Friendship for All Open Closed

Tyranni waited patiently for the girl, @Willow Anderson to finish showing the others how to make their bracelets, as she had chosen a more complicated pattern, but knowing how to crochet, she figured she would pick up the motions quickly.

There were so many pretty color combinations being chosen by many of the students, and there was a good number of students interested in getting a bracelet, or making one if they did not find one already pre-made that was to their liking. She watched one of the kids that was at the table choosing various shades of green. When he completed the bracelet, it reminded her of her house Slytherin colors. Aside from that, green was her absolute favorite color, so it was natural for her to be drawn to the bracelet. "I like the color choices and bracelet you made. You did a great job," she told the boy.

Watching the Hufflepuff girls hands weave together the bracelets with ease was as magical as when Tyr would sit and watch her grandmother Revna crochet all sorts of items, including blankets, scarfs, hats, sweaters, gloves, and whatever else you can think of that might be crocheted. It really was an art form, and Tyranni thought it was a great idea to help unite fellow students at Hogwarts in a manner that was unique and easily recognized should you see another student walking in the hall wearing a bracelet.

Mentioning: Willow Anderson and @Ruka Tân

Interacting with @Samuel Barnes @Ruka Tân @Tyranni Whitethorn

Willow was thrown off when Ruka seemed to vehemently deny that the colors he was using were Slytherin colors, maybe he had something against the house and suddenly she felt bad for commenting on his color scheme. She decided not to push it anymore and focused on weaving her own bracelet instead. After she finished giving the basic instructions and everyone seemed to be catching on her hands sped up and quickly finished off the bracelet so she could walk around and help the others at the table.

While the others were making their bracelets she moved to help Tyr begin on hers, "Beading can get complicated and weird but I think you'll do just fine." She quickly cut out the appropriate amount of string and grabbed her own beads to mirror it. She thought the easiest method to teach friendship bracelets was simply to show them how to make it, and have their hands follow so it settled into memory. "I appreciate you putting this effort into a bracelet for someone, I'm sure they'll love it and will feel how much love was put into it." She gently smiled at Tyr. For someone who made a ton of friendship bracelets, she had actually never received one and suddenly felt a pang of jealousy at everyone making bracelets for specific friends in mind. Willow quickly pushed the thought down, though if someone was watching they would see her smile falter and a sadness cross her face before returning to a happiness.

She looked back up from her work to see that Ruka had finished his as well as her fellow Hufflepuff. "Ah! Yours looks great Sam! You did amazing, you can tell that you used to make them." She smiled gently before turning to Ruka and Alan. "Ruka, you just have to tie the same knot that's at the top onto the bottom." She demonstrated on a few extra pieces of string how to do the simple knot. Finally she looked to see how Alan was doing and frowned slightly realizing that he definitely needed help and she completely missed it.

She got up and went over to see how she could save it, but while she was standing behind him her eyes widened. She had never seen a bracelet get messed up so badly. There was no way she could save it so as gently as possible she reached to grab him more thread. "Uh, maybe it would be best to start over... and I'll lead you through the steps." She sat down on the other side of him and smiled, "Friendship bracelets are more fun made with a friend anyway." This had quickly become a way more stressful event than intended, but she was having a good time amidst the chaos.

Alan glanced over to Ruka, when he talked to him and mentioned that those were the first colors that caught his eye. Alan blinked confused and just nodded, "I-It is st-still a good choice", he repeated genuinely. A light grin slipping into his features, as he could not help but think that it had taken Ruka a while to pick the colors. Those colors had been picked for a reason maybe? Alan's grin turned into a curious frown, but before he could really concentrate on figuring out the matter, he hushed and concentrated on his own bracelet... or what was left of it anyway.

Ruka seemed to be doing fine though, soon enough asking how to finish his bracelet and Alan couldn't help but glance over and be impressed. Why couldn't he be so good at it, as Ruka was? "Th-That looks a-amazing", he praised in a hushed whisper and nodded in acknowledgement. That was how he wanted his bracelet to look like as well, but apparently his was beyond repair.

When he turned back, he got a glance on Willow and wondered what was up with her. She looked like she saw a ghost... Alan quickly twisted his head around to see whether one of the Hogwarts ghosts actually were inside the Great Hall at the moment or if anything else could have caused the look of horror on her face but found nothing.

When she sat down next to him, he lightly smiled at her, a bit nervous. "A-Are you f-feeling okay, Willow?", he wondered and tilted his head ever so slightly to figure out what had been up with her just moments ago. However she looked fine now, so he probably just imagined it? He gladly took the thread she got for him, which was in the same tones that he had previously used, before he failed badly at actually making the bracelet. He nodded and with her guidance, he actually managed to achieve a decent result, making him smile excited, once he was done with making the last knot into the yarn.

"L-Look, Ruka! M-Mine is done now t-too!", he chirped as he showed the result to the second year. It obviously still was not the best result, but it was the best result he had been able to achieve and he hoped that this was just good enough! For him this bracelet was beautiful as he had spend a lot of time working on it. "Th-thank you f-for showing me how t-to make these!", he said, turning to look at Willow with a small grin gracing his face that made his eyes shine.

Interacting with @Willow Anderson, @Alan Vanes and @Tyranni Whitethorn

She watched Willow show her the proper knotting techniques and when to place the beads to weave the bracelet out of nothing. It took a couple rounds before she felt confident, but quickly her fingers began to wriggle, placing different strings over others, other under, and pulling tightly to make knots.

