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 Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 3:00 pm
She was supposed to be patrolling, she knew she should be controlling, but she'd had several bad encounters lately and was nursing more than her fair share of bruises. Combine that with the fact she had several pieces of coursework to get in for her degree and she simply didn't have time to save the city.
Life had to continue on, there was more to life than 'I have some sort of weird super powers', and if she didn't manage to pass her examines and graduate then she was going to be up the creak without a paddle. It was for this reason that the red head had ensconced herself at her desk and had been there for several days. All right, so she hadn't been there in one sitting, it had been broken up into a fair number, but she hadn't really left the house.
Liliane's world revolved around study at this time.
Liliane's world revolved around getting this building to make sense.
The rest of what existed outside of her immediate sphere of influence was irrelevant and she was unlikely to notice anything new unless it made a point of saying hello.
Engrossed in her study, she was really quite picturesque; framed by the small garden on her windowsill and resting her chin in her palms as she gazed at her conundrum. Window open and breeze brushing gently into the room, there was little activity beyond the occasional 'hrm'...
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Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 12:04 pm
Theo wasn't sure where exactly he was going, but he knew he had to go. Staying cooped up in his barrack room was not something he wanted to do, and it wasn't as if he could be contained. Not like those other weak folk who seemed to hang out there.
Nah, he wanted to move, so here he was, just strolling out at random, following the whims of fate that twisted and turned him about the city.
After a good enough while, he came across an window with a rather sad looking flowerbox sitting outside of it.
... Did this person even know how to take care of something? It enraged him in a way, seeing those poor plants suffering like that! And the window was open too!
"OI!" Theo picked up a rock and tossed it into the window. What? Wasn't as if they could chase him down or call the cops on him. Well, the could, but he could just teleport out of there. "Take care of your ********' plants!"
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Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2019 8:07 am
Pat. Pat. pat.
The sound of the stone skittering across the exposed wooden floor of her room was ignored for a very brief moment of time before it 'bonked' against her chair and caught the corner of her eye. The yell from outside hadn't initially been heard, she'd simply been too focused on her current work, but it wasn't every day that a stone slid towards you and came to settle at your feet.
Glancing at the window she was grateful it was open, but she did have to wonder how the hell that had gotten in.
Pushing back from her seat she finally made her way over, socks scarcely making a sound against the wooden panels as she finally peeked out of the window to catch the tail-end of Theo's remarks. Unsurprisingly her expression was perplexed as she glanced down at him.
"What?" she asked. "I didn't quite catch that."
What was so urgent that someone needed to throw a small stone into her room, he seemed fine!
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Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2019 12:26 pm
Theo was juuuuust about to pick up another stone to throw when some girl stuck her head out the window.
"What, you def? I said take better care of your <********> plants! They are dying out here and lookin' like a blight on society by their lack of care! What, do you not actually fertilize them? Oh, I bet you're one of those wanna-be gardeners who just lets them sit there as long as they look pretty on their own, and the moment they start withering you throw them out!" The second rock was still held in his hand, this one bigger than before, but he held back on tossing it at her face.
... Yeah, he was over reacting, but when the only memories he seemed to have was about plants and stuff, it was hard not to hyper focus on those things.
"I bet you don't even know what kinda plants you have!"
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Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2019 2:13 pm
She blinked slowly, it wasn't that she didn't understand what he'd said, only that it wasn't an everyday occurrence to have someone hurling insults about her horticultural abilities through her window. It had certainly made the day more interesting, even if she didn't quite know how to take it at the moment. For the time being she wasn't offended and instead she glanced down at the garden he was stood near.
"Are you talking about out there because we had to take a blow torch to that recently," She admitted.
"No idea what happened, lot of weird stuff happened with the plants around this place a while ago and our ivy went nuts, combination of a chain saw and fire had to get rid of it so... " she shrugged. "We're still mourning the rose arches, they're going to take a while to cultivate again," she mused.
As for the window box...
She afforded a quick glance towards her plants, some of which were fine due to their propensity to not require care, but the peace lily she had bought on the day of her awakening was looking decidedly worse for wear.
"Mmm, but this is just negligence," she agreed. "It's been a long few weeks, dissertations suck."
She might as well make the most out of the distraction, even if it was chastising her.
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Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 9:03 am
"A... A blow torch?! Are you crazy?!" What in the world would anyone blow torch such precious things!
Her next words had him seeing red, and he stormed up closer, shoving a finger in her face as best as he could.
"YOU VILE DIRTBAG! Do you even care about the lives you're ruining?!" His finger moved from her face to the poor withering flowers there. "Dissertation or not, you have a responsibility and clearly you don't give a rats a** about it! you're just gonna let things die because you got a little busy! You should be ashamed of yourself!"
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Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 8:35 am
"You know, this whole 'weirdo screaming at me through an open window' thing is pretty new to me and I'm all for people being passionate about what they love but you need to chill out," she carefully moved the plants to the side and leaned out of the window, affording him the opportunity to point his finger at her properly if he felt so inclined to do so.
"Context tends to matter, you know?" she motioned to the rather frazzled rose arches that would eventually recover and shook her head. "For example, that torch was the only thing that was actually working on the damn roses until whatever the hell caused it went away," she wrinkled her nose. "Last time I checked miracle-grow didn't cause your roses to sprout and cover the entire house in a night," she raised a brow.
"We won't even mention how the rest of the garden did the same thing, it probably would have been easier to set the house on fire," she shrugged. "My dad loves those roses and you can be damn sure that come the summer season they'll be back in all their glory," she smiled warmly. "Though maybe not covering the entire house again, pretty sure he'd like to avoid that one," she added.
