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Post by Tachibana Saya on Apr 1, 2018 12:46:22 GMT -8
How nostalgic, I haven’t really dressed like this since I arrived here… Lifting her head and giving a gentle hum as she twisted the long, silky locks she possessed into an elegant looking figure of eight arrangement behind the back of her head, Tachibana Saya looked herself over and couldn’t help but feel a tiny twinge of sadness as she stared at herself. Coming to visit what had been called the ‘Star Festival’, the occasion had made her decide to slip into something that reminded her of her heritage, and she had chosen a cotton robe that she knew as a ‘Yukata’. This decision now flooding her with memories and faces that she hadn’t seen in a rather long time, and might not see again in far longer, for all the elegance and style with which she wore the item the purple haired girl couldn’t help but feel bittersweet as she took in her image. Dressed in a silky gown around which she had wrapped a thick Obi belt, the kimono that she had chosen was such a dark and rich shade of indigo that it looked almost black, and was decorated with a pattern of white and amaranth coloured flowers that were connected together by fine green vines. Hair tied up in a style that her mother might have called a little bit sloppy, but rather comfortable and pretty in her own opinion, the sleek waist length hair that Saya possessed was in the process of being pinned in place with the right twists and turns, the young woman sported as a comb that featured a pattern of scattered cherry blossoms as well that sat just behind her crown, looking a little like a tiara at the back of her head. All these items little trinkets that Miss Tachibana had collected up in the past year since coming to Veria, including the gown and sockless Tabi sandals that she wore, these sentimental items hadn’t been shown off much since the girl acquired them, really. Finding that they were far from as functional than the more commonplace fashions she had discovered in Faraday, Saya had largely worn items with a more ‘western’ kind of feeling and now found herself for the first time looking like she did back home. It moved her a little, emotionally speaking. Perhaps I shouldn’t dwell on things too much… Feeling a small throb in her heart and even a hint of a sting in her eyes as she looked at herself, with a shake of her head the woman in the dark kimono turned away from her visage as she tried to brush away what she was feeling. Here to have fun with her redheaded friend rather than dwell on the past, Saya let out a tiny sigh before standing up and twisting the handle to the bathroom door of the little room they had ‘borrowed’ at the local Pokémon centre. “How are you coping, Yumi-san?” Trying to mask the sadness in her voice as she slid the door to the double room they had for the day open just an inch or so in case the other woman wasn’t finished getting changed, Miss Tachibana hoped that her company might distract her from the sudden melancholy that she felt. “If you need help with anything, I’d be happy to oblige?” Suggesting the idea to her fellow femme that they should wear these elegant gowns to the festivities and not wanting to feel as if she had let her down, Saya steadied herself with a long breath before stepping through to see how Yumi would look in clothes so familiar to her… Yumi TasukaiHairOutfit
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Post by Yumi Tasukai on Apr 1, 2018 14:09:46 GMT -8
Yumi had never worn anything like this before. She'd decided to go along with Saya's idea, but she didn't realize how embaressing it'd feel in the moment. She was Painfully aware of how the fabric seemed to hate staying on her shoulders, how generally breezey it was, and how surprisingly difficult it was to do this weird wrap thing in the middle. She was sure she'd like it once she got it on right despite the mild 'unnatural. sensation such a high class item of clothing provided, it was cute, had a bunch of asian-styled floral patterns,a very colorful design altogether, but still if she could just...get it...on...!
"AH!!" Jolting to the side and carefully holding her outfit together so it didn't fall open again as Saya spoke through the bathroom door, she let out a small whine as she had to steady herself against the wall, nearly falling over with the sandle-clog THINGS she was wearing, whining a little pitifully as she asked. "C-could you come help me do this belt thing? M-maybe my hair...? I'm really sorry Saya I am just...so not used to all this..."
Ko-ken was sitting cross legged outside the room, pouting about how he wasn't allowed in to protect Yumi from the, in his eyes, overly friendly Saya as they got changed.
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Post by Tachibana Saya on Apr 1, 2018 17:21:26 GMT -8
“Heheheheh, let’s get that sorted out for you…” Speaking in a soft and nurturing tone as she slipped out of the bathroom, maybe it was the need to settle the panic of her friend and sort out her image that calmed Saya, but whatever it was she found herself thankful for it. Melancholy thoughts of her homeland and the longing she felt for it melting away as she spotted the redhead stumbling across the room, with her own sandals lightly rapping against the ground Miss Tachibana placed her hand on the hip of Yumi and turned her around, guiding the girl so she could look at herself in the mirror as she sorted out the items of apparel that seemed so complex to a ‘foreign’ mind.
