[OPEN] you know what old people do?

[kikuichi]

Who: Norimune and you!
Which: Log
Where: Around Reverein
What: After waking up, Norimune ease back into life here! Calligraphy, mockingbirds and books!
Warnings: N/A.




► Plaza: Calligraphy (Optional: Insightful Mockingbirds)
[As one walk by the plaza, they may notice a small crowd around Norimune. He's sitting down with a drink near him. In one hand, he's holding a brush tipped with black ink. His other hand is holding down the paper in front of him. Some of the people watching him may be holding their own papers, some of which have black writings on them. For the informed, some of them are familiar looking characters (Japanese). They're typically simple kanji, but some of them might be read as names or phrases.

After he finish writing one, Norimune laughs as someone requests him to write something for them.]

Oh, yes, I can! Just tell me something about yourself as I write.

[For the sharpest of eyes, they may notice subtle dreamotions at work as Norimune writes and chat with interested parties. Nothing fancy, just seems to be small, simpler effects like a gentle cool wind. After finishing writing something, he glances up. He smiles when he meet your eyes.]

Curious, aren't you?

[He'll be doing this for a few days, practicing while doing requests for anyone who asks. And on some days, the mockingbirds may be flying around and starting to perch on people...]

► Tree of Stories
[The impressively massive tree hold his interest ever since he first saw it from a distance. And now Norimune finally decide to come over and check it out. Upon seeing the many, many shelves lined up with books, his eyes lighten up with great interests. So many stories, likely many tales and information his world doesn't know. Or doesn't exist.

Norimune can be found reading the books curiously. And occasionally, a chuckle would come out from him at times. Softly, just not too loud. The security owls nearby are watching, in case of trouble. Trouble he doesn't intend on causing. Because it sounds like a lot of work to deal with.]

... Oh?

[After pulling out a book, Norimune made an intrigued sound as he spot the cover and read the title.]

"Katchu Ranbu", you say?

[And this time, his chuckles sound a little louder than before, as he flick through the pages. After he got his fill, he'll resume checking the other books. Just... this one seems so amusing to him.]

(OOC: If you want to talk about a different story, lemme know. Finding Kiss Him Not Me's Katchu Ranbu just sound funny.)

► Wild Card
[Plotting comment.
If you want a custom starter (I love to do custom starters tbh) or want to bring your own scenario, hit me up over PMs or Sonica!]

Comments

Calligraphy

[zomboii]

[ Curious doesn't even begin to describe it. Unnamed's never seen characters that weren't roman font before, so at first it doesn't cross his mind that it might be a type of writing system. He sees the intricate lines and wonders just what it's supposed to be a picture of; no matter how hard he stares or turns his head to view it front another angle, it just looks like a pile of sticks. Stacks of sticks?

So when Norimune has a spare chance, Unnamed waves his hand to get his attention and signs to him:

"What that?" He points to the calligraphy, then signs "what?" again; since grandpa is still learning c: ]

[kikuichi]

[He smiles and wave at Unnamed. After a quick thought, he put down his brush. Just so he can pick up his journal to write. For one thing, he haven't learn how to sign "calligraphy" yet. Even if he did, would Unnamed recognise it?

"Calligraphy, kid. It's the art of writing."

Turns out these lines and pictures are writing.]

[zomboii]

[ Another thing is that he's never seen the word 'calligraphy' before, but now he knows: it's making writing into art (pictures)! With...lots of weird lines. ]

Ouh!

[ GOT IT.

"I understand! Fun?" he asks, crouching down to peer more closely at the characters Norimune's written, before looking to the man himself. ]

[kikuichi]

["Yes, it can be fun!"

Art is subjective, as well as one's own tastes. He points at the characters he just wrote, the ink in the process of drying under the open sky.

"What do you think? Can you read it?"]

[zomboii]

[ "No." It just looks like a bunch of scribbles to him, and he shakes his head to emphasize as much.

"Why so much?" he chooses to ask, pointing at the myriad of lines. "No A B C?" ]

[kikuichi]

[How to explain this... He tap his quill against his chin, feeling the feather lightly tickling his skin.

"I speak and write in Japanese, which uses three writing systems. Kanji, hiragana and katakana.

Instead of letters like A B C, we use hiragana and katakana as for syllables. Kanji are much fancier and special, can you guess what they're for?"]

[zomboii]

[ "What it look like? Three writing." The signs for hiragana, katakana, and kanji went a bit fast for him--but that's what adapting is for! It should carry over, he thinks. Norimune's already picked up this much Sign already. That, and people are generally much better at interpreting him than the other way around.

"I want to see." ]

[kikuichi]

[He thinks about it for a moment, before he turns to a new, blank page in his journal. Does it work like that? It doesn't matter, just the action feel nice to do.

"Okay. I'll write my name as an example."

Using an example would make it easier to understand. Norimune write his name clearly in each writing system, his quill moving with smooth ease. Above each of them are labels.

Hiragana
いちもんじのりむね

Katakana
イチモンジノリムネ

Kanji
一文字則宗

"Hiragana are our standard letters. One character for each sound, and we use them similiarly to your letters. Ichimonji Norimune would be いちもんじのりむね.

Katakana are typically used for foreign words and names. For example, a food from another country would be written in katakana.

Kanji are symbols we learned from another country. We use them to represent important words. They're useful for telling things apart, like words that sound the same but mean different things. For my name, if people see "一文字則宗", they generally know it reads Ichimonji Norimune and it's a name."]

[zomboii]

[ Oh boy, this...is new. And a lot. He thought those squiggles would be the same as letters, but they're for sounds instead? How is he supposed to write without letters...? He doesn't know the sounds.

He starts to look a little flustered as he turns to Norimune.

"I don't hear sounds, I am deaf. I cannot learn these??" That last one is a question. Is it possible for him to learn if he doesn't know the sounds? ]

[kikuichi]

[Norimune smiles at him.

"It's fine, you can still learn these." As he thinks back, he wasn't around when Japan learned and developed their own distinct sign language. His true body weren't anywhere near that area, nor did he inherit the knowledge...

"For you in particular, you can think of them as letters. Do you want to learn?" If so, he might need to figure out a lesson for Unnamed. His usual approach of "letting the kids figure it out" wouldn't work as well.]

[zomboii]

[ "Yes please! I want to learn." Pshaw. As if that's even a question--he is all on board!! ...or will be, until he realizes just how insane Japanese can be compared to an alphabet of only 26 letters. He knows not what he gets himself into :')

"You teach me?" ]

[kikuichi]

["Yes! But I need to prepare."

Well, they could start right now. But that means stopping his calligraphy stunt for the time being.

"Until then, how about I write something for you? You can hang it up in your home."]

[zomboii]

[ That is an excellent compromise, and one that has Unnamed staring at Norimune with stars in his eyes. He cannot nod fast enough to that suggestion.

"Yes please!"

He's never been given a piece of art before--so you can bet that sucker's going up in his house even if he's rarely there ]

[kikuichi]

[Since Unnamed accepts his offer, what comes next is natural.

"What do you want me to write? A nice word? Or your name?"

... Hm, hang on...]

[zomboii]

[ "Feather man!" he signs without ANY HESITATION WHATSOEVER. "He is a hero! Fights bad people! Wow!"

And Unnamed? Is a huge fan. ]