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vιoleт everɢαrdeɴ ([personal profile] shiritai) wrote in [community profile] phantasmalrift2018-04-02 08:48 pm

♩ gentle and warm as the light

Who: Violet and you!
What: Violet decides to step up and take a shot at cooking. She has... decidedly mixed results.
When: March 26th, early afternoon and night
Where: The kitchen (afternoon) and the viewing deck (night)
Warnings: Terrible violence comitted upon the concept of a scrambled egg.

[ So if you go down to the woods the kitchen today, you might be in for a bit of a surprise. You'll find one (1) Violet Evergarden hard at work at one of the counters with a recipe book cracked open and... just some eggs? Well, if she's starting simple, eggs are a good place to jump off from. How wrong can you go with eggs?

Very wrong, it turns out.

Maybe you'll find her utterly failing at cracking eggs into the bowl. It's a bit of a crapshoot whether she ends up with egg all over the counter or actually gets it into the bowl, but either way it ends with her having a mixture composed of roughly 60% egg and 40% shell. Or maybe you'll find her pouring that mixture into a bowl and... doesn't that look like way, way too much egg for one girl?

Or maybe you'll just see Violet examining the sorry results of her work once she's done. It looks sort of like a badly mutilated omlette but it's so huge she's had to spread it across two plates. One side is burned to a crisp, one looks slightly soggy and undercooked and the whole thing just looks like a slightly greyish yellow hunk of rubber. Violet stares down at it pensively for a long moment before carefully picking up both plates and making her way straight to the trashcan. Atta girl, Violet.

That night, if you happen to be the sort of weirdo who lurks around on the viewing deck after dark, you'll find you've got company. Violet's there, settled on one of the seats with the duvet from her bed wrapped around her nice and snug, to stave off the worst of the sea breeze. She's got her eyes up to the roof, where the night sky would be, if it wasn't for the absolutely torrential rain pouring down and obscuring much of anything. She looks a little bit disappointed (or as disappointed as Violet ever looks, anyway) but she's sat there gazing up diligently at the roof anyway. Very odd. ]
founderinglight: ([hold])

deck ofc

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-04-02 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah - good evening, Violet.

[Hey look it's this guy, with his own blanket around his shoulders - a thick wool one with black and blue stripes in a zigzag pattern.]

Not much to see tonight, it appears.
riderofcharlemagne: (CARROLL CARROLL)

kitchen, post-egg disaster

[personal profile] riderofcharlemagne 2018-04-02 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Astolfo manages to catch a glimpse of the "omelette" shortly before disappearing into the abyss of the garbage, and it's not a pretty sight. It's probably for the best that it's thrown away, no one could safely or happily eat that, but there's something about the act that is profoundly upsetting.]

Giving the cooking a try, I see?

[His tone is more playful than judgmental, he did suggest she try this, after all.]
rhododendronhoney: (shocked)

Eggs

[personal profile] rhododendronhoney 2018-04-03 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Cori walks into the kitchen and immediately feels the urge to Leave. But she can't just let this disaster go on unprompted.]

Um...need a few tips? About...how to keep shell from getting in?
founderinglight: ([my place plz])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-04-03 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hey, he isn't sleeping for once? In spite of what the blanket might make you think.

He looks up at the sky in turn.]


I don't think you'll have any luck with that tonight.
riderofcharlemagne: (CARROLL CARROLL)

[personal profile] riderofcharlemagne 2018-04-03 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[God, this is a depressing sight.

But, he can't let it get her down too.]


Well, that's what first attempts are for anyway, right? You make a mess of it, and then you make less of a mess of it the next time.
rhododendronhoney: (smile)

[personal profile] rhododendronhoney 2018-04-04 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Cori picks up an egg and taps it lightly against the counter.] Flat surfaces are actually best for cracking the shell without getting bits of it into the egg. [She then hits it harder, holding it up to show the crack.] These are good eggs-they hold their shape well. You can then pull the halves apart on their own or use your fingers to widen the crack-if you have trouble with shell the former might be easier. [She grabs another bowl and demonstrates.]
founderinglight: ([my place plz])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-04-04 12:57 pm (UTC)(link)
If not longer - we've had a few storms that lasted some days, and I imagine only more as spring sets in.

[There's no chair particularly near her, so he summons his own in a burst of blue light. Without ceremony, he sits.]

I spend quite a bit of time out here, actually. I like to watch the sunrise and sunset whenever I can, even when it's clouded like this.
founderinglight: ([hold])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-04-04 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Not really. But it's important to me to do all the same.
founderinglight: ([late with spacebucks])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-04-04 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, it's true that each is unique, but no, that's not the reason. It's because it makes me think of my family.

[A pause, then he smiles.]

Although I suppose with Noctis here in person, I needn't be so faithful about the dawn.
riderofcharlemagne: (i will smack your face into tiny little)

[personal profile] riderofcharlemagne 2018-04-04 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[He wants to help her tear it apart to be rid of it. His hands itch to just take the plate out of hers and free her of this burden.]

That's the spirit! [Except the "reflecting on your mistakes" part, he can't understand that.] It's best not to let yourself get discouraged with these kinds of things.
founderinglight: ([hold])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-04-05 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Directly but very distantly. There's over a hundred generations between us.
riderofcharlemagne: (Default)

[personal profile] riderofcharlemagne 2018-04-06 09:54 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe, but your ambition to go straight towards the complicated [Using that term very, very liberally.] is something to be respected! The feeling of accomplishment in finally taming the omelette will be second to none!

[After posing enthusiastically during that rousing speech, he notices that Violet's actually moved from where he was standing. Moving back beside her, he tilts his head at the washing machine and frowns. The Grail failed to give him the knowledge of how to operate this kind of thing.]
founderinglight: ([my place plz])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-04-06 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[He chuckles.]

A few decades past two thousand, yes.

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