so_shik | Forty-Third Spool of Thread

[There's the sudden sound of a bunch of boxes falling to the ground, contents spilling everywhere as the journal's camera points up to the ceiling. It shifts suddenly to focus on a particular pink-haired girl who was unceremoniously dumped into the back room of her shop on top of said boxes.]

Ugh...thanks for the warning, jerks. [She begins to untangle herself from the boxes of ribbons and fabrics, moving the journal closer to speak. For the most part, she seems pretty unharmed.]

Hey...so what day is it anyway? Here's hoping I wasn't gone too long, totally bad for business. [There's a slight beat, suddenly remembering something. You know, her housemate that was alone for like a week.] Haruhi, report. [She works her way out from under the pile of materials and the door to the back room swings open, allowing her to enter the main part of the shop.]

Neku...you better have made it back. That was pretty low of them, keeping us sort of together and then sending you back first. Besides, I was right in the middle of designing a n--

[There's a long pause suddenly as she really takes a look at the shop. She's staring at a row of dresser dummies, counting them in her head.]

All right, which one of you broke into my shop when I was gone?!

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[She blinks. This is the first time in Luceti that someone has actually guessed that.]

Y-yes, actually. I am.

[She'll back a little to show off her tail, which is a brilliant shade of pink.]

[Shiki may or may not have spent a good portion of her childhood studying fairy tales for the fashion design. This includes things like The Little Mermaid <<;]

I...[Am speechless. Totally not sure what's appropriate to say here.] Whoa.

[She scratches the back of her head and gives an awkward laugh.]

D-don't worry. I breathe air too, and I have a wheelchair to get around on land. I can still work at the shop--

[She pauses. Her memories of back home pool in the back of her mind every time she talks to humans. They don't like merfolk back home. There's always a chance that someone new you meet won't either.]

...If you want, I mean.

Oh! No, I wasn't worried about any of that, I just...you know, I've never met a mermaid before. Is it really okay for you to be out of the water?

Y-yeah. We're pretty rare I guess. I'm the only one here. [She looks to the side from that. It gets a little lonely, being the only one out here and all.]

But I'll be fine. It just gets a little uncomfortable if my skin gets dry. But nothing a bath or a couple drinks won't fix~.

Kind of a bummer...are any of your other friends here? [It's better than asking if she DOES have other friends.]

If you say so. Sure then, I'd still love to see what you can do. Let me know and I'll be here. If it's easier I can always take a day-trip out there, too. I haven't seen the ocean yet.

Mhm. Have you met the Straw Hats? They're pirates, but they're really nice pirates. They won't go breaking into your store and stealing dummies.

Straw Hats? I think I've heard of them, but I've never met any of them. How many of them are there?

['Scuse her for a second as she counts on her fingers.]

...Five of them now. Two actually went home recently.

That's not a bad size of a group though. There're only three of us here from my world now. Have you known the Straw Hats long?

[Nod.]

They um... saved my life two years ago.

...I'm glad they did. [She's not sure she wants to ask how it happened, but at the same time...] They just found you?

W-well...they actually saved me a bunch of times [in the span of a couple days].

B-but um... they saved me from being s-sold at slave auction.

Wait, what?! Why would anybody try to sell you in a slave auction?

Because the winning bid was from a world noble for five-hundred-million...

...that's...ridiculous. [And disgusting. Why would you...ugh, people.] What'd the Straw Hats do?

They beat back the guards and freed me. The captain, Luffy, even attacked the noble after her threatened to kill me. In my world, even threatening a noble is punishable by death, s-so that was a really big deal.

...brave bunch, aren't they? I'm glad they did what they did. Sorry you had to deal with that though.

I'll be okay. Promise. Two years is a long time to get over something, right?

You could say that.

[But hey, let's move on to happier topics.] Tell me how you got into designing. What made you want to learn?

[She likes happy. Happy is good.]

Oh! Well my pet starfish is this really famous designer back home. I've known him all my life, and eventually he agreed to become my master and teach me how to make really pretty fashions.

[She giggles a little at the pet starfish idea. What, it's just cute to imagine.] What kind of fashions do you have at home? I can't really picture what kinds of things a starfish could make.

[She smiles happily at her giggles. Shiki likes her! Good! Keimi swims a bit closer to the camera, showing off her top.]

This is one of his designs, actually! The star design is his mark of his "Criminal" brand. This one's my favorite, too~.

[Shiki's always willing to give people a chance, and the fact that Keimi's enthusiastic about fashion just adds even more points. She takes a closer look at the top, mostly intrigued by the fact that a starfish created it.] That's not half-bad. Actually, it's really cute. The colors are a good combination.

It's one of his simpler designs, but I really like it. Maybe one day I'll be good enough to make simple designs too.

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Forty-Third Spool of Thread - [Voice/Action]

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[Videooooooo...killed the radio star?]

[Video is such a jerk D<]

[Poor radio. It just wanted to fit in ;;]

[All he really wanted was friends ;;]

[But nooo...video had to be a bully and ruin everything. :|]

[He took all of Radio's friends. :|]

[Radio's friends are disloyal then =\]

[Video made him look pretty lame =/]

[Video's manipulative like that :|]

[Video really good at it =/]

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[Video] This post made me realize how weird One Piece is.

[Video] And see I know next to nothing about OP so it's like an educational lesson. Wooo. I approve.

[Video] Then the lessons shall continue /o/

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[Video] If only the anime was out that far and I could actually tell you what the colors are xD

[Video] Bah. The joys of improvising

[Video] They're the best

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