2nd Short - [Voice] + [Action]

[kingofwaste]

[Oswald flicks on the journal with the intent to ask one important, swift question. Straight to the point.]

So, how many of you don't know what a cartoon is? C'mon, let's hear it. No need to be embarrassed. [...] Oh, and no cheating by using a dictionary, either!

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[And for those of you keeping a wary eye out, Oswald can be seen out

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[one_green_eye]

[Ginko is in the forest, around Community Building 6-- close enough to the path to notice a sight this unusual. Being polite,

ehh. Not really. He just stares, with very frank curiosity.]

What've you got, there?

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[kingofwaste]

[Oh look, it's the guy who hasn't been enlightened by cartoons yet. Oswald sets the frame down, but he's still holding it steady with his paws.]

I found a canvas poster of me. Can you believe it? And here I thought every world would be full of Mickey Mouse junk.

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[one_green_eye]

[something of an amused grin-- he can't help his curiosity... you're so different and interesting] You found a picture of yourself?

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[kingofwaste]

I sure did! See? [He holds it up next to his face again to show the resemblance.]

This baby's goin' straight on my wall.

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[one_green_eye]

[If the terminology was at his disposal, he would find this... rather meta. But it isn't, so he just chuckles and thinks it odd. Then, very frankly]

You know, rabbits look pretty different in my world.

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[kingofwaste]

[Oswald's actually a vivid merchandise collector, intentionally of himself and unintenionally of the Mickey Mouse junk that keeps appearing on his mountain. The poster was mod approved and thus Oswald can rejoice that the Malnosso actually thought to add a bit of Lucky Rabbit merchandise to the store.]

You mean the furry kind that doesn't wear pants, hops around on all fours and eats carrots?

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[one_green_eye]

Heh, yeah, more or less. [can't help wondering if you were a realistic interpretation... ]

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[kingofwaste]

Yeah, we have rabbits like that too. Only the celebrity rabbits like me get to walk the walk and talk the talk. [He pauses, scratching his head.] Well, I never really talked the talk. I was implied to, but cartoons didn't have sound back then.

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[one_green_eye]

Really. [blink]

So how-- is it you can talk now? Do all things that people imagine or create take on a separate life of their own in your world? [can you FEEL the abrupt multiplying of curiosity?] Or only those created by certain people? [because he's met a kid like that, you know]

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[kingofwaste]

Oh, it's... tough to explain. See, before I got here, I was in Wasteland. Wasteland ain't like Earth, where my cartoons were created and shown to people. Wasteland's a world for cartoon characters who've been... [Nnnh, he can't bring himself to say "forgotten".] ... Who've retired. I was the first one to be sent there, along with my kids. [And his girlfriend who he doesn't like to talk about ever since the accident.]

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[one_green_eye]

[there's a touch of lonely, to that, he thinks] It sounds unpleasant, by the name.

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[kingofwaste]

It didn't used to be an actual Wasteland. It used to be colorful and filled with happy faces. Then the Thinner Disaster wiped out half the population and unleashed a monster. ... Wasteland lost its brightness that day.

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[one_green_eye]

... it's "brightness"? Do you mean people's spirits-- or something more literal? [because if you're the product of art and imagination, then--]

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[kingofwaste]

... Both, actually. Everything's a lot less colorful and vivid now. Lotsa people are scared of the Shadow Blot and the Mad Doctor, too.

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[one_green_eye]

"Shadow Blot" ....? [that sounds pretty ominous] Is the Mad Doctor a character, too?

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[kingofwaste]

Yeah. He used to be an okay guy, but when the Shadow Blot appeared he stabbed us all in the back and joined forces with him instead. That no good cheat.