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 Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2014 2:52 pm
Faith sat at one of the outdoor tables at her favorite teashop, dolled up in full gothic lolita regalia from the rose in her hair to the delicate Mary Janes on her feet. She could feel people walking by staring, and she supposed that was usual enough - people weren't used to the way she dressed - but it was mostly those not in the area of the shop, since they were all well and familiar with her.
She was contentedly sipping her tea, occasionally breaking off a piece of blueberry scone and nibbling on it.
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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 9:12 pm
Luca took runs through town from time to time to keep her strength up. These days, it also acted as a sort of quasi-patrol for her. If anything looked unusual, she'd sneak off, henshin up, and then come back to tackle whatever had shown up. Today, her route took her by a certain tea shop. She wasn't really much for tea (it just tasted like scented hot water to her) but she assumed that perhaps she just hadn't prepared it right. Maybe it would taste better if it had been prepared decently. It wasn't too hot out, so maybe stopping and getting some tea to taste wouldn't be a bad idea. It was then she saw it. A marvelous dress that straddled the lines between cuteness, beauty, and elegance. She had seen dresses in this style before while puttering around on the internet. Gothic Lolita, right? She would be lying if she said she hadn't entertained the idea of someday getting a dress like that for herself one day. ...Of course, she also saw the person wearing it. Duh. Slowing down, she approached the lolita-clad girl. "Hi! Can I ask where you got that dress? I like it," she said, trying to sound as friendly as possible to avoid weirding out a stranger. Songstress Kitsune It is okay, I am slow too. ;3; By the way, do you have a reference for what Faith's wearing, or can I just make up details?
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Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 5:49 pm
Faith gave the stranger a polite smile. Questions weren't unusual, and so she was happy to explain. Her lolita clothes were probably her favorite thing to talk about, either way.
"Online, actually! It's a bit of a process, though." She admitted, laughing a little. "I have to go through a proxy buyer in Japan or China, for a lot of these." She tilted her head to the side. "I'm Faith. Sit down?" She offered, reaching down to smooth her skirt a bit.
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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 7:57 pm
"I'm Luca! Nice to meet you, Faith." Taking the offer, Luca sat in a chair nearby. "A proxy buyer, huh? Sounds complicated. And expensive." She had never really ordered anything from overseas before, so things like proxies were new to her. "I've seen dresses like this online, and I've thought about getting one for myself, but I've never really had the opportunity." For the most part, she'd dismissed getting a lolita-style dress as a sort of pipe dream, so she hadn't ever broached the subject to her parents.
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 9:25 pm
Faith took a sip of her tea, and nodded. "It is - they take a fee on top of the price of the clothes, which is often already ridiculous. Worth it, though, and if my parents are going to send me to that damned boarding school they can afford to fork over for a few things to make me feel pretty out of uniform." Faith would never speak well of her school - being in a boarding school with actually troubled delinquents when her worst crimes were petty theft and sarcasm towards authority figures was really not a fun adventure.
"You sohuld look into it, if you think you can afford it. Some of the sites ship internationally, those are the easiest ones to go through!"
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 4:26 am
"I think I just might. ...If I can afford it. Maybe I'll try for one for my birthday. The whole 'fee on top of the price' thing might scare my parents off." Luca chuckled to herself. What did she want for her birthday, anyway? Maybe a nice dress like this would be a good present, even if it would take a ton of cajoling to get her parents to buy it for her and she wouldn't be able to get anything for a while after that. The mention of Faith's school caught Luca's attention. "Boarding school? Where do you go to school?"
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 9:17 am
Faith grimaced slightly at the question about her school, staring at her hands for a moment. "St. Magdalena's Seminary," she said, exhaling. "It's a school for delinquents, which apparently I qualify for by having zero respect for imaginary authority." She shrugged her shoulders, trying to brush it off.
"It's Catholic, which is super because I have yet to find a ******** to give about religion and sometimes I very seriously consider declaring myself a Satanist or a Luciferian just to watch the nuns have a heart attack." She grinned faintly. "My parents wanted me out of the house and they heard about St. Mag's, so they bundled me off there."
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 12:18 pm
"Oh." To Luca, Faith didn't seem like a St. Mag's girl, though she could definitely see that rebellious streak that would get her classified as one. But hey, Luca could understand a little rebellion or mischief here and there, and she smirked a little smirk when Faith made the quip about giving the nuns a heart attack. "I think I'd do that at some point, too. You should do that, and... I don't know, tell me what happens." She giggled despite herself. "That sucks that your parents just wanted you out of the house, though. Me, I'm just a normal Meadowview girl... part of the choir." Well, she was a normal Meadowview girl aside from the whole senshi thing, but Faith didn't need to know that.
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 2:12 pm
Faith grinned. It was good to find someone else who had a little rebellion in her. "Maybe I will. For real, even," she said, but her tone was still light and joking. "Eh, I knew it as coming, they've been tired of my attitude for a long time. And it could be worse, at least the people I go to school with are unfailingly interesting."
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Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2014 12:07 pm
"For real, huh? I'd be careful. You never know what the devil has in store for you!" The devil, Chaos, whatever. It was kind of similar, right? Maybe Luca was taking it a bit too literally. "Interesting? Like... what kind of interesting? Really interesting, or 'interesting?'" She threw in little air quotes on that last "interesting." "I mean, like, are they cool people in some way, or are they just... out there?" Redundancy made articulation tough sometimes.
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 5:33 pm
"They're pretty cool," Faith said, "and a lot of them are decent ladies once you show that you're not someone to be run over. Even the ones that are, you know, actual criminals, or would be if they ever got caught." Her eyes sparkled with light amusement. "There's never a dull moment, that's for certain."
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 6:43 pm
"I think I can see the appeal of tough girls," Luca said. "There's just something about them that makes them cool, right?" Secretly, she wanted to be some denomination of "tough girl," and figured that she had to be to survive the senshi life. She wasn't sure if she had it in her, though. "It sounds like you handle them pretty well. Maybe you've got toughness, too!" It wasn't empty flattery; she really did think that a certain degree of toughness was required to survive an environment like St. Mag's.
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 7:03 pm
"Very much so," Faith agreed, laughing softly. She took a sip of her tea, and then tapped her feet under the table briefly. "I mean, I hope I'm tough, I've been doing jujutsu for years. It's kinda how I...prove myself, y'know? If you can flip somebody over your shoulder, people respect you." Sure, she was tiny, but it still worked out pretty well for her.
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 7:57 pm
"Jujutsu? Oh, cool! I kickbox, myself. Maybe we could have a martial arts trading session someday, huh?" Sometimes, it amazed Luca how many different ways there were to clobber a person. "Really, I think it could be a lot of fun." While Faith was probably not a senshi and therefore might not have as much use for a new fighting style as Luca did, Luca thought it might come in handy if, say, a Negaverse officer crept up on her. Negaverse officers did like to hunt civilians, after all.
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 8:45 pm
"That definitely sounds like a lot of fun," Faith said. A sparring partner with a totally different style would be pretty damn awesome. "I actually really love seeing other styles in action - jujutsu works best for me because I'm, as you may have observed, on the smaller side - and jujutsu is all about using your opponent's moves against them, so, y'know, six-foot muscle girl is running at me, I get down just right, throw her, and bam, she's down, because her own momentum did her in."
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