thecapitol | [open] making today a perfect day (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

Who| Anna and YOU!
What| General merrymaking, flower crown distribution, and probably skipping.
Where| All over the Tribute center!
When| Post-Arena, pre-Crowning
Warnings/Notes| Excessive...cheer???

It's been a few weeks since Anna came out of the Arena, and as such she's managed to dispel all of her gloom and moping by the time the finale comes around and the Victor is announced. She's overjoyed that one of her friends will be crowned this time, and for the princess, it's just plain been awhile since she's had a few nice things going on in her life, so she decides to give in to a little merrymaking.

The tension she still holds with a few of her friends aside, Anna's got a few good reasons to celebrate--even if she's had some awkward moments and slip-ups, and there are an uncomfortable amount of people wearing Commemorative T-Shirts featuring a very close-up rendering of her and Bro kissing--so she turns to one of her favorite hobbies: making flower crowns.

Normally, she does this kind of thing in her room, but this time, she decides to take it to a new level. For the first couple of days, you can find her spread out on her stomach on the floor of the District 4 commons, flowers of all sizes, shapes and colors blanketing the floor, making crown after crown. She spends quite a bit of the time she's working humming to herself, occasionally breaking out into song when she feels particularly happy, and she's happy to take requests. But by the third day, she decides that it's not enough to simply decorate her District-mates, and takes the whole operation down to the lobby, where she settles in on the rug by the hearth and sets to work, turning out lovely crowns of roses and daisies, daffodils and asters, and even some exotic flowers whose names she doesn't know, just that they're lovely and fragrant and people should have a chance to appreciate them.

And when she's exhausted her supply, she'll spend the next couple of days sashaying about and distributing them. Many of them go to her friends and loved ones, but she also takes care to hand them around to perfect strangers, too--who doesn't need a dose of good cheer, after all!

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Zed's initial response is to take a step back and take a slightly defensive stance. What is going on here? This is...too much cheer. Way too much cheer. ToQGer-like cheer. "You're not from the Rainbow Line, are you?"

No, of course not, that's silly. The Rainbow Line wouldn't be giving him anything other than a beating.

Anna falters a little, confused by all his defensiveness, but her hands don't lower. "I...no?" She's not really sure what that is, after all, but it doesn't sound like anything she's ever been a part of.

"I'm Anna," she offers. "I'm just trying to spread a little cheer and good will, that's all!"

Zed forces himself to relax. She's just...cheerful. Not going to try to attack him with bright colors and train-themed weapons.

"I'm Zed," he returns, "and I'm not used to cheer and good will." Something occurs to him. "...that's a kind of shining thing, isn't it?"

"Zed," Anna repeats. That's a pretty strange name, to her, but she's not going to mention that, of course. So she gives him another smile, jostling the flower crown toward him.

"I have no idea what that means! I just like flowers, don't you?"

He's still rather uncertain about all of this, but he tries to cover that with a smile. A very uncertain smile. "Can't say I've really had a whole lot of flowers in my life." But at least he's taken the flower crown if only to examine it and wonder what he's supposed to do with it.

Anna giggles, pleased when he finally takes the crown away from her. Jeez, she thought she was going to have to shove it on his head herself! But then he hesitates, and she sighs.

"It goes on your head. Like this!" She points at her own crown of sunflowers, neatly perched atop the fall of curls her hair's been styled into. "It'll look great, I promise!"

If there is a certain wariness to Zed's movements as he takes the crown, it's mostly because no one has ever asked him to do anything like this before and also because the whole thing seems like the sort of thing that might potentially weaken the Emperor of Darkness...

...but he doesn't have any powers here, no one has any powers here, and the whole thing is unusual and probably shining. Filled with the light he was never allowed. Taking the crown would spite that...but still. Flower crown. Give him a moment to decide. "Seriously?"

Anna bounces a little. Look! She's totally got him considering this! She's accomplishing her goal of making the Tribute Center a happier place! Her smile only grows wider.

"Seriously! Princess's honor," she replies, crossing her heart faux-solemnly.

That seems to get Zed's attention. "Oh? A princess?" That's news. And a point of interest for him, apparently. "Really?"

"Oh, yeah," Anna replies brazenly, waving a hand. "Ever since I was born, anyway!" It's really not something she puts much thought or consideration into, especially since she's been here. It doesn't matter, here in the Capitol, except that it ups her sponsor appeal.

Interesting. Very interesting. Definitely information to be used later, even if someone here isn't anywhere near as willing to let his royal status slip. He flashes her a grin. "I guess I can't say no to a princess then, now can I?" He'll just hope the imagination and light and sunshine and whatever else is concentrated in these flower wreaths won't actually kill him, and he'll take it off for further investigation in the elevator. Good plan. Best plan.

Anna just giggles as that, covering her mouth politely. "Exactly! It's--it's the law," she adds playfully. "Now go on, on with it! You're going to look so cheery!"

"Well, I'd never break the law." Which is a complete lie, but he says it with a not quite convincing grin.

Here's hoping he's not going to explode or something from light overexposure if he puts this on...but no such explosion comes when he puts the crown on. "Like this?"

"Mmhm. I'm sure." She's becoming quite a lot more skeptical of others since coming here, but it's a playful sort of skepticism. "Go on, then."

And then he puts it on, and her face lights up. "Perfect! Oh, yeah, that looks awesome," she gushes, fishing in her pocket for a little silver compact. Anna pops it open and holds it out to show him. "See?"

That sort of skepticism is perfectly justified with Zed, who arches an eyebrow at his reflection. "Well, now that's not a look I've had before." He's still amused with the whole thing, at least.

But hey, he wasn't exploding into a cloud of darkness or anything, so that's a plus.

Anna's practically bouncing with enthusiasm. "But it's great, right? See, I told you it'd be great. It's impossible not to look good with a flower crown on!" It's fact. Scientific fact.

"Oh, yeah, I'm really stylish now." Zed gave her a cheeky grin and a thumbs-up. He has no idea what he's even doing wearing this thing, but hey. Might as well try to get on people's good side now while he can, right?

"Yesss. I love it!" Anna bounces a little more. "Now you can go forth and spread cheer! Oh, here, I can give you a couple more crowns and you can give them to your friends!"

Is she assembling an Army of Cheer? Possibly.

Zed's got to give a big, hearty laugh as he takes those extra crowns. Him! Spreading cheer! To friends! He's pretty sure he doesn't have any of those. "Oh, sure, sure, I can do that!" He'll give her a very wide grin as he goes towards the elevator.

Anna just laughs, totally unaware of any irony on his part. "Perfect! See you around, then!"

She's on her way--she has so many more flower crowns to distribute!

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