Rapunzel got a hold of paint

[letsdownherhair]

Characters: Rapunzel, anyone from Red dorm or might be poking their head in
Format: PROSE...or action whatever
This log is: open
Location: Dorm Red 1-B
Warnings: (optional)

White walls. Boring white walls had stared back at her for ages. Rapunzel hadn't seen pure white walls since she was old enough to hold a paintbrush. To be frank it was a bit unnerving for a girl who was used to decorating everything in sight.

So an array of paints was requested and received, and she eyed the wall above her bed. It clearly need some color. So a splash of purple morphed into flowers as she painted up the wall.

Comments

[idkmybffxiao]

Strangely enough, Mei could be very quiet when she put her mind to it. She had reason enough to barge in and be noisy, since it was her dorm room, too, but something about this made her reluctant to do so. Maybe she thought she would spook Rapunzel if she was too loud, which would ruin the picture the other girl was painting.

So, the tiny girl is at the foot of Rapunzel's bed, leaning across it, head propped on folded arms, watching with wide-eyed. It's like she just appeared there, being so quiet when she snuck over and flopped down there to observe. It never crossed her mind that someone might be just as startled by that as they would with loud noises.

[letsdownherhair]

Rapunzel finished up a few petals, turning to clean her brush and dip it in the green paint when she noticed she wasn't precisely alone. As in there was someone right there, watching her, and she hadn't even noticed. Her hand clutched the brush and she barely kept from falling off her headboard and she was going to have a heartacttack one day if people didn't stop sneaking up on her.

"...Did you want to try?" There were several brushes and tons of paint.

[idkmybffxiao]

Oops. She startled her anyway. Mei's gaze drifted from the painting to Rapunzel, then to the extra paint. She... could use some? Oh, that gets the tiny girl to spring up from leaning on the bed in a heartbeat, excited. "Can I? Really? No one will mind?"

[letsdownherhair]

"Well I don't know if anyone will mind, I won't." That stopped her midstroke though. Would she get in trouble, would someone else in the dorm mind. She let her hand fall to her side and frowned.

"Do you think people will mind this?"

[idkmybffxiao]

"No way! Everyone loves pretty art!" Because Mei loves pretty art, therefore it makes no sense for anyone else not to. She was over by the paints and the brushes two seconds later, picking out colors she would need as the mural she wanted to doodle all over the wall around her bed pieced itself together in her head.

"...are there metallic ones? Ooh, here. And red. I'll need red! For his coat~..." Wait. The tiny girl stopped and frowned for a moment. "...was it Edward? No, or was it Alphonse..." She puffed out her cheeks, pouting, and huffed, annoyed. "Fine. I'll just put them both in it! May I use the silver, Rapunzel? Um. Aaand... these colors..." So many colors. "And... these brushes?"

/spies on them but is too scared to enter

[myblueskies]

Romeo stood at the doorway peering into the room. He recognised the kind lady who he had met on the roof. She had seemed a strange adult; she liked climbing and had seemed almost scared of him. Romeo was only here because his dorm was… well it was frightening even though Romeo was doing his best to be brave. Everyone was so much older than him, but as he had walked out, thinking of going inside he had seen a girl who looked about his age. So had followed her.

Now he was watching quietly. The adults at the desk had said a lot of confusing words to him, like the fact people could be weapons, or that he was a 'discard', that was apparently a bad thing but as far as Romeo could understand it meant he was not owned by anyone- he failed to see how not being owned was a bad thing.

Maybe in this school the adults were bosses just like in Milan, maybe you could only learn here if they owned you. Maybe the kind lady on the roof owned this little girl. Romeo watched as they painted, it looked very pretty, like Angeletta’s pictures.

aww <3

[letsdownherhair]

"Of course you may." Rapunzel gladly shifted the colors over to Mei and nodded firmly. No one hated pretty art right? So the wall clearly needed some of her beautiful floating lights, and she could see how that would work, the flowers already there framing her lights.

And Mother wasn't even here to get mad about them. She grinned as she splashed on blue paint until her guilty conscious caught up.

"Hey Mei...do you miss your parents?"

[idkmybffxiao]

Mei collected up the paints and a brush or two and dashed over to her own side of the dorm. She didn't notice they were being watched just yet, so intent on starting her own painting project. The girl would begin at the bottom, near the wall, with plants and animals from Xing, even though the best she could manage were stylized figures only slightly fancier than stick figures.

At least her brush strokes were really nice and smooth? She had Xing's written language to thank for that one. Bamboo, mountains, colorful birds, tigers...

Eventually she did glance away from her painting, looking back to answer Rapunzel's question, when she spotted Romeo peering into the room. "Hi!" She waved at him. Wavewavewave. "Why are you hiding over there?"

As for the question, well, she shifts her attention away from Romeo and back to Rapunzel. "Um. No. Not really. I have only met my father once and my mother can't leave the Imperial city to live with our clan, so while I miss her... it isn't because of this place."

[myblueskies]

The pictures were so beautiful he recognised some things from books that Doctor Casello had showed him, Tigers for one he knew what they were. The plants though and the birds, they all looked really different from anything he had ever seen before. The little girl was talking about how she had only ever met her father once and how her mother couldn't leave somewhere. That made Romeo sad and he didn't even realise she had spotted him until she asked why he was hiding.

Caught he stepped into the doorway proper. "I'm sorry! I heard voices... that's really pretty!" He kept glancing at the adult, she had been kind to him on the roof but you never knew with adults and he didn't want the little girl to get into trouble.