16th Invasion

[moemoetentacles]

[Action; around town]

[Squid Girl's got a new project she's working on, so today she's excitedly running around town sidelining random people on the streets to see if they want to help her out.  She might also be coming up to your door and knocking excitedly.  Special attention is paid to mousy, shy, or nervous looking types, but she's harassing more or less everyone she can find about this.]

Hey, hey!  Do you want to be in a movie?  My neighbor and I are making one, and it's gonna be great!

[Action for 1245 Williams Road]

[She also pays a visit to Taiwan's place in particular, because she's pretty sure she's gonna need a favor from her to make this thing go off without a hitch.  So she's knock-knock-knockin' on your door too.]

Taiwan!  Are you home?

Comments

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

Yup! Right out of the ocean.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

[Well, this is a little much for Lucas to believe but it's not like she has any reason to lie. After a bit . . . ]

Does it really have to be such a violent movie?

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't be very exciting if they didn't fight.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

. . . It could be heartwarming and touching instead of exciting.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

Like what? The squid and the shark make friends or something?

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

. . .

Yes! And then . . . they decide they'd rather help the farmers and the citizens instead of murdering them.

[pause. Lucas fills the rest in with a rush as he thinks about what would be appealing.]

And then for a hundred generations after that the people of the city worship the mighty squid and the mighty shark that saved them from devastation and burn offerings to them and everything but the mighty squid a little more because it had more arms so it needs more offerings to be satisfied.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

Well, I like the part about humans worshipping me, but the shark isn't allowed to share any of that. He has to go back to the ocean because he's a jerk.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

That's fine. It's just someone dressed up like one anyway right?

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. But I hate sharks, so it has to lose the fight.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

But the rest of the idea is good, right?

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

I don't understand why the squid would want to help the humans. I mean, they've never done anything for her!

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

It's because. Um.

. . .

While she's rampaging through the town she suddenly sees a little boy and she's about to stomp on his house and then he cries out and leaps forward to selflessly save his beloved pet squid from her crushing tentacles! And so she . . . has a change of heart! Uh-huh!

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

Really? He had a pet squid that he loved?

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

. . .

Y-Yes! It's really touching, isn't it?

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

I bet he kept it in a really small aquarium, though. With not a lot of room for it to swim around.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

No, it was gigantic. And approved by the National Committee of . . . Making Sure Aquariums Are Big Enough For Squids.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

There's really a committee for that?

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

. . . There could be. In the movie.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

And then maybe me and the pet squid team up to beat up the shark and throw it back into the ocean!

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

A-Absolutely. For sure. Definitely.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

That could work. As long as the squid win the fight with the shark and the humans promise to stop polluting the ocean, I guess I'm okay with that.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

. . . OK! I'll start writing the script for you right now!

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

Okay! I'll be counting on you, then! Make sure it's interesting and scary enough before the squid makes friends with the humans, though, or nobody'll want to watch it.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

Oh. Um. Maybe someone else should write the first part, then.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

I'll do that part, then. But the ending definitely has the humans worshipping the giant squid, right?

[That's what she heard, at least.]