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[idealest]

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Seeking assistance to color flowers for Memorial Day. Paint will be supplied. Any help is welcome.

Please reply if interested.

-- Sakichi Niijima

Comments

[roseblooms]

As a poor graduate student myself, I wholeheartedly support you in your financial frugality.

I'll provide you with as many plants as you require, and you can owe me a favor.

[idealest]

I understand. Caring for a horse has been pricier than anticipated.

[ Paying for a horse, paying for college tuition -- not so different, surely. ]

A favor? Very well. Though I'm not sure how much I have to offer someone of your talents.

[roseblooms]

Nothing says it will prove to be a particularly significant favor, of course. Making flowers isn't a particularly significant trick for me, after all.

[idealest]

It's remarkable how desensitized you've become to such a miraculous thing.
If you wished, you might never have to pay for food again. You could live off fruits and vegetables of your own making at little to no cost.

[roseblooms]

...Do you know, that's actually the first time I've had an agrarian lifestyle suggested to me?

[idealest]

Odd.

[ But Sakichi is more vegetarian than carnivore, so it makes sense enough. ]

Is that something that interests you?

[roseblooms]

Not starving to death interests me, unsurprisingly.

I'm not sure how well I would take to a diet of nothing but fruits and vegetables, though. I suspect my biology would have some sort of issue with that.

[idealest]

Your biology?

[roseblooms]

Foxes are primarily carnivores.

[idealest]

So you look like a human, function like a fox, and have plant magic like some sort of forest elf.

[roseblooms]

Something like that. Are you familiar with kitsune?

[idealest]

In passing, yes.
I've never heard of them being able to control plants, though.

[roseblooms]

That was evidently my prior self's area of magical expertise. I'm not entirely sure how it is he developed it — but given that he started his life out aas a fox, I can see where it would have had its practical uses.

[idealest]

I see.
How have you felt about inheriting the physiology of a mythical creature?

[roseblooms]

How do I feel about turning seven feet tall and developing ears and a tail, you mean?

It's rather difficult to have appropriate existential angst about it when my friends won't stop referring to it as "my fursona", really.

[idealest]

[ ... Clever, thinks Sakichi, having never heard of that term in his life. ]

That's for the better.
You must feel heartened to have such open-minded friends.