Demon Marcus, Sunday

[myownface]

Sparkle walked into work today, bypassed all the clothing, sat his ass down behind the counter, pulled out a bottle of the brightest, most obnoxious yellow nail polish he could find, and set to work painting his nails.

And once they had been painted, once they had dried, he reached for another bottle of nail polish and gave them another coat in a different colour.

He'd probably have to, like, stop doing that eventually. But for the time being? Hey, green went really nice right next to yellow. Maybe it went really nice right overtop of yellow...

Demon Marcus was open. And probably a little nail polish scented today.

[OOC: Open!]

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[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan was heading into space with Liam today, so he'd put on his black SPECTRE armor and carried his helmet. Since he'd promised Sparkle a showing of the various uniforms and armors anyway, and it was Sunday, and it was on the way, and he'd eyerolled his way through a phonecall with Hernando the night before, he stopped by Demon Marcus.

Spotting the green and yellow on the counter, he asked, "Daisies?"

[myownface]

"Could be daisy time?" Sparkle glanced up from what was probably a fifth coat of yellow, and blinked. ".... Oooh."

That armor was immediately distracting, okay?

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan grinned at him but shook his head, "Not until after my outing with Liam." He held up an armored hand, "It'd rub right off inside these."

[myownface]

Sparkle laughed a little at that.

"Okay, fair," he replied, and just took himself another moment to kind of follow the flow of that entire getup.

Kinda just drew the eye right to the crotch, didn't it?

"But you're coming back after? Gotta pretty up those fingers of yours and all. Or are we holding off until Wednesday this week?"

[spectre_alenko]

"I was planning to swing by after, yeah. Head home, drop the gear and put on civvies, come visit. I just figured you'd like to see this getup since I was wearing it anyway," Kaidan answered.

It really did, and he really had no idea it did that. He grinned a little and turned on a heel so Sparkle could see the back.

That armadillo plating along his spine certainly drew the eyes south as well.

[myownface]

That armor really, really just wanted to place multitudes of triangles aimed directly to some pretty finely sculpted nether-regions, and Sparkle was totally here for that.

"You are welcome to swing by to show that off, like, any time," Sparkle informed him.

Because hi.

[spectre_alenko]

"Don't have much reason to wear it, thankfully," Kaidan said, "I'd probably be wearing the hardsuit if I had any reason to gear up. Heading out with Liam for a jaunt and I just feel weird breaking atmo without a suit on."

Probably because it was a bad idea.

[myownface]

"Huh," Sparkle mused. "For all the times I've gone up in the Hawk with Atton, I never really thought of it like that. It was always kind of more like going for a joyride in a really really big car that happens to give a kickass view of, like, space."

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan lifted a shoulder, "Habit. Unfamiliar ship. If it were the Normandy, I'd be walking around in my uniform because I've trained in that ship and know where all the emergency equipment is."

He grinned again, "And it gave you a chance to see this armor, so: bonus."

[notacokeperson]

Karina breezed into Demon Marcus like she had every right to be there and that taking a portal just to hit up a specific shop wasn't a bit ridiculous.

"Hey, jerk," she said, smiling and glad to see him. "I need your help."

[myownface]

"Hey! A wild brat appears," Sparkle countered, smiling fondly. "What kind of help?"

[notacokeperson]

"Fashion help," she said, leaning against the counter and reaching to pick up one of his nail polishes. "You couldn't decide on a color?"

[myownface]

"Just something to do with my hands," Sparkle explained. "Slow day."

... Not especially slow.

"You can see the green a little through the yellow, though." He held out a hand to display the current nail situation, bound to change in another twenty minutes. "See?"

[notacokeperson]

"Oh, that's cute," she said, admiring the way the green peeked through. "Not my colors, but not bad. You should add a glittery one too."

[myownface]

"I was actually thinking of clear with blue glitter," Sparkle shared. "I know that is your colour, right?"

[notacokeperson]

She laughed.

"Kind of like Pepsi is my drink," she said, rolling her eyes. "But yeah, clear with blue glitter will look nice. I support this."

[myownface]

Sparkle smiled a little, reaching through and picking out one of the blue glittery bottles and setting it to the side.

It had little blue stars in it. Basically, it was great.

"Then there it is," he shared. "So, you needed a hand with a fashion thing, huh?"

[intraspective]

Sometime after Ino had eaten at Luke's she came in to a) tell Sparkle about the renos. But, much more importantly, to drop off something she'd liberated for him.

Since she didn't want to freak him out with the whole telepathy thing, her hair sent him a text.

Open the door, minion! My hands are full!

[myownface]

"Ah, shit," Sparkle laughed as he leaned over and read that text, capping his polish bottle again and making his way to the door, shaking his hands as he went.

He shouldered it open, at least, and stepped outside to hold it open with his foot.

"Yours are full and mine are drying. Hey, Iris."

[intraspective]

"Hey, minion," she said cheerfully, sidling into the shop, her arms full of... well... it was large, and it was wrapped.

"I brought you a present, so your hands are gonna have to dry quick, yo."

[myownface]

"I, you- huh?" Sparkle blinked, staring at that large wrapped thing, and then he waved his hand toward the counter, which... had nail polish bottles on it. "Shit."

He let the door go, and then made his way back across the room to clear those out of the way so she could set the whatever it was down.

"What's the occasion?"

[intraspective]

"I saw it and thought of you!"

He'd understand when he saw it.

"Besides, no one else would appreciate what I had to do to get this," Ino said, setting down her present, and then shaking out her arms. It wasn't that it was too heavy for her--she was much stronger than she looked--but it was still big, awkward, and hadn't been great to carry about. "Go ahead, open it."

[myownface]

"Well, okay," Sparkle said, giving his hands one more flap around before deciding... hell, if he ruined his nails he'd just have an excuse to re-do them, and then setting in to unwrap the box.

He peered inside.

And then he cackled.

"Holy shit," he laughed. "Did... did you, like, run off with this from a mall or something?"

It was amazing.

[intraspective]

Ino looked pleased with herself.

"There's totally a mall missing a sign right about now," she admitted, since she knew he wouldn't mind that fact at all. "Like I said, I saw it and thought of you."

[myownface]

"This is the nicest thing anybody has ever stolen for me," Sparkle said, laughing and turning around to give her a hug. "Oh my god, it's beautiful."

Yup. Definitely a hug situation.