tREES ARE COOL!!!

Ah, hello! Do you need any advice for taking care of your tree? Y'know I'm pretty good at that topic, I'm here to help. The name's Audrey by the way! ✾Plant a seed inside the earth, just one way to know it's worth. [[Independent RP blog for Audrey from the 2012 movie The Lorax! Here to roleplay for fun and with everyone. uvu]]

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Round and round the mulberry bush~

[Hiyoko chimes happily, a smile so sugary sweet spread across your face one look could clog your arteries. She’s kneeling over in the dirt, apparently not too concerned with how dirty her kimono will get, even if she doesn’t know how to take it off.]

The monkey chased the weasel, the monkey stops to pull up his socks…

[She pauses, finger poised in the air  perfectly still as her eyes scan the ground for the perfect specimen. Once found the small girl lets out a sinister snicker and brings down her hand with break-neck speed. It pushes into the ground, or more specifically, a small beetle on top of the ground, forcing it into the earth until it can no longer take the pressure and splits open under her fingertip.]

…POP! goes the weasel~

Heehee!

[But oh, suddenly a noise pierces her ears and startles the small dancer, who straightens up her back and swivels her head much in the fashion of a cautious rabbit. ]

…Hello? Is someone theeeeere~?

[itsphotosynthesis]

❀    It isn't much of a big task to spot the blond girl, dressed in an unusual (maybe traditional?) manner, just outside of town. Well, how can she be easily passed by after all, being in such bright attire and singing along so very brightly to this cheery song. Without much of a proper consent, a 'Hey!' must have escaped the ginger by accident which she only can conclude by the time after the girl started to look around in search for the source of these words. Shrugging to herself, she waves in her direction when being in sight.

"Oh, sorry for interrupting you in your-- uhm"

She holds herself to take a considerate look down, thinking of the right word to use as a description for the other girl's doing. What is she rummaging for down there, exactly? Ah - maybe she's planting a tree! But no wait hold it. Who might know that for sure?, she tells herself, so the redhead uses the easiest expression to intrude her mind instead:

"game."

Finding a spark of interest lightening up, the botanist-in-training draws closer to the fancy-dressed girl, kneeling down beside her when she reaches her spot. In opposition to the other one though, Audrey doesn't let her leggings or any other clothing touch the grass'd earth just yet. Not out of disgust, merely because of the reason to keep a little polite distance - Though having taken a note of her own behaviour, she starts to wonder why the happy stranger treats her expensive-looking dress so roughly. Aren't they kind of expensiv-- She shakes her head, removing the thought. Gaping at someone like that, surely isn't making a good first impression!

"My name is Audrey, by the way", she finally smiles, giving the girl a friendly look. "Do you need a second player?"

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itsphotosynthesis began pestering you.

Although it wasn’t of her nature to mindlessly wander the undiscovered paths of the human world, the young troll whom since her death carried a heart to exploration, believed she had began finding sort of a liking it. She was unsure to wether it was of it’s nature based upon the gloomiest of colors, or it’s overall, seemingly greyish, appearance, but she knew that she would be to stay for as long as her dead time let her. 

Her exploring had led her astray, and Aranea found herself wandering the occupied street of a loud, colorful, human city of which she was formerly unfamiliar with. It was a peculiar enviroment in which strange trees blossomed. Seemingly alike ones she had known of back on Alternia when she was alive. This was not at all the gloomy human enviroment she knew of. 

Baffled by the beauty of her whereabouts, Aranea is not knowing of the presence the character approaching her. A clean voice rings at the back of her head, and with surprise in her eyes she turns to meet eyes with the human stranger behind her.

“Oh, hello!”

[itsphotosynthesis]

❀    The vivid botanist is running through the redeeming city of Thneedville again, big stacks of paper tightly clutched between arm and waistline and occasionally tipping at passersby and dragging them into a conversation, if they want to or not. The town is on a good way to the better, air becoming more and more of a treat instead of a scratching stimulus. But there still is a lot, lot, lot to do; One of tasks being the creating of awareness.

The brochures, she's scattering around, contain information about the importance of waste separation and to Audrey's own self-esteem, she's dwelling in a mood of benevolent enthusiasm the whole time. Though after having been spurting through half of the enormous city, eventually weariness starts to set in and she would have been heading home by now if not a very particular pretty blue-dressed female had catches her sight out of the blue.

