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moemoetentacles) wrote2011-04-06 03:21 pm
moemoetentacles) wrote2011-04-06 03:21 pm
18th Invasion
[Springtime has arrived, and it's high time Squid Girl and Taiwan got on with their plan of raising environmental awareness about the state of the world's oceans! Clearly this is a huge problem that needs to be addressed by the citizens of Mayfield, despite their utter lack of proximity to any large bodies of water! But such petty logic has not dissuaded our champions of ecological responsibility on this fine spring day, and so they can be found going around town all day long enthusiastically handing out and hanging up flyers all over town.
Squid Girl is dressed up in a magical girl costume rather reminiscent of something out of Pretty Cure, and Taiwan is wearing this charming pink getup. It's also really easy to tell which flyers were drawn by which of them, as half of them are just derpy-looking crayon drawings of squid, lobster, and crabs with big goofy looking googly eyes and smiles, and the other half have well-drawn pictures of moe-looking anthropomorphic sea life with cute Engrish slogans like 'Protect Environments Love,' 'Let's Cleaning! Fight!' or 'Yes! Save Water Creature!'(shamelessly yanked from Yana's previous posts about this). Some of Taiwan's flyers also have pictures of Squid Girl in her Cure Marine costume accompanied by a cute little lobster sidekick with a pink bow.
Whether you're talking to Squid Girl or Taiwan, they'll probably just shove a flyer in your face and say something like this:]
Here! Take one of these flyers! They're for ocean awareness!
((OOC: There will be no particular posting order for responses, just to keep things flowing. We'll each just tag whatever, and if you're having a conversation with one of them, the other might threadjack in halfway through! For maximum lulz potential.))
Squid Girl is dressed up in a magical girl costume rather reminiscent of something out of Pretty Cure, and Taiwan is wearing this charming pink getup. It's also really easy to tell which flyers were drawn by which of them, as half of them are just derpy-looking crayon drawings of squid, lobster, and crabs with big goofy looking googly eyes and smiles, and the other half have well-drawn pictures of moe-looking anthropomorphic sea life with cute Engrish slogans like 'Protect Environments Love,' 'Let's Cleaning! Fight!' or 'Yes! Save Water Creature!'
Whether you're talking to Squid Girl or Taiwan, they'll probably just shove a flyer in your face and say something like this:]
Here! Take one of these flyers! They're for ocean awareness!
((OOC: There will be no particular posting order for responses, just to keep things flowing. We'll each just tag whatever, and if you're having a conversation with one of them, the other might threadjack in halfway through! For maximum lulz potential.))
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And English is in nowadays! Isn't my slogan cool?
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Your slogan is -- inspiring, but ... you speak English fluently now. Surely you've noticed--?
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... Oh yeah. I've been speaking Chinese all this time, you know, so sometimes I forget!
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[After that, anyway, she closes her eyes briefly.]
I'm afraid the ocean's government is not likely to have much influence on its citizenry...
And after all, a lot of Taiwan's--pardon me--natural resources [not meant to sound dirty!] have been depleted in years past. Are you sure one alliance will make up for all of that?
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She places a finger on her lip. ]
Shh. It's not really for any of that, you know.
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She raises an eyebrow.] What is it for, then?
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It's true that I'm not very good at keeping my place clean, but I grew up with the ocean. Even without documents, she was already an indispensable ally! I have to give back somehow.
And... when I look at Squid Girl, I see me. She wants to be heard by everyone, but no one listens, no one takes her seriously and in this town, even if she won't show it, she's really lonely. That's why I decided to make friends with her! She listened to me and recognized me...
Plus, [ Grabs Squid Girl, places her right in front of her and starts squishing her cheeks. ] she's really cute, isn't she?
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R-right! Taiwan's my best friend.
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Sasaki has to quell a simultaneous twitch and urge to emit a very un-Sasaki-esque sound. She mostly succeeds at both, and spins out words, stalling.]
...f-from the perspective of cuteness, I can objectively say that many people would agree with you, Taiwan. She demonstrates all the classical attributes of moe. In fact, her name seems to really invite the comparison-- though Taiwan, frankly, you demonstrate equally many characteristics. This entire endeavor is practically dripping with it. I have frequently wondered precisely why -- people have theorized that it's an evolutionary adaptation to ensure the protection of infants, but our own particular cultural blend of it in Japan -- as well as similar systems in other Asian countries -- is very different from that of the west, and frankly, more emphasized... Of course, they are more explicitly...
[She clears her throat.] At any rate, I find her much easier to take seriously than some other people whose stories are quite implausible. I assure you of that.
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Ex... explicitly... [ Explicitly what? Nevermind, she quickly forgets about it. ]
Wah, xiexie, Sasaki! [ Moe flowers and shoujo bubbles everywhere, oh man. She squishes Squid Girl's cheeks more this time, too. ] Does that mean you'll help Squid Girl protect the ocean and its wildlife, too?
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I -- [SO MOE]
Well, I -- I've always supported taking appropriate measures to care for the environment, it's only common sense...
[Oh god why so moe]
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[Squid Girl reaches over to pat Sasaki's shoulder with a tentacle, looking all proud and accomplished.]