Portrait booth.

[maverick-blades.livejournal.com]

[Rikka has hauled his paint-splattered easel and giant tacklebox out into the hallway and equipped it with a stack of thick 11x14" fawn colored paper. He typically loves painting abstractions and outer space, but after finding an entire box of old Rembrandt Van Rijn and Leonardo Da Vinci slides, he's decided he needs to work on his ability to draw people. He's placed a comfortable chair facing himself, and is sharpening a stick of conte crayon with a utility knife to a rather blunt point. There's a sign on the easel that says 'Free Portraits' in big, capital letters.]

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[maverick-blades.livejournal.com]

Not really. Kira just dresses like a slut and calls it fashion, and Sanyu's a gamer.

[fromshadow]

[Heavy snort from him, though he's surprised to hear that.]

That's not really a nice thing to say about your own sister, is it?

[maverick-blades.livejournal.com]

*raises an eyebrow*

Yeah? You wouldn't say that if you were the one who had to look after her. She's fourteen and wears thongs. I know, because she lays them on my bathroom sink to dry. I'm so sick of my goddamn bathroom being covered in panties. I mean, what fourteen year old wears see-through bras? And Dad wants me to keep her from getting rap-

*he balks for a moment, but recovers*

[fromshadow]

[He looks very surprised now! And then concerned.]

Why is she wearing that kind of stuff?

[maverick-blades.livejournal.com]

When we got here, I guess she figured we could do whatever we wanted since our parents aren't here. But the younger versions of them are, and Mama's been trying to bring her cute things for her age instead. Seriously, she wears skirts that are like... eleven inches long sometimes.

*this is probably just way TMI*

She actually looks really pretty when she takes all the shit off her face and just wears pyjama pants and big baggy t-shirts.

[fromshadow]

I hope your mama succeeds. She sounds like a nice girl, just... hm. Misguided about beauty, maybe. But then, I think that's pretty common for teenage girls.

[maverick-blades.livejournal.com]

She's alright I guess, for a beard.

*yes, the child eats like, 1000 calories a day and acts like she's binged*

[fromshadow]

...a what?

[Unfamiliar with that. Also that poor girl. :C]

[maverick-blades.livejournal.com]

Beard. An unfortunate and unattractive thing on one's person.

[fromshadow]

[Snort.]

Okay, I know what a beard is. It's just not often it's applied to anything other than actual beards.

[maverick-blades.livejournal.com]

She's like an actual beard.

*grumble grumble -- don't mistake him, he adores her, he'd just like to... smack her around with an oar or something*

[fromshadow]

[He doesn't really have experience with sibling relationships aside from his Sora and Kairi, but he figures it's not quite the same. Still, even with the grumbling, he can tell there's affection there.]

[maverick-blades.livejournal.com]

*you have no idea the daily drama that ensues in the regular Hikari-Mori household -- Sora regularly wonders if they're too old to be put up for adoption*

[fromshadow]

[Poor, poor Sora. He'll never be sighing over having to look after a single kid again. Well, and mean it, anyway.]

[maverick-blades.livejournal.com]

So... do you have any relatives here?

[fromshadow]

No. I look after a kid Riku, but other than that, there's no one I can really call family.

[maverick-blades.livejournal.com]

Oh. Well, the only real family members I have are my parents and siblings. Mama and Dad call everyone close to us family instead of friends, but we aren't bound by blood.

[fromshadow]

Sounds nice.

[Quiet boy here doesn't really have much that way either.]

[maverick-blades.livejournal.com]

*maybe it'd help if he wasn't so quiet, though Rikka certainly falls in that category; he'll just quietly work on the picture, before blowing the eraser remnants from the drawing and giving it the once over*

[fromshadow]

[It's hard to want to get close to anyone after his boyfriend lost his memories and then found out about the... boyfriend thing while still not having the memories of him. It's gotten incredibly awkward. He's watching Rikka curiously, looking forward to seeing his portrait.]

[maverick-blades.livejournal.com]

*he'll put a few finishing touches on, and turn the picture around for Riku to see -- it looks like Rikka was truly fascinated with those chinchilla ears, and made you look very good! maybe it helps that you're quiet*

[fromshadow]

[He looks over the picture, then smiles at Rikka.]

That's pretty amazing.

[maverick-blades.livejournal.com]

*he smiles back, just slightly*

... thanks. I hope you like it.

[fromshadow]

I do. You're definitely very good at this.

[maverick-blades.livejournal.com]

*his ears turn a bit pink, but he looks happy*

I've a long way to go. It's stressful... thinking about how much there is to learn before I can be good.