“I remember as a girl, my mother used to help me with these things…” Looking down at the back of the redhead and speaking gently to her friend as she snaked her hands around the waist of the girl, the intrusive action carried no lewdness nor desire for intimacy as Saya smoothed out the stiff underlayer of the redhead’s sash. This silk-covered board like a corset that highlighted the sublime figure that Yumi would rarely boast of, to keep it in position and only slightly on the tight side Miss Tachibana looped her looser belt around it before tying it in an elegant but secure knot.
“Now you’re shaping up like the lady you deserve to be, Yumi-san…” Peeking over the shoulder of the girl she was an inch or two taller than, with a smirk Saya then guided her friend to the chair in the room and began to run her fingers through the red locks she possessed. Using her digits to smooth out that scarlet mane that on occasion could look a little unruly and slipping out the pins that were failing to control it fully, the blue eyed beauty gave a small hum as she twisted all but her fringe and bangs into a tail that she turned over to leave some of the characteristic flair that Yumi usually possessed. Creating a small bun at the back of her head that restrained the wildness of her crimson tresses, she placed the pins back in place like a couple of antenna and then looked over the shoulder of her roomie in order to check how things looked.
“Almost perfect, just…” Smiling and then cocking her head to one side as she decided that Yumi’s appearance might just need a little more flourish, Miss Tachibana scanned the room and then dashed over a small vase of flowers that had been left in the room. Pulling a periwinkle camellia from the vase and chopping back some of its stem with her thumbnail, with a small giggle of pride like that of a mother dressing up her child, Saya slipped in front of the redhead now and slipped the bloom into the hair of the beauty before her.
“Yes, a true goddess sits before me now~” Smiling gently as she took in the sight of the breath taking vision she had created, while Saya’s natural good looks meant that she usually looked rather elegant and lovely, she found a rather more startling contrast in Yumi. Out of her usual hoodie and jeans and now oozing femininity, while the redhead might interpret this change rather differently, Miss Tachibana couldn’t help but feel astounded by how lovely the lady before her now looked…
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Post by Yumi Tasukai on Apr 2, 2018 2:59:03 GMT -8
As her hips were grabbed in a faintly forward manner, Yumi knew there was nothing lewd about it but all the same a light tint came to her cheeks, turning about to face the mirror and holding a hand firmly against the edge of her outfit, making sure to hold it closed as Saya worked on making sure everything stayed in place. Her shoulders still felt a little loose, but with the outfit closing up it actually looked kinda nice. Assuming it wasn't too cold at the festival she could actually enjoy it, and if it was cold she'd just find herself adjusting the shoulders a little.
"Well I didn't really have the honor of having anyone teach me this stuff..." She offered a weak smile as the outfit seemed to be sorted out, and followed Saya to the other room, sitting in a chair infront of her and feeling her work with her hair. She expected it to be put up entirely, but the mini-bun and continued tail actually looked pretty nice from what she could see...at the mention of ALMOST being perfect, Yumi got a little curious, peering over her shoulder just as Saya got back, unable to see what she was doing till she placed the flower in her hair, blushing even deeper and lowering her head, hands in her lap.
"Oh...shut up...~"
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Post by Tachibana Saya on Apr 2, 2018 7:07:09 GMT -8
“I am afraid that is one request I cannot follow, to let this loveliness go unacknowledged would be a grave sin…” Straightening up and then letting a single digit dip down and try and lift the head of the suddenly shy girl back up, with a sweet set of words and a wide smile, Saya attempted to affirm her previous statement. Much more used to getting a little ‘touchy’ with the girl now that she had spent enough time with her to grow comfortable, perhaps the gesture carried a sense of romance that Miss Tachibana might have overlooked but for the most part she was trying to help her friend feel better about herself.
“The folks at this festival will likely strain their necks trying to follow the vision that is you~” Knowing Yumi struggled for confidence at times and hoping that a sincere compliment might help her be a little more comfortable with how she looked, the dark haired girl had to admit that while she herself was more accustomed to the style they now wore, it seemed to do even more credit for the redhead. Not jealous of this fact but more impressed by how well the amber-eyed beauty could ‘scrub up’, Saya giggled and then clapped her hands together, suddenly excited at the prospect of showing themselves off to the crowds now she had such loveliness next to her.
