♑ > Gamzee and bear hugs.

[420]

Who: Gamzee Makara, Sola, whoever else wants to join in.
Where: Plaza.
When: Wednesday
Style: Whichever, starting out in action tags though.
Status: Open
Note: Everything is better with this song. Also, just mark in the header which one of them you want. Or both. Or we choose for you. Wanna join in? We can make it happen.


[Today, everything is normal at the Plaza. Everything? No. Wait. There is something standing there. Something...

Oh lord.

There is a clown. Just standing there. Smiling placidly. Holding a sign in his hand. It isn't even a very good sign. Just a piece of cardboard with purple letters painted onto it. The letters are uneven as well. Very sloppy handiwork. And is that glitter? Sign-making, yet another task we really shouldn't assign to a clown.

Oh right. The sign got something on it as well. A message of some sort.

> Look at the sign

FrEe hUgS :o)

Will you approach the friendly clown?

> ????]



[SOME TIME INTO THE FUTURE BUT WHO KNOWS HOW MANY.]



[The clown is still there. I guess you just can't get rid of a clown. But now he got some other dude standing next to him. Friendly looking kid. Shorter. Also not real good at sign making.

> Look at the sign

FREE HUGS

Will you approach the friendly looking kid?

> ??????]

Comments

Hi Gamzee~

[replicatedcourage]

[The plaza's cobbles are often trod by the well-worn boots of Sola, especially on days when he makes deliveries to businesses around the city. Today, however, Gamzee's sign catches his eye and he slows down to take a look.

It's totally the glitter.]

Free hugs?

How unexpected!

[420]

Yeah.

[He looks at his sign for a moment before giving him a smile.]

Want one?

[replicatedcourage]

[The Hylian breaks into a wide grin at the question. Hugs are pretty much the best thing ever.]

Sure!

[And he may very well beat Gamzee to the punch as he slips his arms around the lanky Troll happily.]

Either/both/whatever

[sylphauxiliatrix]

[Just.... staring, completely unsure how she feels about this. There are dozens of ways she might react to the situation, and yet none of them seem appropriate.]

[420]

[You have been spotted by the clown.

Awww. Look. He is waving. Enthusiastically. It would be rude not to approach him at this point, wouldn't it? Wouldn't want to break his big clowny heart. )o:]

[sylphauxiliatrix]

[Kanaya: Abscond]

[CAN'T ABSCOND, BRO!]

[Her mind rationalizes a half dozen excuses why she should just turn and leave, all while her feet take her forward until she's standing in front of the clown. All the thoughts and arguments for leaving are crushed under the weight of one simple truth. With all that's been going on, and her dubiously effective technique of throwing herself into her work to stay distracted... she could honestly use a hug.]

[And so, wordlessly, she stretches her arms wide open.]

Both, please.

[relinquishing]

[The clown isn't someone Guy has met, but the little short Hylian kid? Yeah, he knows you!]

Sola, hey!

[What wonderful crafts you two have there. The glitter's a nice touch. He chuckles.]

Any reason for the generosity, guys?

[420]

[He doesn't know you, Guy, but that just means you're a friend he doesn't know the name of yet.]

Does a motherfucker gotta being all in the possession of having a motherfuckin' for sharing the fuckin' love?

Guy -> Gamzee -> Sola then?

[replicatedcourage]

[Oh! It's Guy!]

Hi! Don't mind Gamzee, he doesn't make a lot of sense sometimes, but he had the best idea of giving everybody hugs because everybody seems kind of down lately. You should get one too! Hugs are the best~

[He holds his arms out invitingly. Group hug?]

Gamzee, ilu Reiko but Sola and Zelda are worse than awkward

[zelda_hylia]

[From someone else, she might find a sign like that suspicious. From Gamzee, it's just funny.]

Free hugs, is it? What prompted this?

[He must have a thought process. Whether she'll be able to make sense of it or not is another question.]

[420]

Brother gotta have a motherfuckin' reason all for spreading the love and bringin' mirth to his fine bros?

[He rubs the back of his neck for a moment, grinning sheepishly. He had more reasoning than that, really.]

Just... just kinda all got to feelin' like a whole load of the fine motherfuckin' peeps what be up in this motherfuckin' wonderland be ways more unchill and unhappy like than what need be. Feels like the sorta shit what be needin' fixing all from the righteous appli-motherfuckin-cation of some ill hugmotives.

