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An evening Reverie [Amber]
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Post by Amber on Jun 26, 2020 14:09:22 GMT
"Hm? Well, I mean, I like the stuff too!"
Amber smiled, trying to keep a positive demeanor to distract Coal as much as she could from the overwhelming environment around her poor sister. Coal was shaking, the black fox keeping herself close to Amber, but thankfully it didn't amount to anything more than just a tense, nervous fox. Amber kept a nice, patient smile, nodding as Frigimon listed off the price.
"Seven fifty, then..." Amber would reach down to her bag, giving a blink as Frigimon mentioned the store credit! "Oh! Okay, then thank you! We'll be on our way." Picking up the bag, she'd give a nod, and lead Coal right on out of the store...
... And into Silence's arms!
"Oof!" She'd blink, and would give a half-hug around their mother, eyes trailing up to the sky as Silence mentioned the weather.
"I-it went fine! Had to go off-brand on salt, but... I mean, its salt?" She gave a shrug, and would give Coal a pat on the back. "I guess we just take whatever clear weather we can get out here, then?"
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2020 15:24:17 GMT
”It’s… a bit much for me…”
Coal mumbled a little bit and tried to avoid looking the various mons in the eyes; which wasn’t hard if she kept her gaze down to the ground. She could feel their eyes on her and it made her beyond nervous. Her shaking didn’t really stop until after they were out of the shop.
With silence grinning ear to ear, coal felt the stress of the situation de-escalate and she’d practically melt before hugging her mother back rather tightly. Causing the wolf’s ears to flick.
”Oh that’s fine, it is just salt. And yeah. We take what we can get, kinda how life is~”
Silence smiled warmly and would carry the two back home on her shoulders, she had her own bag from her own shopping she had done without the two. Picking up a nice surprise for the both of them. Something she’d give to them later when she had a bit of privacy to talk to them. She knew how young they were, how impressionable they were. She knew that youth needed things of their own and things that were different than others.
And these two would be no different!
”I think next time I go shopping it’ll just be me~ Unless you guys want to visit one of the bigger cities?”
Silence turned her head as she trudged through the snow; Coal shrank away from her mother’s gaze which yielded her a gentle pat on the side and a somewhat supportive if not knowing smile.
”You don’t have to if you don’t want to.”
It’d be not but five minutes later that they’d all be back in the warmth of their home; shaking off the snow or the like. Coal herself would excuse herself to her room before throwing herself on the bed. Goggles and all!
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Post by Amber on Jul 9, 2020 1:46:08 GMT
Amber found herself a touch less clingy than Coal. In fact, she was a little embarrassed to be propped up on the Shutmon's shoulder like that!
Still, she didn't complain. Seeing Coal practically throw herself into Silence's arms, the yellow Renamon-X just kept a smile and went along for the ride. The fox kept the bag on her arm, as the two made their way back up the hill, Amber's ear flicking as she heard the snow crunch under Silence's feet. "Guess it must be hard to keep the path clear with all the wind blowing around - hm?" One of the bigger cities? Amber found herself giving a smile, only to see Coal shrink a bit away from the idea.
"... W-well, it's not like we always have to do the same things... but I'll go with you next time, mom!" Amber kept a smile, trying to keep as upbeat as possible! And as the two came home, Amber found herself hopping off of Silence's shoulder, blinking as she saw Coal run off.
... "Um, mom, if you have some time today?" The fox would tilt her head. "Would you mind showing me how to draw, a little bit?"
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2020 23:40:11 GMT
Silence smiled warmly up at amber and couldn’t help but wondering to herself what to do about coal. She’d have to talk to mikemon about it; with the way that she was beingg clung to maybe the renamon didn’t like being out and about? Hearing the question amber posed the shutmon nodded.
”Sometimes yeah. Though I think today is especially bad since the weather later is gonna be… well interesting.”
Silence blinked a bit and reached up to rub either of their heads. She knew that and the shutmon also knew how supportive amber was trying to be of coal. Something had happened and it had made the renamon-x nervous.
”I know dear. Don’t worry. Then it’ll be a little outing for the both of us!”
Silence watched coal go and looked somewhat saddened; she’d turn as the other fox addressed her. At the question silence brightened up and got a huge grin on her face leaning down to give the smaller mon a big hug!
