xp_logs | Jessie, Ashley, Pride

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Jessie and Ashley prep for Pride, and talk about origami and Ashley's inevitable villain origin.

"Okay hold still, the brush might tickle a little..." Jessie examined her color palette, then ran her brush through the right color and painted a horizontal streak across Ashley's cheek.

"Why does face paint tickle but stage makeup doesn't." Ashley asked idly. "When I do my own of course it doesn't tickle but even when someone else is doing it. But facepaint always tickles." She was holding her left knuckles with her right hand, tightly gripping to avoid squirming at cold facepaint.

Jessie tilted her head as she thought the question over. "Maybe something to do with what it's made of? Because regular makeup and makeup brushes don't really tickle either. And this-" She held the paintbrush out for both of them to examine. "Is definitely not a makeup brush."

Ashley's entire right eye was squinting, as she tried not to break something. "It sure is not. This is how you defeat me if I go evil. Tickle me with paintbrushes."

"I'll start stocking up on them for your inevitable villain origin," Jessie assured her solemnly before going back to her painting. "At least this paint is good. I'm not going to have to go over it a million times to make the colors stand out."

"If I go evil I'm going to just start origami folding cybertrucks into dumpsters." Ashley said. "So would I really be evil? Or just the beloved cybertruck bandit." Jessie finally finished the design and Ashley let out the tension in her hands. "Because I am pretty sure I could ask like, four different people here to help me for alibis and I'd just be a celebrated folk hero."

"Is it really origami if they already look like that though?" Jessie asked, tilting her head. She grabbed a hand mirror to start her own facepaint.

"It is if I make them look like ducks or crabs or alligators." Ashley said. "Actually as soon as pride is over remind me to see if I can get some sheet metal. I bet I could do origami with it and then I could origami those things. I just gotta learn how to do origami first."

"Ooooooh, wanna learn together?" Jessie suggested. "You know how it's always more fun to learn something new with another person? Except I'll use paper."

"Uh, yeah." Ashley agreed. "I should start with cardboard probably. Sheet metal is probably expensive right?"

Jessie waved her hands vaguely. "Someone around her must have scrap metal or something. I don't think cardboard would bend the way you want it to."

"Sheet metal shears off if you bend it too many times though, there's stress points. A fun educational fact brought to you by ask me how I fell off the lighting catwalk in high school." Ashley said. "So I gotta origami it right the first time. maybe I should practice on the Cybertrucks..."

"Full circle back to the Cybertrucks. Fuck it, anything you did would be an improvement anyway."