For @thatsthat24 ’s art prompt thing
Day 1. Since my drawing skills aren’t to a level I felt comfortable enough to do clothes with I did literary art instead. I know it’s twisting rules but, hey, still art… kinda. Any way here it is
—–The thirtieth of September —–
Jysgo sat at his desk flipping through some papers, he could have handed some off to his assistants but it was his case and he didn’t trust anyone to do it but himself. Shadow brushed against his leg before hopping up onto the desk to receive scratches, which he complied. Peaceful and nice, everything within his control. Just as he liked it.
“Jysgy!” The door flew open as Zarra poked her head in, Mr Grabby Hands lying across her shoulders, “I volunteered you for help with the district’s Halloween celebration, anyway bye” and she ran off to her room before he could get a word in.
He twirled his pen in his hand in annoyance. She knew he was a busy man. And as if he cared for some stupid surface dweller holiday. Anyway he had thus paper work he had to deal with… he could look into what likely would be going on during this event, the rest of the paper work was mostly bureaucratic busy work anyway.
—-The first of October —-
“Jysgy I wanted to know what you…” Zarra looked into the room to see the cork boards pulled out, covered in different types of candy, monsters, and people who help with district stuff. Jysgo was at his desk, listening to something on head phones, looking over some notes.
Zarra stepped lightly through the room until she got close enough that Jysgo saw her in a mirror laid on his desk
“Dear Lolth!” He fell backwards in his chair before turning it into a roll as he pulled out a pistol
Zarra through her hands up “it’s me it’s me” she pulled a bit of her hair to the side to better show him
Jysgo pulled out his head phones as he stood, his gun returning to it’s holster “Zarra, why do you look like a giant poison dart frog?”
“I put on make up to make me look like a racoon like Mr Grabby Hands, did I not get the pattern wrong?”
Jysgo looked it over, “the pattern is right but for once they actually are black and white” he reached into a desk drawer and tossed her a makeup rag “I’ll help you find some good makeup to match the shades, but first we got to wipe that off and I’ll brush your hair a bit while you do it, it looks like you fell out of a tree”
“Mr Grabby Hands got stuck” she replied she walked over to in front of Jysgo
“Of course he did” he said in a tone that sounded like annoyance but Zarra was probably the only person who knew her brother enough to catch the traces of amusement underneath
“Oh!” Zarra pulled out a package from her bag “I got you something for the season. But, since I’ve never seen you wear anything but suits…” Jysgo looked at the package, it was a collection of ties with various patterns like bats, spiders, and pumpkins
“Thanks” Jysgo grabbed the package and sat it next to him. After a few minutes he handed Zarra a mirror “make sure you get it all”
Zarra took the mirror and looked at herself. She had gotten most of it off, just a few smudges left. And Jysgo had pretty thoroughly brushed out her fairly short hair, his other hand holding several twigs he had apparently removed. But Zarra smiled abit as she noticed the spider web design decorating the tie Jysgo was wearing.
“So, what is all this about?” She asked, gesturing with the mirror at the various corkboards
“Researching strategies and the competition” he said gently yanking at a more stubborn tangle
“Ow- Halloween isn’t- ow- a competition- ow- Jysgy”
“Only losers and the naive actually believe that, everything is a competition” he replied as he gave a few more brushes “I don’t stand a chance against Bron in haunted houses, I may have better know how but he is the better craftsman. And Sharron is tricky to beat with candy as she usually gives out full sized and just giving more full sized than her would be an insult to my skill. Any suggestions?”
“Actually” Zarra pulled out her phone and pulled up a website “Sharron has full sized, but what about jumbo sized” she held up the charm laden phone for him to grab
“Hm, this could work” he gave her hair a quick affectionate ruffle before brushing it back in place. After a second of checking over the site and copying over the site to his phone he handed it back to Zarra. “You got ears for your costume?”
“Huh? Uh, no”
“We should pick you up some while out getting the makeup, if you are going to do this ridiculous tradition I’m making sure you do it well”
“Does that mean you are getting a costume so you can do the ‘ridiculous tradition’ of handing out candy well?”
Jysgo thought for a bit"Perhaps. But if you get annoying about it, you’re paying for your stuff"
