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"Vivi-quin," she repeated with a nod as she removed parchment and charcoal pencils from her satchel. "You know... like mannequin, except it's a Vivi-quin. A dummy representation of me. Maybe I'll pin a picture of myself to the face so you can see the resemblance."
She tapped the pencil against her leg, her eyes still trained on the mannequin and her attention only half on poor Kurumi, who had not yet learned to only trust half of what the dry-witted Vivi said. "I think gigantic winged beasts might be terrifying to some people, but no... vampire bats aren't my boggart. That would be awkward with Aspen's pet being so dear to her."
Pencil to the paper, Vivi sketched a rather solid likeness of her mannequin, although she gave it some fuzzy-looking hair and a comical face. Kurumi's question stole back her attention, and she put the pencil down. "Fashion isn't my boggart, but this is sort of a surreal activity for me. I'm not shallow enough to fear clothes. I am Ravenclaw enough to fear tasks that I can't manage with panache."
Vivi turned her attention back to her parchment. "What are you going to make?"
Oh. Well, that made sense then. It was one of those plays on words that Kurumi still didn't entirely pick up on. Sort of like Selina and her puns. "
Oh, so then this would be a Kurumi-quin?" she asked, jabbing her wand at the mannequin she was going to use. "
That doesn't sound like a bad idea, actually. Drawing a face for it. They are sort of...creepy like they are now. Maybe even give them some hair? Could be like the mannequins you see in shopping malls." Suddenly this assignment didn't seem to be as terrifying...not if they could turn it into a sort of craft project instead of simply fashion design.
Deciding to sit down on the floor, Kurumi removed some parchment and a pencil from her bag and set it on top of her Transfiguration textbook, drumming it on the side. She had noooooo idea what she was going to design. NO IDEA. Which is why she looked up at Vivi with somewhat expecting eyes for a moment. "
She has a vampire bat?!" Why did that suddenly make that Aparecium article even more true in the Gryffindor's mind. Honestly, no wonder she went around biting people. "
I didn't know that. That is so neat! I just have a ca--- kneazle. But he is a menace to himself. Tried to pee on the former Headmaster once...maybe I should transfigure him a fashionable diaper...he pees a lot. When he is upset I mean."
Right...she was supposed to design a top today, yes? Kurumi brought her pencil down to her parchment and just drew the bust part of the mannequin - leaving the head off for now because faceless things creeped her out, and then idly drew squiggly lines in the margin. A top...um...a top... "
Oh, good...because...um...I was sort of relying on you to help me with this assignment. You always seem so...fashionable...I get lost in my own closet," Kurumi admitted. "
I know nothing about clothes...or fashion design." And then Vivi's next question came. "
I don't know...a top?" Obvious enough. "
These are outfits that will be completed at the end of the term, right? So...summer...some sort of tank top maybe?"
Kurumi shrugged. She had nooooooooooooo idea.
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What about you?"