"Jåbmå is a dessert stew that's sour and sweet made with sorrel, deer milk, sugar, berries and sometimes spices." He leaned into Joe and shrugs. "I can makes you something else, sweetie."
Aarne rolled his eyes scoffing because he was a bit of a food snob. "We're going to get you off the shit food soon enough."
As they drove away from the police station and back to the hotel, Minoru felt a lot better. With all the talk of food, he smiled. “Okay, that does sound pretty good.”
The mix of sour and sweet made him think of ume daifuku and other similar Japanese sweets. They were always a good compromise between one twin with a sweet tooth and one twin who loved things tart and bitter.
“Isamu’s better at the traditional dishes, but I can make a mean curry.”
Both of the twins knew their way around the kitchen, and prepared most of their own meals. Minoru tended to make a lot of poke bowls and stir frys. They were simple, but tasty, and vegetables went with basically everything.
"I'd like to try anything you make, babe. Because you've made it. That's the special part. I know I'm a shit chef but I can assist in the kitchen! A helpful kitchen porter maybe dressed in just an apron with nothing underneath. The naked chef!"
Joe giggling at his own joke, knowing Minoru probably didn't want to hear the dirty side of this. Nor Tom. He had caused enough trouble with the whole nearly getting himself killed falling from a great height thing. Yeah that.
"Isamu sounds like a good cook too, mate. Do you Japanese blokes eat a lot of noodles and stuff? I like those."
Because Joe could make noodles from a packet. He wasn't a total dead loss.
"I don't have reindeer milk but I think it will be good." Aarne comments and then shrugs. "I have to learn the non-traditional dishes."
It was the difference between growing up in your own culture and surrounded by a blended or different culture. Either way everyone had something to learn. "I'll have to teach you before I get old and you start trying to get me breakfast in bed."
He's teasing but it's sweet and loving. Then he has another idea. "You know... Vars, Tom, Robert, I think Hunter, and Gloria all are good cooks too. We could have Rock and Roll cooking competitions."
Tom glanced back in the mirror at the two in the back just shaking his head. All he could imagine wasa bunch of drunks fighting over the kitchen and Viktor starting a fire.
“Sometimes. Can’t say I’ve ever tried to make Grandma Mikoto’s famous tonkatsu ramen, and I never will, But Isamu has, and he claims it’s 93% as good as her’s. You guys would probably like it a lot.”
The old secret family recipe was for a pork-based soup. Even the broth by itself wasn’t vegetarian. Unfortunately, it was something he had to eat at least once when he visited, whether he wanted to or not. Grandma Mikoto took great offense if he didn’t.
Honestly, the thought of throwing ‘the naked chef’ into a kitchen with her and watching chaos erupt did cross his mind. But he had too much respect for his elders to actually do it.
"Grandma Mikoto? Is she your grannie, Minoru? She sounds cute and a good cook. My nan used to bake me a cake for when we used to go around on my birthday. We had the whole family over at my grandparents and it was fun."
Joe wanted to tell Aarne and his friends about more of his living back in the UK because sharing was fun! Also, all this talk about cooking and food was causing the Brit to become hungry. With all the booze he drank his stomach often craved food as well as drink.
"Hunter in the kitchen? I can see him wearing a leopard print apron and being a total glam chef. Viktor though? He'll burn the fucking kitchen down."
"Stardust made Ramen for us once." Aarne pipes up. "He says Tom makes even better noodles."
Tom can only sigh about the Fin trying to drag him into this. Thankfully, the drummer starts giggling and forgets about Tom.
"He does. We lived with him in Sweden and he would wear frilly leopard print aprons." Maybe it wasn't always but Aarne could recall at least one instance. "Vars could keep him from burning it down. He's a decent cook to from living with his wife."
Aarne said it and then instantly clammed up in anger. He hated thinking about her. "I'll cook when we get back."
They weren't far from the hotel so, they could soon.
“Well, cute’s not exactly the word I’d use to describe her.”
Feisty might work. Or stubborn. This was an old widow still called her town by its pre-Municipality name, did things the old-fashioned way and took no beef about anything from anyone. She also fed a lot of cats. (Honestly, she and Mr. Newton could probably be the best of friends. Mikoto could probably use a pen pal.)
“But I can vouch for Ziggy’s ramen! And Tom! You should totally…”
He stopped, his voice trailing off. “Actually… I think I’d better wait for a night where you aren’t bailing us out of trouble to ask you to make yours sometime.”
After all, they were the ones that owed Tom right now, not the other way around.
"Stardust made you ramen? Aw, I'd love to try Japanese food. Or more of it anyway."
