[ OPEN ] Friends and relations send salutations
Characters: highest_caliber and you!
Date: The evening of 12/24 to the morning of 12/25 (or however long people are staying; there will be leftovers for days)
Summary: Not wishing to spend the holidays moping, Subaru invited EVERYONE to stay at the inn/onsen for company, warmth, and food!
Warnings: None (and if this changes, please PM me, and I may ask threads go ( Read more... )
Date: The evening of 12/24 to the morning of 12/25 (or however long people are staying; there will be leftovers for days)
Summary: Not wishing to spend the holidays moping, Subaru invited EVERYONE to stay at the inn/onsen for company, warmth, and food!
Warnings: None (and if this changes, please PM me, and I may ask threads go ( Read more... )
When Fionna didn't back her away or cringe at being touched Marcy gave a small sign of relief. She really isn't the best at emotional stuff, but at the moment she had no other option but to try. "Let me tell you, Finn isn't perfect and doesn't have a heart made out of stone. He would fall for her and fall for the trap all the lumping same." Marceline pulled back, standing up straight for once.
"Yeah, PB and PG are pretty not the same. I probs shouldn't say too much about him given that, you know, I've never met the dude. How things would have turned out, neither of us'll know. We won't know until we get you back home." There was that sinking feeling again. If Fionna went home would she ever see her again?
All Marceline could do at Fionna's admittion was blink. Not that she felt that the girl was out of her brain, not at all. It was the realization of just what Fionna's heart may have been screaming since that day. "It feels bad enough when you fall for someone and they so aren't that person when you get to know them." Her head was swimming a little, memories and feelings working to make her feel pretty junked up.
"If the Ice Queen weren't mad evil..would it be okay for you to like it? Even if she isn't a dude?" There was that question.
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It was teasing, something that she hadn't been able to really do for a little while because she honestly didn't have a friend to do it with. That, and well, it was all in fun and making Marceline all mad and junk, right?
She nodded. "Finn sounds like a righteous hero, just like me. If he got fooled, it was probably because he liked Bubblegum just as much as I liked Gumball. But do you think that the Ice King would have actually done what Ice Queen did?"
Fionna nodded. "Nah man, they don't seem too much alike, though there's a few things that are a little similar. But yeah, it was pretty bad man. I was hurting kinda bad, so I punched Ice Queen extra hard for it."
She thought about this. "If she weren't evil, and she did that stuff? Like, actually knew me enough to get me things and sing to me and lie with me in a field of flowers? It wouldn't matter she wasn't a dude."
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Thankfully the fight earlier had taken all of the fight out of the Vampire Queen. She was all laughs and smiles, for now. "You've got it! When you like someone that much you can't really help it." She was quiet again for a moment, her brows furrowing obviously. "The Ice King has done some pretty weird stuff to Finn lately, really weird. So it is totes possible, you know?"
Clapping Fionna on one of her shoulders Marceline just grinned, "Probably for the best, the world probably couldn't handle the two of them!" As for the Queen, "She deserved what you gave to her, if not more for that. That was really jacked up for her, totally."
That was different, really different. Marceline hadn't been expecting that answer from Fionna at all. The Ice Queen being a lady mattered less than the fact that she was out of her mind insane? "It must suck hard, not knowing if she was just yanking you or if..." She couldn't say it.
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She nodded. "Liking takes a lot of energy dude. It's like...when you're fighting, you have to win, right? You could get totally killed if you're not paying attention, and you get all beat up and stuff, but you're used to it. When you get all involved and stuff, liking someone, it hurts in your mind and heart and junk. It just feels wrong."
Fionna nodded. "I hated her man. It was so messed up. Why do that to someone who was just your enemy? That's totally going too far."
She was quiet here. "No man. She was just messing with me, to win. It wasn't fair. Doing that stuff was just...mean."
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"Well," again with the humming, "-you totally have a point. Liking someone mucks in your judgement and ends up kind of taking over your life." Boy did she know that much to be true! "If we're going to say that liking someone is like fighting," How to phrase thing? "Then you have to pick and choose your battles like wisely and junk." Weird, she wasn't just schooling Fionna, she was schooling herself in a way. These weren't things she ever put much thought or energy into these days.
"Love is hella messed up for sure. It can make you feel really awesome or really bad." She just kept talking, it was easier to just say it than to not say it. "We can't really control how we feel or who we feel it for. All we've got is how we act when our heads and hearts are messed up."
Yeah, it was time to zip her lip. Marceline was knee deep in stuff she didn't get. Which given her age and how much she's lived not getting something really blew. "Keep your friends close and your enemies totally closer?" That was the only thing that came to mind.
Marcy sighed, "I wish I knew what to say, Fi. The situation is broken, The Ice Queen is broken..and it sounds like your heart is too."
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Fionna sighed. "I didn't know that junk man. Cake tries to protect me and stuff, but even she was fooled by the Ice Queen with that. I didn't know it was going to happen, but I was able to deal with it when it came, you know? I had to realize that I had to be an adventurer, and not go and be all sad and stuff."
She shrugged. Was it a human thing, to have to deal with that stuff? To have to keep all that junk in perspective?
"I know, I understand. It's why its ok to not be with anyone, you know? I can just be me, with friends, doing my own biz."
Fionna nodded. "Dude, I'm not happy, but I'm fine. YOU'RE the one that's got the actual junk going
on!"
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"Being sad happens when you're hurt, Fi." She said through a sigh, not wanting to be too heavy handed. "Cake is awesome for trying to protect you and all, but we can't all be right. Even great heroes like Billy, "Or would it be Billy Jean where she is from? "-get sad or have their doubts. Just like Billy you dealt with it, but doesn't mean you're done with it."
