He needed a moment to process that. Once he did, his smile was slow, eyes bright, and he leaned over to kiss her.
Sitting back, he deftly swiped his eyes and his smile became lopsided. "I promised you a doll. Let's see if I can…"
Kenari had vines and longer leaves to hold them together, but Kassa had gotten to the point of interweaving the twigs themselves that using ties felt like cheating. The thing then was that the twigs had to be very bendable. Cassian reached up past Jyn's head to a branch and tested flexibility, found it suitable, and picked off the outermost, thinnest sprigs.
His fingers picked up speed as he worked, remembering what he was doing. He delicately stripped the twigs of their leaves and bark until he was left with pale strips. These were woven and knotted together until shapes began to form. The body of the doll was like a knotted loaf of bread you'd buy in a Coruscant bakery, plaits turned into spheres. The arms were one long braid fed through the torso's knots with tasseled ends for hands. The skirt (not legs) was a loose waffle-looking weave, with one long strip of a belt again fed through the main knots.
The head was the wonder. It was just another knot, like the ones comprising the body, but Cassian took a rigid twig and… not carved… indented a face. It was so subtle, no coloration, but if you looked at the correct angle, the face was so clearly there, and so clearly sweet. That twig then became the neck and spine that fed through the rest of the doll to hold it all together.
Finished, Cassian handed her to Jyn. She was just big enough to sit in Jyn's palm.
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Date: 2025-06-03 06:14 am (UTC)Sitting back, he deftly swiped his eyes and his smile became lopsided. "I promised you a doll. Let's see if I can…"
Kenari had vines and longer leaves to hold them together, but Kassa had gotten to the point of interweaving the twigs themselves that using ties felt like cheating. The thing then was that the twigs had to be very bendable. Cassian reached up past Jyn's head to a branch and tested flexibility, found it suitable, and picked off the outermost, thinnest sprigs.
His fingers picked up speed as he worked, remembering what he was doing. He delicately stripped the twigs of their leaves and bark until he was left with pale strips. These were woven and knotted together until shapes began to form. The body of the doll was like a knotted loaf of bread you'd buy in a Coruscant bakery, plaits turned into spheres. The arms were one long braid fed through the torso's knots with tasseled ends for hands. The skirt (not legs) was a loose waffle-looking weave, with one long strip of a belt again fed through the main knots.
The head was the wonder. It was just another knot, like the ones comprising the body, but Cassian took a rigid twig and… not carved… indented a face. It was so subtle, no coloration, but if you looked at the correct angle, the face was so clearly there, and so clearly sweet. That twig then became the neck and spine that fed through the rest of the doll to hold it all together.
Finished, Cassian handed her to Jyn. She was just big enough to sit in Jyn's palm.