get your mingle on

[curiositykilledthecats]

Who: SS Huntress and visitors
Broadcast: N
Action: Ship mingle!
When: Time is an illusion

[So, we've been returned to our ships, and they're all different now! Having lower ceilings must suck for those of you who are actually not tiny.]

Comments

[princessia]

[ When Elize goes to check on all of her belongings, she finds something that wasn't there before: a stuffed animal that has the exact same likeness as Teepo. The difference is that its coloration is different and doesn't float like the original Teepo.

She can be found in her personnel room, drawing or doodling on a piece of paper. When she holds up her drawing to ask the doll for its opinion, it speaks in a childish voice with a prerecorded message:

"My name is Hoppo! Will you all be my friends?"

Frowning at the response, she sets her drawing back down and returns to adding some finishing touches to it.

When not drawing, she can be found taking a nap on the couch, cuddling the doll in her arms.

While the ship's docked on the waystations, she can be found poking through the shops for anything useful or in the courtyard. If dropping by the courtyard, she brought out a few pieces of her little tea set and has it set up on a picnic table. ]

naptime!!!

[serves]

[Creepy dolls aside, why nap on a couch when you have a perfectly good bed? Not that Cullen has it in him to wake her right now, though he might accidentally as he pulls a blanket over her, tucking it around her. And... the doll.]

[princessia]

[ Because she doesn't feel like traveling down the hallway to her bedroom. Feeling the blanket placed over her, she stirs in her sleep. She shifts awake, squinting tiredly at Cullen. ]

...Daddy?

[ And her voice triggers Hoppo to speak again: "Hello! My name is Hoppo! Will you all be my friends? ]

[serves]

[He wonders how easily that doll can go "missing." He's only mortal.]

Did you tire yourself out drawing?

[princessia]

[ Good luck getting the doll away from her. But she probably won't miss it as much if it does go missing. This isn't her Teepo...

She rubs her eyes, holding Hoppo in one arm. Sitting up, it doesn't look like she's going to bother returning to her nap. But she keeps the blanket partially over herself. ]

I got a little bored...

[serves]

Bored, hmm? [He sits next to her, rubbing his jaw.] Should we do something about that?

[princessia]

I don't know...

[ She shrugs, then tugs the blanket over her shoulders. Surely all the games she normally plays must have crossed her mind. She probably needs something new to do. ]

Like what?

[serves]

[Look at her, all cozy. Cullen smiles before he grabs the blanket and pulls it over her head. O o p s.]

That's fun for me.

[princessia]

Huh?! [ Now she can't see. Still feeling slightly dazed from waking up, she doesn't react very quickly. There's a pause, then some squirming around beneath the blanket. ] Hey...

[ As she pulls the blanket off her face, she tosses it over Cullen's head. ]

Let me try!

[ All her moving around sends Hoppo tumbling off her lap and onto the floor, repeating his message: "I'm Hoppo-" She doesn't feel a strong attachment enough that she automatically goes after it like Teepo though. ]

[princessia]

[ And oops, I forgot Hoppo's reference link is wrong... here's the right one! Too late to edit my fail. orz ]

waystation!!!!

[dawnwillcome]

[It's not a very big surprise to see Elize on her own on like this, but ever since hearing about her near kidnapping it's not something Jove is particularly in love with seeing. She knows Elize can handle herself, and that she'll be even better at doing exactly that with Cassandra's lessons, but it still doesn't sit quite right.

If someone had told her months ago she'd come to feel this protective over a shemlen child, Jove would have laughed herself sick. She'd go out of her way to see to it than any child was safe, but this? This would have been unthinkable if it weren't for Atroma bringing her here.]

Hello, da'len. [There's that elvish word pet name she'd taken to using for Elize again, something close to little one but with a much more familial feeling to it.] Have you found anything exciting to buy?

[princessia]

[ She still doesn't know what da'len means, even though it's not the first time she heard it from Jove. Yet she automatically responds to the name regardless. ]

Jove!

