🐱 IT'S A CAT CAFE OPEN POST 🐱

[jammingway]

Whoever you are, wherever you're from, sometimes you just want to hang out in a room full of cats. Sometimes all you need is a hot drink and a little space to relax. And sometimes, you want both of these at the same time. Good thing you found your way here, to the chillest cat cafe in the multiverse! Part eatery, part adoption centre, part kitschy plush decor, kittens, senior cats, longhairs, shorthairs, all cats all the time.

On posters around the cafe walls, the rules:

🐈 Do not feed the cats! No matter how much they beg for it!
🐈 Do not push the cats off of chairs or equipment! The equipment is not for customers! Even if you are also a cat.
🐈 Do not carry hot food or drinks around the cafe - there are tables for that!
🐈 Do not pick up the cats or wake sleeping cats!
🐈 No flash photography.
🐈 If a member of staff notices you breaking any of these rules, they will ask you to leave.

PURROMPTS

1. FIRST VISIT. Never been to one of these establishments before? That's okay, there's always a friendly staffer around to show you to a seat, point you to the restrooms, demonstrate how to play with a cat wand, gently encourage you to buy drinks - perhaps you'll meet someone else in the same boat?


2. REGULAR CUSTOMER. You know the drill, they know how you take your coffee and the cats know your scent. Fortunately, there's always some new kind of trouble to watch the cats get into.


3. EMPLOYEE. Someone has to make the drinks, feed the cats and clean up after the messier patrons. The pay is decent, but as with any service job, the customers can be a Russian (Blue) roulette at times.


4. RISK TAKER, RULE BREAKER. Perhaps that less than model customer is you. How can you resist surrendering a bite of your salad to these big round kitten eyes? What if you simply have to scoop up one of these beautifully soft fuzzballs in your arms? Well, just don't get caught.


5. ADOPTION DRIVE. Today, volunteers from the local cat rescue have set up a stall and some pamphlets inside the building, just in case you were on the fence about taking one of these kitties home. And if you're up for giving one of them a home, why not two? Here, take this Kitty Starter Kit bag full of toys and treats while you're at it.


6. UNUSUAL CAT. There are more kinds of cats who need homes than your standard street moggies. Is that a velvety-smooth Cornish Rex purring in the corner over there? A hyperactive Bengal kitten zooming across the cat shelves? ...A bobcat??


7. WILDCA(T)RD. It's cats! Cats cats cats.

Comments

idfk w/e

[allpunchman]

[As a pro, even a former pro, All Might wouldn't normally let himself be cornered in public places like this cafe. Mass media is everywhere, and these days the questions they would ask aren't the kind he has stock answers for yet. As a teacher, on the other hand, sometimes you find yourself unexpectedly needing to discuss curricula with a colleague or two - and sometimes, the colleague you need seems to have vanished into thin air, leaving his sleeping bag in the faculty office.

Being a teacher is hard. :(

Truth be told, he hasn't set foot in this cafe before, although he's commuted past it often enough. It seems like a nice place, judging by the warm atmosphere, the smiles on the faces of the patrons and the contented felines lolling around in the back. What it does not currently contain is Shota Aizawa, which means All Might is all set to back out of here and try elsewhere.

That is, before he catches sight of a different familiar face.]

Ah, if it isn't young Midoriya! You look well.

[He has to flash the boy a smile, with the bright ease of a performer who has a lot of experience hiding their own embarrassment. His fidgeting with the smartphone in his bony hands might give him away, though.]

[uglycry]

[ Izuku simply couldn't help himself when he heard his classmates talking about the cat cafe. With everyone furiously working in their internships, Izuku is happy to have a day for himself. Admittedly, he feels a pang of guilt -- he should be studying, training, practicing -- but instead he's treating himself to a mug of sweet, milky tea and a visit with the cats.

He's only just received his drink, the warm mug pressed carefully between his palms, when he hears an all-too-familiar voice. Which may well make him yelp, flail his newly prepared tea all over his front and the floor. (Thankfully, he narrowly misses a splotchy, round cat that strolls by with a bored squeak. ]

A-ah! [ A hero he might be one day, but a soggy, flailing mess of a student he is now. ] All Might! [ Another flail, as he tries to find a place to sit the dripping mug. ] Aah, hot, hot, hot...

[allpunchman]

[Ah, and suddenly the boy looks somewhat less well. He should have expected that.]

Hey! Calm down. [Ignoring the trickle of blood that escaped his mouth in his own surprise, All Might plants a hand on Izuku's shoulder and does his best to forcibly point him towards the closest empty table - okay, empty except for a snoozing black longhair draped over half of it, but close enough. (Perhaps Eraser was here earlier and felt so comfortable that he turned into one of the cats?)] And quiet down, while you're at it.

[uglycry]

[ Whoops, there he goes, making a fool of himself in front of All Might again. He's had many conversations with his mentor and teacher, but it never takes away the awe Izuku feels in his presence. He will never shake the nerves or the excitement that comes with being in the presence of the number one hero.

But he listens and stumbles to the table, careful not to drop the hot drink on the cat who, disturbed by a visitor, glares at him with half-lidded eyes. ] A-ah... right, sorry! [ He shakes his hands, fingers lightly burned by the drink. ] I didn't think I'd see any of our teachers here! [ He didn't think YOU'D be here, All Might, but if All Might likes cats, and Izuku likes cats, that's one more thing they have in common, right?! ]