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Characters: Feferi and ~you~
Date: between the end of the Recollection Day feast and the start of the next mission
Warnings: none anticipated
Summary: catch-all for pre-mission tomfoolery

[ A. COURTYARD ]

[ Feferi has staked out a corner of the courtyard, sitting on the grass with a basket of flowers at her side. Encircling her hair is a tiara made of flowers, and she in the middle of making another one. When anyone passes by her little alcove, looks up with a small smile; not her usual excuberant one, but friendly all the same. She holds up with in-progress flower tiara. ]

Hello. Would you like one? The price is that you sit and talk with me while I make it!

[ B. SQUIDGE PARK ]

[ Feferi has found over the past year that when she's feeling a little under the weather, that a visit to the squidge park is the best medicine. She's made her way there today and has gone about her usual routine, handling the squidges each in turn. Usually they're pretty well-behaved, but today, she's gotten ahold of a rowdier squidge who seems to want to try and wriggle around a little too much.

As it wriggles in her arms, she starts to lose her grip on it and, fumbling to make sure she doesn't drop it, and she winds up having to squeeze it tight until she can get it close enough to the ground to put down. ]

I guess she's just feeling ornery... was it something I did?

[ She comments to no one in particular, only whoever is around to hear it, and puts her hands on her hips as she watches the squidge toddle away. ]

[ C. HOTSPRINGS ]

[ You can't go wrong with a visit to the hot springs. Anyone coming for a late-night dip will hear Feferi before seeing her. Her beautiful, yet non-descript song, rings out through the trees, completely uninhibited by any sense of disturbing others. Who else would be here this late at night?

In her bathing suit, wearing her pearl necklace set, she perches on a rock, first brushing her hair, then braiding it. She's not paying much attention around her, leaving her rife for the pranking, or just for someone who wants to sit and listen in for a while. ]

[ D. WILDCARD ]

[ Hit me with your best shot! ]

Comments

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[bladefaire]

[ Lon'qu doesn't shy away at the greeting for once, if only because he's not entirely sure what he's looking at. A girl? A mutated manakete? A fish monster?? mysteryghost.png

Either way, his attention darts between Feferi and the flower crown she has held between her fingers, and he responds with some offense: ]

A warrior does not wear tiaras.

[ He doesn't want to look silly. ]

[fintastic]

A warrior does wear tiaras if she wants to!

[ She takes some of her own offense to that remark, except that she's not very intimidating. Her fins puff up and her nose crinkles, and it's anything but scary. ]

A warrior is not defined by what they wear.

[bladefaire]

[ He harrumphs, unimpressed by her reasoning. ]

That may be true, but there's no use in excess accessories on the battlefield? What if it flies off in a sudden gust of wind and flies into your eyes, blinding you? What if it catches on a nearby branch and hinders you?

[ And then you could DIE and where would any of them be? Dead, that's what. ]

[fintastic]

If the wind blew it off wouldn't it fall behind me? Or way in front of me?

[ She's already trying to pantomime how the flower crown would have to fall off in order to hit her in the face; she can't seem to get it. ]

Besides, we're not on the battlefield, we're in Oska, and we are safe right now!

[bladefaire]

[ Don't point out the flaws in his logic. He frowns even deeper at her words, though he doesn't correct them. (Largely because she has a point.) ]

Something could attack us at any moment, if they track down our location. We must always be ready.

[ He hasn't...fully understood that they're hidden away from the rest of the galaxy yet. ]

[fintastic]

That's not true! We're safe here! Plus we have that big dragon to protect us even if anything does try to come at us. But also we're safe.

[ She holds out the flower crown again, a little more emphatically. ]

Come on! Think of it as... a tactical accessory! If your opponent is allergic to flowers, then they'll be too busy sneezing to fight!

[bladefaire]

[ ........................That's the most ridiculous reason he's heard thus far, and yet.

He gives the crown another hard look before finally reaching out - oh so carefully, so he doesn't accidentally brush her hand or something - to pluck the flower crown up and slap it atop his head. ]

Fine.

[ And then, because he can't help himself, now that he's wearing the godsdamned thing: ]

How do I look?

[fintastic]

[ Success. ]

Personally, I think it suits you. It's really your color!

