Seven Bells: [ACTION/WRITTEN] Hat Day.

[simplestgift]

[Citizens of Luceti may see Archie Kennedy wandering around with a new hat today. It looks a little like something a magician would pull a rabbit out of, but he seems to be enjoying it. He'll be around town today--the library and grocery store during the day, and Good Spirits in the evening. In the afternoon, he'll sit at the fountain to pen a few words.]

I believe morale might improve if we had some sort of goodbye ceremony for those who were returned home. Not a funeral, mind you, just an occasion to remember them, celebrate their return, and hope to join them soon. Perhaps once a month or so, for everyone who left during the month. It's the little things that help one cope, sometimes.

Also, who left a note under my door? I'm afraid I can't read it, or indeed tell if it was even meant for me. I live in Building One, in the first flat on the first floor.

Comments

[herotypical]

Where'd you get it, anyway?

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...The shop.

[herotypical]

And you willingly left the shop with it? You...[ she takes a seat next to him. ] Wow.

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I didn't know. It's a little like something I wore as a midshipman. [He turns it in his hands.] Except less practical.

[herotypical]

Did they make you wear it?

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It was part of the uniform.

[herotypical]

I had to wear a funny hat once, for a uniform. It was not pretty.

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I always thought the bicorns made us look crosseyed.

[herotypical]

If I were you, I would've just accidentally lost my hat overboard. Problem solved.

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A midshipman could be flogged for such negligence. A lieutenant might be punished in a slightly more dignified way, but it wouldn't be tolerated.

[herotypical]

...Oh.

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[Well, he didn't mean to make her all serious.] Besides, this thing you call "sunblock" didn't exist where I came from.

[herotypical]

[ no. it's cool. she can swing right back up to good mood. ] All the better to tan with.

[simplestgift]

That's good, where you come from? Most the women I knew back home were terrified of ruining their complexion.

[herotypical]

I know I look all pale and sunless right now but...come summer? I am going to get all fantastically bronzey.

[simplestgift]

That's the fashion now, then. [A blink, then a slight twitch of lips and jaw.] What about Dawn? Does she want to be bronzey as well?

[He likes wintry, faerie-queen Dawn.]

[herotypical]

She's a little fairer -- more burny, less bronzey.

[simplestgift]

Nothing a little sunblock won't cure, I suppose. [The very idea of a cream that keeps the sun from burning you sounds ludicrous to him, and it shows in his voice.] I like her how she is.

[herotypical]

You do know that whole adage about people changing, right?

[simplestgift]

Yes, but she doesn't have to do it on purpose just because she thinks it might make her more fashionable.

[herotypical]

...But you can wear the way dorky and ancient hat. Right.

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Am I wearing it now? [A puff of air. He knows a hopeless situation when he's in one.]

[herotypical]

You were, though. And sorry, Archie -- but that hat? Not even a little bit fashionable.

[ she's teasing. mostly. ]

[simplestgift]

[In response, he tries to set the hat down on her head.]

[herotypical]

[ buffy has been developing a bad habit of wearing sailors' hats. she accepts it with a look of mock-doubt. ] See? The antithesis of fashion.