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bakerstreet2016-03-01 06:00 pm
gameofsocks) wrote in bakerstreet2016-03-01 06:00 pm
snowfall;
❄ it's quiet
and the snow's beautiful tonight
snowfall;
stage i; none, streets are already blanketed in white.
stage ii; very light and intermittent.
stage iii; light - moderate. lasts longer periods.
stage iv; continuous, heavy snowfall.
stage v; the hardest of cores - blizzards, snowstorms, you name it.
scenarios;
① fuck the police, this is the best time for a walk. hope you've got a nice thick coat on.
② stranded in the buttcrack of nowheresville? weren't you watching the time? now you've gone and missed that last bus out of there. or maybe you're lost, somehow. what do?
③ literally chilling, in this weather, is quite easy to do. sitting around relaxing in it is a wee more difficult, but sometimes much more enjoyable, especially if shelter can be found. the snow is beautiful to watch, after all.
④ the weather's not going to stop you. your snow fort's packed full of ammo and ready to go. those aren't snow angels over there; they mark where the poor souls you've downed have fallen. be careful with that snowman's head!!
⑤ you're about fifty miles from civilization but there's a roof over your head, so never mind the chilly draught, right? right. you mightn't be the only one lucky enough to stumble upon this little shelter, though. remember to share the blanket.
⑥ everyone stuck outside should be jelly. you've got a fireplace and hot cocoa and damn if it isn't awesome. a heater's not quite so romantic, but it'd do. there'd better be a backup generator in case the power trips.
⑦ mix and match, or make up your own.
- from krystaliske@memebells
So terrible it's great?
One hand covered her eyes. The other hand covered his mouth. Because he was...thinking, that's it. And thinking about it, she wasn't his sister.]
I can lower my hand, but...once you see it you'll never be able to forget it, you know.
[Sakura wouldn't get the option. He'd be dragging her away.]
pretty much!!
She can't be the baby forever. Right??? ]
I can handle it! It's...it's just a snow sculpture! Ha. Ha. [ ...........Elise, did you literally just say the words haha, that isn't how you fake a laugh. ] I'm super mature enough to handle it!
[ she says, as though she hadn't likely invited him to like ten tea parties so far today. ]
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You just said 'ha. ha.'
[KEEP ON TALKING, the implications that he's realizing as he stares at it makes him want to shield his own little, ah, yumi because he just...he really thinks he doesn't want to know what arrows that poor son of a dastard who sculpted it is pulling out of their own quiver. The wood of the bow is clearly warped in some profound fashion. It wasn't cared for. Rot's setting in. It's taking a lot of restraint to keep his hands where they are (one over his mouth, one over her eyes) because he just wants to...he's not sure what. Cringe? It's hard to look away, but it's also hard to look at it. It just raises a lot of questions, you know? Who sculpted this? What inspired it. If someone inspired it...what have you seen. What battles have you charged into? What fights has your bow been in?]
Were you trying to fake a laugh? This'll be too much for you, but...if you insist...
[The hand is going to mo- gods, no, he can't bring himself to do it. It just wavers a little. Imagine if the tenuous Nohr-Hoshido diplomacy effort was ruined because the youngest prince of Hoshido let the youngest princess of Nohr gaze upon three swords proudly unsheathed.]
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Tenuous the peace-making might be, but Elise of Nohr is...never tenuous, pretty much. She leaves the stand-offishness to her siblings and cheerfully does whatever she pleases.
Except just now. ]
...Your hand isn't moving at all! [ do you think she isn't MAN ENOUGH, Takumi, is this what this is. Granted, Elise will probably ask any number of questions he doesn't want to ever hear if she gets a good look at the scene, but. But she can totally handle it. ]
A-and I wasn't faking a laugh! That was...totally real. Yeah. Just SO REAL. [ ah truly her acting skills are superb, no one will ever guess she's flustered. ]
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[Said in the same way one would say, "Ah, yes, I see that the weather wasn't understated." It is stated like one would state a fact, something painfully obvious which everyone knew, because obviously if that's what she thinks is acting she's never seen an actor walk around, let alone an actor acting.]
Well. I can drop the hand, but don't blame me if you regret it. Are you ready, Elise?
[He probably shouldn't, but, you know. She's not his sister. Responsibility only goes so far.]
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[ ...Wait, hold on, he wasn't insulting Nohr, he was insulting her. If...if only she had a comeback for that. WHY DOESN'T SHE HAVE A COMEBACK FOR THAT. She should ask Leo to give her a compiled list of potential comebacks to sarcastic Hoshido comments, maybe. Or, wait, that wouldn't be diplomatic, would it? ]
And I'm completely ready, Mr...Mr. Grumpypants! [ That's it. That's her best comeback.
This is why Leo handles the verbal sparring in the family, isn't it. ]
1/3
One, two...
2/3
He really screwed up. He's not exactly sure how he screwed up, but he knows, deep in his bones, in his soul, that he screwed up. He could feel the disapproving stare from all of his ancestors, from father to his grandfather and beyond. If his older brother learned about it Takumi would never live it down. If anybody learned about this he'd never live it down.]
3/3
[He's not exactly sure who he's apologizing to, but he has the feeling that he'd be buying a bunch of incense in the next week and finding a painting of his father.]
