FoE PNP Group Unlucky 13 Session 27 Extended Bonus Feature

*****Session 27 Extended Bonus Feature*****
[21:22] * Purple_Kay lays out a few more sheets of paper. He needed to get more soon. He flips the light on the desk and opens his drafting kit.
[21:24] * Razor takes a quick look around the room, checking it out. After she's satisfied, she flops down on the bed and stretches out. "Not a bad room... could be bigger."
[21:26] * Purple_Kay 's ear swivels around, listening for Razor as she plops resoundingly on the bed. "It's not the size that matters, it's how you use it." He takes out the drawing of Razor from before. "It's a nice setup. An actual desk nice enough to work at."
[21:27] * Purple_Kay takes out his pencil and starts to add to the drawing. A large male form in the background behind Razor.
[21:28] * Razor sits up and looks over at Purple_Kay. "Yeah, I said it wasn't bad. It just could be bigger."
[21:29] * Purple_Kay makes short work of his addition to the picture. A shadowed version of himself in the background. He didn't want to add details, just something to show him there. Right behind her for support.
[21:31] * Purple_Kay finds himself tracing over the same line over and over. He said when he could speak clearly, he would. He looks back over at Razor, words trying to make their way to his mouth.
[21:33] * Purple_Kay manages to have a few words bubble out. "So... bed comfy?" Nice, old timer.
[21:36] * Razor is watching from the bed. She can't really see what he's doing that well, but she's pretty content watching. "Yeah. Not the best, but probably better than a lot I've slept on." She pauses a moment. "Where'd you learn to do that?"
[21:38] * Purple_Kay puts down his pencil. "Back at the forge. Mechanic has to be able to draw schematics precisely, and my teacher thought the best way to get an eye for proportion was to be able to draw what we see. I wasn't the worst at it."
[21:42] * Purple_Kay smiles at the memory. "Forgefire didn't believe the same way. Drilled her apprentices strictly with precision drafting. But she was the Master Smith, so I suppose her way was right.'
[21:43] * Razor frowns a little. "I think I like your way. It looks... nice."
[21:47] * Purple_Kay nods. "Truth is, I like my way too. We even fought about it a few times. I haven't drawn like this in a long, long time. I'd forgotten, I guess." He smiles. "Anything you want me to draw?"
[21:49] * Razor isn't a very creative pony. She really has no idea what she'd even like to see. "I dunno... Is there anything you want to draw?"
[21:49] * Purple_Kay screws on his best poker face. "Maybe I'll draw something for G? Give him some new material."
[21:54] * Purple_Kay brings his hoof to his chin in mock thought. "But who of?"
[21:56] * Razor rolls her eyes. "I didn't take you for that kind of stallion."
[21:58] * Purple_Kay breaks into a laugh. "I'm /am/ far too much of a gentlestallion to draw smut. How about you? It's probably been near three decades since I last drew a model."
[21:59] * Razor gives him a questioning look. "What do you mean? You want to draw me?"
[21:59] * Razor quickly adds, "Didn't you already do that?"
[22:01] * Purple_Kay tilts his head. "Well, I drew you. But I didn't draw /you/. Honestly, that picture focuses more on the armor than the mare underneath. It is you, but... different?" He motions with his forelegs absentmindedly. "Make any sense?"
[22:06] * Razor slowly shakes her head. "Not at all!" She pauses. "I liked the one you drew."
[22:08] * Purple_Kay smiles. He's happy she enjoyed it, truly. Maybe it was the right time after all... He turns and pulls the desk around so he can stand behind it and still see her. "How about another then? You can even pose if you like."
[22:16] * Purple_Kay takes out a selection of lead weights. If he's going to do this, he'll go all out.
[22:17] * Razor gives another questioning look. "Pose? Pose... how?" She rolls over so she can sit up properly.
[22:19] * Purple_Kay makes a grand motion with a pencil. "However you want to be immortalized!" He adds an oversized grin and a flourish of an outstretched foreleg. "But, seriously, just stand or sit or lay however you want me to draw you. Best hoof forward and whatnot."
[22:23] * Purple_Kay points with his pencil as he talks. "What kinda emotion do you want to portray? Happy? Sad? Sultry? Angry? You can pose, or just flop down if you like. Whatever you do, I'll draw."
