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 Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 12:05 pm
Face makeup. FACE MAKEUP. What the ******** Jack was he even supposed to do with this stuff? Bul considered seeking out Mei or possibly even the ghouls from team Venture to solve this issue but that would take too long given his homework was due in just a few days! He had to think fast and on his feet.
Tahki he considered given she was sort of his unofficial scare buddy anyway but would it be fair to consider her easy prey for the assignment? Conflicted the half beast paced towards the auditorium. Catching himself in some of the mirrors outside the room he stopped, hunched over and rattled his spines.
"Grrrr... GRAWRKLLRRR!" he faked a couple threats to himself in the mirror before sighing. Wow what an embarrassing way to go. Scaring himself? With makeup?
....maybe this wouldn't be so hard afterall.
The boil reached for the kit he had brought with him in his schoolbag and set the rest down while he opened up the kit and leaned close to the mirrors. From there he would proceed to apply the pasty stuff to his face. Nobody would ever see the bruteball player in a mirror putting on makeup. Nope. Nobody ever.
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 12:24 pm
Although he had previously been gung-ho about his classes, as of late Jove had been having some issues with attendance and homework since recent events. He had been spending less time in the classroom and more time in the gym, trying to coerce other students into battling him.
But there were only so many students who would put up with his constant attempts to lure them to the gym, and even fewer who would actually beat up on the bruised little pup. He looked like one kick would put him down, the way the partially-healed bruises were darkening on his face, and the scratches had yet to even scab over. But that shouldn't have mattered, right?
The little wisp had finally been forced to take things a little slower, spending time in the library with books and studying for upcoming classes while his previous injuries healed themselves. And it was only because he was on his way back from the library when he heard an unusual noise down the hall. A... growl? Some threats? Once again ready for a fight, Jove puffed himself up and trotted to the rescue of whatever poor snot was being bullied. But instead he was met with an unusual sight.
Jove paused in mid-step, and stared.
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 12:29 pm
Tomoko hadn't been lured into battle with Jove yet, which was good becasue Tomoko was not really built for fighting. That and she was a ghoul, probably not a prime candidate for fluff-battles. Unless they just puffed up all fluffy-like at each other until one of them fell into submission. However, that day the kitsune had been out looking for the other kitsune when she had also heard the noise, her large ears perking up as she headed down the hall to see if there was a fight going on that she needed to see if she could break up.
Or something.
The first thing she saw was Jove. She regarded the boil with a certain familiarity, walking up behind him and half using him as a shield as she peered over his shoulder. "Jove-kun, what's going on?" she asked as she looked over his shoulder just to see...
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The look of confusion on her face was probably priceless as she tried to figure out what had just started happening there. Jove was there, and some boil she could half-recognize (she wasn't sure if she did or not) was there too and... he was..what was he doing?
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 1:30 pm
"This is the craziest s**t... Rengath is a pain in my a**.." Bul grumbled when he stopped to look at his reflection once. Ugh, LIPSTICK? The makeup really came with lipstick? Screw that.
Tossing the tube aside he knelt down to reach inside his bag again and put the stuff away but his eyes caught a couple pairs of feet nearby. Following the feet up very slowly Bul suddenly launched himself up and hit his head on the lower ceiling with a wince.
"AUGH!" he cried and rubbed the bump before stopping to look at the two again. He'd known them both ironically through Seiji. Jove he was particularly suspicious of after his swimming lessons but together he and Tomoko could spell the half beast's demise.
"Hi.. uh.."
The creature was covered in face makeup that looked something like acid spilt all over his face rather than anything legible in any way. "Erm... it's for a class I swear," The boil nervously tried to explain why he was wearing makeup. "Yanno... for acting class? please don't eat me.."
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Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 2:26 pm
Jove's head tilted slowly, his good ear perking up in a most clueless manner. Makeup? Wasn't that something only ghouls did, to make their eyes look bigger and their cheeks look like they had spent too much time in the cold?
He glanced back at Tomoko with a little tail wag in greeting, followed by a confused, "I don't even know myself," look. He had been hoping she had a logical suggestion, but it appeared she was just as unsure as well.
Looking back towards Bul, he tilted his head again. It was clearly a silent plea for an explanation of some sort, even the hint "acting class" meant nothing to the fluffy ghost. Had Bul said "Makeup class" or "Facepaint class," or even "Fingerpainting class", Jove might have been less confused. But he had no idea why acting would explain weird makeup!