At the remark about Hunter wearing a frilly apron the bassist giggled and knew full well that the singer would. He was a glam queen and loved wearing bright, garish clothes at times. The blond drummer loved seeing his Swedish lover in kinky outfits. Everyone knew this.
"You'll cook when we get back to the hotel, babe? Fuck yeah!"
Joe was excited at this idea after the whole climbing scenario that went to shit. Tom having to bail them both out after the bassist got his boot stuck and nearly fell to his death. That part wasn't good. Then the pig cops pissed him and Minoru off. Or, more Joe.
"Put Viktor and Ronno in a kitchen together and you'll end up with a smoking room with everything on fire and blown up."
"I'll cook sometime." Tom gives in with a sigh. "Another time when I have a chance to go to a market."
Tom wasn't about to cook in a place like New York City without taking a day to hit the markets for fresh foods and a chance to be more clear headed.
Aarne shakes his head. "I've never tried to make Japanese food. I should learn."
Tom was listening and shook his head. "Why don't we find you somewhere legal to climb?"
Surely there had to be somewhere that wasn't going to be a media and police storm. Though he is interrupted by Aarne laughing. "Ronno almost set fire with a toaster or something. Viktor would watch things burn and drink."
“Ziggy’s ramen was fantastic!” He gushed, leaving off the thought that some of the ingredients might have been from another planet. “Some Japanese food is pretty complicated, but not all of it. Maybe sometime when you’re on a break from touring, you can come over to our place and we’ll cook something traditional.”
He’d have to check with Isamu, but he was pretty sure his brother wouldn’t mind hosting a little dinner party. No one was going to need to be bailed out of jail after that, after all. Or so, he hoped.
“Not sure if rock climbing gyms are a thing in your world, but in mine they leave a lot to be desired.” He added.
"It was fucking legal! At least it was last time I looked. Where does it say you can't climb wherever you want? I'm sure you agree with me on this one, Minoru? You climb wherever you want don't you? It's a free fucking country."
Joe didn't get the part where climbing on people's property is illegal. Also, the safety aspect totally went over his head. Of course. He just wanted to get to the top to moon everyone down below and give a giant middle finger to the cops.
"Rock climbing gyms? Never tried one. If they are shit then I'm not climbing up one. How about climbing a real mountain next time? That could be fun."
"I could teach you some Finnish dishes." Even if most of them were nowhere near vegetarian. Aarne thought maybe he could ask his parents the next time they talked. Something had to be vegetarian.
"Buildings are the private property of the person or company that owns them." Tom interrupts. "Trespassing on private property is just as illegal here as everywhere else, including the UK though it is a civil court matter there." Tom wasn't about to give Joe and inch to pretend he didn't know trespassing wasn't ok.
"I learned to climb cliffs as a kid." Aarne tells them. "Aren't there parks somewhere with climbing places."
Tom was not even going to entertain the idea of them free climbing cliffs drunk in the middle of nowhere. The skyscraper had been more than enough.
Minoru was with Tom in this one and shook his head. “I wish it were! But it’s more about how nice they are about letting you climb. You find a group of freerunners in a city, and you’ll learn really quick which places to steer clear of and which are okay.”
It was one of the many reasons Minoru enjoyed living in the Nexus now. He’d probably been on every building in the plaza multiple times by now, and nobody called the cops. His downstairs neighbor wasn’t so happy with his jumping out the window sometimes, but Minoru really did try to avoid landing in her flower garden.
“I’ve done free climbing on a cliff. Free soloing, really. It’s a huge thrill!” Minoru grinned.
No gear, no protection. The last time he did it was a terrible idea in hindsight - made worse by the fact that he was on the wrong mountain entirely, a more dangerous one than he’d even intended to be on.
“But if you guys are gonna be high or drunk when you do it, count me out. And you shouldn’t climb that way either. What happened up there tonight was way too dangerous. And you know that has to be pretty bad if even I won’t do it.”
Minoru - the guy who basically had no sense of risk aversion whatsoever - did in fact have some regard for life and limb.
"I'd love to learn some Finnish dishes even though my cooking skills are pretty shit. But cooking with you, Peachy? Hell yes!"
Joe just stared at Tom as he felt lectured by the older man. Jesus, it was just one skyscraper. Stardust's old man didn't need to lose his pants over it all. The bassist sticking his tongue out behind Tom's back hoping he didn't see. Oh, he would climb again but obviously not up the same building.
"I wasn't even that high, honey. Trust me I've been worse and Aarne knows. But if we do climb again I'll try not to lose my shoe because that fucking sucked. Cliffs or in a park? Sure."
