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M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

Spring is in the air, or at least it is here. Regardless of where you may have been before, you'll hear the the sound of jaunty music playing ahead of you as you step into the sun.

Welcome...to the happiest place on Earth.

Everywhere around you seems to brighten and reach out to you, the sight of large, colorful structures and flashing lights, the sound of playful music and people laughing, the scent of delicious sweet and savory treats and the sudden weight in your pocket of a cell phone. Opening it, you'll find a special message:

To all who come to this happy place: welcome. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future.

Be sure to @ mmc to connect with others as you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.

You will find what appears to be a forum available to you filled with names you may or may not recognize. Try putting a message out there and seeing who responds!

For those of you who are more hands on, the world is your oyster and the park is your playground. The lines to wait for the rides are fairly short, and all around you there's plenty of shops and kiosks for food, drinks, and souvenears. Didn't bring any money? That's alright. It seems that everything is free for today and today only! (And yes, that includes the alcohol at various establishments.)

Unlike the Christmas party some of you may have attended last winter, it seems there isn't any sort of pranking or tomfoolery happening in the park today. There are several lands to explore, along with several other parks and attractions attached. You may not have to kiss someone in order to leave...

...but it does seem as though the gates are locked for the next several hours. On occasion, you may feel a pair of ghostly hands push you forward toward that ride you're hesitating to board or tempting you with a sugary-sweet churro. You may find that taking a loop on It's a Small World will leave the song stuck in your head for several hours while riding something like Space Mountain will leave you feeling more bold than usual. Perhaps a little bit of faith, trust and pixie dust will set you free? Oh well. All you can do now is relax, have fun, and wait for the fireworks spectacular to signal the end of the evening.

[ooc: it's once again mgcu mingle time, but there's a twist! this mingle is open to characters from the following:

reapsody,

grimmoired,

plasmatio,

subdivided,

thotordie,

bluesclues,

tropicalgetaway,

notagain,

redactable,

snowend,

7rings,

seasonality,

chasma,

uturns, and

chroma!

however. you may also bring special guests in the form of characters you considered playing in previous games or characters you are anticipating playing in the future. have fun mingling with strangers!]

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Well...

[she smiles]

Things are usually described as "weird" when they differ from what is normal, aren't they? ...but for you, it sounds as though "weird" is "normal".

[She is really out here calling him out, isn't she? Goddamn.]

I regret asking.

[He regrets being seen. He doesn't even bother beckoning her; he knows she will follow when he promptly turns to start walking again.

It is hilariously leisure and slow, so she can start and keep up. He's stupid.]

[yukina just smiles and follows after him!

wow, she doesn't even have to hurry after him. she can just walk at a normal pace. he really is much nicer than he likes to act.

after a little while, she's distracted by a store selling disney ears.]

Oh, how cute!

[No, definitely not. Nice.

He glances at her, then follows her line of sight to the store with the ears. God… He again shifts his eyes back at her.]

I assume you want to look at them. Go ahead.

[He makes it sound like he will be staying outside, but he will actually follow her.]

[in she goes!

hmm. maybe she can bring some of these back for the others. does hiei already have his pair of ears or can i make yukina pick some out for them? i don't remember and i'm too lazy to parent up and find out.]

What do you think? Do you think these might make good souvenirs?

[she doesn't even look back to see if he followed her in she's just assuming he did.]

[The inside looks as horrific as the outside, he finds. My prompt had him in the ears, but I have been making Yukina the culprit behind them in literally every other thread, so.

Have at it.

Also, yeah, she is right. He has wandered in right behind her to stop and survey the ears.]

I don’t understand the purpose of these accessories, but I suppose they could be a… souvenir. Do you really want one from here…?

They're a little... whimsical, aren't they?

[yukina picks up his (parents up finally) hot topic ears and puts them on his head, then steps back to examine how they look.

she looks delighted.]

[I cannot continue to emphasize exactly how absolutely no one else could ever get away with something like this without him bitching or worse. Not a single person outside of maybe Kurama, maybe to a lesser extend Yusuke.

Only his eyes lift, very slowly, to look up toward the top of his head. He can't see them, but that isn't exactly the point.]

I don't recall saying I would join this endeavor.

[she just makes the face in this icon at him]

[..............

He

looks as far away with his eyes as possible. A single second was Enough.]

...Fine.

[success.

yukina beams at him and claps her hands together excitedly.]

Thank you, Hiei-san!

[He actually visibly squints a little against the bright and cheerful beaming, but it kind of resembles a very faint grimace, so no one will know.]

I still don’t understand the purpose of assimilating oneself as a fashion statement into what seems to be the mastermind behind this whole place.

[He thinks the rat is an alpha rat based on all of the symbolism.]

To blend in, perhaps? If they think we are "locals," perhaps we will be spared anything that was intended to happen to "visitors".

[which

does make it clear that something happened to visitors at the motel but it's fine.]

[He just

looks at her very intensely.]

What makes you think something will happen to visitors?

[It isn't that he thinks something won't. If anything, something should happen to visitors for it to be normal. He just wants to know why she has assumed this.]

[oh, oops.

yukina is not a master of deception. it's fine.]

...well, people don't just appear in strange places for no reason, do they?

[It's fine. Hiei may be a sneaky lil binch, but he truly prefers throwing himself all in and going at it without reserves, so he is only slightly a master of deception. He is at the start! Maybe.]

More than likely not, no. And if we're discussing being spared, then clearly this reason is going to be violent. Correct?

I would hope not, but...

[hmm. she is going to look at a pair of blinged-out ears and not at him.]

...even back home, strange situations tend to be violent. Isn't that so? ...better to be prepared for the possibility here...

[He sees her purposefully not seeing him. Yukina. But he doesn't call it out because that's fine. Not the suspicious thing, THAT isn't fine.]

It sounds like you weren't just in a motel doing nothing for five weeks before you left.

[He says this pointedly.]

...

[she looks down at her hands]

Was it that obvious?

[she should practice being sneaky...]

[He should feel bad. He does a tiny bit because it's her.]

To me, yes.

[He will give her a little credit. Maybe someone like Kuwabara or something wouldn't ever catch on to the things she wasn't saying.]

Were you hurt?

[yukina shakes her head.

...

it's not entirely true. she did die, in the end - all but three of them did. but she wasn't hurt in the same way as the people who were murdered. not in the same way as ryou, who she killed - not in the same way as the other murders she knew would happen, and wasn't able to prevent.

at least her stint with the chainsaw had been after her victim died. it doesn't really clean any of the blood from her hands, but at least he hadn't had to suffer that.

(she's not thinking of the emotional hurt, either.)]

No. Not really.

[Hmm. He watches her for a long moment. He thinks this is a lie by omission. It has the same energy as her saying "I'm fine" if anyone asked her if she was okay because they were worried she wasn't. Her way of making them not worry.

Which means she probably got hurt, he thinks, though maybe not physically.

He's too quiet when he moves a bit away--too fast really--while she's not looking at him, and he's quiet when he moves back again. Something gets notched on top of her head.

The pair of snowflake ears.]

[ ! ]

Eh?

[she

cannot see the ears on top of her head. she reaches up with her hand and feels them.]

...huh?

[Don't perceive him.]

Well, now you have also been inducted into the clan of the rat. Congratulations.

[HE IS SO DRY ALL THE TIME.

Anyway, cute ice ears for an ice princess.]

[

he's so dry, but she can't help but giggle]

Thank you, Hiei-san.

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