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thisavrou_log2017-11-06 07:58 pm
coercive) wrote in thisavrou_log2017-11-06 07:58 pm
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Who: Laura & ota
When: First week of the month
Where: greenery, mostly
What: Laura does what a kid does best.
Warnings: This is completely G rated.
Closed to Eddie:
[Ever since she's met him, Laura's spent a lot of time in his company. He teaches her fun things to say in English and she teaches him the equivalent in Spanish, and they run around pretty much all day. It's the first time Laura's ever really felt like she has a playmate as well as someone to protect. If he isn't sleeping over in her room, she's visiting him over in his, and generally gets up bright and early each day to meet him for breakfast.
It's still pretty early in the day, and they've just left breakfast. He's riding his bike with her in her usual place perched up behind him, and she's hollering and laughing as they barrel their way toward the music hall. There's plenty of room there to spend the day playing around.]
Do you like dancing?
[Because her plan for today involves doing her version of it.]
Greenery (ota):
[Laura checks up on the little garden she and Nill worked together to plant every day. She doesn't have a job here, so she takes it upon herself to at least do that. It fills her with pride to see the progress that's made, to know that she can help things grow and thrive instead of just destroying them.
She still isn't very good at gardening, though. But she still extends her claws and crouches down in the dirt and starts to cut away at weeds and grass that grow through. She's got a small pile next to her that ends up having her hand slapped down on it the second she hears footsteps nearby. It's not that she minds other people looking at her discard pile, it's that it's her hard work and she doesn't want someone to come mess it up.
Her head turns and she stares for a few moments, before silently getting back to work.]
Library (ota):
There are no pictures.
[Sigh.
Laura sets aside the book she's been flipping through, looking very disappointed at the fact that there's no pictures. She knows that she needs to be reading harder books with chapters, ones with more words than pictures, but she still really enjoys storybooks. She's been trying to find any that might exist within the library, but she's starting to think that it's a lost cause.
She still grabs another off the shelf and starts to flip through it, before making a disgusted sound and slamming it closed. This one is set aside too, and she starts to walk further along the shelves toward the tomes, fingers trailing along the edge of the shelving.]
Music Hall (ota):
[Laura's biggest secret at the moment is that she's finally understanding what pretend is. She was never allowed to have an imagination, and play was a thing that was foreign to her until recently. But now that she's free and living with a family that helps her grow and develop, her mental age is starting to catch up to her physical one. Her imagination is finally developing, and now that she has some real life experiences she's able to pretend to be things that she isn't.
One of those things is a dancer. Sure, she's physically capable of it. But she hasn't had any training, and still really hasn't heard a lot of music. But she's seen other people here dance, and has seen books where characters dance. And she likes trying it too. So whenever she thinks no one else is around, she sneaks up on stage and starts to dance. It looks less like ballet and more like a kid spinning with her arms outstretched and a toothy grin on her face.
This is fun, and after a few leaps and a lot more spinning she ends up falling back in a heap on the stage. She wonders what it would be like to be a girl like Nill, pretty and slender, with long legs and enough grace to be considered beautiful and delicate when she dances.]
When: First week of the month
Where: greenery, mostly
What: Laura does what a kid does best.
Warnings: This is completely G rated.
Closed to Eddie:
[Ever since she's met him, Laura's spent a lot of time in his company. He teaches her fun things to say in English and she teaches him the equivalent in Spanish, and they run around pretty much all day. It's the first time Laura's ever really felt like she has a playmate as well as someone to protect. If he isn't sleeping over in her room, she's visiting him over in his, and generally gets up bright and early each day to meet him for breakfast.
It's still pretty early in the day, and they've just left breakfast. He's riding his bike with her in her usual place perched up behind him, and she's hollering and laughing as they barrel their way toward the music hall. There's plenty of room there to spend the day playing around.]
Do you like dancing?
[Because her plan for today involves doing her version of it.]
Greenery (ota):
[Laura checks up on the little garden she and Nill worked together to plant every day. She doesn't have a job here, so she takes it upon herself to at least do that. It fills her with pride to see the progress that's made, to know that she can help things grow and thrive instead of just destroying them.
She still isn't very good at gardening, though. But she still extends her claws and crouches down in the dirt and starts to cut away at weeds and grass that grow through. She's got a small pile next to her that ends up having her hand slapped down on it the second she hears footsteps nearby. It's not that she minds other people looking at her discard pile, it's that it's her hard work and she doesn't want someone to come mess it up.
Her head turns and she stares for a few moments, before silently getting back to work.]
Library (ota):
There are no pictures.
[Sigh.
Laura sets aside the book she's been flipping through, looking very disappointed at the fact that there's no pictures. She knows that she needs to be reading harder books with chapters, ones with more words than pictures, but she still really enjoys storybooks. She's been trying to find any that might exist within the library, but she's starting to think that it's a lost cause.
She still grabs another off the shelf and starts to flip through it, before making a disgusted sound and slamming it closed. This one is set aside too, and she starts to walk further along the shelves toward the tomes, fingers trailing along the edge of the shelving.]
Music Hall (ota):
[Laura's biggest secret at the moment is that she's finally understanding what pretend is. She was never allowed to have an imagination, and play was a thing that was foreign to her until recently. But now that she's free and living with a family that helps her grow and develop, her mental age is starting to catch up to her physical one. Her imagination is finally developing, and now that she has some real life experiences she's able to pretend to be things that she isn't.
One of those things is a dancer. Sure, she's physically capable of it. But she hasn't had any training, and still really hasn't heard a lot of music. But she's seen other people here dance, and has seen books where characters dance. And she likes trying it too. So whenever she thinks no one else is around, she sneaks up on stage and starts to dance. It looks less like ballet and more like a kid spinning with her arms outstretched and a toothy grin on her face.
This is fun, and after a few leaps and a lot more spinning she ends up falling back in a heap on the stage. She wonders what it would be like to be a girl like Nill, pretty and slender, with long legs and enough grace to be considered beautiful and delicate when she dances.]
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