Dirty laundry

[cutenonny]

the LAUNDROMAT

Perhaps you live in a dorm or an apartment that hasn't seen renovations since the eighties. Maybe your luck has really dried up and your washing machine at home broke the night before a job interview and you haven't done a load of laundry in two weeks. Whatever your story is you've ended up at the local 24-hour laundromat. It could be creeping in on midnight or three in the morning. Either way, the place is a dead zone. Leaving you floating in a liminal space where reality has been stripped down to the sounds of clattering quarters and the continuous thrum of the machines under the buzz of neon lights. This would be a horrible time to bump into someone you know, or worse - a complete stranger while you're staring into the middle distance in nothing but your American flag boxers reading a paperback.

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John | XMCU

[fire_starter]

*It's clear by the state of the clothing he has on washing clothing is incredibly overdue. He's currently sitting in one of the worn out plastic chairs, half scooting it across the joint with his leg shaking, staring at his laundry as it spins in the unit in front of him.*

Seth 🐐 Radiant | OTA

[hornedkid]

[ Seth is sitting in only the classic pair of white boxer shorts with little red hearts all over them. His eyes are swirling around to follow the clothing in the machine and he's getting visibly dizzy doing it. It doesn't stop him though. ]

Kikka Kobayashi | Gundam | OTA

[aurorachaser]

[ Sitting around in her undies is a little embarrassing but... whatevs. ]

Piccolo 🪈 Dragon Ball

[postboy]

[ Piccolo is washing exactly one item. It's Pan's favourite blanket and he looks grumpy as heck doing it.

He glances aside at someone who has chosen to do the 'sitting in their underwear thing', scoffs and points a finger at them. In a flash of light and a puff of smoke, they're now fully clothed! He chooses something roughly appropriate for them, or at least what Piccolo would think is their vibe.^* ]

There.

*which you can make up or let me do it, I'm cool

Aoba Seragaki | Dramatical Murder | M/M

[destroyhesaid]

[ Middle of the night laundry time, great. Less chances to be bothered though. He is in more than just underwear, at least. Admittedly it's not much better, loose and faded t-shirt but criminally tight track pants. ]

Poppi | In Heat: Lustful Nights | OTA

[diamond_straits]

[Having no shame, the rabbit-woman wasn't even bothering with wearing underwear. She was doing her laundry in the nude.]

Blythe Danner Marvel OC/OTA

[byebyebirdy]

[Being in one place for over three months has taught her one thing: everything accumulates. The dishes in the sink, the trash, fast food menus and those aren't so bad, the perfect escapable and disposable things they are. She has a special hatred for the laundry, the mess it makes is perpetual and the more concerted her effort to avoid the heap the bigger it gets. She could toss the clothes too but that leads to it's own kind of special hell and Blythe isn't ready to dwell on the thought of shopping, how easily exhausted her mind gets because there's too many fucking colors on the rack and who gives a shit if she's a cold winter, she'll wear orange even it makes her look yellow (honestly, the nonsense people say...).

So she's here, in some ratty hoodie and sweat pants, counting change in her hand for the machine.]

Jason Todd/ Red Hood | Titans

[nomorefear]

[ This part is always the worst. Finally doing his laundry at a public laundromat. It's not like he isn't used to it- it's just a lot harder to get away with the whole bloody clothes situation these days.

So he's here at 4am in hopes of an empty place. ]

vash | trigun stampede

[skelters]

[ did he separate darks and lights? nope. ]

[yoke]

[ of course he didn't, which is why he reaches out just as vash moves to close the washer, one hand holding the cover open. ]

How many times do I gotta tell you?

[ just gonna hip check vash a little (scoot over, spikes) before digging through the clothes, pulling out the lights. which are mostly meryl's clothes, tbh. ]

Shortstack's gonna yell at you again.

Sabrina Moore | Original

[livinginfullcolor]

[Always traveling means she has to haul her laundry into laundromats. Not that she'd complain as the time waiting gives her a chance to collect notes for her next supernatural romance novel by observing others and having some time to her self to think. Really she shouldn't be scribbling down titles about supernatural beings and romancing laundry...Boo in the Rinse Cycle. If anything it might help the writers block.]

kaito nagano / original

[seafloor]

[ He's lucky that this world has laundromats. Or maybe he's unlucky and the washing machine at home's busted.

Either way, it's shit o'clock and there's a scarred-up dude in the building wearing nothing but black boxers and a bright orange apron with SOUPER NOODLE printed on the front.