"Thanks! I really appreciate the help! If you need to go help other, you can. I think I got the hang of this, but if I get confused I'll make sure to come to you." Tyranni smiled at the young Hufflepuff, relieved that this event was going smoothly and she was able to spend some time relaxing her mind from the stressors at school.

She continued to work, almost mindlessly except the silent counting in her head to keep the proper knot order in place. When the bracelet appeared to be approaching completion, she quickly placed it against her own wrist to gauge size, determining that a few more rounds were needed. Before completion, she made a knot that could fit over a button to latch the bracelet securely on any wrist.

Placing the bracelet on her wrist, she looked at it satisfied and proud of her work. It was not often that she felt comfortable engaging with other students, and this helped ease her mind that there were other students at the school who weren't focused on starting fights and proving their superiority.

Action: Leaving Thread

Mentioning @Willow Anderson | Thanks for a great event! It has been a blast!

"Come one, come all! To the friendship bracelet extravaganza!"

The familiar, yet irksome voice rang throughout the Great Hall just as Jack was getting up from his table. Having just finished lunch while brooding moodily, one of the last things he wanted to hear was the unsolicited announcement of some silly student-started event. 'Friendship bracelet extravaganza'? What kind of name was that, anyway?

Then again, recalling the friendship-bracelet-obsessed Hufflepuff girl Jack had met a few days earlier, this sounded like just the sort of thing she might have thought to come up with. Apparently it wasn't enough for her to hand out her yarn-woven death sentences; she had to encourage others to do so as well.

It was rather ironic that Willow herself believed that her event had become way more stressful for her than she had intended, because chaotic as she might have considered it, Jack had different standards of chaos. And while Tyranni had been relieved that the activity was going smoothly by her definition of the term - void of students 'starting fights and proving their superiority' - she had left just in time. Because as the Slytherin girl left Willow's catastrophic activity table, another Slytherin came up to it as if to replace her.

Jack had pulled the hood of his robes over his dark red hair, hoping to avoid being identified by features as blatant as the colors he was most often seen in. Passing the end of the table that Willow had originally sat at before moving to the other side of a third year Gryffindor, hazel eyes browsed the various pre-made friendship bracelets that the Hufflepuff girl had encouraged others to take.

They're just here for anyone to take, huh? he thought, his narrowed gaze flickering up to locate the event organizer where she was. Then she won't mind if I just help myself to a few of these...and maybe throw them into a fireplace somewhere...

As if summoned by the mere concept of 'fire', Jack looked along the table from Willow to finally discover the slightly-less-short student sitting on the opposite side of the tall upperclassman between them. It was none other than the boy he had been deliberately avoiding since Valentine's day; the very same one who he had been so used to previously accompanying everywhere that he had become about as familiar a sight to Jack as any of his dorm mates.

The dregs of negativity that remained after his lunchtime of sulking were immediately replenished with a fresh avalanche of bad feelings. Anger, misery, envy, and even jealousy threatened to bury his rational thought as he reached for as many of the friendship bracelets as he could grab. It would just be nice to burn something...to make them disappear. If he couldn't rid himself of his awful emotions, then at least he could rid himself of at least one cause of them.

Eager to leave before the copper-haired fire-dancer laid eyes on him, the hooded Slytherin swiftly turned on his heel and headed out of the Great Hall. Jack knew of a quaint little fireplace in the Small Hall where few were likely to disturb him if he wanted a chance to feed some flames in peace.

@Willow Anderson & @Ruka Tân

Interacting with @Alan Vanes and the ever mysterious @Jack Burnett

A proud smile donned Willow's face as Alan finished up his bracelet successfully. She honestly wasn't sure if her teaching abilities would end up helping the boy, but is definitely worked out in the end. Her head perked up when Tyranni made her leave, giving her a small wave as she exited the table. Willow propped her head on on her hand to look at everyone else working diligently on their bracelets, and Ruka and Alan whispering about something that she couldn't hear. Her eyes lazily drifted to a student that approached with their hood up, taking a handful of bracelets before walking away.

Sure they were free to take, but jeez if you're going to take that many at least say hi. Maybe they waere just too nervous to talk and make friends? She could help with that, and she wanted to. Since everyone seemed to be in a decent place with their bracelets Willow rose from the bench. "Alan I'll be back soon, just gonna go say hi to that person." She passed a bright smile down to him before bouncing off the approach the student who was quickly leaving the Great Hall. Boy, this person really was super shy. Sometimes all someone needed was one person to break that ice! She called out after them, and followed them into the Small Hall. "Hey! Wait up! I want to say hi!"

Willow has left the thread.

He would turn to @Ruka Tân as he complimented his bracelet and nodded with the hint of a grin, before his bracelet once again captured his eyes as he was quite proud about what he had achieved within such a short time. He would nod at Ruka when the kid mentioned whether he could go now, not all that sure as to why he would even feel the need to ask the question since after all the two of them had just come here to play hide and seek and that game had been long over. He wished the younger Gryffindor a nice day and still appreciated the fact that he had bothered to ask anyway. After all perhaps they could have hang out some more, but Alan really did not have all too much time to spare either; the life of a third year once might say. The older one got the more homework the professors seemed to give, probably forgetting that just because they moved up a year it would not meant that they had more free time, really it was less.

Alan too would leave the table soon after @Willow Anderson as soon as he was done pocketing his friendship bracelet and taking some of the wool so that he could practice some more. He would like to make some more in case he would find some more friends which was bound to happen eventually. He was happy with what he had learned and glad that he got to spend some time with Ruka.

Mentioning @Willow Anderson @Alan Vanes

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