[OPEN LOG]

[nukeoleptic]

Who: Jade + literally anyone
What: Jade bribing people into her restaurant with free things.
When: Day 355.
Where: The Highwind, in Heimdall's district.
Rating: PG-13 for language at most!

EDITED TO ADD: Also, totally feel free to threadjack and use this as a mingle log IF YOU WOULD LIKE ♥

[ It had worked once before, back in the heat of late summer in Asgard, so Jade was trying it again. She had dragged the sign out to the front of the store, right in the middle of the sidewalk, and written in huge letters:

free hot chocolate! :D
just come inside ♥

The temperature hadn't broken the sixty degree mark today - it was getting chilly fast. Both Orihime and Annabeth were gone, and the store was oddly quiet. Jade will be found keeping herself busy throughout the day with odd little chores when it's completely empty of customers - sweeping, dusting, and occasionally dozing in a booth near the door when the boredom becomes too much to bear. ]

Comments

[realmenknitplushies]

[He nods along.]

That's always somethin' good, yeah.

[lethechained]

I'm glad you don't think that's weird.

[Here, have a smile.]

So-- why do you like them?

[Actual question, no derision in it.]

[realmenknitplushies]

Why?

[He blinks. How to put this...]

...I just always have done, y'know? My folks run a textile store back home. So it was kinda natural for me to get into makin' that sorta stuff. As to why it's the cute stuff I like in particular... [A shrug.] Ain't got a reason there 'cept it being cute.

[lethechained]

Oh...! That makes a lot of sense.

[Maybe she'd have taken up her parents' trade, if she'd had any. As for his reason - she considers it a moment, then nods.]

Sounds like a good enough reason to me. I guess it's just one of those things.

[realmenknitplushies]

Yeah. It's just the way this stuff's all worked out.

[He shrugs. Just how it's worked out, for all the trouble it's caused him in the past, all the confusion and dilemmas... but he's getting there now.]

[lethechained]

People just like what they like.

[Offhanded more than anything; she doesn't know to think anything amiss aside from in his reaction to her reaction, which didn't go unnoticed, exactly, but requires more information to be formulated into anything she'd be willing to mention.]

What's your favorite animal?

[In general or for plushies--]

[realmenknitplushies]

Huh? [He thinks for a moment-] Probably rabbits, actually. Ain't really thought about it before.

[lethechained]

[-- Hee. She brightens slightly, amused.]

I see...! That explains a lot.

[He did seem to like her choice of costume before, after all.]

I've always liked rabbits, too.

[realmenknitplushies]

[-ah, right, she did, didn't she? A spot more awkward on Kanji's part, here.]

Heh. I ... ain't surprised.

[lethechained]

[Whoops? She doesn't seem particularly uncomfortable.]

Yes.... I suppose that must have been obvious.

[Here, have a shy little smile.]

I just saw it couldn't resist.

[realmenknitplushies]

[Well, if she's okay... nope, still awkward.]

Don't blame ya. It was kinda adorable.

[lethechained]

[Sure is a slightly bigger smile. (Clearly he is a flatterer.)]

You think so? Thank you...! Maybe I'll have to find something else to wear it to.

[Aside from, you know, trying to make sure a friend didn't feel awkward about temporarily having animal ears and such.]

[realmenknitplushies]

[He's just being honest...]

Maybe there'll be another costume event some day? I dunno what kind of things go on so much...

[lethechained]

[Which is the best policy. (She's not about to actually think him a flatterer, anyway.)]

Maybe...! There haven't really been many things like that here before, but that doesn't mean it won't happen again.

[realmenknitplushies]

Never know, huh?

[It'd been a good time, after all. Might as well hope for the future.]

[lethechained]

Mmhm! Asgard's full of surprises.

[The next one might not be so nice, but that's just the risk one takes.]

The gods do seem to like their parties, at least. There's usually another one every once in a while.

[realmenknitplushies]

Really? That's gotta be cool, then.

[Even if he's never really known what to do at parties.]

[lethechained]

Yeah. They're a lot of fun.

[Not that she knows what to do at them either, but--]

There's always music and dancing and food and lots of people to talk to, if you like any of those things.

[realmenknitplushies]

...yeah, alright, sounds good to me.

[lethechained]

Good...! I'm very glad. So maybe we'll see each other at one of those, then?

[realmenknitplushies]

[He smiles-] Sounds like a plan.

[lethechained]

[Which means of course an even brighter smile from her.]

Great. ...-- Not that you have to feel like you're obligated.