tushanshu_logs | [OPEN] The Joy of Painting

Characters: Zatanna Zatara | Midii Une | Aya + OPEN
Date: mid-october
Location: Earth Sector
Situation: Pottery Painting!
Warnings/Rating: things might get a little messy....

ZATANNA

[The 19-year-old Mistress of Magic...was not much of an artist. Although, in her defense, she had never claimed to be. Performance was quite different from paintbrushes, and while her sleight of hand was superb, well...]

[Still, she managed about as well as anyone who's last art project involved allowing a former boyfriend to smear her in body paint so she would turn visible again (long story): after about a half hour, she came away with a few simple, yet seasonally appropriate designs on the bowls she's gathered.]

[She also looked quite proud of herself as she held up one of them.]

Maybe I should use these when I decorate the Welcome Center.

MIDII

[A month shy of her 16th birthday, and Midii had already found herself a present. A teapot. Simple, personal, and something she knew she would get a lot of use out of.]

[It was said the custom was meant to be a social event, and yet she still sat a bit aways from the rest of the group. Several small cups of paint scattered around her. A few drops of every color, in fact, and a small, thin brush she'd used to paint dozens of little hearts all over its surface.]

[One for each friend or otherwise familiar face she'd lost. Not just in Keelai, but...before.]

I wonder...if I should make any cups to match.

AYA

[For her contribution for this most interesting cultural tradition, Aya painted...a green turtle. Because of course she did. She was dressed no differently than ever, unaffected by the cooling temperatures, with the only subtle alteration in her appearance being a...small streak of green on the side of her helmet. Darker than the shade of her construct skin.]

I do hope I have completed the process accurately.

While I have knitted articles of clothing before, I have seldom done anything of this nature in the past.

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I usually do.

[It didn't surprise her in the least to encounter Chat. Or his...ode to surrealistic pottery, with evidence of added flourish to his uniform.]

Halloween's one of my favorite holidays, witch jokes aside. And before you start--yes, I've heard them all, and yes...I've dressed up as one before.

[HE IS AN ARTIST.

(He really isn't) ]

Awww, just go and rip all the witch puns from my claws before I can use a single one. So cruel.

But hey, if you're gonna own a thing, you might as well really own it.

Says the guy wearing cat ears.

[Not that she was judging. She was SO not from a world where she could judge something like that.]

Really awesome cat ears.

[He even wiggles them. How does he even do that, they're blatantly hair clips. ]

[As a girl who literally talks backwards regularly...she was in no position to question wiggling cat ears.]

You know, I just realized something kind of funny.

I'm a witch. You're a black cat.

We should team up sometime just for laughs.

[Of course, she would never propose an outright partnership, seeing as how he already had a partner. Like she said, this would be mostly for the fun of it all.]

[He brightens up considerably at that prospect. Sure, he always had Ladybug, but they can learn just as much from working with other people once in a while than just each other. ]

...Oh my god, you're right. We absolutely have to do that.

We'd be amazing at Halloween.

Or, better yet...Mischief Night. I mean, it's right there in the name.

Okay, I've never heard of this holiday and as a firm supporter of mischief, I now need to know everything.

[She bit her tongue to keep from laughing too loudly.]

It's the night before Halloween, and it's exactly what it sounds like.

You go out and cause a bit of mischief. A few pranks here, a few eggs and toiler-paper related acts of vandalism there...some people can go overboard, but as long as you keep it within reason, it can be a lot of fun.

Okay, this I approve of.

[He sounds a little too excited and giddy at the prospect. He'd never get away with something like that back home. His father would never have allowed him to do anything so...rebellious ]

I that a regular thing? Before Halloween?

It is where I come from.

Then again, it's not like half of Gotham needs an excuse to go out and cause mischief.

[Present company included.]

The good kind, the bad kind of a mix of both?

Option 'C', unfortunately.

Yeeesh. That's pretty much the worst option there is.

It's true.

You can't even enjoy the good kind because the bad kind completely ruins it.

And then you gotta go clean up after the bad kind and then your whole evening is just ruined.

Well, depending upon how long that takes...there are usually ways you can make up for someone trying to crash your fun.

You know, we don't usually get that. The fun afterwards? Once we use our Miraculouses power up, we have about five minutes before we transform back. And then it's right back to the civilian life, definitely not being affiliated with a superhero in any way.

Huh. That kind of sucks.

Then again, if I use up too much power, I pass out. So you might actually have a one up on me in that sense.

It makes keeping the secret identity harder than it needs to be.

[He says that like it isn't obvious to half of Keliai already.]

Yeesh, passing out? That's- really not safe in the heat of battle.