And so the stakes are raised....

[rebellingheart]

[ACTION]

[Some time after a certain thread, pictures of a certain purple haired SeeD start showing up all over Garden. They're in a myriad of different poses, but the style is all the same and it's obvious someone's put far, far too much time into this little prank.]

[Feel free to catch her in the act of hanging one of these glorious pieces of art?]

[BBS]

[Later, on the message board, there's this simple message.]

Who's taking it too seriously now, hmm?

[Rinoa, you are beyond ridiculous sometimes.]

Comments

[grollschwert]

[Grolla catches the not-that-great drawing of someone with long purple hair from a ways off. That's the only thing she's noticed about it, but it doesn't look like she's happy to see it...

You have her interest, Rinoa. And most of the people she knew from her cadet days are gone. And she has loud footsteps and doesn't recognize you.]

...We should probably iron out some back-CR with your SeeD and my Instructor here

[rebellingheart]

[Rinoa is completely oblivious to the footsteps approaching, and continues to make sure the paper is attached to the board smoothly. Don't want it to get wrinkled or accidentally fall off, now do we?]

[She is the most mature Instructor in all of Garden, clearly, but Gakupo seriously had this coming. Not as brave just because she hadn't put her bad art out there. Well ha! She'll show him.]

Yes, I would like that

[grollschwert]

[Oh, wait that's not a picture of her. Huh.

...okay she has no idea who that is, either.]

Who is that supposed to be?

[rebellingheart]

It's Gakupo. [Rinoa states this like it's an obvious fact, but there's a lot of humor in her voice.] Doesn't t look just like him?

[grollschwert]

I'm not acquainted with him, so I can't tell.

[rebellingheart]

Really? He was the head of the GFC for a while, not to mention pretty nosy.

[Like she can talk.]

Did you just get back?

[grollschwert]

Yes.

[werepanther]

[Headtilt. Is she doing what he thinks she's doing...? And if so, just why is she going to all this trouble?]

Hey. Is that Gakupo...?

[rebellingheart]

Of course it's Gakupo! It looks just like him!

[Okay maybe not, but she'd tried.]

[werepanther]

I get that. [He taps one hand at the drawing.] Which then makes me wanna ask, why are you taping his portrait around the entire place? Did he cause mass destruction while I was asleep?

[rebellingheart]

I made fun of those wanted posters he had around the school, right? When I said that I knew I drew bad, and that's why I didn't draw or let people see when I did? He said it was because I wasn't as brave as him!

[So her response was to plaster Garden with badly drawn pictures of Gakupo looking silly.]

[werepanther]

[He chuckles softly.] You know, you didn't have to prove him wrong like this. It's not like your drawings are terrible.

[rebellingheart]

[Rinoa gives him a look before sticking her tongue out at him.]

They're awful and look like a little kid drew them, Tom. I know it, and it's okay.

[werepanther]

Fiiiine. If you're at peace with it, then I guess I can be too. [He wrinkles his nose at her in return.]

[rebellingheart]

There are enough things I'm good at, that it's not so bad admitting the things I'm awful at.

[They are such dorky friends. And such a cute ship, I can't even...]

[werepanther]

Or you're just self-assured enough that you don't need to praise yourself 24/7. It's refreshing, regardless.

[Clearly Tomnoa is endgame somewhere that isn't WR. He laughs, taking one poster and pocketing it. It's a souvenir!]

[rebellingheart]

Isn't that pretty much the same thing? [She simply smiles and then laughs as he pockets a poster.] A souvenir?

[Maybe she'll draw Sharpay for him sometime, that's bound to be a laugh.]

[werepanther]

Of course. When the Disciplinary kids come running around and tear 'em down like we know they will, I want to say I was around to see these masterpieces.

[Um yes please, a drawing of Sharpay would be fantastic.]

[rebellingheart]

You know... I hadn't even thought about that.

[Ask nicely and she just might consider it.]

[werepanther]

You're kidding, right? Razem's pretty vicious when he wants to be. [Tom would know; he's got scars from when he had to break up Razem & Wayne way back in the day.]

[BBS]

[eggplantallergy]

[Oooohhhh, he sees what's going on!]

You are, it seems. Nice job! I really like how you drew that! You kind of scared me there for a moment!

[BBS]

[rebellingheart]

I am not.

Wait, scared? Why were you scared?

[BBS]

[eggplantallergy]

Are too! Are too!

Well, I thought there were fangirls about. They usually do this sort of thing.

[BBS]

[rebellingheart]

Am not! Am not!

[Ladies and gentlemen, the SeeD of Balamb Garden.]

Fangirls? Pretty sure you don't have your own version of the Trepies just yet, Gakupo.

[BBS]

[eggplantallergy]

Yah-huh!

[They are capable! Promise!]

I'd like to keep it that way, honestly.

[BBS]

[rebellingheart]

Nuh-uh!

[Even adults can be childish sometimes, right?]

That's probably for the best. Trepies are pretty scary.

[BBS]

[eggplantallergy]

Yah-huh times twenty!

[Of course!]

Yeah, I'm far too familiar with those sort of groups.

[rebellingheart]

Nuh-uh times fifty!

So you've said before.

[She might not fully believe him, but if he says so...]

[seethrul]

[She has to try to keep herself visible-- and that's why Yunoha has opted to go through today fully visible. Well, rather, she'd prefer if she could keep this up from now on but it's probably best to take a step at a time.

She's studying one of the pictures not far from where Rinoa's putting up newer ones, though. What are these...?]

[rebellingheart]

[Another cadet she hasn't seen before, that's an interesting change. So once she's done putting up the picture in her hands, she heads over to where the other is standing.]

I know they're not very good, but that's part of the whole point.

[seethrul]

Oh, I see.

[Actually, no, she doesn't see.]

...what are they for, though?

[rebellingheart]

I made fun of someone's bad art the other day, and he pretty much dared me to show my own bad art when I admitted I couldn't draw either.

[She takes a step back to admire her work.]

And so here I am, see?

[seethrul]

Oh...

[What to say, what to say...]

Well, it's a very interesting picture. [Man, she can't even lie about a drawing like this.]

[rebellingheart]

It's okay, I know it's bad, that was part of the point, remember?

I'm not very good at drawing, and I know it.

[seethrul]

No, that's not what I... [was driving at-- well, not so much. Huu.] Did you really draw all of these?

[rebellingheart]

[She doesn't get it Yunoha, sorry.]

That's right, they might be bad, but that doesn't mean I couldn't try hard while I did them, right?

[seethrul]

Right. But it seems like it was a lot of work.