[OPEN] Ilda’s April Catch-All

[ilda]

Characters: Ilda, you, your bibiru, anyone!
Date: April 16th to 30th
Location: all over Aifaran
Situation: selfies, putting up advertisements for/with Yato, affinity things
Warnings/Rating: none, but will update when something comes up


A - IT’S SELFIE TIME! (open)

[ Perhaps her friends would regret encouraging her. Or even simply giving her the idea in the first place. But Ilda, barely a month in Aifaran, has decided that she has a life goal: to be queen of Xa Xa! As she’s told Bakura before, if she’s gonna be laughed at anyway, why not make money out of it and have fun at the same time?

So she’s been exploring the city, during various times of the day (and night) and in varying weather conditions, looking for interesting and unusual things and places and even people to take selfies with. Rooftops! Under bridges! Under tables! Beside a stranger’s feet for his mismatched pair of socks!

She’s not even asking permission. She just comes zooming in, a quick clickity click, then poof! Off she goes, laughing at her own selfies!

They’re not even pretty. Some of them are blurry. Most of them either have too much of her face, or too little of it. Like just her forehead. ]


B - DOUBLE TROUBLE (Meta 1, open)

[ Wait, is that Ilda again? What does she want now? Another selfie? And why can’t she use her own yimo for that?

But now that you think about it, the first Ilda actually seemed kind of... off. By Ilda standards. This one looks more like her usual self - bubbly, chatty, with no care in the world.

A wild Ilda approaches! ]


C - EXPLORADVERTISING (closed to Yato)

[ Ilda remembers what she and Yato are supposed to be doing today, but she can’t quite recall if he’d said that he would bring the posters. So she’s taken the initiative to procure some customized ones! They’re basically large printouts of a really adorable cat poster she found on Xa Xa, and she’s handwritten Yato’s name and a message on each of them.

She sticks up one on a random wall, then leans back to look at her work, quite pleased with herself. Fitting, eh? BELIEVE! IN YATO! MAKE A WISH NOW! ]


D - WILDCARD (open)
[ Hit me up at notanybunny for a specific starter! :D ]

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[ilda]

Ilda's not sure why Sheena's asking, but she nods and answers, "Yes, it did. I was happy to see you! It's so cool, getting to talk to someone through the yimo and then actually meeting in person! And I thought, we don't have a picture together, it would be nice if we had one! Though I should've asked first." She laughs at her belated realization. "My twin always says I don't think things through. He's a doofus, but he's right."

[ninjainviolet]

Sheena laughs. "Sometimes that's not always a bad thing, though," she says with more than a note of experience. "But," she continues, "if that picture makes you happy, then I don't have the right to ask you to not delete it." Ilda had meant no harm; she had just been excited, and Sheena's not about to destroy that.

"Though, would you mind if we take another one where I don't look so shocked?" She'd like a copy of that one.

[ilda]

“Maybe not, but my brother’s always the one who has to bail me out of trouble, so I suppose he’s entitled to say that,” Ilda says with a chuckle.

She takes a moment to look at their picture, her expression turning a bit thoughtful. “You know, I never thought of it that way. Taking pictures to capture feelings and stuff. It’s a nice idea.” Then she laughs. “But you’re right, you look like I really spooked you here! And it’s a little blurry... if Conan sees this, I’m gonna get lectured about focus again.” But she says all of that good-naturedly.

She puts the yimo on camera mode again. “Let me know when you’re ready?”

That wasn't supposed to be "not to delete it"...

[ninjainviolet]

Sheena's eyes widen. "Always? Just how much trouble do you get into, Ilda?" she asks good-naturedly. She can't imagine this young woman doing anything too dire, and only with the best of intentions.

The ninja looks at her knowingly. "It's a lot different than just a painting, isn't it? While some people can be smiling in their portrait, this," and she taps the yimo, "can catch the person's emotions so much better." Like a spooked ninja, for instance. She laughs with her at the mention of Conan.

"I know Conan, and we can't have him lecturing you, now can we?" Standing next to Ilda, she helps her steady the yimo. "Okay, ready!"

[ilda]

Ilda laughs. “A lot, but nothing I’ve had to go to prison for.” So far, anyway. Her excitable nature would probably get her in trouble in Aifaran one of these days, but she’s hardly worried.

She nods at Sheena’s comparison of the yimo’s pictures to paintings. “There’s definitely more emotion in these pictures than portraits! Must be the eyes? The details are also so... well, detailed. And layers and layers of colors!”

She brings her face a little closer to the ninja’s, remembering similar shots she’d seen over at Xa Xa of happy, giggly girl friends. Yay! New friends! “If he doesn’t like this picture, he’s just an unappreciative grump. Smile!”

[ninjainviolet]

Sheena gives her an amused look. "That's not something you're trying to do, is it? Because trust me, it's not fun."

Not that she would know, of course.

"Hmmm. I think you might be right. The camera can capture more than what an artist can. I mean, some artists are good and can duplicate an emotion, but this?" She nods. "It's definitely the detail."

Since she knows what Ilda's doing, the ninja doesn't shy away from the other woman as she moves closer. Plus, she's genuinely liking the girl, and it shows in her eyes and her smile as she laughs in response to the comment about Conan.

Hopefully just in time for Ilda to take the picture.

[ilda]

"Of course not! Do you have any idea how boring it is in prison?" Not that she would know, either, but she's always thought that you punished those having too much fun by taking it away, and so, following that logic, prisons would be a terrible bore.

One has to wonder about Ilda's priorities sometimes.

She taps the camera button a couple of times, making a different face before every click. She starts with a normal smile in the first few shots, then her expressions just get sillier and sillier. She even throws in the surprised deer-in-the-headlights look Sheena's had on earlier, because why not?

She then holds the yimo out to her friend so she might do the honor of checking out the shots, although she stays close enough to peer into the screen with her.

I know I started a reply to this a while ago...

[ninjainviolet]

"Ummm...well...Not prison, exactly." Yep. There sure is a lot of non-information in that statement isn't there?

Nothing wrong with prioritizing not wanting to go to prison. The reason why, on the other hand...

Even though she's trying not to laugh, Sheena's expression barely changes as Ilda's goes through her poses--well, except for a few raised eyebrows and looks to the side at the younger woman gets sillier and sillier. Still, it's easy to see the humor glinting in the ninja's eyes each time.

Taking the yimo, the ninja does scroll through them, her brows coming together as she scans them more than once. Backwards, forwards, as though trying to decide. "These are all really good, but I like this one," and she stops at one taken just when Ilda begins to get silly, Sheena's smile genuine and her eyes glittering with laughter.