🍁 fall catchfall

[hearthwarming]

🍄 who: Oriphi & others
🍄 what: open prompts & catchall
🍄 when: fall
🍄 where: various
🍄 warnings: some nsfw


i. flower shop 💐

[ Oriphi's flower shop is now open! She has been hard at work growing flowers on her and M-21's farm, trading with townsfolk and such to put everything together. And so beginning in the fall, she spends most of her afternoons after tending to the farm in this cozy little nook in town, available for any and all floral needs... and possibly even more! There are also small gifts available in the shop, like little plushies and little crafted items, decorations, and homemade snacks.

Ori herself can usually be found fussing over some arrangements or displays, chatting with random NPCs who wander in, talking to some of the live plants inside the shop (??), or otherwise sitting at the counter enjoying some afternoon tea, ready to be bothered.

What are you waiting for? Come on in! ]

ii. on the arco lunar 🚢

[ Ori has dressed up for her date on the Arco Lunar with M-21, with her hair carefully braided in a half up, half down style.

She'll be sticking with her date for the most part, but she can easily be caught by herself now and then, looking out into the sea while leaning on the guardrails of the deck... and occasionally looking like she's not doing too well. She's doing her best not to get seasick...

If the boat rocks at any point, she might end up having to lean on someone, grabbing an arm. ]

S—Sorry! I just need... a second.

iii. teleportation!? 🌳

[ Are you foraging in the forest? Or minding your own damn business in town?

If there's a conveniently person-sized trunk of a tree nearby... You might suddenly be greeted by the sound of magic sort of... bubbling up from said tree. Then in just another moment, a magical portal appears on the trunk, through which steps a petite little tiefling, now fashionably bundled up and looking a little cozy for the fall! She has a basket hanging on one arm and a staff held in the hand of the other.

She startles when she sees she's not alone wherever she's come out (yes, even in town). ]

Oh, woops! Good day!

[ The portal seems to close and then disappear behind her, and the tree is left looking as if someone didn't just fully walk out of it. ]

I didn't startle you, did I?

iv. wildcard

( feel free to toss something else in! we can hash things out at my plotting comment if you're feeling something else! )

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🚢 a date on the arco lunar — m-21

[hearthwarming]

[ Logically, they probably should have just come to the docks together. They live in the same house, after all... But instead, in the early morning of the day that they've decided to go on one of two (2) of their promised dates, Ori disappears from the house.

...But at least not without leaving a note for M-21:
"I'll meet you at the docks for our date.
- Ori"

The reason being that in that early morning, she goes over to Tighnari's house and asks, with no small amount of embarrassment, if he has any tonics or capsules for seasickness... Still, she manages to make it to the docks at the appointed time for boarding, dressed in a pretty little number and with her hair carefully braided in a half up, half down style.

With a roll of 6 in Perception, however, she is somehow having trouble finding where her very statuesque roommate is waiting on the docks........... ]

[feralheart]

[ The note is mysterious, and maybe just a little puzzling. Why meet there when they could walk over there together? But then, that's how an ordinary date would go. Normally the dating would go before the living together. Buoyed a little by the thought, M-21 channels the most 'normal date' thoughts he can and digs out his suit to dress up properly before he goes to meet her.

When he spots her on the docks in that dress he's really, really glad he did. For a moment he just stops and stares. Luck is on his side this time, since she hasn't seen him yet to really catch him making a fool of himself. Apparently a 6-foot tall werewolf can still roll an 18 in stealth. He slips up beside her soundlessly, ]

Hey.

i

[pactmarshal]

[ It's the latter half of the first week that Trahearne finds his way to Ori's flower shop. The decor is cozy, the atmosphere comfortable; though he'd been a little nervous when he first walked in, it's like it calms him immediately.

With a placid smile, he strides to the counter, to his tiefling friend. If there's anyone that he trusts to help him, it's her. ]

Hello, Ori.

[hearthwarming]

[ Ori is tending to one of the displays in the shop when Trahearne enters, carefully snipping dead leaves off of a plant, with her tail curled around the handle of a watering can she's holding up. Very convenient, it's like having three hands...

