Shopping Trip (Open)

[becauseimboring]

Characters: Clare Edwards, open.
Time: Afternoon.
Location: Out and about, anystreet Chicago
Content: Clare is buying a few supplies for magical defense.
Format: Prose
Warnings: Clare's got a knife!

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[becauseimboring]

There are things you will never believe you have to ask of someone. And, so far, Clare thought she had asked all of them during her time here. She thought weirder wouldn't happen, and, again, she was wrong.

"Your friends wouldn't happen to be a rather tall anthropomorphic dog with an odd laugh and a much shorter anthropomorphic duck with a weird speech pattern?" She tried not to sound quite as disbelieving or rude with the question, but it was very hard given the subject. What is wrong with this town!?

[key_ofthe_sky]

Sora had gone for another bite of his burger when Clare asked her next question, and to be frank, Sora looked a little silly sitting there with his mouth agape holding his sandwich about two inches away from his mouth as he tried to process the question. That didn't make any sense, how did Clare know who Donald and Goofy were, and what they looked like.

"I... I... How?" Give him a minute here, he'll remember how to talk soon enough.

[underagemage]

Negi lowered his own sandwich, realizing that Sora really was talking about THE Disney icons here. He was about as flabbergasted as Sora but thankfully he wasn't staring with his mouth open. Instead his face brightened and he smiled, "Wow! You know THE Goofy and Donald?! That's amazing Sora you really have been everywhere!" Was Negi going to question HOW it was possible, no, not after he had come to this world where people could come from any reality. Well, okay, he'd probably ask more questions once he got over his starry eyed expression.

[becauseimboring]

Right, that was it, she was officially insane. Only explanation... she decided to give herself the benefit of the doubt, however... for now. Yes, Sora hadn't said he knew them, but his stunned silence told her two things. Where he was from there was no Disney media, it was a castle or something. And two he knew two fictional cartoon characters.

How did a world evolve like that? Was this why Sora dressed like symmetry didn't exist? Did this only go as far as the more basic Disney cartoons or did it extend into the various movies? How is Negi so calm about this!?

Okay at least the last one she could figure out an answer for. The rest just hung in her mind, she didn't ask them as she didn't know where to start, and instead stared at Sora. Thankfully she didn't have food in her hand when she asked, as the shock of Sora's 'answer' would have caused her to drop it.

Why couldn't things be simple.

[key_ofthe_sky]

Sora shook his head, hoping he could get his brain to function properly again. Things seemed to have taken a very strange turn, stranger, even, than what Sora was used too. Hopefully the conversation wouldn't take a turn to what every world Sora'd been to was like, Clare probably wouldn't handle it too well.

Right, we had a conversation going here.

"But how do you know about them?"

[underagemage]

Negi chuckled, this probably wasn't going to be easy for Sora to hear. Still, it's not like they were hiding it and besides the cat was out of the bag now. "Well, where Clare and I come from Donald and Goofy are characters created by a man named Walt Disney who starred in several cartoons along with Mickey Mouse. They're...uhm...very recognizable icons," Negi said, hoping he wasn't doing too much to shatter Sora's view of the world.

[becauseimboring]

"They are some of the most iconic animated characters in history," Clare's 'smart one' side calmed her down considerably, letting her try to keep eating. "Mickey Mouse was the icon for Disney Animation for a long time, Goofy and Donald followed shortly after. That was..." Clare was trying to remember if she'd ever read when Mickey Mouse was created. She was guessing, she knew the cartoon was older than her parents, so she rounded up, "at least fifty years ago."

She wasn't thinking how this might be hard for Sora to hear. Probably in part due to how everything she's heard here has been hard for her to hear, and knowing cartoon characters personally was weird, not the other way around.