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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.
]

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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[Video]

[personal profile] iamnotgod 2019-03-17 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Since the Network can't be accessed online, it takes a little wrangling with his notepad before Walter can really see Nel's video.

And what he can see then, well... His eyebrows are still on his head, but it feels like they shouldn't be.

This is certainly more than what Nel showed at the meeting in Tarwich - and Nel herself is also more lively here than she was then.]

It is, but now I suppose one of the questions is, how did he get them?

And, ah, how are you feeling, Nel?

[Briefly setting out a link-line to check the date, and - the Spring Equinox? Well then.]
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Re: [Video]

[personal profile] iamnotgod 2019-03-17 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
... I can believe that.

[Aaaand that's about what he was expecting. The Spring Equinox means more energy in the same way the Winter Solstice meant less.

He wonders what that means for summer...]

Does making flowers help regulate that energy?
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Re: [Video]

[personal profile] iamnotgod 2019-03-18 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
[... Oh no. Walter's getting reminders of having to 'babysit' for some of his uni classmates who got high on a study break.

Not the worst thing that ever happened during a babysitting shtick, but still.]

It means to vent - in this case, putting energy out of the system so things can return to normal levels.

Or just lower ones.

[Because 'normal', as always, is relative.]
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Re: [Video]

[personal profile] iamnotgod 2019-03-18 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[Walter musters up a smile, trying to be reassuring.]

You might not feel the same way after, say, five pots.

[Though, on that thought.]

But, how many have you done so far? And was it growing them or just modifying those that already have bloomed?
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[personal profile] iamnotgod 2019-03-18 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh, Nel. How are you so adorable and yet making him feel so much concern?]

You can't make a plant bloom before it normally would, correct?

[No wonder Nel's been so hyper, if she's been stuck storing all that energy.]
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[personal profile] iamnotgod 2019-03-18 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Aww. Honoring the preferences of plants seems like a smart move. Gaia might appreciate that- no. None of that thinking.]

That's fair.

Are those flowers actually cold to touch?

[He kind of wants to find out for himself. They can't be ice, can they? Though, considering Nel's already described them as magic...]
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[personal profile] iamnotgod 2019-03-20 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
[Blink blink.]

Odd, that.

[Walter's expression matches what he's saying.]

Should it reflect more what it looks like, or of that comparison with the cold drink?
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[personal profile] fairfeste 2019-03-20 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nel has... a lot of energy at the best of times, and this is a bit much. They are at least self-aware enough to notice they've been a little more temperamental recently (though not enough to attribute it to anything other than getting 'old and cranky'), so they've been trying to avoid this but they also still care about Nel and want to know what the hell is going on.

So they're sitting on the grass, watching her cartwheel around and something about that is even making them kind of tired. They're glad she's happy, but--]
Nel, did you wind up sleeping at all last night?
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[personal profile] iamnotgod 2019-03-21 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
[At least they've found a stopgap measure for redirecting Nel's energy?

A very short stopgap measure.]

Ice bells, perhaps?

[These flowers are really rather pretty.]
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[personal profile] fairfeste 2019-03-21 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yeah that's what they thought but it doesn't make this make more sense. How does she have so much energy???]

Only a little? Why aren't you tired?
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[personal profile] iamnotgod 2019-03-23 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Yours is more alliterative.

[And 'blue bells' are already a thing, more-or-less.]
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[personal profile] fairfeste 2019-03-23 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think that's how that works...

[But then again, who knows? It's not like most of this makes any kind of sense, why would this? At least she seems mostly ok???]
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[personal profile] iamnotgod 2019-03-23 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Or- they're more reflective like crystals, aren't they?

[Snowflakes, at least, aren't reflective.]

Though, crystal bells doesn't sound very original.

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