Seasons: IC Contact/Continuations

[abnormalizes]

This is Evangeline! Sorry, I'm a little busy right now, but leave a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can!

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[splittingheadache]

[Ah - he's on fire now. Apparently.
Just gonna... wiggle his fingers, there, above her shoulder where he'd had his hand hovering.]

Yes, this definitely does seem like the sort of power this place would just give to people... I suppose it has its benefits, though it's strange that you'd be given an entirely cosmetic power such as this.
All of mine have been... well, it feels rude to say useful, a power like this has use, but none of mine have been purely cosmetic.

Even though I sort of wish they have. There's just no way to keep your hair nice when you're practicing with wind.

[abnormalizes]

I can make fire I didn't create harmless, too? So, like, I could rescue people from a burning building or something like that.

[Not really cosmetic!]

[splittingheadache]

Ah - that's something I hadn't considered... I thought it was just for fire that you created, which, well. It would be entirely cosmetic, in that case.
But if you can do this to preexisting fires... yes, that would be a lot more useful.

So it's more of a skill that happens to have cosmetic uses, then.

[Which he's still checking out, mind you. Even getting a step closer to look at the fire closer, even though, you know, it's still fire.
It may not be burning him, but it's still, like, bright?? Why is he like this.]

[abnormalizes]

[Moth-ass man.]

Pretty much! If you want a cosmetic power, summers learn cosmetic shapeshifting before they learn how to add limbs and stuff. Sometimes I use it to change my hairstyle.

[splittingheadache]

[Moth-ass man that has several lighters in his hammerspace bag.]

I wouldn't call shapeshifting cosmetic, exactly... such a power is intended for stealth, isn't it? Sneaking and the like.
But it's good to find uses for it otherwise.

... Your hairstyle, though? Do you not like styling your hair?

[abnormalizes]

I don't mind it, but shapeshifting is faster and easier, and sometimes I'm in a rush? Plus I can do things like alter my hair length at will.

[She suddenly has a pixie cut.]

[splittingheadache]

[His eyebrows scrunch up, and he's finally moving his hand elsewhere - to play with her hair, of cousre. Because Louis is nothing if not very tactile when he's allowed to be.]

... I can't say I relate; if I'm going to style my hair, then I will, and even a rush won't stop me.
But then again, it's something I take a lot of joy in. As I'm sure you can imagine.

[Not allowed to do it himself while he was alive, so he's taken to it pretty readily now that he's dead.]

Regardless - this does seem very useful for styles that would require cutting it. There are so many I could never try, as that'd require going at my hair with scissors, and, well -
No.

[abnormalizes]

[She leans into it, humming contentedly at his touch.]

Bad experiences...?

[splittingheadache]

... Any time I attempted to grow my hair out, inevitably someone would have it cut off again.

[The "someone" probably isn't hard to guess. It's also said with a blase shrug, even as he goes from playing with her hair to just holding her cheek gently.]

Among the living, it's usually considered "messy" or "abnormal" for a man to have long hair - unless they're some sort of rock star, which obviously wasn't in the cards for me.
So mine was cut on a routine, even when I expressed that I wanted to try it long.

[abnormalizes]

Yeah, that sounds like your shit parents.

[She hates them so much.]

I wish I could give you my powers. I'd help you do whatever you dreamed of with your hair in a heartbeat, even if it meant that I couldn't do it anymore.