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Weep for your eardrums.

Tina is in the plaza today, and it looks like she's looking for attention. She's darting around the crowded couches and walkways and her telltale 'hey, hey!!' can be heard well before Tina herself can be seen bouncing on her heels.

"Hey, hey Nexus folks, hey. Heeeeeeeey. Hey! I got'sa question. I need y'alls help. It's important. Please? please please please? Puhleaaaaaaaaaaaase!"

She won't stop. Nothing can stop this.

"What should I be for Halloween? Or you know, what're you gonna be? Maybe it'll give me an idea."

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She pauses mid putting up a missing poster, to watch the antics bemusedly, "Well, I'am thinking of going as Dorthy myself. " She replies securing the poster with her friend's image and his name. "Do you have a er favorite hero or person, or something?" She asks warmly.

"Who's Dorothy, yo? Is she your Main squeeze?"

Tina doesn't seem to understand that this may be a rude question to ask, but it's at least got her to stop tugging on the poor woman's sleeves while she's working.

"Last year I did that. I went as Roland. This year ahdunno what I wanna do."

She blinks a bit taken aback, course kids tended to say whatever popped into their heads sometimes and softly shakes her head. She didn't roll that way but anyways. "Ah, nope she's a character from a book." She replied calm and nonchalant. as far as she knew but she supposed there was a few realms out there where their was a Dorthy or two.

"Ah I see. " She murmers and holds her snack bag open for Tina to pick a little something if she liked shakeing it a little with a small friendly smile. She looked thoughtful and hums for a moment. "Have ya been to the Library yet? I bet they got movies and things we could look at see if something catches yer eye?" She suggests.

"Ohmyguh you have treats? Thank ya kindly."

She's going to pull a a little wrapped fruit leather out of the bag and go to town on it while she listens to what's being said to her.

"Books are dope. We don't have very many of 'em on Pandora. Not as much as we should, at any rate. It takes me so damn long to get the new editions of the BUnkers an' Badasses manuals."

She smiles warmly and nods, "Aye, yer most welcome." She replies sincerely. She lets her do so.

"Aye they are, " Her eyes soften at that. "ah.. is that a good read? I take it." She half asks half states tilting her head curious and wishing to learn more about the world the little one is from. For several reasons besides keeping her out of trouble. In this big rambling and many being filled place.

"They're game guides for running a tabletop pretendy-funtimes adventure game and I've got the first three editions! The vault hunters pick me up a copy whenever we can get ahold of one on Pandora."

She jerks a thumb toward her own chest and grins.

"I'm the best mothahumpin' Bunkermaster this side of the galaxy!"

"Oh cool, I see. " She murmurs her eyebrows up and her face looking genuinely interested and intrigued. She nods, hmm maybe they had some in the shops or library.

She blinks at the semi rough language, but the goal seemed to have kinda grown up in some sort of mad max like world from the sound of things she knew so far. Of course she pick up some .. things. She twitches her nose as she gets the urge to kick some butts with her boot on the wee one's behalf.

Hurmph, her tail twitches a bit unhappily, she is very protective of those smaller then herself etc. especially.
She gives her a lopsided, smile. "Bet ya are. " She murmurs.

Sounded kinda like that Dungeons and dragons game, she wasn't one for complex maths equations but she did like pretendy,ahem fantasy, or imaginative type games. Word games or Clue was fun too.

Tina would be confused as to the woman's emotions over her behalf, but then again a lot of people seem to get that way whenever she talks about her home. Reynard and Blaze have both tried to keep her from going back, despite the fact that she doesn't know any other way of life.

"I'm working on my next campaign right now, actually. Got some ideas from folks in the Nexus a while back."

She smiles softly, "ooh nice. " She murmurs warmly with a nod. She slightly crouches so their eye to eye for a little bit hoping to make her more comfortable. "so ah..what's the rules of this game?" She asks semi interested.

His ears. Tatsuya's covering them, wincing- he's never been one to enjoy loud, high-pitched noises.

That doesn't mean he doesn't catch her question. "Halloween?" Wasn't that a Western festival? "They celebrate it here in the Nexus?"

"Son they celebrate erry Holiday somewhere in the Nexus. But Halloween is a big event! Literally everyone is there."

She gives a sage nod at the much taller young man.

"And I wanna have the best costume there."

Oh. Well, he landed in the Nexus at a baaad time. For him, being a shy introvert means he tried to stay away from crowds.

"I'm not very good with costume ideas," he admits. "We don't celebrate Halloween back home." At least, not during Tatsuya's era.

