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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!

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Those items seem kind of... random.

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

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!

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.

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!

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.

[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!

[ 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?

[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!