Open Log!

[bufubulous]

Who; Yusuke & You
What; Open Log
Where; The park
When; Late February
Warnings; None but shall update as usual if necessary.



The February chill was persisting as one tended to expect, and most may find the warmth and comfort of a hot beverage curled up inside under some cozy blankets more appealing than venturing out into the cold and snow… But not all.

Maybe it was the resistance to ice linked to Goemon, but Yusuke had found himself rather comfortable as he strolled through the park on his morning off. The high collar of his winter coat and gloves was enough to combat the cool breeze, and scattered flurries tossed up in the air now. He had nowhere to be, and while he may be tempted to practice forms and train a little later with his katana to keep sharp for whatever chaos this place threw at them next? For now, he was content to enjoy the atmosphere and admire the scenery of the park covered in snow that glistened in the morning sun.

Sometimes, he mused to himself, the most beautiful works of art were those brought about by mother nature herself… Framing a particular scene of a snowy hilltop with trees dusted in white and birds flitting about the branches he smiled to himself as he committed that scene to memory before continuing on.

At one point or another, the phantom thief found himself inspired to try his hand at working with snow after having seen a few snowmen around the city at one point or another. Snow sculptures seemed an interesting challenge, and he does so love a challenge when it comes to creating. So rather than work on his usual traditional art, he could be seen piling and packing snow as he tried his hand at a little snow sculpting. The subject of his piece being a shadow from memory, one of the more jolly ice based ones.

Stop and say hi! Or if he notices your character, he might stop you and ask for genuine opinions. Good luck.

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[legacy_blade]

Okay, now this was something worth seeing. Here was Zack, minding his own business (clad in nowhere near enough clothes in the eyes of most but hey what can you do), when he sees little snow figures. But they're so damn cute. Of course Zack is going to take the moment to stop and look at them. Never seen any like that.

"What are they?"

[bufubulous]

Ah! Hello, fellow not bothered by the cold citizen! Yusuke looks up with a distracted smile as he carefully shaped the snow on another one. Because why not make a little scene? There was plenty of space and it wouldn’t be in the way once the sun warmed and they melted. “Good afternoon!” He offered with a polite smile and a nod in greeting when he does turn his attention to Zack.

The question is a welcome one, because he feels particularly pleased with them and has enjoyed making them greatly. So he gestured with a light flourish at his masterpieces. “They’re creatures that hail from a part of my own world. We call them shadows, and this kind in particular is a winter faerie named Jack Frost. Which seemed fitting for a snow-sculpture.”

[legacy_blade]

Jack Frost, huh? Weird name. He tilts his head to consider it.

"I thought faeries had wings. This one doesn't. Or is it too hard to make with snow?"

It's probably that it's too hard to make. Wow, he asked a stupid question.

[bufubulous]

Yusuke smiled lightly as he went back to forming snow, carefully working to make another head take shape. “Some faeries do indeed have wings, but not all. So no, these jolly little fellows do not have or have need of wings.” What might that look like, though? There were shadows that seemed to be slight variations on others, of course, so could he be sure there was no similar shadow to Jack that had wings? Hm...

The second half of the question, though, gets a contemplative tilt of his head and considers the work he’s already done. Snow would be an interesting challenge. Again, a creative challenge is never a bad thing. “I don’t know that it would be too difficult, as long as they weren’t too delicate of design. Though working with ice may be easier to carve and shape wings than snow, admittedly.” He finally decided with a nod, making a mental note to add this to his list of things to try at some point for the sake of putting curiosity to rest.

[legacy_blade]

"Oh, that makes sense," He says, nodding to himself. "I guess it doesn't look like something that would fly."

Except Zack's seen people with wings, people who fly, so he supposes his perceptions of that aren't the best.

[bufubulous]

To be fair to Zack, there are things that fly, or at least float, without wings. Yusuke would say it really depends on what one is dealing with and where they are, of course. “They tend to be more prone to little hops and running about. Jolly little fellows, really!” He responded with a lighter smile. Some shadows were a bit absurd, but also rather cute in their own way.

