December/spring catch-all

[feralheart]

WHO: M-21 and anyone!
WHAT: Open + catchall
WHEN: All spring
WHERE: All over the island
WARNINGS: none, TBA if needed. Plotting here!


i. what do you mean 'consequences'

[ On one specific, highly cursed day this month, M-21 can be found lurking forlornly outside the island's little clinic. An internal war seems to be going on; he takes a grudging step towards the doors, then stalks away again. As if unaware he's doing it, he reaches down to rub irritably at his lower back. Maybe someone's a little less suited for farm work than everyone else? ]

This is so stupid.

[ He shoots a mutinous look up at the sky like he'd like to direct a complaint right to the management but doesn't quite dare. Then he's back to his pacing, with an occasional sideways glance thrown in towards the vet. Or he can be found draped somewhat pathetically over the nearest fence-shaped thing he can find, apparently no longer willing to move.

Help. ]

ii. like herding cats

[ On days when the weather is sunny and cooperative, despite all complaints, M-21 is hard at work in his fields. Reluctant concessions to farmcore have been made to spare what's left of his suit, and a sturdy pair of farming gloves covering his hands well past the wrist spare what's left of his palms from the sub-par farming tools. Things are coming in pretty nicely, especially the new stand of trees. They're full-grown and leafy and already showing a crop of... one fluffy orange kitten with oversized paws perched on a branch, chirruping furiously. ]

You got yourself up there.

[ Rescue? Or wait another few seconds to catch M-21 sighing and stripping off his gloves as he goes to climb a tree for what appears to be the five hundredth time that day. ]

iii. wildcard

[ Catch me on my planning link or PM if you want a starter! I welcome any and all bingos or just chaos. Or just hit me with anything, he'll be Around. ]

Comments

[feralheart]

...Huh. That's not a bad reason.

[ Sounds perfectly legit to him. M-21 holds the sketchpad close so Gaku can't see and starts on an equally terrible outline. So much for the guy who was making fun of the goddess' art. ]

[associative]

Cute, right?

[ He laughs, crossing his legs as he gets the sketchpad at a better angle for painting.

A bit of silence passes as he mixes some white and black paint in an attempt to get M-21's hair color. ]

You know... They love to have us draw or paint on variety shows, so I've done it a lot. I've always been terrible, though.

[feralheart]

Isn't that supposed to be part of the appeal? Seeing a guy who looks cool doing it badly.

[ Which of the kids explained gap moe to him? Possibly all. He eyeballs Gaku's hair and mixes a little brown in there... this is getting worse by the minute. At least Gaku's not going to hang this up like He Xuan did. ]

[associative]

[ He will politely shove it into a drawer, never to see the light of day again. ]

Yeah, it is. I think Tenn is the best out of all of us when it comes to drawing, but he's good at everything.

[ Disgusting. He's grateful to have a member like that, but also. Gross. ]

[feralheart]

Ah... yeah. School principal is like that.

[ One of those. Also M-21 has never watercolored in his life, so hopefully Gaku doesn't mind that this is bleeding into a... slightly blobby amalgamation of colors. ]

Tell me about the guys in your group.

[associative]

[ It'll be nice an abstract! ]

Tenn is the perfect idol. Great singer, great dancer, always kind to fans. We didn't get along in the beginning, but I'm really glad to have him as the center for TRIGGER.

[ Hmmm... the details of M-21's face have kind of blended together. Oops. ]

Ryuu is the one who always has a level head, and he's a great guy overall. He's an amazing dancer too. I would trust him to do just about anything.

[feralheart]

You've got a good team. Sounds like you can depend on them.

[ MODERN ART... M-21 is not sulking at how badly this is going. He's just now realizing that if he splashes more colors on there it might look less bad. That's what's happening.

Maybe Gaku should consider investing in a pink shirt. ]

[associative]

Yeah, I can. I wouldn't have been willing to go indie if I didn't.

