Cthulhu Campfire, Evening

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Dawn had spent part of the afternoon lugging her stuff down to the cabin (stupid books and journals and laptops were heavy, darn it) and had set herself up in A3 as long as no one else objected, not wanting to be by the bathroom but also realizing that Sam would probably want to set himself up between her and the door.

Silly boy.

So, she was now outside, armed with a can of Deep Woods Off that she sprayed at anything that looked like a mosquito and a journal, where she was trying to catch up on what had been going on lately. If she got the energy together, she might even build a fire, but for now she was eating raw s'mores--which was basically chocolate, graham crackers, and untoasted marshmallows.


[ooc: Open for all, but especially cabinmates!]

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[electric-sitar.livejournal.com]

"I'm Demyx. Side B. Who're you?" He headed over to the campfire-that-wasn't. Demyx wasn't being rude, he was just...lacking in people skills sometimes.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn knew Anya, Cordelia, and Spike. Lacking in people skills so wasn't an issue. "Dawn Summers. Side A. Nice to meet you."

[electric-sitar.livejournal.com]

"Nice to meet you, too." Demyx paused, then added, "You aren't new, are you?"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Kinda depends on your definition," she shrugged, "I've been here a year. You?"

[electric-sitar.livejournal.com]

"A year exactly, actually." Demyx laughed. "I showed up just in time for cabins last year."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Oh, me too. I just suck at meeting new people."

[electric-sitar.livejournal.com]

"Me too. I tend to kind of stay in my room." Demyx shrugged slightly. "I'm a musician, and I guess I kind of keep to myself."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"What kind of music do you play?"

[electric-sitar.livejournal.com]

"All kinds," Demyx said, tapping his chin as he thought. "Mostly rock, I guess. Do you like music?"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

She nodded, "Very much. Do you play an instrument? Would you play for me, or is that obnoxious and you get sick of always performing and I should mind my own business?"

[electric-sitar.livejournal.com]

"I love performing," Demyx admitted. "And it's called a sitar. But I've heard what a sitar is here, and it's nothing like that. It more like a guitar." To demonstrate, he pulled his sitar out of the air and brandished it. "See?"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn blinked. "Where did it come from? How did you do that?"

[electric-sitar.livejournal.com]

"Huh?" Demyx blinked at her, then at his instrument. "Oh, this? I control water."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"And how does that translate to you pulling instruments out of thin air?" She asked.

[electric-sitar.livejournal.com]

"It's made of water. Er..." Demyx paused, trying to think how to explain better. "It's water made solid? It's hard to explain; I just know I can do it."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"That's cool," Dawn was seriously impressed, "Does it sound different from an instrument that's made out of wood? That's what most of our guitars are made of here."

[electric-sitar.livejournal.com]

"I don't know?" Demyx scratched his head. "I'm able to duplicate most everything that I've heard here so far...so..." He plucked one of the three strings, then played a few chords...sounding very much like a plugged-in electric guitar. How that was managed with only three strings was a miracle of video game logic cross-dimensions.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn sat down on the grass and looked at him expectantly. "Would you play me something of yours?"

[electric-sitar.livejournal.com]

...Yes, Dawn had just made herself a friend for life. Demyx nodded enthusiastically. "Sure! If you don't think it'll bother anybody." He was more than happy to play something handwavily.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Why would it bother anybody?" Dawn was more than happy to listen handwavily.

[electric-sitar.livejournal.com]

"I dunno. I always got yelled at back home," Demyx admitted sheepishly. Before playing...something because the mun is too tired and braindead to think of a song title.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn applauded when Demyx was finished. "That was great! Way better than the boy bands I used to listen to."

[electric-sitar.livejournal.com]

Demyx bowed, grinning. "Thanks. I'm a one-boy band?" It was a bad joke.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn giggled. "You are. But it's not quite the same without the special effects and choreographed dancing." Not that she'd ever been to a concert, of course.

[electric-sitar.livejournal.com]

"I can do special effects," Demyx offered, gesturing off to the side and making a short-lived geyser erupt out of nowhere. As the water came back down, it evaporated into nothing. He wasn't so mean as to flood the campfire area.

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More applause. "Wow. I can't do anything like that," she said, completely ignoring what she'd done to help Rikku, since that wasn't an everyday skill, nor was it something she'd be doing again, probably ever, "That's so cool. Have you met Katara? She's a waterbender, and I think she can kind of do stuff like that, though I don't know if she can pull water out of thin air."

[electric-sitar.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I met Katara. She's really cool." Demyx grinned. "I know I'm not the only one who can do what I do...I just have my own twist. Are you one of the lucky normals?"