isleofavalon | ☆ Open ☆ Time to get Crafty (and Spooky!)

🧙 WHO: Kazunari and YOU
⚔️️ WHAT: shoves a paintbrush into your hands. art
🕒 WHEN: Mid October
🗺️ WHERE: Kaika Theater
⚠️ WARNINGS: Shenanigans? Mess? None probably

☆ Stay Artsy!

[It turns out, there is something Kazunari can do in regards to current events and influx of refugees. Kaika Theater has been opening its doors to the children of refugees recently, as a free daycare. The kids can partake in an array of activities and one such activity is art with Kazunari!

Inspired by his recent art therapy session with Tsumugi and with the weather being as crummy as it's been, Kazunari can't think of a better way for the kids to direct their energy between their acting classes indoors.

Tables are lined up, covered in a layer of cheap kraft paper (to hopefully catch most of the mess) and there are plenty of paints, brushes, sponges and other fun painting utensils to go around. For those that want to get into the Halloween spirit, there are supplies to make kid friendly decorations. There is also glitter. There is so much glitter.]

☆ [While the majority of the painting is to be done at the tables, Kazunari has also set up a huge canvas across the floor. He's just asking for chaos when he dips his hands in paint and then lays them on the canvas.]

It's time for a collab, fam!!

☆ [Or maybe you really just want to sit down at a table and paint out your feelings. That's cool, too.]

☆ [One of the Halloween stations is for making paper ghosts and foam gravestones. They're made out of those foam boards that are easy to push patterns and writing into and then they can be painted.

Kazunari is making some terribly punny stones such as: Emma Goner and Bone Voyage!]

[This art event isn't limited to just the kids, though: anyone in Camelot is free to come by and have some fun.]

☆ Make it Spooky

[Halloween is drawing ever closer which means it's time to go all out with decorating. Kazunari has already decked out his room at the inn with as much as he can fit in it so now it's time to move on to Kaika Theater.]

☆ The majority of his efforts are going towards the outside of the theater. Ghosts hanging from the trees, gravestones tucked carefully carefully in the flower beds, spiders skittering up the door frame - all of the classics! If you can think of it, it's there or in his bag of goodies to be added.

☆ Inside, Kazunari is stringing up black and orange bunting as well as posting the silhouettes of bats and ghosts and ghouls (including ones made by the kids!) in the windows.

[Regardless of where he is, there will be a point where he climbs down from his ladder after placing some spiderwebs and admires his work.]

Hypeeee!! This is looking so legit!!!

((Kazunari will be around to interact with but this is also meant to be a casual open mingle post c: Feel free to PM this journal or

LUCK33 if there's anything specific you wanna do with Kaz not mentioned in the prompts. Have fun!))

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[ Ritsuka has chosen to make paper ghosts, though she's been mostly focus on decorating them to resemble something like this. She's not the best artist, but neither is she the worst: it's certainly recognizable as a skeleton, even if there's not the right number of bones or anything like that.

Right now, she's working on a larger one, which she has gone a little more out on--this in progress. ]

[Kazunari isn't trying to peak (he knows it's hard to create when someone's looking over your shoulder, after all) but he happens to glance over at Ritsuka's paper ghosts and - ]

Whoa! Those are fire! I've never seen skelly bones done like this. Super cool!

[ Ritsuka jumps a little at suddenly being addressed; she also doesn't startle easily, but sometimes you get into the zone and forget there are people around you. Her pen skids over the paper, leaving a smudge, and she blinks at it for a second before she laughs. ]

--Yeah, uh, this is... you could say I was inspired by a friend of mine. She's got a real... [ think fast, Ritsuka! ] gothic aesthetic going on.

[Kazunari winces. Oof. The smudge can be turned into a happy accident, though. Definitely.]

Ooh ~ Man, I've always been a little jelly of folks who can pull off the goth aesthetic. It seems so fun and then you come up with stuff like - this!! [He motions at Ritsuka's drawing again, nearly sparkling. Sooooo cool!!!] I can only get away with it around this time of year.

[Ha ha, bonk.]

I can't pull it off either, to be honest. I just kind of end up looking like a mess.

[ At least in her mind, you have to be elegant to some degree to really pull off goth, and the best Ritsuka can manage is cute. Oh well. She reaches for a paper towel to try and scrape up as much of the smeared black paint as possible. ]

Even at this time of year. I'd have better luck putting on a cat ear headband and ham it up.