[ He watches M-21's expression shift, wondering just how bad that painting is. Maybe Gaku will for once have the better of the two paintings... what an accomplishment. ]

[feralheart]

Do you wish they were here?

[ He wonders a little how Gaku's teammates would describe him. With how seriously it seems like he takes things, another reliable guy, he guesses.

...It makes the painting that is happening probably more of a travesty. M-21 makes an exasperated little 'tch' noise at it. ]

[associative]

[ "Reliable, always looking for a fight, pathetic." ]

I wish I could contact them on my phone, honestly. I guess it'd be nice to be here with them too, but I mostly don't want them to worry about me.

[ Heaving out a sigh, he tries to do a bit of detail work on M-21's hair. It goes poorly. ]

[feralheart]

[ Looking for a fight?? Gaku?? ]

...Yeah. Who knows what they're thinking, with you just vanishing like that.

[ M-21 is now trying to cover up the pink with black, regretting his earlier choices. This is becoming increasingly abstract by the moment. ]

[associative]

[ Gaku "I'm Gonna Punch My Dad" Yaotome ]

They probably think I've been kidnapped, not like they'd be wrong. But this kidnapping can't be covered up like the last one.

[ Which might lead to more scandals and oh god... who knows what's happened by now? ]

[feralheart]

"The last one"?

[ ...Okay, the kids have gotten swiped once under his watch. And one of them might be an idol. But there were circumstances. ]

...This happen a lot to you?

[associative]

Just once before. A rival group kidnapped mine so that we'd miss an important performance.

[ You know, just normal idol things.

Time to make a nice little background for this portrait... ]

[feralheart]

[ What the hell, Gaku. ]

What the hell? That's how idols do things?

[ ...He's absolutely believing this is normal now. ]

[associative]

[ He looks up from his sketchpad. ]

Not usually, but the company behind this group was trying to take mine down. You know, getting rid of the competition by tanking their reputation.

[feralheart]

Tch. I guess when that much money is involved, people will do stupid things.

[ Like, things that would get them sent to jail in normal-person world...? M-21 grimaces a little and starts putting a slapdash background on his "art". It's mostly Gaku's place, with a squiggle for the He Xuan portrait that isn't actually in the background but deserves to be immortalized in an even uglier painting. ]

[associative]

Yeah, they will. Tenn and I missed it, but thankfully Ryuu was there to actually perform.

[ Gaku sees that grimace and wonders just how bad the painting could possibly be. ]

Having some trouble?

[feralheart]

[ It depends. Does Gaku have deep feelings about his humanity? Does he want a painting that speaks to the inner monster that sleeps within us all?

M-21 looks a little tormented and pulls the sketchpad defensively closer. ]

No. ...Did the bingo say you have to see it when I'm done?

[associative]

Oh, come on. Don't be lame. Let me see it.

[ So no, the bingo square says nothing, but it does feel like wasted effort to him. ]

[feralheart]

Nrgh...

[ Whatever Tao likes to joke, he's not actually a dog. He won't growl. He'll just convey the depths of his torment in an expressive grunt before he sulkily turns the sketchpad around.

...It's bad. Good thing he doesn't care about Gaku thinking he's cool. ]

Now you.

[associative]

Pfft—

[ He puts a hand over his mouth, covering up a chuckle.

But then he turns his sketchpad around and... it's pretty bad too. ]

[feralheart]

Hey. What do you have to laugh about?

[ Yours is terrible too, Gaku?? M-21 gives a tiny snort of laughter, though. Fair is fair. ]

[associative]

They're both pretty bad. I think that's plenty to laugh at.

[ He turns his sketchpad back around to get one last look at his painting. ]

Do you want it?

[feralheart]

Yeah. Sign it for me, then it'll be worth a lot.

[ He's probably joking. But as harrowing as this was, he absolutely does want to keep it. He tears his page out of the sketchpad and sets it on the table for Gaku. ]