[zelda_hylia]

[Zelda's noticed that as well. Everyone's been in a terrible state, herself included. She reaches up to pat Gamzee's head gently.]

That's very sweet of you. I am not entirely sure how many people would indulge in such an offer, but it's a noble goal nonetheless.

[She would, but she's not so sure she wants to get that glitter all over her clothing. It would never come out. Headpats are find too, right?]

/wants all the hugs from them both

[onlyasign]

[What is this? A fallen prophet and trolldad wanders into the Plaza! He is deep in thought and does not see the Free Hugs signs yet!]

Signless > Gamzee > Sola, then?

[420]

[Gamzee does spot Signless, and he taps Sola on the shoulder, jerking his head in Signless' direction. Signless is never against hugs, right? Which means they should definitely surprise him with a real good one.

At least that seems to be what Gamzee's expression is saying to his brother-in-hugs.]

Works for me! Also brother-in-hugs is adorable XD

[replicatedcourage]

[Gamzee receives an enthusiastic nod and prodigious grin from his Hylian cohort. Sneak up on Signless and pounce a pair of hugs? It only seems like the best plan ever.

Look out Signless, they're coming for you~]

sorry, Sola, Equius needs to angst at his boyfriend a little

[stayb100ponyboy]

Gamzee, what are you doing?

angstmachine :o|

[420]

[He perks up into an even happier grin when he spots Equius, raising his sign a little as if Equius hadn't maybe seen it.]

Just all partaking in the wicked cuddle-action with what peeps what be in need of such.

[stayb100ponyboy]

[Equius tries to return the happy expression, but he just looks ill at ease and more than a little blue around the proverbial gills as he shuffles backwards a step.]

That's... very kind of you.

goin' for the 'rail

[bethehugejerk]

[Karkat is on his way to pick up a few things for the chocobos when he passes through the Plaza. The good thing is that this is not a task so pressing he can't stand to be interrupted, which is just what Gamzee does. Namely by existing, here, with his shoddily scrawled sign.]

[ > Approach the friendly clown. ]

I have never in my life seen something so innocently threatening as an addict clown with a glitter-dusted sign offering free hugs.

[If this was Alternia and he didn't know Gamzee half so well as he does, he'd expect some manner of strife weapon in his back. As it is, "unintentionally creepy" is about the sum of it.]

What possessed you to do something as ill-advised as this? Apart from the apparent lack of advisement in the first place.

[420]

[Innocently threatening? He had no idea he was being such. Man, what kinda dude threatens people with hugs! That's just wrong.

With Karkat there, Gamzee lowers his sign some, relaxing. Not that he had been particularly tense before, not at all, but there is still always a little added relaxation near Karkat.]

Aww, nothing going down here but a brother sharing the motherfuckin' love, brother mine. Just trying to find what peeps be hoofing about with an illin' case of the grumps.

[Like... you maybe, Karkat.]

[bethehugejerk]

And you're still a weirdo offering to give hugs to strangers.

[On second thought, it's probably good for Gamzee too that they aren't on Alternia anymore. Who knows how he would have turned out.]

You try that on me and I'll shove you into the fountain again, by the way. Which, knowing you would hardly give a shit about that itself, would also ruin that abomination of a sign you made.

both?

[demonicbookworm]

_{[Ruca knows Sola and doesn't know the other, um, person (?). He is about to say hi to Sola, but the sign makes him stop and stare a little.]}

Free... hugs?

Ruca > Gamzee > Sola, then. Unless you want seperate threads.

[420]

Free hugs, man.

[Gamzee just nods, raising his sign a bit as if the other's confusion had come from being unable to read the sign. Yep. They are sure peddling their free hugs here.]

[terribubblykoi]

[ Free hugs?

Well, watch out friendly clown and also friendly short kid. Because the way you go for hugs when you're an excitable fishgirl is bodily, flinging herself at them. If they're unlucky, she'll end up taking them both out. ]

[420]

[He honks in sheer surprise when he is suddenly slammed into. But once he realizes who that mass of hair that has just slammed into him is, he just ends up laughing. He's a clown though! Not very steady footed. They may very well end up tumbling over and slamming into Sola.]