🦋02: Boredom

[chonomai]

Good evening! I'm a little bored and more than tired of the cold, so... what's your favorite flower? What's your favorite insect? I like both quite a lot.

Comments

[eidxiety]

I like silkmoths :O Me and Ezell raise them together and you have to help them hatch sometimes because they're stupid ^^

[That's not why they have to be helped, but yeah.]

My favourite flowers are wisterias!!! Nikolaus has them tattooed on him because he's a sap and loves me haha

[chonomai]

They were bread to be reliable on humans. But I'm glad you're actually raising them. Silk is lovely, but the silkmoths are lovelier, in my opinion.

I also like wisteria! It's a very important plant for my organization back home, and they look and smell beautiful!

[eidxiety]

It lets me have silk for my shop ^^ Which you should visit in Spring if the stupid bugs EVER DIE OFF!! because I have wisteria growing along the path and I've worked very hard on gardening to keep it that way ^^

[chonomai]

I'll certainly have to! You're a tailor, correct?

[eidxiety]

Well, I was a healer...I mean, I still am, but I don't work in the clinic because there are like thirty of us :O But yes, I tailor too.

[chonomai]

You can be both! :D

[eidxiety]

Haha, well, I don't often have to be here — but sometimes I am. :O I guess sewing makes you good at giving stitches... or vice versa?

[chonomai]

I suppose it depends on what you learned to use a needle for first. I can mend clothes, but I learned for medical practices, so I would not consider myself a tailor or seamstress by any means.

[eidxiety]

Maybe I'm just good at stabbing things with an itty bitty tiny needle~ this would track for me. I'm very good at many things, and VERY BAD at other things.

[chonomai]

That's normal, don't worry. Anyone who's good at anything is selling you something.

[lovelyredthread]

Butterflies are my favorite insect... and hm... I like a lot of flowers, but maybe the balloon flower? Or honeysuckle!

[ Endless love and devotion... he's banking on no one calling him on it. ]

[chonomai]

Butterflies are important to my family. Our residence is called the Butterfly Mansion and my sister and I both inherited butterfly hairpins from our mother. We also give them to the girls we adopted, and my first form of attack is the Dance of Butterflies.

So, I agree!

Both are very cute flowers, too!

[lovelyredthread]

There were a lot of butterflies around the Garden I grew up in! They're really pretty. I like to watch them.

[chonomai]

That sounds beautiful.

[lovelyredthread]

It was. I kind of miss it sometimes, but I like the people here.

Were butterflies like, a family symbol or something? I hear kingdoms and noble families have those sometimes.

[chonomai]

They are. Kocho roughly means butterfly, and that is our family name.

[tempurahair]

MY FAVORITE INSECT IS YOU

[chonomai]

( ............................





after a moment, she draws a butterfly resting on a yellow and red flower. )

[tempurahair]

Is that us? That looks like us! :)

[chonomai]

It is us, yes.

[tempurahair]

We are very cute, Shinobu! Though I think you carry the load in that statement!

[chonomai]

Says the man who has no idea how loved he was.

[tempurahair]

Ah.
Well. It is good, then, that you are here now.
You can show me yourself, yes?

[chonomai]

And I shall.

( in fact. where is he. she is getting up and going to go look for him! )

[tempurahair]

I will be waiting!!

[And by waiting, he is absolutely bounding toward the inn.]

[infinitemist]

You know I'm not sure what my favorite insect is... maybe the bell cricket or fireflies. I liked catching fireflies with my brother around our birthday.

Flowers... um. Camellia?

[chonomai]

Both are wonderful choices. And I'm glad you have a memory for them, too.

Camellias are also lovely!

( they don't suit him in hanakatoba, but he's also young yet. )

[infinitemist]

[ He has no idea what they mean he just thought they looked pretty ]

Bees are cute too. Fuzzy. But I usually leave them alone.

What's your favorite flower Kocho-san?

[chonomai]

I love bees! They're very important to all plants, and bumblebees are so cute!

I like wisteria a lot, but I also like hydrangeas and magnolias.

[infinitemist]

Hydrangeas match your eyes!

[ Sweetie they come in more than one color ]

Wisteria makes sense. I wasn't sure if it was just due to our job or not, though.

[chonomai]

It is and it isn't. Wisteria have become a symbol of security and power alike for me after my first encounter with our enemies, and they've come to mean a lot to me.

[infinitemist]

They mostly remind me of our master and his family, but I know there is apparently a lot of nuance to flowers I don't really know about.

[chonomai]

I think that wisterias became their symbol for their usage in the never-ending battle. From there, it became a symbol of themselves. It feeds into each other, slightly.

[infinitemist]

That makes sense. Do other flowers have meanings too?

[chonomai]

They do! There is an entire language built around flower meanings. It's a fascinating little thing to learn.

[argentry]

[he likes this topic]

Hello, there! I, too, am fond of insects and flowers. I enjoy winged insects, like dragonflies and moths and ladybugs, but non-winged insects are also quite nice. Caterpillars hold so much potential, do they not?

As for flowers, I have been fond of lilies, and sambucus.

[he will draw a little morning glory on the page, too]

[chonomai]

They do. I always find myself inspired by insects, and they've formed much of my fighting style in a sense.

All excellent choices all around. Sambucus was unexpected, but a wonderful choice!

[argentry]

Oh? How does one fight in insect style?

[chonomai]

Our swordplay relies on how we breathe, which shapes how we move- and thus, our attacks. I invented the insect style of breathing, which draws from how various insects move; a swarm of wasps, the zigzags of a centipede... the venom in their stings, as well, as I am a poison master.

It is a bit hard to explain in text, honestly.

[argentry]

My apologies. Perhaps, once we are able to move outside again, I might ask you to show me? If you are willing. I am quite curious.

[chonomai]

There's nothing to apologize for! And I would be happy to give a demonstration. :) The only reason I stay inside is because I'm focusing on my duties as a doctor, but things may change.

[argentry]

I see! Do you work alongside the other healers, then?

[chonomai]

Before magic was stolen, I was content to let Miss White Lily handle the clinic, but as I am a field medic as well, I am ready and willing to be called on at any time. It's nice to have reliable coworkers in this field!

[argentry]

That does sound nice. I am very glad that many of the people here seem to get along, standing together in the face of adversity. Thank you for your help.

[chonomai]

It's my duty and my pleasure. Though I do hope we won't be called upon for a long while once this is over.