[OPEN] gardening & sewing log for your domestic cottagecore needs

[eidxiety]

Who: Ain & You
What: Gardening + new tailor shop log
When: A day or two after everyone gets back from the Grove... people might be dying in the log under this we'll deal with it
Where: The Grove
Warnings: None, this is a peaceful and happy log-


I. - The Tailor Shop Prompt

[The Grove has a new shop when everyone returns from the beach. It's little, the outside sign woven with wooden motifs of leaves and carved text reading "NEEDLE & THREAD", and the windows having displays of mannequins in them, one of which has only fabric draped around its neck and the other which Ain is using to sew a dress. He's also wearing his own as he does this, ten different bobby pins in his hair to keep his bangs out of the way while he works.

Although he looks busy, shuffling about to get the display set up, he'll cheerfully greet people who come in and ask if they want anything done. He doesn't have anything premade yet because this place just opened, but he's happy to take requests — or sew something up, if you need it.]

II. - The Gardening Prompt

[After the tailor shop is fully set up, Ain can be seen walking around in short overalls with a ton of gardening supplies. Flower pots, seed packets, a toolbelt filled with gardening tools he got from Heimr... he has thirty-six packages of seeds, three each of any one type of plant, and he looks overjoyed digging in soil. He has become a Dirt Boy. Which is to say he has somehow gotten swipes of dirt on his face. If you want to help, or just stare at him, you can find Ain either:

a) futzing with flower pots and hanging planters that he's trying to get hung up on the awning of the tailor shop and on the other buildings, once things get planted; and he specifically tells you that the cacti need to be planted in large pots because they grow out too, not just up, and can you help him reach this and that or move this big heavy cactus flower pot over there?

b) digging holes into the actual ground, but not near the sunflowers so he doesn't harm them by accident, around the various buildings. Here is where he's planting lilies and frangipani and a bunch of other flowers, watering the spots the seeds are buried where they immediately spring to life thanks to him asking Moder to make them grow faster earlier. The Guardian herself is lingering in the distance supervising like a mom at the park.

c) Of course, if you didn't want to help with the process of planting things, you can find Ain a few hours later making flower crowns from the lantanas and lilies.]

[[ooc: if it's helpful to anyone wanting to garden, this is the full list of plants bought: cactus, aloe vera, lilies, frangipani, wisterias, fuchsias, begonias, hydrangeas, poppies, lantanas, calendulas, & gardenias. have fun planting plants :) ]]

Comments

[lupusxylem]

[People are complicated. Ain't that the truth.]

Yeah? ...sounds a lot like Vash, honestly.

[Elsword and Vash are those types. They can just immediately sense it. They're like golden retrievers but for people they can make into their friends.]

And I mean like. It...ain't a bad thing to wanna see the good in people. It's harder for me 'cause I've been through so much, I guess. I don't really trust all that easy.

[For obvious reasons.]

And when you live in a world where it's the strongest survive...it's easy to assume people just got their own interests at heart. I guess I get where that mentality comes from, in a way.

But if nobody's done anythin' to you...there's no reason to do it first just to get a "head start".

[eidxiety]

Mm... I guess so.

[Turns out being accused of wanting to do the most heinous things you can to someone when all you wanted to do was have a bit of fun is pretty hurtful! Ain has too much anxiety anyway, there's no way this wasn't going to stick.]

You know, he also offered to do some sort of drug with me after I told him that not everyone is evil, and I think that made me mad, too. Human drugs usually lower your inhibitions like liquor, right? [He has never done a drug either. First sexual experience bad, he'll probably do drugs and it'll be bad, the only drug Ain should be doing is fucking Xanax for his anxiety disorder.] He said it was to calm him. Anyway, I left.

[lmfao.]

Haha, I'm sorry to bring the mood down. It's been bothering me, so I wanted to bring it up somehow, but... I don't know, nothing has been about me, and I don't like talking about me either.

[lupusxylem]

[Haha what the fuck? What the fuck. Affogato, how do you fumble the bag THAT badly.]

Good. You shoulda' left.

[Like not to become means girls about it but also-]

...listen, Ain. [Ain. No nicknames on his part either.] You don't gotta apologize. You ain't "makin' it about you". We're both talkin'. We're venting. S'fine, okay?

