[Mingle]

[randomly_modding]

[So you're in the studio and the camera crew has instructed your characters to break into your teams to discuss 1) the client's personal fashion comfort zone and preferences, and 2) how to give them the Stylecation makeover they obviously need, while 3) working in the episode theme of "animal".]

[Or that's what you're supposed to be talking about, to obey the host.]

[Please don't mind the cameras focused on you at all times, even following you to the snack table to grab coffee and danishes and donuts. But feel free to crash one of the other team mingles!]

Comments

[sizing]

You, too.

[... Reaches out to take his hand, not saying anything if she notices the way he's affected, but giving a grateful at at once sympathetic squeeze.]

[sizing]

[Oh, Allen. Cassie for a moment is a visibly startled lump under the cover of his jacket, but despite this initial surprise... she doesn't say anything right away and then just curls up a little more. Almost seems to become smaller overall just slightly, while giving a grateful mumble.]

... Thank you. Sorry, I'm--

[sizing]

Are you sure? [Sighs a little, but calms--she tends to jump on the defensive too easily anyway but Lucina's reassurance helps.] We'll probably all have to get used to it, I guess.

... I'm Cassie. [By the way. She suddenly remembers she didn't say yet.]

[inflorescere]

Oh.

[She doesn't look so much startled as a little apologetic when she notices the incident, perhaps at both Sif and the cameraman somehow, though without explanation. Her "flower hand" had already disappeared, Robin only pausing thoughtfully.]

Hmmm, it seems like this arrangement is going to be troublesome, doesn't it?

[inflorescere]

[Hears her, while peeking a little at the magazines too.]

You don't think it would be suitable?

[inflorescere]

[Laughs, smile somehow softer and at once a little distant but still pleasant enough.]

That's right. An archeologist, actually.

[onehotpepper]

[ninth? color her impressed] I've only managed one in my entire life. Well, one and a half, I suppose. [deleted scene reference!]

[sympathetic, smiling wryly] At least we're in civilization now.

[onehotpepper]

[thinks about it for a moment] Better not.

[chuckling] Usually I'm the one who gets his coffee, so I don't know that he'd be up for the challenge. Unless you wantes to upgrade the coffeemaker beyond recognition.

[onehotpepper]

[she's not going to hide that fact, so she smiles at him when he asks] After a week of nothing but plain water or coconut water, this is just the thing. [noticing the danish he's currently working on] How are those?

[ijustlovethat]

Oh, but Sif, this is for so many more people to see you. Why, the entire country will be watching!

[she's serious but grinning because this is what she has trained for and done pretty much her whole life!! she's useful again!!

Don't worry about a thing! I'll make sure everything goes smoothly!

[ijustlovethat]

[oh goodness, a young girl looking upset--! she looks like so many of Effie's past tributes that Effie just can't help going up to her and placing a hand on her shoulder. she has experience with this~!]

There, there. You're going to be on television! Isn't that exciting? Are you nervous? That's all right, you know. Most people are. You'll get used to it! [smiling. she's honestly trying here, and very sincerely]

[emends]

Lucina, [ she provides in kind. ]

Are you one of the people who will be -- assisting me?

[ If she sounds slightly embarrassed at that last part, well. It's because she is. Part of her wants to dismiss this event as overly frivolous and needlessly sensationalised. Another part of her, deeply hidden and out of view, is excited for it. It seems so simple, normal, girlish. There have not been many times in her life that Lucina's felt like a girl. ]

[emends]

[ Lucina waits patiently for him to make his request before piping up. ]

Good day, Allen. I trust you are well?

[sank]

[ Saki sets her feet flat on the floor to lean forward on the desk, peering around Allen. When she sees he hasn't been followed by a cameraman, she brightens for him. ]

They've got pictures. [ She flips it around to show him what apparently passes for fashion. ] Keep the camera freaks out of here and you can paint the room for all I care.

[sank]

It was a she. She had a head.

[ It makes sense, right? Saki's long resigned herself to her strange life of shifting worlds and inhuman creatures. She's mildly surprised he's still listening. Most people tune out of her stories by now. ]

[actlikealady]

[the entire country?] [it's not her country, she reminds herself. if she doesn't care what Asgard thinks of her, she certainly doesn't care what this random place on Midgard thinks of her]

If you're sure. I suppose it's -- technically what you do, isn't it? [here, you can have a smile]

[buymorelifer]

[ ... squeezes back. She seems like a really nice person. He really does hope her dad is all right.

Okay, Bartowski, time to push past the sad and move forward. It's what Casey would tell him, anyway. So, he smiles a bit more. ]

So! Ah, do you know anything about fashion? What team are you on?

[actlikealady]

[resuming her progress, hmph] Troublesome is certainly the correct word. I should like to be able to cross a room without tripping over those things.

[waytobreakithero]

[ Hopefully, they get to be good enough buddies for Lucina to feel comfortable ignoring Hawke like the rest of her friends. But for now, Hawke nods approvingly. ]

I'm with you there. How do you feel about showing skin?

[waytobreakithero]

He was very helpful explaining how to use the "communicator". Though I noticed using the word "magic" made him twitch. [ So she tried to use it often. And will keep on doing it! ]

So you're both from the same world?

[ijustlovethat]

[beaming!!] Yes, it is! Except for how ..bland the fashions here appear to be.

But you'll look lovely no matter what, I'm sure! You have a face that audiences will love! [seriously, Sif. you may as well be a Career!]

[neverforgets]

[ No way, man; he's still listening, and trying to imagine what it looks like. She couldn't be talking about an akuma, could she? ]

Can you draw it? [ Looking around for a piece of paper. ] Sounds like something that'd be pretty interesting to see.

[neverforgets]

[ After a break in the conversation about clothes and food and coffee and watching these completely random, nosy strangers mill about with devices and things that look like caterpillars on long poles, Lavi has a question. ]

Anybody wonder what'd happen if we just don't play along?

[ Bad question for a Bookman to suggest, but he can't be the only one thinking it. ]

[emends]

I wouldn't see the point, if I am being honest. I'm not especially interesting to look at.

[ There's a reason that Lucina was able to pass as a young man for the first half of her jaunt through time. It's a statement of fact, no embarrassment or shame in it. She's well aware what her values are, appearance isn't one of them.

To her, at any rate. ]

[neverforgets]

[ Now he really takes notice. ]

One of my favorite words, man. What kind of sites do you go to? Or're you more the book type and leave the digs to somebody else? [ Either way, he wants to be your bestest friend. ]