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[ino]

[dictated while she's sitting in the library! she's quiet, though, so as not to disturb the other people ... reading ...]

So, have you guys heard of the flower Amaryllis? It's a gorgeous red flower. But there's a story about how it came about ... it's said that there was a nymph who was in love with a man, who was really attractive and strong and all that. But her love was unrequited, so she asked this oracle for some advice on how to capture his attention. She heard that the one thing he'd like most in the world was a flower that was so unique that it didn't exist yet.

So, going by the oracle's advice, she came to his door every night for a month, and stabbed herself in the heart with a golden arrow. The guy never even answered the door for a whole month, but when he finally did, all the blood she had spilled had turned into a beautiful red flower.

I guess she died? She must have, right?

Well, whatever. It's kind of weird how so many stories say that beautiful things can only come out of tragedy.

[ooc: open over the journal or in person! tags will be a bit slow, sorry :(]

Comments

[hostess]

[Haruhi is.. also in the library, but she responds via the journals anyway. Easier to be quiet. :T]

That's... surprisingly morbid.

[ino]

Yeah, there was another one I read awhile back about a girl falling from a tower and turning into a flower when she hit the ground and died, too.

Maybe it's just something about flowers ...

[just_monitoring]

It is a strange habit of you humans to associate beauty and tragedy. I wonder if it's the same impulses that have you lot staring at gruesome accidents and tabloids. [Sounding upbeat and inquisitive.]

[ino]

Huh? Not this "you humans" talk again ... [sighs ... alskdja she gets so annoyed by that attitude ;;]

[foolreversed]

...

...Geez louise, nymphs can't ever catch a break in these stories, can they!?

[ino]

I guess not... I'm not really sure what they are, though.

[waterproofed]

Sounds like a story that would come from my world.

[ino]

You think? How come?

[candled]

[leaning over her shoulder from behind at what Ino's looking at with a smile!]

You like flowers, Ino~?

[ino]

[LOL OH MY GOD. TRIES .... NOT TO JUMP]

... Yeah. My family runs a flower shop.

dictated

[hellshaped]

There's a story where I'm from about lilies. St. Leonard was fighting a dragon in the forest, and wherever he bled, lilies sprung up from the ground.

[ino]

I guess blood creating flowers is a pretty common tale, then ... I wonder why.

[save_the_souls]

That's...a rather depressing story.

[ino]

Yeah ... it seems like a lot of them are that way.

Dictated

[allaboutattitude]

It's usually true, though. Beauty coming out of tragedy.

[ino]

You think?

[onlyanapple]

What is it with humans and their obsession with topping themselves over ~true love~? I don't get it.

[ino]

Well, the person in the story wasn't a human, right ... ?

I don't really get it either, though.

[inafadingcrown]

Many of the tales of my people are of a similar nature- the bitter mingled with the sweet. Perhaps it is the contrast that makes the beauty seem all the greater.

[ino]

Maybe ... I guess it just sucks that she had to die to get him to even look at her.

[hard_talker]

If you're lookin' for flowers, it's probably gonna be a while.

[aka: he sees what you did there. and he's still feeling pretty jaded and unhappy about yesterday]

[ino]

Naturally. It is winter.

[a pause ...]

[Mark]

You alright?

Journal

[cantacquityou]

...That reminds me of the story of Echo and Narcissus.

[ino]

Who are they?

dictated

[lawfullystupid]

Almost like what they say about fig tree flowers.

I also read somewhere that one of the possible reasons flowers are often associated with blood is because people would avoid battlefields, so plants would sprout up in droves thanks to not being trampled by other armies and quietta hooves. So it almost seemed like they grew better in the split blood.

Not to mention a flower often represents a woman's... innocence.

[ino]

Well, I guess that's a better theory than the blood actually transforming into a flower.

[amused] "Innocence", huh.

[soccerwhisperer]

Something about that story doesn't seem right... Why would the oracle tell the nymph to stab herself if she knew she would die from it?

[ino]

Well, maybe the nymph didn't care that she would die, so long as she got the guy's attention.

dictated;

[amiable]

That's... so sad...

[ino]

Yeah, it is ... that poor girl really got the worst deal.

[walkinthruwalls]

How did her blood turn into a flower?