[ And not just the colors of flowers she happened to have on hand. ]

You can keep it, if you want.

[bladefaire]

[ Scowling intensifies. But he keeps it on, possessed of enough decency to follow through on his actions. ]

Are you making one for each person on this team?

[fintastic]

Well... I'd like to, but I only have so many flowers and so much time to make them.

[ She grabs her basket of flowers and sets it a little closer to him, suggestively. ]

But if you want to help me...

a!

[webdesigned]

( Peter is wandering the castle, not really in hopes of reaching much of anything, when he spots Feferi at work. he heads over to say hello more so than to investigate what she's doing, though he offers her a smile when he spots the flower crown on her head. it suits her.

he's not expecting the offer, and while perhaps some males would be disinclined to be seen wearing a flower crown, Peter isn't one of them. ) Sure, if you want, ( he agrees, sitting next to her. ) You're stuck with me either way, though. How's it going?

[fintastic]

[ Peter is clearly one of the smarter humans. There is nothing wrong with a nice fragrant flower crown, and why anyone would be against one is beyond Feferi. She smiles as he sits next to her, and reaches over toe place it on his head ceremoniously. ]

There! You look good!

[ She means it, too, in her own... Feferi way. ]

It is still going! I at least have that much going for me. Are you feeling better now? You got pretty hurt back in... on the last mission.

[webdesigned]

( he's supposed to be some kind of genius, and finally it seems evident, since he has no problem with sitting still and being adorned with a flower crown. he's not a picture guy (at least, not of himself!) but he probably will try and snag one with Feferi before he goes on his merry way.

as for how he's feeling... Peter looks passingly guilty, scratching a spot behind his ear. )

Oh, I'm okay. I promise. I heal... pretty fast. ( this is a slight understatement. he pulls up the sleeve of the arm that had been sporting a chemical burn and while there is a lack of arm hair, that's about the only sign he'd been injured at all. there's not even a scar. ) Thanks for getting me out of there, though. I didn't know you had wings.

[fintastic]

[ Feferi is all about the shellfie life, she just keeps it on the downlow-- but it is genetic. ]

Oh! Well, I didn't have wings until pretty recently. Pretty cool, right? And I didn't even have to die for them!

[webdesigned]

( say what there, Feferi? he looks troubled by the remark. )

You mean like... angel wings?

( he's not sure that's actually real, if so... but maybe it is just a troll thing? )

[fintastic]

Oh! No, most definitely not.

[ She seems a little... flustered, even, that he would suggest such a thing. ]

Like god-tier wings. Normally you have to die to get that kind of thing.

[webdesigned]

( god-tier wings doesn't actually explain that much more for him. )

How did you get them, then? From ALASTAIR?

( they've given people weirder things. ask Ramir and her giant spider. )

[fintastic]

Yep! Along with some other cool new tricks. It's not so bad, you know? A gill could used to this kind of thing!

[ She moves her flower basket a little closer, so that it's sitting between the two of them. ]

The flower tiaras are all my own talent, though. Want me to show you?

[webdesigned]

Huh. It's weird, they've never given me anything like that, but uh... maybe that's for the best.

( since he already has so many ridiculous powers and not as much control as he'd like. which he'll have to test, when it comes to something as delicate as weaving flowers together. he considers for a moment, before he picks up a flower. )

Okay, but I warn you, the last time I tried to be artistic was probably in second grade. ( don't expect too much out of him, in other words. )

[fintastic]

You could always ask. If you wanted to, anyway.

[ She wonders if there's a limit to how much they'll give you... she'll have to find out now. It might be fun! ]

It's okay, it's not that hard. See, you start with one like this, and then you get another one, and another one...

[ She demonstrates tying one stem around another, then another stem around both of those, and so on. ]

[webdesigned]

I don't think I do.

( he feels he has more than enough powers as it is, especially when his control was so lacking. if ALASTAIR gave him another, he'd just have more to worry about.

focusing on making a flower crown is more enjoyable than the reality of his limited control. he watches Feferi work for the first few flowers, before setting to work on his own attempt. it takes a few tries before he has to admit, )

This is harder than it looks. ( who would have thought something so darling and whimsical would have been so difficult? )