♥THREE♥ [VOICE]

[grenading]

[ there's a lot of flailing noises, followed by a shrill yell ] W-woah!!

H-hey, we're getting changed back already?? But this is awesome! I was just getting the hang of this!

Damn! Why does all the fun stuff have to end so quickly??

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[justice_by_coma]

Well..Donut-san wouldn't be stuck looking like a giant goldfish.

[grenading]

Aw, I'm sure your tail looks sweet! Don't put yourself down!

[justice_by_coma]

[SWEET? So unmanly... He would rather have had something cool like a shark tail, or Anathema's eel tail. Instead, he looks like a big speckled yellow goldfish. He feels like he looks like a GIRL.]

Even if it makes me slow, and inefficient as well as tired, I want my legs back! Or I'd at least want not to be brightly colored [Translation: What did YOU turn into?]

[grenading]

Well, we'll be getting our legs back soon enough. [ SIIIIGH. why does everyone have to be party poopers? ]

But bright colors are the best! Mine's all multicolored and shiny! [ ever see those rainbowfish books? yeah like that ]

[justice_by_coma]

[Gau is the definition of party pooping. It just comes with the territory as the one paper-writer and organizer for a disorganized pinkhaired samurai.]

Well...maybe yours looks better. Mine looks bad with my vest. It just feels like l stand out too much like this. And it's not really fair to the merpeople if they have to leave their homes and live like humans.
And I don't think we can get home on the caravan if we can't breathe or leave the water.

[grenading]

You could always accessorize! Take attention away from the garishness and all that! You could make it work!

--Oh... that's true, though. But, I think some of them want to live on the surface! I mean, that's what it was like in The Little Mermaid, right?

[justice_by_coma]

[Takes that too seriously] With all respect, Donut-san, the Little Mermaid is a movie! These are real people, who don't deserve to suffer and drown, or start over with new lives on the surface! If there's a way to help them, we should look for it without hesitation!

You sound like Raikou-san. All my spare clothing is on the caravan. I looked out of place from the start, going in in my clothes...
[because he's self-conscious about skinny nerd-dom]
It's not that it's garish, so much. It just feels...too different. [he can't think of a better way to explain it.]

[grenading]

...But... mermaids and stuff weren't real to us before we got here... What's the big deal in comparing them to a movie?? Besides, a lot of them ate that weed stuff that we had before we went underwater! Not that I condone partaking in drugs.

Well, I like trying different things! Keep an open mind, and all that!

[justice_by_coma]

B-Because just the fact something's not real to us doesn't mean they're not real people here! [It takes being dropped into a secret ninja society to actually learn something that dubiously wise when you're Gau.]

What? Drugs?! That's totally unsavory!

[a pause, suspicious, and trying to think] What...kinds of different things? [Wary voice...] Those horrible drugs you were talking about earlier...?

[does not computer that gillyweed is your "drug" in this conversation, Donut.]

[grenading]

Yeah, so the movie could be real here, too! [ makes sense to him ]

You know, stuff I've never-- [ oh he catches that bit about drugs ] What?! No! I don't do drugs!!

[justice_by_coma]

H-Huh? [You're thinking on totally different pages. Gau's too surprised to even pretend to sound pissed to cover up how easily flustered he is.],/small>

Drugs are a filthy habit, detrimental to the body, and to the spirit! Donut-san is clearly sensible to avoid them!