1st clover

[fourleafed]

Who: Yotsuba and anyone
Where: The Plaza
When: The 25th, middle of the day
Status: open
Style: starting post is action, but I'll match you

[Just after lunchtime, a small child can be found in the middle of the plaza. She is soaking wet, but she doesn't seem to care, since she's found something to amuse herself.

Namely, she's siting on a high-up branch of the coral, swinging her legs and laughing happily. She seems completely unaware of any danger she could possibly be in, too.]

It's so high up! I can see everything!

Comments

SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG APPARENTLY MY BRAIN IS DURR

[420]

[Maybe it is dangerous, but Gamzee sure won't be the person to tell her to knock it off. Instead, he just came to the coral for his daily dose of magic. Now that he sleeps again every night, he technically doesn't need it, but a habit is a habit. And hey, you meet fun people like this.

Like Yotsuba.

Gamzee gives her a dopey smile, certainly not thinking about how it might be intimidating to be smiled at by six+ feet of alien with sharp teeth and horns. He raises a hand, gesturing a little at the coral.]

Hey, mind if a brother gets his momentary grope on?

[For the coral of course! No funky business here.]

then you are being so IC :3

[fourleafed]

[Normally Yotsuba would have been fine with sharing, because sharing is caring (or so her father always told her). But for a moment she just sits there, looking absolutely dumbstruck. She has never seen anything like Gamzee before in her entire life and she has no idea what to think.

Fortunately, the clown makeup makes Yotsuba think Gamzee is just a human dressed up in a silly clown costume of some sort. Obviously the horns and the teeth and all the grey skin are just part of the costume, right? And clowns are funny, not scary, so she smiles at him.]

Okay mister clown!

[And she scoots over on her branch a bit, so Gamzee can touch the coral. Because he must have meant that, right? People don't just walk up to little kids and ask to touch them like that.]

[420]

[Seriously, what kind of people would do that?!

Gamzee reaches out to touch the coral, the mark on the back of his neck glowing for a moment as the energy transferred. That done, his attention is back to Yotsuba again.]

So, what's the haps with you?

[fourleafed]

[There's a moment of staring blankly, because she doesn't know what a 'haps' is, but she forgets about it quickly anyway and just tells Gamzee what she is doing. Because she would do that anyway.]

I'm sightseeing!

[terribubbly]

[ Well, that's not a particularly common sight. Tiny humans didn't show up quite so often. ]

Everyfin? I want to see!

[ Feferi spends plenty of time in the coral as it is, so she's already scrambling up it like a particularly alien squirrel. You know, it's not like she might have a startling appearance or be intruding or anything.]

[fourleafed]

[omg another weird clown-thing. Yotsuba is surprisingly okay, or at least she will be until Feferi gets up close and Yotsuba can see that the horns and teeth aren't part of a costume.

Yotsuba moves to one side so there's room for Feferi, and then she points out at the city.]

See? There's stores and houses!

[terribubbly]

[ The curiously twitching fins should definitely help the whole "this is an alien" realization. She plops down on the branch next to Yotsuba and looks around. ]

It's not bad, but I know better place where you can get a real a whale of a view.

[fourleafed]

[Yotsuba laughs and claps happily at the fish puns, because they are funny and she loves puns. Still no 'alien' realization yet, though it will be coming soon.]

I like whales! They're big and squirt water everywhere.

[bethehugejerk]

[Much like a certain other horned coral-visitor, Karkat makes his own regular trips to touch the coral, because sleep is for losers (or just those who aren't overly vigilant). He's definitely shorter than Gamzee, in height and horns alike, and there's no clown makeup or funny spotted pants to give him that cheery look. In fact, he's frowning, in the way of someone who has it as a default expression.]

[Normally he would just touch a branch and be on his way. Of course, normally there isn't a small child perched on top of the thing, much less with bright green hair. What is it with human hair colors? He looks up at her, eyes narrowing in debate over what to do. On the one hand, he dislikes children, and the last brightly-haired child he met proved it extends to the human ones. On the other, it wouldn't really make his day if she fell and broke her face.]

