Video | un: robin

[wolfhunted]

[The video opens to show Robyn sitting by the window in her room at the Inn. There are some craft supplies on the windowsill behind her, namely some pieces of white cloth and a pair of scissors. Robyn herself is holding a needle and thread, since she's working on making a teru teru bozu.]

Is anybody else makin' these...teru teru things? I don't like sewin' much, but I wanted to make some anyway. We had so much rain in April, it would be nice to have more sun. I hope those storm sprites will like them.

[And also because she wants to see a tiny fairy wedding outside her window. No matter how strange things can get here, she still gets excited about what she's heard in stories, including fairies.]

I can make the bodies just fine, but... [Robyn snips the end off her thread with the scissors and turns the teru teru bozu towards the camera. The face she's tried to sew on it has a rather crooked smile.] I can't get the faces right. Does anyone have any advice?

[Merlyn, Robyn's falcon, is perched on her chair and cheeps something to Robyn that makes her give him an exasperated look.] Oh, as if you know anythin' about sewin', smarty-feathers.

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[alchemists]

I normally draw them in with a marker instead of trying to sew buttons or anything else for a face. That way you can at least use some chalk before going in with the marker!

[wolfhunted]

Markers? Do you mean those pens they have here that already have ink in them?

[Markers haven't been invented yet where Robyn is from, but she still looks like she wishes she thought of that beforehand.]

Ugh, that would have been so much easier...

video; un: beaumains

[beaumains]

[ A small, embarrassed laugh, and a shaking of her head. ]

Try as some of the castle maids might have, I never could pick up on needlework of any sort.

[ And then a brighter chuckle. ]

I suppose, given my proficiency with my lance, I just needed something bigger, eh?

Video; un: Koromaru

[whatsamada]

I just draw on where I want to sew and it turned out fine?

[He said before showing off his poor attempt to make the doll.]

Or at least, I think it did.

[wolfhunted]

Me mother taught me how, but it's borin' to sit inside and sew for so long...

[Robyn huffs a little as she looks out at the rain pouring down.] Not that I can go outside, anyway.

[wolfhunted]

I've never tried sewin' a face on anythin' before. It's harder than it looks.

[She probably could have just drawn a face on there first, at least.]

[beaumains]

Oh! How about a work song? That usually helps, right?

[ Though that wouldn't necessarily improve Robyn's technique... ]

[wolfhunted]

Are there any songs that are good for sewin'? I know some huntin' songs, and some folk songs...

[And if she tried singing those, she'd probably just get distracted from what she was supposed to be doing.]

[beaumains]

The words matter less than the rhythm itself. You find a song that matches your motions, and the work becomes that much more fun!

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[roseeclair]

Hey, Robyn-chan~ I've made quite a few teru teru bozu, if you want, I know a couple o ways you can do it without sewing!

[wolfhunted]

Really? I can sew the bodies, but I'd rather not sew the faces.

[She can make the bodies by tightening the threads where the head should be, but anything more complicated than that is frustrating for her.]

[whatsamada]

You're telling me, I don't really know how to sew. I only learned it based on a couple of videos I've seen online!

[Because that's where one goes to find information these days!]

[wolfhunted]

Me mother taught me how to sew. [When she was alive, that is.]

I never liked havin' to sit and sew for so long, but knowin' how to do it can be useful. Like if you have a hole in your clothes and you need to patch it up.

[wolfhunted]

Hmm...

Maybe "The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield" would work. That one's about Robin Hood.

[Or maybe that was just an excuse to sing a song about Robin Hood.]

[beaumains]

Oh! I got to meet him an Chaldea!

[ Well. An Robin Hood, but Gareth doesn't really know the full details of his whole... deal... ]

[wolfhunted]

You've really met Robin Hood?! What was he like?

[Aaaand the subject of sewing has been completely forgotten. She has to know more, even if Gareth can't tell her much.]

[beaumains]

He's... [ A small laugh. ]

He's a bit aloof, really. You can tell he's a pragmatic sort, which I suppose comes with the territory of living the bandit life as long as he had, even if he did so with noble intentions. But I can also tell he has a kind and just heart. To see him with the child Heroic Spirits is a delight, not that he'd admit to being so soft with them.

video un: konpeito_oni

[konpeito_aji]

We traditionally just used ink and a brush. [He's amused by the attempts to do it more difficultly.] A modern marker would also work. Or cross-stitching if you feel fancy about it.

But they're known as bald-headed monks, so you shouldn't try to make them too pretty. It was based on an idiot who told a lord he could control the weather. He could not. So he was beheaded. [Nobunaga, that wasn't necessary.]

TMW you remember that your character is, in fact, pretty darn good at sewing.

[roseeclair]

Yeah, it's no problem at all! Where do you wanna meet up? I've got a sewing kit we can use and I can grab more art supplies... and I can bake snacks too. Gotta stay fueled, right~? [Wink!]

[whatsamada]

[There was a pause from his end before he gave a small smile.]

All the more reason to look up how to sew right? Just in case if your mom isn't around to help you anymore.

[alchemists]

You can still make more, there isn't a limit on them.

[ Maybe making more will bring better luck. ]

[wolfhunted]

That's nice to know, if I ever meet him. At least he won't ignore me just because I'm younger.

People still tell stories and sing songs about him where I'm from, but Father says nobody knows if he was real or not.

[After she became a Wolfwalker, she's willing to believe that any of the stories she's heard have some truth to them.]

[wolfhunted]

I could never get cross-stitchin' right...I probably should just draw the faces on.

[Though that's not the kind of story she expected behind these cute little dolls. She's from a time period where even stories aimed at children could be gruesome, but still.]

Why do these have such an awful story? But...if I can't make them too pretty, those Storm Sprites might not like them.

[wolfhunted]

I guess I could, but...I want them to look good, too. That way we can get all this rain to clear up faster.

[And so she can see a fairy wedding, of course.]

[beaumains]

That's actually true of a few of us Heroic Spirits! Some of us are so much legend and mythos that the "truth" of our lives almost becomes irrelevant.

[ She tries to think of an example... ]

Take Cu Chulainn, for example! No one really knows if he actually existed. Even in my time, there were doubts that any of the events of the Ulster Cycle happened, but that ultimately didn't make his legend any less impactful. I often told myself if I could be half as good a spearman as he was, I'd be doing pretty alright for myself!

And then I got to meet him! It was amazing!