Chicoon Name: Halcyon
Prompt:
This chicoon is devoted in the arts of showcasing their love, wether it be platonic or romantic, they are going all out. Nothing they present will be any less then perfect, and is carefully designed to express every innermost feeling and emotion. When Halcyon decides its time to preform such an act, they'll wake in the early morning to gather seashells, clams and pearls of every shape and color. Halcyon refuses to use anything other than freshly picked from the beaches or the seafloor, though still keeps plenty they dont use to decorate their already crowded and dazzling home.
After a day or so of collection, they'll prepare to remain in their house for multiple days on end, as this step and the one that follows are incredibly tedious and labor intensive. Using the shells, mollusks, and other various and colorful trinkets, Halcyon begins to crush them for their pigments completely by hand. With only a mortar and pestel to assist, they'll work into the late hours of the night, with the soft lapping of waves and birds slowly coming to wake to accompany them.
Followed up with a well deserved break day, Halcyon takes aside some of the pigments and a few dazzling shells and clams to decorate with paints. Of course, this step isnt all that easy either. They'll be mulling the pigments by combinding them with a paint binder, which turns the finely ground particles into a smooth and liquid paint Halcyon will be using to decorate the main gift, a hand picked seashell.
Of course they'll have to bake the paints first--nothing a little bit of their fire cant handle.
This is undoubtedly their favorite step of the process aside from the ultimate presentation, decorating their elaborate gift. Using the paints (and a bit of artistic magic) They'll imbue the shell with wonderous gleams and glows, paint along the natural patterns of the seashell while adding hues and runic-like symbols that could only fit the specific emotions and respect Halcyon feels for the recieving chicoon. This is the product of them pouring their relationship into the physical world for them to hold, the prize of it all.
Now, the presentation! Halcyon wont let their weeks long effort be as simple as giving a gift, no, thats far too simple! Halcyon is the most eccentric and dramatic chicoon for miles, they would not end this on such a boring note. Instead, Halcyon performs what is undoubtedly their favorite activity. A dance. Almost equally as important as the shell itself, is the grand entrance. Of which Halcyon will perform a short and breathtaking show of their skill, while using the dry pigments they saved as underwater-fireworks of sorts to explode in the background. Each dance is unique, as well as fleeting, something to contrast the physicality of the shell with a moment that can only be lived through by memory, but is every bit as expressive and important.
Finally, Halcyon presents the recipient with the shell, and promptly crashes on their couch to finally reclaim some very much needed hours of rest.
And thats it! this is definitely one of their more elaborate forms haha...But I absolutely love the process of handmakin paints and the thought why not write about it here
I skipped over the actual ingredients (Such as gum arabic Honey/Glycerine etc.) But this is (albiet a rather simplified version) the real process of paint makin!