[22:29] * Razor is... seriously at a loss. She has no real idea what to do! It's very strange to her. After a few moments, she goes back to lying on the bed, and asks, "So... like this is okay?"
[22:34] * Purple_Kay "Any way is fine." He takes his lightest weight pencil and starts with a madcap flurry of light blocking. He scratches in lightly the curve of her neck, the way her mane scatters over her side, the lithe, corded muscles at rest under her coat...
[22:36] * Purple_Kay moves up to the next weight of pencil, making slow deliberate lines.
[22:37] * Razor feels a little strange like this. Not only does it mean she has to keep still, but the idea is something completely alien to her.
[22:39] * Purple_Kay puts down the pencil for a moment, looking between the progress on the paper and the svelte mare on the bed. Tonight. "You remember that memory orb?" He takes the pencil back up and lays down the curve of her flank as it extends to her muscled hind leg.
[22:43] * Razor hesitates for a moment."Yeah...? What about it?"
[22:47] * Purple_Kay keeps drawing, trying to form the words in his head as he puts her hooves on paper. He adds the folds of fabric under her. He embelishes a bit with her mane and tail, filling them out a bit more than they are, but not so much she'd notice the discrepancy. "We were happy. Mostly. She wanted a daughter, she was in the last month of the pregnancy when..." He picks the pencil back up. Forelegs, draw forelegs.
[22:50] * Purple_Kay puts down the pencil and looks back between Razor and the picture a few times, composed again. "I didn't let myself feel anything for a long time. A long, long time. I did a lot of bad things. It's part of the reason I want you to think more about others. I don't want you to make my mistakes."
[22:54] * Purple_Kay gets into the detail work. The eyes have to be just right. So much is in the eyes. Windows to the soul. He loses himself a bit in his work, trying to form the next words he needed to say.
[22:59] * Razor frowns a bit. She's not sure what to say to that. "I..." She hesitates. "That must have been... terrible." She's not sure what more she can say. She's not good at being comforting.
[23:02] * Purple_Kay finishes the drawing in silence. It hadn't taken him horribly long, but he was able to compose himself and find the words for what came next. He took the picture over to her. A strong young mare laying on a bed, the body language somewhere between nervous and relaxed. Each detail crafted to the best of his ability. He lays it in front of her and sits beside the bed.
[23:04] * Purple_Kay "I... You know I care about you, Razor. You mean a lot to me. More than I've felt since... back then." He gets a bit nervous. You're in it now, Old Timer, can't back out now. He still stumbles for the words.
[23:06] * Purple_Kay takes a deep breath.
[23:08] * Purple_Kay raises his hoof, placing it tentatively on her withers.
[23:10] <Purple_Kay> me "I already feel this way about you, and what you decide won't change that. But... I can't let it stay unsaid anymore. I love you, Kid. Like the daughter we never had. And... and I'd like to think of you that way..."
[23:17] * Razor gives him a slightly confused look. It's all a bit overwhelming. "That's..." She's struggling with what she wants to say. She settles on, "...why?"
[23:23] * Purple_Kay gives a hopeful smile. "Wish I knew. It's just a feeling." He brings a hoof to his chest. "Being around you fills a hole. A void I've had since I stopped being a husband and a father. We'll find your mother, but I hope you'll still have some place for me."
[23:30] * Razor frowns a little. She misses her mother. "Yeah... I know we will. For what it means... thanks for that." She takes a deep breath. "I don't know why, but I think I care about you too. That griffon... I was ready to mutilate her if she shot at you again." She pauses. "I don't know what it is. But you'd better stick around."
[23:35] * Purple_Kay stretches out his neck and nuzzles her cheek. "I will." He climbs up into the bed. "We'll figure it out together. I'll be right here with you, I promise."
[23:39] * Razor smiles a bit, moving over to give him some room. "Good. You'd better."
[23:41] * Purple_Kay drapes a foreleg over her and closes his eyes. He's drifts into a peaceful slumber.
[23:42] * Razor feels a lot more relaxed, now. Sleep comes much easier to her tonight, with Purple_Kay there with her.
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