rakuen | BRAIDING PARTY! \o/ [OPEN]

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BRAIDING PARTY! \o/ [OPEN]

Characters: Mei, Gino, pretty much all of Red Dorm, all people.
Format: [action~]
This log is: Open! Threadjack as you see fit.
Location: 1-B Red
Summary: Braiding party! Mei braids hair! Everyone's hair. EVERYONE'S.
Warnings: Copious amounts of ribbons.

[Initially Mei had only meant to find some string or some ribbon just to tie off Gino's braids, which she had offered to fix. They looked really bad, okay? But then she had stumbled across the art room. What followed could have been dubbed a raid, because the amount of colorful strings and cloth ribbon she had brought back to 1-B with her was... impressive.

Now she's sitting on her bed in the dorm, cheerfully humming to herself and sorting everything out by color. Blue, green, red, purple, pink. She doesn't need all of this, but she... she couldn't resist, okay? Sitting by the collection is a brush, of course. That's obviously needed for dealing with hair, too.]

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[Gino's reasons for actually showing up to this are mixed. On one hand, there's a certain level of player-weapon diplomacy that it caters to. On the other, her comment about his braids was a slight to his vanity as much as it was the absolute truth. He knocks, but since the door is open, it's really just a formality by this point.]

[and then he spots the hoard on Mei's bed.]

[wow.]

You think we'll need all of that?

[And all the oranges go over here aaand-- oh, he's here! She looks up from sorting.]

Huh? Oh. No. It's just the art room had so many choices! [Mei looks down again, embarrassed.] I couldn't help it. I know I took too many, buuut... [She picks up a ribbon a particular shade of blue, one that she thought looked very knightly.] I'm only going to use this kind for yours!

[Yes, Gino. Ribbons. For your hair. Very manly blue ribbons.]

[he's slightly relieved. He didn't really think they'd need all of it, but without memories he couldn't be sure. He eyes the blue ribbon as he crosses to the bed. It's a nice colour, sure, but still.]

Eh? Why not just string...

[Just use string? See that look on her face? That's a disheartened one.]

There's string, too. [Mei puts the ribbon down and motions to the collection of colorful string, which does include just simple black or beige twine, but those are so boring!] But the ribbon would look nicer.

[Yuki had been going back to her room across the hall when she heard some of the people from across the hall]

[So she did what any normal person would do when walking by an open door with people in it, she looked inside.]

[Oooh, look at all the color ribbons. She tugs on her own messy braids, she'd been doing something wrong but couldn't figure out what]

[But for now she's just loitering by the door and peeking in]

[after a pause, during which his pride engages in epic warfare with Mei's expression and is soundly trounced, he arranges himself on the floor next to her bed, picks up the ribbon in question, and hands it back to her.]

Okay, you win.

[this capitulation is not at all influenced by him noticing Yuki in the doorway. Nope.]

[Nyeheheh. Everyone falls for the sad girl face. Sucker.]

Alright! [Mei takes the ribbon again and sets it and two of the same color aside. Now that the braids are in easy reach, she sets about picking whatever mess Gino has tried to keep them up as apart.] Did you forget how to braid? Or did someone else always do it?

[She hasn't noticed Yuki just yet.]

[Oh! The younger girl was braiding hair, maybe she could show Yuki what she was doing wrong]

[But it's rude to just walk into someone else's room uninvited]

[So. She's still standing in the doorway]

[he almost asks if he looks like the kind of person who'd have someone else to braid his hair every morning, but until a year ago, he did. And as a princess of... somewhere, she'd have the same.]

Right the first time. I can't remember at all. Weird thing for them to take, huh?

[with Mei tugging at his hair, he can't move his head to look back at Yuki, but he gives her a salute in profile anyway.] Yo! You're in here too?

[Weeell, Gino would be wrong there. Her clan was too poor to have servants for such trivial things, even if she was a princess.]

Really weird! Though I'd be so sad if I had lost that memory...

[Mei finishes unbraiding, or whatever he calls that mess of knots he'd put his hair into, and picks the brush up. Hm. Snarls. She separates the hair into sections and holds the first by the part closest to Gino's neck, to keep hairs from being painfully pulled while she brushes through those snags.]

[She looks up at the door for a second, too.]

Hi, Miss Yuki!

[Oops, she was spotted]

Hello, [she waves to the two and takes a step into the room] my room is across the hall, I didn't mean to interrupt anything.

[she goes over and examines all the ribbons] These are really pretty.

Ha, you're not interrupting anything. [his head is tilted forward so Mei can brush it more easily, which also manages to muffle his voice]

This is just Weapon maintenance. Right, Mei?

It's alright! I'm just fixing his hair for him.

[She nods in agreement at her assessment of the ribbons.]

Yeah, they are! I found them in the art room. I hope no one misses them all...

[brushbrushbrush~]

His braids? I can't seem to remember how to do mine either.

[she keeps looking at the ribbons]

The school can get more.

[she looks over at them]

Would you like to braid a few ribbons into my hair?

You too?

[now that he's looking, he can see that her braids are messily done, though they're still presentable. She must've found someone to help her that morning.

Maybe it's some form of bizarre psychological warfare.]

You, too? Why don't they like hair braiding...

[Of all the bizarre things for a mysterious kidnapper organization to dislike.]

Well, don't worry! I can fix your braids, too, Yuki! Pick out what ribbons you want!

[Mei finishes brushing the tangles out of Gino's hair and parts it into three sections again. She takes the first section and moves the rest over his shoulder to keep it out of the way. Time to work on braid number one!]

Oh. Hey, Yuki, you said you knew a lot about this game, right?

[picking out which ribbons would match her uniform]

Yes, where I'm from we played a similar game.

[in the brief lull before Mei starts braiding in earnest, Gino reaches over to the next bed and snags the pillow.]

Yeah, except, in Yuki's game, you wouldn't be allowed to be a Player.

Does the fight between Players have to be a literal fight?

[braidbraidbraid]

Huh? [and pause.] Why not?

I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean by a literal fight? The male players draw the weapon out of the female they own and fight using that weapon, that's just the way it was.

Maybe she means taking part in a competition instead of attacking each other, or something like that? A 'symbolic fight'.

Like a game or a footrace instead. [frowns] Only boys could be Players?

I believe that my version had to be a literal fight, but I don't know about here, it is possible though. It would probably be better for the younger players as well.

[she looks away from the ribbons and over at the two of them]

Yes, only males could be Players.

No harm in asking.

[tips his head back to give himself some give on the braids, then turns towards Yuki. They both need to lose those expressions, ASAP.]

You think they'll try to do that here?

[Fff. She might actually have to crack open that manual. It is so big looking, too. Aaagh.]

[But later! Mei ties off the first braid with a piece of blue ribbon and starts weaving together the second braid.]

It won't matter if they try. I've never needed a Weapon to beat up a bunch of stupid boys.

[so there, nyeh]

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