And your tears have been worthwhile [Day 293 | OPEN]

[bedheadstyle]

Who: Haruka Kokonose and you!
Open: Open
When: Day 293, afternoon
Where: Old Apartments, outside
What: Haruka is finally getting that mural started. Or at least he was, until he decided to take a break and fall asleep
Format: Will follow
Warnings: -

[Some time between Day 290 and 293, a strange structure had come to sit against an outside wall of the old apartments. And also in that time, the entire side that it sat against had been painted pure white.

Slowly through those days, a rough sketch started to appear as well, detailing familiar faces of the residents of the Bastion in various poses as well as a large "banner" drawn above them with... some sort of text that most people weren't going to be able to read unless they were Japanese.

Not that Haruka was giving much thought to language barriers. This was his mural project, the same one he had been going on about for some time now, in it's beginning stages with not much to be impressed about beyond the obvious skill behind the preliminary sketches that had gone up.

Today was no different in that he would be continuing to work on it, and even starting the arduous task of painting all those people.

Though if anyone passed by in the late afternoon, they might think he had ducked out early due to the absence of the scraggly-haired teen on the scaffolding that Colin had built for him.

Except...

is that snoring coming from up there?]

Comments

[bulletofhope]

. . . this one?

[ Naegi grabs it on his first try, though he also ends up grabbing the medium-sized flat one, too...

. . . hey, he's still trying to figure out which is which here, cut him some slack. :|; ]

[bedheadstyle]

Uhm... close! There should be a bigger one in there.

[bulletofhope]

Ah... wait, I think I got it. This one, right?

[ Yeah, there's the right brush this time! ]

. . . I'm amazed you don't mix them all up, honestly.

[bedheadstyle]

[Yay!]

I've been an artist for most of my life. There's not much else I could do in school because of my condition...

[bulletofhope]

Ah... that makes sense.

But... that's not a bad thing, is it? You're really skilled as an artist, and it shows.

[bedheadstyle]

Ah--... you really think so?

[Sometimes he doubted, as artists are often wont to do when it comes to their craft.]

[bulletofhope]

Yeah. Seriously, your work... it's almost like magic, watching you make it come to life like this.

[ Meanwhile, he's just... well, ordinary. Just Naegi. Which, perhaps, wasn't really such a bad thing now that he thought about it, huh...? ]

[bedheadstyle]

Ah--... h-heh...

[Totally got him turning red, man.]

Th-thank you... I never thought of it like that before...

[bulletofhope]

[ Oh, Haruka. You're adorable. ]

You're welcome... really, I can't wait to see how this will look once it's done!

[bedheadstyle]

[He really is, even if he won't admit it himself.]

Well that's all the more reason to get to work on this!

[bulletofhope]

[ At least Takane sees it. Even if she'll tsun about it until the cows come home... ]

Yeah! How far are you on this, if you don't mind me asking?

[bedheadstyle]

[Tsun harder, Takane.]

How far? Hmn. Not quite half way. Maybe... a fourth of the way done? The drawings are all on there at least.

[bulletofhope]

[ Tsun tsun dere tsun dere tsun tsun. That is the call of Takane's people. ]

That's a lot more progress than what I would've done on something like this, honestly...

[bedheadstyle]

[Indeed it is.]

It's not like I have much else to do...

[bulletofhope]

. . . true. I think that can be said of all of us here who aren't involved in the Skyway ventures...

[ #BastionLife ]

[bedheadstyle]

Why don't you go out there, Naegi-kun?

[bulletofhope]

Because I'm not exactly made for fighting...

I mean, I can do this lightning thing, but that's only to distract monsters and escape...

[bedheadstyle]

Lightening thing?

1 / 2

[bulletofhope]

Yeah! Uh... here, it'll be easier if I show you...

[ Naegi first decides to get off of the scaffolding lest he accidentally break something, so down to the ground he goes, standing in front of a rock... ]

2 / 2

[bulletofhope]

YOU'VE GOT THAT WRONG!

[ With a dramatic shout and a point of his finger, suddenly lightning shoots from his fingers and at the rock, where it strikes and blows the boulder into pieces.

It's still raining pebbles somewhat when Naegi turns to look at Haruka sheepishly. ]

Something like that.

[bedheadstyle]

[Haruka watches him get off the scaffolding, head tilted curiously as he goes.

And then.

That happens.

And the poor kid is just left stunned.

How... ?]

[bulletofhope]

[ MAGIC.

HE'S A WIZARD, HARUKA.

. . . okay, no, Naegi actually just stares at Haruka worriedly, even calling out to him again because he's wondering if he's okay... ]

Haruka...?

[bedheadstyle]

H... how did you do that... ?

[bulletofhope]

Ah... a friend of mine got me this ability with Shards. These things!

[ Once Naegi's back up in the scaffolds with Haruka, he fishes some of the shiny crystals from his pocket for Haruka to look at. ]

You can use them to buy things, like weapons or abilities like the one I just used.

[bedheadstyle]

I didn't know you could do that!

[He knew it was possible to buy things, but abilities was an entirely new concept to him.]