But her ears perk up when a little bell chimes with his entrance, and she's quick to turn and smile. ]

Welcome— Oh! Trahearne. [ ahem. ] Welcome to Druid Crafts! How can I help you today?

ii.

[moonstriking]

[Well, Flynn had promised Judith an adventure, and here Judith is, on an adventure with Yuri. She had been having fun and had no intention of walking away for too long, but there was something she wanted to check on first. And this was why she was outside on the top decks, enjoying the cool sea breeze as she looks up into the sky, as if studying something in the far distance, when someone bumps into her and grabs her arm. She glances down, mildly surprised and then smiles]

Oh my, Ori. If you wanted to hang onto me, you should have just asked.

[Judith has her hair up as usual, dressed in a long slinky black dress. No one said she couldn't dress up. It was too bad she hadn't been able to bring all her outfits from home with her]

[hearthwarming]

[ Oh, that voice. Ori looks up to see whose arm it is she grabbed and is surprised to find Miss Judith. But not just Miss Judith— Miss Judith in a long slinky black dress with her hair up. ]

Oh, Miss Judith... It's you! Sorry.

[ She looks to the side and grabs at the guardrail with her other hand instead, loosening her grip on Judith's arm, but not pulling away entirely. ]

Just lost my balance for a second. I'm a little uneasy on boats...

iv

[sluice]

Got your letter.

[ Tapping on the open doorway leading into her flower shop, Childe doesn't yet step inside, as though it's some consecrated and hallowed place that he can't enter. He's come during some lull in the afternoon; there aren't any stragglers around but him, the paper in hand visible before he folds in a few times in quick succession, tucking in back into the recesses of one pocket.

Amicable, but strangely so solemn, he addresses Ori from where she's sitting by the counter. ]

So? Change your mind yet?

[ Does she think he's the scum of the earth now? ]

[hearthwarming]

[ Amicable, but strangely so solemn, yet he lingers in the doorway of the flower shop... She glances up at him from where she is, having just been working on what looks like a journal on the counter. ]

Hello, Childe... Won't you come in? I promise the flowers won't bite.

[ She puts the dried flowers she had been fussing with down, and instead rests her chin on a hand to watch him. ]

I didn't invite you here to have some kind of falling out, you know... I just wanted to hear your side of things.

sometimes after Aether and Vanitas' resort "date"

[startraveler]

[Aether ventures into the flower shop out of curiosity. He was going to check it out much earlier, but then things happened and buying flowers wasn't really on his mind.

...Now he thinks that getting a bouquet may not be a bad idea.]

Hello? Ah...

[And he smiles seeing Ori.]

It's been a while.

[hearthwarming]

[ It just so happens that when when Aether enters her shop, Ori is a bit preoccupied by tending to some of the bouquets on display. Some of the flowers are starting to wilt, but she'll trim those off to dry and use for decorations! She has her floral shears in one hand and a bundle of these cuttings being held by the end of her tail. It's not until he says "hello" that she turns and sees him. ]

—Aether!

[ She hasn't properly spent time with him since they met at the tavern sometime ago! Though she certainly saw that, um, showdown at the auction... ]

It has been a while, hasn't it? Welcome!

an hour after aether's visit

[unchainer]

[ Buying flowers was never on Vanitas' mind, either, until recent happenings. Now, he's just a fool, trying to do a nice gesture to thank Aether for...all of that. Vanitas has a giant sunhat on when he enters the flower shop, and when he sees who's behind the counter --

oh, shit.

He hurriedly tips his hat down so the brim obscures (some of) his face. He turns around abruptly to pretend like he's just looking at some flowers off to the side. ]

[hearthwarming]

[ Oh, shit!?!??! WHY OH SHIT, VANITAS.

Ori, who has no reason to suspect the customer who's just wandered into her shop, simply regards him with a smile, apparently not having recognized this person as Vanitas thanks to his very elaborate disguise of one (1) hat. ]

Ah, welcome! Are you looking for anything in particular today, dear customer?

I

[chronosynthesis]

[Syrlya had noticed the flower shop pop up, but he hadn't really felt the draw to go into it... until now. Sometime after that awkward resort affair, but before the pirates, Syrlya pokes his head inside. And then the rest of him, looking briefly at the window displays before he clasps his hands behind his back to peruse the flowers available.]

