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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie  Deserve it? Did anyone deserve to be bitten? Was this some weird Ravenclaw thing that Kurumi didn't know about? They went around biting each other all the time or something? Kurumi figured they would claw.... anyway. "I was trying to get Aspen off of him..." So...no?
Kurumi continued to eye her sketch, somewhat surprised at herself that she had included such a girlie feature as the ribbon in the front...but she had become a little more, well, girlie as the terms went on. Not that she had ever been a tomboy to begin with.
Glancing over when Vivi borrowed one of her pencils, Kurumi watched as she filled it in with a pretty blue-green-whatever the word for that color was color. Definitely one to bring out the color of the Ravenclaw's eyes. Kurumi wished she were bold enough for that sort of neckline. Then again, her own had been a sort of tube top, which was rather bold of her. "I thought you said that this was too surreal for you," she laughed. "That's really pretty."
"Hmmm...That is probably a good idea," Kurumi nodded as she grabbed another trash bag. The one on the mannequin could at least make up for the black portion, so maybe tying another around the waist area could do the ribbon. Hmmm... Using her wand to cast Diffindo, Kurumi cut the second bag into long strips and then stood up to tie them around the mannequin in a bow. There. Now she just had to turn it into fabric.
Wand out, Kurumi traced a Z pattern in the air in front of her mannequin. "Summus Vesitis." And the trash bag turned into the top she had designed. YAY! But her ribbon was still a trash bag. Oh. Repeating the movement and incantation again, Kurumi managed to transfigure her ribbon. Now all that was left was the broach. "Sounds like you got caught in the line of fire," Vivi nodded sagely as she set up her notebook to stand like a little easel. It would be easier to Transfigure what was in her head if she had a point of reference and didn't have to keep going back and forth.
She blushed a bit as Kurumi commented on the top she'd designed, and Vivi wondered if perhaps it was a bit too bold on her part. Leave it to her to go from one extreme to another. Taking the end of her braid in hand, Vivi twirled it rather violently as she examined the drawing. "This is surreal, but... when we stop moving, we die. Change is movement, and graduation is change, and I might as well be willing to wear a darn ruffle once in a while in the quest to be a real adult." Or something like that. Funny how decisions made more sense before they had to be forced into words to be shared.
Leaving Kurumi to her own work, Vivi approached her Vivi-quin with renewed determination. She could cut strips to add extra fabric for the ruffles, but she wanted to try it without first. They were supposed to challenge themselves, right? And there was nothing so challenging as making a lot out of a little.
Fixing the image in her mind, she drew the Z-shape across the torso of the Vivi-quin, murmuring, "Summus Vestis." Immediately, the bag shrunk and puckered and split in all the places she thought it should, with some of the plastic near the top slipping down to help create the pretty little green flutter of fabric. It was nearly perfect... the fabric was sheer, the lines were clean, and the cut wasn't ridiculously baggy like her first attempt. Success?
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