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Tim W█████ ([personal profile] postictal) wrote in [community profile] lifeaftr2018-02-12 01:16 pm

i know it's just a number but you're the eighth wonder [ OPEN MINGLE ]

Who: Tim and EVERYBODY WHO WANTS IN ON THIS CAUSE IT A MINGLE
What: Nail-painting. Destressing. We have earned something Nice for ourselves.
When: February 12th
Where: Just outside the Storyteller's Temple
Warnings: Probably nothing of note? Will add if needed.



There's a man sitting cross-legged outside the Storyteller's Temple, general hub of interaction that it seems to be turning into. He still looks like shit, granted, his face a colorful patchwork of bruising and a fresh bandage slapped around his middle, but that hasn't stopped him from making the best of things. A few vials of some various colorful fluids might not be familiar to everyone here, but after everything? Screw it, thinks Tim. They've deserved a break. He deserves a break. The kids here, especially, deserve a break. It's time to celebrate the fact that they are no longer in danger of freezing in the dark and living out the remainder of their days in a bleak, sunless existence.

And he liked colors, as a kid. In the blank white walls of a hospital, where everything was drained of variation and bleached white and left bone-blank, the occasional bursts of color allowed in packages of crayons and colored pencils at art time were treasures. They stopped giving him crayons after he drew the man in his room one too many times, a tall black shadow in the back of every drawing that had the doctors exchanging looks with tightened jaws and the clearing of throats that too clearly spoke to their disapproval.

It dogged him, even once he stepped out of those empty walls, his wardrobe as consistently drab and dull and monochrome as his life. It dogged him with featureless rooms and

Fuck that.

Fuck that especially, because it means that kids like Ren grew up without colors in their lives, and it means that they've had precious few simple little pleasures in the past month, and it means that they are all owed a goddamn break. And if he's bound to be a freak no matter what he does, he may as well be one with a spot of color or two.

So today, to celebrate? We're painting nails.

Fuck it. We're painting nails.

It's safe to say that Tim's new at this, particularly when he only has one good hand at the moment, but he'll still seem quite open to sharing with whoever happens along - especially if you're a kid.

[ooc: yes this is a mingle for painting some nails feel free to top-level all over]

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[personal profile] daydreamy 2018-02-23 12:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Kyouko doesn't approach right away -- she's got the tact not to barge in while he's doing something delicate but the very instant both Taako's hands are free, there appears a Kyouko with sparkling eyes. ]

Hey, hey, hey! Can I see what you did? I'm no good with like, little designs or anything like that and I've been trying to do hearts for half an hour and they're just coming out all blobby and I'm dying.
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[personal profile] ohshitsweetflips 2018-02-24 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, it's always good to meet a fan, even if she doesn't know that's what she is yet. He can appreciate the enthusiasm, even if it's not entirely his style. Declaring that you're dying after half an hour of nail art, though? Relatable, even if he's transcended that life decades past. Taako shows off his work immediately upon request, fanning both hands out with well-earned pride.

"Read 'em and weep," he says, because apparently Nail Painting Day is just, his time to shine on all these fools like a sunbeam through a prism, brilliant and gay as all hell. "You just gotta have real steady hands and maybe a hundred years or so of practice." A beat of consideration, "Or I can just do the hearts, if you want," he offers graciously.
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[personal profile] daydreamy 2018-03-03 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, please!

[ You officially have a new #1 Fan, Taako. So long as she doesn't have to duke it out with Lup or someone for the title. ]

And that way I can watch you do it too, yeah? Awesome!

[ She inspects her own nails for a moment -- they're a bit scraggly at the ends where she's been nibbling them but they've got a fresh coat of peachy pink paint on them, so they look a little neater than before. ]

Are these gonna be fine to work on? I kinda chew them a lot. I've been trying to stop! But it's sorta hard when everything around here happens so much.
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[personal profile] ohshitsweetflips 2018-03-03 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Nah, Lup's the fanclub founder, natch. No duking it out will be necessary. Taako, still buoyed by this unprecedented level of enthusiasm, makes a very inelegant snort of a laugh as he digs through assorted nail related paraphernalia. Not at her, but she really hit the nail on the head with that assessment of island life, no pun intended.

"You're not wrong. But maybe havin 'em polished will make it easier," offers Taako, who knows absolutely nothing about using personal grooming habits to deal with stress. "We can file 'em first, though. Just the sharp edges, not too much, don't want to mess up the base coat." It's a regrettable order of operations, but thems the breaks. "What's your name, sunshine?"
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[personal profile] daydreamy 2018-03-06 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Alright! I'll keep 'em still.

[ And true to her word, she does! Surprisingly still, really, considering how ready to bounce off the walls she seems. Looks like she's capable of some modicum of chill when the time is right. ]

Oh, and I'm Kyouko! Iiii'm sorta new, I guess? I got here a few months ago, but I know there's still a bunch of people who've been here way longer than me.