Day 266 | Open

[aprettyred]

Who: the red Anna, EVERYONE
Open: Open
When: 266, morning!
Where: Kitchen, donut trees
What: Anna is no longer 11
Format: Log, will follow
Warnings: ... Adorableness?




One of the benefits of being a Strain with the powers Anna has is that she knows things. Most of the time she knew where people were around her, what they were thinking. Sometimes it was about the world.

Like that she had been here long enough, combined with her time in Vatheon, that it should be December 8th again.

Well, for her at least. And it was a little after that, really, but the point was that Anna woke knowing that she wasn't 11 anymore. There was the core hunt, though, and talk of problems and Ura, and so it didn't really come to mind that maybe she could do anything until she spotted the donut trees again.

... Tatara had done something like this once, hadn't he?


Anyone near the donut trees and bushes will find Anna trying to collect a few into a basket. She is, however, a small child, and this isn't going to work very well. Mikoto the larvesta is sort of helping - his wagon is now occupied by a basket, so he's halfway up a tree and... eating leaves.


Or you can miss Anna collecting donuts, and find her having collected them, and sorting them onto plates in the kitchen. Donut breakfast. For as many people as she can. Mikoto is happily chewing through one that looks like Anna grabbed it a little too hard, buzzing lazily.

Comments

Near the donut trees

[cyan_maid]

When it comes to finding oneself in a new place for what would probably be a very long time, exploration is usually the best way to get to know its ins and outs. It also made for a wonderful distraction, so when Jane had woken up this morning, she set out immediately to see what there was to find in the Bastion.

The incredibly colorful foliage of the plants in this area have proven mighty distracting, though. Jane wanders around the trees and bushes, eyeing their unusual fruits with caution. Were those donuts? No, they couldn't be! But there were so many kinds, and they look so real...

...And so did that strange and unusual creature clinging halfway up one of the trees, happily munching on multicolored leaves. She comes to a stop to stare at it.

"What in the world is that?" Jane asks aloud. She hasn't noticed that she's not exactly alone.

[aprettyred]

"His name is Mikoto." Anna goes up on tippytoes, trying to reach a donut. Yes, there is a new person nearby, but if she was going to do anything, Anna is fairly sure that she'd be able to notice before... anything happened. The donuts, at the moment, are much more important.

... Except for maybe some clarification."He is a pokemon called 'larvesta'."

[cyan_maid]

The voice startles Jane, just for a moment, until she spots the young girl nearby on her tiptoes. After a moment she looks back up at the creature.

A Pokemon, huh? She wants to ask if they're common to the Bastion, but that's not really a good question to ask when you see someone struggling. After all, that's just rude.

"Are you, erm, trying to get him down?" Jane asks. Her eyes flicker to the...possible donuts. "Or are you trying to harvest some of the, um, food?"

[aprettyred]

"Mikoto is too heavy for me. I think it is because he keeps eating." The bug in question buzzes and.. continues to eat. "I am after this donut."

Anna goes back to standing on her feet, pointing at the round one just out of reach.

In fact, the basket in the little red wagon only holds assorted round donuts...

[cyan_maid]

Well, Mikoto does sort of look like a caterpillar...sort of. And caterpillars tend to eat a lot, so that's probably why he was heavy. Jane looks at the indicated donut.

"Would you like some help?"

[daughterofursa]

Zuko is up bright and early as usual, and like a lot of people, she's preoccupied with preparations for the Ura. In fact, she's cut her usual morning training short so she can spend more of her time getting the ostrich horses ready. She's on her way over to them when she notices Anna by the donut trees.

"Need a hand?" She'll ask what this is for in a minute, but she's not going to bother wondering about the pokemon. When some of them are shaped like keyrings, a giant bug eating leaves is nothing remarkable.

[aprettyred]

Giant round bug. Mikoto really should stop eating.

"A lot of the small ones are very high." Yes, she would like a hand.

And they probably aren't very high to anyone else.

[daughterofursa]

Yeah, Mikoto, think of how many people they could feed with... donut tree leaves...? Oh well.

Zuko was tall-ish back home, and though nothing remarkable here, she can certainly reach more of the donuts that Anna can't get to, and she does so, handing a few down.

"Are you collecting them for the Ura?" One-track mind right now. Mostly that keeps her from thinking about that awkward encounter with Aoi, but considering these are donuts... Well, that might not last.

