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 Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 10:19 pm
Quote: The power’s out! On a cold day like today this is the absolute last thing you needed. But, despite how beautiful that ice on the wires is, it does not make for a friendly day filled with warmth and electronics! But, there should be trucks coming out soon to fix the issues, how do you cope with the slowly creeping chill? Are you the type to snuggle up with someone you care about and huddle down to keep warm? Or are you the type to get the heck out until it’s warm enough to once more inhabit your dwelling?
It was just a little bit before Christmas, and Charybdis was super excited. Her family had all come in like three mornings before on the airplane from New York, and now they were all spending all the time that they could together. But tonight, there were holiday parties that some of them had to go to- Zora was off seeing some friends from Crystal, and Lucas some boys he knew from Azure. Jada was off doing... something... and Aidan had gone to see some new movie with Mr. Grandpa Michael. Which left Giulia all by herself, except for Cookie down in the kitchens. It had been a really pretty day, if it had been kind of chilly, and she was curled up now with a movie.
The selection she had made was some cheery little movie about a woman who wanted to be a journalist, but who didn't seem to be a very good writer. She had been told she needed to go to some country to do a report on a prince who was supposed to be made a King on Christmas. The Prince had a little sister who was a lot like Giulia and liked to be snoopy, and the reporter and the prince were falling in love and making smoochy faces with their eyes. She knew that smoochy eye look all too well- she'd seen people in-person do it for real, and the look that they got was just as soppy and gross as it was on the TV screen. Actually, it might be even more gross. Oh, Giulia knew one day she might-
Right as it was getting to one of the really good parts, or at least as good as a movie like this might be able to get, the tv screen went black, and all the lights in the house went off, and the little hum of electricity all seemed to go quiet at the same time. All she could hear was the squawk of displeased staff members- especially the loud crashing and banging that came with Cookie being startled from whatever she had been doing as preparation for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day- and the crackling of the fireplaces, which wouldn't be enough to keep the house warm all at once. Well, she certainly didn't want to be here alone...
“Cookie,” she called, grabbing her magic pen, “I'm going outside.” there didn't seem to be a reply from the harried woman who usually inhabited the kitchen, which meant that she was probably going outside herself to check on power. Giulia wasn't going to stick around here to get cold, at least not right now! At least as Charybdis she could be warm thanks to her magic and the comfy gloves and little coat she had. Maybe someone would want to snowball fight with her? It was still early in the day, after all... And so the little girl bounced into the winter snow, dancing her way to one of the parks feeling not unlike a sugarplum fairy, kept fairly warm by her magical outfit and the mysterious power that also gave her Boop.
Maybe she should make a snowman! That would be fun.
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Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2017 2:01 am
Winter break for Kalani meant lazing around doing nothing at all, but that wasn't really all too different from any other day of the week, save for the fact that there was no school. Christmas was coming, and Kalani knew that meant that she'd have to go visit her extended family, including her aunts and her million cousins, which she generally preferred to pretend didn't exist. Really, the only great thing about the holidays was all the free stuff she got, but then her birthday was also a day of getting free stuff, with the added bonus of it being on Halloween; not only did she sometimes succeed in convincing people to hand over extra candy, it was also the day she got to dress up as fancy as she pleased. Still, the holidays meant no school, which meant staying in bed, not having to go outside into the cold. Until the power went out, that was. Kalani had been in the middle of playing a game on her phone when the lights went out, and with it, the internet. Her mother was out at work, leaving the teen alone in the house, though Kalani could always call her if needed... which was never, because Kalani rather liked having the house to herself, thanks. At first, she had contemplated just going back to bed and sleeping until the power returned, the ultimate in lazy, but then had decided to take her new magical pen, the one the 'Kyuubey' cat had given her on her birthday, and headed out. Morishita's outfit wasn't the warmest, but it was fashionable, or fashionable at least to an extend where she could tolerate going out in it, and she wasn't about to commit a fashion faux pas by wearing some sort of coat over it or something. No, she'd have to simply tough it out in the meantime, find somewhere warm to hang out, until the power came back. You know, for the sake of fashion.
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Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2017 4:27 pm
The senshi of seals took a few minutes to consider her options, once she arrived at the public park. There were lots of walking places, so she could make happy little snowmen to green everyone in the morning. She and Boop could run and make tracks in the sno- wait. Did Boop even leave tracks? She hadn't ever tried to pick Boop up, or seen if he cast a shadow, or... anything. No research had been done on Boop. She was a failure as a magical seal mommy. She had been so caught up in the fact Boop was adorable and precious, and she hadn't... well. Clearly, after she decided on her game plan, she would have to do some tests on if Boop could like... make little snow rows like a seal-shovel, since she didn't actually have a shovel, and making a snow palace would be really hard without a small shovel. She could to snow angels, though, and Snow people.
The last time she'd made a snow person had been last winter, though, with Mama and Auguste and Aidan. And then she'd met... had it really been that long since Auguste had moved away and left without saying goodbye? Huh. She chewed on her lip for a moment, then bounced back from really sad to really happy with all the will power she had.
