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[thisisherson]

[It's been a really long time since Kurt was willingly shirtless in public - not since he discovered how fashionable cover-ups are pool-side, at the very least. And with all of the slushie facials he's received, it hasn't been quite as long since he was in public with completely ruined hair, but that doesn't mean he's happy about the way his hair

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[watchful_knight]

Maybe it is the mansion's memory?

[thisisherson]

It could be, I guess. You know, if the mansion had once been submerged underwater and filled with merpeople.

[watchful_knight]

Whole cities can be flooded when rivers change their bed or the sea reclaims its land.

[thisisherson]

...Hm. True.

Still, I'm skeptical of the whole mermaid aspect of it, but since when has there been a real logical reason for anything that happens here?

[so_please_die]

This event isn't too bad, Hummel-san.

[thisisherson]

Maybe not for you, but my hair is going to be in a state of ruin for days.

[so_please_die]

It's better than having it stuck that way afterward, isn't it?

[thisisherson]

In a way, but salt water is terrible for hair. I'm going to need to do all kinds of damage control post-event.

[action]

[mydadsadentist]

[Here's poor little Floundercedes. Trying to keep up with Kurt and his superawesomefastspeedy merman swimming while she's having trouble figuring out how flounders swim.]

Boy, I know you're not complaining when I look like the damn fish from The Little Mermaid. The yellow one. My hair is blue.

[The "Why do I even have hair, I'm a fish" is implied.]

[action]

[thisisherson]

[WOAH, WHAT. He stops and turns around.]

...Mercedes?

[She's. She's Flounder. What. ...Is he drunk and seeing Disney characters again?]

This is insane. This entire event is insane.

[He throws his arms up in the air in frustration, but that seriously doesn't last long because OMG HE HAS NO SHIRT. Back to crossing his arms.]

...I have to say though, you rock blue hair surprisingly well. I wouldn't recommend it all the time, but now? It's definitely working for you.

[action]

[mydadsadentist]

Well, of course I rock it. I could wear a neon orange tutu with sequins and rock it. But I think the more important point is why the hell am I a fish? This isn't normal, Kurt.

[action]

[thisisherson]

...Let's not go that far. [He loves you, but no one could rock that. No one.]

But I...I don't know why you're a fish, or why we're underwater, or why this place is insistent on reenacting The Little Mermaid.

Remember how everyone was saying "Oh, the events do weird things" and "You know, there's probably something off about this carnival"? That's because things like this happen.

ACTION >:D

[itsahotone]

[Remember how Santana ever so kindly set Kurt free with no nagging or anything? Yeah, that's because she's out to track him down. It takes longer than she hoped, and she almost gave up a couple times because boring, but then ~A CLUE~ would pop up and motivate her to keep going.

And now it's paid off. Because OH LOOK, there he is, looking shifty and merman-y. And there she is, making a sudden appearance right in front of him.]

Hi!

ACTION D8!!

[thisisherson]

[AHHHHHHHHHHHH!

He DEFINITELY jumps. THERE'S NO WHERE TO HIDE. OH GOD. He'll just cross his arms tighter and try not to be bothered by his hair. (It's not working).]

...........Where the hell did you just come from?

ACTION

[itsahotone]

Around.

[She circles him like a lion with its prey.] Awww, you're a mermaid!

ACTION

[thisisherson]

[DON'T YOU AWWW HIM. He tries to turn so she never winds up out of eyesight, but this is difficult when he refuses to use his arms. They're busy being crossed in front of him.]

Technically a merman, but...yes.

[This is super awkward and he does not look nearly as happy as she does.]

[dashboardlite]

[Dean looks fucking awesome. For God's sake, he's half tiger-shark, and everyone knows how creepily violent those things are if you tune into Shark Week on the Discovery Channel every so often. At the very least, he feels safe enough - and comfortable enough, despite the shirtlessness - swimming around the halls, because if he runs into anything dangerous he can either bolt the Hell away or confront it like Aquaman.

He looked up a book on tiger sharks with Jellyfish-Philip in the library, and learned that his skin has these things called dentils, that can cut other animals. Not him, since the pads of his fingers are surprisingly resilient now, but he scraped a wall and pulled off some wood shards earlier today. Dean's trying to be more careful, but he's enjoying the speed and turning radius a little too much, stalking the hallways like the predator he is.

Racing his own time, he almost runs into-]

Whoa, shit.

[He catches himself by grabbing onto a wall sconce, stopping in front of Kurt.]

...Uh. Hey.

[thisisherson]

[Hold on, give Kurt a second to register the fact that he lived through that.

...

...Okay, he's good. But he's still wide-eyed and shocked that he was nearly run over (swam over?)]

Um...hey.

[He was going to say something more substantial before he noticed that Dean looks very nice without a shirt. What was it?

Oh. Right.]

You should really watch where you're going, or you'll wind up taking out perfectly innocent people. [Pause.] ...Former people. Whatever.

[dashboardlite]

Aw, you jealous that I'm a shark and you're a- [He squints at Kurt, trying to determine what he is.] ...tuna?

[Dean chuckles, folding his arms across his chest.] Sorry, dude. Just runnin' the rounds. [He offers a feral grin, still ridiculously pleased that he's a ferocious sea-creature, rather than like...a crab.]

...are you cold, or something?

[thisisherson]

[Kurt looks down and realizes he has absolutely no idea.]

...I don't know? But no, I'm as far from jealous as I could be. I can't say I would describe myself as very shark-like anyway.

[...Man, it's really hard to act superior when you're half a fish.]

And I'm not cold. [He adds it really quickly though, as if just spitting it out there will make the subject change itself.]