vatheon | Oh so pretty, and witty and...well you get the picture

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Oh so pretty, and witty and...well you get the picture

Who: Fai D. Flourite and you!
Where: Near Nostalgia Nook
When: Afternoon
Style: Will match
Status: Open
Warnings: Fai being..Fai?

Fai had been heading back to his apartment when he noticed the abundance of flowers growing out of the sidewalk. He didn't recall them being there earlier but they couldn't possibly have grown there in the course of the morning. A lover of flowers, he bent down to get a closer look at the pretty little buds.

"You're going to get stepped on if you keep growing on a busy sidewalk." He leaned over just enough to sniff at it, immediately feeling a sense of something warm and happy washing over him. These were excellent flowers!

"You smell so wonderful too! I feel like I should share you with everyone. It's better then being stepped on right? I'm sure you live so that you can brighten someone's day! So let's do that together." He reached out and gently plucked the flowers from the crack in the sidewalk. He would definitely be handing these out to everyone he knew.

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After getting a chance to fight yesterday (or rather directly requesting someone to fight her), Morte was in a rather good moon today. She yawned a bit... maybe she could ask someone to fight her today, too? It sounded like a good idea. She would at least have something to do in this boring place.

Walking through the sidewalk Morte noticed a familiar person. She watched him for a while, before she called:

"Hey. You seem to be in good mood today."

Definitely in better than the last time Morte talked to him.

Fai looked over and it took him a moment but as soon as he recognized her he smiled brightly and lifted his hand to wave enthusiastically. "Good afternoon, Morte-san!"

He stood up straight with his one arm cradling the huge amount of flowers he had just gathered from the sidewalk.

"I hope you're having a good day today."

Morte smiled back at him, then shrugged.

"Could've been better, but I'm not complaining."

She then looked at the flowers that Fai was holding. There sure was a lot of them.

"What're you gonna do with all these flowers?" she asked pointing at them.

"Well..they were growing out of the sidewalk and it seemed a waste for them to just get stepped on. So I figured I would pick them and hang them out for everyone to enjoy. That is the point of a flower after all!"

He started towards her, "Would you like one?"

"Wouldn't it be a waste to pick them up, too? They're going to wither."

She gave him a strange look, then she looked away.

"And why would I want any of those?"

"At least this way they have a chance to brighten someone's day. If they stay in the sidewalk, they will wither without ever being loved. And that is a sad way to live." Fai knew that from experience. Love was one thing he wished for before he left the world of the living but he had no such expectations of it actually happening. He didn't want the same for the flowers.

He walked up and held out a couple to her, "Because they are pretty! That's the only reason anyone really needs."

Being loved, huh? Does it even change anything? Dos it even matter that much? They will still wither no matter what.

In a sense they reminded her of her world. No matter how many people - or how much she would love it, it would still die sooner or later. And she hoped for sooner than later. She couldn't stand to see her world ruined like that...

She glanced at the flowers, then turned away.

"I don't need them at all." she answered. She had no reason to accept them... No reason at all...

"Then just consider it a gift from a friend." Fai continued to hold it out to her. He wouldn't give up that easily. He was feeling particularly pushy about these flowers.

She gave him a look.

"...From a friend?"

Oh, so they were friends now?

Fai nodded enthusiastically and lifted one of them to his nose and took a nice long sniff of it. "They smell really good! I bet they could brighten up anyone's home and make it smell amazing."

"Yeah, maybe."

She tried to look like she didn't care at all. All her life, she never had the time to waste for stupid things like flowers.

...And now, while stuck here, she had too much time...

Fai reached out and took her hand, placing the flower inside of it and closing her fingers around it. "Now that flower is happy."

Morte looked first at him, then at the flower in her hand. For a moment she wanted to give it back to Fai, but she didn't. For some very strange reason the flower... made her a little happier.

"...I'm happy, too." She muttered looking at it, then shook her head. What was she even talking about?! She turned away. "Ah, a-alright. I'll take it! But just this one!"

Fai laughed and clapped his hands, which was fairly difficult with all the flowers in his arms. "I'm glad! You should take another one so that you can give it to someone."

"I said I would take only this one!" she said, sending him a glare. "...Besides, I can't think of anyone I could give one of those to."

"Then you could give one to someone you encounter on the street. Even strangers could use something to brighten their day." Fai held out another flower, just in case she decided to take it.

Morte the Scarlet Plague giving flowers to strangers. That idea sounded so ridiculous to her.

And yet for a moment she was actually considering taking another flower from him.

"Don't be ridiculous. Why would I give anything to a stranger?"

"Because sometimes just by having that one bright moment, someone's day could be lifted. You don't need to the know the circumstances, or the outcome of that simple gift..but it might change an unhappy future into something a bit brighter." Fai's expression grew soft but he never faltered in holding out the flower.

Any other day Morte would insist that there every future was unhappy and there was no way something like a flower would change it.

But she didn't say that now.

He sighed, then took the other flower.

"...Happy now?"

"Very! I hope you can find someone nice to give it too. I'm sure they will love it." Fai shifted the flowers in his arms a little, turning his head so he could smell them. "Flowers are a sign of spring and summer and the months of lots of life."

"Not sure if I will find anyone like that, but... oh well."

For some reason she didn't feel like complaining anymore.

"I wish you lots of luck. And if you don't find anyone, then it just means twice as many pretty flowers in your own home!"

"Yeah, yeah." she sighs. "I'll be going now."

Fai lifts his hand in a wave, "Have a good rest of the day, Morte-san! I hope to see you again soon."

[Minato has noticed the flowers as well, but he has not yet caved to picking them yet. He's too content to admire them, hands tucked firmly into his pockets--

And perhaps he's so distracted admiring them that he doesn't notice Fai right in front of him until he has, well, run into him.

...!]

[Fai senses the other man coming before he gets close and so braces himself for what he figures is going to be an impact. Of course, he could have just moved but then that would put the flowers in danger! He sits down on the sidewalk as he is run into and reaches out to make sure the other man doesn't fall.]

You should probably keep your eyes up when you walk.

[...oh!

He stumbles a little, but doesn't fall thanks to Fai's hand.]

...I'm sorry. You're right, I should have.

Are you alright?

I'm fine, don't worry! [Fai stood up and held out one of the flowers.]

Would you like one? I was saving them from the loneliness of growing out of the sidewalk.

[...oh. c-cute.

He accepts the flower with a nod, it drawing a smile out of his normally linefaced expression.]

Thank you very much.

They're really pretty, aren't they?

They are. I love flowers! They are able to give someone so much joy just by existing. It would have been very sad if they just spent their entire life in the sidewalk and no one was able to enjoy them.

[...a-aww. This is sweet and he nods.]

You're right. What were you planning on doing with them, then?

I'm going to give them to people and maybe put a few in my apartment. [He holds them out] Take as many as you like!

[...a-awww.

He accepts a handful, but only because--]

Maybe I can help out. I'd like to spread them around too.

We can both do our best at making sure everyone gets a little bit of cheer.

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Oh so pretty, and witty and...well you get the picture

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