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Post by Firebolt on Aug 13, 2009 23:51:30 GMT -5
Day 11, semi-private thread
It's afternoon, and afternoons are good for siestas. Somewhere on the ship, a little Ferrari that still runs on Earth time decides this. Firebolt makes her way down the halls to the rooming area of the ship and goes to her room, looking for a nice, quiet rest with some good music playing. She walks up to the door and tries to open it, but finds it... Locked?
"Huh?" She says, looking around. She tries to pry open the door and frowns, finding it closed and locked tightly. Perceptor and Dai-Janku are her roommates, so she stands there, trying to figure out why either one of them could be in there with the door locked. Either way... She starts banging on the door.
"HEY! IT'S MY ROOM TOO, LEMMIE IN!!" She yells, banging her fists up against the metal door and stomping her foot, her ponytails fanning out in anger. She crosses her arms and pouts, huffing.
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Post by Dai-Janku on Aug 14, 2009 17:38:43 GMT -5
Dai-Janku is the one holed up in the room, having...erm...acquired some paints, brushes, and a big tarp. After seeing Scrapper's incredibly epic Autobrand, the Junkion got a little jealous. However, given his build and the rate he goes through new parts, putting the symbol on himself seemed to be a bad idea. So, taking a cue from several heroes, he decided to get himself the next best thing - a cape.
However... Dai-Janku realizes that he's nowhere near even a quarter the equal of Sky Blast, and has been staring confoundedly at the tarp for the past several cycles, until Firebolt beats on the door, startling him off his berth, and clattering about as he stumbles to the door, unlocking it and opening it, leaning agains the frame to keep from falling onto his roommate.
"...er...sorry 'bout that."
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Post by Firebolt on Aug 14, 2009 18:14:21 GMT -5
"Ooh good, somebody didn't lock the door without me knowing," she states, looking up at Dai-Janku. She realizes he's quite tall while doing this, but that doesn't stop her from wanting to know what's going on, "Hey, what're you doin in the room that requires a locked door?" She peers inside and then points, indicating that she wants by.
"Either way," she continues, "It's my room too, and I have that right to come in," she squeezes by him now, and starts to go over to her berth in the corner, before seeing the large tarp set out, as well as all the paints and can't help but stop and look them over.
"Whacha doin?" she asks curiously, moving over to the setup.
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Post by Dai-Janku on Aug 15, 2009 0:35:05 GMT -5
Yes, he is tall! It helps with being manly, and stuff. Plus, he was built that way.
"I...er..um..." Before he can explain, the little red carbot has wriggled her way in, and finds his setup. "Gyaaaah, it's not ready! ...actually not even started..." he says, shoulders slumping a bit.
"I'm...trying to make a cape for myself. I'm just a bit stuck on painting an emblem on the back."
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Post by Firebolt on Aug 15, 2009 10:23:19 GMT -5
"A cape? That's... Oddly... Adorable," She says, tilting her head to the side and offering Dai-Janku a smile. It isn't something silly, after all, she's young and still enjoys fun things. (Perhaps too much but that's fine too!)
She picks up a brush and taps the non-bristle end against her mouthplate. "Do you want help? I wanna help!" she says eagerly. "If you're stuck on the emblem you know what you gotta do? What superheros do is have their emblem of what represents them!" She jumps up and points the brush to the ceiling, striking a bit of a pose. "And we're Autobots!"
She looks nervously at Dai-Janku for a moment, "Please tell me that's not a stupid idea cos I think it's great."
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Post by Dai-Janku on Aug 17, 2009 1:16:10 GMT -5
Dai-Janku splutters a bit, rather confused. "A-adorable?! It's manly!" He might even be blushing a bit, and resisting the urge to flail. However... "Well...if you can, it'd be appreciated... Alas, my skill with the sword does not translate well to holding a brush," he says, shoulders sagging a bit. At her suggestion, he perks up. "It is a good idea! Just... I'm not -quite- an Autobot. I'm allied with them, but I'm a Junkion, through and through. However, the Autobot emblem was the basis for what I came up with." As he says this, he takes a datapad from a table in the room, and pulls up what looks to be an Autobot symbol in red, with pointed sunglasses on. "I want to put this on the cape, outlined in white if possible..."
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Post by Firebolt on Aug 17, 2009 18:37:57 GMT -5
"Well it's just like those lil kids that make capes out of sheets to be like their favorite super hero!" She explains.
Firebolt's ponytails twitch a little as she looks over the emblem and grins widely, "That's so cool!!" She says, clapping her hands together. "I'm sure together we can manage to make it." She tilts her head from side to side and thinking, tapping the handle of the brush against her mouth plate.
"If we make the basic outline of the shape on the tarp in white, then we can go and put the red on top of it to make it a lot easier. I think? We'll have to wait somewhat for the white to dry though, so we don't get icky smudge! Ooh we could make a stencil for it while we waited..." she muses out loud.
