[ open ] When you light a candle...

[darkcharge]

Who: Vanitas + Open
When: All Iuneril
Where: Various
What: Open Quest Prompts + Closed Prompts | Hit me up at jardaan if you'd like!
Warnings: TBD



( On Fleece )

[ This isn't the first time there's been something going on with the sheep, right? Well the first time Vanitas hadn't been all that interested. Honestly he's not all that interested this time either. However, the reports of sheep with fangs has sort of piqued his interested. The only reason that Vanitas is there is to poke some fun at people. He has no intention of actually helping. So that's what he does. He'll see someone intimidated by one of the wooly beasts and then he jeers. Vanitas mocks and teases. Because that is the sort of person that he is. Who could possibly be afraid of these things?

Of course the tables turn a little, don't they? While Vanitas doesn't help anyone out - not one bit - he seems to have his own following of sheep after some time. They eventually block Vanitas in and he shoves at them. He's not nervous about their forward attitude. ]

Go away! [ Oh they aren't budging. ] Come on! Get lost!

[ The sheep aren't going anywhere. In the process of Vanitas trying to get them to go away, one licks his cheek instead. ]

Augh! Gross!

[ He might have forgotten about the fact that animals like his aura, okay? ]


( Berry Picking )

[ Seems like all of the bakeries are wanting these iunerberries. It feels like pretty tedious work, so Vanitas doesn't really take any interest in it at all. However, when one of the shops is offering double? That is when he takes notice. How hard can it be to pick some berries and get some money for it, after all?

Hence he is out in the fields, with what feels like a bunch of people. Vanitas' basket is coming along fairly well, but he is trying to keep to himself. There are a few people that Van can get on okay with, but for the most part groups still annoy him.

Come bother him? All he's doing is plucking berries. One in particular catches his eye. Just what do these iunerberries taste like? ]


( Candle Crafts )

[ After Irhya drags him to this activity the first time, Vanitas will stop by now and then. How many people have told him that he needs to find a hobby? Thancred sure seems to have been encouraging it. Vanitas would prefer to do something other than create candles for a holiday that he knows nothing about nor cares to but whatever.

He doesn't take to carving anything or designing. Vanitas is pretty content with just the pouring aspect. The staff teaching those that are wanting to learn are used to this, but are trying to coerce Van into learning how to design as well.

The look on his face is one of disgust. ]


( Silent Forest )

[ Vanitas is going to be going out each and every time an infusion is requested. Each and every time he's going to say this: ]

I don't need any help. I'm perfectly capable of protecting myself. Go find someone else.

[ At least that's what his response is to anyone that approaches him. Yet in the end that isn't going to work, is it? In the end someone is going to be stubborn enough to work through his prickly exterior and come along with him, huh? Thus here he is, in the company of someone that he never asked for, walking through the forest. ]

The leyline should be somewhere around here. Let's just get this done and go.


( Wildcard )

[ As always, I am open to any and all ideas. If none of the prompts tickle your fancy, just throw something my way and I'll roll with whatever. Or just get with me and we can do something else! ]

Comments

[callmeven]

[he's trying his best here, okay. vanitas never makes it easy for him.]

... Would you prefer if I leave then?

[darkcharge]

I’d prefer if you didn’t get gross berry juice all over me like you did to your fur.

[ Gross, Ven. Real gross. And nope. Never going to be easy here. ]

[callmeven]

[ven grins then, tail slowly starting to wag.]

Or what?

[darkcharge]

I'll magic your mouth shut.

[ He kind of means it too. ]

[callmeven]

[IMMEDIATELY he frowns]

That's not fair. I'm only playing with you, Vanitas!

[darkcharge]

How is threatening to touch me with gross hands and fur playing with me?

[ Squinting. He legitimately doesn't understand. ]

[callmeven]

You make it sound way worse than it is! Besides, I wasn't really going to touch you...

[it's all fun and games until vanitas the firecracker goes off and burns ven's hand.]

[darkcharge]

How do I know you weren't going to touch me?

[ Look. He's very fussy about being touched okay? ]

[callmeven]

Well... I guess you could trust me?

[a wild concept, he knows.]

Just a little.

[darkcharge]

[ Ventus is going to be awarded with another flat stare. ]

You can barely keep your hands to yourself. If for a moment you thought you could touch me, you would.

[callmeven]

Uh, yeah with people who like being touched! I know you're not the same as everyone else, Vanitas. Give me a little credit.

[not to say if vanitas ever offered him one day he wouldn't take it...]

[darkcharge]

You did it before. When we were fighting.

[ You flat out hugged him Ventus. ]

[callmeven]

Oh... yeah, that.

[his shoulders slump, worrying at his lower lip with a canine tooth.]

Sorry.

[darkcharge]

[ Vanitas snorts, waving Ventus off. ]

You are not always so predictable. I can't guess what it is you're about to do now.

[callmeven]

Hmm...

[he shifts the basket handle from one hand to the other, looking down at the half-full contents.]

I was gonna pick more berries. Wanna join me?

[darkcharge]

I'm staying right here. What you do is your own business.

[ Which means Ventus is allowed to stay. Probably the best he is going to get. ]

[callmeven]

Okay!

[he'll stay until vanitas threatens him otherwise.]

So, um... how have you been?

[darkcharge]

[ Wow. Diving right into the small talk aren't we? Vanitas wishes that he could be more annoyed by it. However that... Well it's just a given because Ventus never really knows what to say does he? ]

All right... I suppose.

[ At least he'll try to give the other something? ]

[callmeven]

[he tries his best and that's what counts.]

That's good to hear... I think you really fit in here. You have a lot of people who care about you.

[darkcharge]

[ That comment makes Vanitas frown. ]

What do you mean I "fit in here?"

[ He doesn't bother to question the second part. Even Vanitas knows the truth of it. ]

[callmeven]

You have people who care about you here and you have a chance to really be happy. I think that's all you really need to fit in anywhere.

[he looks over then and smiles.]

[darkcharge]

[ Vanitas huffs. Slightly. ]

I think there's more to it than just being happy...

[callmeven]

If you really wanna dig at it, sure, but I don't think it's necessary. If you can be happy here then it's just like a home, right?

[he plucks away at the berries right into his basket.]

It doesn't have to be complicated all the time.

[darkcharge]

Maybe... But it isn't always as simple as you make it out to be either.

[ Their perspectives are so widely different after all. What each perceive as "simple? or "complicated" is different. ]

[callmeven]

Do you think you fit in here?