”How bout this? Let me put away the groceries and then we can do that. I need to talk to your dad about something really quick too.”
With that? The large wolf would go about setting the groceries away and mikemon would find the wolf in the same room rather quickly. Her leaning down to whisper into his ear so thatt the others wouldn’t hear them. Given that this entire family had some really sharp hearing…
”Coal could use her dad, something happened in the store and I’m not sure what. I don’t think I’m the right person to talk to her about it either.”
She’d give the cat a kiss on the top of the head before heading off to go show her yellow furred daughter how to draw!
All the while? Coal was hugging a pillow to her chest and staring up at the ceiling. She had calmed down a bit but there was clear evidence she had been crying and had a bad case of the panic. She was still shaking a little bit too...
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Post by Amber on Jul 15, 2020 15:44:19 GMT
"Heh!"
Plucked up in the Shutmon's arms, the yellow Renamon-X returned her mother's hearty hug, clearly excited about learning how to draw! It wouldn't take her long to find something to sketch on, and with just a pen, she started to work on sketching 'something' while she waited for the wolf to come back. Even if she wasn't as nervous as Coal, it was nice to be back home and away from that stressful environment.
But for Coal, it was something different entirely. Mikemon would feel that muzzle press up against his ear, and would give a small blink. "Did Amber say if it was anything? Was she alone, or something?" Mikemon whispered back, wondering if Coal was bullied, clear concern on his face as he tried to mull it over. After all, the two weren't entirely sure what was going on, yet - only Amber had Coal had the full story.
Regardless, the doctor would give a knock, and would let himself into Coal's room, seeing her watering eyes and shaking frame. Slowly, he'd close the door, and step on up to the edge of the bed, carefully running a hand across Coal's forehead.
"Hey, careful there, Coal..." Mikemon's voice was soft, a smile on his face. "Did something happen when you were out at the store? Anyone say anything mean? Dad's here, dad's here..."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2020 18:39:44 GMT
”Hmm what to show you first..”
Silence grinned ear to ear and rubbed the top of her daughter’s head before setting them down. She’d go out to find her own equipment and it wasn’t long before she was spinning her pen around in her fingers. She had some paper that she could go over and they’d touch on the basics… Drawing some simple poses and eventually? Silence would show her to draw something more dynamic! With strange options for digimon and… well one such rendition of a human!
Though before all of that… she still had to address mikemon’s concerns.
”No. But the look says it all. That she knows something or someone happened. The big sister look that syre gets around holly.”
Silence frowned a little bit and kissed the top of his head before moving back to Amber; the big doofy grin quickly coming back!
Coal sat on her bed and had the pillow hugged against her; those watering eyes turned to her father and she’d exhale slowly as she felt that hand along her forehead. She’d push against it and if the mikemon wasn’t careful he’d find himself drawn into a hug along with that pillow.
”H-hi da…”
She’d sniffle a bit and push her head against the side of his and she’d mumble quietly. So much so she’d have to go over it again causse she realized that she was being a little too quiet even for her parent.
”W-well… we went shopping and… and it’... There was this chackamon and he was… super friendly and chipper and just right there and it was hard to talk to him or even look at him and then there was a bunch of people in line and… they didn’t stop staring at me and I felt like I was under a glass or something and… Then there was the fridgemon and he was super helpful but I couldn’t look at him he just… nnn…”
The renamon-x trailed off after a bit and would fold her knees up to her chest, hugging herself before snapping her eyes shut. Blowing out a soft breath before speaking again.
”Ma and Sis are gonna go to the big city and I don’t know if I can or even want to…”
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Post by Amber on Jul 15, 2020 18:58:43 GMT
"... Alright. I'll make sure that she's okay."
Was Mikemon going to have to have a talk with Amber as well? If the 'older' sister was hiding things that had happened, then she might be in big-time trouble! It wouldn't take long for the doctor to come up, and gently greet Coal - only to find himself drawn up into her daughter's arms, into a big, tight hug!
He held the 'oof', instead keeping his ears open for what Coal had to say. But what he heard was far from the worst case that the doctor had expected. Smiling and patient store personnel? People staring at her in line? Not wanting to go to the big city? These were all minor things in the long run - and in that respect, thank Sovereign, no-one had tried to hurt or bully her - but they were not minor things in Coal's head.
And because of that, Mikemon had to be very gentle approaching this.
