Dorm Log The Sequel To End All Sequels

[makesitcool]

Who: COLLECTIVE YOU
What: Dorm log!
Where: Student and Teacher dorms, and quite possibly beyond campus. If your heart dreams it, your fingers can type it.
When: The span of February 27 - March 13
Warnings: This log is yellow-taped with all kinds of potential warnings. If your filthy imagination can conjure it, this log can produce it.

Ripped off the last one and all its friends: Basically, here's how this works. We all know our characters experience downtime after classes and their busy schedules, and this is a good venue for those kinds of miscellaneous dorm-shenanigans to take place. Not only does it give your characters the easy chance to meet new people in a laid-back environment, but it's a good mechanism for strengthening CR. It's easy!

Feel free to begin in any way you please! Plan with (a) fellow player(s) if you'd like! Or, set up a thread and wait for characters to bite! Whatever you want. It can all be yours if you make a thread. Feel like drawing graffiti on Professor Jin's door? Apologizing for the aftermath of the latest cupidbot fiasco? Doing each others' hair and talking about boys? Giving your trusted(?!?) friends a free ride in the dryer? Staying up late at night making use of those dick-shaped cake pans you found in the cupboard? Man, I don't care, just do it! Don't let this log get away untagged.


Directory
Ai | Alter Ego | Apple Kid | Banjo | Blaze | Bowser | Bulba | Caim | Celes | Chiyo | Cyrus | Daisy | Edgeworth | Eggman | Eirika | Eli | Ellistree | Falcon | Flint | Garry | Gold | Goombella | Gordon | Green | Hilda | Innes | Ishimaru | Jock | Jolt | Knuckles | Lucca | Mac | Manah | Marie | Mary | Max | Milimili | Mondo | Nabooru | Naegi | Noel | Ocelot | Pit | R.O.B. | Rhys | Rick | Riwane | Samus | "Seth" | Shadow | Silver | Skull Kid | Snake | Soryk | Vinnie | Voile | Wheatley | X | Zelda (OoT) | Zelda (ST)

Comments

[paletteknife]

Oh, that explained everything. This was Mary's first winter too, after all (well, spring now - which was also her first) so she could understand someone being new to everything. Where could she have possibly been from that didn't have snowmen? As far as Mary was concerned, everywhere did.

And she got to be the one to bestow her wisdom on this poor newbie! She was important!

She looked unbearably smug as she patted the ground next to her. "A snowman... um... It's a decoration for winter! You make them by rolling up snow and putting faces on them!"

...Wow, was that really all there was to it? She frowned a little.

"They don't do a lot..."

[heartofarapier]

It didn't take much more an obvious invitation before she moved to sit and join Mary. Still ladylike and yet curious, she felt like both a young child and a woman too wise beyond her years. Eirika listened attentively, wondering what the significance was of such actions. Why was it necessary to roll up snow, much less to make faces in it? Perhaps it was some form of cultural or traditional celebration of legend?

"I have never heard of such a thing." She was still smiling, amused by the concept, and more than a little lost in awe over the entire concept. "Would you say they're meant for decor then? Like a statue, perhaps? Or flowers in a garden? Or a water fountain?" Because more than likely, Eirika wasn't truly understanding the logic behind making snowmen.

[paletteknife]

"Um... Maybe not like flowers or statues..."

Her voice, which was so confident and proud before, was dropping in volume as she began to doubt herself. She hadn't read anything about what snowmen were for</>, just that they were fun to build. That was a thing children did in winter, like snowball fights and eating snow with colourful syrup on it!

Did other kids know the reason for doing things like that? Was she supposed to know, too?

"I don't know what they're really for..."

[heartofarapier]

Mary hadn't done well to hide her uncertainty. Either that or Eirika was just intuitive, and that wasn't particularly untrue either. She didn't say anything at first, but as she eyed Mary's picture, she found a valid point. Children need to see a reason in all things. She'd had to, but she had a feeling that she and Mary were going to grow up in two entirely different worlds. And that was okay.

"Sometimes things do not need a purpose. Sometimes they are... just to be." And she wasn't sure if Mary would understand that, but it was her own form of reassurance. Snowmen didn't have to have a purpose if Mary didn't know of one and the girl needed to know that was acceptable.

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[paletteknife]

Things that just existed for the sake of existing without any purpose... A snowman, which stood there and did nothing. A painting, that was looked on and passed by. Eirika's words didn't really comfort Mary at all.

"...Well, they're fun to make! That's probably the reason they're there, haha! It's too bad the snow's all melty, or I'd show you how..."

YOUR HTML OR LACK THEREOF IS BEAUTIFUL.

[heartofarapier]

"Fun to make..."

As if the very concept was lost on the princess. Fun itself, wasn't exactly a foreign idea, but she imagined her idea of 'fun' was different from what other people thought. Eirika had, at times, thought the banquets and social galas to be a little fun. Sparring with her brother had grown minutely fun after a fashion. Running around with Frelia's princess when they were both younger had been fun.

"I think if it is... fun, then that is the best reason there could be for it to have purpose," she smiled, conceding to the idea. "When the snow returns, you ought to show me. I'm interested to know of this fun of yours."

NO...

[paletteknife]

"Really? Yay! It won't snow again for a really long time, I think, but there's a lot of other fun stuff we could do together until then!"

At least she seemed to cheer up a little. She had a new friend who wanted to do stuff with her! Actually, if they were going to be friends, she should probably introduce herself a little more properly.

"My name's Mary, by the way."

UHM. YES.

[heartofarapier]

It was becoming oddly commonplace for Eirika to strike up conversation without actually giving out her name. Well, commonplace and a bit rude. But where she came from, introductions were made for her. She'd not really needed to introduce herself much, and when she'd begun to do so after Renais' fall, it was to hide who she truly was.

And she'd considered hiding in the academy as well, but with Innes as her support, she doubted very much he'd allow any harm to befall her.

"Eirika," she replied with a smile, choosing to leave off the title. It seemed all too strange to give a full name to a young girl. "It is a privilege, Little Mary."