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[Sept. 27] [Original] Try Many Names
Title: Try Many Names
Day/Theme: Sept. 27, 2010 "In any case, try many things"
Series: Original
Character/Pairing: Sakuya Altagracia, Kiichiro Grey, Ayye Derringer
Rating: G
Sakuya clasped her hands behind her back and leaned down over her two companions in a way she recalled her older sister saying was, "Too cute to be fair." "Grey. Derringer," she said their names to further assure that she held their attention.
"What's up, Sakuya?" Derringer chirped back, raising his hand in a friendly but nameless gesture, positioned somewhere between a salute and a wave.
"Miss Altagracia?" Grey smiled, stiff and cold.
So, "Miss Altagracia." She did not frown. It was a test, nothing more.
"Grey. Ayye." The situation had revolved around to the point of some familiarity with the men. Tentatively, Grey was still "Grey," but for Derringer, "Ayye" was enough ("Ayelet" was not acceptable; "Ayelet Yesha" provoked hysterics that promptly dissolved into annoyance).
"Sakuyaaa, does this mean our dinner is ready?" Ayye dragged out the last syllable of her name over the course of several beats. He had any easiness about him, despite his professed killer instincts. When he was relaxed and got to teasing her, he often elongated the sounds in names like this. She wondered if this manner of speaking was in anyway related to the origins of "Ayye" as a nickname.
"No, not yet." She giggled. "It's going to need a while longer on the stove.
"You don't need to watch it?" Grey queried, punctuating with a raised eyebrow.
"I can step away for a few minutes." She scuffed a foot at an angle against the floor. "I just wanted to get out of the heat of the kitchen for a second, but now, actually, I have a question for you."
"Shoot," Ayye fired back automatically.
Sakuya paused. She was trying to prompt Grey into saying her name. She wanted to hear what he called her. She needed to see what he would say before she tried any other names for him. "Where'd the nickname "Ayye" come from?"
"It's initials." Sakuya was surprised that Grey knew, but was glad to have him explain. It increased her odds of hearing what she wanted out of him. "He's dock-born, I'd guess. It's how they talk on the..." he paused before launching into the appropriate accent, "Ootur Zee, Miz Zakuya."
"'Dock-born?'" Ayye answered with a growl. His presumed annoyance was tempered by a roll of his eyes. "You elitist name-caller."
"On the Outer Sea," Grey continued, without a passing glance spared for Ayye, "'A. Y.' is pronounced 'aye-ye.'"
"Oh, I get it." She cheered by the realization that she really had learned something from this exchange, as well as by the fact that Grey, even if only in the service of a jest, had dropped her a degree in formality to "Miss Sakuya" (or, in this case, something like it). "That's not bad."
"Do you have a middle name, Sakuya?" Ayye forcibly inserted himself back into the conversation.
"Nope."
"Then you would probably just be called "Zakuya" or 'Zaku,'" Ayye proposed, "The whole initials things is a bit more masculine anyway."
"'S. A.' is like 'es-aye'...Hmm. I just doesn't have the right ring to it," Grey mused.
"Like I said," Ayye protested, refusing to have his native expertise stripped from him, even if he didn't care much for Grey's casual references to his origins, "Initials aren't feminine."
"Then what would they call Grey?"
"Knowing Grey.........they'd call him 'Grey,'" Ayye answered with a completely straight face. As Grey fixed a rather sour look upon him, he burst out laughing.
"No, no, with his initials," Sakuya protested through her own laughter.
"He's "K. G.," right? Which equals...'Keyge!' Ha ha ha, hey, look at that, Grey! You ever take up on the Outer Sea, you've already gotta nickname!"
Grey turned to Sakuya and looked at her quite seriously. "Please promise me you'll never call me that."
"Y-yes, of course, Grey."
"Kiichiro." She heaved a long breath and waited to hear his response.
"Sakuya?" said Grey. Ayye was nowhere in sight.
She smiled. It was just what she wanted to hear. "Nothing, nothing. I...just wanted to let you know I was here."
