Lupus A4, Monday Evening

[raspberryturk]

It had been A Day. A week. A whole weekend and Reno, who was still both puny and plastic, was in need of a drink.

He wasn't in a bad enough way that he was going to go to the bar. There were certain things that action figures shouldn't do in public. Sure, he could go to The Perk to give computer lessons and he could scar his friends for life, but

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[sarcasm_guy]

"I know you're over there," Sokka replied absent-mindedly, as he fed Momo Jr. in his alcove across the aisle. "That's your bunk."

[raspberryturk]

"I'm not talkin' to you," Reno replied, just a little more than irate at the moment. "I'm talkin' to-"

He bit his wee plastic tongue.

"Nevermind, Boom. You wouldn't believe me if I told you."

He was trying to spare himself a little humiliation, here.

[sarcasm_guy]

"You're talking to...?"

Sokka crept over, a grin on his face. If Rikku'd been changed by Fandom into something thoroughly embarrassing, he HAD to see. When he peered around the edge of the curtain, the tableaux was... not quite what he had expected.

It was better.

"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

[raspberryturk]

Reno was making a face. It was an angry face. A wee, plastic angry face that was half-soaked with scotch, now, which only slightly made this more tolerable.

"I hate you. I hate you, and I hate this stupid island, and I hate plastic, and I hate scotch, and I hate-" Wait. "No. I don't hate scotch. But I freakin' hate you right now, Boom."

His body demonstrated how much it didn't hate scotch by giving the bottle a warm, fuzzy hug.

[withoutverona]

Romeo stepped through Lupus' unlicked door and looked around the living room. No sign of a tall drunken redhead, or of a best friend. "Reno? Are you about?" he called.

[raspberryturk]

"Yes!" Pause. "No!" Pause. "Maybe!"

Reno watched in horror as his body peered around the curtain of his alcove to wave hello.

"Get back here, dumbass," he hissed. Naturally, it ignored him.

[withoutverona]

Romeo heard Reno's voice, but saw ... no Reno.

Though there was a headless doll in a suit waving at him. He stepped closer to get a better look, crouching in front of it, momentarily distracted. "Why did you rip the head off this doll?"

[raspberryturk]

Reno was now blowing frustrated little bubbles into the scotch on the floor.

"I didn't," he mumbled. "The rest of me's in the alcove. On the floor."

The body gestured with one arm toward the mess on the floor. The scotch! The scotch had been spilled! It was a disaster!

A Day. It was SUCH a Day.

[isourking]

Ron was walking to his alcove when he spotted what appeared to be a small figure that looked just like...

No. Oh no way.

And that would be Ron. On the floor. Laughing his fool head off.

[raspberryturk]

"Die in a fire," Reno told Ron. Pleasantly. Reno's body decided that now would be an excellent time to attempt to kick Ron in the hip. Because, for the first time in three days, Reno's foot could reach someone's hip.

[isourking]

Ron... didn't even feel it he sat up and leaned on his bunk across from Reno's alcove.

"Look at you! You're tiny!"

[raspberryturk]

"Still taller'n you were," Reno snapped. Because clearly, size mattered so very much.

Even when his body was attempting to feel its way back toward the scotch.

"And plastic. I'm plastic." He was going to pretend that this was perfectly okay. He was failing.

[the_merriest]

Rikku wandered into Reno's bunk ... and stared.

"You're still a doll-thing?"

She kinda thought that was a pony-induced hallucination.

[raspberryturk]

Reno's head grumped.

Reno's body waved hello merrily!

Reno's head scowled some more.

Reno's body offered her what was left of the scotch.

"Yes," Reno's head said, dryly. "I'm still an action figure, yo."

[the_merriest]

He was still a doll-thing, with plastic hair and now his body had separated itself from his head. There were two very important questions to be asked. The first was, of course:

"If your mouth drinks, does your body get drunk?"

[raspberryturk]

"I wouldn't know," he replied. "My body's got the booze."

...

"But I'm actually kinda curious now, yo."