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[starshower]

Who: Tifa Lockhart & Eustace.
Status: Closed.
Where: Eltrut.
What: Skull painting, weird gondolas, and maybe event stuff?
Warnings: Awkward adults with awkward feelings.

Comments

[starshower]

What was "Halloween" like in your world anyway? Kind of like this, right?

[She picks up her brush and dabs the very thin tip of it into the paint carefully.]

[flamekthunder]

[A low hum.]

It would vary a little depending on the island, but mostly. People in costumes...spooky themes...and there was trick-or-treating.

[starshower]

Oh, sort of like what they do here? I know there was some tricks and treats, but... I still don't really get what that was about.

[She starts to paint her skull, dotting the brow with the neon blue as she watches him.]

[flamekthunder]

[He's made a nice ring of green dots along the base of the skull so now he's going to use some...orange. Yeah sure.]

In my world, kids would go up to you and say "Trick-or-Treat," and if you didn't have any treats to give them they would play tricks on you.

[starshower]

[She pauses her painting to tap her chin with the brush thoughtfully.]

... I wonder if we could do something like that here on the ship. Offer up the kids around here a place to collect some treats.

[flamekthunder]

Wouldn't be a bad idea.

[starshower]

[She lets a smile bloom across her lips and leans over the table a little.]

You should come dressed up, too. Get a little treat.

[Teasing. Mostly.]

[flamekthunder]

[Annnnd that's something of an uncertain frown. He has worn a costume before and got used to it over the years, but...

...]

Depends.

[starshower]

[Ah, there's that frown that she's familiar with.]

What would you dress up as, if you had to? ... Is a wolf a little too close?

[flamekthunder]

....Strangely enough, I never really tried. But I've worn a vampire one before.

[starshower]

Really!?

[That is surprising, and she almost messes up a line when she looks up at him again from her work.]

I would've thought that'd be the first costume you'd pick. It would suit you.

[Though, the image of him dressed as a vampire...

...

....

Her mind wanders a little too far a little too fast, and she has to shake herself back to reality.]

[flamekthunder]

...I wasn't really one for costumes and the vampire one was for a mission that I just kept.

[It's not as if he didn't think about it, but... He kind of enjoyed watching others dressed as wolves and dogs than himself.]

Besides, I already have wolf ancestry in me... Not really much of a costume for me.

[Plus, you know, his ears that he'll twitch.]

[starshower]

[Her cheeks do flush a little when he twitches his ears for her, and it takes so much of her willpower not to reach across the table and poke them.]

I guess. That, or it's less work to make a costume for you.

[She continues with her painting.]

If you had to pick something this year, what would it be?

[flamekthunder]

[He eyes her for a moment before he gives a low hum and resumes painting, just adding some patterns here and there with yellows and greens.]

...Don't know, really. Never really thought much about it.

[starshower]

Well, that's why I'm asking, silly.

[She waves her brush at him, accidentally getting some of the paint to splatter on the table.]

[flamekthunder]

[His eyes go to the paint splatter before looking up at her dryly before he cleans off his brush to get some...

...Should he try neon...he's not even sure what he's doing with this skull. It has something of a pattern to it, but what if he painted the insides of the eyes? Maybe an orangeish red...yeah let's work with that.]

Really have no idea. Can't really imagine myself in anything else.

[starshower]

What abooout...

[A slap of blue paint over the top of the skull's head.]

A cat?

[Okay, now she's really just teasing.]

[flamekthunder]

[Makes a face.]

Pass.

[starshower]

[There it is. Sorry, Eustace, but she's going to laugh at that.]

I had a feeling. So, no animals?

[flamekthunder]

It's likely because I'm an Erune that the idea of dressing up as other animals doesn't really seem all that interesting to me.

[starshower]

Hmm. I get it.

[She nods, because he does have a point. Though, she thinks he would look good with a little cat nose and some whiskers... but that's not a thing she will ever say out loud. And she does feel a little bad for poking at him too much, so...]

I'm a bit stuck on what I wanna dress up as this year for Ghoul's Moon...

[flamekthunder]

[While such things are cute on others, he really can't see it for himself.

As for her...

He just stares at her for a long time before simply saying:]

Rabbit.

[starshower]

[Her cheeks feel a bit warm when he turns to stare at her, and she straightens with surprise when he gives his answer, as if he already knew what it would be before she even asked.]

A rabbit? [She tucks a hair behind her ear, accidentally getting some bright blue paint on the strands.] Why's that?

[flamekthunder]

[His eyes briefly go to the paint before he half shrugs.]

Think it would suit you.

[He says it as if it's the most natural thing in the world...

Though if she asks, would he give her all the reasons he thinks so?]

[starshower]

[Of course she's going to ask.]

Is it a looks thing, or a... personality thing?