Day/Theme: Sept. 27, 2010 "In any case, try many things"
Series: Original
Character/Pairing: Sakuya Altagracia, Kiichiro Grey, Ayye Derringer
Rating: G
Sakuya clasped her hands behind her back and leaned down over her two companions in a way she recalled her older sister saying was, "Too cute to be fair." "Grey. Derringer," she said their names to further assure that she held their attention.
"What's up, Sakuya?" Derringer chirped back, raising his hand in a friendly but nameless gesture, positioned somewhere between a salute and a wave.
"Miss Altagracia?" Grey smiled, stiff and cold.
So, "Miss Altagracia." She did not frown. It was a test, nothing more.
"Grey. Ayye." The situation had revolved around to the point of some familiarity with the men. Tentatively, Grey was still "Grey," but for Derringer, "Ayye" was enough ("Ayelet" was not acceptable; "Ayelet Yesha" provoked hysterics that promptly dissolved into annoyance).
"Sakuyaaa, does this mean our dinner is ready?" Ayye dragged out the last syllable of her name over the course of several beats. He had any easiness about him, despite his professed killer instincts. When he was relaxed and got to teasing her, he often elongated the sounds in names like this. She wondered if this manner of speaking was in anyway related to the origins of "Ayye" as a nickname.
"No, not yet." She giggled. "It's going to need a while longer on the stove.
"You don't need to watch it?" Grey queried, punctuating with a raised eyebrow.
"I can step away for a few minutes." She scuffed a foot at an angle against the floor. "I just wanted to get out of the heat of the kitchen for a second, but now, actually, I have a question for you."
"Shoot," Ayye fired back automatically.
Sakuya paused. She was trying to prompt Grey into saying her name. She wanted to hear what he called her. She needed to see what he would say before she tried any other names for him. "Where'd the nickname "Ayye" come from?"
"It's initials." Sakuya was surprised that Grey knew, but was glad to have him explain. It increased her odds of hearing what she wanted out of him. "He's dock-born, I'd guess. It's how they talk on the..." he paused before launching into the appropriate accent, "Ootur Zee, Miz Zakuya."
"'Dock-born?'" Ayye answered with a growl. His presumed annoyance was tempered by a roll of his eyes. "You elitist name-caller."
"On the Outer Sea," Grey continued, without a passing glance spared for Ayye, "'A. Y.' is pronounced 'aye-ye.'"
"Oh, I get it." She cheered by the realization that she really had learned something from this exchange, as well as by the fact that Grey, even if only in the service of a jest, had dropped her a degree in formality to "Miss Sakuya" (or, in this case, something like it). "That's not bad."
"Do you have a middle name, Sakuya?" Ayye forcibly inserted himself back into the conversation.
"Nope."
"Then you would probably just be called "Zakuya" or 'Zaku,'" Ayye proposed, "The whole initials things is a bit more masculine anyway."
"'S. A.' is like 'es-aye'...Hmm. I just doesn't have the right ring to it," Grey mused.
"Like I said," Ayye protested, refusing to have his native expertise stripped from him, even if he didn't care much for Grey's casual references to his origins, "Initials aren't feminine."
"Then what would they call Grey?"
"Knowing Grey.........they'd call him 'Grey,'" Ayye answered with a completely straight face. As Grey fixed a rather sour look upon him, he burst out laughing.
"No, no, with his initials," Sakuya protested through her own laughter.
"He's "K. G.," right? Which equals...'Keyge!' Ha ha ha, hey, look at that, Grey! You ever take up on the Outer Sea, you've already gotta nickname!"
Grey turned to Sakuya and looked at her quite seriously. "Please promise me you'll never call me that."
"Y-yes, of course, Grey."
"Kiichiro." She heaved a long breath and waited to hear his response.
"Sakuya?" said Grey. Ayye was nowhere in sight.
She smiled. It was just what she wanted to hear. "Nothing, nothing. I...just wanted to let you know I was here."