“So, you said that this festival is an annual event? We had something similar called Hoshimatsuri where I come from… Have you visited it before?” The mood of Miss Tachibana certainly lifted from the melancholy she had been suffering as she picked up a couple of purse-like pouches that matched the dressed that the duo wore and offered one to Yumi, she smiled and felt herself eager to see how the Verian way compared to her own? Thinking of her past in a more positive light as she recalled the food vendors and goldfish scooping games that would pop up in Rokkaku one week in summer, as well as the fireworks that followed them, she felt a little bit like the giddy little girl she once was again…
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Post by Yumi Tasukai on Apr 2, 2018 8:00:15 GMT -8
Her cheeks turning a deeper red, even as her chin was lifted she shifted her eyes away, letting out a nervous giggle as she scratched her cheek and trying not to look Saya directly in the eye, not t all what to say about what was just put to her, biting her lip lightly as she tried to let her heart calm down. She knew Saya meant nothing of it really but...it was a nice choice of words. She refused to believe she was a goddess of all things but she could tell Saya wasn't just humoring her either..
"Thanks hun...I-I doubt I'll have any eyes on me though. The festival attracts a lot of people like...coordinators or...cute girls trying to advertise stalls and stuff...but thank you..."
All the same once Saya told her how to hold it, if there WAS a specific way, she started to walk out of their room and used their keycard to lock it behind them, testing the handle before moving on. "I was here last year but just for a poke around...oh! Tell ya what though! I reeeeeally wanna get some candy apples! Loads of stalls do them so it shouldn't be hard to find one if we keep an eye out!~ How about you? Anything you're expecting to see? I dunno if they had events like this back at your home.".
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Post by Tachibana Saya on Apr 2, 2018 11:21:54 GMT -8
“Certainly, any who are focused on other cute girls will be missing out, of that I am sure~” Winking playfully as she turned the chord that held their sack-like bags shut around her wrist and then gripped what was left securely, Miss Tachibana was unsure whether she was just trying to compliment and encourage the redhead or outright flirt with her now. Perhaps at one time making more of the little gestures of intimacy than she needed to and now over correcting to the degree that she had become somewhat oblivious to where the ‘line’ between roomie and romance lay, the important thing was that she could use some of the affection she had for her friend to hopefully help her feel more at ease.
“Candy Apples? I don’t think we had them at Hoshimatsuri…” Unsure of whether she could be picturing an apple made of some sort of sugary material or something else, Saya looked up slightly as she remembered the snacks her homeland had offered in its nearest equivalent. Skewered food popular like yakitori or dango if one fancied something sweet, the closest thing to what Yumi described were probably the dried slices of mandarin that were slightly caramelized, but even this didn’t seem to fit the description.
“There were several food vendors and also those that would put on games or sell wares they had either made locally or acquired from further afield? My village was only small so the gathering wasn’t a huge one, though several of the merchants had mentioned attending gigantic assemblies held in the capital and other cities?” Continuing to reminisce as she was probed on the events of previous get together, Saya found her tone dipping a little as she thought of the large festivals that she had heard about as a girl. Always wanting to travel the land and attend one or two of the big celebrations, Miss Tachibana noted a little of her melancholy returning as she realized she might never get to see one.
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Post by Yumi Tasukai on Apr 2, 2018 11:51:41 GMT -8
Yumi rolled her eyes at the continued subtle praise, crossing her arms around herself to keep herself comfortable. She did think she looked pretty in this but damnit she wasn't gonna give Saya the satisfaction of admitting it...and also she kinda enjoyed the nice words, and felt the more she pretended not to like it, the more she'd get it.
At the mention of her home though Yumi...supposed that sounded like a festival? She couldn't quite place it. Though she couldn't really say for certain, what she did know is that Saya tended to look a bit bummed whenever she started going on about her home, and as much as Yumi wanted to hear about it, she also wanted to have a good evening, playfully jabbing the other girl's arm and moving towards the door. "Come on, let's get you a candy apple and you can tell me more about those weird gatherings."
After a short walk into the main section of the festival, Yumi made sure she was the one paying for their candy apples, handing one of them on a stick to Saya before moving along. "So they basically just coat it in some weird caramel stuff but it's actually surprisingly tasty.~" She took a crunchy bite of her own, wincing a little as she forgot how hard the caramel layer made the things but sure she hadn't broken a tooth or anything, her eyes scanning the rest of the festival, hearing a small 'ding' that caught her attention and, still with a mouth full of apple, she tugged on Saya's sleeve and started tugging her towards the shooting game that caught her attention, swallowing back her food.
