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voidtreckerexpress2021-04-23 07:52 pm
happyends) wrote in voidtreckerexpress2021-04-23 07:52 pm
(open) art day art day!
Who: Open to everyone, come and mingle!
Where: Garden carriage
When: Kazoo 27
What: For today the garden carriage is turned into a place to get creative.
Warnings: There's cakes. And glitter.
Whether or not you heard Romeo and Madoka's announcement, you'll know about it, unless you avoid the garden carriage somehow for the entire day (and then from then on). The changes are simple, but hopefully something to be built on: an outline made in gold paint that takes the shape of a tree with large curling branches that greets the viewer from the longer width of wall, and a fishing net draped down the length of wall by the nearest entrance, with strings hanging off it for decorations to be added to. Posters seem to be all over the carriage, carrying messages in a childish yet neat handwriting, like "Are you having a fun day? Please vote art so we can have do lots more art together!"
Small sitting pillows have been placed around so people aren't sitting on the bed of stones, and the statues once there moved to other parts of the 'garden', leaving them with sounds of the running water to keep them company.
So, just what is there to do?
THE CRAFTS;
MEMORY WALL;
CAKE;
Where: Garden carriage
When: Kazoo 27
What: For today the garden carriage is turned into a place to get creative.
Warnings: There's cakes. And glitter.
Whether or not you heard Romeo and Madoka's announcement, you'll know about it, unless you avoid the garden carriage somehow for the entire day (and then from then on). The changes are simple, but hopefully something to be built on: an outline made in gold paint that takes the shape of a tree with large curling branches that greets the viewer from the longer width of wall, and a fishing net draped down the length of wall by the nearest entrance, with strings hanging off it for decorations to be added to. Posters seem to be all over the carriage, carrying messages in a childish yet neat handwriting, like "Are you having a fun day? Please vote art so we can have do lots more art together!"
Small sitting pillows have been placed around so people aren't sitting on the bed of stones, and the statues once there moved to other parts of the 'garden', leaving them with sounds of the running water to keep them company.
So, just what is there to do?
THE CRAFTS;
- The group have done their best to get as many art supplies as possible, with two trunks taken from the luggage car, and filled as tidily as possible. Inside one is a variety of papers, from tissue to cardboard, decorated and plain, some that's shiny, and even the kind for origami. There's also some sketchpads set out to the side, for any larger projects.
And in the net trunk is all the rest you'd expect: the fun supplies. Paints, inks, glue, glitter, threads, ribbons, and wooden beads, and even scissors are set inside. Some of those paints? Why, they're even shiny paints, and plenty of them. There are books too, at different crafting levels. From how to make paper cranes, butterflies, flower garlands, and whatever else you might imagine. How about a tree with stars?
Pretend what you want's inside them, and have fun.
Or perhaps you brought your own craft along to the carriage. Whether it's knitting, sewing or anything else creative you'd like to do, there's definitely a place for that as well! It's like there are spots in the carriage that have been left intentionally empty for people to sit down with their own tools and work.
MEMORY WALL;
- Very, very simple folded animals have been put on the corners of where the netting is displayed, stretched out to make the most of the hanging that the netting provides (you have to get creative with what you can buy).
Looking it over, there's already what seems to be names on cards, placed around different parts of the netting. Perhaps you may recognize some of the names as people who have been on the train before, but have since left.
CAKE;
- Of course there's cake. How else would they tempt people to come and sit down? There's one large cake made out of rainbow and sprinkles, and then a collection of cupcakes, all a mix of colours and whatever shakeable edibles has been decided to be plopped on top.
There's also a few plates of simple yet sweet biscuits cut into a variety of shapes (cat heads, dogs, dinosaurs, and even...a train), some with light icing, some not. The quality is about what you'd expect from some kids having fun in the kitchen, and the recipes are simple for it. Don't worry; you might have glitter and sprinkles dropping onto your lap with whatever you pick up, but the shakers were about all anyone went wild with in the kitchen than the baking.
Mami's helped to bring along refreshments in offering different flavours of tea, and there's even a few flavours of coffee to pick from too.
So grab a cuppa, a piece of cake, and have fun pretending you're five and in art class again and create a masterpiece.
Or even show others how to.
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[He thinks for a little, and then brightens. Seems he's also taking this more seriously than most boys his age would. Though really, he doesn't have time to get all weird about gender norms on a train like this.]
If I help you, could we make three colours? Then we could put them in a pattern maybe.
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Of course!
[ Honestly, she's always willing to indulge people when it comes to their wishes. Especially when they're being as good about this whole deal as Rich is. Madoka honestly can imagine guys his age usually being a little bit more difficult about this sort of thing, but as long as he's enjoying getting his flower crown, then Madoka is more than happy to go along with any request with a smile. ]
Which colours were you thinking of? I made sure we'd have a lot to choose from here!
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Pink, purple and blue. Those are some of my favourites.
[And as someone recently out of the closet, he's a little bit overeager, but who can blame him at that age. Besides, it lets her have some fun, and he'll get a fun souvenir out of the deal.]
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[ .. though the significance of those particular colours is going over her head entirely. But hey, at least she's very much approving of his choices in colours? She's already turning towards the paper lying around, trying to find those three colours for her little project here. ]
Purple and blue are nice too.. But I've never met many boys before who liked pink.