“And when they speak, they tend to make the sound ‘Hee ho!’ Or some variation of that mixed in with their words.” He added with a rather exuberant impression from memory, before he started on another and considered adding something larger to the group.

[legacy_blade]

"Wow, they must be in a lot of stories or something if you remember that," Zack says with a wide grin.

HE gets it. Sometimes tv stuff is cool.

[bufubulous]

“Well, I believe it is a popular myth in other parts of the world.” Yusuke mused with a tilt of his head, stopping to frame the little scene of Jack Frosts with his hand and consider if they needed adjusting. His words are light and casual as he continued, “But I have as good a memory as I do because I’ve come across them before.”

[legacy_blade]

Again, interesting. Zack really considers it, tilting his head thoughtfully. There's a lot to consider there.

"So they're common? We didn't have them in Gongaga."

[bufubulous]

“I wouldn’t say common, no. In my world they are, indeed, largely considered a myth. The ones I’ve met were in a particular place that one does not get too under normal circumstances.” He mused thoughtfully. It really was strange when he thought about that aspect of things.

“Gongaga is where you’re from, I presume? Are there no unique creatures there or?” He realized that he doesn’t really know Zack all that well, not at all really. Not enough to have made the connection that Aerith and Zack know each other and are from the same world.

[legacy_blade]

"Ah... Dangerous caves," Zack says, like that makes a lot of sense.

Home gets him smiling though. EVen with what he'd seen for it in the end. Yes, he had pride in where he was from.

"Yeah. It's this sorta marshy town. There's touch-mes around of course."

[bufubulous]

Dangerous caves definitely weren’t what Yusuke was going for, though perhaps the depths of mementos were a little like traveling down into a deep cavern? Hm… No, perhaps not. One did not take vehicles down into them… Or a cat that turned into one; he supposed.

Ah, but as he worked to shape more snow, he had to admit he was curious about Zack’s marshy home town. “Touch-mes? I don’t believe I’ve heard of that before myself. What are they, if you don’t mind my asking?” He asked, with a curious glance in Zack’s direction.

[legacy_blade]

"They're sorta like a frog, but when they punch you, you turn into a frog too for a while."

And that had to sound crazy for just about anyone.

"We used to play with them as kids."

[heartofalion]

Leon had way too many thoughts of a certain person and didn't want to bug the kid every damn day with his presence. So he decided to leave work early and maybe just clear his head and go out for a damn walk. Couldn't hurt, so he locked up behind him and headed out.

He grabbed himself a hot chocolate from Haru's shop and it wasn't long before his zippered boots turned him to the park. It was then that he took a deep breath of air. Yes, that was good even though it was still cold out.

Lowering the hot chocolate, he saw Yusuke building something. So he headed over and gestured to the project with his hot cup. "What are you working on?"

[bufubulous]

Yusuke hummed to himself as he shaped the jaunty little jester-like hat that the shadow wore, a small pleased chuckle escaping as it was all going according to his mental image. Challenging as snow was to work with compared to something more solid, this was taking shape nicely!

He looked up and recognized the figure gesturing at his work of art and smiled brightly. “A snow sculpture, or perhaps plural as I may try my hand at a full scene.” He responded with a light tone. “If you meant what manner of being the subject of the sculpture is, that would be a creature from a part of my own world we call shadows. Namely, an ice aligned one called Jack Frost.”

[heartofalion]

"Sounds ambitious to make a whole scene." Leon replied with a hint of admiration in his voice. How someone could want to stay out here and do more than one was beyond him. But if Yusuke wanted to do it, more power to him.

Blue eyes peered at the sculpture and then looked back at the boy. "So..this Jack Frost isn't friendly?"

[bufubulous]

“Perhaps, but it’s a rather nice day out and I do love a challenge to put my creativity to the test.” Sometimes doing something challenging, not to mention different from the usual kind of art he did, was a nice way to stretch the mind and give him an opportunity to experiment a little.

