determinate: (❤ singing in the rain)
Frisk ([personal profile] determinate) wrote in [community profile] interstellar55552016-02-21 10:49 pm
Entry tags:

Dance, Dance, REVOLUTION

Who: Frisk and OPEN
What: Come bother Frisk at work!
When: Saturday afternoon
Where: Pizza Planet

[A]

Pizza Planet is a big, kid-themed pizza chain, popular for birthday parties. The Vista City location where Frisk works is attached to the mall, and as such is particularly large and extravagant. There's singing animatronics, sure, but the main attraction is the games.

Frisk's job, today, is to restock all the machines with tickets. They're pretty small for a worker. If not for their employee uniform, complete with a little hat, they could easily blend in with the children shouting joyfully and running from game to game. But for the most part they ignore them, focusing on their work. As fun as that would be, making good friends with any kids from here would cause too many problems. They're not sure they could contain themself, if the topic of music ever came up...

They go quietly from machine to machine, opening up a panel on each with a key and loading in a new roll of tickets. Out on the game floor like this, it's not unusual to get approached by customers.

Honestly, it's not entirely unusual for Frisk to just hand some kids a few tickets here and there either. It's against the rules, but it's not like anyone notices. And it makes people so happy!

[B]

They get a break for lunch, but Frisk doesn't really need the full time. They're used to scarfing down their meals fast, and it's a habit that's never fully faded. So they can be found in their street clothes for part of the afternoon, playing Dance Dance Revolution alone in the corner.

As it happens, they are utterly killing it.

The easier songs have long since ceased to be fun, so now they're working their way down from the hardest options. Some kids stop to watch from time to time, but they're largely heedless of any silent onlookers. Their mind is elsewhere.
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[personal profile] exhumerus 2016-02-29 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
They should have seen him a couple months ago - just winking up a storm back then. It's strange...he probably acts less like the guy they recognize now, despite the fact that he's recovering more and more pieces of his memory. He's been falling further and further out of context, which is making some habits a bit harder to keep up.

Joking and winking isn't much good when you're not in the mood for it. Yet, in the past he's always been in the mood for it, exclusively. A trying time, to be sure.

He looks more curious than horrified in response to that explanation, as if having a soul stolen is something that just makes more practical sense to him than being kidnapped or shapeshifted. Because it does. From everything he remembers about magic, souls have always been heavily involved. Hell, he's pretty sure that something to do with stealing souls was a regular fixture of research. He taps at his lip thoughtfully - it's a similar gesture to one he always did as a skeleton, more notable for the sound of bone against teeth.

"And you fixed it, huh?" he asks. It's really less of a question, and more like a roundabout thanks. He can acknowledge the worth of that gesture all over again. "Sounds like we've got quite the history."