Putting on a wide smile and focusing the last of her reserved strength, she approaches the girl from behind, only to be taken aback by the sudden sight before her as said person turned her face.

"H-Hello... excuse me."

Her voice becomes a painfully slow stutter and another hesitant eyeing from head to the stranger's toes can't be prevented: The girl in front of her possesses a sickish looking color of gray, making her look more than only a little alien. And are those horns attached on her head? It takes the ginger a while to gather her thoughts again to form a sounding sentence in her mouth - Her former intentions are forgotten though.

"Sorry for disturbing, miss--" She sucks in a breath and lets the words hang in the air irritatedly, almost as if she's struggling with the thought that 'miss' was the wrong addressing. "Are you feeling all right?"

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  “Iiiif I say so?” Ted asked teasingly. He chuckled and then heard her continue her thought. Ted felt that he turned an embarrassing shade of red; the thought of what she had just said processing in his mind. The gears taking each word and translating them into a way he could understand. 

  A whole day.. with Audrey? And.. he didn’t have to get some random toy stuck in her backyard? A whole day with her invitation? Ted couldn’t pass that up and, it appeared he couldn’t since Audrey is a very stubborn person and he knew she wouldn’t take ‘no’ for an answer.

 ”..Well,” Ted said, trying to contain his excitement, “If I can’t stop you.. Why not?”

[itsphotosynthesis]

A delighted smile settles on her lips, soon followed by a giggle. Her day's about to get a bit better!

"Can't stop me. Well concluded, young Lorax."

The colour of her cheeks catches more colour of blossom pink as she notices his eagerness. Ted's enthusiasm's like the one of a young kid - all in all so simply adorable! Her attention eventually drifts off soon and the ginger takes a glance around, sight swaying into far off distances as if in search for something. She makes a short hum sound, before turning back to the boy. 

"Well, where do you wanna go? J&K pizza? Ice cream?"

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One year.

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Audrey knows she isn't supposed to wander around in the dark streets of town at times when thinning clouds do not reveal the shining sun, though the new eerie sky along with the gleaming moon instead. Thneedville might be described as safe, secure, and since lately, even 'natureware' after O'Hare's departure, but there're still some heavy businesses going on in this modernized city. Everyone knows that, everyone stays shut about that. Audrey included.

And for that reason the redhead wonders why she thought it was a good idea to step in front of the door a few hours ago. It's not because of the love for nature or her desire to meet up with some of the girls this time - it's something deeper. Her mind tells her, there is the presence of something special, an inspiration for her paintings tonight. Quite a far fetched thought for a 17-years old high school girl. Though what would the world be without dreamers?

But even if the one's soul is determinded to find this very spot, time is most often able to change plans. And time does it really well. Though it happens in the moment she almost changes her plans to go back home, neglecting her predictions, when the hair in her neck starts to raise whilst sudden heat bites into her nostrils, making breathing a hard task. Something... tingling and mighty is close by. And this tensity surely aren't the new pollen only, floating around lately, nor the oncoming meet-up of some fireflies (which obviously was a silly thought on her side. Those kind of bugs glow from June to July, she knows!).

Feeling excitement beginning to flicker in her fingertips, the student's sight darts from left to right, trying to figure out the source of this sensation. It's then when a tall dark figure brings itself to notice in the corner of her eye, leaning  against one of the brightly white shining street lamps. A shakey breath escapes her lungs, and Audrey clenches her fists before a weakly shouted 'Hello?' leaves her and sounds through the night, hoping and fearing at the same time it will be noticed.

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  Ted felt a bit flustered with Audrey’s presence but, he managed to hold up a conversation. He nodded as she explained what she was doing there, his face heating up as she mentioned his accident. Ted made a small shrug and smiled. Upon hearing what she saw Mr. Jenkins doing, he couldn’t help but letting aloud a laugh. “Ew! That’s something no one ever wants to see.” 

 ”Don’t worry, Audrey,” He assured the red-head, “I’m fine!” Ted chuckled. Typical Audrey, he thought. It was one of the reasons he liked her so much. She put everyone else’s needs above her own, despite having a sorta-short attention span and large imagination. He.. admired her—as well as crushed on her but he is never going to tell her that, gosh.

