18th Invasion

[moemoetentacles]

[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.))

Comments

[cramschoolgod.livejournal.com]

Yes, pollution is a very silly problem, really, one stemming ultimately from laziness and stupidity. It is probably not quite fair to attribute the stupidity to the inanimate objects themselves.

However, I can't really think of what this is meant to achieve in Mayfield, which, even if it's real, is certainly land-locked in the most complete way.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

It... that doesn't matter! People should still know that it's bad!

[cramschoolgod.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I've met anyone who is pro-pollution. They mostly don't care about the issue; and seeing as how it is rather a non-issue here...

Also, there are a couple of grammatical errors in these flyers.
Ah...

For example, I think "Close Your -- "

.. Well, I think it is supposed to say "Valves," and that it isn't supposed to refer to anatomy at all.

Hmm. At any rate... you said "humans", implying that you aren't human yourself. And presumably, given your concern about oceans and overfishing, you are some kind of anthropomorphic sea creature? I wish I weren't inured to these conclusions by now, but, really.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

Right! I'm a squid! My name is Squid Girl!

[She grabs the flyer, looking it over.]

No, that's what it's supposed to say.

[cramschoolgod.livejournal.com]

... Really. Well, then. That's an interesting message.

[She lets out a small laugh.] Well, that's more of a classification than a name, it sounds like, but it's nice to meet you, Squid Girl... If only we were all named with so much attention towards technical accuracy.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

I know! I think it makes it really easy to remember who I am.

[cramschoolgod.livejournal.com]

Yes. Well, this outfit, if it's something you normally wear, would also make it very easy to remember. Alternatively, seeing a squid in this area would probably be an unmistakable form of identification.

Do you simply transform into that form, by the way?

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

No, it's just a costume.

[She pulls on one of the sleeves a little.]

Taiwan made it for me.

[cramschoolgod.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Well, it seems my knowledge of archetypes that seem suspiciously realized in Mayfield has failed me, for once. You're not a 'magical girl' of some kind, then?

[She eyes her appraisingly.] Still, it fits you well. I suppose that might be another thing that raises, ah, ocean awareness.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

It's okay, I still have all my awesome squid powers! That's just as good.

[cramschoolgod.livejournal.com]

Ye-es. What powers are those, exactly? Perhaps you don't have to carry pens around with you?

[She smiles. Apparently this is a joke.]

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

I can do everything a squid can do! I'll show you if you want.

[cramschoolgod.livejournal.com]

Certainly, I'd be curious to see it.

Can you turn into calamari, perhaps?

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

W-what? You're not going to try to eat me, are you?

[cramschoolgod.livejournal.com]

...

Of course not...

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

Good, because I'd have to fight you off with my tentacles! They're pretty strong, you know!

[Flailing her hair-tentacles around wildly in what she hopes is an intimidating display.]

[cramschoolgod.livejournal.com]

[...]

That makes you look even more like a magical girl, really. Ah, anyway, you were saying?

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

I can spit ink and glow, too!

[She turns her head and spits a stream of ink into the grass, and then lights up her body with a soft blue light.]

Pretty amazing, right?

[cramschoolgod.livejournal.com]

[Actually, these are the kind of powers that Sasaki can get behind.]

Yes, it really is. What's particularly welcome is that it isn't something ridiculous like being a country, or violating the laws of thermodynamics. Both bioluminescence and the secretion of ink are phenomena that are, for lack of a better word, sensible. In fact, they could be extremely useful because of this. Whereas those magical attacks are essentially inaccessible to the operations of engineering, something like this, I would assume, could be augmented by outside tools and through a process of experimentation. When such abilities woudl be directed-- as the process of evolution might eventually achieve, but only over extremely lengthy time periods-- I imagine they could become quite versatile.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

...I use them to fight off predators and catch food.

[cramschoolgod.livejournal.com]

...Yes.

But with practice, improvement, and possibly a small bit of genetic modification or bioengineering, it could be so much more.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

N-not interested!

[Taking a step back as soon as the words 'genetic modification' and 'bioengineering' come up.]

[cramschoolgod.livejournal.com]

[She raises an eyebrow.]

I couldn't force you, obviously. I'm just a regular human. I'm sure it wouldn't be invasive, though.

...have you had some past experience with this?

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

There's this stupid scientist lady that keeps trying to drag me to her lab and experiment on me because she thinks I'm an alien.

[cramschoolgod.livejournal.com]

[Never mind that Sasaki would probably support someone doing precisely that if Squid Girl existed in her world. She can tell when it's time to dissemble a little bit.]

Ah, you shouldn't let people like that give all scientists a bad name. No scientist should force anyone to take part in an experiment if they're not willing to. And their experiment shouldn't have a chance of hurting the test subject. You've been unlucky, I'm afraid.