bottlecaplogs | mayaka's april catch-all !

Eleanor doesn't come to the Archives particularly often, today is one of the rare occassions she has. She's been drawn to researching miscellaneous things, but has run into trouble reaching the higher shelves so many times (seriously, she used to be seven feet tall--) that she's instead resigned to taking a break in a quieter corner to figure out where to go from here. It's nice in the Archives, she should come more often, even if it is to the chagrin of the chaperone she shook off immediately to poke around.

Her eyes fall to Mayaka's drawings, tilting her head to the side to watch without announcing her presence at all. Her friend seems quite lost in her work, anyway, so she's content to watch in silence.

"I think you just need to think about it horizontally."

While Mayaka would usually be more wary about letting someone see her art for the first time, she is deep in 'artist-mode' and takes the suggestion seriously, even though she hasn't even registered who's talking to her.

"You think so? Won't the skirt look different since it only covers the back legs?"

The Sneasel proceeds to draw out some basic shapes on the paper - a four-legged figure, and then blocky shapes to visualise how the different clothing panels would fit.

With that done, she turns and realises that Eleanor is next to her.

"Elly-chan?!"

"Hiii."

Eleanor's resting her chin on her flippers, which are propped up on the closest approximation to where her elbows would be. It's probably not the most comfortable, looking at it, but she's got a good view of the drawings from there. She smiles. A giggle can't help but escape her lips. "Who are you drawing these for, Mayaka-chan?"

Mayaka's flustered, but it's pointless to try to hide any of this now that Eleanor's seen it.

"Do you know L-chan? Noelle? She asked for ideas about gothic and alternative styles she could try, and I guess I went a bit overboard here."

Mayaka has at least 10 different ideas sketched out in varying degrees of detail. Some focusing more on the frills and patterns of the skirts, others on head pieces and accessories. But it's always better to get a second opinion on such things.

"I'd like to hear your ideas, actually. What kind of clothes do you think are cute?"

Eleanor's spent a good few minutes admiring all of the detail. These are leagues better than her own drawings. The lines have direction - intent. She supposes all drawings do, but the intent is carefully considered here.

"She's my roommate, actually."

She shuffles in a little closer to just keep admiring the drawings. "Um. I'm not really sure."

It's surprising, for the ever-opinionated Mayaka, to talk to someone who doesn't seem have an opinion, or experience, in an important topic like fashion. Maybe Eleanor's just not the kind who says what's on her mind easily? A simpler question, then.

"Are you both close? Which of these outfits do you think she'd like?"

Eleanor gives the drawings another look-over with Noelle in mind. She knows she likes video games, they've spoken about that a few times while huddled around Dragon Blazers on her portable console. A couple of the outfits look like they could be from the game, now that she thinks about it. She points at one of the dresses, then to a hat.

"There's a character in her game that dresses like that. I think she'd really like it."

Mayaka holds up the sketches in question, nodding agreeably.

"These ones? I kind of liked them too. See, I knew you had a good eye for stuff like this." She gives the Brionne a friendly nudge before moving to pack up the rest of her art supplies into a bag.

"Now that I have a clear idea for the outfit, I'm going to see if there's anything I can get in town that looks like it. Want to join me?"

Eleanor looks away bashfully, trying to hide her smile. "You think so?"

She's not sure if that really counts as an eye for fashion, it was more... recognition. But still, the praise does have her smiling. "Oh, sure! I think I've seen a few Pokemon around who... sort of look like that?"

She can't for the life of her recall what they're called, though.

As the two of them emerge from the Archives and head into the bustling street by the Quest Board, Mayaka holds the chosen sketches in one claw.

"Do you remember which part of town you saw them?" she turns to Eleanor and asks.

"If not, we should go to the shopping street and see what we can find."

Eleanor searches back into the recesses of her mind. The easy thing about her memories in the Bay is that they're not likely o get jumbled up with whatever else she has in her head, which in turn makes it easier to find information. She can't quite... remember, though. The shopping street certainly sounds correct.

"I can't remember. Sorry," She frowns, "the shopping street will definitely have what we want regardless. Maybe they'll be there."

Mayaka takes another look at the sketch of the gothic lotita style dress.

"I'm not sure if they'll have anything that looks like this, exactly..." she remarks as they make their way through town. "Clothes only seem popular among those of us who got turned into Pokemon. If I could've gotten proper clothes from town, I'd be wearing them already! But I guess it's hard to make clothes when Pokemon can vary so much in size."

"Humans do as well, though."

Not that it's really Mayaka's point, but clothes as a cultural modesty concept aren't really a thing. Pokemon are animals, at their core, and despite mimicking human society seem content to still hold animalistic tendencies like skipping over clothes and eating one another. Textile weaving doesn't seem very popular either. Eleanor supposes she's lucky that she is a Pokemon whose form seems to mimic clothes. "I've seen plenty of Pokemon about town accessorising, so we could probably find her a hat."

"Hm... I guess you're right. We can start with that first. A hat."

The shopping street is brimming with activity at this time of day: numerous shoppers trickling in and out of the brick and mortar shops, and many others bartering for goods at market stalls hawking wares ranging from berries to potions.

"Stay close, Elly-chan!" Mayaka tells her friend as she steps into the street to brave the crowd.

Eleanor's gut instinct is to retort with how she's not five, but the amount of people here is... something. She doesn't exactly frequent this part of town, as much as weaving underfoot of larger beings is second nature to her. Not much to buy that interests her, save for the occassional item she might need to bring along for a quest. She reaches out to try and take Mayaka's hand.

mayaka's april catch-all !

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worse: she's being played by someone who IS opinionated about fashion

LOL ((also that image of noelle and eleanor around the console is so cuteee))

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