EVENT LOG: ON TODAY'S EPISODE...

[lucetimods]

Who: Everyone and everyone's evil twin.
What: Drama! Romance! Gripping soliloquies! Otherwise known as our SOAP OPERA EVENT.
When: April 26th - April 30th
Where: All 'round town and coming to a TV guide near you.
Summary: For more information, see this post.
Rating: Keep it PGish! Take anything too raunchy to your appointments posts, darlings.

Log for any and all events around town during the event. But also feel free to do your own posts as well! And yes, this will be the only mass log for the whole weekend.

HAVE FUN.

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[rather_be_surfing]

[But my beautiful and gracious Lady, how could a mere mortal like himself think to be so cruel and arrogant as to wish to stop the rain from falling down?

He smiles again (or maybe smiles more, I'm losing track, here).]

It's my pleasure. Although...[He looks up into the rain droplets] Maybe we ought to find you an umbrella instead. Might work out a little better.

[windandrain]

"I...it might, yes. But I don't h-have one."

The incredibly shy rain god can't quite bring herself to look up past his feet to notice the smile, but she nods gratefully. The thought is appreciated, but she might need a bit more encouragement than just that. After all, she's a lowly ant with no real value to beautiful, kind people like those who inhabit this village.

"W-where can I find one? I promise I'll clean and return your shirt...when I do."

[rather_be_surfing]

Derek is completely oblivious to the whole shy thing, other than to think that Saori must have just broke the cute scale. Nothing could be this cute, right?

"C'mon, I'll help you find one. They usually have a couple in the shops."

[windandrain]

"A-alright," she stammers, taking a tentative step to follow him. Oblivious or not, she's still shy!

"T-thank you."

[rather_be_surfing]

He'll take a few steps forward himself, catching one hand to lead her by.

"It'll be fun. C'mon," and off he goes, gently leading her along.

Yep, pretty girl in hand, life is good.

Even if his shoulder is getting just a touch wet.

[windandrain]

He's touching her? This pitiful wretch isn't worth that much, but she smiles shyly and lets herself be led along behind behind him. She certainly can't let herself walk alongside him or in front. She doesn't deserve that.

"O-okay."

It's all she can manage to say, really.

[rather_be_surfing]

It's a little strange to have her dragging along behind, but, okay. His whole concentration is on getting to the shops anyway. So that he can help her find that umbrella!

And what do you know; there's a stand of them right inside the shop door.

With a flourish and a grin and using his free hand he grabs one of them, manages to open it one handed, and then presents it to her.

"My Lady, your umbrella."

[windandrain]

She blinks and bows deeply when he hands her the umbrella, offering him back his shirt and bowing twice more. Each time it's a little lower, and faster.

"T-thank you! Y-you are very, very kind to someone of no value. T-thank you!"

[rather_be_surfing]

He'll sling the sodden shirt around his shoulders for the moment; he'll have to at least wring it out before he can wear it again. He'll...look perplexed though at her gushing.

"...Who told you that? That you have no value?"

[windandrain]

"E-everyone? Why s-should anyone feel otherwise?"

[rather_be_surfing]

"They actually said 'you have no value' to you?" Derek shakes his head, "It can't be everyone; I never said that. Or feel that."

[windandrain]

"T-they don't have to. I...I just know." Saori's eyes waver, though, flickering up to Derek. "Y-you don't?"

[rather_be_surfing]

"No. Maybe you're a little shy, but that's all right. I don't see where that would make you worthless or anything like it."

[windandrain]

"B-but I am. I don't do...anything useful, and I'm just p-plain. Everyone here is...so pretty and kind..." She trails off, unsure of how to go on. Because he's still handsome. And she's still no better than a slug.

[rather_be_surfing]

"I think you're pretty," as if that was the only thing that mattered, right? "And you're sweet. I kinda like being around you, in fact."

[windandrain]

"Ehhhhhhhhh?!" Saori exclaimed. "Y-y-you think that?!?!" A handsome man like Derek? Thought she was pretty? A worm like her?! That didn't compute at all. "W-w-why would you say that?!"

[rather_be_surfing]

"Because you are? Seriously, you are pretty, Saori. Anyone who can't see that is blind."

[windandrain]

"That…how? I am just a worm. A plain, ordinary person with n-nothing pretty about me. A plain nose, ordinary lips a nearly f-flat chest, and plain brown eyes. How am I pretty?" She plainly is stunned by the idea. Maybe she will need convincing…

[rather_be_surfing]

If this were Disney, this would be about the time Derek would break into a heartfelt song about how beautiful she really was and how the sun rose everyday just to light her path, and how so many young men pined for her grace and beauty to simply be in the same room with her, and oh why can't she see what she really is?

Alas, this is not Disney, and for some reason, they neglected to type cast him into the moody musical loner biker dude with a heart of gold. So.

"Yeah, but your brown eyes are deep, like the shadows of the forest,"

...maybe we can make this work anyway. Herm.

[windandrain]

"Ehhhh?" She quirks her head to one side, a little befuddled. That's...new, and compliments don't add up. "Is-isn't brown boring and plain?"

[rather_be_surfing]

Derek shakes his head.

"Do you think horses are boring? Deer? Cougars? Bears? They're all brown. Trees have brown bark. A lot of seashells have brown in them. Some dolphins do, too. Birds, including a lot of the raptors. Tiger's Eye. Amber stones. Mountains."

See? Not boring.

[windandrain]

"I...alright. I have eyes that aren't boring."

She can buy that. But the rest of her? She gestures at herself, fingers touching her nose, lips, chest, cheeks.

"But the rest of me, I...I"

She turns away, clearly distraught and about to dramatically run away in the rain.

[rather_be_surfing]

"Hey."

He'll reach out to touch her shoulder, try and get her to turn around again.

"Your hair shines in the sunlight--take a look, there's little rainbows in the reflections," he'd always thought that was cool about black hair, the way it reflected light.

"You look like a real person--like someone who smiles a lot and enjoys life. You don't have to look like a model to be beautiful, you know. And besides, do you know what they have to do to themselves to look that way? Take everything off and a lot of them actually look a lot worse than you. I'd rather see someone who looks pretty all by themselves."

[windandrain]

She turns, confusion but...genuine appreciation evident on her face. Someone thought she was pretty? Just by looking like a normal person? Well...that much she could understand.

"I...um...thank you." She blushes profusely, taking a hesitant step closer. Oh, she didn't deserve this, a worm like her. But if he was going to be nice...oh she couldn't help but smile.

[rather_be_surfing]

Derek will smile back.

"See? And that smile makes you even prettier. Wish I got to see it more."

What are you even talking about, son?