[your best friend] intensifies (open)

[wilt]

Who: Flowey and YOU!
When: B1: D1-6!
Where: Outside of his festive Children's Entertainment Booth!
What: Just you and Flowey, meeting each other and making friends!
Warnings: Flowey is (SPOILER) not nice.


[ Back here, after signing his contract, Flowey’s gone and raided the performer’s storage (which he had to burrow to find over and over again). He’s made dozens of balloon animals. Perhaps in one of his years resetting, he did it to stave off boredom. How he does it with no arms, absolutely no one can guess. “HOWDY! - ｆｌｏｗｅｙ” Is written on each and every indistinguishable bipedal animal that could resemble an annoying dog and he’s handing them out with a happy greeting! ]

“Howdy! You’re not the ugliest person on the planet, but you better hope he doesn’t die! Nice to meet you!”

“Howdy! You look like a mistake only the chaos of the universe could make, pleased to make your acquaintance!”

“Howdy! You’re kind of like Rapunzel, but instead of letting your hair down, you’re letting everyone down in your life! It’s so good to make new friends!”

“Howdy! I’m Flowey. Flowey the Flower! I’m an experiment gone wrong and I’m still less of a mistake than you! Have a nice day, happy to finally say hello!”

[ Do you… come up and get your custom insult?

Or do you defend the honor of someone he just insulted? ]

Comments

[soft_focus]

[Reira, frankly, doesn't need a card. Actually she doesn't even approach Flowey from the front. She just watches him for a bit from far, far behind. Staring. Studying, perhaps.

...Eventually she comes up and says....well. The obvious.]

................................You don't feel a lot of things... [At all. Like, at all at all. It's just weird awkward mute 'whispering', accompanied by, a number of blaring times, PETTY ANTAGONIZING.

Which explains the cards, certainly, but not the whole lack of everything else. Even Foster's made sense, he was just Weird. Somehow this is more...ordered, in a strange, non-ordered way.]

[wilt]

[ Amazingly? That makes Flowey's smile grow even WIDER. Because he feels two things now, and two things are better than no things, so he takes another balloon animal with his vines and hands it to him. ]

Looks like someone has the right idea!

Howdy, I'm Flowey, and you look like both a poster child and an alumni from a children's hospital!

[ Have a balloon, kid! ]

[soft_focus]

....Do you....want to be happy? Or are you faking happy...
[She honestly can't tell. Normally it's obvious. Extremely obvious, in fact. It's...Strange. .........................Well she'll take the balloon. But more importantly.] ................. ....Alumni means.... ....A student that isn't a student anymore, right? [she eventually asks, blinking.] ..................Hospitals aren't schools.

[God, Flowey, get a hold of yourself.] ....I guess it's right for if it's just the school though.... [She's not going back there, she's Pretty Sure. Or at least not to learn.]

...What is it? [She adds, holding the balloon animal itself forward.]

[criticallyfucked]

[I’m an experiment gone wrong and I’m still less of a mistake than you! Have a nice day, happy to finally say hello!

The only way that could have been any more correct is if it had come with a slap across the face--or a bat to his ribs, or a fist to break his nose...!

Foster doesn't take the whimsical, lime-green moose-shaped balloon art, but immediately drops to Flowey's level, ursine paws flat on the ground. It's like he's kneeling before the flower, grovelling, his face hovering inches from Flowey's own. But somehow, instead of being upset...]

Yes! Yes! I am a mistake! A disease, a vile grotesque, a disgusting waste--!

1/2

[wilt]

[wilt]

Hahahahaha! You sure are, buddy. But don't let it get you down! Or so excited I have to call the rest of security! Because I'm security and I don't think I have it in me to punish you!

[criticallyfucked]

You should.

[Foster's tone goes from desperately, terribly excited to.... something very strange, and very frightening. It's not really a threat.]

You should.

[His tone gets more intense, more emphatic.]

You should punish me, you should punish me, you should--you should be more than willing to do that much! To punish failure, to erase mistakes!

[textsfromhotland]

[Surely she's hearing things.

Surely it's just the stress of this entire disaster finally getting to her.

Surely, the all-powerful faerie queen that took her in wouldn't have brought him here, too.

Maybe she'll just. Not look. She'll turn around and walk back to her trailer and hide under the covers for a while. And when she comes back out it'll be nothing more than an auditory hallucination.

But of course Alphys can't not look. Even if it's just a quick glimpse from behind a food stall. It's enough to see familiar yellow petals and make her freeze in place and scream internally.]

[wilt]

Alphys!

[ Cheery music in the background speeds up by 1.5% ]

Don't worry, friend! Even old buddies get balloons too!

[ He offers one her way-- by which I mean he ping pongs one around in his vines to gently drift over to her. ]

Oh, you didn't get an introduction from me! [ It's only the skeletons and Frisk that get the not-as-harsh treatment due to being post-pacifist, so... ]

Howdy! I may have done a lot of terrible things, but I never let the fused undead live in my basement without telling their families, and then have the gall to feed them dog food as if they weren't real people once! Let's be friends!

[textsfromhotland]

[great

awesome

cool

the biggest thing she hoped she would never have to think about again is currently being broadcast to everyone by the second biggest thing she hoped she would never have to think about again

This is, literally, the worst.

Alphys opens her mouth as if to say something, then swiftly turns and walks away.]

D2

[scientificist]

[Herbert is feeling much better now. Awake, alive, wound up under his own power...

And then there's a talking flower? With balloons? He agreed to a certain amount of nonsense, having seen what went on at the ball and he would have done anything to be sure of escaping that place but this is.

Diiiifferent.

He stops before he passes, looks down his nose at the creature.]