"You ever seen one of these?You can play the game and win prizes!~"
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Post by Tachibana Saya on Apr 2, 2018 12:10:19 GMT -8
Sweet… But hard. Lifting the strange, caramel covered piece of fruit that sat atop a short stick up and wrapping her lips around into, while Saya enjoyed the sugary coating as it hit her tongue, she couldn’t help but blink as she found her teeth clawing against its surface. Pausing for a second before spotting the way that Yumi managed to breath the surface of her own, while it seemed a little unladylike to take such a large and hard bite out of something, the young woman elected for a ‘when in Rome’ kind of approach.
“Mmmmnnnufff!” Groaning and then letting out a bit of a gasp when finally did she break the toffee shell of her treat with a rather satisfying crunch, Miss Tachibana tore a piece of the softer apple beneath its surface away and began to munch happily. Abandoning perhaps a little of her usual decorum as she found this tricky but tasty treat a worthy challenge to her, there was something about the initial struggle that this Candy Apple put up that made it all the more rewarding. You who was once so might now surrenders to a vastly superior foe… Perhaps some primal part of her brain still feeling like a hunter that had claimed a fresh kill, Saya attacked her food with a fevered hunger and barely even noticed as Yumi dragged her toward a fresh strand, being left only with a core on a stick and a bit of the caramel clinging to her lips when she got there.
“What are these, some kind of tool or club?” Brought to the shooting stall by the redhead in her fervent food stupor, as Miss Tachibana found herself in front of a booth with long, tube-like objects, she couldn’t help but pick one of what was offered up and study it curiously. Guns not existing in her native world and Veria not exactly rife with them, this was the first time that Saya had seen any form of firearm and largely mistook the grip of the weapon for some heavy head. “It’s a little clumsy, isn’t it?” Turning it over and grabbing the barrel firmly, she motioned with the air rifle she had picked up to swing it like a bat, and then groaned as a small chain prevented her full range of movement.
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Post by Yumi Tasukai on Apr 3, 2018 4:46:04 GMT -8
Snickering as Saya showed her lack of knowledge about the toy guns, Yumi put down some money for a set of pellets for each of them, snapping the gun open and loading in the pellets before snapping it back together, locking the gun in place ready to use, thinking of how to explain this.
"So it's kinda like...a bow an arrow I guess? But it's a lot more powerful. They're really a work of fiction but toy ones work well for games like this. You just..." She bit into her apple, holding it between her teeth and looking down the sites towards the moving targets, just going for a practice round right now, speaking muffled through the apple. "Muck nown da sights annnnn..." She took a shot, the ball shot pinging off one of the targets and knocking it down, Yumi finally crunching the apple and holding it by the stick. "Bingo!~"
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Post by Tachibana Saya on Apr 3, 2018 10:19:05 GMT -8
Bow and arrow? The confusion of Miss Tachibana only growing at the description she was offered by the redhead, she moved her hand to the middle of the barrel and wondered where the bowstring was on it, not really realizing that the woman meant that in a more figurative than literal sense until she began to demonstrate the operation. Watching curiously as the redhead lined up a shot and then pulled the trigger on her weapon, Saya flinched a little on reflex at the crack that was given off when the pellet was launched and then marvelled as the target was knocked down by the girl.
“Ohhhhh… A few warriors in the village had mentioned people using something called a ‘Musket’, but didn’t really seem to approve of them… Is this was this weapon is?” Remembering some of the gruff old swordsmen speaking of friends they had seen felled by bandits wielding what they called the ‘weapon of a coward’, Saya pulled her hand down to the grip and trigger properly, examining the toy firearm carefully and then giving a small and rather girly squeak when she set the action of the rifle off by accident.
“It feels somewhat delicate…” Frowning a little and lucky that her own rifle was not loaded, unlike the one that Yumi was holding, the snap of the trigger mechanism had startled a woman who was more used to a sharp edge than keen set of sights. Remembering the way that Yumi had opened her own one up and then grunting as she snapped the barrel forward, the fascinated femme looked down the muzzle like it was a telescope like a child who had found something she didn’t quite understand.
