[mostly closed] all the right friends in all the right places

[darkinferno]

WHO: Dante + lots of people!
WHERE: All over the city
WHEN: Throughout July
WHAT: Bingo catch-all finally ahahaha
WARNINGS: N... one I don't think; will edit if necessary!



[ dante's bingo card ]

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prompto ⮚ attempt to juggle watermelons

[darkinferno]

[Juggling watermelons. This has to be the dumbest thing on his bingo card, and yet here he is at Freshens, checking out all of the watermelons they have for sale. Sure, he's been using plenty of loopholes to fill out his card where he can, but they have little watermelons, right? That's why he's dragged Prompto into this venture with him while the two of them are hanging out...

Speaking of Prompto...]

Dude, why are you looking at the full-sized ones? There's no way anybody could juggle those!

[mercurio]

[prompto just keeps a blase face on as he picks up two large watermelons and props them over his chest, turning around to look at dante.]

No one's juggling them, but take a picture, quick!

[darkinferno]

[Hand? Meet face. Become best friends. Oh my god, Prompto.]

What are you, thirteen?

[AND YET HE'LL DO IT???? Shaking his head the whole time, but. He'll do it and send them to Prompto later.]

[mercurio]

[he stands there, waiting for the telling click of the phone's camera snapshot]

These are real heavy. Let's not juggle them!

[once that's taken care of, he tries to roll them back onto the basket where he found them on]

[except one falls off and breaks--not in an explosion, but it definitely cracks]

...oops.

[darkinferno]

[For a moment, nothing further happens. But then--]

Three choices: put it back in the pile and hope nobody notices, go find an employee and tell them what happened, or walk away and pretend you weren't responsible.

Your choice.

[mercurio]

One question: do we need to juggle watermelons?

[darkinferno]

The square says to attempt it. I don't think that counts as an attempt, though. They probably mean attempt doing it, not "attempt buying the watermelons then fail because someone wanted to pretend he had melons of his own."

[mercurio]

[prompto pouts; don't put him on blast, dude]

[so, he grabs the cracked watermelon and tosses it over to dante, without warning]

[darkinferno]

[Isn't that what he's for?

And don't just throw a watermelon at him with no warning! For a split-second Prompto might be able to see Dante's eyes widen in shock, but almost instinctively, already in motion with an overhead swing, Soul Eater is being summoned to his hand, cleaving the melon in two. The two halves drop to the floor on either side of the boys, where they predictably break apart, splattering mess and watermelon juice everywhere.

Blade dismissed just as quickly as it was summoned, Dante looks at Prompto.]

...yeah, maybe we should get out of here.

[mercurio]

Why the hell did you react like that?!

[don't worry, he's already walking quickly away from the fruits area]

[darkinferno]

How was I supposed to react?! You don't just throw things at people like that!

[He's just going to. Grab one of the smaller containers with pre-sliced watermelon cubes in it and follow after Prompto quickly. The wort that would probably happen is the two of them having to pay for it, but... better to avoid that possibility if possible!]

[mercurio]

[prompto is staring at him like ?!!!! moving his hands about in a shrug-like, what the hell?? way]

What do you mean? People don't just summon a sword out of nowhere to cut the thing being thrown at them?!

*worst i can't type at 2am

[darkinferno]

[Hang on. Wait. WAIT. Dante's staring at Prompto, a look of disbelief on his face.]

Hang on, you knew I could do that! I told you I'd remembered how to fight...!

[mercurio]

Yes! I know!

But it doesn't make it normal as a reaction?

[here they are... in the ice cream section. far from the fruits and vegetables]

...I don't think anyone saw us.

[darkinferno]

It does when you've got memories of things jumping at your head to attack!

[But Prompto's right. They seem to have made a clean escape, for now.

Above their heads a voice comes over the store intercom. "Cleanup in produce section, cleanup in produce. Thank you." Dante gives Prompto a knowing look.]

Anyways, you want anything else while we're here? I should grab some wipes to clean up the mess this is gonna make.

[With a nod to the watermelon. The cubes will be easier to attempt to juggle than the whole melons would be, but that's going to leave a lot of sticky fruit juice on his hands, ugh.]

[mercurio]

Nah, it's fine. Just toss 'em at me.

[he'll regret later]

[darkinferno]

[Prompto, what? Dante blinks at him, but... yeah, give him a sec, he's going to just lead them into the cleaning aisle to grab a travel pack of Wet Wipes.]

What, you're going to eat them once I'm done?

[And heading to the checkout!]

[mercurio]

Didn't you wanna juggle them together?

[...just puts his hands behind his head, trying to act casual...]

[darkinferno]

[SUSPICION.........]

I didn't even know you knew how to juggle. I can't.

[Luckily, getting through the checkout doesn't take them any time at all, and so they're out toward the parking lot quickly enough!]

I was just going to toss two of them back and forth for a moment and hope it counted.

[mercurio]

Noah taught me.

[out the parking lot, prompto's glad he didn't have to pay for anything... rip that watermelon though]

I guess we can't all be skilled.

[hands behind his back, grinning, walking behind dante at a distance]

[darkinferno]

Noah?

That makes sense, I guess.

[If not for the fact that Noah's got that arm, Dante would make a comment about how he should go back to the circus where he belongs. But Noah does have that weird arm from Retrospec, and the comment would sound more like a disgusting jab at his lack of "normal" limbs instead of a jab at his belligerent nature, and so Dante keeps his mouth shut.

Instead, he pulls out the package of watermelon, opening it up and taking a square into his hand.]

So, what--do I just throw a piece at you?

[Think fast!]