Kazoo 1 [video]

[crimson_rain]

[The video flickers, addressing the train as a whole. There's a man dressed in a blue hoodie, so he looks unassuming with a red ribbon tied up in his hair in a ponytail]

Greetings and good afternoon. If you're new, make yourself at home. If you've been here for a while and never met, I am not known to many, but I had been here for quite a while.

The journey on the train can be a very long one. It will be difficult to find activities to do on the train to pass the time while we wait until the train arrives to the next world for the next mission. You can read books in the library, go train in the gym, watch a movie in the cinema, or listen to music in the music car to pass the time.

That's why I had been thinking of teaching art classes and hold lessons on most days. If you're interested in art and sculpting, I can arrange teaching a small group and find art supplies for us to use and experiment with. We can make beautiful pieces, work with color, and make statues, and find inspiration in everything.

I am Hua Cheng, by the way, or Mr. Cheng. I like painting and coloring, and I realized if you like drawing and working with colors, I can teach you how to draw and paint.

Comments

[worthallthis]

[They wave that off, but hesitantly rather than jerkily. They're being careful. He's misunderstood, which isn't surprising, they're not being very clear right now.

(Let's try that again, pal.)]

I can teach. To help. I know nineteen shapes. I made up the star one myself.

[crimson_rain]

[He blinks, and then he nods understand what he meant]

Sure, there isn't many students. So far, I know of one, Yoite. He's deaf. You can also go around and ask if they want to learn. That's why I pick the library, because a lot of people come here. So pick a table and I have color paper if you want some.

[worthallthis]

Yes, Yoite. I'm teaching him already.

[Wait, is Soldat the one who misunderstood? Now they're confused and kind of afraid they've made an idiot of themselves. Gotten all psyched up to come help teach, for nothing.]

You aren't having classes? People coming at a set time, to learn a set thing?

[crimson_rain]

Ah, I see. So you taught him. I met him a while ago and I made him origami rabbits.

[Oh no, it's all right. He doesn't misunderstand! It's just not very organized]

At the moment, no. I don't have anything set. I didn't set a time. It's free-form. It depends who comes to me and if they're interested, and what I'm offering, they take what's available and I reflect back on their interests. They come and go. I only announced based on interests.

At the moment, there are no students now. It's only me. [Does that clarify?] Just think of me mentoring whenever it's convenient. If you want to teach origami, you just have to find someone who is interested. [Does that make senseish?]

[worthallthis]

[It does, it's just not what Soldat had anticipated. It's both easier, because yeah they're already finding people and showing them individually, and disappointing, because as hard as it is to be looked at sometimes, they'd kind of been hoping for an actual, regular gathering of people to just... be with.

They sigh a little and nod.]

All right. If you do wind up with actual classes. With actual people. At a particular time. Let me know?

[crimson_rain]

[It's no problem really and Hua Cheng brought it up as a whim]

Sure, we'll see what happens. If you find interested students, you let them know too.

[worthallthis]

[Soldat nods again. And lingers a little, looking around at the art supplies Hua Cheng brought, already.]

I hope you do get a class going. I think that would be. Good for a lot of people.

[And not-people, for that matter.]