vatheon | Kanaya's shop, round 3.

Where:Kanaya Maryams Storefront For Commissioned Ragripping And Seamstressing
With Display Space For Artistic Clothing Creations
When: A small sign on the door says this business opens an hour after sundown on the surface, and closes an hour before dawn, every day. Feel free to backdate if you wish, or set your posts whenever, really. Kanaya is in and working outside of business hours on occasion.
Who: Kanaya Maryam, hopefully a whole bunch of trolls, members of the host club, and anybody who's interested in her shop.
Style: I'll follow your lead.
Status: Open

The dress forms out front all have been clothed in a variety of styles; the specific outfits on display change often, sometimes as often as every day. Men's and women's fashions are available, though there is usually more dresses than anything else. Inside there are a few more outfits available for viewing, but this is not a clothing store. None of these outfits have a price tag, as the clothing here is hand made by the proprietor. a small sign on the back wall indicates that this business is for clothing repairs, tailoring, and custom commission work, though you are welcome to make an offer on something if you like it.

Things have been getting a bit crazy in the shop. Kanaya has been working extremely hard as of late to finish up a few projects before her next big commission starts. There is a rack of nearly finished outfits that has been left in the display room, her workspace is getting too cluttered to keep it back there. It's an organized chaos though, she's simply been spending more time working than keeping things tidy.

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Equius listens to her explanation, nodding here and there. He understands what she's suggesting, but he still has his doubts, knowing all the trouble he's had with sleeves in the past. Dutifully, he takes the shirt and starts pulling it over his head.

Things go fine until he gets to the sleeves. Then, without fail, he manages to snag one on the back of his glove, stretching the fabric past its limits in seconds. The sleeve's seam lets go with a soft purrrrrling sound.

"I ripped it."

"That's alright, Equius. You don't have to worry about it. You were very helpful just trying that for me." She isn't disappointed, but a bit concerned for the blueblood. She really expected this to happen, but wanted to be sure, and wanted to see it for herself.

"Thank you for putting up with this little experiment for me. We can move on to measurements now."

"I'm sorry." His shoulders slump forward in disappointment after he wrestles the ruined shirt back over his head. "I told you I can't handle sleeves."

Kanaya simply smiled, hoping to at least undermine his disappointment. "It's alright. I know what I'm going to do now, so this was still a success for my purposes. You can take that off if you like, I don't need it anymore."

She fished out a tape measure from a pocket. "I should get your numbers next."

Equius sets the destroyed shirt aside, idly wondering how much older he'll have to get before he can handle sleeves like Darkleer wears. Probably sweeps and sweeps.

He's as mild and docile as a lamb while Kanaya takes his measurements, being very cooperative when she comes at him with her tape measure.

It doesn't take long at all. Kanaya's been doing this so much lately she'd be measuring people in her sleep, if she ever slept. In moments the relevant numbers are recorded on her SFC.

"There. Thank you. I only have one other thing I need. I'm going to be working on something for Gamzee, and if you have any ideas or opinions on what you might like him to wear I would like to hear them."

"I don't really know anything about fashion." Equius considers, though. "He... likes polka dots?"

Kanaya manages to stifle much response, not even twitching an eye at the answer. This must be the tenth time someone answered the question 'what would you like to see them wear' with 'oh, they like ____.' She knows they like ____. half this project is to get them out of ____. Kanaya wants to know what you would like to see them in.

It's hard designing fashion for trolls. It's hard and nobody understands.

She puts on a sweet smile and responds. "He certainly does. I don't think I'll have any way to incorporate that pattern into my work, but we'll see. There are ways of making polka dots fashionable, but they might not work so well with what I have planned for you and Darkleer."

In all fairness, if Equius started telling her all about his robots and the current project he's working on, she would be equally as lost. Have mercy, woman: when you tear all but the STRONGEST fabrics and have never been able to manage either sleeves or long pants, fashion becomes much less important.

"Darkleer? What do Darkleer and I have to do with anything?"

She will offer Equius as much mercy as she offers all the other fashion challenged trolls: none. Mark my words, he will be wearing sleeves by the time this is all through!

"Oh... I forgot. This outfit I am making you is a part of a larger project. I'm going to make something for Darkleer and Gamzee as well, and I hope to make you all match together."

An understandable mistake, as she's been explaining this project over and over all week. she also detailed the plan for some people when she messaged them, and others when they arrived, making it even harder to keep track of who knows about it.

NO. No sleeves!

"So... you want Gamzee and I to match, but you also want Darkleer and I to match, but if you're going with a matesprit theme, you're going to need to make Summoner match somehow too..."

His doubts: he has them.

"This sounds extremely complicated, Kanaya."

Oh yes sleeves! long sleeves! You'll see! You'll all soon see! Mwuahahahaha!

Ahem. I mean Kanaya has plans. It'll all work out. Trust me.

"I never said it would be easy. The challenge is a part of the purpose here. They won't be the same though. Matesprites will complement each other, while ancestors and descendants will reflect each other. There's a difference."

She better be ready to reinforce some seams, then, if she's intending to get Equius in sleeves!

"Oh, I see. That makes more sense." Equius' mathematical mind is spinning now, trying to work out the concepts on his own. "So, for example, the outfits for myself and Darkleer will be similiar, but will have their own elements due to our different matesprits?"

She's always ready to reinforce seams, but she's also pretty sure that's not going to help very much. Why attack a problem head on like that when she can come at it from a different angle?

"Yes! That should be the result I'm looking for. Otherwise, you would look like Darkleer, then Summoner, then Tavros, then Nepeta, then Disciple, then Signless, then Karkat, then Eridan, then Dualscar... With my plan, each pair of ancestor and descendant will have a specific and unique style, but they will each be modified to match their mate. Not matching by wearing something similar, but by something different that doesn't clash. Something that looks good when the couples are with each other."

Kanaya has put a lot of thought into this, and a decent amount of research regarding the relationships present here in the bubble. She even made graphs!

"That's really impressive. I don't really understand fashion all that well, but I look forward to seeing what you come up with."

Even if that involves sleeves.

Kanaya's shop, round 3.

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