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meryl stryfe. ([personal profile] petitejournalism) wrote in [community profile] duologs2023-05-16 11:28 am

[OPEN] Library Shenanigans + May Catch-All

CHARACTERS: Meryl and YOU!!!
DATE: Mid to Late-May
WARNINGS: Sleep issues & Tristamp spoilers! Will update more if needed.
SUMMARY: Some studying, some rough times, and a bakery run! Feel free to PM if you'd like to thread with her outside of these and I can set something up as well! AU plotting post over here!
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[personal profile] duskspear 2023-05-16 10:09 am (UTC)(link)
[The sight of Meryl, oblivious to the world around her as she dozes on the chair, tugs at Roland's lips when he comes across her by pure chance. Knowing how animated she can be, there's a certain charm to seeing her this way. Mindful of her rest, he takes measured steps to her side, where he crouches down to pick up the fallen notebook, and frowns upon straightening.

Her face has changed. Is she having a nightmare?

As if on cue, she awakens before he can think to do anything. Roland's hand hovers over her nearest shoulder, close but not terribly so as he softens his voice:
]

You're all right, Meryl. It was a dream.
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[personal profile] duskspear 2023-05-16 11:22 am (UTC)(link)
[To watch her sleep.

. . . In which she was clearly deep. Whatever she experienced there couldn't have been pleasant. His eyes follow her hand as it wipes at hers, and he retracts his own hand when she jumps.
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I was perusing some books here at the library. It appears you were doing the same before you dozed off.

[He holds the notebook out for her to take.]

I believe this is yours.
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[personal profile] feyfound 2023-05-16 01:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Under most other circumstances, it would be rare to ever find Juniper in a place like a library. At least, for any other reason than "studying monster tomes and fantasizing about battling them" but her other self here seems to be a student - and she's never gotten the chance to go to a real school, so she's going to do her best!

Even if her best still means she's struggling to get the hang of this!

She has some "homework" to work on today, and she strides into the library at Dodo with purpose, a textbook or two in her arms... but mostly, a bountiful stack of snacks precariously arranged atop said textbooks. It's important to have snacks while studying to keep your focus, right!? And maybe if she finds someone who's studying properly, their energy will encourage her to do her best, too... Even though she really wants to be outside playing or doing literally anything else...

Ahh, no, Juniper! You have to try your best at school here so your fake parents don't get upset at Uncle Declan!

With renewed purpose she looks about and - that's when she spots Miss Meryl, buried in a stack of books and furiously taking notes. Perfect, that's exactly the vibe that she hopes to emulate. She approaches, but before she can take a seat and settle in, she can't help but notice the botanical illustrations on the books - and in particular one that she recognizes. ]


Oh... That's coneflower!
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[personal profile] verselet 2023-05-16 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[V hasn’t been here long enough to have a “haunt” yet, but it’s a foregone conclusion that the library will be one of his favorites. He’s always been studious, always been eager to get lost in the pages of a book — whether for research or pleasure, there’s something about the quietude of the place, able to draw oneself inward, that appeals to him. After all, Vergil was never really a social man. Those hard edges are now softened a little with V, but the core remains the same, and there are times when he simply seeks solitude beyond the bustle within the halls of Dodo, or the rat race of the city outside.

So, what books are there to seek today? He rounds the corner to a bookshelf that he’s practically claimed for his own, tomes of poetry—archaic and modern—lined up like little soldiers on the shelving. V already has an idea of which he wants to read, and he plucks it away from its home, then moves to find a place to sit.

Along the way, he finds a blob.

Sorry, no, he finds a young woman swallowed up in a pillowy chair, so much that she might as well just be one with the shapeless blob; though V can differentiate her enveloped form by a wayward limb and a book splayed atop her body.]


Now, why sleep in a bed when you have a library…

[He murmurs, not intending to speak loudly enough to awaken her. But this sure is the second time he’s found someone dozing in here.

Should he wake her? His eyes glide about, from her book to the notebook lying on the floor. Instead, V gives into his snooping curiosity, bending down to pick up the notebook and… flips to a random page to see what she’s been scribbling away at.

Nosy, nosy. What’s in here?]
Edited 2023-05-16 18:05 (UTC)
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[personal profile] clockworksoul 2023-05-16 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Surprising to no one, Declan loves the library. He’s in there a lot, and perhaps he and Meryl have crossed paths before now – he did offer to help her in her research after all – but on this particular night he can’t help but notice her dozing in the corner. He smiles to himself a little, being no stranger to falling asleep in the midst of some project or other. Waking up like that is always a bit disorienting. More often than not, he comes to with parchment stuck to his face and a whole new slew of ink stains on his cheek to join the grease stains that are often already there.

