[ This is Julie's third year doing Halloween in Abraxas, so the fact that people don't know what a jack-o-lantern is doesn't surprise her. It is, however, the first year she has had a house to decorate, and it's clear that she intends to take advantage of it. She's already decked the front porch and windows out with homemade decorations -- paper spiders and their webs are pasted on glass, and orange and black streamers are hung off the railings and banisters of the porch, while little lanterns cut to look like haunted houses line the steps. Inside, gauzey ghosts of cloth loom magically near the ceilings, and tiny orbs of light float spookily through the halls.
One thing missing so far are the pumpkins. Of course it makes perfect sense to Julie that one might keep slowly rotting, carved gourds that are also a fire hazard, purely for the aesthetic of it. Of course that makes sense to her, and she has previously had many of them in her domain throughout the month of October. But no one has ever asked her about them.
It wasn't until she went looking to buy pumpkins that she learned that, a) pumpkins as she knows them don't even exist in Abraxas, and b) that Jesper had never carved one, and was in fact confused by the idea. So she did what any resourceful woman would do: she got Jaskier to make her a bunch of pumpkins, she bought a bunch of knives in various sizes as well as some paint, and she plunked it all down on the kitchen table with some ladles and bowls. Then she told Jesper to come over. ]
You can't use powers. It's no fun if you're usin' powers.
[ She's sitting with both legs pulled up in her chair, folded underneath himself. On the table, besides the actual tools, there is a flat baking sheet, as well as some wine and a plate of cookies, that are... well, she definitely tried. Both in terms of decoration and taste. Baking is not her forte.
She has a pencil (made for the occasion by herself), and she uses it to start quickly sketching a traditional jack-o-lantern face on one of the pumpkins. ]
So, the most popular thing is to give the pumpkin a face, but people carve all sorts of stuff. Like to look like a graveyard or a ghost or whatever. You can carve the face however you want, but we usually use triangles for the eyes and nose, and the mouth big. The idea is you can see the candle inside.
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One thing missing so far are the pumpkins. Of course it makes perfect sense to Julie that one might keep slowly rotting, carved gourds that are also a fire hazard, purely for the aesthetic of it. Of course that makes sense to her, and she has previously had many of them in her domain throughout the month of October. But no one has ever asked her about them.
It wasn't until she went looking to buy pumpkins that she learned that, a) pumpkins as she knows them don't even exist in Abraxas, and b) that Jesper had never carved one, and was in fact confused by the idea. So she did what any resourceful woman would do: she got Jaskier to make her a bunch of pumpkins, she bought a bunch of knives in various sizes as well as some paint, and she plunked it all down on the kitchen table with some ladles and bowls. Then she told Jesper to come over. ]
You can't use powers. It's no fun if you're usin' powers.
[ She's sitting with both legs pulled up in her chair, folded underneath himself. On the table, besides the actual tools, there is a flat baking sheet, as well as some wine and a plate of cookies, that are... well, she definitely tried. Both in terms of decoration and taste. Baking is not her forte.
She has a pencil (made for the occasion by herself), and she uses it to start quickly sketching a traditional jack-o-lantern face on one of the pumpkins. ]
So, the most popular thing is to give the pumpkin a face, but people carve all sorts of stuff. Like to look like a graveyard or a ghost or whatever. You can carve the face however you want, but we usually use triangles for the eyes and nose, and the mouth big. The idea is you can see the candle inside.