[He steps a bit closer, and his hands find his hips.]

What the hell are you doing up there?

[fourleafed]

[As of right now, Yotsuba hasn't figured out that the trolls are actually aliens. She still thinks they're people in costumes, and that maybe it's a holiday today or something. So she won't react to Karkat's appearance quite yet.

But clearly Karkat is a grumpy kid, because he is frowning so much, and that just won't do! Everyone should be happy on such a bright day.]

I'm sightseeing!

[No, she doesn't completely understand that word. She's just heard people use it before and it's entered her large bank of "words Yotsuba can say but doesn't actually understand".]

Come sightseeing with me.

[bethehugejerk]

[Is this girl for real. Karkat gives her a blank look.]

Kid, there are three problems with that. One, I have lived here over two of your human years, and I have seen pretty much everything worth seeing in this city already. Two, that's not sightseeing; that's standing on top of the coral and gawking at shit like a dumbass. Three, I am not climbing up there because unlike you, I'm not interested in exposing myself to the risk of cranial fracture. Now get down before you fall.

[His expansive vocabulary probably won't help the situation. The task of touching the coral has been momentarily forgotten, though, or at least pushed to the side.]

[fourleafed]

[Wow what a party-pooper.

Yotsuba doesn't understand some of what Karkat is saying, mostly because it is long and uses words people don't use at her. So she gives him a blank stare as she tries to process what he just said to her.

As near as she can figure, he's saying 'no' and 'get down from there', both of which are unacceptable. But it's okay, she's distracted by something else anyway.]

Why do you keep saying bad words?

[keepsthefire]

[Oh children. Rin remembers being like that. Yukio would always stand below whatever he was climbing on and yell at him to be careful, but to Rin it was the most freeing feeling in the world to be that high with nothing but a branch or a pole to hang on to.

He stops to watch the girl on his way home from work, laughing after she proclaims that.]

Oh yeah? What can you see?

[fourleafed]

I see-

[She stops suddenly, when she sees Rin's tail poking out of his clothes.]

-a tail!

[keepsthefire]

Yup!

[Rin grins back at her, tail swaying back and forth.]

[fourleafed]

[She is so interested in it that she's going to shimmy down the stalk of coral she's sitting on and wander over to go look at it.

Be patient this may take a minute or so to complete.]

It's fuzzy...

[dashingloyalty]

[Have a flying blue and rainbow pony hovering next to you, Yotsuba.]

You can see even more from the sky.

[fourleafed]

[OMG A PONY

brb jumping off the coral to try to ride the pony.]

[dashingloyalty]

[Rainbow Dash has a small surge of panic as she maneuvers herself to make sure the kid lands on her back instead of falling to the cold, unforgiving ground.]

Holy Celestia, kid, please don't give me anymore heart attacks like that again, huh?

[fourleafed]

[Yotsuba is completely unaware of any danger she may have been in, and she is laughing happily as she sits on Rainbow Dash's back.]

Let's go flying! Up high, up high!

[ex_knowledge575]

[ Annabeth's walking along the plaza, arms full of architectural drawings, when she spots a small child sitting high up on the coral. She's obviously just arrived and Annabeth is immediately worried for her. Even if she doesn't do so well with children. ]

Hey, little girl. Hey! You okay up there?

[fourleafed]

I'm sightseeing.

[She dramatically holds a hand up to shield her eyes from the sun, even though the sunlight isn't a problem down here.]

There's a toy store over there.

[ex_knowledge575]

But you might fall and hurt yourself!

[ Annabeth doesn't want to see little girl pancake all over the ground in the plaza. ]

[runawayrival]

Oh dear, be careful up there... It doesn't look too safe.

[ Wally glances around... there isn't an adult in sight! Oh dear... he can't just walk away... what if she fell? He'll just... stick around for a bit, and you know what? He calls out his Altaria as well, instructing the fluffy cloud bird-dragon to just hang around under her in case she DOES slip. ]

[fourleafed]

[OMG FLUFFY...THING

Yotsuba is leaning out to try to touch it. Perhaps this plan wasn't the best one.]