Fionna would be lucky and unlucky if it were just a human thing, her usually being the only human. All things with feelings and aspirations have these troubles.
"Not saying that it's messed up to be alone. Sometimes it works out better, other times not so much." The pause she sat in had a very If you get what I mean vibe to it.
"Fi, being fine is just existing. Just existing can kind of suck, take it from someone that has for way too lumping long! Being happy is where it is at and where you should be headed!" With a tilt of her head she brushed at her own hair, shrugging. "We all have junk going on, Fi!" This was like Bonni worrying about the sun in the middle of the night..
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Fionna made a face. "Are you talking about Billie? We met a little while ago. She was avoiding being a hero because there were always enemies that keep coming. I get that, sorta, but people always need rescuing. That doesn't mean I need to go liking people. I am an adventurer. I have to do that stuff first."
She thought hard a moment. "It's ok for me to be an adventurer first, Marcie. It's what I do best. If I start to like someone later, that's cool, but I'm not gonna put that over doing the right stuff. And with you guys? I think I can be happy."
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Billy, Billie? That name really didn't sound too different did it? Not like Prince Gumball, Marshal Lee and all that jazz! Yeah, they were on the same page so Marcy just nodded. "It does seem like something is always going wrong or someone needs to be saved, doesn't it?" Man, being the hero must be tiring after a while. Well, that would explain Billy and Billie just throwing up their arms and saying Pbfft to the whole thing.
"I'm not saying that you have to like anyone, flip that!Do whatevs it is that makes you happy and stuff!" She scratched at the back of her head, being even more careful about what she was going to say next. "I'm not the one to talk to about liking people, I tried it once and swore it off." She waved a hand in the air, like she was erasing what she said. "If that is what makes you happy, then it is what it is!" She wasn't going to argue anymore points, Fionna was doing what was right for her.
"Bonni and I are behind you, whatevs happens!"
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"Yeah, all the time," Fionna said, "But it never gets me down! I mean yeah, Ooo will never stop being in trouble, and evil will never stop sleeping, but that doesn't mean that I have to let it get bad! I'll be a hero forever, until I know I don't have to be one anymore!"
That didn't make a lot of sense. If Marceline had sworn off liking people, she wouldn't be with Bubblegum, right? But as long as she was happy, that was what counted. Fionna heard that loud and clear.
"Good, and I'm behind you guys too, ok?"
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Really, Marceline shouldn't be surprised by Fionna's dedication, Finn was the same. "I'd be worried if you said you were giving up being a hero forever and ever!" She leaned close, showing her fangs. "Could always give you a nip and make it forever!" She was only kidding, there was no way Fionna would be cool with that!
As always, the devil (or Marceline's dad) was in the details. Marceline avoided relationships, even outwardly despised them at a point; however, she did seem to have something for Bubblegum. Yeah, twisty.
"Now that is a promise that we don't need any royal promise what-cha-ma-call-its to make!"
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Even weirder was that Sette was still sorta cool to Fionna. "NO way man! Being a hero is in my blood, forevas! And you can keep your fangs to yourself, I'm totes good as regular Fionna!"
She nodded. "Anyway, come with me into the water. It feels real nice and junk!"
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More than likely the whole nemesis thing was a gag, or at least Marcy hoped it was! "You are totes married to your job, Fionna!" She flicked her tongue out, hissing playfully. "But you look so delicious!" All jokes, nothing but!
The serious stuff over it was time for some serious bathing! "Lead the way, leader! I've been jonesing since you gave me the deets!"
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She grinned. "I know I'm delicious baby, but you can't go snacking on me, or Princess Bubblegum finds out and...actually, what does Princess Bubblegum do when she gets mad? I feel like she might do some serious stuff."
Obviously Fionna was joking about the former, but quite curious about the latter part of the conversation.
"Right, so you go change, then you, like, shower first before you get into the Onsen, so, you know, you're not all dirty and junk when you go in to relax."
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How was it that Fionna was so good at blind siding Marceline?! The vampire sunk into a fierce blush, so embarrassed that her hair seemed to be shivering at it's ends. Why did it feel as if Fionna thought that she and Bonni were like..and item? She best she could do was laugh it off, well up to a point at least. "You don't want to know," She actually shivered, "--her bad side isn't a place you want to be! She's done some seriously lumped up things to both the Duke of Nuts and the Ice King."
While Marcy didn't mind talking about it, she did look a touch paler than usual at the recollection. "I'd have to tell you about her son," Bonni would hurt her badly if she knew that she had referred to Lemongrabb as such, "-the Earl of Lemongrabb. He's like Bonni, if she were mad all the time."
Oh yeah, change! She had to do that first right? She looked around, able to remember the hallway from the first time she was here. "Let me go powder my nose," She batted her lashes at Fionna playfully, "-and junk!" No, she really can't keep up being girly for too long at all! Off she went to the washroom, air guitaring a few notes.
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Yes, Fionna was good at reading a lot into what Marceline and Bubblegum were trying to tiptoe around, mostly because Fionna was blunt and didn't believe in beating around the bush. Noticing the blush though, Fionna decided also not to press things between them. "I believe that, man, She acts like she'd be all crazy and junk if you really messed with her. But that's a good thing in a queen, right?"
At that, Fionna twitched. "Lemongrab! Ugh, that person's in your Ooo too? Sick!"
She snickered. "Whatever dude! I'll meet you in the Onsen!"
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