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maskormenacelogs2016-08-02 09:11 pm
23wishes) wrote in maskormenacelogs2016-08-02 09:11 pm
OPEN ● the night breeze carries something sweet
WHO: Aerith and friends and YOU!
WHERE: Pretty much everywhere but mostly Nonah
WHEN: All through August!
WHAT: A big catch-all for Aerith and co.
WARNINGS: None yet; will update if this changes
1. All Porter cities!
[If anyone knew Aerith from her own home world, this would be a familiar sight. Aerith is standing around on a street corner with a basket on her arm, filled to the brim with flowers. It's August, so this month's selection includes gerbera daisies, irises, and her usual lilies and roses. She's stopping locals, mostly, who are more than happy to pay a bit extra to buy a flower from an actual import, and such a pretty one, at that. She'd made a point to dress extra cute today just for this.
Aerith will stop you on the street, too, and ask in her sweetest voice:]
Excuse me, would you like to buy a flower?
[Be careful, though. Despite all her frippery, she'll be charging people individually by how nice they are to her... and maybe using a bit of her own power of soul reading to be sure.]
2. Nonah
[A lousy hole-in-the-wall takeout restaurant in one of Nonah's less thriving neighborhoods isn't the place someone would expect to see Aerith. And yet, here she is. It's one of her usual hangouts, in fact. The restaurant is your typical greasy spoon, selling your usual selection of good ol' American traditional foods like overstuffed hamburgers, greasy fries, hot dogs, and sad attempts at salads. She loves it.
She takes her order of a burger, fries, and lemonade in its brown paper bag across the street to an even grittier looking area: a half-empty lot filled with gravel and dirt that may have once long ago been an attempt at starting a park. Now, instead, it's essentially a trash dump.
But something weird is going on here. Aerith sits down on a small concrete ledge, and somehow, it looks like she belongs there... It might have something to do with the grass and wildflowers that have bloomed only around where she's sitting. Weird, huh?]
3. Anything else?
[If none of these are hitting you, come up with something else and I'll roll with it. Aerith spends a lot of time in her garden outside Nonah 06 and sometimes she just goes out wandering porter cities alone. Or hit me up on plurk at![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
MahouShoujo or PM me if you want a specific starter!]
WHERE: Pretty much everywhere but mostly Nonah
WHEN: All through August!
WHAT: A big catch-all for Aerith and co.
WARNINGS: None yet; will update if this changes
1. All Porter cities!
[If anyone knew Aerith from her own home world, this would be a familiar sight. Aerith is standing around on a street corner with a basket on her arm, filled to the brim with flowers. It's August, so this month's selection includes gerbera daisies, irises, and her usual lilies and roses. She's stopping locals, mostly, who are more than happy to pay a bit extra to buy a flower from an actual import, and such a pretty one, at that. She'd made a point to dress extra cute today just for this.
Aerith will stop you on the street, too, and ask in her sweetest voice:]
Excuse me, would you like to buy a flower?
[Be careful, though. Despite all her frippery, she'll be charging people individually by how nice they are to her... and maybe using a bit of her own power of soul reading to be sure.]
2. Nonah
[A lousy hole-in-the-wall takeout restaurant in one of Nonah's less thriving neighborhoods isn't the place someone would expect to see Aerith. And yet, here she is. It's one of her usual hangouts, in fact. The restaurant is your typical greasy spoon, selling your usual selection of good ol' American traditional foods like overstuffed hamburgers, greasy fries, hot dogs, and sad attempts at salads. She loves it.
She takes her order of a burger, fries, and lemonade in its brown paper bag across the street to an even grittier looking area: a half-empty lot filled with gravel and dirt that may have once long ago been an attempt at starting a park. Now, instead, it's essentially a trash dump.
But something weird is going on here. Aerith sits down on a small concrete ledge, and somehow, it looks like she belongs there... It might have something to do with the grass and wildflowers that have bloomed only around where she's sitting. Weird, huh?]
3. Anything else?
[If none of these are hitting you, come up with something else and I'll roll with it. Aerith spends a lot of time in her garden outside Nonah 06 and sometimes she just goes out wandering porter cities alone. Or hit me up on plurk at
Option 1 De Chima - August 3rd
He'd stayed there for a good half hour, just taking in how she acted and interacted with the people passing by. From what he could tell off that, she seemed to be genuinely a nice person. All smiles even when people weren't looking.
Eventually the staring of locals towards him and the whispering got him to straighten up and head over. The person she was currently asking if they wanted to by a flower was shaking their head no, being polite about it. So Daryl stepped in between them and reached out to take one of lilies from the basket and give it a good sniff as he answered:]
Sure. How much?
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But then, finally, he approaches her and she recognizes him from the network - Rick's friend - and then it all makes sense. Rick had told her the sort of world he was from, in not so many details; it was a terrible mess like hers. That sort of environment breeds suspicion in people. Look at her, after all.
She meets his eyes with a friendly smile anyway.]
Hmm. A dollar. I think we know each other, after all.
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Whatever.
[Daryl put the lily back and reached out to take one of the daisies instead, other hand digging cash out of his front pocket. He took a quick sniff of it, nose crinkling as he pulled back from it. He forgot how bad they smelled that close. Pretty to look at, though. Simple.
He handed over a few crumpled bills, then lifted the daisy up.]
Three of these.
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Aerith loosens the other two daisies for him from the rest of the basket but hesitates before handing them over.]
Are you sure you don't want anything less stinky?
[There's a bite to that. Who the heck insults a flower?]
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He shook his head.]
Nah. Don't matter how stinky they are, they ain't for me.
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[Well, if he's sure, who's she to turn down a sale? Even if he's a bit of a jerk.]
Who are they for? Do you have a girlfriend?
[She's gonna leeeean in and give him a look. She guesses he's kind of cute, under all his scruff.]
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No.
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[Midgareans don't judge. (She may be messing with him. He's surprisingly easy to fluster.)]
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[[Daryl didn't judge when it came to that, either, but he still took a lot more offense to the probing suggestion than it really warranted. His shoulders twitched like he wanted to bring them up more and knew he couldn't because it would just give her more to make assumptions about.]]
Ain't for nothing like that. The hell's wrong with you?
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I'm just teasing you. Relax.
[It means she likes him.]
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They're for the animal shelter. The desk at the front's always got some flowers in it.
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... The animal shelter...
[It's repeated out of amazement, honestly. That was absolutely not what she expected.]
It says a lot about you that you've been able to keep a kind heart despite the world you're from. Sorry I teased you.
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Whatever. Just wanted some fucking flowers.
[It came out mean on purpose this time, defensive. He wasn't looking for pity. Wasn't looking for sympathy, either. He had wanted to check her out for himself, up close and not over the network. Which really, he was doing, but he didn't like the turn around she was doing on him at all.]
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Whatever. [She mocks his tone.] I'll see you around.
[Aerith won't even wait for him to leave - instead she just walks off to find a different corner to sell on, one where some weird grumpy asshole won't watch her.]