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[invocate]

WHO: Tatsuo Kihara (thisloveisjustice), Li-Na Yiu (invocate), & OPEN
WHERE: all over town
WHEN: throughout the month
WHAT: I'm being lazy and mushing open logs for both of them into one post
WARNINGS: n/a

TATSUO

A -- let's paint this town tonight

Finding and painting back into existence his apartment had been priority number one for Tatsuo at the beginning of this month. Shortly followed by the police department and crime lab. That... had taken a while. With both of those objectives met, Tatsuo went in search of the dojo, but it's proving a bit elusive. What he found instead was the pet shelter.

Which he'd almost walked past except he heard the animals inside and couldn't really just leave them there, white and blank. So he spent a good afternoon getting the exterior mapped out, snagging any passersby to help.

"Hey, do you have a minute? It's going to take more than one person to get this done."

B -- wrong color

Someone was kind enough to paint back one of the supermarkets in Tisse, though not everything had been restored to its proper color yet.

Except the bananas. Sitting there, bright yellow in the middle of the produce department.

For some reason, that just irked Tatsuo, so he pulled out his paintbrush and recolored them a mild shade of blue.

Sometimes you wanted blue bananas, okay?

C -- feeling a bit blue

It was about halfway through the month when Tatsuo realized he's not heard from or seen certain individuals on the network. A few he'd bumped into in person on the street or at work, but been too distracted to realize they hadn't still been on the network. Something had felt off, but it took a while for him to put together exactly what.

When he did, it hit a bit hard. He was used to one or two, maybe three people getting reset at a time. But this time it'd been five. And some of them he'd been quite close to. Sure, he could still talk to a few of them, but it wasn't the same. It'd never be the same again unless Retrospec put them back on the network.

That evening he found a bar that's been outlined back into existence and ordered a drink. Liquor still tasted the same, even if didn't have color.

LI-NA

A -- the grass is greener pt 1

Li-Na quickly got the hang of how to paint outlines with her paintbrush, but actually painting things green was a little trickier since it required someone else with a green paintbrush. Maybe you just painted that grass green with her, or maybe you were just walking by after her partner departed, but one of those brush creatures was currently sweeping away said green. And Li-Na was not having it. She waved her paintbrush at the creature, trying to chase it off.

"Stop! Leave that alone! We just finished that!"

B -- the grass is greener pt 2

It was fairly easy to paint back the buildings are ground level, and even a story or two up if you had a good arm. But Recolle had a number of skyscrapers and frankly painting them from the bottom up was a bit daunting if you weren't sure where they ended. So Li-Na loaded up a bag of paint filled water balloons and used her boots to locate the tops of buildings. A few splashes here and there until she located the very top and then lobbing balloons in each cardinal direction to locate the buildings around it.

So if you looked up and spotted Li-Na perched on seemingly nothing, it's just a building she hadn't fully marked the top edge of yet.

C -- is that your real...?

Between repainting the city and sleeping, Li-Na made sure to go to school (the high school having been one of the first locations she helped paint back). Finals were coming up, and even though Li-Na technically did not actually need to graduate from Recolle High, she still wanted to put in the proper effort until the end of the school year. Especially in her more difficult subjects.

But with the collapse of the layers, some of her classmates had taken renewed notice of her hair and eyes.

"There's no way she grew her hair that fast. It was chin length before Christmas." "And who would want to wear extensions that long every day? It would get soooooo heavy." "Do they even make extensions that color? I bet you it's a wig." "How does it never slip? She even wears it in gym class." "She's so weird, wearing a wig. And did you see her eyes? Purple contacts."

Li-Na could mostly ignore the whispering behind her in class. But must they do it during class? She was trying to listen to the teacher!

D -- relaxing cup of tea

For the most part, Li-Na kept herself busy. Painting and school and dance classes once the studio was painted back. One afternoon she found a bubble tea shop and decided she could use a short break. White bubble tea is better than no bubble tea after all. It took almost an hour to properly paint back the interior of the shop, but once it was done she ordered a coconut milk tea. Alas, no jellies, because without color they couldn't tell which ones were which.

Comments

li-na ▸ a!!!

[hairstroke]

Fortunately, Leon had just finished painting a few places with his blue paint brush and was looking for another partner to mix colors with. As he was in the middle of passing by, he hears a very familiar voice and turns his head towards the sound. The sight he witnesses is poor Li-Na attempting to chase away those stupid broom things.

This immediately causes him to frown because he's not having none of that. Those monstrosities have been messing with him all day long and he sure as heck wasn't going to let her get harassed by them as well. NOT ON HIS WATCH!!

So here comes a very angry man stomping over with two paint buckets in his hands.

"Hey! Go away and leave her alone you little jerks!"

In an instant, he's swooping over to help shoo them away, waving his own paint brush in the air after he sets down his buckets.

Tatsuo C

[blondferret]

[Derek has just entered the bar when he sees Tatsuo is at a bar. Alone. In the way back. That wasn't normal. As far as he knew, Tatsuo didn't go to bars alone, at least not when he was in a good mood. Derek remembers the last time he walked into a bar and saw Tatsuo. Tatsuo was not in a good mood. Derek walks over, pulls out a chair, and sits in front of he friend.]

Mate, you OK? It's not every day I see you in a bar... alone.

li-na - A.

[fabrefactions]

[ Ah yes, the dreaded brush creatures. His mortal enemy over the past week as he has battled to both paint a path to his home and beyond, and not lose the path to the meddling of these creatures.

As soon as he hears someone yelling in frustration, he stops what he was doing - painting, naturally - and hurries in the direction of the shouting. When he sees the little creature, ruining all this young lady's hard work, he reacts.

Well.

A little instinctively.

One summoned Persona later, and the brush-creature is rather pathetically straining against the ice that has bound its lower half to the ground. A temporary measure, yes, but one that should work. ]

There. Now you may seek to undo the damage this creature has wrought.