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[He would have been called all sorts of names, none of them pleasant, and back them, he had not yet learned the talent of not giving a fuck.]
I'm guessing you like pink because of your hair?
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I don't know.. My hair has always been like this. [ Since she knows some people on the train have assumed before that she dyed it this way, but nope, it's all natural!! ] But I'm not sure if I started liking pink because of that.. It's just since it's a nice colour, you know?
[ It goes so well in so many situations! ]
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[He shrugs it off. People have plenty of weirder features around here than natural pink hair, so it doesn't make a difference to him.]
I think your hair probably makes it even nicer in stuff to wear. I'm not usually able to pull it off.
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[ Madoka is looking at Rich right now, and she can kind of imagine him wearing something pink.. It doesn't seem too weird to her in her mind. But then again, she hasn't actually seen him with something pink, so she can't fully judge. ]
I think a pink shirt would probably look really cute on you. With some silly text on it! Or a cute puppy.
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[He does wonder if he'd look good in it when paired with his harsh red scars. It might draw attention away from them, though... which Rich could definitely appreciate.]
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Just make sure to be specific.. [ She's starting to work on the headband now, sorry for the delay! ] I mean, the train sometimes gives out very..
[ Her voice trails off.
It's clear Madoka is trying really hard to look for a diplomatic word. ]
.. unique outfits.
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Yeah, makes me happy I've chosen to save my points so far. I'll think about ordering something specific, but not just at random.
You gotten anything really weird from them? All I ordered was my guitar and some Mountain Dew... they gave me a bunch of weird flavours of that though.
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[ She has seen what some people got, okay. And some choices are just.. they don't even seem like clothes.. ]
With everything else, it seems to be fine as long as you're specific enough. I've learned! [ Madoka sounds kind of proud of that, though it fades away into curiosity when she continues to ask: ] What kind of flavours did you get?
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[He offers a soft smile.]
Well, I asked for Mountain Dew and Mountain Dew Red, which is this drink they had back for like a year in the eighties. I got a couple bottles of each, but then I got some Code Red, something called Blackout... I think there was some Baja Blast in there. Stuff that wasn't even 'red' at all, but I guess I did just ask for Mountain Dew instead of 'regular' Mountain Dew.
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.. A drink that's called Blackout doesn't.. really sound good..
[ The worrying implications are enough to even make her hands still for a moment. ]
It didn't really make you have a blackout, right?
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[Not that the other flavours can't have negative repercussions on him, but... it's probably for the best that he doesn't mention those. It would probably just end up stressing her out, and she seems too sweet for Rich to want to do that.]
Haven't tried the other weird flavours yet, but I don't think they'll do anything bad either.
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[ She may be letting out a small sigh of relief before starting to attach more paper flowers to the headband. ]
I mean, you seem like a nice person. So it'd be really bad if something that isn't good happened to you.. I'm sure you must have a lot of friends on the train who'd get really worried.
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And I've been making friends, so, I hope it's working.
[Even if he's still struggling with the idea of it being enough.]
You seem like a really nice person too.
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That's.. um. That's impressive though. Realising that you're not a good person and wanting to change that.. [ A lot of people don't get to that point. Either because they don't realise, or because they realise and just don't care. ] I think that'd probably take a whole lot of effort.
[ Even if it's a little hard for her to imagine, since Madoka has always been relatively good. ]
But if you have friends now.. then I think that's definitely a sign you've gotten better! After all, I don't think people would want to be friends with a bad person..
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It took me a long time to realize it. To fight back against, well, everything holding me back. And I make missteps too. A lot, if I'm being honest.
[The art thing is kind of a distraction from all of that right now.]
So it depends if they want to keep being my friend, when I mess up like that.
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[ She smiles a little as she offers it. Granted, it's not like she knows him very well at all, but.. Madoka just wants him to know that there are definitely always people out there willing to be friends with him, as long as he tries to be a good person. ]
I think it's okay to make small missteps sometimes.. I think everyone does that from time to time. But being friends is all about forgiving each other if the other person seems apologetic.
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[Granted, he hasn't been right now, but he knows he usually is, and that a girl like her probably wouldn't want to hang out with someone as blunt as he is. Plus there's the fact that she's so cute. He flushes and looks down at the floor.]
I... I mean, that's true, but you're always free to not forgive someone, even if that person feels bad. They'll just end up taking advantage of your kindness.
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I don't think you seem very abrasive.. [ But then again, it's true that he has been on his best behaviour around her so far, so of course Madoka isn't going to think that about him.
(And it helps that she's always inclined to think the most positive thing possible about anyone, really.) ]
You just seem like a nice person who likes pink things! So.. I think that makes you pretty great.
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[Not that that was entirely his choice, but he never likes to give himself that excuse when he knows he still went along with it.]
Well, I think you're pretty great too. Um, I'm Rich, by the way. Rich Goranski.
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Nice to meet you, Rich!
[ He's so lucky that he's exactly in the age range where he can still escape being called 'mister' by her.. Treasure your age, Rich. Treasure it. ]
My name is Madoka Kaname. Um, I've.. never been a bully myself.. [ Or so she thinks?! She tries to be nice to everyone all the time, anyway!! ] But what's important is what you are now, rather than what you used to be, right?
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[He laughs a little nervously.]
It's a complicated situation. I um... used to be under someone else's control. It made me change a lot of who I used to be. And so the figuring stuff out is, uh, a work in process, you know?
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