[Day 229] Well some one has to stay behind [Open]

[bastionpc]

Who: Everyone who didn't go on the trip
Open: Open
When: Day 229
Where: The Bastion
What: Not everyone is going to go search for the Core. Some people have to stay behind and tend to the daily things in the Bastion, after all.
Format: Any
Warnings: n/a

[Regardless of the Bastion's current state, there are still things that need to be done from day to day. Some one has to attend to those things, and not everyone can just up and leave. Some people might not even want to leave, and there are even a select few that just can't.

So for those of you staying behind, make sure you're not strangers to your fellow survivors!]

Comments

[individuates]

[waiting gets to him. He can't help it]

Mmhm. And the rest. [shifting the bunch of shirts draped carefully over his arm, sheepishly -] …I got a little over-productive.

[bedheadstyle]

I can see that!

[Haruka picks up another one, looking it over.]

These are really well made, though.

[individuates]

Thanks. [he says it more as a courtesy - the blush that decorates his cheeks is certainly not one of embarrassment at his work being praised, so much as embarrassment at the work itself. There is absolutely no design in the clothes at all and he is reluctant to accept much praise for them when he has done nothing to challenge himself]

[puffs out his cheeks and sighs] …my grandmother would be turning in her grave to see me making this kind of thing. If she even had one. By which I mean she was alive when I left, so she would be doing whatever people do when they are still alive.

[bedheadstyle]

Uhm. Being upset, I guess?

[Haruka isn't really sure about that.]

What's wrong with them? We need clothes here, don't we? Well made ones are practically a gift with how little is available.

[individuates]

Maybe mortified might be closer to it. But in a vocal kind of way. She never had any particular interest in holding back when she had a criticism to make. [he says it fondly, though. He loved and hated her in equal measure. She was a thorny old hag, sometimes]

…my family prides itself on its vision, on our design. We never had much of a care about practicality. In fact we would probably have taken it as an insult.

[bedheadstyle]

Oh... well... plain clothes aren't bad. I think everyone needs at least a few basic outfits in their wardrobe. If anything you're filling a need, especially in a place where fitted clothing is difficult to come by.

[Haruka is a pretty good example of that. He is a tall, wiry boy wearing things that are really too big and mismatched. But it was that or too small.]

[individuates]

They're not bad, but… […that's not what their family name was made on. He had not been raised to be basic]

[he pouts for a moment, before making a conscious decision to abandon any notion of debating the point, rummaging through the clothes draped over his arm; he had- - wait, yes, there they are - a button-up shirt, and a hooded jacket. He doesn't have the hands free to hold them against Haruka and see if they'll be about the right size, but he trusts his eyes]

…these are about your size, right?

[bedheadstyle]

Ah-- lemmie see.

[Haruka moved closer, crouching down to take the clothes that were being given to him. He looked them over carefully, trying on the jacket over his current clothes to see how it fit.]

I think they'll fit, yeah.

[individuates]

[clucks his tongue quietly, throwing the rest of the clothes over his shoulder to free both hands]

"I think" isn't good enough, you know…

[all right, so he was kind of tricking him into the clothes in the first place to check the other boy's proportions. Tugging the jacket to sit properly once it's on him, pinching the material here and there critically - he doesn't need to let anything out to adjust the length on him, and the fit is good, but to his eyes still looks baggy on Haruka. He should take the waist in… narrow out the arms, let out the sleeve a little.]

…I'll have to get your proper measurements, before I make you anything else. [making a conscious effort to step away. Keep your hands to yourself, Kaoru]

[bedheadstyle]

[Haruka let out a laugh at that. Kaoru touching him didn't bother the other teen at all.]

It's hard to find clothes that fit me right. Even my school uniform was a size too big.

[individuates]

[whut]

…but the school's tailors should have fitted you perfectly.

[bedheadstyle]

I went to public school.

[individuates]

[headtilt]

[…wait, this is one of those mythical things Haruhi once spoke of.]

[Oh, sweet child, he is so sorry]

[bedheadstyle]

[Haruka is confused]

[individuates]

[you have no way of knowing the things that went thought his head, Haruka, you'd be best just to roll with it]

Mmm! Not to worry! Hikaru and I will take care of everything!

[bedheadstyle]

[He's good at that.]

Hikaru?

[individuates]

My brother!

[damn right. There are two of him! :D]

[bedheadstyle]

Your brother is here? Wow, you're really lucky!

[individuates]

[ducking his head slightly]

…I have been. Very.

[to have two people here that he loves more than life, Tama-chan, a home, and a lot of friends - he only hopes he can be worthy of them]

[bedheadstyle]

None of my family made it... but I have Takane. That's enough for me.

[individuates]

Takane?

[he's not been introduced yet]

…you guys are related, or…?

[bedheadstyle]

Oh, no no. We're classmates. The only two in our class, actually. We were in one of the special classes because she and I both have illnesses that would keep us out of school for long periods of time.

[individuates]

[close friends, then?]

It's good that you have someone from home.

Before Hikaru got here, I had Seimei and… I was getting to be okay with just that. But Hikaru was from home and he can… he can help me to keep alive certain memories that might otherwise have slipped away, you know?

[bedheadstyle]

[Very close.]

It is. And good that we arrived together. I had just come out of surgery... things could have ended much worse for me if she hadn't been here to get people's attention.

[Scary thought, that.]

It's good that he's here now then. I miss my parents but I don't have anyone besides Takane that I really have that sort of connection with.

[individuates]

[a soft hiss between his teeth] Yeesh. That is good.

And it's good that you had her right from the beginning, though. It must have made a lot of things easier, not least the settling-in.