"They close off the entire block and this one really serious guy with tinted sunglasses and a perpetual B[ face bakes a shitload of treats an' everyone dances and there's a fire and--"

Tina bounces around the young man as she talks, her eyes as big as dinner plates.

"There's so much good food! And candy! And you can make all kindsa friends! You should come!"

Wait. Wait a second, he's gonna mentally back up for a moment. A serious person... with tinted sunglasses... that bakes a lot. That sounds a lot like-

"Hey, hold on- do you have a name? Of that serious guy, I mean."

Uhhhhh.

Tina stops when he suddenly speaks up looking all panicked like he is. What was that guy's name? She knows Ice Bear who also works there but the guy? He was kind of boring. Didn't he have a girly kind of name?

"Kathy? Uh...shoot I know I heard it. Cat-soup. Ice Bear told me his name, shoot shoot damn. Boom. Et cetera. Kat...suya?"

Tatsuya's eyes went wide as he heard that familiar name. "Katsuya," he repeated.

He knew it. He knew it.

"That's my brother."

"Wow." He draws out the word, just a tiny bit stunned for a moment. "And I thought we were a bit hyper," he muses, a bit of a chuckle to his tones.

"What? Why not just be yourself?" From a guy lounging on a sofa who is loaded down in silver, a cigarette hanging out the corner of his mouth and a baseball bat leaning against his knee. He's got no room to talk. "Okay, what about going as a government experiment? Trust me, they look kind of like everyone else. Kind of."

"But! But but but dressing up is all part of the fun. Why you gotta do me wrong like that?"

Tina presses both hands into the armrest of the couch and bounces a few times just for emphasis on her point. He's gotta know what Halloween is. It's free candy night and she's gonna be damned if she doesn't draw the msts attention.

"I thought it as the tricks? Making people scream and run while tripping over their own feet. Huh. Really? It's the costumes?" His brow furrows, not looking at all convinced by this but trying to figure out if she's right.

"Alright, fine. I'll buy you're telling the truth," he says, taking a drag and exhaling away from her as he looks her over. "What were you the last couple of years so we're not repeating shit. You get less candy if you repeat." It's a rule, right?

"Last year was my first time. I dressed as Roland. He's a hero from my world. One of th'best men who ever had the bad luck of steppin' foot on Pandora."

Some of Tina's energy settles when she talks of her late friend. She stops bouncing and holds her head high when she talks about him.

"Dunno how I'm gonna top that ever, let alone this year."

Yeah, that was a sentiment Martin can understand. Though the way he can feel the emotions coming from her, he shifts, leaning a bit away as if he's looking her over. Better for both of them if those emotions didn't bring up that kind of hunger.

"What do you fear the most?

Okay, that is probably the wrong question to ask, all things considered.

When Reynard came into the Nexus today for a distraction he wasn't expecting it to be the explosive presence of Tina, but he smiles the moment he hears her calling through the Nexus. She doesn't need to pester him for his attention. He comes over and folds his arms while he grins at her.

"What about a gremlin?"

"Rey!"

Tina's footsteps come scampering up the walk before she's all but leaping into the Winter Spirit's arms for a big hug. And possibly trying to crawl into his shoulders for an unsolicited shoulder/piggy back ride.

"Whatsa gremlin? Is it scary? Will it get me all the free candy I can eat?"

Really, he should have expected it, but when was the last time a kid jumped up at him for a hug? He doesn't know that any ever have. But, looking momentarily startled, he catches her, and then laughs. He tries to help her (or at least help her not fall) while she scrambles across him like an overexcited puppy.

"It can be scary... But I don't think anything could stop you getting all the sweets you want for Halloween."

Tina leans down on Reynard's hat while she stares down at him from her perch atop his shoulders. At least she's more still like this and not bouncing around him in circles making both of them dizzy.

"I wanna have a cool costume but I was already th'best thing from my world last year."

Reynard hums thoughtfully. "I'm going to go as the Big Bad Wolf, but I think you're too cool to be Little Red Riding Hood."

"Aw, Rey! That's sweet. I'm no one's damsel in distress tho' and we both know it."

The grin she gives the Winter Spirit is warm and genuine. It takes away some of the manic energy she always seems to wear. Makes her look more her age when she does it.

"I'm sure you're gonna knock 'em dead."

"Not too dead. I need someone to dance with." He hefts her on his shoulders and starts to wander. "Did you have any ideas of who you wanted to be? Or what?"

What is this Halloween? I have never heard of anything so absurd in my life.

She look down on Tina she sees her pointed ears and begins to wonder what kind of humanoid Alien is she.

What planet your from?

Edited 2017-11-06 12:49 (UTC)

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