[itsphotosynthesis]

The ginger tilts her head a little, fervid red hair softly brushing over her shoulders, as she gives the younger a questioning, rised brow. To admit it, he does look pretty swell, becoming kind of steady on his feet again... and the scooter only seems to have taken small damages after all. Maybe her reaction to this whole situation really is a bit over the top. Her enormous caring right now can be taken as a quite embarrassing act, come to think of it, and realising this makes her cheeks turn in a slight shade of pink.

Ok, you can handle this, Audrey.

"Iiiiiif you say so, Ted. But I'm going to let you know one thing", she states in a slow manner, taking a step back to give the boy a little more room for his own. "I'm going to keep an eye on you for the rest of the day. Y'know what that means, right?" Having said that, a smile quickly followed the statement, making her face look like the change of seasons: From winter to spring. "That means you have to spend the whole day with me! Can't run out of that, young man!"

Audrey inwardly suppresses a giggle coming its way - The way she just said these words make it seem like she had pulled the idea out of the thin, now breathable air. Truth be told, the high school student was on the way to the Wiggin's house, asking for that: To spend time with the little speaker for the trees.

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  Ted managed to sit up and put his hand on his head, which was protected by his helmet. “I’m fine, it’s no worries.” He murmured to the person; he didn’t want anyone to worry about his well-being. He did more dangerous things in the matter of a day than this. Ted finally processed the voice: it’s tone, it’s softness, how familiar it was. He looked up and noticed a female’s face. “A-Audrey!” He exclaimed, his voice shaking in nervousness. “I-I’m fine.. I’m fine.” Ted repeated and confirmed, “Sorry about that.”

  He stood up shakily, from the effects of the crash and seeing Audrey there. In all honesty, he was going to see her after he ate. He also really shouldn’t have skipped breakfast. But—the cereal got old and he wanted to try some new cuisines. Natural and not gelatin, to be exact.

  “So, Audrey,” He began, trying to keep his cool. He bent down to pick up his crashed scooter which seemed to have minimal damage. Nothing he couldn’t fix. Ted turned his attention back at his crush and made his lips curl into a small smile. “What brings you here?”

[itsphotosynthesis]

Seeing the boy being responsive and having no obvious, bloody marks in sight, her features soon enough begin to soften. Even a smile hushes over her lips as reaction to the boy's sudden realisation of her presence and the following act of toughness. Of course, there's no fun at all in having an accident and being kind of wobbly on the feet, but somehow... the girl can't ignore the feeling of finding the situation simply adorable. 

"Well, first of all your little accident did", she answers, allowing a small giggle to escape her.

"But anyways: I was just wandering around, visiting a few people to check out if they're taking good care of their trees. You're not going to believe this, but Mr. Jenkins used his for a clothes line to dry his underpants outside!! I told him that's totally not the way they are there for, and he got quite a scolding, an-"

She cuts herself off, noticing she has been drifting off topic already. Not her schedule of today is the topic right now, but Ted's well being- By Seuss, Audrey please! Catching herself, her focus goes to the brown haired boy again: "But are you really sure you are okay? Should we get you into a hospital? You never know what kind of inner turmoils you could have right now..."

She presses her lips together and gives the boy an examining gaze. Nothing really seems to be dangerously off about her young friend, but better safe than sorry! That's what is written on each and every poster in her school, and the girl takes those advices by heart.

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  Ted called out to his mother as he ran down the stairs to go outside. “Mom, I’m going out!” He didn’t await a response and dashed through the door. Ted smiled as he smelled the newly grown grass in the morning and the new Truffula trees growing around. Breathing in the fresh air, his smile widened. He went to his garage to for his scooter and helmet, his goggles already around his neck. Upon finding them, he hopped on and rode off into Town Square.

  He didn’t necessarily know where he was going. He did feel a bit hungry though. Ted decided to go get some lunch somewhere, listening to his stomach grumble. “Yeah, yeah.” He muttered, rolling his eyes. 

  He looked at the fields covered in blooming or already-blooming Truffula trees. The tufts were in various colors, varying from pink to yellow to orange to red. Ted felt a bit proud. He did all of this to impress Audrey, only for it to help and fix the whole town. An amazing feat, he must admit. He felt happy now that the metal wall wasn’t blocking the Truffula fields, the one that used to make a fake reality.

  Ted kept staring at the trees, sighing in content and happiness, until he got interrupted by crashing into something. “Ow!” He exclaimed, falling off of his scooter.