[hearthwarming]

[ There's been a lot going on between everyone's cruise dates, and the group excursion... She can hardly blame anyone for not stopping by until now, but she's always happy to see a familiar (non-NPC) face!

Ori is sitting at the counter, busy scribbling something down in a journal when Syr pokes his head (and then the rest of him) in. ]

Oh...! Good afternoon, Syrlya! Welcome!

🍁 fall 19 — m-21

[hearthwarming]

[ It's been a long day.

Ori certainly didn't expect it to be when she set out from their farm in the morning after tending to her share of their household and farm chores. But now she's returning after closing up her shop, feeling pretty defeated. Looking pretty defeated, too, with how her shoulders hang low, her eyes looking swollen and reddened when she comes in through their front door with a deep sigh to accompany the sorry sight. ]

I'm home...

[feralheart]

[ M-21 glances up at the sound of approaching steps, then back at what he's doing, putting another dish carefully with the stack in the cupboard. He's had some time to brood think on what he saw through the shop window earlier. So her reddened eyes don't surprise him, exactly.

...But he's maybe a little surprised at how much it bothers him to see her like that anyway. He gives her a grunt of greeting that lapses into a long, awkward pause. ]

...Long day?

💐 late fall, after the karaoke party

[hearthwarming]

[ The days are cloudy and crisp, and soon autumn will turn to winter. Yet there's no shortage of warmth in Ori's flower shop, one quiet afternoon. It's late enough into the day that Ori doesn't anticipate that any more customers will come by, so she doesn't feel bad about closing up a little early so that she and Trahearne can use the large table in the middle of the shop where she usually arranges flowers with her customers to work on a few projects.

For her part, she has an assortment of different colored felts, and her journal open to pages containing various doodles and ideas. In the center of the table is a pot of a delicate white tea atop a warmer, and one cup each for her and Trahearne each. And some homemade cookies, because of course.

She's just locked the scissor gate behind the front door when she turns to Trahearne and remembers something. ]

Say... Would you mind if I gave you one of my chocolates? It's, um... Harmless. [ unlike notegine's.... ] But I'd understand if you'd rather not!

[pactmarshal]

[ Trahearne has been here for hours--all day almost (it's a miracle Ori hasn't kicked him out yet) as he works on little crafts for his friends. He isn't crafty, by any means, so he's thankful for Ori's help. His projects are simple, because he thinks the real heart of his appreciation will come through in his poems.

Maybe.

He's almost done weaving his second cord--this one, for Mishka--when Ori's voice snaps him out of his concentration. He lifts his head, gears in his mind switching, and he smiles. ]

Not at all. You're welcome to have one of mine as well. [ He nods to the box sitting in the empty chair beside him. ] We'll exchange.

🎁 gifts!

[hearthwarming]

🐺 m-21

[hearthwarming]

[ One morning, M-21 will find a simple breakfast waiting for him in the kitchen, as usual. Ori usually has to get up very early to open her flower shop, but what's peculiar is that this morning, there is also a package wrapped in brown paper waiting alongside his breakfast and coffee (which was brewed from beans grown on Bug-Eater Farm). Inside is a scarf which she definitely did not knit herself, although she did sow on little felt flowers on each end of the scarf, which resemble the felt flowers on a few hair ties included in the present.

There's also a note: ]

To M-21:

Good morning, and surprise! I hope you like your present. It's starting to get colder now, so I hope you can stay warmer with this scarf. I didn't make it, but still...

I wanted to show how much I appreciate you. Ever since I woke up here, you've always been so helpful and dependable, and you always listen to what I have to say... I think, if I didn't have you around, I would have been very lonely here. I know you'd probably give me a look if I said that out loud, but it's true. I like talking to people and cheering them up, but even then... It can be lonely even when you're surrounded by people, you know?

But I'm not, because I get to look forward to seeing you every day and working together on our farm!

Things are a bit different now, of course, but in a good way. I'm thankful that we have each other's hearts now, too. And I intend on treasuring it as much as I can.

Also - I hope you'll use the hair ties, too. Your hair always covers your face a bit, but I really like seeing more of your face sometimes. ✿

I'll see you later!

