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Dominic Chambers (knowhow) wrote in finnigans_rpg,
@ 2015-01-28 17:47:00

Entry tags:

character: dean thomas, character: dominic chambers, character: luna lovegood

Luna's Birthday!
Who: Luna, Dominic, Dean - any other friends of Luna welcome
What: Birthday celebrations
Where: Dominic's flat
When: Wednesday afternoon / evening
Rating: SFW

Though they'd been in the same Hogwart's House, Dominic didn't know Luna particularly well - which made planning a birthday surprise for her a little bit challenging. Never one to back down in the face of a difficult task, Dominic had asked around and tried to remember all that he'd seen of Luna. He had an idea she liked painting and since Dean, the only person Dominic knew to invite, was also an artist he figured he couldn't go far wrong with that. The Roost was booked at lunchtime and for choir in the evening, so he'd chosen to set things up in his own spare room. The actual implementation hadn't been that hard. White muggle wallpaper (the drying process hurried along with a few choice spells) with 'Happy Birthday Luna' written across the far wall in dark blue glitter. There were art supplies - both muggle and magical - piled strategically in a corner and even three aprons.

After lunch, Dominic went looking for Luna. They hadn't arranged a time or a place but given how much she'd been working lately, he hoped it wouldn't be too difficult to find her.

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Dean/Dominic/Luna

loonacy
2015-02-10 11:00 pm UTC (link)

"They take all of that very seriously," she said a little wistfully. She wasn't complaining about it, but she supposed she understood guarding that kind of thing secretly. But what all the secret stuff might be, she was completely clueless since she couldn't think of anything that could be that secret.

She set the brush down and smiled, watching the little figures on the page go back and forth. That was sweet. Picking up the brush again, she drew a little girl who started to do ballet twirls over the page. She put blonde hair on her and drew her a little cake. Then she drew another little stick figure who promptly gave the ballet dancer a kiss on the cheek.

Hey at least she could live vicariously through her stick figure drawings. However she did seem to be lost in her own little world.

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Dean/Dominic/Luna

knowhow
2015-02-12 05:05 pm UTC (link)

Slightly disappointed, Dominic nodded. "I'd appreciate that, actually. Like I said, I'm not the biggest fan of book-learning, so if we can narrow the amount of books I have to read to appease my curiosity, I'm all for it." He watched both Dean and Luna carefully as they cast the animation spell, smiling at the antics of their animated figures. "It's a bird! It's just... far away." He grinned and then attempted the spell himself - to no result.

It took him a few more minutes to work out what he was doing wrong (wand movement, as usual) and get his own drawing to give a few apathetic flaps of it's 'wings'. He shook his head, annoyed at himself for not getting it but knowing that now was not an appropriate time to stand her and make repeated attempts. This wasn't his workshop and he was supposed to be helping everyone else have fun, not drawing into his own world of problem-solving. He summoned a few of the left-over colouring pencils and started carefully adding a strip of green 'grass' under Luna's dancing girl. "Maybe I'll provide the backgrounds and you two can add the action," he suggested.

With a glance at Dean, he walked around and sketched in a 'beanstalk' on Dean's other side, with some white-blue clouds at the top.

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Re: Dean/Dominic/Luna

artistdean
2015-02-13 02:13 pm UTC (link)

"Couple of books should do it," he said. "I mean the public stuff can get you a lot of the same effects if you've got the skills, but it takes practice. The professional stuff is a lot more precise, has more variations, that sort of thing," he explained, freezing his figures and adding some clothes to them before reanimating them.

He watched Luna's little figures with a smile and concentrated, sending his two dancers over to hers with a spell. One immediately switched to dancing ballet and bowed to the ballerina, beginning to lead her in a dance.

"Backgrounds work too," he said. "But, yeah, the spells can take some practice to get the effects you're aiming for." His stray man was now looking a bit miffed, his arms folded and foot tapping. "Of course, you get good and even the stick men have personalities, which can get a bit trying."

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Re: Dean/Dominic/Luna

loonacy
2015-02-14 04:04 am UTC (link)

The dancing figures seemed to please Luna a lot. She liked to dance, but her version of dancing was different than other people's. The figures were cute though. She smiled up at Dean and Dominic and then put some flowers in the grass and a little dog that the figures could play with. The little dog ran around the stick figures, only to get petted by them.

If she wanted to, she would add a bunch more animals. She was probably better at painting them than she was people. But she didn't want to overwhelm the pictures with a bunch of weird animals. Most ones that they would deem not real, even if she thought they were pretty real.

"Try putting a smile on his face?" she asked with a shrug of her shoulders.

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