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 Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 3:26 pm
Titus was frustrated to put it lightly. Of all the tasks he could imagine Hel to give him knitting had not been one of them but she had hardly left him a choice in the matter. It was either learn knitting or deal with her as his mentor for the rest of eternity and risk another tour session of where her and her boil toy did the nasty. Yeah he was more up for knitting. The problem was he didn't know where to start. He had gotten the needed materials, though he had to ask his Uncle for the money to do so. That had been embarrassing, especially because his Uncle made him explain what it was for. That aside he now sat on the floor of his dorm, elbow deep in yarn with a tangled mess sitting in his lap while he tried to gruele knitting tutorials to figure out where he was going wrong. " How in the hell...." He grumbled picking up the mess of yarn, string all over the place. Somehow during his adventure it had gotten draped over his horns, was tangled around bits of his clothes, and even tied in a knot around his legs. How the hell had he managed this. He wasn't even sure he could stand.
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 5:45 pm
Riyo had finally managed to venture out of her room and back to work, the air from her motorcycle giving some much needed mind cleansing. It finally felt like her ducks were getting back in their crooked little row. At least for now. Life was decent.
After changing back into her normal attire, the ghoul trotted over to a certain boil's dorm (as she had become accustomed to doing), and knocked. "Hey a*****e!" Her normal call. "Are you decent?" Maybe they could go somewhere tonight, get him out of the dorms for awhile.
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 6:03 pm
Titus was still struggling to free himself, the yarn gathering tighter around his horns. He couldn't even see what he was doing anymore so when the knock on the door came he just froze staring at the mess he was in like 'really? this had to happen now?'
At least the voice was a familiar one and he let out a sigh before he called back. "Yeah, the door's.....open." He hesitated because he really didn't want to be seen in this situation but likely he wasn't going to be able to get out of this mess easily.
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 6:50 pm
blissfully unaware (though she did note his hesitation) Riyo opened the door and peeked in.
Oh. Oh my.
The feline stared for a moment, bewildered by what she had just walked into, when she finally managed to speak up. "Do you uh... Need help?" She asked with a smirk. She approached slowly, leaning over so she could be at eye level. Then she just... Started batting at one of the stray strands hanging from his horns. Oh how long it had been since she played with yarn.
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 12:39 am
As Riyo came through the door she would find that Titus looked unhappy. Unhappy and very embarrassed. He had resolved to sit still since the more he moved the worse off this tangled web of yarn got.
"...Yeah...if you could....hey I'm not a ******** cat toy." He grumbled when the feline began to bat at some of the string. Titus was sitting here in obvious distress and she was going to get her kitty on.
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 3:20 am
In secret, Riyo disagreed with his cat toy statement. "Alright, alright." She laughed, giving his yarn prison one good look over. "Oh what a tangled web you've weaved." It wasn't that she didn't care he was unhappy, but the situation was too funny to just let it go.
The feline grasped some of the yarn at the top of his head, the strands that seemed to be constricting together, and used a claw to slice them in two. "Geez." She followed the yarn downwards and made a few more cuts around the tangled parts, and finally on the knot at his feet. "You should be good." Unable to drive the smirk away from her face, Riyo parked next to him on the couch. "So... Exactly what were you trying to accomplish with all this?" Really, she was dying to hear.
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 6:43 am
"Ha ha." It was the furthest thing from a laugh as Titus spat the words out in a flat voice. Really, not amused. At least Riyo finally got the idea and went about helping him get out of the mess he had created for himself. Bit by bit the yarn loosened until there was finally enough slack he was able to pull it away completely. He sighed with relief, throwing the ruined yarn aside in a heap on the floor. At least at present it was the only mess in his room since he had managed to clean up since last time.
"Uhh.." Titus wasn't sure he wanted to explain but just imagining the things she would think up on her own had him relent to the idea. "Knitting. Hel's making me do it for some sort of mentor thing." Titus really didn't get it, he wasn't sure how doing this was going to help him and he was also certain someone was going to show up soon to relieve him of his man card that Hel so thoughtfully liked to stomp on with each encounter.
"Do you know how to do this?" He held up the knitting needles and bits of yarn that could obviously no longer be of use.
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 4:17 pm
Riyo pretended to be blissfully unaware of just how upset he was because really, he'd gotten himself into this mess. He was alone in his dorm and there was no one else to blame, not even the poof balls.
"Knitting?" Riyo leaned back and tried to look surprised when really, she was dying on the inside. Little grandma Titus with adorable spectacles hunched over a big basket of yarn making his grandkids a scarf. It was all she could do not to burst out in a fit of laughter as she imagined shark teeth dentures and pigeons perched on his horns. Thank you Hel. She needed that mental image.
