[peachpit]

username peachpit - Kruise registration here - team squid - prompt "What do they buy and who is it for?"
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after finishing her lunch, loh decided to take Shark's advise and go check out the shops. the shops were a casual stroll away, so she took her time and enjoyed it. the sweet hum of the music playing outside of the stores lead her the way. Loh found herself bobbing her head to the rhythm.

soon she was walking into the shopping crowd, and the music was much louder. she also noticed the talented kalon with their ukulele. "oh, that's where its coming from! it wouldn't hurt to stay a minute.." she thought to herself. loh hadn't heard a ukulele since she last saw her cousin! she smiled at the thought of him. the upbeat melody came to and end and she decided to get back to shopping.

she looked through the whole local thrift store, the flower shop, a couple pop-up shops, and a few other stores, yet nothing caught her eye. not like that ukulele did. " they must have an instrument shop here or something, how else would he have gotten it..?" she wondered. it was much later now though, and with so many of musicians playing at this outside mall, how on earth would she find him? she decided the best way to start would be to retrace her steps to the first place she saw him and o from there.

well he want at his original spot, nor by the flower shop, or the thrift store, or any of those pop-up shops. now loh was tired and getting quite hungry. discouraged and in need of a break, loh headed back to her bike so she could get back to the kruise. on the way to the parking lot, she noticed a familiar kal packing uptheir equipment in their car. like a lightbulb flickering on above her head, she realized it was him!! "HEY!! UKULELE GUY!!" she hollered rather awkwardly while he ran towards him. he looked up startled and confused, then pointed at himself as if to ask "me?" loh had stopped said between pants, " yes, you.. whee.. uh, sorry.. I've been looking for you.. all day!"

still confused he answered, " you were looking for me..all day? do I know you by chance?"

"oh no, I passed by and listened to your music for a little bit, that's all. I was wondering where you got your ukulele? it's amazing and beautiful and i'd really like to get one for my cousin!" loh quipped.

"thank you! I actually made my ukulele! its a skill that's been passed down in my family. I have one with me you can buy however!" he answered with a smile.

" oh that would be just wonderful, thank you, thank you!!" loh cheered.

the ukulele kalon rummaged around in his car for the ukulele. he handed it to loh inspect. " it's perfect! the design you painted I gorgeous and it sounds amazing! how much is it?" she asked.

"$500!" he answered.

"oh. do you take credit card...?"
[499 words ]

[fangsnfluff]

Your kalon decides to go shopping for some vacation souvenirs! What do they buy and who is it for?

Being on the island had been an incredible experience. However, it also meant Cherry had been very far away from his kids. When he got back home, he wanted to be sure to have some something he could bring back for them.
Unfortunately, that was proving to be a problem.
From the moment Shark told him to “take some time, enjoy his vacation, go do some shopping”, Cherry had been wandering. He had checked by the beach; mostly restaurants. He had checked around the ship; nothing at all. He had checked what felt like this whole entire island, and for what? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
This island had drinks. It had tide pools. It had whales. It even had mermaids, for goodness sake. But did it have books? Apparently not. Sure, Ki wouldn’t care, he was just going to rip them to shreds to write his own stories. But Hanahaki liked romance novels (which he had always found rather ironic), and he wanted to try and at least find something she would enjoy. At this point, though, he was willing to take anything he could get his hands on.
After rambling around what felt like the entire island, Cherry resigned himself to defeat. He would just have to settle, and so would his kids. But that was hard for him. He also did his best to give them all he could. Despite being a god of luck, this might just be the most unlucky he had ever felt. But then, he had a story. He could find something, even something small, and bring it back to them along with a tale of adventure, desperation, and near defeat before realizing he simply had the wrong goal.
Yeah, he thought to himself as he bought two tacky flower print shirts. Yeah, that’ll work.

[Midnightkitkat]

Latona wasn't really one for window shopping. Not that she wasn't enjoying her night on the island. It was amazing so far it was just..
"See anything you like?"
The merchant before her wasn't really sketchy more so.. odd. They definitely weren't from the ship but they didn't match the islands residence either. Just the right amount of wrongness kept her nerves on edge. "Sorry sir but I don't really know what your selling here."
"Of course, how could I forget!" Pulling objects from his robe one after the other she became curious as to how they were all contained within the garment.
"I sense a love of music culture from you. Not something that calls to you but perhaps someone dear to you? I line of connection that reminds you of one you love. Let's see.." with one final pull the stranger held a colorful conch shell that had a placement of small holes. "This here is a beautiful instrument as rare as they come. Only the people of this island are allowed to create them. For you I'd be willing to part with it at a lowered fee." Curious and mesmerized by the shell she decided to push aside the strangers oddness and pull out her coin purse "how does it work?"
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[Chickpea]

[uηsρεcifiεd ¢ryҏtiɗ]

What do they buy and who is it for?

Username- Drasheep | Kalon- Uktena |Team- Octopi | Sign-Up

Uktena bought her friend Eowyn a pet hermit crab!