Watching two machines have a rattling contest is super engaging... ]

Himeno | Chainsaw Man

[firstdeath]

[Her last good work shirt is splattered with blood and she's crossing her fingers that most of it can wash out. Might as well do the rest of her laundry too, right? Himeno's been slacking-- she's down to a tank top and pajama shorts. I know, what a fashion plate! At least she has a decent coat to keep her warm while she sits outside for a smoke. It's gonna be a while.]

carmy berzatto | the bear

[freviri]

[sirloin]

( oops did something of hers end up in yours. did it end up tinting the whole load?

pink is probably a good look on you anyway right )

Nova || original || ota

[bigbanger]

[here's a demon disguised as a human... washing his clothes. like a normal person. what? you think he has magic to wash his clothes? that would be too convenient, wouldn't it? other demons or monsters are welcome to see through his disguise. in any case, Nova is half falling asleep while he waits for his load to be finished. he's sitting on a bench, cheek and shoulder pressed against the running dryer itself. rumbly and warm, soothing]

Chrissy Cunningham + Stranger Things + OTA

[cheerybomb]

[Some kind of 'everyone lived' AU? Gone to college maybe?]

Torii | OC | OTA

[java_squirrel]

[She might be washing clothes, she might be washing random pieces of fabric, she might be tumble-drying pillows, it's anyone's guess, really.]

Betty Winchester-Singer | Supernatural OC/AU | OTA

[lady_metallicar]

[She tries to stop in at a laundromat once a week, but it doesn't always work out that way, it just depends on when she can find one that's open.]

Holga Kilgore | D&D:Honor Among Thieves | OTA

[nat20potato]

[Holga's the kind of person who believes in being prepared - spare quarters, extra detergent & dryer sheets, she might even have snacks, and even if she doesn't, she'll watch your dryer while you run down to the McDonald's on the corner.]

Eames + Inception + OTA

[neededforger]

[Laundromats are a great place to peoplewatch and collect new mannerisms. Also good for a stakeout now and again.]

Joe | The Old Guard | OTA

[nicely_tousled]

[Nicky's the one who cooks, Joe's the one who can be trusted with the laundry, though it's clearly the laundry of a whole family's worth of people. He's probably got a spare quarter if you need one, and he'll apologize for taking up so much space at the folding table.]

hewwo :3c (i’m AUing him on the fly don’t… don’t worry about it)

[inumbrated]

There’s a weird sort of wishy-washiness to how Frankie’s whole existence works, and he’s not sure of the particulars in certain cases. The Coven honestly won’t let him figure it out. Like… he’s pretty sure he could just make his own clothes out of Void-stuff, but the Coven obviously wants to keep him under their thumb in as many ways as they possibly can, so here he was with actual real clothes with actual real blood caked onto them and no other options to get them clean again. He’s voiced his displeasure at the whole situation before, but again. No other options.

Usually the 24-hour laundromat is empty at 3 in the morning, but for some reason when Frankie showed up there was a guy there with a whole mountain of clothes, which meant Frankie would have to try again tomorrow or just. Deal with it. And since he’s out of fucks to give, well. It’s 3am, if the guy wants to get upset about Frankie’s handful of blood caked clothes, Frankie will… eat him. Or whatever. He doesn’t care.

After staring through the window for a couple minutes he finally sighed and went in and just picked the nearest open washer, throwing the clothes in with extra strength detergent and putting it on as long a cold soak as the machine will allow for. With that all done, he looked down at his hands and realized just holding the clothes had left them dark red with old blood. He swore softly, made sure the machine was running, and went to have a Lady Macbeth moment at the sink.

Bucky Barnes | MCU | OTA

[staring_problem]

[He's definitely sitting where he can see the door and the machine he's using at the same time, despite the fact that it looks like he's reading a paperback copy of The Hobbit.]

[coulddowithoutdreams]

[Evening Laundry in a country she's not from? Yep! Sometimes you just have to stop and wash the stains out. Johanna had just finished a job, which paid pretty nice, all things considered. Truth be told, she could have just bought a new pair of slacks, but she happened to like these, and walking around with blood on your knees was rarely a good thing.]

[Walking in with barely a limp (though a keen trained eye would say she was favoring her right side), she scanned over the laundromat casually, catching sight of the man in the proper placement to protect his back, and no one else. Fine. Taking a moment to ground herself she went to a washer, nothing in her hands to wash, and stood there a moment, peeking into one of the top loaders, frowning. A moment later she was shimmying out of her pants, and though not a modest woman, she had the decency to keep her trench coat mostly closed after. Holding the slacks up she curled her lip at them, before balling them up to toss into the machine.]

Oiy! [She called to the other in a thick British accent.] Don't mean to pull you out of Hobbiton, but do you have a shot of detergent I can use?

[ooc: hello darling. I'm unsure how well this will go, but I miss RPing with you all the same. I couldn't resist.]

Shiny \ Fabulous Killjoys OC \ OTA

[twice_as_shiny]

[Somebody manages to set up a laundromat out in the Zones and they'll make bank. Otherwise it's probably some kind of communal laundry room. Even Killjoys have to keep their duds clean.]

Eliot Spencer | Leverage | OTA

[90minutesofsleep]

[If it's stakeout for a job it's during regular hours, he might even be posing as an employee.
If it's for doing actual laundry, it could be any time of day.]

Gabriel Blanchard | OC | OTA

[bit_awkward]

[Literally my fav. Someone looks to have an insane amount of laundry that needs doing. He's probably going to be here for longer than he ought to, strategically parked at one of the folding tables reading between folding sessions.]