fandomhigh | Summertime Arts and Crafts!, Tuesday, Fourth Period [07/19].

The weather looked like it was going to cooperate today, and so Sidon was thrilled to take the class back outside, back to the beach, where he had several tables and stations set up for the students to work at for today's exciting and thrilling summer time craft!

"Hello, everyone!" he greeted them brightly and eagerly, as always, especially now that he was not restricted by the confines of indoors to hold him and his many gestures and fistpumps back. "I hope you are all having a wonderful week thus far, and if not? Well, then, I hope it starting to get better. Today, we shall be making Zora armor!"

He flashed a bright grin that caught just the right way in a beam of sunlight streaking from the clouds and then chuckled.

"Although not really," he admitted. "That, I believe, is the specialty of a different class this session, but we are going to be tackling a quick and easy approximation of Zora armor, with a shirt tie-dying technique that will create a fun and colorful shirt of scales so that you, too, can be as stylish as a Zora! I have available many different shirts in a variety of styles and sizes, as well as a plethora of colors to choose from, so that you can truly make your Zora armor as unique as you are!

"But of course," he added, with another chuckle and throwing in a wink, "no mention of Zora armor would be complete without mentioning the White Scale! Those of you who have taken some of my Hylian history courses have doubtless already heard this tale, but, should you perhaps have it in mind to create a shirt for someone else, there is a tradition among Zora princesses to make Zora armor for those they intend to one day marry, and they will weave into the armor a white scale, that only female Zora possess. It is a declaration of love and devotion and sharing one's self with another, as well as symbolic of the first Zora queen to make armor for her King, and in a dire moment in battle, the clouds overhead parted and the sun shone down on the single white scale of his armor to blind his enemies and turn the tide of the fight, leading the Zora to victory! It is one of my favorite Zora tales, and it is easy enough to make a white scale on the shirts by simply covering one up entirely with the glue used to outline the scales. Just in case you wanted to add a little something....extra to the project!

"But unless you have any questions for me before we begin, I will show you how and we'll get to making our 'armor'!"

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Liz Sherman

Liberty Hazlett

Sakaki

Graham Cracker

Dwight Hendrickson

Gray

In addition to the little snippet of Zora lore, Sidon will also be going over the process of marking the scales and how to go about dying them before unleashing you to your own devices.

Please don't wear into actual battle. Or, well, you could, but it probably won't be very effective against spears and swords unless you were planning on merely impressing your foes with your brilliant sense of fashion!

T-shirt styles are all moddable, as are colors, so have at it!

Well after listening to Sidon’s story Liz was definitely making her shirt for Prompto and was carefully working on adding a white scale to the shirt that she had decided to tie dye a yellow colour, since the colour had reminded her of chocobos and maybe she would get to give it Prompto one day?

She was finding the activity to be quite calming as she focused on the task.

Vi had found a sleeveless hoodie and a plain tank in the pile of shirts and set to work drawing scales on them, and if the tank ended up a white scale on it, well, Steph had been riding Little Bot around the store while Saffron watched with great dismay when she'd checked in on her earlier, so it wasn't like she'd know what it meant.

It might have been a little ambitious of her, but Libby had picked out three shirts to turning onto 'armor': one for herself, one for Zo, and a third for....Well. Of course she remembered the story of the White Scale from Mr. Sidon's Legends class. She usually didn't care much for romantic stories, but she had liked this one. It had that epic sort of feel to it, with the battle attached to it and the bravery of the Zora King, bolstered knowing that he was shielded by his queen's love. So it resonated with her enough that, when it was brought up again here, she thought...maybe...she would make one too.

Not that she'd had anyone in mind to give it to, of course. She didn't think so, anyway. Maybe...but that thought made her face go quite a bit pink as she worked in tracing out her scales with the glue, more for how silly that thought probably was than for anything else. She (hopefully!) had a good, long time before she had to think about any thing like that in earnest, but she was raised on things like hope chests, filled with things that weren't needed yet, but would one day contribute to her making her own home, starting her own family, and so it was a hope chest of a sorts, that she might one day have a husband to give it to.

Maybe.

Probably?

She honestly really didn't even know...

It had been a while since Dwight had worked with tie-dye. In fact, the last one he had remembered doing was with Lizzie several years ago now. So, working off that memory, he started making a shirt for himself, using both of their favorite colors- blue and purple. He had no one to make a shirt to give to, so he would make one for himself that would hopefully turn out nice in the end.

As Gray worked on drawing the scales onto a tank top, which was...really the sort of detail-oriented work that made him yawn, he wondered if the pattern could be adapted to be feathers instead...and then Sloth stepped in.

Sleep now.

But I'm not done, Gray complained.

Done enough. Sleep now.

He had definitely not done enough. The pattern was only about half done, and he hadn't even gotten to dyeing it in various shades of light blue. But now he was slumped over, sound asleep next to his crafting supplies.

Sakaki was still feeling pretty shook over Science class, so she was hoping a nice crafting activity (that she would inevitably fail at) would help settle her down a little.

Especially as she started shifting through the shirts available to find one of the smallest ones she could find, deciding that she ultimately would like to make one for Joe from Legal.

And, barring that, maybe some of the cats at the shelter. Or some of her stuffed animals.

They would all be a mess, more squiggles than scales, but she was trying, dammit. As best she could with bandaged hands, anyway.

At least the bandages were going to be colorful now, too.

Sidon will never pass up the chance to wedge a good story into even the most mundane of crafts, but this one, he felt, was far from mundane. He might actually want to make one for himself if he didn't, you know, already have scales.

A little baby Sidon to brighten your day:

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