Like. That...had t'be hard to talk about. So don't downplay it so much.

[eidxiety]

[But what if (hear him out) what if (anxiety starts revving) he's evil and bad (anxiety gets worse).]

Oh, it was, but I figure if I downplay it and say sorry a lot that it'll be easier. [Ain please seek prozac.] Ms. Harnier said I was an anxious person when I talked to her last, though.

[SHE WAS RIGHT!]

I'm not sure coffee and sugar will help with that any, but... if you're done, do you wanna get dressed and go cheer up at the cafe?

[lupusxylem]

[Ain your anxiety...]

I think you'd prolly benefit from talking t'Mizuki more. It helps me, even if I'm kinda slow goin' at it.

[So, you know! If Nicholas D. Wolfwood is vouching for therapy, you know there's something to it.

But he knows a subject change when he hears one, and he's starting to get a little pruny. He rolls his shoulders a bit, sitting forward and shucking a hand through his hair to get it out of his eyes.]

But yeah. I'm ready when you are. I could use a fuckin' coffee.

[eidxiety]

[Ain already taaaaaaaalks to Mizuki... but good to know. Subject change acknowledged, now Ain is no longer sad*


*he is still sad but he's running off now.

Like he is literally just getting out of the bath there's no modesty now, he's yeeting himself out of the water and if Wolfwood gets flashbanged by ass well he'll have to live with that.]

I don't think they make them like that.

[Hehe teehee... grabs his towel, yeets himself off to the changing room as he dries off.]

[lupusxylem]

[Oh yeah he super is getting flashbanged by ass, good lord. He'll just have to try not to think too hard about the fact he's pretty sure he saw freckles there.

Shaking his head a little, he'll climb out a bit more slowly, grabbing for his towel so he can throw it around himself.]

Slow down, will ya? I don't wanna hafta carry you outta here cause you cracked your head on the floor.

[eidxiety]

[He did. Don't think about it. Or do, up to you buddy.]

I'm a healer, I won't die.

[And then, dramatically as he's throwing his dirty towel into the laundry basket and getting his clothing on:]

You're saying you wouldn't carry me bridal-style? [where did bridal style come from] Aww...

[lupusxylem]

[Oh no, he will be thinking about it. He will be thinking about it Muchly, actually-

Wolfwood takes the time to scrub himself dry, finishing with his hair that he only manages to get half dry before he too tosses his towel into the laundry basket before going for his clothes. They're not clean, but at least he's not covered in plant soil like Ain was.]

Hey now. I didn't say I wouldn't. Just said I didn't wanna have to cause you broke your head. There's a difference.

[eidxiety]

[Meanwhile Ain is pulling on the Rowlet dress (without the Rowlet) and braiding his hair back up, slapping that ribbon in the back... flower crown. Hehe teehee cute Ain. Dirty clothes will be dropped off at his shop so he can hand scrub them and probably sew the holes he got in the overalls just by fucking around with his tools, but then!

They're off! They're off and Ain is practically skipping through all the flowers he planted, there are so many of them someone with a pollen allergy is going to have a bad time. And conveniently it looks like no one in the cafe is here wowe it's probably because the space-time continuum will break if Passenger and Ain are in the same location—]

Ooh... [To the Liason at the counter:] I'll have one of every food item. [ONE OF EVERY—] And chai!!

[and then he's putting so many shells on the counter hey ain what the fuck]

[lupusxylem]

[Ain...is so cute. What the fuck. That dress is so cute And Wolfwood is realizing he's never imagined a guy in a dress could be this attractive. He finds himself distracted as he fidgets with the flower crown that he's still keeping that Ain made for him, following after him as Ain skips through the flowers and looks genuinely happy despite the heavy subjects they've been talking about. This guy really can turn on a dime, huh...

The cafe is as quaint as he remembers it, though the last time he was here. Uh. He was actually trying to throttle Ain so lmao how times have changed.]

One of...everythin'? You sharin' that?

[eidxiety]

[He sure can turn on a dime and that's because if he lets the anxiety win he'll die so :) time to just :) shut that off :)

The Liason is going to flit around and get everything for them and bring it to the table... whatever Wolfwood orders included, who knows. If he wants his spicy-ass black coffee he's getting it.]

