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[tot]

WHO: uta and whoever
WHAT: bingo effects & catch-all for dec
WHEN: 12/10 - 12/12 (for catte), 12/13 - 12/16 for the rest
WHERE: wherever most (in)convenient
WARNINGS: there shouldn't be any??


ᴍᴇᴏᴡᴍɪx ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴇʀɪᴄᴀʟ sᴏɴɢ ɪɴᴛᴇɴsɪғɪᴇs.

[ where are you right now? are you simply wandering around the island in no particular place? well, for those near the beach you can find a small calico cat who seems rather skittish and may be running away from a dog. fortunately, the dog doesn't seem to be chasing after the cat with any bloodlust but more like following her around? what is happening here?

or maybe you are having a meal when this small calico walks up to you and meows exactly once before sitting politely at your feet. or maybe you're just somewhere on the island in general when you stumble upon her. ]

ᴛɪᴍᴇ ʜᴀɴɢs ᴏɴ ʜᴇᴀᴠʏ ʜᴀɴᴅs.

[ because i refuse to believe that there is not a single bench on this entire island, uta will be outside sitting on one of them while flipping through a book with a title that seems... questionable or exciting depending on your taste in reading material. for uta, however, she'll questioning the novel she received with the proud title of My Boyfriend Is The One Except He’s A Lizard And Father Doesn’t Approve on its cover and spine. can't forget what you're reading, after all.

why is she reading this book outside where god and everyone can see her questionable taste? simple. if she must suffer, she will not go down alone—would be the answer if she was petty. the truth is that she's hoping to pawn it off to someone (anyone) else who finds the faintest interest in it. ]

ɪ'ᴠᴇ ɢᴏᴛ ᴀ sᴇᴄʀᴇᴛ ɪ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ ᴛᴇʟʟ ʏᴏᴜ.

[ since it has been a bit since they've all arrived, uta will be checking out the boutique's offerings to see if she can't find something to change up her wardrobe. farmcore has never been her thing, but wearing an all-white dress with a short skirt is definitely not practical. that said, she will be posing in front of a mirror in some new clothes which still aren't great for farming before going to change into something else that is a lot more reasonable.

perhaps it's interesting that regardless whatever she is trying on, she'll have a particular straw hat on her head in exchange for the headphones. ]

ʙ-ɪ-ɴ-ɢ-ᴏ!

[ if you'd like pick a square from her card here and we can go. ]

Comments

[tot]

That sounds great to me! As for what...

[ her voice will trail as she thinks about what would be a good dish to ask for. obviously, it can't be too complicated or otherwise there's a high chance that she might not be able to replicate it without making a bunch of failures to start with. however, as she is still thinking childe mentions how he is assuming that she's alone in doing this and her reply is quick. ]

There's no way that I'd be able to do this on my own. I'd still be pulling weeds out of the soil if I was. Achilles does most of the heavily lifting around here. It's why I worked really hard to make things nicer around here by completing the squares.

[ oh. that'd be a good thing to ask childe to teach her. ]

What about a meal suited for a hero? [ sorry for the swift shift in conversation topics but it did come to her just then and he did ask her previously. ] That's probably too vague, so maybe something with a lot of meat and hardy. Does anything come to mind?

[sluice]

[ Simplicity, then? Something easy for Uta to make to impress Achilles, that illustrious hero... ]

Avgolemono should do!

[ Pausing where he's tilling the land, he retrieves his stationary set from his back pocket and scribbles the ingredient list down: carrots, celery, green onions, garlic, eggs, lemon, rice, chicken and its stock for broth. Childe also adds his address. After handing the sheet of paper over to her, he straightens once more. ]

Come by in a week or two. I'll make it together with you.

[ His kitchen's tricked-out, it's no fuss. The ingredients are really for her own benefit, in case she decides to make it on her own from that point forward. After that, he'll continue to dig up the soil until the field is no longer a mess of hard-packed soil and rocks. ]

... What do you think? Do I get full marks?

[ Nothing Achilles couldn't do better, but he's still proud of accomplishing this feat in record time. ]

[tot]

[ uh. ]

Av...go...le...mono?

[ hopefully she doesn't trip over how it's supposed to say but if she does it's because it's not something she knows. never in uta's entire life has she heard of something like that so she's extremely thankful for childe when he writes down the list of ingredients for her. she will be needing this at a later date. ]

But right! I'll do just that. [ that thought tucked away, she'll look over the field and "scrutinize" childe's work. she takes her sweet time looking over everything purposefully taking her time before giving childe a nod of approval. ] I'll give you full marks and some bonus for the list of ingredients. I'll also promise not to tell Achilles that you beat him in this.

[ because the last thing she needs to encourage a competition between the two of them..? if that is a thing that should be on the table...?? she has no real idea, honestly. she just imagines that achilles wouldn't want to lose to something like this. ]

[sluice]

[ Nodding, Childe hands her back the farm tools, albeit a touch dustier than they were several minutes prior. ]

Did I? Hard to believe I could pull that one off, but I'll take you at your word.

[ Flattery won't win him over so easily, but he's reveling in that thought, very smiley about it. Were he to encounter Achilles at full strength, he'd definitely be annihilated in a heartbeat by that absolute legend. So exciting! ]

I'll be on my way then. Call me once you've gathered what you need. [ Walking backwards, Childe waves. ] See you soon.

[ He didn't even catch her name?! Oh, well. With that parting note, he'll be off. ]