amateur photographer seeks unwitting subjects for technology study, apply within [open]

[encourage]

Ca-chick! Sure, maybe cameras weren't meant to make that noise. The ones she was used to had been more of a puff of air, a soft click, and then a bright flash of light when the bulb went off. This still had the flash, if it didn't always go, and some option that recorded video. Armed with a new toy she could actually sort-of almost work, Sakura was ready for action.

Which was turning into a day alternating between work and getting around the ship with her camera, taking snapshots of just about any- and everything. She was out by the Great Wall, in the Art Hall, slipping through various parts of the City, and even trying for some reason or another to document the Mess Hall and Medical Labs. Then there was the time she was sitting out by the railroad tracks, waiting for the train to come by, or pacing outside the Atori Teahouse looking for the best angle for a shot of the place.

Beware, crew members, should her path cross with yours, you may be next!

Ca-chick! Flash!

If it's not all that intimidating...

"Not again!"

... Considering she just half-blinded herself after accidentally setting a five second timer and turning the camera around to see why it wasn't taking the picture she was aiming for.

[ ooc: Excuse for photographic and/or video evidence of people running around as children? Say it ain't so, Jack, say it ain't so! I mean, there's lots of other things to photograph as well! ]

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[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Sure, why wouldn't it be?" Zetta looked at her for a moment, then added, "I am a demon."

[encourage]

"Being a demon doesn't mean you couldn't have ever changed." Not to mention, the "demons" of her world were animals, by and large. They were also entirely manufactured by a forefather of legend, which meant they had no idea where they'd really originated. Not for sure.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Nope. I DID get more awesome with power and age, of course," he said, immodestly as ever, "but these magnificent looks have always been mine."

[encourage]

She blinked, quirking an eyebrow up yet again. "Of course." Looking down at her camera, she asked, "You didn't want copies of these or anything, did you?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"I dunno," Zetta said, coming around to look at the thing with her. "How'd they come out?"

[encourage]

Moving the dial that brought up the photograph's taken, the first image on screen was a shot of his calf and part of the ground. "The flash didn't go off for that one," she said in surprise, eyes narrowing as she pressed back and moved onto the intentional shots. She'd cut down on accidental takes by now, but apparently she had further to go.

Most the shots were fairly decent, or at least caught most of Zetta on camera. The series attempting to snapshot one of the bats from his hair were hit and miss (mostly misses).

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Hey, these aren't bad," Zetta said, as the ones that actually was true of cycled by. "I'll autograph one for you sometime, but..."

He pondered a moment. "You been on the receiving end of this thing yet, or just the taking?"

[encourage]

Sakura shrugged, twisting the dial back to camera mode. "Not intentionally," she admitted. "Mostly when trying to figure out why the camera isn't working like I expect it to."

She had a handful of surprised, irritated, and concentrating expressions taken upside-down and at awkward angles.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

He held out his hand for the camera expectantly. "Then you need the experience! You can't be great until you've been the subject too!"

[encourage]

After a moment, Sakura handed the camera over. She was reluctant, not that sold on needing to be the subject of photographs without some greater meaning behind them. Without her team here, without anyone, it was documenting what? That she'd managed to live for months on a ship with strangers from all different worlds? That she had a demon overlord taking her photograph with a camera that couldn't have existed on their world?

"As long as I don't need to be able to do anything more than smile," she allowed, pushing a strand of hair back behind her ear.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"It's all in how you smile and how you present yourself," Zetta said, as he took a few steps back. "Once you see that, you'll be better at taking pictures too!"

He lifted the camera to his eye. "Now. Smile for me."

[encourage]

She smiled -- stilted -- for Zetta.

This was mildly awkward.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

He took the picture anyway, figuring it'd be informative for his purpose.

"Now, stretch. I don't care how, just stretch!"

[encourage]

Sakura raised an eyebrow, then awkwardly stretched her arms above her head, fingers interlocking as she turned her palms upward. Aaah, that felt nice!

[badassfreakingoverlord]

He waits till she shifts from 'why am I doing this' to 'ahh, stretching!' before he takes the shot.

"Now, strike an action pose!"

[encourage]

"An action pose?" He wanted her to be Naruto, essentially. Sakura rolled her eyes, then slid into a ready stance for sparring. Close enough to action, right?

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Perfect! Another shot taken.

"Now, back to the camera, look over your shoulder, think sexy thoughts, and smile."

He was, admittedly, a little curious to see how relaxed about this whole process he can get her.

[encourage]

Sakura was downright suspicious, slowly turning around. She looked more like she was wondering who she had to kill as she looked back over her shoulder, slowly smiling. It changed her expression so she looked more like she was suspecting she might have to punch somebody in the face. "Like this?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"...I don't think you're getting into this," Zetta said, a bit startled. "Let yourself go! Relax, have fun! It's okay if you think it's a little silly, if you're enjoying yourself it'll show."

[encourage]

"It just seems kind of pointless," she admitted, turning back around. "Photographs were always more about commemorating things. I don't really need to commemorate myself by myself." She did attempt another smile at that, this time sheepish. "It is my camera. If I want to see myself make silly faces, I can always use a mirror, right?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Which Zetta caught with another quick picture. Ha!

"Sure, but you tell me what the pictures say. If you can look at them and forget they're you." He offered the camera back. "You want to commemorate, you can't just point it at 'em and demand people say cheese. You've got to bring out parts of them they wouldn't normally show a camera!"

[encourage]

Sakura made another face, barely avoiding sticking her tongue out at Zetta in a charming display of adult sensibility. Taking the camera back, part of her wanted to ask what the point of that kind of provocation was. "Who says you're polite enough to warn them in the first place?" She winked, if it was a perfectly legitimate question.

Candid shots and shinobi stalking tendencies aside.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"I get the feeling I should've gone through those stored photos more," Zetta said. "I could use some blackmail material to make things go smoothly around here."

[encourage]

"No way," Saukra said with a snort, "The only blackmail anything on this camera will be good for is the kind that mildly embarrasses some people, nothing more."

Goodness, she hadn't been stalking people for the express purpose of gaining blackmail worthy material, if it was certainly could have been a goal. If she were a more invasive person.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Don't suppose you'd consider getting some?" Not that the Overlord had any real expectations of her agreeing.

"...If it helps, any, when this whole mess is over I'm probably gonna spend some time tracking down some of the worlds when we get them back. Just for curiosity's sake!" Before she got any ideas that he actually cared about any of the people in this damn ship! "It's not THAT big a cosmos to an Overlord."