Haha, do you wanna share? I don't mind~. I'm pretty good at sharing sometimes!

[lupusxylem]

I mean...only if you want?

[WAS

AIN GOING TO ACTUALLY EAT IT ALL HIMSELF---]

S'long as I get that coffee, you can have as much as you want. Go nuts.

[eidxiety]

[He sure was! And the bnuuy running the place right now will have to fill their table with it. Ain picks seating outside because the weather is nice and he likes Outside. Wolfwood will get his coffee and Ain will get his chai, and then their entire table will quickly become a buffet as god intended.

Happy angel noises.]

Oh, you're giving me permission now? Haha, thanks, but I was already gonna go nuts.

[And he is gunning for that cheese pastry first. Cheese cheese cheese cheese che—]

[lupusxylem]

[Wolfwood snorts, reaching for his coffee first. Let him get some of this dirty bean water in his system, then he might try some of the baklava or something.]

Sure. If I get to sit here and watch you eat all of this, by the way, I'll buy you anythin' you want from Heimr's shop.

[This is a real offer btw he will buy it with his BAC as long as its not like a house or smth but Ain already has that so we're gucci]

[eidxiety]

[Oooh! Ain loves stuff and attention! Mostly attention. Stuff optional.

He is going to clear out this fucking pastry relatively quickly and Wolfwood won't get a bite if he waits too long.]

Mm... I want a new outfit, I think. One you pick out for me.

[Danger!]

My stipulation is it has to be cute, so no weird hotdog costumes or whatever you humans do, haha.

[lupusxylem]

One I pick out for you? Kindof a tall order...yaknow we don't really have fancy clothing and shit back on No Man's Land.

[Which also means they wouldn't have hotdog costumes so hey, you're safe there.

Also Jesus Christ he ate that so fast-]

[eidxiety]

Yeah, but you have it here. You did say you wanted me to wear really short shorts. I'm sure you can pick some other stuff that compliments them.

[And now Ain is moving to those donut balls.]

Unless you prefer short dresses instead?

[Ain you're gonna kill him please be good he just broke up with his boyfriend—]

[lupusxylem]

[Help you are GOING to make him pass out or choke on this coffee. Whichever comes first. Like, he DID say that when he was drunk, but....he can't refute that he did say it........mmmmMMMM]

I'll uh. I'll figure somethin' out.

[Siiiiiiiip]

[eidxiety]

I trust you~.

[Wolfwood could just get Ain cute little onesie pyjamas to quell the urges, you know, like these things. There's no responsibility or added baggage with an owl kigu.

For now, though, he's munchin. He remembers the ice cream, you know, the booza— and turns his attention to that, giggling when it's just as stretchy as advertised.]

Are you going to share with me, or does that ruin the terms of the bet?

[Shoves booza in his mouth all happy.]

[lupusxylem]

[Wolfwood will be torn between a cute onesie and something supremely slutty, just you wait.

Also considering the fact there is still a MASSIVE amount of food here...]

Sure, I'll try some. What are these, exactly?

[Gesturing to the booza.]

[eidxiety]

[If he's feeling nice he can do both of these things—]

This is the stretchy ice cream. [Why does it stretch? For what have the Sargonians done to make it so? And more importantly why do they cover literally everything in pistachios—] It'll get melt and stop being stretchy if we don't hurry and finish it.

[It's hot out! Like! Ungodly hot out!]

[lupusxylem]

[ :)))

Fine fine...he'll grab a piece for himself then, pondering it for a moment before he pops it into his mouth. And talks around it immediately, because that's attractive.]

Mmhff. S'not half bad. Kinda messy t'eat though...

[eidxiety]

That's how ice cream is usually, Wolfwood. Have you never had it before?

[Slurping that ice cream off the spoon like a damn ho like—]

I guess it would be hard where you're from.

[lupusxylem]

Yeah I- [He said it again he did it again he's going insane]...we didn't really have it much back home.

[No fun treats when you're an orphan, or when the world is struggling to do things like survive in general.

He'll take another piece though, trying not to stare too hard at Ain licking that spoon.]