Musebox-y 1

[northernlioness]

[She's sitting on a bench somewhere in a little park next to the waterfront, and is knitting. It's not really apparent what she is knitting so far, but it is clear that she's doing it with a lot of expertise and skill

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[welljustwatchme]

[Oh, hey, it's a Nation with a knitting project. She can totally support those. Sweden looks a bit thoughtful, though, so Canada doesn't intrude in her space immediately, rather pausing on the path a ways away and giving a wave as she calls out a cheery,] Hello!

[welljustwatchme]

All depends on the project, really. If it's going to be a gift, sometimes I like to use the colours of whomever's flag. How about you? [The 'about' comes out very clearly as 'aboot', a little joy of Canada babbling and paying no attention to what she's saying.]

[northernlioness]

I try t' avoid some.

[Though it has changed. He used to avoid red as much as possible, now it is light blue.]

[welljustwatchme]

Really? Wh-- I mean, I'm sure you've got great reasons. Some colours just have such horrible memories associated with them.

[northernlioness]

[She nods stiffly and then pulls a second set of needles and yarn out of the little bag that is sitting next to her, offering it to the other woman.]

[welljustwatchme]

Oh! Don't mind if I do. [Beaming, she takes the needles and yarn and sits next to Sweden, close enough she's not falling off the end of the bench but far enough away they'll both have elbow room.] It's really nice to catch up with you sometimes, yunno.

[northernlioness]

...You gr'w a lot.

[At least she gets the feeling that the last time that she saw the other, the young woman was a lot younger. America and Cuba... She gets the feeling that she really, really should remember her. But where from? Some British or Spanish colony, or former colony?]

[welljustwatchme]

[C'mon, Sweden, think viking days. Not that you ever paid her any attention, but Denmark and Norway both did, at some time or another. Surely you've got some memories of Vinland, even if Canada herself doesn't...]

Mmnn, that's what Denmark says every time she sees me, too. I think she forgets it's been a few hundred years since any of you really concerned yourselves with me.

[northernlioness]

Denmark likes thinking about th' past.

[[ooc: I tend to give Denmark and Norway full credit of having been over to the Americas, since Sweden went East instead of West from a very early time, and when him/her and Finland were looking for a holiday home, they only found America - so she would have met Canada first when she was either French or British, at some random conference or something. But if your headcanon says something else, and it makes any sense to me, then I'll gladly change that <3]]

[welljustwatchme]

Which can be good or bad, depending on why you're thinking about it.

((ooc: No, that can totally work with mine. I've never had any sort of concrete headcanon on the matter, especially since headcanon also says Canada doesn't remember much of anything before France found her. She knows either her or someone else like her intereacted with the Vikings nearly five hundred years before that, so she just sort of handwaves that there were some of the Nordics involved, but she doesn't know what happened. As for Sweden and Canada's actual first meeting, I'm good with anything!))

[northernlioness]

't were good and bad times.

[She won't say much more about it; but Denmark and talking about times long gone is always... a bit difficult.]

[[ooc: Since Sweden's memories of everything that happened before ~1000AD are a bit holey/fuzzy in a lot of places, we can just say that maybe they met, maybe they did not, but neither of them would really remember it?]]

[welljustwatchme]

That's the case with everything, really. [She looks at the yarn thoughtfully a moment, then starts to cast on, not sure yet what she's going to knit, but figuring that's a good start.]

((ooc: That works perfectly fine for me! ♥))

[northernlioness]

[She continues her own work while watching Canada's fingers, thinking about what was said.] What 's it between you and America?

[welljustwatchme]

She's an idiot who needs to take a good lesson or five in learning to keep the peace rather than starting up a fight everywhere she turns. [There's a brief silence, but before Sweden can say anything, Canada adds,] But she's my sister and I'll always love her, anyway.

[northernlioness]

[She looks down at her knitwork for a moment, it felt like she lost one - ah, there it is - and rests the woolen work in her lap for a bit, she'll get to fixing it later, when it would not be rude to look somewhere else for a longer time.]

She sounds a lot l'ke Denmark.

[Even though Sweden would make a couple of doubletakes at the "always love her", if it was a direct comparision.]

[welljustwatchme]

[Canada nods, looking over at Sweden. It's true, there are similarities, but one's calmed down a bit, sort of, while the other still seems to be learning the extent of the awesome chaos she can create.]

I think every family's got one.