♈ >aradia: stay optimistic ♈

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♈ AA: Late Morning; Phone

Is everyone feeling better now? I hope so! Everyone was in a bit of a frenzy and I was really worried about everyone.

Maybe we can do something fun to get past it. That sounds like a good idea right? We shouldn't get stuck on all those negative feelings! Things really aren't that bad! It was just a really huge bump or something!

I saw that there's an environmental, recreational area that would be suitable for outside activities. I think we'd be able to play there right? Does anyone want to do that?

♈ AA: Afternoon; Action at the Park

[So Aradia was given a jump rope by the drone mom in her house and was ushered off to the park.

Except...Aradia doesn't know what a jump rope is. Instead, she has taken one of the hats from the closet in her hive and is now running around the park with that hat jammed on her head and using the jump rope as a whip.] This isn't a very good whip! I wonder if there's supposed to be an alternate use to this item.

[Even so, she'll continue her fun in the park.]

♈ AA: Late Afternoon; Action around the Town

[Being the good girl she is, she's picked a whole bunch of flowers from around the park and she's giving them to anyone that looks like they might be feeling down. Nothing like trying to bring some cheer to others.] Here you go! you look like you could use something to cheer you up.

I have read and seen that humans often enjoy picked decorative plant-life as gifts to make others feel better. I hope that it helps!

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[late afternoon]

[stoppedhiding]

[ Golbez isn't particularly upset, but he is the sort who always looks perpetually grumpy. He stares in surprise when the girl hands him a flower. ]

...that's very kind of you, thank you. [ To keep it or not to keep it? Well, she seems happy enough to be giving them out, so... ] Did you say you've read that humans do this?

[heardeadpe0ple.livejournal.com]

It's no problem! After what happened, I think everyone needs something to cheer them up a bit.

I did! I'm not usually human. I only look like one because of this place. I'm still unfamiliar about human interactions, but I saw that this is a common thing to do. Perhaps I was wrong though?

[stoppedhiding]

[ Interesting. Of course, looking human is no guarantee that she is human... but if she isn't supposed to look human but does, that says even more about the power the people in charge of this town wield. ]

No, you were right. It's common where I'm from, at least. [ Even if he's never actually given or received any. ] If you don't mind -- if you aren't human, what are you?

Action at the Park

[ooeeooahah]

[ There's a woman reading on a park bench, close enough to answer that question. ]

That's because it wasn't made to be a whip. It's a skip-rope. Two of them tied together in the middle make a passable bolo, though.

[ Ilsa, what kind of childhood did you have? ]

[heardeadpe0ple.livejournal.com]

Oh. But wouldn't skipping while holding a rope be the same as just skipping without one? I didn't know humans needed a rope to help them skip. [Not getting it...] A bolo? What are those like?

[Of course she doesn't find it weird.]

Action: Around the town

[a1a100.livejournal.com]

[He stares at the flower given to him, not knowing what to do with it.]

Uh, thankth.

[Shouldn't he be the one giving flowers to her?]

[heardeadpe0ple.livejournal.com]

[You could keep it. Or get rid of it when she isn't looking.]

Your welcome!

[You can find a flower quickly and give it back to her!] You don't have to keep it though. I just thought it would make you feel better.

phone;

[cullscuttlefish]

Thanks for looking out for me, Aradia. I was...well, I wasn't myself, not at all. But I'm feeling a lot better now!

And that sounds reely exciting! I'd love to come out.

[heardeadpe0ple.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're feeling better now Feferi!

We should get everyone to go to it! They had a strange area that looked like you could play in it. [What are playgrounds. How do they work?]

late afternoon;

[wantasammich.livejournal.com]

[Not expecting a teenage girl to offer her flowers, of all things, Hawke is a little startled - but she accepts it, regardless, because okay that is kind of cute.]

That is a thing that humans do, yes, though it's not always flowers. [she grins] This isn't something your... people do, I take it?

[heardeadpe0ple.livejournal.com]

What else do people give to cheer others up?

[She shakes her head.] Back home, people weren't as peaceful and welcoming. We lived by a strict hemospectrum too, and I was pretty much at the bottom.

[Park]

[has-no-plan.livejournal.com]

...What are you doing with that jump rope?

[heardeadpe0ple.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what it is! I thought it was a whip of some kind. It isn't a very good one though.

phone

[heteropennae.livejournal.com]

Environmental recreational area?

[heardeadpe0ple.livejournal.com]

It has a lot of plant-life! Trees and pavement where you can walk on. Oh! And benches. And there's this sandy area with a strange building for I guess playing on.

action at the park

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[damn, Aradia, how can you be so positive about everything? especially when you were so negative before. it's kind of crazy!

regardless, when she hears Aradia's phone call Terezi takes 'play' to mean 'roleplay' and makes her way over to the park. she hasn't regained her Redglare cosplay or accessories yet, so she's settled for a simple red dress and dark sunglasses. she's wielding a broom in place of her cane.]

Aradia?

[heardeadpe0ple.livejournal.com]

[Maybe you get epiphanies when you come back from being dead for so long? It's hard to guess what goes on in her mind sometimes.

As long as it doesn't involve everyone backstabbing each other again, maybe they can do some roleplaying. Because really, the backstabbing gig is pretty old at this point.]

Terezi! Look what the hive mother unit gave me! I don't know what it's for though. It makes a pretty terrible whip.

[Action in the Park]

[39degreesc.livejournal.com]

[While Aradia is whipping about which her Jumprope, Mesousa ends up, unfortunately in the wrong place at the wrong time, taking the business end of the rope and going down like a unwisely stacked pile of bricks.]

[heardeadpe0ple.livejournal.com]

Oh no! Are you okay?

[Poor...thing. What are you?] You didn't get to hurt did you?

action; park

[createdblades.livejournal.com]

[ Meanwhile, he's sitting on one of the benches and just chillin'... when he spots her. At he words, he gives a slight laugh. ]

I don't think that's a whip, young lady.

[heardeadpe0ple.livejournal.com]

What is it then? I assumed it wasn't a whip since there are handles on each side. But I can't fathom what it might be.

Park

[gezellighe.livejournal.com]

[Flowers are maybe his favorite thing in the world.]

[Except for bunnies.]

[heardeadpe0ple.livejournal.com]

[She's very much given up trying to use her jump rope as a whip.

She's now resorted to picking flowers so she can hand them out around the town.

Which is why you get one too and luckily not accidentally hit in the face by a jump rope.] Here you go.

action; park

[kinship]

[Cain had been watching her play for a while, before stepping forwards with a smile when he overheard her consternation.]

Excuse me, miss, but it's not a whip. It's a toy, a skipping rope.

[heardeadpe0ple.livejournal.com]

Skipping rope! We don't have these. I guess it would make sense why it's not a whip though.

So this is a toy then?