Second Floor Common Room, Monday Evening

[dark_slippy_thing]

Valentine was in a good mood, sitting on the couch in the common room wearing a pair of new jeans and a new jacket as well.

... For whatever reason, the shirt that he was wearing with these new clothes was one of his smelly old plum-coloured ones.

He was humming to himself and juggling as he tried to plot out the details for his next big production. The one that his physical well-being was currently very dependent on.

Feel free to ignore or put money into the cup that he's set out on the table. He is accepting donations for his film-making endeavors.

(Open!)

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[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

Shawn plonked himself down on another sofa, a bag of tortilla chips in hand. He gave Valentine a breif curious look. There weren't many people who sat and juggled in the common rooms, after all.

"Nice... juggling," he said gesturing vaguely.

[dark_slippy_thing]

"You like it?" Valentine was grinning, now. He had an audience, after all! "Are you a fan of juggling, then?"

He snatched another ball from his pocket and added it to the display. He tended to do that when he had an audience.

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"Uh, never tried it," he admitted settling back to open his chips.

"Looks impressive, though," he added. "I guess, you are?"

[dark_slippy_thing]

"It's how I make my living," he replied smoothly, and in no way looking at the cup that he had set out, really, "I did a good deal of juggling back home, when my partner was still about."

He paused for a moment to focus on his juggling, then glanced at the other boy again, still smiling.

"It really isn't all that difficult," he added.

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

Cassandra was just on her way to get some food when she spotted Valentine in the common room. She took a moment to observe him from the doorway before walking over and asking curiously, "What are you doing?"

[dark_slippy_thing]

Valentine thought the answer really should be obvious.

"I'm juggling," he stated. "Haven't you ever seen a man juggle?"

It was entirely likely. This was Fandom. Strange things happened in Fandom, like a strict observation of the laws of gravity, for example.

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

"I..." she frowned. "Not like that. Why are you doing it?"

[dark_slippy_thing]

"Because... I'm a juggler," he ventured. "I juggle."

How else do you answer that?

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Shawn raised a hand in greeting from his place on the couch, before shoving another chunk of tortilla chip into his mouth.

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

Cassandra lifted a hand in silent reply. Then she tossed in a friendly nod and sort-of grin for good measure. See! She could be sociable!

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

When he'd finished his mouthful, he finally thought to add an "Evening," to that greeting.

"You live on this floor?" he asked. "Or, just passing through?"

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

Sora came into the common room and stood there watching Valentine for a moment with a grin on his face before reaching into his pocket to put some munny in his cup.

Munny that looks very much like weetiny yellow and blue beach balls, no one had really told Sora that they didn't use it around there.

[dark_slippy_thing]

There was something in his cup, and Valentine only had a passing knowledge of the currency of this world anyhow, having never really had more than a handful of spare coin now and again anyhow. Therefore, things in the cup? Were good.

"Thank you," he said with a nod and a bow. He wasn't showing off. Really. "Enjoying the show? Good to have you in the audience."

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

"Yeah!. You're really good," he smiled brightly "I don't think I've really seen anyone juggle like that before."

Or anyone who looked like Valentine either, but Sora had seen stranger things. Like a guy who was just a sack of bugs, now that was freaky.

[dark_slippy_thing]

"You've never seen anyone juggle?" Valentine was shocked. He was amazed. He was stunned and- well, not really. There weren't many jugglers about. But he was very good at feigning amazement. Really. "I suppose there aren't many jugglers about," he mused.

There were more and more every time he went and did something silly like teaching people how. Cutting into his own job market. He really should have known better.

"Should I add another ball?"

It was a very easy thing to do, but if he pitched his voice just so, it really did sound like a rather edgy, dangerous maneuver. Perfect for pleasing the crowd. Of one.

[death-of-hope.livejournal.com]

The best part of living near the common room was the constant source of entertainment available. Anemone wandered in with her magazine, and sat on the floor in front of Valentine. "Shiny."

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"Shiny is a good thing, yes?"

Valentine liked shiny things. Therefore he was rather certain that it was a good thing. Mostly.

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"Shiny is always a good thing." Anemone nodded seriously, keeping her eyes on the moving items. "That's really neat, I've never seen anyone do more than two before. How do you do it?"

[dark_slippy_thing]

"Throw and catch and catch and throw and throw some more," Valentine explained, as though that was supposed to make it all entirely clear. "I can do more than three, but that's basically the norm."

He grinned. Ah, it was good to have an audience.

"You haven't seen many street performers, I take it?"

[the_merriest]

Rikku bounced into the common room. "Whoa! Hey! Sharp threads!" She pulled out some loose change and tossed it into his cup. "Do something fancy."

[dark_slippy_thing]

Ah, the lovely jingle of coin in a cup!

"Fancy, hm, Rikku?" Valentine was all grins as he pulled a few balls to add to the act and started bouncing them off of the floor instead of up in the air-- the going was far faster that way. "They are rather nice trousers, aren't they? I owe the pixie an arm and a leg for these."

Literally, if he didn't film that movie.

[the_merriest]

"Pixie?" Rikku giggled. "Oooooooh, nifty! I didn't know you could do that! This is like, reverse juggling, huh?"

[dark_slippy_thing]

"I'm sure there's a name for it," Valentine mused with a shrug. "I got the clothing from that Pixie Dust place. Tinker Bell, the owner of the place, let me have the clothes... on the grounds that I make another movie."

[death-of-hope.livejournal.com]

Anemone waved at Rikku from her spot on the floor. "Isn't this neat? I've never seen this before. It's all fancy to me."

[the_merriest]

"Hiya!" Rikku grinned. "I've seen, like, normal juggling? Just not the floor-bouncy kind. So I totally contributed to the ... uh ... whatever-fund. Thing."