b u o n e ~ f e s t e

[sharktrash]

Who: Priders! (Basically if you (or your friend, or your dog) has had a positive interaction with anyone from MANTICORE, consider yourself invited, dragged along or sent in someone else's place. And even if you haven't been invited it's totally fine to notice something's going on and show up or  randomly come across this and stay!)
What: Genos and Squalo throw a Solstice dinner party. Italian food for everyone!
When: December 21?ish (forward-dated a bit so it doesn't fall right before irl holidays)
Where: MANTICORE penthouse
Warnings: MANTICORE Squalo, Carnies, language, minors getting drunk, substance abuse, someone might decide to bone, idk.


[ Fuck the creepy shit, MANTICORE are aggressively throwing a Solstice party! Because why not, and who has the patience to wait until New Years? ]

[ There are locations/prompts in toplevels, but feel free to start your own as well. Generic timeline of the night would be: cooking, dinner, socializing with games and booze and possibly other things, and  a movie marathon into the wee hours of the morning for the ones interested.  ]

Comments

Ryuko

[droppedthread]

[Ryuko has been blessed with several talents. She's a damn good bassist. She has somehow convinced people not to think she's too weird to hang out with despite eating lemons. She can punch people in the face very hard.

But this...

She's staring at a bunch of vegetables and holding a knife. It feels... sub-optimal, for the task at hand.]

Anyone got cooking scissors? ... Cooking scissors are a thing, right?

[sharktrash]

[ Hey, some people eat lemons, some people are supposed to be made of metal, it's nothing to frown at. ]

[ Squalo does give her a flat look, though. ]

Uh, yeah. But they're for meat, not vegetables.

[droppedthread]

Huh. Just thought they'd be better for cutting any shit up, y'know?

[What a weird thought ha ha ha]

[sharktrash]

[ scoffs like the suggestion somehow offends his ancestors. ]

No way. If you don't know how to use a knife --

[droppedthread]

Nuh-uh, I can totally use a knife!

[THAT SOUNDS LIKE A CHALLENGE, SIR. She is going to get chopping them veggies.]

See?

[sharktrash]

[ HE'S GIVING THOSE VEGGIES A SCRUTINIZING LOOK. ]

Can you use a knife properly?

[ He might just be trying to rile her up now, to be honest. This is how he shows affection, shh. ]

[droppedthread]

What does it look like I'm doing, huh?

[She sure is chopping the heck out of those veggies, to be fair. Such vigor! Such passion! Such... admittedly not perfectly even slicing, oops.]

[sharktrash]

Ruining the stock?

[ Look he appreciates the passion and the... er, help. But he's also got his splendid kitchen master reputation to consider. ]

Try a bit more evenly. I know you can do it.

[ positive reinforcement? maybe that'll do it. ]

[droppedthread]

Evenly, huh?

[She stares intently at the vegetables. Dang right she can do it. Her Extra Awesome Slicing Skills might be buried under a lot of mental conditioning and brainwashing and her working knowledge of every clothing brand in this dimension, but Ryuko Matoi is not a quitter. She's a Studio Trigger anime protagonist, like, I'm pretty sure she doesn't know how to quit.

So in a moment of clarity, she gets back to cutting vegetables but like in a focused way. And she is really surprisingly good at it!]

That good?

[sharktrash]

[ Some things tend to just... wiggle through the conditioning. Like Squalo's volume. He could break windows with the force of his voice alone if he wanted, and even now his conversational tone is probably louder than most people's. Inside voice? Never heard of it. ]

[ At least he doesn't seem to remember his beef with anime protagonists, though. In fact, he actually looks reasonably impressed as he watches her. ]

...brilliant, actually. I'm gonna have to declare you the Head Chopper at this rate.

[droppedthread]

[She grins.]

Hey, I'll take that. At east I can contribute something.

[sharktrash]

Great.

...like, the head of chopping. [ For some reason he feels the need to clarify. ] Not actually. Chopping heads.

[droppedthread]

I'm not really the head-chopping type. Not unless they really really deserve it.

[sharktrash]

Figures.

[ ...but now he's curious. That's actually a better reaction to it than he had anticipated. ]

What would constitute really really deserving it?

[droppedthread]

... I dunno. Figure there's gotta be a point where someone could, though.

[sharktrash]

Messing with someone important to you, maybe?

[ He feels like he could do... pretty much anything to someone who dared to do that. ]

[droppedthread]

Yeah, I mean. If they really messed with them. I'll fight people for a lot less, but chopping heads goes to people who really screwed up.

[It's funny because her mom was the worst and she cut her head off ha ha ha]

[sharktrash]

Sounds fair.

[ He'll let the matter be for now. Not like they're in a rush to chop any heads off -- damn it canon. ]

Alright, that should do it...

[ He'll shovel those vegetables into the sauce pot and give her a bag of new ones. ]