...Oh she knew what had caused the overgrowth, but she knew betetr than to spout that truth, she'd been warned well enough.
"And when it comes to these guys," she motioned to her windowsill. "Most of them aren't meant to be watered much, the others will be ok with some TLC, plants are durable," she eyed the one who was the worst off. "That's part of what makes them so neat, you can do a lot with plants and put them almost anywhere; give them the right conditions even if you put them on the side of a high rise and they'll thrive."
"It just needs some water and the dead leaves cut off and it'll spring back, so... You can relax a bit all right, it's not as if it's a brown husk with no signs of life right down to the bulb, you know?"
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Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2019 2:47 pm
"Excuses excuses!" Theo was gonna hear none of it, and flipped his middle finger up at her.
"Blah blah blah, Clearly you're not capable of taking care of such things properly. You'd better watch yourself, someone might steal them to give them a better life!" Someone like him, who could easily come back in the middle of the night and just uproot them all.
Teleporting was great, you could get away with so much!
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Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2019 12:18 pm
"What, like you mate?" she lifted a brow.
Given the plants were indoors she was more than capable of simply keeping the windows shut. Then again, people yelling at her from outside her own bedroom window in regards to said plant life may very well be otherwise inclined to invade whether she liked it or not. Forget the fact that individuals did exist who could enter her house without using force...or they might have been able to if her parents had pushed aside their frugal tendencies and actually purchased a real mirror.
Now wouldn't that be an interesting encounter, eh?
"And even if you did do that, what would stop me from just getting more anyway?" she asked curiously. "You have odd hobbies if they involve stealing plants off windowsills."
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Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2019 6:25 am
"And then what makes you think that if you keep buying more, they won't go missing too?! Hey, free plants to a Loving home!" This time, he cupped his mouth and turned away, shouting at the neighborhood around them. Granted, there weren't really any people out at this time of day, but he could still make a show of it.
"Ex-owner ******** SUCKS AT GROWING PLANTS! KILLS EVERYTHING SHE TOUCHES! COME NOW AND CLAIM ONE BEFORE SHE KILLS AGAIN!"
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Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2019 5:37 am
Liliane took a moment to move several of the trays and tiny plates from her windowsill, setting them to one side on the nearby desk. It was then that she leant out the window and relaxed her elbows more comfortably on it, hands partially draped across the frame. She'd let him have his moment, to be honest it was probably the most interesting thing that had happened in her quiet street for quite some time.
...Whether or not everyone was home to see it yet or not remained to be seen though.
"You'd have to be a very dedicated thief to keep stealing a new plant," she pointed out once he had finished with his initial tirade. "Like...stalker levels of thief weirdness," she added and tilted her head to the side. "And how am I supposed to redeem myself if the thief keeps taking them before they sprout properly and thrive, eh?"
"And AND..."
A pause.
"What happens if I put cameras up and the thief gets caught and goes to jail?" she asked. "What happens to all those plants they took then while they're all locked up!"
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Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 8:45 am
It only served to further irritate Theo just how casually this girl was acting about things! Plants were better than people, she should know that! So why was she being so heartless!
"There's much weirder things in this city than missing plants. Maybe if they are stolen enough you'll learn from your stupid mistakes and go do something better with your life. You redeem yourself just by stopping, duh!" Oh. The cops. Yeah... It wasn't as if the police could really keep him down if he wanted to escape, but it's not as if he could say that out loud to some stranger.
"Yeah, and what if your cameras get broken before you go the cops?!"
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Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 9:13 am
Liliane was silent for a few moments as she eyed her new found companion; whether or not he liked it, he'd inserted himself into her life for the day at least and now she was firmly distracted from what she really should have been doing. She'd never met anyone quite so eccentric, nor could she entirely understand the outbursts but uh...maybe he had some sort of condition?
Some people lacked a measure of impulse control and some people simply couldn't stop themselves from yelling, nervous ticks of some description though she was far from qualified to work it out.
"Have you ever seen a Canary camera...?" she asked curiously and tilted her head to the side. She was genuinely curious, he certainly had a great deal of love for plants but this was extreme even for her and she would have liked to have come to some understanding.
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Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 1:52 pm
"The ******** is that?" Despite his raging, it seemed to come to an easy stop the moment some information his mind couldn't recall was asked for. His face scrunched up, going over and over again if those two words meant anything to him in that muddled mess that was his mind.
Nope, not a clue. But atleast it was enough to distract him and get him to quiet down a little bit.
"Is it a camera that's shaped like a canary?"
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Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 2:49 pm
"No but that would be cool," she admitted and grinned.
"If I was more artistic I would probably try to put one in some sort of canary plush toy but I'm not great at sewing," she admitted and leaned a little further outside of her window. Failing to achieve the angle she wanted, she was soon climbing out of it so that she could sit down properly, lean back and use on hand to hold one while she pointed towards her house's front door.
"See that little thing there above the door?" she asked, motioning towards what looked like a tiny golf ball.
"You can get them in a couple of different shapes," she added and shrugged her free shoulder. "I guess they're called canary cameras because they let you know when danger is coming before it gets to you?" she hazarded. It made sense to her anyway.
"They're pretty neat, though we mostly use them to make sure no one's stealing our mail," she eyed him suspiciously. "Or plants, it would seem..."
"What's your name anyway? Just in case I need to tell my story to the gossip columns for a payday," she teased.
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