The feline figured, however, that he was having a hard enough inner battle just coping with the fact that he had to do something like that. Jack knows she wouldn't be caught dead knitting.
"Ah... No." She grasped at the stray yarn with a smirk. "I know how to clean and fix buttons. That's where my womanly duties begin and end." She paused. "Not that... Knitting can't be manly, I guess." Yeah, good save. Surely extreme knitting was a thing... Somewhere... Maybe...
... Maybe.
"I can do other things with yarn, though."
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 5:06 pm
There was a deep frown when Riyo mentioned 'womanly duties' not to mention he could tell she was battling to hold herself together. "Yeah, about as manly as tea parties and frilly dresses. I get it, get your laughs out now." No, really, get them out now Riyo while he might be able to tolerate it because those knitting needles could easily be turned into weapons.
He watched her pick at pieces of the yarn before he fiddled with the clump he had been working on. If he had been trying to make the worlds strongest knot out of yarn he probably succeeded. "Yeah, like what?"
He tossed the chunk of yarn and watched it roll away across the floor. There, he made something. A really ugly ball.
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 5:32 pm
"Alright."
Her smirk turned into a big grin. "AHAHAHAHAH!" It had been the heartiest laugh she'd had in a long, long time. The demoness might have been wiping tears from her eyes when she finished. Picturing grandma Titus in his wheelchair named Clara had sealed the deal.
At least she kept it short and serioused it up when she was done, taking in a deep breath and returning to a stoic appearance. "I'm done." Her hands toyed with the strands of yarn she'd managed to grab, and it looked like she might actually do something with them. "Like-"
And then he did it.
the ball of yarn rolled across the floor, with stray strands dragging along behind it. Her slitted pupils thinned as she watched it roll, ears standing at attention. The feline's head shifted as she watched it slow to a stop on the other side of the room. Calling her like a siren calls sailors to a watery death.
Oh, cruel yarn temptress...
Riyo managed to pull her head away and back to what she had been about to explain. "Like... This." She had tied the ends of the string together, looping it through her fingers purposefully. "Cat's cradle." She held up a little design woven between her fingers. "Completely useless, but when you're alone it's better than staring at a wall sometimes." Sometimes.
"I guess there's more you can do with two people, but I never learned for obvious reasons."
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 5:44 pm
Yeah she laughed, much harder than Titus imagined she would, but he sighed and let it happen. Might as well get it over with quickly like pulling off a bandaid. It could be worse right?
After throwing the ball Titus had turned back in time to see the strangest expression he had ever witnessed on Riyo's face. He looked at her, then back at the yarn, then back to her. Those eyes were so focused and attentive and Titus furrowed his brow (because knitting your brow is for non-manly men) trying to gauge what was going on.
Her little yarn trick barely caught his notice, instead he picked up one of the actual balls of yarn and lightly began to toss it into the air before letting it land back in his palm. He did this several times over and over trying to gauge Riyo's reaction.
"Yeah I don't think that little yarn trick is going to get me far into this activity."
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 5:51 pm
Just as Riyo had looked up from her little activity, she saw the yarn ball in the boil's hands. Her eyes focused on it attentively, following the sphere as it flew up and came back down, almost like she was being hypnotized by it.
"I never said it would." She kept speaking, even though it was obvious her attention was elsewhere. There was so much beautiful string to unravel in that big ball of wonderment.
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 6:01 pm
Titus tossed the ball up once, twice and a third time before he caught it and held onto it. White eyes were focused on Riyo when he tossed the yarn ball again but instead of going straight up the ball flew in a delicate arch right toward the feline. Oops, slip of the hand.
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 6:28 pm
The feline did not blink as she watched the bouncing yarn ball intently, her eyes focusing in on it as he stopped tossing it in the air.
AND THEN SUDDENLY YARN BALL. Riyo's hands had reached up to grab it, but with yarn entwined around her fingers things were surprisingly difficult. It was like watching a circus act unfold, because while not managing to actually catch the ball, she somehow kept it up in the air until finally it bounced it's way over the leg of the chair, and the feline went tumbling after it.
Literally tumbling.
With a big loud THUD following shortly after. Head pressed against the floor, arms tangled behind her in the yarn she had tied herself moments earlier, and legs folded back like someone had just made a piss poor attempt at a hog tie. Well if that wasn't priceless.
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 6:35 pm
This time it was Titus' turn to laugh and he did so with glee. Gripping his sides he fell back against the couch unable to hold back. It was probably the first real laugh he had experienced in a good long while but always at someone else's expense.
After a good thirty seconds Titus managed to calm down, chuckling to himself as he wiped at his eyes but seeing how Riyo had ended up only started him up again. "Oh Jack haha do haha do you need HAHAHA...." He couldn't even ask if she needed help, he was too far gone. Apparently once he got started stopping was the real challenge.
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