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Post by Jay on Apr 4, 2018 7:37:58 GMT -8
Congrats you get 3 for new interaction and 2 for your first set 5 rounds Tachibana Saya A Starfruit! A soft and juicy fruit bursting with nutrients. It's so good for your Pokémon it can be substituted for 1 evo point! A Lovely Geode! There are sparkling crystals inside, but what kind? (Turn into the Gem Trading thread to receive a random Gem.) A Very Unstable Stone! Said to have crashed to earth inside a meteorite, it seems to be trying to take the shape of a Mega Stone, but which it will become is anyone's guess. (Turn into the Gem Trading Thread to receive a random Stone.) A Very Unstable Stone! Said to have crashed to earth inside a meteorite, it seems to be trying to take the shape of a Mega Stone, but which it will become is anyone's guess. (Turn into the Gem Trading Thread to receive a random Stone.) A Comet Shard! A glittering blue jewel said to be a part of Bal's Comet itself! (Sellable for Φ70) Yumi Tasukai earned: A Stardust! A small pouch of dust said to have scattered from the stars. (Sellable for Φ30) A Very Unstable Stone! Said to have crashed to earth inside a meteorite, it seems to be trying to take the shape of a Mega Stone, but which it will become is anyone's guess. (Turn into the Gem Trading Thread to receive a random Stone.) A Comet Shard! A glittering blue jewel said to be a part of Bal's Comet itself! (Sellable for Φ70) A Starburst Candy! Allows a single Pokémon to earn double evo points from a single battle. (Note you are using it in your evo request post.) A Stardust! A small pouch of dust said to have scattered from the stars. (Sellable for Φ30) No UB's spotted!
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Post by Yumi Tasukai on Apr 6, 2018 10:29:19 GMT -8
"They...they had musket's were you came from?" Yumi was a little surprised, but maybe they had something that just had the same name? Maybe? Kinda hard to make any judgements but if they had real working guns maybe they based them off the fictional stuff? Or...was the fictional stuff based off of what they actually had? Huh, it was a weird thing to think about. As Saya opened up her gun she got distracted by her own curiosity and giggled quietly, reaching over and taking it down from her eyes. "Careful you don't do that once it's loaded."
Taking some of the pellets she'd load up the gun for her and hand it back across, laying down her own and moving in behind her, guiding her on how to hold it like she once did with the fishing rod, guiding her aim a little and pointing at a still target of a torkoal, pretty big and hard to miss. "See if you can hit that one yeah?"
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Post by Tachibana Saya on Apr 6, 2018 15:43:44 GMT -8
Looking on curiously as she had her plaything snatched away and the tiny little shots that it fired loaded into it, while Saya’s shyness about physical contact with Yumi had died down a lot in the time they had been living together, her cheeks reddened as she felt herself being seized gently by the girl out of the blue. “Y-Yes, I shall try…” Feeling a little bit like a doe that had been pounced on by a tiger or something as the redhead learned over her shoulder, Miss Tachibana felt a lump in her throat that she tried to swallow down, attempting at the same time to ignore the way that her friends breath softly washed over her cheek.
Trying to distract herself with their activity as her feelings of awkwardness began to rise again, with a slightly jerky pull of her finger, Saya snagged the trigger but found her shot went nowhere near she made to aim. The snapping motion tilting her sights and barrel just enough that even with Yumi’s guidance the trajectory went wide of the target, for a second she blinked and kind of expected whatever magic mechanism that was in this gun to make the Torkoal flop over before realizing she hadn’t actually hit it and letting out a small sigh.
“It seems there’s more skill involved in this than I had been led to believe, perhaps?” Glancing toward the face of her friend before looking away as she was reminded by how close the redhead was, had she a blade in her hand Miss Tachibana was confident she could chop down any targets that were put in front of her, regardless of how much or quickly they moved. Marksmanship not a discipline she had ever practiced before, while it was a little embarrassing to admit, she was completely out of her depth here…
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Post by Yumi Tasukai on Apr 7, 2018 4:58:27 GMT -8
"Heh, yeah perhaps...you kinda forget how much skill these things take once you've made them second nature." She still had a few shots left herself, but not enough to win any big prizes now that she'd already shot one target. She tipped her head towards the game to try and keep Saya's attention on it before lifting her gun to fire off towards one of the stationary targets. "Ya just gotta make sure you lone it up along the line of the gun, not like, staring up or down the sights, you gotta get it perfect..."
Firing off a shot the metal target slammed down against the floor of the game section, Yumi smiling to Saya briefly when the game runner got their attention.
"Ya know lady I gotta put these back up between attempts so if you two wanna-" "Ey." She cut back in, showing an odd level of confidence in doing so. "We're just taking a practice round, don't worry we'll keep payin." The guy running the show shook his head and looked off in another direction, Yumi trying to get Saya's focus on the game. "Just take another go, I'm sure you'll get it this time.~"
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