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 Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 11:03 am
The encounters with shadowy heartless had forced Muka's hand. He had to *gasp* clean out and organize his closet. The waterfall of clothing out of his bedroom window had gotten the attention of several students at this point but the frequency of additions to the pile had begun to taper off. The clothes were all fine fabrics, custom tailored and recognizable labels. Most were much too small now for the girthy strix. His bearded head popped out of the window sadly, peering down at the pile with a hoo of disappointment. His closet was feeling.... empty.
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Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 11:38 am
Lizzy could feel it. Someone, somewhere, was tossing fine clothing out their window... Or maybe she just happened across the peculiar sight as she was making her way to Junko's room.
It was a waste, really; why not donate them to someone? Or even to one of the local charities?
Walking over to the clothing pile, she looked up, and squinted at the window; the person peeking out looked familiar, but she couldn't put her finger on who it was. Either way, she decided to wave her arms in the air, both as a greeting and so as to get the student's attention.
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Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2013 7:34 am
Muka didn't need to peer. The perks of being an owl-man included very good eyesight. "Hello Lizzy!" He grinned and screeched down to her before heaving himself out the window like a man committing suicide. The strix was fearless as he hurtled towards the ground and his wings extended just at the last second to pull him vertical and set his pointed shoes on the ground. He moved much more dexterously than someone of his size should. "Just doing some.. ah.. Spring cleaning!" He pulled the spider ghoul into a hug, whether she wanted it or not.
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Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 12:36 am
"HiEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-" Lizzy shrieked in surprise when the student at the window leaped out and fell towards her at great speeds. When he landed, she almost fell over backwards; as she tipped over, she found herself saved by a timely hug.
"A-ah! You're... Muka?" She asked, too surprised to hug back. Also he's a boil. Not that she doesn't hug boils, but he was a client... Is hugging a boil client ethical?!
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Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 6:45 am
"Yes of course!" He hooted and released her from the cushy squeeze of fat-guy hug. Though they may have only encountered one another a few times, she was already in the friend-zone. He didn't think there would be anything wrong with hugging. "Did you forget me already?" Muka giggled again, knowing himself to be much too obvious to be forgotten.
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Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 10:41 am
"Ah no! Of course not! But... You look... Different," Lizzy replied sheepishly, smoothing down the creases on her dress after she was released from the hug. Taking a step back to take a closer look at Muka, she paused, tapping a finger against her chin, "I can't figure o- Oh! You're grown since then!"
Grown a lot.
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Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 11:25 am
Muka broke into a period of slightly raucous laughter and grabbed his belly. He patted it heartily. "Oh yes I've gotten a bit ahh... hrmm.. FAT." He didn't seem to mind so much but it led the strix to poke his pile of clothing with a toe. "In the old days, my brother told me, it was a sign of ahh status to be large." The strix snickered. "because it showed you could afford to be." For a moment he looked like he was winking at Lizzy but then his other eye blinked a moment later. "I've been cleaning my closet out of ill fitting clothes." He picked up a silk shirt that he'd been rather fond of, ran it through his fingers, and dropped it again. He hadn't really thought through what he'd do with all of it once it was out the window.
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Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 11:30 pm
"Oh, um. How about donating it to a welfare organization? I think there might be homeless shelters and orphanages in town that might need clothing... You just have to bundle them up and drop it off," Lizzy suggested with a smile, "Or you could sell them in a flea market..." Although all of his clothing looked so valuable that they might look out of place in somewhere like that...
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Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 7:48 am
"Ahh.." Muka's eyes blinked unevenly. He was not familiar with markets that catered to fleas. Nor was he very familiar with homeless shelters or welfare organizations. If his father were involved in such ventures, the strix had been left out of it. He sort of stared at her, giggled, and shrugged while scratching his beard. "I'm afraid all those terms are unknown to me!"
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Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 7:58 am
"Oh?" Lizzy seemed rather surprised as she glanced briefly at the pile of unwanted clothing, "Lets put these into a big black rubbish bag first? Makes them easier to transport... I don't suppose you have any in your room? Uh, maybe we should ask a gnome..."
She was sure that the gnomes would have such things laying around.
"A welfare organization is an organization that helps families or persons having trouble making ends meet... Like if someone comes into existence in Halloween and needs help settling in but can't enter an orphanage due to being too old, or families who don't earn enough seeds for their family. Things like that," She explained, "A flea market is a temporary market where there are individual stalls. Usually, the stallholders sell used things, or things they no longer want - such as old clothing."
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Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 8:02 am
If he'd had bags the strix may not have thrown everything out the window. Though several students seemed to have already picked through the pile and others had fun with the raining clothing. "Perhaps ahh.. you could ask the gnomes?" A new feeling, one of sheepishness, came over the boil. "They don't like me very much." Because he treated them like the help most likely. Her explanation made him perk. "Oh! I had no idea... I was momentarily concerned as my clothes do not seem to be in sizes accomodating to fleas." He giggled. "Unless they are big fleas."
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Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 8:16 am
Lizzy giggled, shaking her head, "Oh, no! Not a literal flea market!" She wouldn't be surprised if there were things such as giant fleas in Halloween though; after all, she was also a giant bug herself... Although spiders are definitely the best bug to be.
"Alright! Wait right here-" She gestured at the clothing pile, and then ran off to look for a gnome. About 5 minutes later, she returned, panting and with two trash bags - because she wasn't sure if one would be enough. Holding them up, she grinned, too breathless to talk.
She really should work on her stamina...
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Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 10:01 am
Muka grinned when Lizzy returned and had spent a bit of her absence imagining large fleas wearing his clothes. It had set him with a case of the giggles. He gave her back a pat when she arrived with the bags and took them from her. He gave each one a flap in the wind to open them up and handed one to Lizzy and kept one for himself. "You don't mind .. ahh.. helping me?" The strix then folded his legs and sat in the grass. With his bag next to him he started to go pull out the clothes piece by piece and fold them (sloppily) before stacking them in the bag. "I suppose I will need some new clothes now.." He glanced down to his belly and then back up to the pink haired ghoul. "I don't suppose I could emply your seamstressing skills?" She had made him the prom outfit once..
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Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 10:53 am
"It's no problem at all!" Lizzy smiled, flopping down on the grass beside Muka. Like him, she pulled out random clothes from the pile, and folded them before stacking them up in the bag; her experience with folding clothing came from helping her mother out in the boutique, so her work was a lot neater than Muka's.
"I would love to!" Her smile widened as she pulled out her purse, and from that, a small card; she had never made clothing for someone with Muka's body type before, and she was more used to making things for ghouls, so it was a double challenge! A double challenge that she would gladly accept.
"This is my name card... Well, Junko and mine," She offered it to the boil, proud that she could now officially call Junko her business partner; it started out as more of a thing for them to test the waters with, but... Things worked out, "We're not new... But we hadn't done much since we started." They did booths during school festivals, and there was that prom promotion, but... Not much else.
Her thoughts had just been all over the place for the longest time, and she had only recently decided that she needed to get a grip.
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 12:09 pm
Muka looked at the card with his usual grin and a confirming nod of his head. The card was turned with a flick of his fingers and slid inside his jacket to an inner pocket. "Wonderful! I hope my proportions aren't... ahh.. hee... daunting." As he folded the clothes and tucked them into the bag, the strix glanced up to her. "I have only met Junko once." He briefly scratched his fingers through the fluff of his beard (which got more impressive by the day ;D). "I hope she does not mind helping me as well?" While admiring the spider shaped buttons on one black pinstriped number Muka's eyes darted to Lizzy again. "How is your.. ah.. business going?"
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