i've got just one regret to live through

[konpeitoqueen]

Who: Saionji konpeitoqueen and Kayneth enjoymyatelier
Where: Ecruteak City Dance Theater
When: February 27th
Summary: Saionji is practicing in the dance theater. Kayneth visits the dance theater. In other news, the planets are aligning in the prediction of the apocalypse.
Rating: G, unless Saionji enacts some serious act of violence on Kayneth
Log:

Honestly speaking, the entire detour to Ecruteak City was a good one.

Saionji is ever-so-gracefully tapping her fingers against the stage floor, the fan opening quite loudly in her left hand. The Kimono Girls here are rather polite figures, and have no issue with others coming up onstage to practice. Sure, there were Rocket attacks, but who would ever think that a girl like Saionji would be a Rocket member? Her obi was finally tied into an actual knot instead of being disgracefully tied together like rope for manual labor, though the bow was still a bit casual for her liking. Still, she would learn the complicated formal bows later. She's taking notes, after all.

Of course, her good moods didn't exactly count on someone she recognized walking through the door. She wouldn't just happily show off her skills to anyone- and especially not this guy.

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[enjoymyatelier]

"Well, I should very well think not," said Kayneth, a bit deadpan. "With that said, I am almost finished --- thankfully."

...for both of them, really. Just a few last finishing touches...

[konpeitoqueen]

PREPARING TO BREAK HIS FACE IN THREE TWO-

"Finally! I was about to get bored and wander off." She's not really telling the truth, since she's still honestly curious, but now that he's said that, her patience has all but fallen by around 100%.

"So? Finish up and let me see!"

[enjoymyatelier]

"This didn't even take that long," said Kayneth, adding a few last finishing touches. Of course, it also needed to dry just a tiny bit...

But in any case, shortly after, he turns the easel around with a bit of a smirk. It is very skilled; it's painted in a rough style that betrays the fact that it was done in a short amount of time, but if anything, it gives the paining a pleasant hazy quality that makes it look vaguely Impressionist.

Saionji's figure is by far the most detailed aspect of the painting, and the realistic style that captures her pose quite well, even though she'd been antsy throughout. Combined with the hazy background, it makes it it look like a photograph with the subject in closer focus than everything else. There's another contrast between her and the background --- the background is subtly more muted than Saionji's figure, which is painted with brighter, more vibrant colors.

"Well?"

[konpeitoqueen]

...Oh, well. Uh. Shit, she can't actually bite back against that.

It's something, definitely, and Saionji actually does value aesthetic talent. Swim a few dozen laps in front of her in record time? Steroids. Solve the Millennium Prize Problems with her as witness? Nerd. But the painting Kayneth has just produced in front of her is worthy of at least some respect. She can't dream of doing that, and she knows it- there's a unique style to it, but it's nothing actually bad. Knowing her school, SHSL standard would be to paint the whole fucking field of grass down to each blade in several minutes and catch every quirk about her, from the way her hair falls to the muscles of her face tightening from strain, but the artwork was ten times better than what she actually expected.

"Ehhhh? It's actually decent! Maybe just a bit more." She's not going to outright say she likes it, of course.

She walks a bit closer. "Perhaps I should reevaluate my view of you... teehee!"

[enjoymyatelier]

"It would have likely been better if I had more time to sit down and work on it, but I suppose we can't have anything," said Kayneth, with a very slight hint of false modesty to his voice.

"In any case, I suppose we're practically even, then."

[konpeitoqueen]

She can tell that's false modesty, Kayneth, she has tons of it.

Her main response is to that last statement, though. "Wha- it isn't even close to SHSL standard! Don't be ridiculous."

Saying she kinda wanted to keep the painting out of fascination and ego is probably affirming he kinda is even, however. GOTTA PHRASE THIS WELL. "If we let me take that painting off your hands to sell, though, I might consider it."

[enjoymyatelier]

"Oh, come off it. You haven't even seen my best work."

Besides, would Hope's Peak even have a Super High School Level Magus...?

...at that second question, he looks less than amused.

"Well, if you're going to sell it, I expect some of the proceeds."

[konpeitoqueen]

"Don't expect it to actually sell, though! You'll most likely just be disappointed."

It's kinda bullshit, she's pulling this all out her ass, but she does look pretty in the painting. So she's gonna get it!

[enjoymyatelier]

"...well, given the subject matter, I'm honestly not."

Does he care enough to suspect it?

No, not really.

[konpeitoqueen]

"I'll have you know all my performances were sold out in my home world!"

...'In her home world' being the key point. "Well, I'll be going now- I've been far too generous with my time already."

[enjoymyatelier]

"That's a very significant qualifier, you know. In my world, I was a professor of magic, but you don't hear me bragging about that."

...has he ever brought up the magic thing to her before?

Whatever.

[konpeitoqueen]

Yes, actually.

"But your magic only existed in your world! As for me, I kept my talent."

THAT'S A VALID POINT AS FAR AS SHE'S CONCERNED.

[enjoymyatelier]

...

SHUT UPPPPPPPPP DON'T REMIND HIM

"Weren't you supposed to be leaving?"

[konpeitoqueen]

"I think I will!"

This is a victory in her books! Taking the painting, she doesn't even look back and walks off.

SO LONG, SUCKER.