open | that catch-all thing

[bolthead]

Characters: Barry Allen & anyone/everyone/your mom
Date: aaaall throughout January
Location: around
Situation: a bunch
Warnings/Rating: nothin' for now
Additional: There's a couple starters under the cut, but feel free to drop a starter or shoot me a PM if there's anything in particular you want.


A stands for Actual Idiot Barry Allen

Anyone stopping by one of the bakeries this morning will be greeted by the lovely sound of loud angry yelling paired with much softer apologetic stuttering.

Why? Because under the tutelage of one (1) Bart Allen, Barry's been slowly learning the intricacies of the kedan language. Generally, learning anything doesn't take all that long for him - but since he actually wants to remember what he's learned this time around, he's been forced to put some effort into the whole process. He's learned how to 'say' a number of simple phrases, 'say' because learning how to speak and understand kedanese by ear has been proved to be virtually impossible, thanks to 'stupid translation magic' (to quote a certain someone). But he's determined to at least take a stab at it, pouring over kedan children's books and repeating words in it again and again the way he thinks they might sound aloud.

Today is his first real test: he's bought a freshly baked pastry from a nearby bakery for breakfast and plans to compliment the kedan running the place.

"This pastry tastes delicious" is what he attempts to say.

Unfortunately it comes out translated as "Your mother tastes delicious."

B

Thus far during his time here, Barry hasn't had too many opportunities to put on the suit and generally be visible in the public eye. Clark's already got that side covered and Barry's still feeling the lingering aftereffects of all the parades thrown in his honor. He still patrols often enough but those tend to be early morning or late at night, when most of the general populace is asleep.

But there's snow everywhere and the Earth Sector could totally use a bit more decoration, which means Barry's out and about in bright red and gold making whatever he feels like out of the snow. A snowman family, a lion, a giant microscope....

Currently he's working on detailing a miniature Asian-inspired temple. It's quite possibly the most elaborate thing he's made so far, which naturally means it should be the first thing to be destroyed.

Comments

A

[definingfuture]

Tony, like any man of good taste, has been making it his goal to sample different Sectors' popular restaurants and food sites in order to find the best ones. He does make some time to get around, and on this occasion that is exactly what he's doing when he hears the loud noises coming from a nearby bakery. He has to check it out, of course, and when he finds the kedan yelling at the would-be patron, he quirks a small smile.

"Well, you don't see that every day. You didn't sleep with someone's daughter, right? You would have earned that if you did."

He can be helpful. He can be helpful after he's laughed a little.

F is for friends

[friendstime]

Christmas is great. Being away from home is less great, but Gentarou has been doing pretty well with adapting since his arrival. He had decorated the tree near his suite with ornaments that looked like planets and stars, found a Christmasy hate (although unfortunately not a sweater), and seen some pretty impressive lights and displays around Keeliai put up by everyone else. All in all, he's been having a good time.

So when he sees the guy in the weird red pajamas building snow models in the Earth Sector, he has to go check it out.

"Whoa. You built all of those, mister?" Oh, he's impressed. It seems like each day he's seeing some incredible new talent from another person in the city. As much as he misses his other friends, the people here are absolutely worth the trip. "Are you an artist?"

Only an artist would wear something like that, right?

b stands for bigass showoff flash

[wingedwarrior]

(Shayera's all for smashing, but not so much works of art. No matter how much of a showoff the artist is. Okay, so even then she'll still smash it, but she wants a moment to take in the fact that while flying overhead, there was a very familiar blur of red and gold rushing around below. Easy to spot with the very obvious contrast against the snow. So lands in the snow, circling around to inspect his work.) Is it a Flash tradition to be a showoff?

A, if that's a-okay

[sonofsamcro]

The morning's bright and the coffee's strong, two things that've kept Jax going after too many late nights at the bars and too little in the way of hangover cures. Truth told, it's the coffee more than the bright, but they go hand-in-hand since coffee's freshest in the morning, so he endures.

And he overhears too, being in this bakery to grab the local's rendition of a sausage roll to serve as breakfast.

Jax casts a sideways look to Barry, his eyebrows going up and a frown pulling at his lips. "You serious?" he asks, casting a look next to the kedan and back to Barry. "What the hell'd this guy do to you?"

(B)

[superieure]

Monet's Christmas in the city was quiet. She'd seen no need to attend anything after Kirk's party, preferring to remain at home and wonder where one of her bags had gone (Ric had given it to Cassie; she'd have chewed him out but he replaced it with something better). Sometimes she takes a walk outside, in the snow, just to watch the children playing. If anyone sees the very brief, soft expression on her face and asks, she's not sentimental. She's just keeping tabs on them.

Despite having super-senses one doesn't always look where one's going, and by Murphy's Law she does step on one of the smaller outlying bits of Barry's creation. Turning, she frowns down at it, and then looks for the artist in question.

'Yours?'

It sounds more like she's asking about a feral animal than a work of art, but honestly, who expected something different?