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]

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.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she definitely does give scientists a bad name. And her assistants are even worse.

[cramschoolgod.livejournal.com]

Well, I assure you, not all scientists are like that.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

They'd never get anything done if they were all like that.

[cramschoolgod.livejournal.com]

Quite so.

Do you have lungs or gills, by the way?

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

Both, I guess! Otherwise I'd die on the surface, right?

[cramschoolgod.livejournal.com]

You--you don't know?

[girl have you done even the most rudimentary research on yourself?]

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

[Pfft, like she's even been on the surface all that long.]

I never really thought about it that much.

[cramschoolgod.livejournal.com]

Well. Perhaps you should think about it now.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

Okay.

[And she stands there, arms folded and eyes closed, concentrating.]

[cramschoolgod.livejournal.com]

[After a while, Sasaki starts glancing from side to side. ...She doesn't think squids hibernate...]

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

[Finally opens her eyes.]

Done!

[cramschoolgod.livejournal.com]

...And?