"T... there there, Coal." Taking a moment to put his thoughts together, he'd give the fox a gentle pat on her back. "They weren't mean, right? The Chakamon and the Frigimon, I've met them before. Helpful people who like to talk and know what's going around in the town." He gave a smile, gently explaining that much to Coal.
"I know its a lot for you, but... 'how' did you feel? Were you scared, or did you just not know what to do? I'm here to help, Coal." As for Amber?
When that big wolf came back around, Amber found herself looking up from her pad, a smile and a nod given, before she worked through the last line with her pen. And if the Shutmon looked, she'd see a rough sketch of a Mikemon, standing on all fours - though, nothing had been done with the face quite yet!
"Hm... did I get the ears right..."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2020 19:53:00 GMT
Honestly this entire bit was probably more manageable than anything else that the mikemon could have thought up. The renamon-x hugged her father tightly and huffed out as the other spoke. She’d shake her head as he asked about them being mean. They were helpful and nice but…
”Th-they weren’t… anyone I knew and Ah… it was..”
Coal nervously fidgeted and she’d look down at her pillow, pushing her head into it and letting out a long whine. How did she feel? She felt scared. Closed off. Claustrophobic but it was hard to put it into words so all she could do for the moment was just sit there.
Her ears eventually splayed back and she’d pull her head up, staring down for a bit longer before mumbling again.
”...S-scared… closed off… I… I didn’t want to say anything but saying it just felt draining…”
Honestly that was the best way she could describe it and she’d rub at her face; she was so confused about all of this and why it was so hard for her to even interact with these people even if they were friendly!
”T-tch…”
Silence leaned a bit and ran a finger along the side of her head in thought; sticking an extra pen behind her ear. She’d watch her daughter from time to time; smiling a bit at seeing that mikemon. She’d lean slightly and without actually putting ink to paper she’d make the motion of what the ears looked like. Amber had the right shape save for the edge of the ears!
”A little short right there and if you just work it like this…”
Silence would twirl her pen and then draw on her own pad, showing the difference between the two and offering the other some insight on some of the other things she noticed. Even comparing and contrasting how amber got other things correct that the shutmon didn’t...
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Post by Amber on Jul 16, 2020 3:15:52 GMT
Scared. Closed off. Despite being surrounded by people, Coal felt alone and isolated, scared of every person around her. It was no wonder that it was draining, if that was the case!
"Coal..." The feline kept his smile, gently resting his hand on his daughter's back. "I know. Strangers can be a bit scary - you don't know what they're thinking. And if I had to guess, you're probably still able to see a bit of their data. But most Digimon out there aren't there to hurt you."
"You don't have to go somewhere you don't want to, and you don't have to talk or have a conversation with everyone that wants to talk with you... hm..." The cat tilted his head. "But maybe... you're too upset right now to really want to talk about it..."
Right. Was Coal even listening? He'd take a pause there, and would give a smile. "How about this - do you need anything? A soda, water, something to help your nerves?"
It seemed, at least for this, the 'dad' was still a bit in the dark. As for Amber?
Well, she looked at Silence's motion, and at her own sketch-pad, looking at other sketches that the wolf had made of that same subject. Silence had more practice, but Amber was surprised to see that her first attempt wasn't that far off - and so she was able to pick Silence's head on it.
How to draw the ears. How to space the eyes - just how to make the nose stick out the way its supposed to. Several small things, and several sketches later, Amber would have something on paper that definitely looked much closer to what she wanted...
... And the fox would hold a paw above the paper. Orange light would build up, and shine down, Amber giving a chuckle as the display started to fill and dance around the lines.
"... Heh... guess you can't really get a shadow like this..."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2020 3:26:02 GMT
”I ah... ”
Coal hugged that pillow to her a little tighter and she’d stare at her father as he spoke; still see their code? She’d shake her head. The red tint and green tint had eventually ended up canceling out one another. When wearing these goggles or glasses she was mostly okay by the looks of it. She’d close her eyes and exhale slowly.
”D-da… that’s not…”
She’d exhale again and push her head into her pillow; giving it another shake of her head. She couldnt’ explain it but it felt so raw, so wrong for her to be there. They couldn’t hurt her? Her claws would dig a little bit into her pillow and she’d exhale again.
”...Some… water? Milk maybe?”
