[Vivi will find a simple brown paper bag with "VIVI" written on it. It seems to have appeared out of thin air when he wasn't looking. Inside is a black and blue striped piece of knit fabric. It looks like it could fit around his hat like a yarn ribbon, or maybe he could wear it as a belt, or maybe a scarf? The stripes aren't all the exact same size, though they're close--this was done by someone who knows how to knit but doesn't do it very often.
You have been Assigned Child, please wear these Child Stripes For Safety.]
He's surprised by Sudden Bag, but it's addressed to him, so he opens it! ]
Yuriiii!
[ He is calling the guardian to help him put it on because he wants it around his neck in a nice bow, and his big clumsy hands aren't great at tying bows.
He already had stripes on his pants but now he has More. This is a wonderful day. ]
he is extremely overthinking this. Also stay tuned for whats actually in there
Dammit, the little doll did dedicatedly nurse him back to health and all.
Vivi's going to receive a package wrapped in butcher's paper for some reason from an anonymous sender, sent by way of Lark.
The actual gift is inside a colorful photo box, the pattern of which can be faintly seen through the thin paper. It's tough to tell what's in there without opening it.
Kuja tried to choose a box that was plain so that the gift wouldn't seem like it was from him. Plain by Kuja's standards means... Something very geometric with curling vines, in white and light green.
So, all the more personal things Kuja knows about Vivi... Would totally out him as himself if he gave them to him. He had considered giving Vivi that rarest, most coveted of items in town -- that is, one of the few forks Kuja had stashed in his house that had somehow survived Ib & Kokichi's fork purge -- but again, that seemed a little.. obvious? Qus and forks, after all.
So... Kuja had a little think about what some neutral, easily observed facts about Vivi were, that some mystery individual who didn't know him at all would pick up on.
Most obviously Vivi is a child. What are kids like? What DO they like?
Children, in Kuja's experience, are extremely sensitive and generally weak, though Vivi, to his pride, is certainly anything but. They like.. toys, right? He remembers seeing his peers in the nobility spoil their brats with all kinds of elaborate frivolities. He, uh, just can't picture the little doll playing with littler dolls, and it seems like it'd be a pretty loaded choice overall.
...
He'd even resorted to asking for advice.
In the end.. he'd settled on a little stuffed bear.
It was a Helltown Bear, Rather than your regular sort of bear, with a line of little plates like a stegosaurus running up its back, but otherwise it seemed to fit the bill of an acceptable toy: relatively durable, not at all dangerous, too much of an animal to be a doll... the only issue was the tear on it's arm, bulging with stuffing.
The bear's fur was thick enough the stitches could hide in it. Even with Kuja's clumsy handiwork -- it ought not be too obvious, right? ]
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December 25
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He's surprised by Sudden Bag, but it's addressed to him, so he opens it! ]
Yuriiii!
[ He is calling the guardian to help him put it on because he wants it around his neck in a nice bow, and his big clumsy hands aren't great at tying bows.
He already had stripes on his pants but now he has More. This is a wonderful day. ]
he is extremely overthinking this. Also stay tuned for whats actually in there
Dammit, the little doll did dedicatedly nurse him back to health and all.
Vivi's going to receive a package wrapped in butcher's paper for some reason from an anonymous sender, sent by way of Lark.
The actual gift is inside a colorful photo box, the pattern of which can be faintly seen through the thin paper. It's tough to tell what's in there without opening it.
Kuja tried to choose a box that was plain so that the gift wouldn't seem like it was from him. Plain by Kuja's standards means... Something very geometric with curling vines, in white and light green.
So, all the more personal things Kuja knows about Vivi... Would totally out him as himself if he gave them to him. He had considered giving Vivi that rarest, most coveted of items in town -- that is, one of the few forks Kuja had stashed in his house that had somehow survived Ib & Kokichi's fork purge -- but again, that seemed a little.. obvious? Qus and forks, after all.
So... Kuja had a little think about what some neutral, easily observed facts about Vivi were, that some mystery individual who didn't know him at all would pick up on.
Most obviously Vivi is a child. What are kids like? What DO they like?
Children, in Kuja's experience, are extremely sensitive and generally weak, though Vivi, to his pride, is certainly anything but. They like.. toys, right? He remembers seeing his peers in the nobility spoil their brats with all kinds of elaborate frivolities. He, uh, just can't picture the little doll playing with littler dolls, and it seems like it'd be a pretty loaded choice overall.
...
He'd even resorted to asking for advice.
In the end.. he'd settled on a little stuffed bear.
It was a Helltown Bear, Rather than your regular sort of bear, with a line of little plates like a stegosaurus running up its back, but otherwise it seemed to fit the bill of an acceptable toy: relatively durable, not at all dangerous, too much of an animal to be a doll... the only issue was the tear on it's arm, bulging with stuffing.
The bear's fur was thick enough the stitches could hide in it. Even with Kuja's clumsy handiwork -- it ought not be too obvious, right? ]