Scribbles, Scrawls, and Real Art [Closed]

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Characters: Namine and Riku
Content: Riku and Namine continue passing pictures.
Location: Their rooms
Time of Day: Varies
Warnings: Aborbs, funnies, and Riku making bad art.

Riku made it a point to try to get a picture to her the next day. He knew he’d been busy with things, but she did seem to get concerned. However, this week made things a little harder than usual...

The next day the drawing slid under Namine’s door was much worse than normal. Riku was never an artist, and his drawings were proof of this. This one, however, was worse than usual. It was a scribble that looked like a blue, black and yellow fox man... Or something. It was certainly humanoid, but it had a snout and big pointed ears. There was a notable omission of fingers, the most likely explanation for the decrease in technical skill. Beside it was a scrawled question mark.

It was, however, most notable for being drawn on red-speckled paper.

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[colorbymemory]

It certainly wasn't as easy to draw with her paws as with hands, but Namine had realized fairly quickly that her tail allowed her paint reasonably well. She was happy to get his reply so quickly, and set to work on a picture of her own.

She decided to use red-speckled paper, too. After a moment's thought, she also decided against using her tail; mostly it was out of a sense of fairness. So, as best as she could with her paws, she made a sketch of what she looked like now. It was definitely recognizable as some kind of canine walking on two legs, brown with white spots and a patch of green at the end of the tail.

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Riku had come back with some milk and strawberry pop tarts before sitting down and getting to work. He found he drew slightly better if he used both paws on the pencil, though he continued to use just one while coloring. This did explain why he missed the lines a little. As artistically-naive as he was, Riku could under normal circumstances color inside the lines with little problem.

The reply depicted himself, arms drawn back and a ball of energy in front of him. He was clearly a fighter. Beside that he depicted Namine. Since he had no idea what kind of Pokemon she was outside of appearance, or even what abilities she had, he took note of her long tail. She was depicted jump-roping with it. Beside the picture was another big question mark.

[colorbymemory]

Namine preferred milk and Oreos as a drawing-time snack these days, but to each their own. As with Riku, coloring in the lines was a thing easier said than done for her at the moment. No big deal; she knew it was due to them not quite looking themselves this week.

His depiction of his abilities got a smile out of her. Of course he'd be a fighter, even in this form. The other picture made her laugh--she could see where he'd gotten the idea. In answer to his question, she drew a picture of her painting with the tail. So far, that was the extent of the abilities she'd discovered thus far.

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Of course, for Riku the Pop Tarts were appropriate. For him it was breakfast, while most people would be having lunch when he got up. Interestingly enough, his new form also garnered different ways of doing simple things that might even be considered cute. Today, too, he'd settled on pop tarts, and he sat down at his desk, hopping up into his now-higher chair and grabbing a pop tart in both paws to make sure he didn't manage to lose hold of it. These thick fingers made simple tasks much harder. As such, he sat there, pondering how to reply while holding his breakfast like a chipmunk with a nut.

He was intrigued by her reply, and outright curious. Riku got to work, drawing up a picture of them both. The scribbles depicted her painting a picture of... Well, no one could really tell with Riku's current drawing talent, but that didn't matter much. Riku himself was looking curiously over her shoulder as she worked, interested to see how it would come out.

[colorbymemory]

Namine wouldn't have guessed Riku as someone fond of sleeping in (though there may have been something in Sora's memories along the lines of "thou shalt not wake Riku before noon"). Then again, their situation hadn't always been one that allowed for sleeping in much.

She'd decided on chocolate chip cookies today; mostly because Oreos dunked in milk tended to get paws messier than hands. Especially since she had to eat them two-handed in spite of (or maybe because of) how small they were. Paws made picking up small objects difficult.

Difficult or not, she pulled out her crayons and drew on a piece of green recycled paper. It wasn't as good as she might have done as a human, but it was clearly a picture of them in their Pokemon forms. There was Roxas, Sora, and Ven (she'd guessed his form) as Eevee's, with Xion as an Eevee with a very Ditto-ish smile on it's face. She, Riku, and Terra stood off to one side, while Aqua as a Starmie floated over everyone.

Sorry, tough week. -.-

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Sleeping in was a luxury he hadn't had the pleasure to take advantage of since he'd left home. And while he enjoyed being up late and sleeping in, he at least never had the habit of falling asleep in random places throughout the day as he'd seen Sora do when he was younger.

Today, for Riku it was cereal. Frosted mini wheats gave him options. His paw's fingers didn't have the flexibility he would have liked, even less so than Namine's paws. The mini wheats were big enough he could simply grab a few and pop them in his mouth instead of fumbling with the spoon if he wanted.

Riku smiled at the reply, shaking his head slightly. It wasn't exactly the reply he'd hoped for, but that was hard to communicate with just just pictures. Riku used a piece of yellow-tinted recycled paper, drawing with as much skill as he could muster from his paws. It showed all of them standing together, intermingled. However, the ones who weren't Eevees now wore masks. Riku was smirking out from behind his. If you can't beat them...

The reply came about its normal time. But with it was a folded-over note with large letters. The handwriting was horrible, and words were crossed out to be written clearer next to it. "Ca^ Can I 5ee wha+ your pain+i^g5 pain+ings look like?"

NP~ I bet it's getting into insanely busy season at the mouse's house.

[colorbymemory]

Random naps did seem to be a Sora specialty. Namine had never really had a chance to get into the stereotypical teenage sleep schedule; she'd tried to here once or twice, but habit was habit, and sometimes she liked being awake early when everything was quiet.

Today she'd decided to try oatmeal raisin cookies. The kind the cafeteria had were a little bigger than some of the others, so she could actually eat them one-handed. Much better than the other drawing-time snack options at the moment.

His picture actually made her laugh, and though the written message took a moment to decipher, at least now she knew what he'd been asking. She got to work on two different pictures.

The first was hand-drawn on blue recycled paper. It was a picture of all of them as Pokemon again, though this time the Eevee's were wearing masks, and Xion was in her normal Ditto form. The second was a painting on a slightly larger piece of new paper. In it, they were all in their human forms, standing in front of the mansion in Twilight Town. It was actually more lifelike than any picture she'd drawn up till now.

(OOC: Just making a guess about painting quality. ^^;;;;)