She’d meekly look to her father; she wasn’t feeling better but she was trying and that was the key thing here. It was draining for her to interact with people outside of a very very select few. Mikemon, amber, holly, silence… even syre. The last of which she had some nervous tics around still.
”...Da…?”
Silence’s little assistance was more than enough to help amber out in the changes she needed; then again their reference to mikemons were… well the doctor himself! And given that the shutmon had spent some days just staring at him well… it wasn’t a surprise she knew his design well enough!
Seeing that paw above the paper she’d perk up; getting a grin over her face and with a little wiggle of her hand some ice particles would join into those dancing lights to give amber a little surprise as the light would refract and dance around the room.
”Just because you can’t create shadow with that doesn’t make it any less beautiful. But I bet if you asked coal she could give it some if you really want. Might even be happy that her big sis is asking for something.”
The shutmon grinned ear to ear and gave her daughter a one armed hug; she mused about a few things. Amber was definitely a momma’s girl with the way she acted so… Maybe silence should teach her something? Give her something that would make her happy? She’d have to talk to mikemon about that later when these two were asleep…
”You did a wonderful job drawing something like this so soon too! Have a better grasp on hands than I do it seems!”
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Post by Amber on Jul 16, 2020 20:14:40 GMT
It wasn't the data?
Well, Mikemon - at this point - was largely guessing. His ears were open, his voice was calm, and the smile didn't leave his face. He didn't expect Coal to 'get it' all at once, especially when she was still upset and coming down from her nervous breakdown. No, this was a point where the doctor needed to be gentle.
"Milk... I can get you some milk."
He'd give a small nod, and would move to sit up on the edge of the bed, until he felt his ear twitch, as Coal called out to him.His attention caught, he first looked over his shoulder, then turned to face Coal in full.
"Yes, hun? I'm listening." "Oh, wow..."
Amber didn't expect that at all! As the orange light caught onto Silence's crystal of ice, it would both fill up the crystal and cause the light to be cascaded across the room - not just in orange, but as little rays, every color that a prism could make! The fox found herself chuckling, changing the color that she was feeding into the crystal to see just how it would cast over the room. Red, blue, green - each had its own result, at the other end!
"Well... I was thinking that I could use it so that I could get an idea of what the color would look like, before I put it down on paper. But, I guess using light isn't a good way to try and get contrast?" The fox tilted her head, and tried using that controlled, orange light again over the paper. "Like, dad's not 'orange', really. More... auburn? Orange brown? Something? Not a color that light can make on its own."
She'd smirk, though, as Silence drew her close, giving a small laugh as she nuzzled up to Silence's shoulder!
"Well... maybe, but you're so much better at the posing and stuff! Here, da's just kinda... staring blankly at us, I guess!"
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2020 1:32:10 GMT
Coal didn’t know how to really explain it but she really wasn’t comfortable around a lot of people at once. Being slowly introduced to people was something that helped her a lot; with the family it was easier than when just brought out and about. She’d close her eyes and exhale softly; hearing that he would get her milk she’d nod her head slowly.
”Th-thank you da…”
Coal meekly hugged the pillow to her chest, her eyes looking to the mikemon for a moment before she’d look down. She seemed like she was considering something and after a little bit she’d rub at her head.
”When… when I looked at your core. Compared to… the others. It was a different color and seemed… odd. Are…. are you okay?”
She didn’t know how best to bring this up and it had been on her mind; she didn’t know what a Demonlord was or what the knights were, she knew very little about the world and this was one of the hundreds if not thousands of questions she had. She had a small vein of curiosity in her but it was far more controlled and much more immediate than holly’s own.
”And it’s… strange but I… when I was out at the store I only got slight glances but everyone seems so… different...”
Silence’s happy expression grew a bit and she’d watch the dancing colors; she really wished that coal could see this. Maybe that’d cheer her up from whatever was bringing her down? It was hard to tell exactly and the mother knew that mikemon would have a handle on things.
”Hmm. It’d be a good way of getting a base understanding or want but yeah I guess. Maybe coal could help with the contrast part. Though she isn’t as artsy as you are.”
The shutmon rubbed her chin and flicked her ears; auburn huh? Yeah that sounded about right actually. She’d hum softly and rub one of amber’s ears before comparing the two images. She’d laugh a bit at hearing that hers was ‘just staring blankly’.
