interstellar5555 | 008 ✽ It's betta down where it's wetter

Who: Flowers Over Bones and those in attendance
What: One last solo band performance before the big tour, at the world's largest aquarium. Of course, being a giant aquarium, there's plenty of other things to do too.
When: Backdated to early April
Where: The Vista City Aquarium
Warnings: None planned, but note- this is set before Flowers Over Bones (Luce, Doctor, Rei, Ivan, Pao-Lin) escape out of Virgo's grip. If you want to talk with any of them one last time, now is the chance to do so. Also doubles as a mingle log!

As befitting such an enormous and thriving city, Vista houses the largest aquarium on the entire Americana west coast. Vista City Aquarium takes up the entirety of a multi-floor building, sprawling over a sizeable bit of land in the crowded city and providing nothing but top of the line care for its many aquatic and amphibious inhabitants. Needless to say, the gift shop is an entire floor all its own.

Such a place is obviously a popular place in the city for those interested in aquatic life, but today is special. The Annual Charity Run is taking place to usher in spring, just like every other year, and, to help this goal, they've enlisted the help of Virgo's own Flowers Over Bones. On one of the only levels not for the housing of aquatic life, a stage area has been set up for the band. All proceeds to see them, of course, go straight to the Aquarium.

That isn't to say people are obligated to go to the concert. It's an optional event of the day. There's still an entire building full of water and creatures to explore, an endeavor which can take up an entire day if one is so willing. Notable attractions include:

- A glass tunnel that goes through an entire tank of Caribbean sea life
- A room filled with screens livestreaming the events of oceanic researchers watching over the dolphins and whales the aquarium doesn't house
- A shallow tank where you can pet more docile small sharks and rays
- An area where you can play chess electronically with one out of a pair of octopi, Celia or Pat. Human winners are rewarded a voucher for food down in the food court. Celia and Pat get pieces of crab. Celia and Pat also have a high win rate.
- The food court and gift shop floor, where you can buy refreshments for the day or whatever gift shop knicknacks your heart desires. Not only are there the typical things such as clothing emblazoned with the aquarium's logo, keychains, and lovely coral or shark teeth jewelry.... But there are also plushies larger than most people. There's seemingly one for just about every kind of animal. Yes, even the blobfish.

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Yeah. She does have a way of keeping bad people from doing bad things. He sort of drops the necklace he had been trying to put in his pocket. He frowns and looks down and down some more.

Meatballs.

That girl! The girl that he'd met in the park. They really did need to stop meeting like this. "It's you... You really need to watch out. Some day you might end up hurt."

"Ahhh I'm pretty hardy, honestly, comes with being so klutzy." It is an utter lie Xanxus, she is a huge crybaby.

"I'm sorry... ah... at least I didn't get your face this time?" she takes small victories where she can. "You aren't hurt, are you?" she knows asking if he's hurt is like asking if a tree felt a leaf fly into it, but it would be rude not to.

"So I noticed. Running into me didn't knock you on your ass." Least this time he doesn't have a massive frog to dump on her. "And no, you didn't get my face. I didn't have to hide my face today." He reaches up to tap the massive scar on his cheek.

"And no. I'm just as sturdy. No harm done." He leans down pick up what he had been trying to steal and sees a little hair clip. He likes that better. He picks it up as well as something like it. "Hey, kid. You think these are cute?" Just little fish life barrettes.

"Oh! Haha, well I didn't run into you that hard. If I was actually running, maybe." She could kill if she ran into people while running, she was surprisingly fast. "Well, that's good, I'm glad you can be more yourself," she offered honestly, scarring never bothering her.

"I do! I tend to wear ribbons myself because of all my hair but those would be nice for someone. Is it the girl you bought the plush for?"

He grins a little because he's pretty glad he doesn't have to hide his face either. But he's not really being "himself" mostly because he sees her as a little girl, just like his daughter. He's still to brainwashed to be an asshole to her.

