just gotta get some glue and construction paper and glitter and doilies and stuff!

[Okay, Greg is officially Souji's second favorite babby.]

Hm...

[He turns the box over in his hands, thinking about this.]

Valentine's Day is pretty different where I'm from.

[Yeah, he's using origami paper on this thing.]

[Good.]

Really? How's it different? Where are you from?

I'm from Japan. We call Valentine's Day "Black Day." It's when girls give chocolate and stuff to guys. In March, we have "White Day" and that's when girls get chocolate.

Wow! You're from Japan? That's where Godzilla lives, right? Oh, so you have, like, two Valentine's Days! That's weird but also awesome. What do you do if you want to give chocolate to all the people in your class? Do you only have girl classes and boy classes?

No, you just do all the boys in the class on the first Valentin's Day, and all the girls on the second one.

[He won't get into how weird it would be for a guy to give all the other guys in his class chocolate on Black Day, regardless of his age.

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We also have Mothra, and Ghidorah, and Mecha-Godzilla.

[......]

And Pikachu.

Oh, okay. That makes sense, I guess. [Sage nod.]

Oh, Mothra! I saw that one, only Mom made me go to bed just when it was getting really good. What's Pikachu?

Pikachu is kind of cute, but he's a lot smaller than Godzilla or Mothra.

[Souji is working on decorating his valentine box as he they talk.]

If you want to see the whole movie with Mothra, you could. I think it would be easy to get it.

[video] VALENTINES (backdated to the morning of the 14th)

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