one of the onigiri has spiderellos in it

[letsplayer]

  Who: Marla and YOU
What: Just hanging out, really, more specific prompt ideas in text
When: May 4-10
Where: all around the station + annex
Warnings: none at the moment
Why: lol IDK

[Most mornings, Marla is in the hot tub. That's before she heads on over to the library, where she usually reads up on various biology and tech books... or dumb fantasy shit. On May 9th, specifically, she's caught up in one of the chairs, intently reading a book by someone named Travis Tea.

Then she makes her way over to the kitchen and all hell breaks loose.

Oh no, she's perfectly good at cooking. It just always looks mildly terrifying despite tasting fine. Maybe it was the slightly cracked omurice with the dick drawn on in ketchup, the words "EAT ME" enthusiastically squirted on top. Maybe it's the burger she makes that's the size of a small child. Maybe it's just the brownies that look perfectly normal, but just seem suspicious. Maybe it's the meatloaf, which is absolutely fucking terrifying to literally everyone who's never seen a meatloaf before in their lives. Maybe it's the pancakes that have those opera gummies embedded in them. Maybe it's the slightly discolored rice balls (which is what happens when you don't have the right kind of vinegar) that contain a veritable Russian roulette of fillings.

She tends to use her culinary powers for evil rather than good, is what I'm saying.

Except for that one time she made perfectly normal chocolate peanut butter chip pancakes and everything was fine.

Afternoons, she usually hangs out in the stables, checking out everyone's various critters, unless she's on the viewing deck where she's playing with her Pokemon. That is, until one day where she's just not there, but she will be the next. If she's not there, then she'll often be in the greenhouse, checking up on the goldfish in the pond and tossing them a few crumbs of food every now and again. 

Several days later, she can be found in the common area, throwing plushies at her Pokemons' heads (a box on the table reads "STDs Deluxe 12-Pack") and flipping through a black leather photo album. She looks plain confused in some instances of the latter...when she's not sniffling.]

Comments

[letsplayer]

Yeah, I thought it'd be worth experimenting with.

You wanna see the others?

[nojohnyouare]

[Nods immediately.]

What are they like?

[letsplayer]

[ She'll hand you one as you ask this, Mai.

It's raspberry jam. ]

[nojohnyouare]

Jam... Also with bugs? [She stares at the jar, not doing anything.]

[letsplayer]

...nah, it's just raspberry.

When I was a little kid, whenever they translated anime for Unovan kids they'd always call rice balls jelly donuts for some reason? And I remember staring at the screen and just thinking-

They're fucking liars.

They don't even look alike.

[nojohnyouare]

...donuts. [blink] They don't have onigiri there?

[letsplayer]

...I mean, there was a grocery store my dad went to a couple of times a month that had a little counter off in the back corner where this old lady made 'em?

[ Look, Unova's pretty diverse, they probably have Asian grocery stores there. ]

But for the most part, no.

More importantly, they assumed kids were stupid.

[nojohnyouare]

Strange. I wonder if that happened at home. In other countries.

[letsplayer]

Probably. People kinda assume kids are dumb regardless of universe.

[nojohnyouare]

Probably. And that they can't learn. Or don't want to.

[letsplayer]

Fuck that noise.

Anyway, the jelly...honestly, I don't know what I was thinking besides a dumb joke.

[nojohnyouare]

You do that a lot. Jokes. It seems that way.

[letsplayer]

It's one of the few things I've got going for me.

[ Yeah, ain't that depressing. ]

[nojohnyouare]

...

[What is she to say to that? Denying that would sound empty and facetious; Mai of all people knows the feeling. Still, she silently shakes her head.]

[letsplayer]

...sorry, that sounded really shitty.

[ She forces out a weak smile. ]

[nojohnyouare]

No. I should apologize. For upsetting you.

[letsplayer]

Hey, no way you were even gonna know that.

[ She shrugs, then turns back to the food she was working on. ]

Most days I just... I dunno. I didn't really like when I was drafted into some random monster-fighting shit back in the last universe.

So I just dick around.

[nojohnyouare]

I'm surprised. That they let you do that. Even if they said they would. ...Last one?

[letsplayer]

They weren't too super strict about it.

[nojohnyouare]

Oh. ...You sound like this has happened often.

[letsplayer]

Like, twice. The first time it was in this medieval village with fairies and shit, and that sucked major nuts.

At least the rock place had showers.

[nojohnyouare]

... [Mai nods quietly.] Common. Kidnappings to other worlds. By whom?

[letsplayer]

More rocks. Like, rock aliens.

Just imagine as many rocks of different colors and minerals as you can, except they're all sexy warrior woman rocks. Or occasionally just cute girl rocks.

[nojohnyouare]

............

[She's mulling this over, clearly, but she doesn't seem to be reacting at all.]

[letsplayer]

For the record, I didn't get a chance to date a rock.