[ When Elize turns to look up at her with a smile, the staff that she's holding near her side becomes more noticeable. It's the staff that Jove crafted for her awhile back, with a little ribbon added on the end of it, a finishing touch by Elize. Now she can bludgeon shady people with her staff and punch like Cassandra when they get close. ]

Not really.

[ She pokes through a rack of casual clothes with the end of her staff. Nothing but plain t-shirts, jeans, and shorts in boring colors. ]

I've seen these before at the other waystations.

[dawnwillcome]

[That's certainly a sight that settles the bit of worry Jove had been feeling. Good, she's protected as well as she can be without a permanent armed guard.

With a smile, she joins Elize in sifting through the clothes. It's less odd to her now, the shapes of modern clothing, but she'll take Dalish clothing over this any day.]

You would think they would add something new every now and then. Perhaps they've run out of ideas.

[princessia]

[ She pulls a white shirt out from the rack. It's a little too big and could almost pass as a long shirt dress for Elize. She might be able to wear it if any of her plain nightgowns get dirty.

Of course she prefers something more cuter and fancier, like the ruffly dress that Jiao gave her in Hamil. There were a few dresses like that at the casino station, but they were far too expensive. ]

...My idea is that they should add ribbons and ruffles.

[ Perhaps with some poof and pink. ]

[dawnwillcome]

[It's not the most amazing shirt ever, no, but it has enough structure that it could be something if they were creative enough.]

I think we could add some ribbons and ruffles to that, if you wanted to. It wouldn't be difficult at all.

[princessia]

It wouldn't?

[ Elize isn't the one that can sew. She holds up the shirt, trying to picture it more like a dress in her head. ]

Ruffles on the trim and maybe a pink ribbon on the front? Or on the sleeves.

[ That would be cute, right... ]

[dawnwillcome]

[There's got to be more colors of fabric for them to use for this new project hidden in the racks, so Jove moves to search for something appropriate.]

I used to put together quite a bit of the armor my inner circle used, in Thedas. I could teach you, if you like. Ah, here. We can use this for the ribbon.

[She holds up a shirt that isn't very flattering on the hanger, but is a very pretty shade of pink.]

[princessia]

[ The more she learns about Jove, the more amazing Elize thinks she is. ]

I would be happy to learn.

[ When it came to sewing or patching up clothing, she had to rely on the elder villagers of Hamil. After leaving the village, then it was Sharil Manor's butler who was happy to fix up her clothes.

Seeing the pink shirt, her eyes light up. It probably wouldn't have mattered what kind of pink shade it was. ]

That's a great find, Jove!

personnel room.

[sinuosity]

That is disturbing.

[ She is staring at the doll, peering over Elize to get a good look at it, but her attention shifts quickly enough. ]

Hello, Elize. I trust you are well?

[princessia]

Huh?

[ She looks up from her desk. Whatever is disturbing flies over her head. For some reason, Hoppo strikes her as very adorable. Though, the majority would agree with Nyssa that her doll is very disturbing. ]

Oh, Nyssa. Hello. [ An awkward smile. ] I'm well. I'm glad to be back on my ship.

[sinuosity]

As am I to be assigned. I'm on the Red Fish.

[ a beat. ]

Are you hungry? Do you like sweets?

[princessia]

A little hungry?

[ She regularly eats her meals together with Cullen, but she can use a small snack. ]

I like some sweets. Just not the ones that get stuck in my teeth...

[ Like gummies... ]

[sinuosity]

​[ She takes out a small box which has a single piece of baklava. ]

Here, try this.

[princessia]

Oh! Um... thank you...

[ Elize is a bit too eager. She blushes when she realizes how quickly she accepts the box. She never had a pastry like this before, but it does look appetizing. ]

Did you make this?

[sinuosity]

No, I know little of desserts.

​[ Indulgences. Ask her to cook rabbit or deer in a forest in midwinter and Nyssa's your girl. Something like this? Nope. ]