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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] buryyourfriends 2018-02-24 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Kanata now has Seto's full attention and even if the other man makes a mistake he won't mind. A) this is super cool and B) Seto's fingers are already completely blue so he'd have no room to complain.

Was this stuff around when the world was whole?]


You're really good at this!
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[personal profile] seafriends 2018-02-25 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
Ehe, thank you..~

[ He is terrible at this, actually, but Kanata accepts the compliment with an easy smile before having a sudden realization, ]

I do not think I remembered to "introduce" myself, though..? My name is Kanata Shinkai. Thank you "for sharing" with me. ♪
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[personal profile] buryyourfriends 2018-02-26 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Ah right. Names are a thing indeed.]

I'm Seto. It's nice to meet you um, Kanata.

[He might stumble when pronouncing Kanata's name. Whoops.]
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[personal profile] seafriends 2018-02-28 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
Fufu.. it is 'Ka-na-ta~', as in "far away"...

[ Moving to paint the other set of toes, he sounds it out slowly again just so he can remember, committing the other boy's name to memory himself. Seto. Short and sweet. ]

I have not been here "very long", so I am glad to make new friends, you see..~
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[personal profile] buryyourfriends 2018-02-28 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
Ka-na-ta.

[He thinks that sounds close enough. But maybe he'll go over it again. But Kanata has the right idea about friends.]

Friends are really nice. I'm new here too and everyone here is really friendly.

[It's still kind of overwhelming, the sheer amount of people here.]
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[personal profile] seafriends 2018-03-02 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, they are "surprisingly" kind, aren't they..? ♪

[ This is also surprisingly cute.. Maybe Kanata is just feeling sentimental about his juniors back home, though. ]

But even if it is "a little" scary, the ocean is also close, so I am at ease..

[ Not that he was too bothered in the first place, but anyway. Seto's toes are now completely purple, and Kanata leans back with a pleased hum. ]

..There, I am all done.~
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[personal profile] buryyourfriends 2018-03-05 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
I haven't seen the ocean before, but it's really pretty.

[Also hello there purple toes. If Seto smiles any harder, his face is going to get stuck that way.]

This stuff is really cool. Thank you!
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[personal profile] seafriends 2018-03-06 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Never..?

[ There's a subtle look of disbelief that makes Kanata's eyebrows raise. He can't imagine life without the ocean, this is unacceptable.. ]

The ocean is what I "love most", so.. I would be very happy to have Seto "join me" on the beach sometime. We can find things that are even "cooler" than nail polish, okay~?
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[personal profile] buryyourfriends 2018-03-08 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[And that makes Seto's face light up. To have people around to share discoveries was one of his biggest dreams so--!]

That'd be so much fun! I'd like too.