Ori

🌸 otegine

[hearthwarming]

[ Otegine's present awaits him in the mailbox at his and Syrlya's farm! It comes in a small package wrapped in brown paper with his name on it, inside of which is a simple hair tie and some pot holders, along with a note: ]

To Otegine:

I hope these presents find you well! I know that neither you nor Syrlya cook very much, but if you ever wanted to learn, I would be more than happy to show you. These are for you to hold onto pots when they're hot, or to put on a table to protect it...

Also, I know you work very hard on your farm, so the hair tie is to help keep your hair out of your face while you're gardening or tending to the animals!

I'm really glad that we met in the summer, and I'm so thankful that despite stumbling along the way, that we can remain steadfast friends. I really admire you, Otegine. You've lived a life that I can't ever imagine, but even so your kindness and willingness to be gentle and caring never once wavered. And when you saw my memories, too... I was afraid that people would start treating me differently once they knew what I was capable of or what my life was like before coming here, but you were unwavering in that, too.

You can always depend on me if you need anything at all, okay?

Ori

🌳 trahearne

[hearthwarming]

[ Trahearne's gift comes in a small brown envelope delivered to Bug-Eater Farm's mailbox. Inside are bookmarks made with flowers from her shop which she pressed after they went past their prime - using that same resourcefulness he commented on when she made lavender scones. ]

To Trahearne:

Congratulations on... well, everything!

It has been an absolute delight being your friend over the entirety of my time here! I don't know if I ever mentioned it out loud, but when I met you on the beach... You were so friendly, and it made me feel so at ease with being here, not knowing anyone and feeling so alone... I know it hasn't always been so easy and happy for you, but I'm so proud of you for chasing your happiness even when it was incredibly difficult and vulnerable and painful.

I hope you continue thriving. You deserve a wonderful, happy long life full of love.

Ori

🐰 amber

[hearthwarming]

[ Amber's present arrives in the mailbox of her farm, in a small parcel wrapped in brown paper and adorned with a red ribbon. Inside is a headband which Ori made, thinking about when she'd met Amber when she was distributing flower crowns.

There is a card tucked in the ribbon, addressed to her with a note: ]

To Amber:

Thank you, first and foremost, for being such a bright ray of sunshine. Even the dreariest of days here on this island don't seem so somber with someone like you around!

I know that I've said it before, but I'm so glad we were able to meet here. And... I know it sounds so silly, but you really changed my life by signing me up for that auction... I know I was flustered at the time, but... I had a wonderful time during that date. I'll spare you the details, but the point is...

You're always trying your hardest to lift others up and to cheer them up. I hope you allow us the chance to do the same for you. I know that you are a fiery girl, but the coming days may be very cold, and even you might need some help! And that's alright.

Please stay bright and shining as you are!

Ori

🎤 gaku

[hearthwarming]

[ Gaku's present arrives to him via his farm's mailbox! It's a suspiciously notebook-sized parcel wrapped in brown paper... and inside is, surprise, a notebook adorned with pressed flowers from her shop. There is also a note: ]

To Gaku:

Surprise, here's a present! As one of the first people I ever met and befriended here, please accept this token of my gratitude! I felt a bit lost and lonely when I arrived, but because you were so welcoming and offered to help me so much, I was able to settle in nicely!

I don't know if you're still writing songs or anything here, but I thought it would be nice to give you a place to write if you wanted to. Otherwise, well... Maybe you can use one of these pages to give me an autograph! ✿

Please stay warm in the coming winter!

Ori

📖 ellis

[hearthwarming]

[ A package has arrived to Ellis' mailbox! It's wrapped in brown paper, and adorned with ribbon into which a note is tucked. Inside are candle holders, decorated with pressed flowers from her shop. The note reads: ]

To Ellis:

I hope you're doing well!

You know, I'm still so sorry we met the way we did at that meeting... But I'm so grateful that you've taken the time to chat and that we could get to know each other even despite that! I hope this isn't strange of me to say, but realizing you and Gaku were together really gave me some hope about finding someone here...

I hope you enjoy these candle holders. When I was making them for you, I was thinking about that time and the resort... I feel so grateful for knowing you and your inner light. It's so special, and I hope you never, ever lose it, Ellis.

Stay warm!

Ori