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Re: Day 297 - Monster Bingo

[gigadevilbreaker]

It's a pretty simple pleasure.

Re: Day 297 - Monster Bingo

[selfpreservationist]

Sometimes those are the best kinds of pleasures.

Re: Day 297 - Monster Bingo

[gigadevilbreaker]

[He hugs him a little tighter]

Anytime you want. Wings or not.

Re: Day 297 - Monster Bingo

[selfpreservationist]

[...]

Later... when the game is over. I'd like to... talk with you about something. Just the two of us.

Re: Day 297 - Monster Bingo

[gigadevilbreaker]

Yeah? Of course.

[hard not to feel a little nervous about what this talk was about, but. that was a concern for future Nero.]

...If you fly me back to the dorm, though-- I have something for you.

Re: Day 297 - Monster Bingo

[selfpreservationist]

[blinks and tilts his head]

Really?

[slowly alights down towards the hotel]

Re: Day 297 - Monster Bingo

[gigadevilbreaker]

Don't get too excited. Just something I made, for practice.

Re: Day 297 - Monster Bingo

[selfpreservationist]

I'll be positively catatonic, then.

[raven pls.]

Re: Day 297 - Monster Bingo

[gigadevilbreaker]

[Laughs,]

You just have to be sooo dramatic, don't you?

Re: Day 297 - Monster Bingo

[selfpreservationist]

Always. Who do you think I am?

[hovers by avante's balcony]

Is this alright?

Re: Day 297 - Monster Bingo

[gigadevilbreaker]

[He hops down onto the balcony easily, giving himself a little ruffle before looking back up at Raven.]

Gimme a sec, okay?

[Ducks inside, trotting on his bird legs to his room. A minute later, he comes out and hands Raven a canvas. The painting is a little amateur, but it's clear he tried hard.]

Uh, so... hope you like it.

Re: Day 297 - Monster Bingo

[selfpreservationist]

[raven stays literally perched on the windowsill, because bird instincts. he blinks a few times when nero brings it out, totally caught off-guard]

... that's... Shadow. And Griphon...

[slowly he climbs down from the ledge, reaching out to take it]

You painted this...?

Re: Day 297 - Monster Bingo

[gigadevilbreaker]

[Scratches head sheepishly]

Yup. Tried my hand at it, figured I should get some more practice in t'get better...

Re: Day 297 - Monster Bingo

[selfpreservationist]

[how do i cope with all of these feelings i am having all of a sudden]

... it's well done. I... didn't even realize you painted.

Re: Day 297 - Monster Bingo

[gigadevilbreaker]

Paint is new, but I've been tagging and sketching with markers for a while.

Do you... wanna come in and see my workshop?

Re: Day 297 - Monster Bingo

[selfpreservationist]

I'd love to.

Re: Day 297 - Monster Bingo

[gigadevilbreaker]

[He leads Raven into avante dorms proper, through his room - which is about as messy as one might imagine from Nero - and into:

Griffin's bedroom contains a door that leads into a workshop similar in style to the dorm's kitchen, but none of the "appliances" are appliances, and are instead actual functional forges, anvils, metallurgy and glassmaking ovens, lit with actual hellfire.

Against the back wall sits a drafting desk, with plenty of room for concept work, drafting, and tinkering, as well as pencils, rulers, grids, compasses and other tools useful for these purposes. Above the entryway is a stained glass window that provides non-fire light to the entire room, the glass blazoned with a singular rose. Red and blue vine roses grow up the wall with the exception of one large section around the drafting desk, which is smoothed and pliable - perfect for hanging sketches and completed works.

Around the desk, sketches for various projects are pinned up: from mural planning to weapon customization. On the desk are stacked a number of projects in varying degrees of completion: stencils for spraypaint, delicate strings of flowers drawn on tracing paper. Even one of his prosthetic arms - a wooden one, that he's carved a design of thorns and thistles into.

And of course, a stack of canvases. There might be one reminiscent of Glory's new hairstyle and her room, leaned against the wall to dry.]

Taadaa~

Re: Day 297 - Monster Bingo

[selfpreservationist]

[this is... a lot. way more than he expected]

You know how to use all of this?

[sees the painting and goes over to examine it closer]

Is that... Glory?

Re: Day 297 - Monster Bingo

[gigadevilbreaker]

The metal working stuff, I got no clue. But I figured, why not try and learn with all this free time, right?

[embarrassed nose scratch,]

Ah, yeah... I was gonna give that t'her when it dried. I painted something for Vergil, too.

Re: Day 297 - Monster Bingo

[selfpreservationist]

... it's beautiful. May I see the one for Vergil?

Re: Day 297 - Monster Bingo

[gigadevilbreaker]

I dropped it off at Baritones earlier, but I took a photo...

[he has an instagram, ok

Anyways, he shows Raven the painting of yamato from his phone]

Re: Day 297 - Monster Bingo

[selfpreservationist]

[glances over]

... he loved it. I'm certain he did. If he pretended otherwise, he's lying. You've... really been working hard on this.

Re: Day 297 - Monster Bingo

[gigadevilbreaker]

I mean... you got your books. I got my projects.

Just seems like a lot 'cause I've been here for like-- almost 200 days.

Re: Day 297 - Monster Bingo

[selfpreservationist]

Still... it's impressive. These paintings are beautiful, Nero.

Re: Day 297 - Monster Bingo

[gigadevilbreaker]

Aw, c'mon. They're okay.

[Still, he's smiling.]

I'm glad you like it. Vergil did, too.