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[ Somewhere around town-- at the bookstore, the Tomoe-Kaname Bakery, attached to posts and notice boards --you find a small white notecard. On it is printed a little message and some numbers in ornate lettering. If you look closely, it reads the following: ]

Rohan Kishibe, Mangaka & Visual Artist
Owner Pro Tempore of Ebony Threads Tailor Shop
Highly Experienced.
Commissions & Advertising For Hire
Pay Negotiable.
Contact At: 512.66.730.91 for inquiries
Castle Lüvchaque - Directly North of Bavan per appointment ONLY.

(( feel free to use this as an action-based prompt too. any random interactions will MOST LIKELY take place in the form of walk-ins at the tailor shop unless it's pre-planned. just drop a starter in here! ))

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[ He can appreciate the 'style' comment out of her. Someone so ostentatiously put together such as herself can have an opinion in his eyes. His vanity is kicked into high-gear and his posture straightens with a little coiling of his tail drawing him ever closer to where he has settled.

Yes, wonderful, Snakebutt is Pleased. ]

I'm not going to have you actually work on anything today. The shop has been in a state of disarray since I reverted back to being a snake after becoming human again for a month. It turns out that I needed a three-day Disco Nap to recover. [ It was one Hell of a Disco Nap. ] Right now is just catching up on orders and making sure everything gets out on-time for the holiday.

[ A holiday he doesn't even celebrate.

He has produced a pencil from somewhere between himself and the notebook and he is scribbling away at the page. His wine glass is just suddenly on the desktop with nothing indicating that he had put it down in only one swoop. ]

Enough about productivity woes. Tell me about yourself, Miss Ibuki. You look like a musician. You have that aesthetic, what with the clothes and the hair. I can always value someone with more than one talent. Do you play something?

[ She's going to find that this interview is more like 20 Questions To Anxiety than something for a job. Still, he's polite enough about it. His eyes flick up and down from the paper to the girl and back again. If she is paying any attention to anything in her peripheral, his tail end is drawing itself up like another hand and delicately picking up the wine glass in it. Gently, gently... ]

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Oh maaaaaaaaan Disco Naps sound like the best naps. Were there glitterballs?!

[Leave it to Ibuki to home in on perhaps the least important part of that statement. Instead of, perhaps, the part where she might help with playing catch-up because that would give her something to do and she likes that.

She's also paying less attention to the tail and more to trying to peek at what he's writing, which means she doesn't notice the wine glass right away. Especially when the topic turns to her former career.

Anxiety? What anxiety?]

Goooooooooood eye! Ibuki knew she was right to come here! Ibuki is singer, songwriter and guitarist who doesn't compromise when it comes to making the music she wants to.

[Which is why she's now a solo artist. Still, better to stay true to herself she thinks.]

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[ His guess was correct-- not that he likes to judge on appearances. He can't and shouldn't do that anymore. Ibuki has spunk and charm that he hasn't seen in many other people here. It's obnoxious, yet refreshing.

Obnoxious is just SOMETHING HE IS USED TO BY NOW. ]

I'm flattered that you jumped to come here after just finding my card. I haven't had such enthusiastic walk-ins in a very long time. [ He has only just gotten back on his no-feet after last month. ]

If you are a musician, why would you prefer to be working in a tailor shop? There are a few places around here that cater to performers-- [ WELL, OFF THE TOP OF HIS HEAD THERE IS THE MONSTER-THEMED TITTYBAR SO MAYBE NOT................. ] I'm not judging you on that, by the way. It's merely a question that I am interested in hearing the answer of. [ He motions around the room to his paintings and over his shoulder to the vastly personal gargoyle and mermaid pictures up over his head as bookends on the wall behind him. ]

I am a mangaka at home. Since coming here, I have become a painter, a tailor, and a writer. What benefits do you believe working here can bring you?

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[It's a question that, with just a little more thought put into it, Ibuki might have known to anticipate. It would make far more sense for someone to seek something in line with their original livelihood but there's a few problems with that.]

Well, it's true that Ibuki would love to keep performing. But, to do that Ibuki needs a good instrument and even if she could afford one she's not sure it'd be the right kind. Plus, if Ibuki did that then she'd probably have a lot of free time on her hands anyway and Ibuki gets bored easily.

[Which he can probably gather from the way that, even when she's stood here talking to him, she's never quite entirely still.]

So then Ibuki thought, what other skills could she use to get a job that wouldn't make Mahiru-chan and the others worry. And that's when Ibuki found your card and it was like a message from the gods!!!!!!

[That last part spoken in an appropriately booming tone, of course.]

And so here Ibuki is figuring she should use all this time she has for something constructive and then she can help to buy things for the castle. And, you know, making sure she doesn't get super-bored.

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[ A Message From The Gods!

He'll take it.

He'll take her answer too. ]

I have good news: You can buy instruments around here. There is also a way to get BETTER ones after you have spent some time in Ryslig. You can meet with a woman who can grant you one that you wouldn't be able to find here due to time period-based restrictions. [ Such as Jotaro's HELL GUITAR and his own Sass Mirror.

Rohan has decided that he likes her. Her interview went WAAAAY better than Karamatsu's did, but that was also an ego-neutering the faerie desperately needed. ]

I pay fairly well. It will be based upon the effort you put forth as well as your hours. You can work with Karamatsu Matsuno in the daytime to get acclimated and learn how we do things here. He is my assistant manager of sorts... I handle most of the business aspects but he is primarily a designer himself. Four days a week: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday. If you want to work on the weekends, I am here on Saturdays in the late afternoon.

[ He speaks as though she's got it. ]

Designs are pitched to me for approval for floorstock and made by you once they have been critiqued. In addition to this, we work on commissions and general fixes for customers who need something special done... Like an outfit that routinely gets destroyed during transformations. I will teach you the practical knowledge of filling and giving me orders to work on in the back.

Then I can show you how to work my ancient as Hell sewing machine. [ He downs the last sip of the Not Wine in his glass, sets it on the desk, and brings his tail down in a heavy THUMP. ]

My lack of feet gives me a little bit of trouble.

[ His pencil stops moving on the paper and he turns the book around to show her. Not a schedule but a vibrant picture of herself that nearly leaps off the page: Ibuki in all her glory caught mid modelesque-spin with her arms flung out and showing off something invisible. It's the fiery expression of impishness and passion that jumps right to the eye from the grin on her face to the wrinkling in her skirt as she twirls. ]

This picture is for you.

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[That is an awful lot for Ibuki to try to take in at once. She's trying, and she knows the days that were mentioned, but there's every chance he's going to have to repeat at least some of that down the line because even as she's trying, there's only so much she can concentrate on at any one time.

And of course, right now she has nothing on her to write things down with. And she's also having to fight the distraction of there are instruments here which is really difficult when music is her life so much.

At least the thump of his tail brings her focus back to the current moment and she doesn't hide how startled she is. Still, it encourages an actual response, at least, and even a relevant one.]

Oh yeah! Ibuki never really even thought about trying to use a machine without feet. And it sounds like it'd be hard to get that same level of control with a tail...so how do you manage it?

[And then he gifts her that drawing and oh. Oh it's a good job Mahiru isn't here because the squeal she gives is deafening even to normal ears.]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOAH, Ibuki's never been given such amazing art before! And it's of Ibuki herself, too, which makes it even more awesome! Ibuki likes it here already!