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[ no malik you are so fucking valid, those spoons are the shit
Mabel nods at his assessment like it's only fair. Of course it's a little plain! ]
Okay! Next up then: strawberry and chocolate! Those are the holy trinity of ice creams, you know.
[ she procures two more little spoons of ice cream and hands them over to Malik ]
Mabel nods at his assessment like it's only fair. Of course it's a little plain! ]
Okay! Next up then: strawberry and chocolate! Those are the holy trinity of ice creams, you know.
[ she procures two more little spoons of ice cream and hands them over to Malik ]
[ it's complicated, kiddo. ]
I need to tell you about a memory... Which is better than showing them unprompted. Like when I was younger than you are now... and I--
[ he is even more conflicted and unsure! and his sadness? there's more of that now. ]
I didn't get to do many things as a child. I wanted to see a lot of places, and experience a lot of things... I found a discarded book in the street one time, and it had pictures of things I had never seen before.
I need to tell you about a memory... Which is better than showing them unprompted. Like when I was younger than you are now... and I--
[ he is even more conflicted and unsure! and his sadness? there's more of that now. ]
I didn't get to do many things as a child. I wanted to see a lot of places, and experience a lot of things... I found a discarded book in the street one time, and it had pictures of things I had never seen before.
Okay, now hold on to your butt, cuz these next flavors are about to get intense!
[ she gets samples of Rocky Road, rainbow sherbet, cookie dough, mint chocolate chip. she brandishes each spoon between her fingers like an ice cream Wolverine, offering her ice cream fists to Malik. ]
[ she gets samples of Rocky Road, rainbow sherbet, cookie dough, mint chocolate chip. she brandishes each spoon between her fingers like an ice cream Wolverine, offering her ice cream fists to Malik. ]
[ oh! wow! awkward! Mabel gets the sense that this is going to be an Important Somber infodump, so she forces herself to be calm. She can tell that Malik is gonna have a hard time saying this so...she might as well help by prompting him a little, right? ]
Like what kind of things?
Like what kind of things?
[ thank god the npcs are too tired to care and this isn't an actual place of business. time to get tasting--
rocky road? alright. sherbet: sweet, and it goes down easier than the other flavors thus far. cookie dough is just Okay, which pains me to type because malik needs to get better taste. mint he seems to like! ]
...I still think the strawberry is the best. The other flavors have too much happening. OR maybe it's too much sugar... I don't eat a lot of sweet things.
rocky road? alright. sherbet: sweet, and it goes down easier than the other flavors thus far. cookie dough is just Okay, which pains me to type because malik needs to get better taste. mint he seems to like! ]
...I still think the strawberry is the best. The other flavors have too much happening. OR maybe it's too much sugar... I don't eat a lot of sweet things.
[ he's trying to stay constrained, because yeah this is incredibly awkward! he doesn't like this, not one bit. ]
I remember a page with a motorcycle in it very clearly. I begged my sister to let me keep that page. She said I could as long as our father never saw it.
I remember a page with a motorcycle in it very clearly. I begged my sister to let me keep that page. She said I could as long as our father never saw it.
[ the validation actually gets a flicker of positive emotion! ]
I thought it was interesting and exciting... to be able to ride across the land, completely free... I had never seen anything like it before. I would have kept the whole book, if my sister had let me... but I was okay with just one page. So I took it back home with me, imaging what having a motorcycle would be like.
I did get one later, after I left home.
I thought it was interesting and exciting... to be able to ride across the land, completely free... I had never seen anything like it before. I would have kept the whole book, if my sister had let me... but I was okay with just one page. So I took it back home with me, imaging what having a motorcycle would be like.
I did get one later, after I left home.
[ i'm laughing, you're so easy to validate, and i cannot believe you have a dedicated motorcycle icon, god bless ]
And? Was it everything you'd ever dreamed of?
And? Was it everything you'd ever dreamed of?
Hmmm...let's shift directions then! Scooper, your finest sorbets and frozen yogurts, please!
[ and Mabel gets some little spoons of sorbets for Malik. and. frozen yogurt? is there any place that puts that shit on the little spoons? maybe mabel just shoves malik's head under a froyo dispenser and feeds him some. ]
[ and Mabel gets some little spoons of sorbets for Malik. and. frozen yogurt? is there any place that puts that shit on the little spoons? maybe mabel just shoves malik's head under a froyo dispenser and feeds him some. ]
[ the fact that her good buddy Malik is feeling a positive emotion makes Mabel's own light up like the fourth of July! ]
So where'd you get to go on your cool shiny new motorcycle?!
So where'd you get to go on your cool shiny new motorcycle?!
Whoaaaa...cool! How'd you get all the way to Japan on just a motorcycle? Does it run on water?!
Can you take me on a ride sometime over the water to Japan on your cool motorcycle?!
What?! Hey, I'll have you know, I've done plenty of crazy stunts on moving vehicles before! I could totally handle an ocean-riding motorcycle!
Wha...? What do you mean?
[ gasp ] Are you saving up vouchers to buy your cool water-floating motorcycle?!
[ gasp ] Are you saving up vouchers to buy your cool water-floating motorcycle?!
Awww, come on! You can't just hint something like that at me and then not tell me!
At least give me a hint about when I might find out!
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