[itsphotosynthesis]

It's a nice and bright new day in Thneedville, and as on most of those nice and bright days it seems to be like the task of a certain red haired girl named Audrey to spend it outside, enjoying the green of slow growing grass and trees.

Her walk was seeming to turn out quiet and peaceful and her thoughts were about to drift off into a better world far off in the future when suddenly something fast and almost glowing red whooshed past by her, leaving her squeak in surprise before the amount of air streams tousled her hair right into her face. 

A quick-to-vanish thought of 'School Rowdies' crossed her mind and the girl furrowed her brows for the split of a second as she whipped the mass of hair back to its place when shortly after that a screech sounds. Then a crash, a shout.

Oh no!

It doesn't take a bright mind to guess what just happened. Immediately, Audrey's sight darts to the direction the loud noise has come from and eventually finds the spot of accident thanks to a thin line of smoke raising high up from a red scooter.

A red... scooter?

Letting escape a gasp, her eyes widen in shock, and it doesn't take long for the redhead to hurry to the place of accident, long skinny legs running as fast as they can. When she reaches the small figure curled up next to the wheels, Audrey shows no sign of hesitation to kneel down to the younger boy, reaching out a hand to softly touch his shoulder.

"Ted!", she shouts out, voice firm and clear to hear whilst she softly shakes his shoulder. "Ted, are you all right? Are you hurt?"

[itsphotosynthesis]

WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?

The redhead winces at the sudden sound, a voice she's unable to put and guess where it is coming from. And she gives another wince, or better quiver, after she turns around, out of nowhere facing a large and red fully functional robot- with a voice voice box?

"Wow, you can speak! That's-- new. But pretty cool!" 

Thanks to Ted she's already aware of the fact that Thneedville is... or was some kind of surveillance society. In the time being where the change has started, they tried to detect and remove all of these cameras and robots, yet somehow must have missed this almost enormous one. Well, they can still do it later on!

"My earliest human memory you say? I'm sorry, but are you hinting at something?", she replies with a grin, last syllables quivering a little from an implied laugh. "Well, that would be the story times with my grandma. When I was younger we always settled in the living room in the evening, and she used to tell me stories about pirates and adventures and all! She was the person who told me about trees later on, as well, if you'd like to know, robot."

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a brand new dawn

>>It's time to banish all your greed, imagine Thneedville flowered and tree'd. Let this be our solemn creed. We say let it grow, in Thneedville.<<

Weeks passed since the very first seed was planted, though nonetheless, the sound of the song still was ringing in the ginger's head as it was sung moments before. It was one of the greatest experiences of her entire 17-years long life: The women and men finally are caring for trees, caring for nature in the once so thoroughly manufactured Thneedville, just thanks to a 11-year old boy. And this simply put a smile on her features every day. More seeds were found soon enough, and more seeds sprouted, and Audrey, the red-haired high school student, has made it to her work to look after almost every one daily. 

A new day was dawning, and the young woman leaves her house, taking each step off the stairs leading down to the road so lightly as if she was simply floating over them. After having taken the last one, she halts in her movements, and inhales a deep breath. Fresh air fills her lungs. Fresh, natural air. Surely, it isn't as clear and exhilarant as she was told once upon a time yet, but it already makes a huge difference to the disgusting smell of oxygen O'Hare had sold. A sight left her, before she starts humming a cheery tune as she makes her way through the streets of Thneedville, greeting neighbours with a friendly smile. 

Even if her self-claimed job is to take care of all trees, she still has a favourite spot. It's hidden away from the normal visited places, away from car driven streets and noisy people, and there she arrives in no time, having navigating cleverly through the bewildering street setting. Taking a look around, it is easy to guess why this one certain place is her favourite: it was a quiet spot, filled with a handful of various coloured Truffula Trees, and no person in sight. A perfect place for an artist to linger.

As she wanders from tree to tree, inspecting each one of them carefully, a pink coloured tree catches her eyes for no apparent reason. Absently, Audrey reached a hand out for it. Always, she imagined them to be beautiful. She always thought them to be silky soft, and ambrosial fragranced- but the real thing outshines all her imagination by miles.

Her hand glides through the soft leaves, and for a short moment the student is lost in thoughts- until an unexpected voice drives her out of her state of peace. With in surprisement widened eyes she turns around to meet eyes with the stranger behind her.