”Auburn sounds about right. And my stuff comes from practice sweetheart. Take your time, envision what you want and how you want it to look and slowly…”
Silence would pull out a small journal and offer it to the renamon-x. Inside of it was her dream diary but it was nothing but images from the time she was ‘young’ up until now. Hundreds of pages of nothing but strange or interesting images. At the end there was something that seemed awfully reminiscent of the ‘twins’.
”Even if it’s a little bit every day, you’ll eventually bring your own world to life.”
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Post by Amber on Jul 17, 2020 17:20:17 GMT
There were definitely things that would help Coal, but as Coal figured out herself, those things were hard to say when one was upset! In the same line, anything Mikemon said would probably seem a lot worse when the fox was already upset - so for now, it was a good idea just to give Coal some space, and leave her some time to cool down.
... Though, it didn't exactly help that Coal moved onto a subject that was just as tense as the first. She caught a glimpse of his core, and Mikemon knew that he didn't have the best core, both having been damaged from a prior use of a Demon Pill, as well as forcing the trace of the Demon Lord out of his system. So - for the moment - he would just give a nod.
"I'm fine. You don't have to worry about me." He gave a chuckle: "But if you want to talk with me about it later, when you're feeling better, we can go over it. It'll help show just what your eyes are seeing."
He'd give a gentle scratch to the middle of her head, and he'd give a nod to her last comment. "Everyone is a little different. They have different families, different jobs, but in a lot of ways they go through the same things we do. Now, let's get you that milk..."
He'd excuse himself, for the moment. "Mmm.. well, if Coal wants to, anyway. Though its also probably just a matter of learning how to color."
Amber gave a chuckle, and would pull her hand back, leaving that light show on pause for now. "Though I'm glad I'm able to do that more consistently. Used to tire me out all the time as a Viximon - hm?"
The yellow fox would take that book in hand, open it up, and her eyes would brighten up. The early sketches were rough, and the later definitely more refined - but there was such a variety! Different scenes, different pieces, lots of different Digimon. Knights, Dragons - even a vision of the 'twins' at the end! She seemed enticed - and she'd carefully put the journal down, open to a page, and would start to sketch the wings of an Examon on her own pad.
Mikemon, stepping out of Coal's room, gave Amber a smile - and a nod towards Silence. "Mind meeting me in the kitchen, for a sec?"
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2020 20:27:12 GMT
Coal rubbed at her face and sighed softly as she was told that she didn’t need to worry about her father. She felt like she did but… Honestly if da told her she should just listen. She’d slowly nod her head and flick her ears forward as that scratch was given to the middle of her head.
”T-thank you da… and… o-okay…”
Coal smiled meekly and looked back down at her pillow; she didn’t understand what she was feeling. She didn’t know why she was so afraid of those nice digimon? Why was it hard to breathe when they looked at her? She’d close her eyes and breathe out as her father left her to her own musings…
”True true. I can teach you that too if you’d like.”
Silence smiled warmly and was glad to see the interest in the stuff in the journals. Even going so far as sketching the examon wings. She’d turn her head as mikemon came out of that room. She’d nod her head and give her daughter a gentle rub behind one ear.
”I’ll be a minute all right amber?”
Silence smiled brightly and would leave her daughter to her own devices; she was glad to have this to share with her daughter and once in the kitchen she’d exhale a bit. She had to wonder what mikemon had found out…
”So… is she okay?”
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Post by Amber on Jul 22, 2020 12:19:22 GMT
"Um... okay, ma."
A secret parent meeting? That wasn't exactly what Amber wanted to hear, but she didn't argue, simply giving a short nod to Silence as she and dad walked off to the kitchen. This was half expected, and as they made their way in, Mikemon gave a sigh, as if to let all the stress of that conversation off of his back.
"She's fine - inasmuch as nothing bad or untoward happened to her while she was out at town." That much, the doctor was confident again. Amber hadn't hid anything that she understood from mom or dad. But, then again, this also meant that Coal's situation was a bit harder to solve.
"That said, well... Coal definitely felt afraid when she went out shopping. No matter who it is, she doesn't seem to deal well with strangers. She freezes up, too scared of either them, or she doesn't know how to respond and it scares her. Um, to put it simply, she has severe social anxiety."
To that, the cat gave a sigh.
"And that's not something I entirely know how to help with."
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