[Mini-Mingle] A Shopping Trip

[henchgal]

Given that those who're staying at the ADI housing are getting a clothing allowance, Meredith has taken it upon herself to organize a shopping trip to the Marshalls at Gloucester Crossing. The store is full of surprising deals, and a wide enough variety of clothing that people of all genders might find something interesting. There's even some of the new fall selections in stock already.

While Meredith's been sure to grab those who obviously need a little help, and those who'll obviously enjoy the chance to get out of ADI territory, everyone's welcome to come along for the trip.

(ooc: feel free to tag around with one another as well as me, this is just a fun way to introduce our characters to one another)

Comments

[aelwyn_aberration]

Okay? Little man, then. I don't know what you'd call people in your world, dear. Just, seriously, put it back.

[No... why did you pick it up. Why do you hate her so, little man.]

I can only take so much tragedy, and that jacket...

[She shudders.]

[marmoron]

....

[ great. it's been, what, about ten seconds into this interaction and mystery girl's already managed to land herself on his mental shitlist? ]

I'm Keith. [ his tone stays flat for the moment. ] You call me that or nothing at all.

[ maintaining eye contact like he's keeping an eye on a rattlesnake, he holds the abomination of a jacket closer to himself. ]

Who are you?

[aelwyn_aberration]

Keith it is, then.

[She winks at him, flashing him a dazzling smile. This steely aggression is almost nostalgically familiar to her. She thinks this boy is funny, even if he really needs to put that jacket down.]

Aelwyn Abernant. The pleasure is all mine.

The advice is sincere, though. If you think the way I'm talking to you now is insufferable, you probably don't want to be laughed at quite as much as you would if you actually wore that outside. Red seems to be your color, but maybe not quite so bright.

[marmoron]

[ the wink and dazzling smile is wasted here if the continued deadpan expression aelwyn is getting says anything at all. ]

Right cuz the jacket made you insufferable and it's not just who you are.

[ Sure. uh-huh. keith doesn't roll his eyes, but it's there in spirit. ]

Do you even have an alternative suggestion or did you just come here to criticize people minding their own business?

[aelwyn_aberration]

[That makes her actually laugh out loud. She likes this one.]

Oh no, I did that myself! ...Well, mostly. You get it, I'm sure you did most of the heavy-lifting with being so surly and bitter. The trauma of being bullied for dressing like a traffic cone probably just helped you along a bit.

And yes, I do. Literally anything else would be my suggestion. [She looks around briefly and picks up a parka that's in a darker burgandy colour and holds it up for Keith.] This one is a less hideous colour, and it has a hood, and on top of that, it's not designed to bare your midriff.

[marmoron]

[ can someone get keith a traffic cone so he can slap it on her head? pls and thanks. ]

You're an ill-tempered troll, the hell do you mean I'm being surly and bitter?

[ lord help him, the volume is actually starting to dial up on his voice here. ]

Therre's nothing wrong with red or wearing a shorter jacket!

[aelwyn_aberration]

Ill-tempered? Well, that doesn't fit my image at all. I always thought I was annoyingly hard to piss off... I'll have to do more work on myself if I want to reach peak insufferability...

Look, Keith, I'm telling you that jacket will do nothing but draw attention to you from people who will do exactly what I'm doing now. It's advice, solicited or not, and it's obviously advice that you sorely need.

Take it or leave it, god, you're such a drama queen.

[marmoron]

[ give him a moment. there's zero point to throwing a stink at marshalls and for that matter he has better things to do with his time than continue to engage with someone who is obviously trying to just piss him off for their own amusement.

in the end, he keeps his original selection of jacket held tight in his arms and walks away with the flattest toned: ]

Duly noted.

[ basically a fuck you, don't follow me. so this went super well. ]

[aelwyn_aberration]

[She will let him leave, laughing at him all the way. Bye Keith.

This always happens whenever she tries to be nice to someone, but she didn't deeply care this time it's mostly just funny.]