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vernal_miss ([personal profile] vernal_miss) wrote in [community profile] saveourearth2019-03-17 10:41 am

It Might As Well Be Spring [Open Video]

Date: March 20th, 2019; after school
Characters: Network Number {235 13 892 33} ; Action open to family

[As the video begins, the sleeve of a lightweight knit sweater covers the view as the broadcast as Nel makes an adjustment to the angle of the phone. Gentle, she releases the device and withdraws her hands slowly before taking a few steps back to bring herself into the frame. The view is somewhat elevated and shows Nel standing in the family backyard. The grass looks a little more vibrant than those belonging to neighbors or elsewhere in Mossgate thanks to her time playing around outside this afternoon trying to burn off the excess energy that makes itself known as she addresses the Network.

As she talks, her words are hurried and there's a light bouncing on her heels as she attempts to stand in one place with modest success.
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Hallo everyone! I thought it'd be nice if I shared the gift Father Christmas gave me! I decided today is a nice day to wake the seeds up and so I have these here-

[She gestures to the few pots she has set up with dirt in them beside her, and in front of them rests an opened gift box.]

-to put them in. Then I started holding them trying to pick which one I want to grow and oh they look brilliant in my head and I knew I had to show them to everyone cause they're absolutely beyond anything else anywhere!

[A gleeful giggle breaks from her in anticipation, and she claps her hands together with excitement. Rather than take a simple step over, she springs in a hop to land in a crouch and reaches into the box to retrieve one seed out of the packets within. Leaping right back up to her feet she hurries over to the camera to hold the seed up close for a slightly blurry view of what looks more like a chunk of ice topped by a bit of lint than a plant seed.]

See? It's already so nice, but watch this!

[Scurrying back to one of the pots, Nel minds the camera enough to go to the opposite side and crouch there. She digs a hole down into the dirt with her finger, and drops the little seed down inside. A sweep of her hand covers the dirt, and then she lays her hand over that same spot in the pot as she closes her eyes to focus. Coming quite fast, the vibrant green coloration overtakes her hair nearly to her shoulders as she calls her magic to hasten the growth of the plant. What follows is the sight of her raising her hand upwards with the tip of the plant pushing up against it within the little sparkles falling from her hand. The stem of the plant twirls as it rises upwards, and as it gets taller, small buds shaped like diamonds form at the sides near the top, as sharp and crystalline as ice. Her second hand comes underneath the lowest bud, and the largest buds at the top open at the tip to spread out flat into thin sheets that rather resemble snowflakes without separate petals. By the time the last of the top three buds open, the plant itself is nearing a meter in height with Nel now standing. Her hands lower away as she stares wide eyed at the sight of what she had only pictured in her head previously, and with a squeal, she jumps away from the pot to start running about.]

IT'S SO PRETTY!!!!

[She goes out of frame, then a few seconds later, crosses in a cartwheel with her long red hair trailing behind.]
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[personal profile] lovedramamoron 2019-03-30 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think we ever got around to meeting each other then. I'm Jimmy Dupin. What's your name?

Do you think its connected?

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[personal profile] iamnotgod 2019-04-01 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
... If you can make them fit safely in the pots, and not fight for resources, then that might be a useful compromise.

[Would Nel be willing to risk it, though? Walter himself doesn't sound altogether certain of his suggestion, anyway.]

Or, would it make sense for you to have a plant that grows along the walls outside? As long as it doesn't attract too much attention.

[Meaning she'd probably have to ask her Mums, first.]
fairfeste: (Feste [Smile for the camera])

[personal profile] fairfeste 2019-04-01 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Just a memory. I think I've seen flowers kind of like this before.

[Don't worry Nel, they're fine, everything is fine.]
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[personal profile] scarsolderthanyou 2019-04-02 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
They're pretty.

[He doesn't sound nearly as enthused as she does, which isn't hard to manage, but still. He pats her hand, then admits,]

Little bit concerned about what they might do. They ain't from around here.
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[personal profile] scarsolderthanyou 2019-04-05 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
And that's not always a good thing, either. But if these aren't even from our planet, they might act differently than normal plants. Remember that vision I had, a few weeks ago? With the seed that grew suddenly into a tree?

[He shrugs.]

I don't know if it'll do anything bad. But I'd like to keep an eye on it, just the same.
fairfeste: (Feste [Smile for the camera])

[personal profile] fairfeste 2019-04-05 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
They looked like... pretty much anything you could ever think of. [And more. So much more, they don't know how to explain the color and variety to her.] Every color and shape, and some of them would move on their own.
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[personal profile] iamnotgod 2019-04-06 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
We can focus on the small flowers, then.

[Keeping from attracting unwanted attention is key, for now.]

fairfeste: (Feste [Smile for the camera])

[personal profile] fairfeste 2019-04-06 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, more than that. Some of them could walk around on their roots and stuff.

[To capture people and keep them from leaving, but it genuinely doesn't occur to them that that might make it less... whimsical.]

I think I could draw a few of them, yeah.
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[personal profile] scarsolderthanyou 2019-04-09 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)

[Sam opens his mouth, but she's off already. When she comes back, he's just accepted it.]

I'm glad it's not going to grow into a tree. I was just using that as an example of magic plants that don't belong on Earth, that do weird things. What's it trying to bring?

[Because that's mildly alarming, to be honest.]

iamnotgod: A man, smiling and holding a book. (When He Smiles.)

https://www.countrylife.co.uk/gardens/a-simple-guide-to-the-wildflowers-of-britain-71271

[personal profile] iamnotgod 2019-04-11 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Certainly not the poisonous ones! No matter how pleasant they are to look at.

[Take it from one who Knows.]

But... I'd say no, really.

[His expression then turns more thoughtful.]

Forget-me-nots are a classic, though.
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[personal profile] lovedramamoron 2019-04-12 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Nel, it is. You know, I don't think I've ever heard of anyone named Ornella before.

[He frowns a little at that explanation.]

As long as nothing's wrong, I guess. You like plants?

fairfeste: (Feste [Smile for the camera])

[personal profile] fairfeste 2019-04-14 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[It is so much creepier than she's imagining... but Feste doesn't know that so they nod.]

Yeah.
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[personal profile] fairfeste 2019-04-15 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[Maybe this will be another thing to get some of that energy out...

But Feste smiles as she hands them their sketchbook, flipping it open to a clean page and beginning to sketch. The petals look obscenely large, compared to the rest of the flower, and something about the way Feste draws them make some of them look oddly sharp. It's posed to walk on its roots, from the look of it, though it's not in any way cartoonishly define to four clear ones to function like legs, instead the mass of roots creeping out in all directions from the base of the flower and making it more like a centipede.

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