"Actually, no it's not for her." He digs through his pocket and pulls out a phone and calls up a picture. It's Squalo. Squalo in a state of shark petting bliss. "It's for him. He's got a metric shitton of hair. For my little girl, I was thinking a cute little purse...." He pauses and frowns. "I'm not to good with cute. You want to pick one out?"

"Oh! Well, if he's super into sharks," and it looked like he was, "Why not get the shark ribbons! Ribbons are always nicer for that much hair, take my advice. If they don't have ribbons you could always substitute shoelaces, I do in a pinch."

She had to do that more than once, sadly. Still she looked around and smiled. "What's her favorite sea-animal? Or you could always go for a cute penguin purse, who doesn't love penguins?"

That's an understatement. He doesn't think he knows anyone who is that into sharks. "Ribbons?" There's an almost evil smile because ribbons are so girly and he knows it'll annoy the man. "Ribbons it is. For you too. Pick out a set you like. No shoelaces for you."

"Penguins mean cold. No penguins. Maybe a seal or something. But no hellbirds." Yeah, he hates cold that much. He didn't even step into the penguin enclosure. "So this and some ribbons for him and you and a purse for my little girl..." Damn being nice and shopping for people is so hard.

"That's so sweet of you!" she smiled as she walked over with him to the ribbons in question. There was a set of six ribbons in each package, each one a different pattern. On the shark ribbons there was the typical shark teeth pattern, and then one where the sharks were chasing fish, mouths open wide, and a few other variations. She looked through the ribbons and pulled out a package with sea horse designs and picked out the same for the sharks for Xanxus, handing them to him. She had learn ago it was better to just let the rock stars do what they want when it came to buying things.

"Well, no penguins. OH! I know! Otters! They live in warmer weather, I'm pretty sure and they're super cute! Your little girl will love the purse, I'm sure!"

Usagi learns pretty quickly because Xanxus is definitely one of those that would do what he wants. He watches her head away and during that time, he totally slips the bracelets and earrings into a pocket. He looks totally innocent when she comes back with the ribbons. It looks like he's going to have to actually buy things.

"Otters." He looks at the purse in question and laughs a little. "You're right. It is pretty cute. Then with such a strong assurance, I'll definitely buy it for her." A pause. "Man, I should just keep you as my personal shopper."

"Well, you can always give me a call if you need help on such a thing!" she had a phone now and it was awesome! "I don't mind at all!" she really didn't, in truth. She loved cute things, she loved shopping, and she loved helping people. It was a perfect combination.

"Besides!" she winked, "You would only have to pay me in delicious food."

"Then let me give you my number. Just be careful when you call because you might get..." He nods to his phone. "You'll do deaf if he answers the phone and then you won't get to enjoy our music." She does like the Carnival, right? Riiiiight?

"And that means I owe you some now, don't I? I saw a crepe stand earlier. You want one?"

Usagi pulled out her phone and opened up the new contacts, offering her phone to Xanxus.

"Well, I wouldn't want that!" she smiled. "And if ever you need anything, give me a call alright? Even if it's just to get away from rabid fans or something," she smiled as she stood at his elbow. She didn't even reach his shoulder so it was quite amusing.

"I'm certainly not going to say no to free food."

Xanxus quickly plugs in his number. "Now you're never going to get rid of me. Any excuse to get away from the psychos." he doesn't sound too bothered by them though. If anything, he loves his crazy fans a lot. Probably more than he should.

"Of course. Then lets pay for all of this and then you and me have a meeting with those crepes." Maybe they would have a meaty one... something with bacon perhaps. He could only wish.

"Well, you'll never have to worry about me ever pulling any psycho stuff, I wouldn't be a very good personal shopper if I was, no store would let me in," she laughed as she bounced alongside him to the cashier, unaware of what was in his pocket.

"But way more than shopping I love food!" she bounced as he should well know, she demolished the pizza they had gotten.

The ribbons paid for she grinned and opened them, reaching up to tie them in her hair quickly and efficiently with how often she did it.

"How does it look?" she asked as she put her hands down.

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