He thinks, perhaps, he should spare her that indignity and get her some soothing tea and get her off to bed properly. (While he probably inevitably continues to stay up and read. He’s real big on “do as I say, not as I do.”)

In the brief time it takes him to duck off to the kitchen and come back to the library, a pair of mugs of tea in hand, it seems Meryl has slipped into a nightmare. He’s no stranger to that, either. Setting the tea down on a nearby table, he crouches to lay a gentle hand on her shoulder. ]


Meryl? Come on, wake up now. You’re dreaming.
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[personal profile] duskspear 2023-05-16 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Although he didn't look, she's evidently been collecting data of some sort. Is it perhaps related to the rain . . . ?

He shakes his head. Reading can come later.
]

I merely picked up what you'd dropped. By the time I was close enough, you were already awake . . .

[He trails off, vacillating as to how he should pose the question on his mind.]
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[personal profile] middleboss 2023-05-17 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Conveniently? This is the same bakery where Desumi works, at least part-time! She beams at the question, clapping her hands together.]

I've tried a little bit of everything, so I'm happy to give recommendations! What kind of flavors do you like?
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[personal profile] humainity 2023-05-17 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
I'm still getting used to eating.

[ She says. Point-blank. Head tilted. But-- ]

But I believe if you give me a minute, I can check their most popular items?
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[personal profile] janescayre 2023-05-18 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
[PATHETIC.

Fukawa stands over her new government-assigned roommate with a pinched expression. Her mouth is less a line and more a rumpled twist tie, her glare emitting from slits so thin only a scalpel could have cut them.

This is the library. A sacred place. Which Meryl is now desecrating with her lack of consciousness and infernal mouth breathing.

Unwilling to put her hands on her and reluctant to break the peace with a ruckus, Fukawa bends to fetch the abandoned pen from Meryl's notebook. Then she presses it into her cheek. Prodding. Jostling that sleepy head.]


W-wake up!
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[personal profile] duskspear 2023-05-18 12:24 pm (UTC)(link)
It's . . .

[He reads off the time, watching her as he does. If she was dreaming, she's had to have been here for a while—or so he guesses. Perhaps she was just tired.]
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[personal profile] feyfound 2023-05-18 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There's no sign of discomfort in her demeanor at all, and she certainly doesn't feel like Meryl needs to apologize! She's just happy to run into her new friend again. She met so many people in her first days here that she'd began to worry she would start forgetting them...

Ah, but Juniper is quick to shake her head. ]


Well, I wouldn't say a lot, really... I definitely cannot keep all of the names and meanings and languages and stuff like what everyone's been talking about lately straight in my head, but... When it comes to the easier names and their uses, I do okay!

[ Is this seat taken? No? She's just inviting herself to sit next to Meryl. Or maybe like, another seat away, depending on whether there's table space... ]

One of my moms would send me out to the woods to forage a lot, so I learned that way!
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[personal profile] verselet 2023-05-18 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh. As he flips through the pages, he realizes that he shouldn't be surprised, but the array of notes and detailed information still makes his brows raise. He knows that her world is a desert one, given their last conversation, and that she attributed the idea of "hope" to a flower — but to see this research so painstakingly laid out before him only drives that point home. Just how desperate is her situation back on her planet?

Another page, another. The drawings are relatively impressive in their preciseness, too, even if it lacks artistic flair. He even spots the flower crown he presented her days earlier, which makes him smile, despite himself.

When she stirs, though, V just closes the notebook with a snap!]


Someone’s been hard at work. Maybe a little too hard at work. Dropping all your notes for random strangers to pick up on a whim…

[Hi, wake up!]
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[personal profile] clockworksoul 2023-05-18 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He won’t remark on her half-asleep ramblings one way or another. The only thing more disorienting than falling asleep in the library is perhaps falling asleep in the library only to be woken up by a nightmare.

He gives her a small, sympathetic smile, reaching over to grab one of the mugs of tea and offering it to her. ]


Happens to the best of us. Are you alright?
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[personal profile] middleboss 2023-05-18 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Everything!

[Glutton--

Anyway, that's a pretty fair sort of situation to be in, she thinks. Desumi taps her lower lip with a finger for a moment, contemplative.]


Well, let's see... let's start with how sweet you'd like for it to be! We have some stuff that's a bit closer to tart, or with hints of bitter, or you can just go all in on the sugar.

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