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:04 pm
Tomoko looked to Jove, ears perking up in understanding of that expression on his face, before she looked back up to Bul, pouting lightly.
"Are you putting on a disguise or is it like stage make-up?" she inquired, looking to Jove and then patting her own face to prompt an explanation. "Sometimes in theater they'll put make up on their faces to take on the role of another person. They to it a lot in Kabuki Theater back home, but sometimes they do it so their face doesn't look bad when lit."
It was a rather easy explanation on her part, before she looked to Bul for confirmation. "Is that what it is?"
If it wasn't, she was giving him a very convenient way to lie.
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Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 12:58 pm
Having Jove continue to stare at him was flustering the monster boil. Bul recognized that look. That was the hungry gaze of a killer.
Luckily Tomoko's question threw off the uncertainty and Bul was able to turn and show them the kit in his bag. "Yea it's like uh.. stage-makeup. I think. I kinda hope not if I'm ever gonna have to wear it again but?" Bul blinked . So she had been pretty exposed to it before? Shoot this was going to be harder to do if his goal was to scare either one of them.
"Yea it's supposed to be like a way of scaring without using any fear," the boil huffed. "I figured I was pretty scary looking enough already but I guess I was completely wrong on that one." Then again if Tomoko did know how to apply this stuff from memory in a way that wasn't as terrible and tacky looking..
"Maybe you guys can uh.. help me out here?" he turned his head and swatted his tail gently against the floor.
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 2:35 pm
Jove's head tilted the other way as Tomoko explained the facepaint, and Bul confirmed it. That was interesting, a way of scaring without using FEAR? Perhaps that was something Jove should learn, being not exactly the scariest student out there, but... he might not want to learn it from Bul.
Whatever it was on his face was kinda scary, but more in a 'fearing for infectious brain parasites' way.
Still, the little pup couldn't turn down a plea for help, especially with Tomoko right there with him. Even though the kitsune would be far more helpful in this area, and the pup relatively useless, there was no way he could say no. So Jove took Tomoko's hand and trotted right up to Bul, his chest puffed up as though saying "We'll help!" And then he gave a much less puffed up glance in Tomoko's direction, an added "We will, right?"
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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 2:22 pm
Tomoko nodded to Jove's second look towards her, squeezing his hand and smiling. "What kind of look would you like, though?" she asked, pausing as she held out her hand, a small ball forming in it. The ball flattened out in her hand, then crinkled, forming paper with various drawings across the surface of it - images in Tomoko's head as to what she knew off the top of it.
Kabuki, Noh, various stage make ups. The Noh faces seemed to be somewhat distorted - grainy - as though she was recalling them somewhat incorrectly out of fear of them. It made them somewhat more ghost like and eerie in that way.
"These might be a bit more over the top, though." she noted, "But from the stories I've heard, the less over the top and more subtle you go, the better you can appeal to making somebody uncomfortable. A lot of it had to do with mood too..." her voice dropped to a whisper, "at one show, they made it all dark..and then..."
She was going to cry just thinking about it, that much was obvious, "and then there was someone breathing down my neck and I turned around and.."
there were those tears of fright.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:57 pm
EuuUUgh... Too close too close. Bul tried not to let his discomfort show though his smile read as if some sort of awkward bowel movement had occurred.
Though the more Tomoko explained Bul got a sort of idealistic vision in his head of how the paint should have turned out. "Yea these look a lot better than what I was doing. Since you two are like.. here and know what I'm trying to do I don't think it'll count if I scare you two.." Not that I could anyway. The thought depressed him a little. It was supposed to be the other way around. Cute small fluffy things in general seemed to bother him no matter what with the very slight exception of Mei's stuffed animals.
"Gah sorry I'm lingering a bit. Let's go into the auditorium and give this a shot. Practice makes er.. perfect. Or something like that s**t right?" Bul rolled his eyes then pushed the door holding it open. "After y'all."
Like hell he was going to turn his back to those hungry pups.
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 9:19 am
"Ouuu, please don't try to scare me...." Tomoko keened, seeming to be particularly sensitive to attempts to frighten (Bul probably could have managed it on his own very easily. The island-of-horrible-things hadn't really toughened the kitsune up all that much). Still, she was willing to help out anyways.
She looked at Jove, holding onto his arm but slowly shuffling towards the door that Bul held open for them, nodding a bit.
"Okay... then I'll see how I can help with the make-up though." she nodded, steeling up her very fragile courage to the best of her ability. If nothing else, cheat and use an illusion. That was what Tomoko thought would be a good idea in the case of an emergency.
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