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[checkbelowdecks]

[anybody wandering into the kitchen will find Isabela hunched over her journal, hard at work.

She's doing various things of import, like carefully gluing in a picture (warning, two guys kissing) from this event. Sneakiness is her trade, after all. And who knew that learning how to operate a camera would pay off so wonderfully

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[punk_emperor]

[The first sound would be what amounts to a verbal keysmash. Then silence. Then he finally says something.]

Oh god. What the hell? That-- What--

[A couple beats of silence.] How the hell did you get a photo into the journals anyway?

[checkbelowdecks]

[whoa. Didn't think a verbal keysmash is possible.

Totally grinning.]

I use paste.

[punk_emperor]

So if you... glue something in it'll show?

[Oh he is so trying this, and gluing in a picture he had of him and his friends. This is an awesome new discovery if it works!]

[checkbelowdecks]

I see it. Are you in that pain - picture?

[punk_emperor]

Yeah, I'm the tallest one. That's me in the back, with the earrings.

[And one of the boys is indeed noticeably taller than the others. The next tallest is shorter by a couple inches. What the picture doesn't make clear is that he's the youngest of them all.]

[checkbelowdecks]

[awww]

You're rather cute.

[punk_emperor]

[It's hard being over 6 foot before you turn sixteen. And Kanji is glad that she can't see how much that made him blush. He still chokes a bit.]

Th--thanks. I think that's the first time anybody's ever called me cute.

[checkbelowdecks]

What are you used to? Tall, dark, and handsome?

[totally teasing]

[punk_emperor]

[He sputters a bit at first, before he can manage an answer.]

Wh-What? Me? Hell no. Scary, usually. Or intimidating as hell.

...Or worse things. Not the worse things so much anymore, but the first two still happen a lot.

[checkbelowdecks]

[awww :3c]

I suppose punching them would be the wrong answer in that sort of situation.

[punk_emperor]

Yeah... I'm pretty sure that's what got the "scary" shit started in the first place.

[checkbelowdecks]

Perhaps you should start playing with kittens in public.

[this is her being helpful]

[punk_emperor]

And that--well, not exactly that--was what started the comments that started me punching shit.

[But he chuckles a minute later.] But if makin' dolls counts, it might even be starting to work now that I ain't so quick to get defensive and hit things.

[checkbelowdecks]

Older and wiser, hm?

[hmm] You're a toymaker, then?

[punk_emperor]

Something like that, yeah.

And I make a lot of things. Dolls are my favorites but I do clothes and crafts and shit too.

[checkbelowdecks]

I don't see why they'd make fun of you. Having an actual skill means that you can do more than just manual labor.