[OPEN] Flower gleam and glow

[windeity]

WHO: Everyone in the Town
WHERE: The community garden(s)
WHEN: Anytime in August
WHAT: Flower crowns! Teach each other to make flower crowns, exchange them with each other, succeed in questing
WARNINGS: No



[At any point during the month you may come across the community gardens in the Town and see a couple of different set-ups.

For one thing, someone created a sign painted with purple paint that reads "FLOWER CROWNS HERE."

For another thing, there are bushels and bouquets of different kinds of plants and flowers that have their color restored that have been gathered.

And finally, there are smaller slips of paper that read "RED", "YELLOW", and "BLUE."

At least once a day people passing by the garden will find John sitting there and monitoring the situation. Anyone who approaches will be greeted with a large grin and a wave.]

You saw the forum, right? I thought we could all make this a little easier on each other.

[Grab some flowers and some friends! Questing has never been so easy.]

[ooc: Hello! For ease of use to complete quest 23, this is an open log that people can consolidate and thread with each other! Please feel free to label in the subject what color your character is, thread out making and gifting crowns to each other, and have fun!]

Comments

[pursestrings]

[i can't believe chill bro and hella okuyasu just became awash canon]

Yeah, for sure. [Okuyasu has grumbled and protested flower crowns all day, and yet... Dave is very privileged, please appreciate this instant agreement.] You know how to make 'em? 'Cause mine're, y'know, how they are.

[parodeity]

I can make them at least a little? [ yeah no he's about a little better than okuyasu but NOT MUCH. he's already gathering up some of john's flowers to start twisting into a crown, though... ]

[pursestrings]

[Amazing... Dave is so good at All Things... Okuyasu waits patiently, watching him make a slightly-less-shitty crown.]

...Hey, can I tell you something?

[parodeity]

Yeah, always, dude. What's on your mind? Spill the secret to guru Dave, this is my temple and nothin' you say will escape it. Probably.

[pursestrings]

[Probably. Thanks, he loves a good probably. But actually it's no secret that Okuyasu is a huge Dave Fan, so, you know. Here goes.]

Well, uh— y'know how we're supposed to be telling people how we feel and stuff? Not like I need Mr. F to tell me how to talk to people, but... y'know.

[That's two y'knows in less than a minute. He's crashing. Take two.]

Listen, I just wanted to say you're a real chill guy, okay? And you get me, about... stuff other people don't get, [terrible brothers] and I never had anyone like that before, so I'm glad we're friends. Thanks.

[parodeity]

[ oh my god...

congrats, okuyasu. you get to see dave's lips part slightly in abject strider surprise. his eyes widen a little behind his shades, and he might? start faintly blushing but he would never admit to it. outright affection is a thing he does get from certain people, but it's rarely like.

this level. and he's just. wow? wow.

he drops the crown on okuyasu's head to cover his embarrassment. ]

I. Thanks, dude. Uh...just so you know, I think of you as one of my closest friends nowadays. [ dave's voice is quiet. it usually is. but he's enunciating clearly at least. ] I, uh. No one else has ever really had the same...situation, in any degree, when I've like. Talked. Or not talked. It was...well, I don't know if "nice" is the right word, but it was something like nice that you like. Understood. Even if it wasn't nice you could - you get what I mean. I've never had anyone like that before either. With the like, "I feel you man" in an actual "yeah I've been there" kinda way.

[ ... ]

Thanks for existing.

[pursestrings]

[Aww, Dave!! Stop, Okuyasu is going to blush too, this is so not cool and chill-- He fiddles with the flower crown to try and cover the dumb face he makes the longer Dave speaks, which definitely goes critical when he says thanks for existing. That's so... kinda silly, and yet. He's never been thanked for existing before!!

Give him a minute to compose himself, here.]

Uh— huh. Yeah! Yeah. I get it.

[Which is the whole point, so good job, boys. There's a pause before Okuyasu holds his arms out and gestures for Dave to get over here. Come on, it's happening.]

C'mere, let's do this.

[parodeity]

A bro hug bump? Hell yeah, although we're missing the sweaty wife-beaters. [ dave always has to make weird references the other party may not get when enacting an emotional thing, apparently. it is just how he is. it simply cannot be helped.

but he actually tosses himself into okuyasu's arms, why the fuck not. now okuyasu gets to see...that dave can be a clingy little nerd

isn't he lucky ]

[pursestrings]

[Gross, Dave, nobody needs to get all sweaty just for a good bro hug. Okuyasu raises an eyebrow at him for that, but it doesn't matter because he hug is On. And-- yeah, Dave is surprisingly clingy?

That's fine, though. Okuyasu is very huggable. This is a genuine hug up until he ruffles Dave's hair, almost a noogie but not quite.]

Thanks, dude.

[parodeity]

[ wow hair ruffling...dave will let go at that point, although he doesn't really mind. ]

Yeah, yeah. No one else ever has to know about this bromantic moment. That's part of the bro code, y'know?

[pursestrings]

[Accept his affection, Dave... it's unstoppable. But not so much that Okuyasu becomes the clingy one; he can in fact let go and fold his arms to give Dave a Look. This broment? Savor it?]

What, I can't tell anybody that I'm so cool you just gotta go for the hug?

[parodeity]

I guess you can, if you want to make them jealous of our awesome world-hopping bromance? They'll wither away with envy, though.

[pursestrings]

That sounds like a problem for somebody else to deal with. I think the world's gotta know. [hmm] Or at least the town.

[parodeity]

As long as you're willin' to fight for the slot of "best bromance with Dave Strider". Competition is fierce, you know?

[pursestrings]

You saying I gotta take 'em all out? How many dudes are we talking about?

[is this scott pilgrim but with bros]

[parodeity]

Well...John and Keith, at least? Maybe Minato...

[ CAN YOU DO IT, OKUYASU ]

[pursestrings]

[Well, he doesn't know Keith, so that's totally easy... ha ha.]

How about you just give me bro custody on weekends? Uh, shit, do we have weekends here?

[parodeity]

I mean, we must have but we don't really know...when. We should just pick a goddamned day and make it the first of whatever month we like and go from there.

[pursestrings]

[Serious consideration.....]

We gotta name the months after each other, right? Like, no shit.

[parodeity]

Like, Strider month? Every day's a celebration of me. And Dirk, by proxy.

[ no ]

[pursestrings]

Yeah, alright. [no] Then I get one. Ochako gets two.

[He is holding up fingers to count months... who else, Dave!!!!]

[parodeity]

John and Minato. [ THE BLUE BOYS ]

[pursestrings]

[Two more.......]

I guess Jake gets his own? [hey dave w h a t is homestuck] Nanjo can have a weekend in Okuyasu month, 'cause he's too stuck up to play along. [you know, endearingly.]

[parodeity]

Then there's Dirk...that's eight.