The Brit nodded, listening to Minoru and Aarne's suggestions for some climbing adventure for next time. Getting arrested by the pig cops ruined all the fun though!
Tom abruptly cut in with what can only be called a 'dad voice'. "Joe needs more training before there is anymore high level free climbing."
Tom knows he can't stop them so the next best thing is to make them as safe as possible. "Honey!" Tom tosses back. "You weren't the one with a crazy Fin running around in a panicked terror and near climbing on my head when you were stuck and the news kept mentioning you falling. I don't want any of your bullshit!"
Nope, Tom is done with this conversation if only because the panicked partners were not the easiest thing for him to try and manage while these two were out having fun.
Aarne just snuggles closer to Joe because he doesn't want to think about it. "I want to cook with you."
Cooking was a better topic than thinking about the news reels of Joe on the side of the building.
It was a pretty rare occurrence when Minoru agreed with Tom over his ‘friends in high places’. But even he was scared up there. Not for himself - he knew he could have made it up that building easily - but for Joe.
He probably sounded like a hypocrite even suggesting everyone has limits and you have to be careful, and definitely in your right mind, when you knowingly move past them.
He muttered a “yeah” in response to Tom’s first comment and turned to look out the window. They’d be back at the hotel any minute, but damn, if he didn’t want to hop out of the car right now and take off on a good run.
Joe didn't think anything he did accounted for bullshit but he could tell Stardust's old man and Aarne were worried the whole time and that made him think. If his Fin were worried then he wouldn't do such a reckless thing again. What if he died? Shit. He didn't even think about that.
"Then, we should cook together sometime, Peachy. I can help you in the kitchen even if I am a shit cook."
The Brit laughed and squeezed Aarne's hand and then nudged against Minoru's shoulder because he wanted the parkourist to feel ok too. The journey was boring but Joe still felt like burning off energy as he often did when taking a vast amount of coke. The whole thing with the skyscraper still burnt into his mind.
"We should all cook then find a cool place to climb together. All three of us. No stupid high shit this time though. I don't want to die."
"I should make you something when we get back." Aarne had been worried and now he would cling to the Brit for awhile.
"Why don't we wait a few days before another climbing excursion?" Tom was trying to be sensible and give them all time to work out the emotions from the day.
Aarne only nodded at Tom like a child caught doing something wrong. He did lean up to look at Minoru. "Do you want me to bring dinner? I could could something for you and Ziggy to share."
Aarne remembered the singer being as manic as he had been but he had no idea if Stardust was worried for Joe or Minoru, or both.
Of course, by that time, Minoru would be long gone, back to work in the Nexus. He’d probably miss out on whatever ‘safer’ version of climbing they could think up.
Still, Minoru glanced over to give Aarne a half-hearted smile. “Yeah. That would be neat. I’d like that, and I bet he would too.”
It wasn’t hard to find something that both Ziggy and Minoru could share. A lot of Anthean-safe food involved vegetables. And the bands all knew the singer’s dietary restrictions by now, even if they didn’t know why he adhered to them.
“I’ll catch up with you, though. Unless Ziggy’s out front waiting grab me and hug me and not let go, I need a quick run or something to clear my head. It’s been a crazy night!”
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Date: 2021-08-08 05:51 pm (UTC)From:Aarne rolled his eyes scoffing because he was a bit of a food snob. "We're going to get you off the shit food soon enough."
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Date: 2021-08-08 11:01 pm (UTC)From:The mix of sour and sweet made him think of ume daifuku and other similar Japanese sweets. They were always a good compromise between one twin with a sweet tooth and one twin who loved things tart and bitter.
“Isamu’s better at the traditional dishes, but I can make a mean curry.”
Both of the twins knew their way around the kitchen, and prepared most of their own meals. Minoru tended to make a lot of poke bowls and stir frys. They were simple, but tasty, and vegetables went with basically everything.
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Date: 2021-08-15 06:32 pm (UTC)From:Joe giggling at his own joke, knowing Minoru probably didn't want to hear the dirty side of this. Nor Tom. He had caused enough trouble with the whole nearly getting himself killed falling from a great height thing. Yeah that.
"Isamu sounds like a good cook too, mate. Do you Japanese blokes eat a lot of noodles and stuff? I like those."
Because Joe could make noodles from a packet. He wasn't a total dead loss.
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Date: 2021-08-16 02:57 am (UTC)From:It was the difference between growing up in your own culture and surrounded by a blended or different culture. Either way everyone had something to learn. "I'll have to teach you before I get old and you start trying to get me breakfast in bed."