[black water]

loki, | lucien | team squid | sign up | prompt 9xxxxxxxx
lucien had to admit, he was a bit relieved to have a day to himself. sure, everyone on the island was pretty nice so far, but he liked some time for himself, too. he did have a great time talking with everyone, but a nice day for him to just take in everything would be nice as well. so when shark had told him to enjoy his vacation, lucy took his advice and decided to do just that.

lucy had ended up deciding to check out the stores on the island. most of them seemed interesting to lucy. he didn't know what he wanted exactly, or if he even wanted anything. he should probably get something for his boyfriend. reagan had been the one to convince him to go on the trip, after all. he should at least bring him something back. he might like a sweatshirt. and lucien could probably end up stealing it from him to use sometimes, too. yeah, that could be a good idea. it shouldn't be that hard to find once that reagan would like, right?

wrong. lucien had ended up going through a few different stores until he finally found one that he was sure reagan would like. he wanted reagan to like it, not be unhappy with it and just say that it was fine anyways. it was just a simple red sweatshirt that read "kalokairi island." lucy didn't think that reagan would want something too extravagant. so he ended up paying for that before he got into overthinking his decision. he wandered out of the shop with a thank you and smiled as he wandered out. hopefully reagan would appreciate it.

[hiraeth + hound]

Your kalon decides to go shopping for some vacation souvenirs!
What do they buy and who is it for?

(note: roe's affectionate nickname for his boyfriend is Jaybird, and has been since they were kids.)

After all the crazy experiences with mermaids, a crashing ship, and trying to piece his way home back together, Roe is thankful to just take some time off. Aden had suggested they take a break and enjoy a little bit of a shopping trip. If there's one thing that would make him feel a little more in his element, it was spending a lovely evening on the water shopping through a store. Unfortunately, they only had a cheap little souvenir shop.. but they'd make it work.

Aden and himself giggled (Aden more so than himself) together as they joked around with each other, trying on those dad like tropical vacation shirts that Roe swears were trying to be ugly on purpose. He's momentarily reminded of Monty, who seems to have a closet full of these tacky shirts.

Aden seemed to get lucky and found a shirt that was actually quite cute. Light pink lace fell at his shoulders, and it framed his body quite nicely. He briefly considered how much Aden's boyfriend must miss him right now. Although intimidating and a brute, he is insufferably attached to Aden.

Speaking of boyfriends.. Something sparkly catches his eyes on one of the shelves in the back corner of the gift shop. For something probably made of fake diamonds, the little blue jay pin is marked quite high in price. He figures that's why it's back here in the corner, too expensive for most people that come in here. He gently places the bird pin on the counter, and carries it back to their room with their other things with a sort of lightness in his heart.

[persimmon]

Prompt 9

Sequoia was happy that she could get a plant for her brother and then settled on some practical sunglasses for her parents.

[apprentice_]

rainichi / octopus / sign up / ruka
ft finn | mika | hira | reuben | atashi
Your kalon decides to go shopping for some vacation souvenirs!
prompt 09: What do they buy and who is it for?
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a solid slap on the back of our favorite beach boy finn. he almost stumbles
forwards, and spins around to see his cousin almost looking apologetic, if it
weren’t for his wack grin. “man, where’d that all that power come from ??”

“i’ve no idea!” ruka yells enthusiastically, and it seems that maybe raw
excitement is enough to let them borrow the sun’s powers. ( they are, of course,
always excited, and over nothing at that, so maybe the sun was just being
generous today. ) “you wanna check out the local shops? i haven’t gotten to yet
for, uh, reasons.” reasons like, it was three am and none of them were open, and
i was busy battling the beach crabs.

“oh heck yea, i wanna buy more hawaiin shirts.”

ruka stares. “i’ll ask somebody else.”

“aw man, c’mon! what if i don’t buy any hawaiin shirts?” ( an empty bargain,
because he would buy those shirts regardless. )

“yea, fine,” ruka gives in (rather easily), and begins a minute’s journey to where
hira and mika are usually found: the lounge chairs that face the sea. passed that
then when neither of them are there, ends up wandering around for awhile until
they spot one of them on some cliff. ruka turns to finn as they walk. “where’s
reuben?”

“passed out when we got back.”

“fair enough. hira!” they call to the undoubted tallest of their squad, sitting alone
today— or, well, not alone, but not with mika, which was an oddity. being joined
at the hip was what earned them the nickname “mikaeth,” mika + hiraeth, because
if you were talking about one, you were talking about the other. but no, it was just
hira today, quietly accompanied by another kal.

hira looks to ruka. it’s about as much a hi as you’ll get from him. he isn’t unfriendly,
just. socially inept.

“where’s mika?”

“ah,” hira sets down a little pamphlet, something about whale watching, “he left
to spend some time with atashi.”

“aw, feeling lonely?” ruka chuckles, waves off the joke (hira didn’t much give any
response), and gestures for hira to follow them. “we’re going shopping if you wanna
get any souvenirs with us.”

