I'd say she's clumsy because she's falling in love- but she's not

[hairwag]

Characters: Tomoko and you!
Format: Any
This log is: open
Location: Courtyard
Summary: Tomoko has new shoes! .... New shoes that she can't tie. Cuteness happens.
Warnings:

Tomoko had been very pleased to get new shoes. After....after that nightmare, she wanted something easier to move around in, and her boots weren't doing it. So now she had cute, adorable pink sneakers- and a huge problem. No matter how much she tried- she couldn't remember how to tie her shoes. Or figure out on her own. She kept bunching the shoelaces together and yanking and moving them around in circles, and nothing happened. She couldn't get them to do work the way they should, no matter how hard she tried.

So she ended up just going out for a walk in the courtyard with her shoelaces completely untied. She had fallen twice on her way out, and she was being very careful not to fall again. She stopped to think for something else a moment though, and one foot went down on the other foot's shoelace. When she went to try and take another step, it ended with her on the ground.

Comments

[hairwag]

"H-Himoto-san?" That was the only person she could think of that would save her like that. But when she turned her head, that....obviously wasn't Himoto-san.

[formerly_known_as_prince]

Nope, but it was an easy mistake to make. Same honest smile. Same idealism, tempered with a little cynicism. Same bike shorts. She let her go, not being the type to use that as an excuse to get handsy.

"I'm Utena. Are you OK?"

[hairwag]

"I'm fine! I just tripped, but it's okay!" She likes that smile Utena has, and offers one of her own in return.

"I'm Tomoko Oashi." She blurts out, remembering she hadn't introduced herself.

[formerly_known_as_prince]

"Maybe 'cause your shoelaces are untied?" Said Utena, the obvious-seeking missile. She pointed for emphasis.

[hairwag]

Tomoko nodded a few times. "I know they're untied!" At this rate, people were going to end up thinking she was making some weird fashion statement.

[formerly_known_as_prince]

"Oh...Do you...need help?" Utena fidgeted, afraid of saying the wrong thing. She'd figured out by now that there were people here from all different kinds of places. Maybe the place Tomoko came from had only velcro?

[hairwag]

"You'd help me?" Tomoko asked, still looking a little surprised. What a nice girl! "Um- yes, then. Help would be nice. I know how to tie them, I just..."

[formerly_known_as_prince]

Utena knelt and tied the shoes firmly. Perhaps a little too firmly, because she was concentrating so hard and didn't want them to fall off again.

"Maybe it's one of those things everyone seems to have forgotten. I forgot a lot of stuff...." She said from kneeling, being very careful to not look up her skirt like a true prince.

[hairwag]

Tomoko wasn't even concerned if Utena was going to look up her skirt or not. She was sure anyone with a smile like that could not be a bad person. Once Utena had tied her shoes, she clasped her hands together and offered a great big smile.

"I think so. At least everyone forgot somethings, I don't feel as silly. Thank you for helping me!"

[formerly_known_as_prince]

Utena stood up. "Hey Oashi-san, can I ask you something?" She said, nervously performing wrist stretches.

[hairwag]

"Um- yes?" Tomoko asked, looking up at Utena. The question, and Utena's tone of voice had caught her slightly off guard.

[formerly_known_as_prince]

Crack crack went her knuckles. She held her arms out parallel, stretching them too.

"Are you a...Weapon this time around?"

[hairwag]

The question still seems strange to her. The idea that she could ever be a player seemed too weird to be true. Thank goodness it wasn't, right now.

"I am!" As always. "Why do you ask? "

[formerly_known_as_prince]

Trunk and spine this time, side to side. Crick crack. The physicality of stretching bleeds off the awkwardness of the question to her, somehow.

"Do you need...someone to protect you? I mean you wouldn't have to actually act as a Weapon or do anything, just because the game requires that you be one and I guess i'm kinda babbling..."