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[eyestitch]

Nui Harime started a live video. 6/27 near Tisse

[Nui's room, where she happens to be sitting for this video recording, is very colorful. In fact, it looks like someone has spent some time meticulously recoloring everything in the space, from walls to furniture to decor. If you were looking for pink, it's back in style. Many shades of it. And they're all here, colored in with precision and artistry and fine craft.

Nui is leaning one elbow on her freshly-restored desk, chin in one hand. In the other, she twirls a sewing needle.]

So...fashion, huh? Everyone getting together to show off their talents just warms my little bleeding heart! But fashion isn't always so easy, you know! In fact, sometimes fashion is the cruelest monarch around! Sometimes, it's way more...cutthroat, yeah!

[She flicks the needle away, but somehow it ends up lodged in a strawberry-shaped pincushion anyway.] I~ have~ a~ challenge~ for you!

Given these four ingradients: [She holds up each as she announces it.] One! Two! Three! Ta-da!

You have to use them all! What article of clothing or fashion accessory do you make? You have 30 minutes! Iron seamstress! Let's go! The best idea or sketch gets a secret prize! Plus, if you come to the farmer's market, I'll give you a chance to make your project totally come to life, too!

Comments

[maidofmistakes]

Does it have to sound that brutal?

[eyestitch]

Definitely! Because it's reality! [She snaps her fingers.]

Why, are you scared?

[maidofmistakes]

It's clothes, not -- all that other deadly competition stuff you just said!

[eyestitch]

Clothes are a matter of life and death!

Think about it this way! Every time you step out your front door, it's like you're on a runway in front of millions of people waiting to be impressed by you!

Yeah! life is just like the runway!

[maidofmistakes]

Uh... you know that sounds the opposite of encouraging.

[eyestitch]

[She tilts her head to the side, single eye wide.]

How so? I'm basically saying that you're like a shining star every single day!

[maidofmistakes]

In my case, more like a comet about to wipe out the Earth. But... uh, you really like... clothes, huh?

[eyestitch]

It's a passion! I don't want to let anyone going through life not realizing the impact they could have! [She goes for the bright smile again.]

Jeez, I go out of my way to welcome you to your walk on the runway of life and all you do is talk yourself up! No wonder you're not satisfied with just being a star.

[maidofmistakes]

Wha -- huh? No, no, no way. That's not what I meant at all!

[eyestitch]

Yeah? So you DON'T think you're so important you don't just walk outside and get noticed, but that you actually are important enough to like, blow up the world or something?

Come on, spill the beans already! To me, it sounds like a big deal to you, too!

[maidofmistakes]

No, not at all! I just... you know, I'm bad at everything and I kinda tore the door off my gym locker?

[eyestitch]

Oh, is that all?

[There's a beat of silence here as Nui kind of does a double take, maybe even a genuine one.]

You did what now? Don't know your own strength, huh?Jeez, [she giggles,] who pissed you off so bad?

[maidofmistakes]

Nobody! I just have super strength and I mess up a lot! I swear that's it...

[optimistical]

Those items seem kind of... random.

[ what can you make with them asides from a horror curtain that looks like a child made it?? ]

[eyestitch]

Do they? I totally didn't notice, and that's totally not the point or anything!

Haven't you ever watched a cooking competition show? Sometimes in art you don't get to call the shots!

[optimistical]

I guess... I suppose you can kind of mess some sort of skirt with three of those items but I'm getting stuck on the rope... thing.

[ both he has no idea what to call it ]

Do you have to use all four items? That one is kind of out of place.

[eyestitch]

The "rope thing?" [Nui looks confused for a moment, surveying the materials she's placed out over her desk.]

You mean...the ribbon?

The ribbon is essential! You have to use all four! Otherwise there's no challenge!

[optimistical]

Huh? It's a ribbon?

[ he tries to squint at the video, hoping to see it again. ]

Hmm, if that's what it is, you can use it either as a waistband for a dress or skirt? Feathers on the fabric and the buttons to button up the dress or skirt but... I don't know if that'd look any good or it'd even be comfortable.

[eyestitch]

[DUH IT'S A RIBBON! She can feel the frustration rising a little bit, and her patched eye twitches a little bit as he goes through outlining his vague suggestions. Her voice has a hard edge if only for a second.]

Fashion isn't supposed to be comfortable!

[Back to sweetness:] Oh, I know what I could do with it, sweetie, but this challenge is about coming up with your own!

[optimistical]

[ sorry nui, naegi's not very decisive with this stuff. also he's sort of dense so here we go ]

Wait, if you already know what to do with it, why are you asking the network?

[eyestitch]

[Nui murmurs softly into her fist.] Oh my god...

Because I'm not going to make anything with it, silly! It's more like, um, a puzzle? Where people can try to be creative and stuff without putting anything on the line!

The world out there is really dangerous, you know!

[doesntdiscriminate]

Well, I do have a friend who’s a designer and I’ve hung around his shop enough, which clearly means I should have some idea of what to do here.

[You see this face? This is his bullshitting face. He has little to no clue about fashion but he’s not going to let that stop him from giving it the old college try.]

So my suggestion is one of those flapper style dresses, using the ribbon to make sort of a stripe pattern on the skirt and feathers instead of fringe. And the buttons as decorations on the shoulder straps.

Where did you find those buttons, by the way, because they’ awesome and I want some!

[eyestitch]

[Oh, someone's playing along right off the bat! The answer could be anything, the person on the other end could be super stupid... it's the earnest attention that brightens her right up.]

These? [Nui shakes the jar a little bit.] I'm pretty sure they're some from 2015 summer release... [And therefore very out of season, so he probably shouldn't like them so much...] If you really like them I'm sure I could be convinced to part with a few!

You're pretty clever! But do you think that shoulder buttons really match the flapper aesthetic?

[doesntdiscriminate]

[He beams at her.]

I do like them! [Look, the only fashion he's somewhat into is steampunk and victorian stuff. Out of fashion isn't really a concept he's come to grasp quite yet.] So what you're saying is I should try and make you an offer you can't refuse?

[He preens a little bit at her calling him clever, beaming even more brightly, but turns more thoughtful as he consider her question with a considerable amount of concentration.]

Um, not if shoulder buttons mean what google tells me? I was thinking more along the shoulder strap rather than across it. Which I think could work? Or at least I've seen flapper dresses with some kind of decoration along there and the style in general seems like it can get a bit out there from time to time. So why not?

video, intervention needed

[theveilisin]

Sabo. Sabo.

[Lavrenty is so tired?]

Do you actually intend to cause me pain, or is that an added extra?

Rude!

[doesntdiscriminate]

[It's a little bit of both.

Sabo puts on an affected look of hurt with a somewhat genuine pout.]

Why?

What's so wrong with it?