But, yes, Yusuke thinks it’s a lovely day. He hardly notices the nip of the winter breeze at all. “That would be correct, at least outside an odd situation, perhaps.” Like if Ren had come to one of his odd agreements and they became one of his several personas. It was such a curious but impressive ability their leader had. “They have a rather playful and mischievous demeanor, though that’s quite amusing.”

[heartofalion]

Leon nodded. He had thought of asking Aerith to do some gardening and of course he'd pay her. It might help to get a little bit of green life creeping into the gray walls, kind of like they did back in Radiant Garden.

"Odd situation like what?" Somehow Leon figured he'd better be prepared for this Jack Frost character. Playful and mischevious definitely got his guard up because that sounded like Sora and Yuffie.

[bufubulous]

Yusuke hummed. There were some things easier to explain than others on the subject of shadows and persona and that part of his world in general. He also wasn’t about to share the secrets of someone else here without their knowledge. So without giving much information, the teen shrugged lightly as looked up from his snow sculpture again. “There are situations where, if Jack Frost finds itself surrounded, they might be willing to negotiate. Though those with the talent for it are rare.”

[heartofalion]

People with special abilities he could understand. Sora and the other keyblade wielders were among those like that. So he nodded. "Then let's hope if this Jack Frost or whatever finds itself here, that we have the people to take care of it."

Leon sighed and folded his arms over his chest. "This place can cause enough trouble as it is without borrowing trouble from elsewhere."

[bufubulous]

“Indeed, but for now, the only ones present at the artistic kind.” Yusuke offered a light nod to the snow sculptures before him; he seems fairly unbothered by the idea. Really, there were three phantom thieves here and two other persona users from an entirely different group. The teen has confidence that among them all, a few jack frosts would be fairly easy to contend with if they should arrive.

Though he did rather hope that if it did ever come to pass that they came across them before, those who did not know how to deal with such creatures. “I have rather noticed that about this place, it can be rather worrying or vexing in equal measures some times. Though things seem rather calm for the moment.” He added thoughtfully, absently hoping he didn’t tempt fate by saying as much.

[heartofalion]

"So you're saying we have faeries?" That was news to him but then again Leon didn't go cavorting around to go see things. His was a pretty simple life and plan. He had a routine and didn't really go beyond it and he really didn't have to. So he really didn't. But seeing this sight and hearing about these fae might have him change his mind.

"For the moment is definitely the truth." Leon replied with a sigh and a sip of his coffee. "I like the quiet, but we just never know when something is going to happen." And of course he thought about those he would protect as he said that.

[bufubulous]

Oh, dear. Was that what he took from the statement? Yusuke tilted his head slightly with a curious expression and a small smile. “Goodness no, or at least I couldn’t say we do with any particular certainty.” There’s much about this world they don’t know, and he wouldn’t be surprised if there had been faeries. “When I referred to the artistic kind, I meant my snow sculptures sitting before us.” He ended with a little flourish.

Yusuke hummed, offering a small nod of agreement. “Often the most quiet times are the ones upset the most by some form of calamity. I do like the chance we have had to catch our breath, but you are right. One never knows when things shall change.” But that also made the quiet moments all the more important, he thought.

[heartofalion]

Leon felt an immense sense of relief when Yusuke sort of confirmed there were no faeries here. From the story the other had told with especially this Jack Frost character that might be a huge pain to deal with. But his blue eyes focused on the things that Yusuke was pointing out and quickly hid his smirk with the flourish his companion did.

So he nodded at the change of topic. "Calamity comes here in waves it seems. Something major happens and then it goes back to quite for awhile." Which was something they'd been enjoying for some time which helped Leon and everyone else he was sure.

"We'll just have to keep our eyes open."

[bufubulous]

“Yes, I rather think sometimes that whatever is at play in this place like to keep us all on our toes, so to speak.” Which was both a concern but an interesting experience, nonetheless. He did wish it meant less danger for those around, but at times, the excitement did inspire and keep one’s skills sharp.

So he offered a small nod. They would simply have to be watchful and ready for the next big upheaval when it arrived. “Indeed, we shall!”