[aprettyred]

"... Would they still be good when we got them to the Ura?" Isn't that a little bit away? "Don't they get .. stale? ... Unless because they grow on trees, they are magic donuts that don't...."

She hadn't been, by her thought process.

[amnesiadragon]

Ryu is wandering near the trees, and he sees Anna trying to get higher. Huh... he wanders closer.

"Do you want a boost?"

[aprettyred]

"Please?" She's small, it doesn't work for picking trees!

[amnesiadragon]

He walks over and grabs her around the waist gently, hoisting her up.

[aprettyred]

Perfect. And hey, it wasn't even by the back of her dress.

Anna picks the newly in reach donuts. "My hands are full now."

Donuts for breakfast! Wait, that's not weird...

[freedom_engineer]

[Colin's been up for a while now, a lot of work's needed to be planned out, to say nothing of his daily workout. He also hasn't eaten yet, no sense in disturbing everyone else just because he's up before the crack of dawn. Still, now that it's breakfast time, he's HUNGRY.]

[He comes into the kitchen and heads straight for the fridge, only pausing when he sees Anna and Mikoto. And look, Mikoto's still eating.]

You know, Mikoto, you're going to fall right out of your cocoon if you keep eating this much.

[He diverts from the fridge to walk over to Mikoto and pet along his back.]

Good morning, Anna. Prepping some breakfast for everyone?

exactly what she was planning

[aprettyred]

[ Happily munching and getting donut frosting on his little bug face, that's Mikoto.

Oh, but pets. Mikoto slows his eating to focus more on content buzzing. ]

Yes. [ More importantly- ] He needs to make a cocoon?

[ Mikoto you may be going on a diet soon. ]

Clever girl

[freedom_engineer]

He may, I don't know for sure. You might want to ask Hilda, N, or AZ about it.

[Yep, still petting little big firebug.]

Though, he's getting a little rotund. I think he's definitely eating more than well.

[He smiles over at Anna.]

This is very nice of you, thank you.

[aprettyred]

.... He does look like a caterpillar. [ Someone else's thought brought it up first, but that might not be any surprise. Anna thinks of Mikoto as the bug Mikoto.

Happy buzzing bug. Ignoring that he's being talked about. ]

I wanted to do something, because Tatara would do things on birthdays.

[heptagram]

[Patchouli made her way to the kitchen. She was hungry and it was early enough in the morning for her to get breakfast. She wasn't entirely expecting someone else to be there. Or maybe not their large caterpillar, one or the other. Probably the latter, since she's pretty well fascinated by it and spends a lot of time examining it, before turning her attention to the small child whom she guesses is its owner.]

Oh! Hello there.

[aprettyred]

Hello. Would you like a donut?

[ Mikoto more or less ignores her. He watches a little when she first peers at him, but so long as she doesn't interrupt his donut feast, he doesn't care. ]

[heptagram]

That's very kind of you, miss. Thank you very much.

[Don't worry, Mikoto, she won't do that.]

[aprettyred]

You're welcome.

[ All the donuts are ring or bismark donuts. Who knows why!

Gooood. Mikoto remains where he is, contentedly buzzing and chowing down on crushed donut. ]

[headphoneactor]

Stating that Takane wasn't a morning person was a gross understatement. She was not really an any time of the day person, to be fair. So, when it turned out that they barely had any food in the apartment after she'd finally woken herself up enough to actually walk around a bit (thanks, Haruka, for eating all the food ever), she came into the kitchen first thing, still rubbing her eyes.

And that was when she saw the little lady, arranging donuts on plates.

Her still sleepy brain was still trying to wake up, and took a few moments of her staring at the sight before her to put together a coherent enough string of words for this.

"Wha's the occasion?"

She was a little curious about that.

[aprettyred]

"I am twelve." Which could be a random statement, or a statement of why.

Anna looks the sleepy girl over, then goes looking for another plate.

Here, have a donut.

[headphoneactor]

It took a moment for Takane to connect the phrase 'I am twelve' to anything significant.

Oh.

Well.

Her birthday. It must be her birthday. Okay, that made sense. She didn't smile, but she did relax a little in her posture. That's the most you'll get out of her.

"Happy Birthday," she recited. She didn't sound that enthused. Sorry, Anna.

[aprettyred]

The most Anna will get visibly out of her, anyway.

Here is your donut. "Thank you."