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Draw Your Life [m]
« on: April 12, 2018, 11:58:45 pm »
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[m because Ellis has no concept of appropriate questions]

Ellis was excited.

There was a release party and he got to go and sure haviah was a ways away but it was patty central and dammit he hadnt actually really gone out - not really - since he got the spot on the squad. He could unwind!

Not that he was ever wound up.

Ellis looked at the address on his com. He wasn't late but he wasn't early. Showing up would do. It was a well known comic artist he was headed to the party for. A guilty pleasure. Not only did Ellis enjoy cooking food he also enjoyed silly comic books. They went into the drawers of his desk instead of on his bookshelves.

A quick stop at a reflective surface so he could fix his floof of lavendersilvery hair, pinch his cheeks for colour. Ellis straightned his tie and finally... on location. It wasn't a booming party but it was cool and Ellis grabbed the first alcoholic thing he got his hands on. Peachy and Orangie. It worked.

Milling about, he was recogbized by a few party goers, signed a few autographs and kept his eyes open for the famed writerartist. Just the artist? Ellis just knew it was a Hikaru something. He couldn't recall at the moment, excited about the meeting part had him... Well... too excited to remember.

ah! looked like a some what familiar face.

Ellis grabbed two drinks, one for each hand and started to sip the one of them while he meandered over. "How are you liking the get together?" Ellis said to start a conversation, holding the glass out, "Congrats on the release. My name is Ellis, how are you doing?"

Perfect. that was how normal people acted. "Is drawing dicks... hard?" aaaand he ruined it. Ellis kept his same smile, pleased and excited. The question had just... Fallen out.

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Re: Draw Your Life [m]
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2018, 06:26:57 pm »
Hikaru wished that he had been able to do his own make-up. He could see his reflection in a nearby window and cried internally at the terrible job the woman had done on his eyeshadow. Granted, his glasses hid most of it, and it wasn’t much make-up and it would be barely visible to anyone who wasn’t trained to see it, but he could, and he thought it made him look like he was trying to conceal something. Never mind that he wouldn’t have chosen that color of silken grey, since it didn’t go at all with the outfit he was wearing. But what could he do? He hadn’t been even able to style his own black hair, which was up in a sophisticated ponytail instead of its customary messy bun. He had to present a good image, rather than the image he usually presented, which was an artist who simply rolled out of bed and got to work. Which he’d done today, until his publishers had told him he was going to play dress up and not in the way he liked.

Though it was technically his release party, he’d had nothing to do with the planning, and he hadn’t had anything to do with the preparations. His publishing company had handled all of that, including the guest list. Which meant there would be lots of talking, hand-shaking, and pictures.

Hikaru sighed inwardly and tried to plaster a big smile on his face, as if he really was happy to be here and wouldn’t rather be at home drawing, as he chatted with this dignitary or that celebrity, or took pictures with that fan, laughing at all their jokes even if they weren’t funny and pretending he didn’t want to go find the nearest table and hide under it. He saw plenty of people he knew, people who often were the subjects of his art, and smiled at them as if he actually knew them personally and not because he drew them in rather raunchy and compromising positions, and often with certain parts in full exaggerated view.

He hadn’t been paying attention much to the crowd, since most of his fans who were in attendance had a tendency to rush up to him, gush about how much they loved his work and could they please take a picture with him and could they please have an autograph, so when the silvery-lavender haired man simply seemed to materialize out of nowhere, offer him a drink like they were old friends, and fire off a few questions, Hikaru was actually stunned.

And then the name registered in his mind. Ellis. As in Amaryllis “Ellis” Melledy, Pilot and squad member of the Margad Scorpions.

Hikaru’s heart started to pound and he didn’t know what to say. Before he could even get a word out in response to Ellis’s first questions, there came, quick fire, another one.

“Is drawing dicks... hard?”

The nervous energy that had started to coil in Hikaru’s stomach at being talked to by a person more famous than he suddenly dispersed into a feeling of ‘Oh. Here we go again.’ How many times had he been asked the same question or similar today? Seemed like, no matter what station in life a person was, if they were a fan of his, they all asked the same things when they met him for the first time.

But he took in the silver-lavender haired man’s face and expression, saw the excitement and pleasure, and didn’t have the heart to ruin it by being snide, just as he hadn’t had the heart to ruin the excitement and pleasure in the eyes of everyone else who’d asked him that exact question.

So he accepted the offered glass with a smile, brushing his fingers against Ellis’s. “I wouldn’t exactly call this a get-together, but it’s kind of fun. And thanks.” He took a sip of the liquid and almost made a face at the tartness. “I’m Hikaru. Hikaru Fain. More accurately known as Ru-Ru, but I’m sure you knew that already. Nice to meet you. And no, drawing dicks isn’t hard, not really.” he answered at last. “The most difficult part is getting the angles and veining right, and making sure things are anatomically correct.”

 

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