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Elise is...well, Elise is pretty much just staring. While blushing. They'd better hope their siblings don't come to find them productively staring at snow sculptures (or rather, the culprits better hope that doesn't occur; the wrath of the elder siblings on either side is not pretty).
There's a distinctly puzzled tilt to her head after a second. ]
...Waaaaaaaait, what's that ring for...? [ Elise, don't ask. You don't need to know. ]
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No! Don't- [That's not an answer.] It's, uh...magic! [...that was terrible, even for him. Apparently they'd be screwed if they had to act their way to victory.] Listen, there's some things you just don't need to know about. [...] Ever.
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...So you know what it is! [ She's coming up blank, honestly. Elise is pretty much the most innocent person in the vicinity, regardless of her age. She's sort of certain she's going to remain that way Forever if only because no one ever explains anything to her except Niles on occasion but then Effie threatens to smash his head in or something so Elise tries not to ask too much. ]
...It's something bad, isn't it.
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[Yup. He went there.]
And I shouldn't be telling you this, but that...normally...
[Words.]
...it normally doesn't bulge like that. That... [Ah.] ...thing the kimono's hiding shouldn't be sticking out like that. Don't assume that...
[Suddenly he realizes that he's essentially trying to give The Talk to someone who he has no fraternal obligations to. His hand, which had gestured to the...strangely rashy pa- listen, whoever sculpted this, go talk to a healer later. Not Sakura.
He will shoot you if you go to her with this. But Jakob's an ass who knows his way around a staff. Go talk to him about this. Because it shouldn't be doing that. And if that's anything like yours...no. Get help. And if it's not, you should still have a better idea of what that's supposed to look like.
Unless you're taking artistic licenses, but still. It's in the ballpark but something is direly wrong here.
...right. Hand which gestured to that part dropped.]
I shouldn't be telling you this. You should be hearing it from you- Xander. You should be hearing it from him.
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[ She. Doesn't think he's that much older, anyway. He's at least as flustered as she is, so he certainly can't be that much more mature in these matters. Right? It's not like anatomy is a foreign thing to Elise; she's a trained healer, even if most of the healing ends up being done magically.
But, uh. It's also not like she ever has cause to really spend a lot of time with this particular part of anyone's anatomy. So.
The look she turns on Takumi is quite frankly horrified. ]
You want me to ask Xander about this? He'd probably hunt down whoever made them! ...Maybe we should fix them. [ It's...it's clearly an inter-kingdom project, so maybe they can just. Do away with the, uh. Extra parts. ] If our brothers see this - or our sisters...well, it's nice that the soldiers are getting along [ ??????????? ] but.
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[Maybe they could, uh. He's not sure. But as he very warily touched the closest figure and instantly regretted it a little dusting of snow from the top dislodged itself and gently bukkaked his head, which...just...]
We should destroy it. Before anyone else who isn't us sees it. [Does he have to say that he's specifically got the two oldest in mind, does he?] I don't think we can save it. Or them, if our brothers see this.
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[ It's not like it's a usual topic to cover in sex education with your big brother. But. She's okay with not knowing forever, or asking Takumi again when she's a lot older. Staring hasn't helped her in the least so far.
Her lips firm into a determined line, though, and Elise reaches up to...
disrobe the snow figure. ELISE. ]
Okay! We should take this stuff back, too... [ She says, before. Pausing as she pulls off the kimono. Good lord their army really got detailed on the musculature. How bored WERE they? ]
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[There's a long, hard- bad choice of words there. There's a cold and chilly pause as he can feel his arrows try to retreat into his quiver as he stares at the art(?) and just-]
We're giving them extra drills. [He's a prince. He can boss around people.] They clearly need more things to do. [They're just going to walk away from it, or at least he's going to back away a little.] Things that don't involve...snow- wait. We can't just take that back.
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Did you want to make a new snow sculpture with them?
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[...even if they're like, you know. Sheltered in their own ways.
There really is only one option, isn't there, and it involves PG13ifying something NC17.]
whoops missed this notif
[ ...how to put this. ]
Should we knock that off?
[ IT'S NOT USING IT, ANYWAY. ]
It happens to the best of us. :|b
[This is the grim determination of a prince who sees his destiny unfurling before him, and it's a mighty damn shitty one, and yet he knows that he can't let her knock it off and be able to face himself in the morning. He might not have that many years more than her, but, he's got a few and...yeah.]
...
[...]
...could you stare at something else while I do this?
[Because he also doesn't want the memory of him breaking off something lewd to be seared into her brain, either.]
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[ Honestly, Elise? But since watching seems to be bothering him, Elise turns her gaze to the side for the moment, glancing around the camp. It's so pretty with all the snow, really. ]
Hey, does it snow like this in Hoshido?
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[And off it goes!
...
He takes a moment to stare at his hands.]
You can look.
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Takumi, down! [ ...juuuuust as a small volley of snowballs sails overhead. ] Oh noooo. I totally thought they'd just decided not to have the snow war after all...
[ Let's just. Start crawling around to the other side of the sculpture on hands and knees - that's what Elise is doing, anyway. ]
...dare me?
(He might need ammo. But he's a prince and will deny that he'll throw a snowball very shortly.)]
i dare you