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Post by Dai-Janku on Aug 19, 2009 23:41:34 GMT -5
Dai-Janku pouts a bit. He's not a kid! He's a grown 'bot!
However, Firebolt's enthusiasm over the logo of choice Dai-Janku picked quickly quells any annoyance he had at being compared with a kid.
"Ooh, okay, the outline bit sounds good. Not sure if we have any spare material to make a stencil with." Then he muses. "But where will we paint the happy little trees?"
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Post by Firebolt on Aug 20, 2009 10:52:32 GMT -5
"Ah well, the stencil was at least an idea, yanno?" she says, as she slides her mouth plate out so she can hold the handle of the brush in her mouth while she holds her hands out, framing the possible shape of the emblem on the tarp with her hands. She nods a bit and takes the brush out of her mouth and sets it next to the tarp.
"I thought the bushes were happier than the trees," she answers, peeking up at him as she grabs a can of white paint and starts mixing it up. "And where's your 'fro?" She takes the brush that she set down and dips it into the paint, but pauses. She scoots closer to Dai-Janku and offers the brush to him, "You should be the first to put the paint on! It is your cape, after all."
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Post by Dai-Janku on Aug 22, 2009 12:30:10 GMT -5
Dai-Janku shrugs a bit. "Trees, bushes... The man had a strange fixation on painting plant life," he says, taking the brush, and propping the datapad up near the tarp.
Carefully, he reaches forward towards where the middle of his upper back would be under the tarp, and starts to spread the white paint out in a blob, though he's a bit shaky, some of the more loose parts rattling around in his arm.
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Post by Firebolt on Aug 23, 2009 22:09:23 GMT -5
"A lot of human art is weird, but let's not get into that, huh?" she shrugs. She goes to work joining in carefully painting out the basic shape. She can't help but look a bit worried upon hearing the rattling.
"Don't be nervous," she says happily, "This is something you're making with your own hands! You should be proud, no matter what it looks like."
Something in her though, wants to just go over and hug Dai-Janku til he stops shaking and gains confidence in his work though.
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Post by Dai-Janku on Aug 25, 2009 11:38:00 GMT -5
"Nervous? Who's nervous? I'm certainly not! Hahaha!"
Dai-Janku is a terrible liar, as the shaking grows a bit louder.
"I'm just...uh...used to swinging a blade, not a brush. And not so on a small scale, that's it. Plus, I'm made of scraps." Right. Yeah, that's totally it.
He clenches his free hand around the painting arm to try and quell the shakes, clenching his jaw, flling in the outline, since that seems to be the easier thing to do.
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Post by Firebolt on Aug 25, 2009 12:27:56 GMT -5
"Well I ain't good at this either, but it's something new to try," Firebolt says as she scoots over and then reaches out, putting her hand on Dai-Janku's arm and gently guides his strokes with the brush. "See? It's not hard at all," she says happily, as the basic shape is finished and ready to be filled in with white.
Firebolt's ponytails twitch a little as she looks it over, nodding happily. "See? We did it!" She says, looking up at the Junkion. She thinks for a second and then dips her finger in the white paint and pokes him on the nose.
"Hee!" the Ferrari laughs, and looks up at him, almost expectantly. She holds the paintbrush in both hands and then starts to go back to filling in the outline.
ooc: touching with permission and whatnot
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Post by Dai-Janku on Aug 26, 2009 0:53:32 GMT -5
Dai-Janku's optics flicker in a blink at Firebolt steadying his hand, but he makes no motion to resist the gesture. He cocks a somewhat lopsided grin as they finish the outline. "It's shake'n'bake, and I helped!" Might be a bit focused in his tee-vee viewings, but he's got some general stuff stored up!
He seems a bit puzzled by the dabbing of paint on his nose. Curious ritual, this. Ah well, when in Rome... Dai-Janku raises his own paintbrush, and pokes Firebolt in the nose in retaliation, and joins in the outline-filling.
---------- OOC: Nose-touching done with permission.
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Post by Firebolt on Aug 26, 2009 10:43:04 GMT -5
Firebolt can't help the fuzzy feelings, despite not having anything being fuzzy in or on her, as she holds Dai-Janku's arm and helps him steady out. She doesn't know why though, and her ponytails twitch a little as she tries to think about it but fails and just goes back to getting the shape finished.
Getting smudged with the paintbrush elicits more happy laughter from Firebolt. She goes cross-opticed to stare down at the spot as if she can see it, then smiles up at Dai-Janku.
"We should wait just a little so the white paint can dry before we put the red paint on top of the white," She says once finished and looking it over. "Oh jeeze, now we get to see if the phrase 'watching paint dry' is as true as it sounds!"
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