(OPEN) Sept Catch-all

[zomboii]

Who: Unnamed & YOU
Which: Open log
Where: Reverein proper
What: Handing out Devil Peppers & showin off his flashcard skills
Warnings: none atm!

I. Peppered Love

[ It's been a little while since Unnamed encountered the great and mighty Lord of the Goose, but since then he's been making the odd trip to Asura's garden to poke around and say hi while giving Lord Swan A VERY HEALTHY BERTH. On this particular occasion he's been gifted a nice little bundle of devil peppers, which he takes with immense delight.

In his head, it works something like this:

Happy feelings = warmth and devil peppers = HOT AF, which = so much love.

So clearly the best way he can show his affection is by giving the people he cares about some aptly-named Devil Peppers.

If you're someone he's seen before, you can bet ur butt that he's going to call out and wave them down...right before he presents them with one of these bad boys ]

Ouuh, auh! Ih--ih!

[ Take it :D IT'S FOR YOU ]

II. Flashcard Signing

[ One thing that Unnamed has been working on since his arrival is how to communicate--because that's hard when you're both deaf and undead. He started first with pictures in the journals, then again with sign language. Experience, however, has armed with the knowledge that not everyone understands Sign, so he's decided that his next step has to be reading and writing all those weird scribbles everyone always fills up their books with.

It has not been easy. His dexterity and fine motor skills are lacking at best like ya do when you're not-quite-alive, but help has come to him in the form of The Best Mom Ever and his introduction to.....flashcards. Shigeru has helped him acquire a set marked with both sight words and signs to help him recognize what each word means, and he has been studying them furiously. He's even gone and dreamotion'd a couple of his own into existence with Shigeru's help, so on this fine day Unnamed can be found:

a) pouring over his flashcards as he spreads them out over ground and table alike;

or

b) rushing up to your character with a flashcard with the word 'HELLO' written on it and holding it out with The Most Enthusiasm Ever. ]

Auh!

[ He looks so proud okay, you don't even know ]

[ ooc; just a small reminder that Unnamed here is both undead and deaf but he is doing his best!! and he's got swanky new flashcards to prove it. So if your character is interested in a mini-sign language lesson, this is a good place for it :D ]

Comments

[recreator]

["Throat," he corrects, spelling it out with his fingers. "Inside neck."]

[He's certain there are much more useful bits of trivia that he could bestow if given the chance, yet Emet-Selch supposes even this duty must fall to someone. At least Unnamed will not be calling them "boogers" on his watch, so there is that much.]

["Yes, I see. You are very good at this, aren't you? Would you like for me to write down any other words for you to learn later?"]

[zomboii]

[ 'T-H-R-O-A-T,' he copies. Inside the neck; he'll remember. "Yes please! New words. Words lots people use?"

Those ones tend to be the most useful to him. Phlegm He's learned a lot of food and animal names recently, and a little bit after this thread he'll start doing more counting as well. ]

[recreator]

[Very well. Although it may take Emet-Selch a little while to find words with which Unnamed is as yet unfamiliar, and though it may take a longer while to attempt to explain them, it would not be a stretch to imagine that he uncovers at least a few new words to add to the boy's collection. Being Emet-Selch, such words would likely be rooted in descriptions for various aspects of the natural world or simple terms related to societal living - or at least, to the community of Reverein - names for different sorts of shopkeepers and professions, perhaps, or other words useful for living amongst neighbors.]

[And then there is the theatre, of course. Unnamed will find that Emet-Selch is entirely eager to revisit his pet project and teach him about the arts at length, keeping such ideas as simple and as straightforward as possible.]

[Perhaps one of the more difficult (but incredibly important - in his opinion) concepts which he would wish to bestow is the word "soul".]

["Have you been taught this one before? S-O-U-L. Soul?"]

[zomboii]

[ Like always, Emet-Selch remains a veritable treasure trove of information and concepts. It's not always easy to remember, but it's always there and Unnamed soaks up as much of it as he can--and marks anything he's unclear of for later. He can ask someone fluent in reading and Sign--like Hythlodaeus or Shigeru--to explain it to him again later if Emet-Selch isn't around.

That last word though... That's new, and it's made obvious by the way Unnamed tilts his head and shakes it.

"What 'S-O-U-L', soul?" ]

[recreator]

And thus Emet-Selch would attempt to explain that a soul is what makes a person who they are. An individual. Unique. From their likes and their dislikes to their feelings and thoughts, their way of interacting with the world around them.

A color and light that few are capable of seeing, but which exists nonetheless within each person and each creature that is born; an ever-present glow.

He has glimpsed Unnamed's soul numerous times before, of course - for it is what drew him to the boy and piqued his curiosity. 'Tis clear and welcoming like an early spring sky.

Mayhap that is part of the reason Emet-Selch took to him so easily from the start.