He's teasing but it's sweet and loving. Then he has another idea. "You know... Vars, Tom, Robert, I think Hunter, and Gloria all are good cooks too. We could have Rock and Roll cooking competitions."
Tom glanced back in the mirror at the two in the back just shaking his head. All he could imagine wasa bunch of drunks fighting over the kitchen and Viktor starting a fire.
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Date: 2021-08-16 05:02 pm (UTC)From:The old secret family recipe was for a pork-based soup. Even the broth by itself wasn’t vegetarian. Unfortunately, it was something he had to eat at least once when he visited, whether he wanted to or not. Grandma Mikoto took great offense if he didn’t.
Honestly, the thought of throwing ‘the naked chef’ into a kitchen with her and watching chaos erupt did cross his mind. But he had too much respect for his elders to actually do it.
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Date: 2021-08-18 07:57 pm (UTC)From:Joe wanted to tell Aarne and his friends about more of his living back in the UK because sharing was fun! Also, all this talk about cooking and food was causing the Brit to become hungry. With all the booze he drank his stomach often craved food as well as drink.
"Hunter in the kitchen? I can see him wearing a leopard print apron and being a total glam chef. Viktor though? He'll burn the fucking kitchen down."
The bassist wasn't wrong.
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Date: 2021-08-19 02:12 am (UTC)From:Tom can only sigh about the Fin trying to drag him into this. Thankfully, the drummer starts giggling and forgets about Tom.
"He does. We lived with him in Sweden and he would wear frilly leopard print aprons." Maybe it wasn't always but Aarne could recall at least one instance. "Vars could keep him from burning it down. He's a decent cook to from living with his wife."
Aarne said it and then instantly clammed up in anger. He hated thinking about her. "I'll cook when we get back."
They weren't far from the hotel so, they could soon.
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Date: 2021-08-19 05:35 pm (UTC)From:Feisty might work. Or stubborn. This was an old widow still called her town by its pre-Municipality name, did things the old-fashioned way and took no beef about anything from anyone. She also fed a lot of cats. (Honestly, she and Mr. Newton could probably be the best of friends. Mikoto could probably use a pen pal.)
“But I can vouch for Ziggy’s ramen! And Tom! You should totally…”
He stopped, his voice trailing off. “Actually… I think I’d better wait for a night where you aren’t bailing us out of trouble to ask you to make yours sometime.”
After all, they were the ones that owed Tom right now, not the other way around.
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Date: 2021-08-23 06:39 pm (UTC)From:At the remark about Hunter wearing a frilly apron the bassist giggled and knew full well that the singer would. He was a glam queen and loved wearing bright, garish clothes at times. The blond drummer loved seeing his Swedish lover in kinky outfits. Everyone knew this.
"You'll cook when we get back to the hotel, babe? Fuck yeah!"
Joe was excited at this idea after the whole climbing scenario that went to shit. Tom having to bail them both out after the bassist got his boot stuck and nearly fell to his death. That part wasn't good. Then the pig cops pissed him and Minoru off. Or, more Joe.
"Put Viktor and Ronno in a kitchen together and you'll end up with a smoking room with everything on fire and blown up."
That got the Brit giggling.
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Date: 2021-08-25 06:13 pm (UTC)From:Tom wasn't about to cook in a place like New York City without taking a day to hit the markets for fresh foods and a chance to be more clear headed.
Aarne shakes his head. "I've never tried to make Japanese food. I should learn."
Tom was listening and shook his head. "Why don't we find you somewhere legal to climb?"
Surely there had to be somewhere that wasn't going to be a media and police storm. Though he is interrupted by Aarne laughing. "Ronno almost set fire with a toaster or something. Viktor would watch things burn and drink."
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Date: 2021-08-26 11:20 am (UTC)From:He’d have to check with Isamu, but he was pretty sure his brother wouldn’t mind hosting a little dinner party. No one was going to need to be bailed out of jail after that, after all. Or so, he hoped.
“Not sure if rock climbing gyms are a thing in your world, but in mine they leave a lot to be desired.” He added.
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Date: 2021-08-29 07:24 pm (UTC)From:Joe didn't get the part where climbing on people's property is illegal. Also, the safety aspect totally went over his head. Of course. He just wanted to get to the top to moon everyone down below and give a giant middle finger to the cops.
"Rock climbing gyms? Never tried one. If they are shit then I'm not climbing up one. How about climbing a real mountain next time? That could be fun."
Oh god, Joe. No.
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Date: 2021-09-11 01:53 am (UTC)From:"Buildings are the private property of the person or company that owns them." Tom interrupts. "Trespassing on private property is just as illegal here as everywhere else, including the UK though it is a civil court matter there." Tom wasn't about to give Joe and inch to pretend he didn't know trespassing wasn't ok.
