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Tweak says, "Engage."

Paradiso Mods (paradisomod) wrote in paradisolog,
@ 2016-07-02 21:00:00

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!bonfire, christine chapel (chapelrn), ~amanda perry (miss_brilliant), ~barry allen (theflash), ~bruce banner (wontlikemeangry), ~finnick odair (dist4_finnick), ~lailah (lailah_night), ~luke skywalker (luke_skywalker), ~peter quill (itsstarlord), ~sydney sage (passionateaura)

Bonfire!
Tonight's bonfire will just be regular points. Have fun!

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Amanda & Finnick

dist4_finnick
2016-07-04 10:21 pm UTC (link)

Finnick nodded. "Sewing takes a lot of fine motor skill and a lot of practice. Most of the people I know who are really good at it started to learn as children. I think it might be easier with the machine, though, and certainly faster. That's the part I'd be the most interested in learned someday. But yes, there are so many people here with so many different skills, I'm sure we can all learn from each other."

"The house is coming along." He sighed "It's not quite done yet. We've had a few setbacks, but we still have plenty of time, and it should be done well before the baby comes." At least he hoped so. They had plenty of other things to do to get ready for the baby after the house was done.

The defining competitive event of Finnick's life had taken place several years earlier, when he was fourteen, and it had been a gradual process for him to realize that not all competition was life and death like the games had been. "I was competitive in everything. If I lost a race I would make my brothers race me again until I won." He laughed, "But now that I'm grown up I'm trying to convince myself that life isn't a race."

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Amanda & Finnick

miss_brilliant
2016-07-07 02:04 am UTC (link)

"Mmm, yeah, I'm usually pretty good with machines, at least knowing how to repair them, so that's a possibility. I've still got a feeling the most I'd be making for awhile would be a mess of my hands." It was getting easier to laugh at herself now; the fact that no one here had ever made her feel like any less of a person for the body she'd had before was helping, even if it was hard to believe no one was seeing her ventilator or a hulking metal chair when they looked at her. "I might ask someone to show me one of these days, I really hate being without a real project all the time."

Well, she supposed sex could be considered a project around here, but that was...different.

She sighed softly, nodding. "Sometimes I really wonder what Arva was thinking asking me here, because if you were needing help repairing an old spaceship I could pitch in without even thinking about it, but past some real basics that sort of architecture is far beyond me. I'm glad you're getting along all right, though. You and Chloe." She hadn't spoken to Chloe as much as she'd liked, but she knew the other woman was technically minded like her, so the fact she was making something here was comforting.

Amanda chuckled at Finnick's talk of competition. "Oh, you didn't see me in chess club. I was president my sophomore year of high school for a reason. You want to see a teenage boy's ego shrink, watch him lose a game of chess to a girl who can't move her hands." She liked boasting about that; it had been annoying to have to parrot her moves to someone else who'd have to actually move the pieces, but it had always been worth it in the end. "I don't know if I'd say I was really competitive, but I was trying to prove a point. I found other ways to do that later on, and I actually stopped even playing for fun very often. That's sort of a shame, now that I think about it." She'd played with Nick but that had been more about trying to flirt and failing miserably.

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Amanda & Finnick

dist4_finnick
2016-07-08 08:28 pm UTC (link)

"Hey, being good with machines could come on pretty useful around her. We have the sewing machine and power tools other stuff and some of it's bound to break eventually. I'd have no idea how to fix any of it, so it will be great to have someone who might be able to."

He smiled at the mention of Chloe, as he usually did. "Yeah, everything is great with Chloe." He had certainly never expected to fall in love on Sex Island, but he had and he was happier than he'd ever been in his life.

"That's awesome." he said when she started talking about chess club and competition. "If you're good at something it's fun to show it off. And good for you putting those boys in their place." He smiled, enjoying seeing this side of her. "If you enjoy it you should keep playing."

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