What are you meant to be?

[wilt]

I'm Flowey! Flowey the Flower!

Howdy! [ He bump- bump- bumps! a balloon animal towards his way. ]

I haven't seen many humans in my life, aside from in books from the actual trash, but your glasses are hideous and you have the complexion of a newborn. Nice to meet you!

[scientificist]

[Herbert actually takes the balloon, and rotates it, looking at it.]

Poor taste and a youthful complexion. I've been accused of worse--you're not actually a flower though are you. What did I overhear.....experiment?

[spaghettimonster]

[Papyrus roams the grounds, taking in the sights and sounds. With everyone back, the carnival feels happier and more lively. Even if a fair number are mostly bedbound, still sick with poison and stiff stone limbs. It's fine. They're back, they'll get better, and things can get back to (a new) normal.

Little wonder that, from the look of those balloons, somebody's taken the initiative to run their booth. Practicing for getting back to performance weeks, giving those gifts out with a cheerful greeting... Or, insult?

Papyrus pauses, a few booths away. That voice, saying'Howdy' in such bright cheer, so at odds with the greetings being spread about... It sounds...

So familiar!]

Oh my god! Is that... [shoot, what was his name?] --my flowery friend?!

1/2

[wilt]

[ fml Papyrus if you don't remember his name he might learn sadness ]

[wilt]

Ah... h- hey, Papyrus!

I mean, Howdy! You... have a skull for a face. Isn't it nice seeing old friends?

[ He bops an annoying balloon dog his way, signature and all. After the ending of the True Pacifist game, he might not feel anything, but there's still something inside of him tugging at him not being mean to Papyrus. It's actually really depressing, though not yet enough to regain 'depression', because when he had him in his God of Hyperdeath form, he felt like he kind of.

Liked himself.

...

dumb feelings for idiot people. ]

[spaghettimonster]

It's true, I do!

[A particularly handsome skull, if you ask him. He accepts the annoying dog balloon with a smile, only a hint of grimace when he recognizes what it looks like.]

And it's more than nice... It's great!!! Wowie! I didn't know you were here. Don't tell me you were in the ball??

[This feeling of a name juuuust on tip of his tongue... it's horribly familiar, right now. But the flower seems fine! Mostly fine. Not Nameless, is the important thing! So Papyrus will remember eventually. Maybe he'll remember, or overhear it from someone else, or even admit his ignorance within a minute as guilt builds up... who knows, life is full of surprises.]

B1 D3

[moonfang]

[Ok, rest is over. Time to see what's going on in the Carnival; if anything changed while they were stuck in Manners Manor Hell.

And avoiding Ichigo. What an uncomfortable mess that was..

He walks by some weird balloon animal stand he's never seen before, but doesn't pay it much attention. Not until someone insults him in an abnormally cheery voice!

... But when he turns around to see nothing but a flower with an almost cartoonish smile, he groans]

... I must be hallucinating now.

[wilt]

Howdy! You look like you decided to be a ghost for Halloween and were stupid enough to get it tattooed all over your body!! It's nice to meet you! I hope no one ever sees you with your clothes even marginally more removed!

[ He'll bap over another white balloon. with the annoying dog's face drawn on it. ]

[moonfang]

[ Zangetsu regards the insulting flower with cold indifference. He takes the balloon animal in one hand and looks at it. Then he produces a talon from his opposite index finger and pops it ]

I didn't know the Ringmaster was hiring plants now. Plants with shitty insult repertoires. I guess a contract is a contract. Or I'm dreaming. That seems likely.

gotta sign up for some verbal abuse too

[eclipsingblade]

[Ichigo's been having a very bad time thank you. He doesn't much enjoy this place, anything that's going on or his sword roaming around doing whatever he wants!

But Ichigo has a job to do, and as of 5 minutes ago he was doing it: guarding places. Now it's a break time and he's going to get a drink and ...

And getting a balloon animal and an insult from a potted daisy, apparently. The balloon animal is squished a bit in bemusement for a moment before he studies the flower with the acid tongue. It definitely had spirit energy, which meant it was ... not just a plant.

Huh.]

Thanks.

[For the balloon, not the insult. Presumably.]

[wilt]

Wow, you look familiar! Did you sharpie up your entire body just to get a second balloon? Aww, I knew you cared. Or you came back for seconds.

[ I'M SORRY ZANGETSU... ]

[eclipsingblade]

[He really should be annoyed.

But it's a potted daisy. This is like being told off by a Singing Bass on the wall.]

Familiar, huh. All white? Different guy. I'll take seconds though, if you'll tell me what they cost. These are really good.

[The balloon animal is squished a bit again. He'll probably get annoyed soon enough but right now it's too damn precious. A mouthy flower!]

[dressedtothe]

9S has certainly seen better days. While he's dressed back in his usual clothes, complete with visor covering his eyes, the exposed parts of his legs have ugly burns scorching his synthetic skin. In some places along the sides and back of his thighs and calves his skin was completely burned off, exposing patches of his metal frame for all to see.

Well, he isn't gonna refuse free stuff! Even if it's from a plant. What the heck's up with that? This thing's clearly not a sylvari like Syr is.

Except...

"Howdy! You look like a mistake only the chaos of the universe could make, pleased to make your acquaintance!"

"Wow. That's harsh. Who'd want this with a greeting like that?" He still takes the balloon animal though.

[wilt]

Aw, c'mon, it's fun, isn't it?

[ His leery smirk suggests this is pretty much only fun for him and that's that. ]

At least, it's a better icebreaker than 'Howdy! Who wants to talk to a talking flower?' You'd all assume I was a cartoon character or something!