G/T Adventures

A Borrower's House

A Borrower's home can be situated in many places in the Bean's house. The walls, under the floorboards, perhaps in the basement where you have boxes you never use. But despite its position, this little home is where a Borrower's safe zone is. 

It can be as many rooms as they want, or even only a single room. Whether it is one room or many, it stores the valuables this tiny being collects from your home when you're asleep or away.

Let's assume this one has many rooms, shall we? And let's begin with the living room.

This room is where the Borrower tries to relax after a long night or day of attempting to survive, find food, and gather items to make their homes more...well, homely. 

A tiny lamp, made from a glass bottle cap as the base,  a needle as a staff, and a thimble with a lightbulb of a flashlight, wired with tinfoil and a tiny battery to dimly light this room. This lamp can rest on a table crafted from sometimes many items. The top surface can be a strip of cardboard, a teeny slab of wood, hand carved and smoothed by the Borrower themselves, perhaps even a playing card.

The Borrower's couch can be too be made of many different items. Of course, first, the borrower would have to take either broken matches or hand-carved wood as the base of the couch. Then, if they can manage, they use a bit of pillow or cloth to create a plush surface for them to sit on.

Now we move on to the kitchen, where the Borrower stores the little food, or maybe a lot, they hold from taking things from your house. 

The stove, if you can even call it that, is typically an old tin can with a hole cut out of the front. The Borrower can then use a match to sit inside the hole, the top part of the can where they sit the food they wish to cook. The metal of the can heats from the match, heating both the food and little home.

The dining table can be made of the same contents listed for the smaller table. The chairs as well, similar to the build of the couch. Although the backing could even be a thin wire, bent into a design of choice by the Borrower.

On the wall, tiny slabs of wood as shelves hold buttons, thimbles, maybe even a coin or two if the Borrower is lucky enough to find such a thing. The buttons could be used for plates, or even just decoration, along with the coins. The coins would hold food better, but these little creatures have to work with that they're able to find. The thimbles are used as cups to hold milk, water, usually water. Or if they don't have a thimble, their hands work as well. Sometimes they find the tops of acorns to use from the outside. However, the acorn tops are dangerous, as any creature outside could harm the Borrower.

A pocket watch or wristwatch hangs on the wall as a simple clock so the Borrower knows what time it is. They will learn your patterns so that you are either away or asleep when they begin their borrowing adventures.

Moving on to the bedroom, perhaps the coziest room in this little house. The watch can be in here if the Borrower chooses, even the lamp. The bed can be made of many, many more things than anything else in the house.

From a sardine container, old matchbox, a necklace box, even just strips of fabric lined up into a bed onto the floor. If it is made from an old sardine container, they will use cotton balls, soft fabrics, anything that could be used as bedding to lay on the bottom of this can. This is the same for the matchbox and necklace box as well.

If they have no closet, (handmade of course),  they will have a basket weaved of grass blades to hold their clothes. And if that don't have this, well, their clothes will most likely be strewn about their room. 

A dresser is possible to make if the Borrower has a decent sized box and the ability carve drawers into the cardboard.

The clothes of a Borrower are an entirely different topic, however, we may as well cover it in this, yes? Their clothes are usually all old, and rarely ever washed. Tattered pieces of fabric, handsewn by the Borrower. Female Borrowers will wear dresses sometimes if they're with others that do the borrowing at least. The males wear what you could call sweatpants and long sleeves, perhaps a bit of string to wear as a belt. 

You may never see a Borrower, nor know that you have one living in your home. And if you ever happen to come across one of these tiny beings, please remember that no matter what, they are breathing things. Red blood runs through their veins. They're all just like us, simply scared.