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Sep 12, 2011 18:56

[ The feed turns on, to a tired looking Ella. She hasn't been paying attention to the NV lately, working on managing a healthy(ish) balance between her two jobs, and ... other things. But despite that, there is a teasing spark in her eyes ( Read more... )

c: kuchiki byakuya, !: ella, c: deadpool, c: danny, c: chuck shurley, c: toushirou hitsugaya

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[Video] soul_scatter September 12 2011, 23:37:22 UTC

[Grading papers again.]

There is an entire language devoted not only to the fan but to sleeves amongst my culture.

[Video] of_frell September 13 2011, 01:12:11 UTC

Sleeves? What kind of sleeves? I can't imagine these are very expressive.

[ She holds up an arm, showing the regular sleeve on her blouse. ]

[Video] soul_scatter September 13 2011, 01:18:53 UTC

Our traditional sleeves are somewhat fuller than most.

[He holds up his own arm. He's wearing the tradition black kosode of the shinigami. He used his own clothing to drive home a point of samurai culture and literature today.]

There is an entire language devoted to the way a sleeve or a fan is moved, or how it is held.

[Video] of_frell September 13 2011, 02:09:20 UTC

Ahh, I see what you mean. I knew about the language of fans of course, but the sleeves on the clothing we have back home aren't usually quite that full. With a sleeve like yours though, you hardly need a fan.

[Video] soul_scatter September 13 2011, 02:17:37 UTC

Fans are very traditional amongst my culture. As status symbols, as works of art, and as weapons. However, they are also used as communication devices and as props for dances and plays.

Sleeves can also be used as a communication device if one knows how to read them.

[Video] of_frell September 13 2011, 02:42:26 UTC

[ Okay she understands the part about status symbols, weapons, props and such - but communication? She tilts her head curiously. ]

Communication devices? How so?

[Video] soul_scatter September 13 2011, 10:23:41 UTC

Indeed. Because they are a highly prized possession, and appropriate gifts, messages can be written upon the fan itself, being passed between people and no one would suspect. As well, movements of the fan, how it's being held, and where it is being held is another form of language.

[Video] of_frell September 13 2011, 23:30:52 UTC

The fans part I get, but you're talking about communication with sleeves. It's not like you can pass a sleeve off to someone with a message, right?

[Video] soul_scatter September 13 2011, 23:33:04 UTC

No, but the same principle holds true. How they are held, how they are moved, how long they are everything about a sleeve, to those that know the language, can be a word, a phrase, an idea. It is something I learned at a young age.

[Video] of_frell September 14 2011, 00:36:31 UTC

That sounds pretty fascinating actually. Would you say that's still practiced now, even in your time?

[ Your time being present time, natch. ]

[Video] soul_scatter September 14 2011, 00:54:45 UTC

I have not seen it practiced here, but in Soul Society it is still considered a fine art. It is a mark of nobility and focus to be able to read and use either or both.

[Guess who can use both and reads it like a book?]

[Video] of_frell September 14 2011, 01:15:31 UTC

[ No time like the present, right? Besides, the more ways Ella can find to speak to get around any 'shut up' commands, the better. ]

Do you know it?

[ She'd assume as much, but better to ask first. ]

Do you think you could teach me?

[ ... she really should reconsider that. She's just going to give Hattie more reasons to be suspicious. ]

[Video] soul_scatter September 14 2011, 01:27:33 UTC

[A tick up of the eyebrow.]

I am well versed in both fan and sleeve language. It was a requirement.

[Video] of_frell September 14 2011, 22:54:53 UTC

[ She's silent for a moment, because that wasn't really a yes or no as far as teaching her. ]

So ... is that a yes, a no, or a you're wasting your breath, Ella?

[ Half teasing in that. He was a teacher already after all - he probably wouldn't want to teach someone else. And actually she shouldn't try to take up extra hobbies. She was going to need as much free time and money as she could get. ]

No, nevermind, forget I asked.

[ Waving it off dismissively. ]

[Video] soul_scatter September 14 2011, 22:58:15 UTC

[Byakuya ticks that eyebrow higher.]

I have a few free hours on the weekend, if that would be amenable.

[Video] of_frell September 14 2011, 23:40:04 UTC

[ Lift that eyebrow any higher and it will be in the air. :3 Ella pauses, mentally noting to get her schedule together a bit better. It was good enough to tell herself to stay awake when she needed to be at work and alert, but she still needed to sleep sometime. She'd have to speak with Tifa about cutting her hours shorter. ]

That'll be fine. In the morning? Sunday?

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