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.  ]

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Tiger Universe

[tigermillionaire]

[Tiger comes over to the movies to crash as soon as he starts feeling bad. He's glad he missed JAWS anyway...he doesn't like scary movies, even if he'd like to pretend he can hack them. He doesn't like seeing people get hurt, even when it's fake.

Pacific Rim is more his speed, though, and despite a growing feeling of nausea and a tummy ache, he managers to get through the movie while feeling pretty okay. He laughs at anything that's funny with genuine excitement, even if he's feeling kind of ill by the end. He falls asleep during the Iron Giant a few times, but it's okay, because he's seen it before.

He knows what's happening enough that the end still makes him get weepy.

He sleeps for a while and wakes up enough to start asking somewhat delirious questions about sharks, and to get verbally distressed about them hunting other animals.]

[scalpedsociety]

[Tiger may not know it but that lady that spoke very... sharp at Squalo might be sitting with Tiger when he wakes up and tries to answer his questions about sharks.]

Slow down, slow down...

[tigermillionaire]

[The knowledge that someone is actually attempting to answer him makes him slow down a little. He looks up at her sleepily.]

They don't actually like eating humans do they?

[scalpedsociety]

Only if they encroach in the shark's territory. Normally they wouldn't care for a human.

Did you watch Jaws?

[tigermillionaire]

[He grimaces.]

No...I didn't want to. I know what it's about...

[It sounds awful and makes him sad.]

[scalpedsociety]

It's just a movie, Tiger. Human's love making things 'evil' when it all honesty, the animal kingdom is a lot more complex than that.

[tigermillionaire]

It makes me sad that animals have to eat each other...but I guess it's okay...

It's important to the, um...eco...system, right?

[scalpedsociety]

Yes, it is. But lets not talk about sharks.

[wounds]

[Genos has been keeping an eye on him the whole time. And sighing deeply when Squalo forced him into a corner of drinking alcohol.

So he throws a blanket over the kid after the Iron Giant, if there are tears on his face just don't mention it.

Hell if he knows that much about sharks though.]

[tigermillionaire]

[Tiger is mostly not cognizant when Genos comes by to give him a blanket - and for some reason, it doesn't seem as weird and embarrassing as it might have before. It just seems nice, like a good thing to do, and Tiger, for once, appreciates the gesture without question.

He even starts babbling at Genos conversationally as his eyes crack open a little at the end of Iron Giant.]

Did you see the movie? I love that movie it's so good, the Giant is such a good robot...he's a hero...

[wounds]

[He settles in next to Tiger and wipes away his own tears under the sunglasses he's refused to stop wearing.]

I did. It's one of my favorites. I love robots so much, and he cares about people so much and-

["I want to be a robot" seems completely inappropriate here.]

It's definitely my favorite movie.

[tigermillionaire]

I think he's okay later...but he didn't know...so it's still really...

[His eyes close and he trails off a little. He's pretty drowsy.]

Did you pick it?

[wounds]

Yeah...

[He looks down at his hands. Still as human as ever, did he get repairs when he was a robot...?]

I did. I picked out all the super hero movies too.

[tigermillionaire]

That's waaaay better than JAWS.

[He snuggles down into the blanket.]

[wounds]

Squalo likes sharks. I think he'd watch anything if a shark was in it.

[Meanwhile Genos only likes movies about good robots.]

[tigermillionaire]

Sharks are okay...they just...they have to do their thing because it's how they are.

[Mumble mumble.]

I just don't wanna see them hurt people. It makes me sad. And then...then the shark blows up too, right? It's awful.

[wounds]

Real sharks tend to leave people alone.

JAWS is pure fiction. Don't take it to heart.

[twoscompany]

[Hey, kid.

Garnet notices him sleeping at ~430 am, and - without even thinking about it - goes and grabs a blanket, covering him gently. The fact she does it doesn't even occur to her, as it being something she's done before. The kid's just asleep, that's all.]

Hm.

[Hopefully its a heavy enough blanket to keep him warm.]

[tigermillionaire]

[The subtle shift is enough to wake him up, because while he'd been sleeping deeper earlier, a feeling of general illness has lightened his sleep. It only takes a little push for him to start noticing the nausea in his stomach and the wooziness in his head.

He shifts and mumbles, his face contorted with discomfort. He feels really bad, and he is't awake enough yet to remember why.

He wraps his arms around his belly, cracking open his eyes just a little.]

[twoscompany]

...Hm.

[Something's not right. Tiger just looks...pained? Did it have to do with...with...

...

Garnet's eyes narrow a bit, but even so, she doesn't look angry, more concerned. She goes to bring a hand to his forehead.

She'd had some visions about this kid, too, after all. Some of them ok, some of them weird. Some of them having her do this exact thing at this exact moment, even.]

[tigermillionaire]

[His forehead isn't warm, so it's probably because of something he ate. Or more specifically, something he drank. Right now would be about the time it'd really come back to bite him, after all.

He opens his eyes a little more, looking up at her at the touch. For some reason, in that moment, this seems totally natural. Of course Garnet is here when he feels sick.]

I feel gross...

[He doesn't question why she's there, he just tries to explain what's wrong. Even lying down, he doesn't feel super great anymore.]

[twoscompany]

I can see that.

[Yeah. This felt like...

She has an idea of what might have happened. Unless he ate a bunch of bees. Why is there so many possible things with bees.]

Can you move? See if we can get you someplace where we can help alleviate how you're feeling.

[tigermillionaire]

[He mumbles out a sound of discomfort - moving seems like something that is going to make him feel worse. He pushed himself up a little, but then drops his face back into the blanket wrapped around him.]

I feel really dizzy...

[twoscompany]

...You feel like you're going to throw up or faint?

[OK, IF THIS IS WHAT SHE THINKS IT IS....she should probably get a bucket.]

[tigermillionaire]

Yeah...

[He's embarrassed to say so. He's pretty sure he knows why.]