postictal: (wupwards)
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]

catpiper: (i am a kootenai hunt e)

[personal profile] catpiper 2018-03-17 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Meh is fine because the boy is making pretty pictures on her toebeans and this is greatest gift anyone could ever give her. She watches the images take shape, kneeling down and wrapping her arms around her knees to get a better view. It's great. Who cares if the colors get everywhere-it's pretty.

Her toes are so colorful and pretty.

Seto brings up a good point though. Heck, she doesn't know. She's just along for the nail painting ride. Her raccoon fingers have painted shoes and hands and all number of things outside of nails, so she can follow his train of thought, even without having an answer on hand.
]

We could ask Tim. He's very smart.
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[personal profile] buryyourfriends 2018-03-18 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[He watches for Ren's reaction and smiles just a little bit more. This really is a wonderful place, where there's color and Ren can smile like that and feel safe. And everyone in this group seems happy with these nails paints and quiet conversations. The laughter.

Not being lonely.

It'd make more sense if Seto was told about 'nail art'. But Ren mentions someone else and that causes him to perk up too.]


I'd like to meet him then. He probably knows a lot of he's smart.

[Like Seto's Grandpa was.]
catpiper: (orla orla hypothesis)

[personal profile] catpiper 2018-03-19 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh ho? What's this?

They haven't met, which means he likely hasn't gotten a chance to get his awesome star stick. That's a crime. And the bigger crime? Not knowing Tim, one of the nicest people around. A guy that hands out birthdays like it's nothing and lets someone paint his shoes and hold his hand.

She wiggles her toes, enjoying the new colors on them.
]

He knows a lot and his heart is very kind. He can tell you about music and flare guns and fireworks.
buryyourfriends: (50)

[personal profile] buryyourfriends 2018-03-19 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
[And that's enough for Seto to want to meet Tim - although it really doesn't take much prompting for Seto to want to meet people. Still these sound like a very neat person that has very neat things to show and teach, so...]

Can we see him once everything dries? Is that okay?
catpiper: (brmbrm with your mew)

[personal profile] catpiper 2018-03-19 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it's okay. We'll go find him together.

[She'll search this temple area front to back until she spots that peanut in the distance. And if he's not around, she'll keep an eye out for next time and drag The Boy needs to meet him.]