“i’ll get something for mika.” hira waves to his whale watching buddy, bids a silent
adieu. he joins the other two, and he doesn’t think it, but it’s weird to be alone with
ruka (and finn)— there’s usually mika to talk between them.

they arrive at a little row of shops; modest, as you’d expect from the small island
village. when their cruise first wrecked, a local had told them this isn’t a tourist
attraction. so when the stores did actually offer a selection of souvenir type items,
it was assumed these were here explicitly for the vacationers. smart.

they wander as a group, poking in and out of the small buildings. hira is, obviously,
the first to end up several feet away and make the other two wonder where he’s gone.
still in eye shot though, and ruka steps over to him. “got something there?”

hira’s staring at a glass blown squid. it’s sort of unnerving, but well crafted. hira grabs
the plush next to it instead (also a squid). “for mika.”

“you think he’ll like that?”

“squids remind him of home.”

“and what home is that?”

hira doesn’t reply, and only pulls out his wallet to pay. it makes just another question
on top a pile of questions that have gone unanswered about mikaeth. as much as ruka
can put together, they don’t like to talk about their past— doesn’t know why, though.

ruka reachess in their pocket and takes out. something.

“what’s that?”

“no idea!” ruka plays with the thing, a little wooden contraption of sorts. “i think some
sort of toy. i got it for atashi. they like things they don’t understand.” they hand it over
to hira, and he messes with it for a good minute, gets nowhere, hands it back. ruka puts
it away. “i got a little space pendant for nora to give to her wife too.”

hira nods. “cas will like it.” this confirmation might have been what ruka originally
walked over for. “you haven’t bought yourself anything?”

“well, neither have you. i’m still looking.”

“and finn?”

ruka glances back, doesn’t see finn. “pretty sure when i looked away he bolted to buy
some shirts.” hira doesn’t look to understand that, and ruka doesn’t explain. “meet you
back at the beach later?”

hira agrees.

it’s about an hour later when ruka returns, and finn is wearing a hawaiin shirt. there’s an
energy between them that spelled i’ll strangle you and you won’t. impressive that ruka
would dare challenge anyone’s fashion, given that they crop half their shirts.

mika and atashi have regrouped, and the former is hugging the goofy squid plushie. seems
pleased enough, and ruka has to rethink what they honestly know about mikaeth. mika
says hello, and asks, “so? get anything for yourself ruka? hira said you were having a hard
time finding anything.”

ruka whips out an opal blade. “a knife!”

“no!”

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[Meridiem]

What do they buy and who is it for?

Nemo walked into an old antique store. Old fishing nets, dusty seashells, and o9ld pieces of coral lined the walls and shelves. Nemo ran his finger along a shelf and collected a whole baby dust bunny. He shook his hand to shoo it away.

"Well welcome in boy. What can I help you find today?" said a small old lady with glasses bigger than a plate. Nemo smiled at the hospitality.

"Well, I came to venture in the shops around. Seems like a cute little place you have here! Mind if I look around?" The lady smiled and motioned to the store.

He glanced at the main glass cases and wooden cabinets, all seeming to hold their own special treasure. He found old fashioned dolls with porcelain skin and toy cars that used to wind up.

Then after Nemo had thought he had traveled many eras and decades through the store he ran by one last glass case. It was smaller than the others, not as shiny and new.

"What's in this case?" he said pointing to the cloudy glass box.

"Ahh, you found the home of one of the most beautiful things in my collection." She shuffled her way over to the box, her keys giggling on her hip. "Well here let me show you." She unlocked the box and with a creak the door opened. Her hands crept inside and pulled out a small closed clamshell. "Now this here clam is a special clam. He is no longer with us." She laughed as she swiped away the small layer of dust that had collected on his shell. "But he is full of love." She placed both hands on it. "My husband gave me this sweet shell before he left..." A tear welled up and swam down her face.

"Im so sorry to hear that. I didn't mean to stir up anything. I-"

"Hush child, I wasnt through." She looked back up at Nemo. "I can tell you love someone. They mean a lot to you dont they?" Nemo didn't want to speak anymore so he nodded, clutching the bell that hung around his neck. "Well good. Then its settled."

She grabbed both of Nemo's hands, pulled them open, and set the clamshell in his hands.

"Oh no I can't this is yours." He said shaking his head and trying to hand the shell back to the lady standing behind the counter.

"Nonsense boy. Take it."

"Well at least let me pay you, please you are so kind."

She shook her head again. "Your company was payment enough. Now go on shoo, get out. Go tell the one you love how much they mean." She pushed and shooed him out the door until the bell chimed. She waved goodbye and shuffled to the back of the store.

Nemo stood there, shocked at what just happened. He looked down at the clam in his hands. His curiosity got the best of him and he opened it.

A shiny giant pink pearl was perched on a white gold band laid inside the clam.

Nemo in shock tried to open the antique door again but when he turned around, the door was locked and the building was empty. There was no sign of anyone inhabiting the building for decades at least.

He stood there and looked down at the ring and spoke to himself, "Maybe its a sign."