"I learned to climb cliffs as a kid." Aarne tells them. "Aren't there parks somewhere with climbing places."
Tom was not even going to entertain the idea of them free climbing cliffs drunk in the middle of nowhere. The skyscraper had been more than enough.
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Date: 2021-09-15 11:48 am (UTC)From:It was one of the many reasons Minoru enjoyed living in the Nexus now. He’d probably been on every building in the plaza multiple times by now, and nobody called the cops. His downstairs neighbor wasn’t so happy with his jumping out the window sometimes, but Minoru really did try to avoid landing in her flower garden.
“I’ve done free climbing on a cliff. Free soloing, really. It’s a huge thrill!” Minoru grinned.
No gear, no protection. The last time he did it was a terrible idea in hindsight - made worse by the fact that he was on the wrong mountain entirely, a more dangerous one than he’d even intended to be on.
“But if you guys are gonna be high or drunk when you do it, count me out. And you shouldn’t climb that way either. What happened up there tonight was way too dangerous. And you know that has to be pretty bad if even I won’t do it.”
Minoru - the guy who basically had no sense of risk aversion whatsoever - did in fact have some regard for life and limb.
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Date: 2021-09-25 06:43 pm (UTC)From:Joe just stared at Tom as he felt lectured by the older man. Jesus, it was just one skyscraper. Stardust's old man didn't need to lose his pants over it all. The bassist sticking his tongue out behind Tom's back hoping he didn't see. Oh, he would climb again but obviously not up the same building.
"I wasn't even that high, honey. Trust me I've been worse and Aarne knows. But if we do climb again I'll try not to lose my shoe because that fucking sucked. Cliffs or in a park? Sure."
The Brit nodded, listening to Minoru and Aarne's suggestions for some climbing adventure for next time. Getting arrested by the pig cops ruined all the fun though!
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Date: 2021-09-28 03:00 am (UTC)From:Tom knows he can't stop them so the next best thing is to make them as safe as possible. "Honey!" Tom tosses back. "You weren't the one with a crazy Fin running around in a panicked terror and near climbing on my head when you were stuck and the news kept mentioning you falling. I don't want any of your bullshit!"
Nope, Tom is done with this conversation if only because the panicked partners were not the easiest thing for him to try and manage while these two were out having fun.
Aarne just snuggles closer to Joe because he doesn't want to think about it. "I want to cook with you."
Cooking was a better topic than thinking about the news reels of Joe on the side of the building.
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Date: 2021-09-28 12:22 pm (UTC)From:He probably sounded like a hypocrite even suggesting everyone has limits and you have to be careful, and definitely in your right mind, when you knowingly move past them.
He muttered a “yeah” in response to Tom’s first comment and turned to look out the window. They’d be back at the hotel any minute, but damn, if he didn’t want to hop out of the car right now and take off on a good run.
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Date: 2021-09-29 04:04 pm (UTC)From:"Then, we should cook together sometime, Peachy. I can help you in the kitchen even if I am a shit cook."
The Brit laughed and squeezed Aarne's hand and then nudged against Minoru's shoulder because he wanted the parkourist to feel ok too. The journey was boring but Joe still felt like burning off energy as he often did when taking a vast amount of coke. The whole thing with the skyscraper still burnt into his mind.
"We should all cook then find a cool place to climb together. All three of us. No stupid high shit this time though. I don't want to die."
This was the truth.
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Date: 2021-10-12 04:19 am (UTC)From:"Why don't we wait a few days before another climbing excursion?" Tom was trying to be sensible and give them all time to work out the emotions from the day.
Aarne only nodded at Tom like a child caught doing something wrong. He did lean up to look at Minoru. "Do you want me to bring dinner? I could could something for you and Ziggy to share."
Aarne remembered the singer being as manic as he had been but he had no idea if Stardust was worried for Joe or Minoru, or both.
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Date: 2021-10-14 05:55 pm (UTC)From:Still, Minoru glanced over to give Aarne a half-hearted smile. “Yeah. That would be neat. I’d like that, and I bet he would too.”
It wasn’t hard to find something that both Ziggy and Minoru could share. A lot of Anthean-safe food involved vegetables. And the bands all knew the singer’s dietary restrictions by now, even if they didn’t know why he adhered to them.
“I’ll catch up with you, though. Unless Ziggy’s out front waiting grab me and hug me and not let go, I need a quick run or something to clear my head. It’s been a crazy night!”
…he probably would be, though.