bottlecaplogs | mayaka’s jan catch-all

"Hot damn, then yeah, you're in for a show with the blondie fox. Gets weird around girls though as a heads up."

Catrina gives a nod as she goes to melting more snow with her little flame...being a fire and ghost type has its advantages, especially for this booger of a candle.

"I hear yah, you see anymore mushrooms or nuts from the ground?"

Mayaka brushes off Catrina's warning with a little snort, figuring that she'll be able to deal with that easily if it happens.

"If there was a ring of them here, it's likely there'll be others around the other trees too." Having made this deduction, the Sneasel heads to the next tree over and begins digging through the snow.

"Oh! By the way, I found a figurine near my window the other week and it didn't say who it was from. I remember you said you know how to sculpt... was it from you?"

Who else would deliberately give her a creepy ghost, knowing she was frightened of them? Mayaka had been too scared to place it in her room, or even the common room, so it's currently sitting in the garden outside her house, and she tries not to think about it lest it ruin her sleep for the night.

Edited 2026-01-10 11:26 (UTC)

If there were bones inside of Catrina, there'd be no wax off them as she shrugs. Back to hunting for more mushrooms n' nuts~

"Sounds like a plan, I'll just keep melting snow on my end to make this easier." Spring is definitely going to look weird after Catrina's intervention with the premature melting of snow.

Uh-oh...Catrina glances away quickly. She thought that little clay sheet ghost with the tiny sculpted hair bow was cute...plan has backfired spectacularly! There's no torch or pitchforks here, right? It's not like Mayaka would chase Catrina out of the Bay.

"Yeah and I made it cute as a button. Why?"

"C-cute...?" Mayaka repeats, her voice wavering. Alright, maybe she can see the effort put into it, such as the hair bow, but that really only made it look more doll-like to her which added to the creepy factor.

"It's not that I don't appreciate it!" the Sneasel is quick to add. "You made it really well. So well, it's like its staring at me, sometimes."

"Just think of it as staring at you with adoration." Catrina's attempts at reassurance is at best a D minus. She's trying though, so that earns her a bit of a gold star sticker, right?

Speaking of stickers..."How about decorating it with some fun stickers? That might make it cuter?"

"I've... put it on watch in the garden outside."

Mayaka doesn't want to disagree with Catrina's interpretation of The Stare™, so she tries to change the topic. Anyway, she should say this now in case the Litwick comes by her place again and finds the doll sitting outside.

"Yeah, maybe stickers."

Stickers to cover the eyes might work.

(ooc: i love this so much its in tdm now lol)

(ooc: Oh my Arceus I love it XD Poor Mayaka, Catrina should've given her the cursed stick dolls)

"Oh sweet, I should've made a gnome cap for it to wear to be stylish!" Catrina is completely not realizing its because her totally not a cursed sculpture (its totally now cursed) is scaring her new friend.

Eye contact means its uber friendly or at least that's what Catrina understood for humans (oh honey no, humans don't like that stare..) Surely, giving the statue a makeover will save it!

"I think so too like heart stickers on the eyes would make it look love struck or something."

This may or may not make the ghost sculpture worse...

"Just... be sure to tell me if you make any changes to it."

Mayaka does not want to wake up one day and see the ghost in a different part of the garden, or with a different face, with no explainable reason why!

Though now, what if she does see its face change, and it's not Catrina's doing?

A shiver runs down her spine.

If it did, Catrina would be throughly impressed that she ascended into being the tiniest PokeGod ever...Arceus is getting competition now.

"Will do, I mean what weirdo would do that?"

Catrina...you're that very weirdo parents warn their kids about if they don't shape up right away. At least she's a step up better than her brother...Fernando would've made that statue far worse..

Maybe Mayaka could make a little sleeping mask to put over on the ghost sculpture? That way the eyes won't be staring as much?

"The same weirdo who left a ghost on my window without telling me about it..."

"Okay fair, but I'm the fun and whimsical weirdo from the days of yore."

Despite herself, Mayaka can't help but chuckle at her strange friend.

At least this outing wasn't so boring.

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wrap!! theyre so cute