This? This is an interesting thing for Shoshannah, if by interesting one means 'embarrassing as hell' and also 'really more than a bit irritating' in addition to 'confusing'. For a girl who's so abrasive and angry feeling to begin with, it only makes things worse - and the problem is only slightly alleviated when shirtless!Justin (and now shirtless!Hawksley) leave the room.
"Give me your hipster-vintage bar toys. I do the aesthetics." It's sullen, grouchy, a bit sneer-y, and par for the course as far as Sera knows the girl - she hadn't been all that different the night in the bar, when Padre had ordered her home. And never mind that she can't quite look at Sera, either, making the tough act a bit more obviously a lie. In reality, Shoshannah is supremely uncomfortable and refuses to acknowledge it. And Grace? It's quite possible that in the midst of all this, Shoshannah's forgotten that she asked her a question. And of course the bar toys are put where Shoshannah wants them, and of course they're placed so well that she could be staging the house for sale. She's got a great eye, really, though no one ever expects it of her.
This gives her time to center a bit, to more firmly affix the I Don't Give a Shit attitude she wears so well so much of the time. "Dreamspeaker. And Initiate, thanks. I'm not really just a kid." Despite the common perception goes unsaid, naturally - it's not needed. So bland, so removed that tone even as everything about her prickles and pokes. She's a difficult one to get a bead on, is Shoshannah, and her trust issues? They're about a mile high.
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And since we know what everyone else is wearing, and to mark the difference(s) between Shoshannah and Sera still more clearly, here's this - a completely superfluous description of the girl's looks.
The Dreamspeaker is tall for a woman at a long and lean five foot nine inches, and has the model build to go with her model height although it's not quite so waify if one gathers the courage to actually touch her. It's all glamour, that, though she certainly is tall and thin. Her hair is black, or as close thereto as hair gets, and pulled back into a loose, somewhat messy ponytail in deference to the manual labor she'd been doing and the wind that occasionally blows it into her eyes if she doesn't restrain it. Underneath the pale rarely-sees-sun shade of her skin is an olive tone that comes more and more to the fore as she spends time outside working with Justin, playing with spirits, doing . . . whatever it is Shoshannah does when no one's looking. Her eyes are bright, clear, piercingflayingscarringscourging blue. Her ears are pierced, once each, and the holes there are filled with simple gold studs.
The clothes are simple today, but still of remarkably good quality given what people (think they) know about her - shorts bare her long legs, ankle height work boots adorn her feet, and a well made cotton tank top covers (most of) her torso, though it leaves a sliver of belly, hip and back bare. It's modest, really, but not particularly conservative - if she weren't everyone's nightmare, Shoshannah might be someone's dream. Goodness knows she's good looking enough.
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Rolls!
CourtCat @ 1:08PM
Doot doot, rolling and witnessing the hell out of Sera's empathy dice for Liz!
Roll: 7 d10 TN5 (1, 2, 2, 3, 7, 7, 10) ( success x 3 ) VALID
CourtCat @ 1:11PM
Deet deet, fuck yes Shoshannah's contesting. Manip + Sub
Roll: 3 d10 TN6 (7, 9, 10) ( success x 4 ) [WP] VALID
CourtCat @ 1:11PM
Can I get an AMEN
niko @ 1:11PM
i see!
niko @ 1:11PM
AMEN
Edited because apparently I didn't get the roll for Liz the first time.
And edited again because description!
"Give me your hipster-vintage bar toys. I do the aesthetics." It's sullen, grouchy, a bit sneer-y, and par for the course as far as Sera knows the girl - she hadn't been all that different the night in the bar, when Padre had ordered her home. And never mind that she can't quite look at Sera, either, making the tough act a bit more obviously a lie. In reality, Shoshannah is supremely uncomfortable and refuses to acknowledge it. And Grace? It's quite possible that in the midst of all this, Shoshannah's forgotten that she asked her a question. And of course the bar toys are put where Shoshannah wants them, and of course they're placed so well that she could be staging the house for sale. She's got a great eye, really, though no one ever expects it of her.
This gives her time to center a bit, to more firmly affix the I Don't Give a Shit attitude she wears so well so much of the time. "Dreamspeaker. And Initiate, thanks. I'm not really just a kid." Despite the common perception goes unsaid, naturally - it's not needed. So bland, so removed that tone even as everything about her prickles and pokes. She's a difficult one to get a bead on, is Shoshannah, and her trust issues? They're about a mile high.
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And since we know what everyone else is wearing, and to mark the difference(s) between Shoshannah and Sera still more clearly, here's this - a completely superfluous description of the girl's looks.
The Dreamspeaker is tall for a woman at a long and lean five foot nine inches, and has the model build to go with her model height although it's not quite so waify if one gathers the courage to actually touch her. It's all glamour, that, though she certainly is tall and thin. Her hair is black, or as close thereto as hair gets, and pulled back into a loose, somewhat messy ponytail in deference to the manual labor she'd been doing and the wind that occasionally blows it into her eyes if she doesn't restrain it. Underneath the pale rarely-sees-sun shade of her skin is an olive tone that comes more and more to the fore as she spends time outside working with Justin, playing with spirits, doing . . . whatever it is Shoshannah does when no one's looking. Her eyes are bright, clear, piercingflayingscarringscourging blue. Her ears are pierced, once each, and the holes there are filled with simple gold studs.
The clothes are simple today, but still of remarkably good quality given what people (think they) know about her - shorts bare her long legs, ankle height work boots adorn her feet, and a well made cotton tank top covers (most of) her torso, though it leaves a sliver of belly, hip and back bare. It's modest, really, but not particularly conservative - if she weren't everyone's nightmare, Shoshannah might be someone's dream. Goodness knows she's good looking enough.
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Rolls!
CourtCat @ 1:08PM
Doot doot, rolling and witnessing the hell out of Sera's empathy dice for Liz!
Roll: 7 d10 TN5 (1, 2, 2, 3, 7, 7, 10) ( success x 3 ) VALID
CourtCat @ 1:11PM
Deet deet, fuck yes Shoshannah's contesting. Manip + Sub
Roll: 3 d10 TN6 (7, 9, 10) ( success x 4 ) [WP] VALID
CourtCat @ 1:11PM
Can I get an AMEN
niko @ 1:11PM
i see!
niko @ 1:11PM
AMEN
Edited because apparently I didn't get the roll for Liz the first time.
And edited again because description!