November Catch-all

[bluecastleace]

Who: Hajime Iwaizumi + YOU!
What: November catch-all log
Where: Various locations
When: The month of November
Content Warnings: None thus far; will add as needed

((ooc:This catch-all will also serve as Iwaizumi’s introductory post! Please feel free to hit up any of the open TLs found below. I will likely be adding them as the month goes on! Please feel free to add me on plurk @ pantheraliam for plotting/updates on TLs being added!))

Comments

[bluecastleace]

Woah, what the—-[He has endured far too many porcupine comments in his days to care what you have to say! Besides, he uses 3-in-1 shampoo/conditioner/body wash like any respectable(?) teenage boy.]

Yeah, yeah. Whatever you say, Little Miss No More Tears. [You know, like the baby shampoo.]

Quit screamin’ already. Aren’t goddesses supposed to be dignified or something?

[forceofnature]

I bet soap touches your face once a week at best.

[Viridi sniffs daintily.]

I am dignified. With people who deserve it.

[She hops off the little stool she'd needed to reach the pinball machine (no comments necessary) and returns to her milkshake, her nose still upturned.]

My gifts are wasted here. In my world, people would be falling all over themselves getting in line to be beaten at pinball.

[that seems highly doubtful]

[bluecastleace]

Ah, right. Like with your dignified milkshake and your dignified stepping stool. You need a dignified booster seat, O Mighty Nature Goddess?

[Comments necessary. She does look a little short at that table, and that has him snickering.]

Lighten up, would ya? And here I thought we were having a pretty good time.

[forceofnature]

Milkshakes are a divine delicacy!

[edging close to that shriek again]

If I can't manifest nectar and ambrosia on demand, this is a close second. You wouldn't understand. Your palate is unrefined. Pearls before swine.

[There follows a long period of angry slurping.]

We are not having a good time. That's a Lifetime movie starring two B-listers with attitude problems learning to get along, and I'm at least A list material.

We're fated rivals!

[how is that any less B list]

Just, you know, you're wildly outclassed in every way, and everyone secretly pretends not to know it.

[Believe it or not, this is actually Top 3 Interactions Viridi Has Had With Humans Here So Far.]

[bluecastleace]

Wow.

[Pause.]

You’re kind of a bitch, actually.

[If she’s not really ten, then that’s not really a horrible thing to say, right? Right?]

Think whatever you want, you little twerp. You may be a goddess where you come from, but none of us are shit here. Welcome to the common rabble, I guess.

1/2

[forceofnature]

...Excuse me?

[Well that was a wild tone shift from what she had considered to be a pretty predictable interaction. Viridi looks momentarily stunned before a dark cloud crosses her face. It's really not OK to say to anyone, ever, whatsoever!]

2/2

[forceofnature]

I don't usually do this, but I'm going to give you a chance to backtrack five seconds and pick some different words.

[Her voice is as soft as it's been all conversation.

There is a certain role that Viridi plays into - one that she comfortably fits after millennia of existence. A needling sharp-tongued, quick-to-insult bantering comic.

Her true personality is something somewhat different.]

[bluecastleace]

[Looks like he did strike a nerve, and that feels...

[Not good. Not good at all, actually. Since when is he one to go around throwing nasty words at little girls - or goddesses? Guilt sits in his gut like a brick, and his jaw clenches a little. It’s a pretty shitty feeling, to realize how shitty you’ve been.]

Right.

That...[Dammit, that was—-] Out of line. You’re right.

[It would sound pretty lame to try patching shit up with some half-ass apology now, though. Then again, maybe he should let pride stop interfering with his decision making. He asks himself why exactly he cares either way, but Iwa isn’t a bad dude deep down. And he was having a good time.]

Not sure what I could offer a goddess. Maybe I could make it up to you somehow anyway.

I wasn’t kidding when I said I was having a good time, you know. Shit words aside.

[forceofnature]

[There are a few odd moments when Viridi stares with an indecipherable expression at Iwaizumi, her amber eyes holding something like... judgment. Impassive scrutiny. As if she is seeing through him somehow.

In that moment, with that inscrutable gaze and that ageless face and the fresh blossoms woven through her hair, it seems almost possible to believe that she is something close to what she claims she is. Almost.

Then she ruins the effect by slurping the rest of her milkshake.]

...

I'm sure you'll find a way.

[She hops out of her chair.]

I wouldn't have stuck around if I were having a bad time.

I'll see you, Iwa.

[He wouldn't know this, but she hasn't called anyone here by name at all.]

[bluecastleace]

[That gaze is...a heavy one for sure. Somehow she doesn’t look so much like a snot-nosed brat when she...stares through him like that. Is he actually getting goosebumps right now? ‘Cause that’s kind of annoying.

[She doesn’t just call him by his name, but a pretty familiarized version of it at that. If it weren’t for the scoreboard’s character limit, she probably wouldn’t even know it, but it’s a painful thing to hear, something he realizes he hasn’t actually been called yet since coming here. “Memorize it,” he’d said. What an idiot.]

Hey, goddess. [He calls after her as she’s leaving.] You said your name’s Virdi, right?

Or is there something else I should call you?

[forceofnature]

It's... Viridi.

[There goes her cool exit. She sighs slightly.]

Or you can call me 'Your Divine Benevolence,' but I feel like that wouldn't fly.

[She seems to be back to normal, anyway.]

[bluecastleace]

[Yeah, no.]

Virdi. [He nods, stuffs his hands in his jacket pockets.] See you, then.