Dammit, the little doll did dedicatedly nurse him back to health and all.
Vivi's going to receive a package wrapped in butcher's paper for some reason from an anonymous sender, sent by way of Lark.
The actual gift is inside a colorful photo box, the pattern of which can be faintly seen through the thin paper. It's tough to tell what's in there without opening it.
Kuja tried to choose a box that was plain so that the gift wouldn't seem like it was from him. Plain by Kuja's standards means... Something very geometric with curling vines, in white and light green.
So, all the more personal things Kuja knows about Vivi... Would totally out him as himself if he gave them to him. He had considered giving Vivi that rarest, most coveted of items in town -- that is, one of the few forks Kuja had stashed in his house that had somehow survived Ib & Kokichi's fork purge -- but again, that seemed a little.. obvious? Qus and forks, after all.
So... Kuja had a little think about what some neutral, easily observed facts about Vivi were, that some mystery individual who didn't know him at all would pick up on.
Most obviously Vivi is a child. What are kids like? What DO they like?
Children, in Kuja's experience, are extremely sensitive and generally weak, though Vivi, to his pride, is certainly anything but. They like.. toys, right? He remembers seeing his peers in the nobility spoil their brats with all kinds of elaborate frivolities. He, uh, just can't picture the little doll playing with littler dolls, and it seems like it'd be a pretty loaded choice overall.
...
He'd even resorted to asking for advice.
In the end.. he'd settled on a little stuffed bear.
It was a Helltown Bear, Rather than your regular sort of bear, with a line of little plates like a stegosaurus running up its back, but otherwise it seemed to fit the bill of an acceptable toy: relatively durable, not at all dangerous, too much of an animal to be a doll... the only issue was the tear on it's arm, bulging with stuffing.
The bear's fur was thick enough the stitches could hide in it. Even with Kuja's clumsy handiwork -- it ought not be too obvious, right? ]
he is extremely overthinking this. Also stay tuned for whats actually in there
Dammit, the little doll did dedicatedly nurse him back to health and all.
Vivi's going to receive a package wrapped in butcher's paper for some reason from an anonymous sender, sent by way of Lark.
The actual gift is inside a colorful photo box, the pattern of which can be faintly seen through the thin paper. It's tough to tell what's in there without opening it.
Kuja tried to choose a box that was plain so that the gift wouldn't seem like it was from him. Plain by Kuja's standards means... Something very geometric with curling vines, in white and light green.
So, all the more personal things Kuja knows about Vivi... Would totally out him as himself if he gave them to him. He had considered giving Vivi that rarest, most coveted of items in town -- that is, one of the few forks Kuja had stashed in his house that had somehow survived Ib & Kokichi's fork purge -- but again, that seemed a little.. obvious? Qus and forks, after all.
So... Kuja had a little think about what some neutral, easily observed facts about Vivi were, that some mystery individual who didn't know him at all would pick up on.
Most obviously Vivi is a child. What are kids like? What DO they like?
Children, in Kuja's experience, are extremely sensitive and generally weak, though Vivi, to his pride, is certainly anything but. They like.. toys, right? He remembers seeing his peers in the nobility spoil their brats with all kinds of elaborate frivolities. He, uh, just can't picture the little doll playing with littler dolls, and it seems like it'd be a pretty loaded choice overall.
...
He'd even resorted to asking for advice.
In the end.. he'd settled on a little stuffed bear.
It was a Helltown Bear, Rather than your regular sort of bear, with a line of little plates like a stegosaurus running up its back, but otherwise it seemed to fit the bill of an acceptable toy: relatively durable, not at all dangerous, too much of an animal to be a doll... the only issue was the tear on it's arm, bulging with stuffing.
The bear's fur was thick enough the stitches could hide in it. Even with Kuja's clumsy handiwork -- it ought not be too obvious, right? ]