oom: curl up and dye

[electro_kinetic]

Noriko is found on the floor in her room, lying on the comfortable moss-and-rock-and-pond patterned rug in the late Milliways afternoon sun, surfing internet images. It's about time she got her undercut re-done, and she should consider colors and designs. It's just one of those things, usual upkeep for constantly changing hair: there are, too, pages up for vinyl headphone skins, clothing and fashion, among other things.

She also has the Hamilton soundtrack going--the CD case lying beside the laptop with scribbled signatures all over the cover design--and her headphones over her ears, blocking out most noises but the music.

Time for relaxation.

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[electro_kinetic]

She grins up at him, and uses Remy as leverage to haul herself up, popping to her feet.

"Good. Because I need a partner more than I need fancy shit I can't actually use or wear."

[callmegambit]

Remy chuckled. "Most people do, they jus' don' know it." He grinned and shook his head.

"I'm glad you do." He kissed her, and stretched, feeling bouncy to get to do a thing with her. He liked doing things with her.

[electro_kinetic]

"Some people are dumb," she says, grabbing her bag and slinging it across her body and taking his hand.

"Let's go turn you into an opal." Noriko grins.

[callmegambit]

"True facts, beauty." He grins as he nods to her. "Ladies first, Norinori."

He is hoping it will be fun.

[electro_kinetic]

"Beauty before brains?" she asks with a twist of a smile as she heads out. It's a short trip through the bar to their world again.

"Cut first. Then color. You want to get a cut for you, too?"

[callmegambit]

"Bah." He shakes his head and follows her. Her words get a nod. "I think I need one. Not a lot, but a little."

He runs a hand through his hair.

[electro_kinetic]

"I mean, you can always help me figure out what to do with mine," she says, swinging their joined hands gently, walking. It's a short trip, relatively, to the hair salon.

"I like this. Just hanging out."

[callmegambit]

"Your hair would look good as it is, or shorter..." He runs his other hand over her hair, mussing it a little. "I love your hair."

He smiles and nods.

"I like it too. Doing the little things together."

Walking with her felt natural, right, even. It felt... good.

[electro_kinetic]

"Yeah? How much shorter you think I should go?" She worries, with her hair, about making it too short and looking like a boy. She doesn't have much in the way of a girlish hourglass figure to show, and between a flat chest and short hair she wants to keep some femininity.

"We could both get the same cut. Walk around like twins," Nori laughs.

[callmegambit]

"Not too much shorter, just a little more." He grinned at her, and smirked. "I'm game." He rolled one shoulder.

"Looking like you would be fun, to me."

[electro_kinetic]

Noriko swatted his hip playfully. "I think you're a little too tall, and a little too male to pull it off convincingly," she says. "Remember all those women throwing themselves at you at that party you took me to? Remember how they were not thrilled with your choice of mouthy mutant Japanese girl with blue hair as a fiancee?"

Nori isn't clear, exactly, on what they expected Remy to choose as an alternative, but the point still stands. "Maybe we should go traveling sometime. Things...are kinda quiet now. Nothing big has happened lately for us. It could be a sign." Could be. She won't say she's ready to get settled down and have kids or anything, but...some time with her future husband might be nice.

[callmegambit]

"True. Ah well." He listens to her and nods. "I was not too thrilled with them, by that point, and was very... blunt by the end of it." He smiles at her, eyes dancing, something like anger in them.

"Don' like it when people make aspersions to the woman I love." He nods.

"I like that. We could wander to some odd place here or there. Australia, or New Zealand, or Moscow, even."

[electro_kinetic]

"New Zealand would be awesome. I mean, I've seen it in the movies and all, never been there. But it looks so pretty."

She squeezes his hand. "I remember you telling off one bottle blonde with some interesting words, yeah. You're nicer than I was, I told one of them she could shut her damn mouth or I'd knock her on her ass." That was fun.

"After hearing Hannibal talk about Italy it might be cool. I mean, I'd have to wait to be able to afford it, and it's a little out there for me. Being not at all classical."

[callmegambit]

"I've been there, but only once, as a kid, and only for a very brief time. A conference. I would love to see more of the place." He nods, thinking it could be fun.

"I like it when you tell them what for." He smirks. "Makes me hot." And it did. He loved seeing her spirit and her defending herself, though not her having to.

"Eh. I don't think Most of Italy is classical. I mean, the buildings are, but most of the people are as modern as you or I."

[electro_kinetic]

"We should go, then," she says, and snorts. "Everything makes you hot. I think horny might be your middle name."

Noriko finds it funny.

[callmegambit]

Remy chuckles. "No, you make me horny, no matter what you do, and some things make me more so."

Still, he grabbed his jacket and nodded. "Let's go."

[electro_kinetic]

"One day you'll explain to me how," Noriko laughs. "Since half the time I'm not even doing anything."

[callmegambit]

Remy shrugged. "S'easy. I find you incredibly sexy and attractive. Both body and mind, and spirit, too. Sometimes, a smile, a laugh, or you saying something that is particularly you, that just pushes my buttons."

he grinned at her. "I don't just love you, Noriko. I am in lust with you, too."

[electro_kinetic]

"Ah, so it's just a natural state of being," she laughs, turning neatly mid-step and completing the twirl to keep going, heading down the sidewalk--it was a short drive to the city. "Well then, horny away."

[callmegambit]

Remy watched her, grinning, and shaking his head. "Yes, ma'am. Hornying as well as I can, ma'am." He chuckled as he followed her.

Every day he was with her, a new joy was brought to life, and he found himself grinning so wide his cheeks might split, and he wouldn't care. he'd never been so happy in all of his life.

[electro_kinetic]

"I'm sorry, but isn't it usually Scott's bony ass you're addressing with that kind of smartassery?" Noriko replies, grinning widely right back. "You're already getting the unicorn attitude."

She likes it. "So shadow roots and opal, final decision?"

[callmegambit]

Remy laughed. "Fearless leader that he was, Scott was always willing to banter as well. And I love that you will too." He smiled at Nori, eyes aglow brighter for a moment.

"I like it. Yes. Final decision. No need to phone a friend."

[electro_kinetic]

"Alright then," she says, nose wrinkling. "Let's go investigate cuts, and I'll dye yours when we get back."

[callmegambit]

"Sounds good to me. Lead on, sexybutt." he winked at her and walked with her, smiling, feeling quite content with her.

[electro_kinetic]

As the haircuts were completed--and Noriko's newly shorter all over, though she'd chickened out of getting a real pixie--she kept playing with the fine black fuzz left on one side of her head where she'd gotten a sidecut as well. It left her with chin-length blue tresses, the back and low side of her part grown out black where a chrysanthemum design was shaved in.

"You know, I like it on you. The spiky look could work," she said; Remy's hair was short and artfully tousled into vague points. "Especially with the dye."