I getcha, I getcha. [He nods sagely. There are a couple of guys he can think of who could pull it off and he is definitely not one of them. He likes bright colors too much, anyway.]

But hey, hey, nothing wrong with that! You'd look super cute with cat ears: I can just see it!

[ That makes her laugh, though it's more startled than flattered--even if she's the one who brought the idea up, the fact that he's going along with it is clearly not what she expected. ]

Cute, or creepy? --But I'll tell you what, if you find someone to dress up with me, I'd do it. You can't just do something like that on your own, you know? How does the saying go--"misery loves company," right?

[ But she's still smiling as she says it. Maybe dressing up would be fun. This will be the first Halloween in years where she'll have the time and space to even consider dressing up. She'll have to give that some more thought. ]

Nooo, you'd be cute! Totally cute! I had to wear a cat outfit for a play once so trust me, I 100% know what I'm talking about. [He is the cat ear master. Actually...]

--That's it, duh! I'll dress up with you! [He was probably gonna end up wearing some animal ears anyway, so why not.] Nothin' miserable about it!

[ She perks up immediately at that. "Nothing miserable," he says, which is a relief, but the point is still the company. ]

Sold! I will one hundred percent be a catgirl if you'll be my catboy partner in crime. I don't think this place has themed cafes, but we could at least act the part!

...Not that I know anything about acting, but I do know about cats.

Hell yeah! [Kazunari offers his hand so they can officially shake on it.

And as far as acting goes...] If it's for Halloween you can ham it up, like you said! Just y'know, like, nya ~ [He makes an extremely exaggerated pawing motion with his hands.]

Do you think it would it be weird to hand out candy around town? The residents here don't seem to celebrate as much as we do.

[ She copies the motion, laughing, before she has to stop and consider the question. ]

I don't think there'd be anything wrong with it... though you'd probably have to be willing to break character, so you can explain what's going on. I know my mom would've given the stinkeye to anyone trying to just randomly hand me candy.

...But as a kid, I definitely would've been excited for it. So maybe there's a way to pull it off.

Heh heh, me too. [Well, he'd have been excited for it as a kid if he'd had his current personality as a kid. But details, details.]

Ding, ding! Idea! We can make signs! [Isn't it convenient that they have all the materials for making signs in front of them, too!]

Oh--you could probably also make a note that you're with the theater, right? At least that way, people would take a look and be like, "oh, yeah, you'd definitely dress up if you were an actor."

[ Not that she's one--she volunteered to help out, but she was, and still is, primarily interested in helping behind the scenes. As far as acting goes, she's not really interested; the spotlight makes her antsy, and she's bad at lying in exactly the sort of way that makes her a terrible actor.

For now, she reaches for a blank canvas and the orange and black paints. ]

We might even be able to drum up interest in the theater, that way...

That's right! [He is still fresh enough that sometimes he forgets Camelot isn't Veludo Way where it's safe to assume every person you come across is probably an actor of some kind.] Two birds with one stone! And we get to have fun while doing it!

[Not that promoting the theater has ever not been fun, but y'know. Kazunari takes his own blank canvas. Signage time.] I can post about it on Insta too. Cover all our bases!

If you're doing it for the insta, you might as well take a picture of this whole setup.

[ Ah, promotion... the hardest thing for any kind of artist to do.

Not that Ritsuka particularly considers herself one; she's got a very specific skillset when it comes to drawing, and that's about the extent of what she does for creativity. For now, she's just adding grinning little jack-o'lanterns along the sides of her canvas. ]

If you know what the next show's gonna be, we could draw one of the characters...

For sure! I've been taking pics through the day ☆ [Promo is something that Kazunari is quite good at! His addiction to SNS certainly helps.]

I'm actually not sure... Director-chan mentioned maybe doing something themed around local tastes but idk if anything's been set in stone yet!

[So, no help there. He adds in some cute ghosties.]

I wonder if they've got Shakespeare here... they've got so much other stuff, that's probably a safe bet, right?

[ Never mind that William Shakespeare lived years after when King Arthur's Camelot would have been historically placed. Some things (and people) are more universal than others. It's hard to conceive of a place like this not being able to lay claim to that guy.

Not that Ritsuka really knows how a character from a Shakespearean play should be dressed as. In the end, she just adds a little side ponytail to one of his ghosts, and a little hat to the other. ]

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