Brushing her gloved hands together in a businesslike fashion, Charybdis put them both on her hips, surveying the area that she had to work with as her canvas. Okay! She had a semblance of a plan! Maybe, if she was very lucky, that magic person wandering by would want to stop and play with her? Well, she supposed they might not, unless they were invited. So maybe she should just accost them, and see what happened? "Hello!" she called out to the distant figure, "Hi!" she broke into a trot, rushing towards them, bubbling with excitement. "Hi! Hi, I'm Charybdis! How are you? Do you wanna build a snowman? Or an angel- it doesn't have to be a snowman."
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2017 8:56 pm
Morishita was more than a little caught off guard by the presence of another magical person, in particular, one that was rushing towards her. It was her first time encountering a... what had the cat called them? Senshi? Such a funny way of saying meguca puella magi, but the cat had been adamant in them not being the same thing, and that this wasn't some ploy to get Morishita's soul. (Not that she believed a word of any of that.) Still, getting back to the present matter at hand, there was another magical person approaching her, and asking her if she wanted to make a snowman, at that. Was this some sort of strange gang initiation ritual? Charybdis, as the younger girl had said her name was, seemed like she was around the same age as some of Morishita's younger cousins, but at the same time, well, one could never be too certain. In the end, though, Morishita was a person who wanted to be seen as one of the cool kids, and if this senshi was the key to getting 'in', so to say, then maybe... "We can build a snowman," Morishita said, quickly, before Charybdis could suggest anything else, "A snowman's fine."
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 11:02 am
Gloved hands reached out for the older senshi's own hands, guileless smile and happiness in bright blue eyes. "I am glad I won't have to build the snowmen myself," she chirped, dancing in place, "I was thinking of ways to make the park even prettier for all the people in the morning. Cause I know my family always looks so grumpy about going to work in the mornings when it is cold outside, so maybe seeing happy little snow-people would make it all better for them?" she nodded sagely. "And making snow people is so much better than running away from the yoh-mah monsters. Those are gross. And they always chase my magic and try and eat it." she sighed, dramatic as only a child could be.
"They really aren't very smart, for being the baddies. What's your name? You said a snowman's fine- do you want to go find the sticks for arms? Since I have gloves I can start making the snow piles. Should we do one snowman, or a bunch? I think a bunch, so people can see them all over the park." She flung her arms open, sharing her dream for a snowman-filled park for anyone walking by to appreciate. Oh, it woudl be hard work, but they were magical people for a reason. Right?
Merurulince And as soon as their snowman is built, it is crushed by a youma. It is known.
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Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2018 11:55 pm
When Morishita had agreed to help build a snowman, she had been under the impression that they would be making a grand total of one (1) snowman, and that was that. When Charybdis started to suggest that perhaps they fill the entire park with snowmen, Morishita started seriously contemplating coming up with an excuse to make a hasty exit before this mad child could suggest something more extreme such as building snowmen all over Destiny City. It was true that building snowmen was a much better activity than being chased after by 'yoh-mah', especially since her own magic liked to backfire, but Morishita was the kind of person who always did the bare minimum effort whenever possible, and this wasn't it. "Let's start with one and go from there," Morishita quickly suggested, hoping the younger girl would get bored and give up after that, "Might not be enough sticks or something." Maybe she'd get lucky and there wouldn't be any sticks, even? Wishful thinking and all. "Name's Morishita, by the way." Senshi of the Yamamayaa, aka the Iriomote Cat, aka... well, Morishita hoped she wouldn't have to elaborate. Infinities "not my problem"- morishita, probably, as rune scolds her for not helping to rebuild it during a later retelling
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 10:44 am
Giulia nodded happily as Mirishita suggested starting with one snow-person and then moving on- it made sense to do them one at a time, then they could be certain that at least people would get to enjoy their single, whole snowperson.
The idea that there may not be any sticks was a horribad one, and so she made extra care to collect every twig and branch she could find, pulling off her little capelet to wrap them nice and tight together. "I'm Charybdis," she chirped back to the introductions, and then busied herself in her work, bringing Morishita handfuls of fallen snowdust and a supply of sticks to help any crafted snowpeople stay together.
Giulia made a little snow-senshi, only about as big as she was herself, and then- why not? She made a snow lump next to it, carefully and clumsily carving out fins, and eyes, and a split thing to be the tail.
"Look, Mori! It's a snow-me, and a snow-Boop!"
Merurulince I'd almost forgotten about this RP!
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Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2023 8:33 pm
Morishita didn't know what a 'boop' was, whether it something like an imaginary friend (which she totally never had at that age), or... a pet? Something to do with her magic? A friend's magic? Actually, why was she overthinking this? Charybdis was like what, 7? 8? Honestly, if she squinted, she would guess the snow 'boop' blob was supposed to have fins of some sort, so it was supposed to be something fishy, maybe. " Neat," the older chibi senshi said, because why not humor her? "Very uhhh... artistic?" How did you compliment kids again? Morishita didn't particularly ever care to interact with her cousins, so she didn't know. Talk to them like she did Rune, maybe? In any case, while she hoped that they wouldn't be out here all day and all night building an army of snowmen, Morishita continued to help Charybdis out with making snow people, making a snow cat herself just for funsies, until eventually, the older girl called it quits for real, bidding her farewells and bailing it out of there. Hey, at least she stayed for a little while, even though she hadn't intended to do so? In moderation, maybe it wasn't that bad after all...
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