Make a kiss and take a berry

[gricklegrass]

Who: YOU. EVERYONE. SMASH ACADEMY & FRIENDS.
What: Making out I mean MISTLETOE.
When: December 19th to January 1st.
Where: Everywhere.
Rating: The letter appropriate for Kissing & Violence against Plants & Swearing.

After Celebi's inquiries about tiny, berried plants, she came to a few conclusions. Either people really liked them or people were pretty indifferent to them! Or they were grumpy. There seemed to be a lot of grumpies. Clearly the solution to that was to bring the mistletoe on to campus and let it flourish! EVERYWHERE.

IT WAS EVERYWHERE.

In the halls. In doorways. Over your locker. Over your rival's locker. Dangling over your head exactly when you least expected it. If you did not want to encounter it you were probably encountering it.

And they were persistent! They were under the grass pixie's watchful eye this year. Did it just move when you tried to shoot it? Was the shot reflected back at you?? WHAT.

To make matters worse, if you happened to find yourself under certain sprigs of the holiday plant, you were stuck there. STUCK FOR ETERNITY, or at least until you got a smooch. How perfectly, wonderfully devious. There was a certain witch to thank for that.

HOW FESTIVE.

[[Have at it!! Post your dudes, go get smooches.

+ Celebi won't like you trying to destroy the plants. She will move them a couple of frustrating inches.
+ Some (not all!) plants are CURSED via Ashley. No moving until smooching. You better hope for a smooch.
+ Don't forget to add your characters' tag via the edit tag button!

Go get festive, Smash Academy BD]]

Comments

[dothelokomotion.livejournal.com]

[Byrne is only vaguely familiar with mistletoe customs. So it doesn't actually occur to him at first that the things on the ceiling are bad. Very very bad.

So he'll probably get stuck underneath these things a lot.]

[swordofkings.livejournal.com]

[BYRNE you get a respectful nod in passing as Poo traverses the hallways.]

[dothelokomotion.livejournal.com]

[Dear Poo, please save Byrne from this misery.

But Byrne gives Poo another respectful nod. Congratulations on being one of the few people Byrne doesn't hate.]

[swordofkings.livejournal.com]

[Poo can not wield the powers of the Gods, alas. But he can totally sympathize with you and dish out those polite nods.]

[cutelilbugs.livejournal.com]

[Byrne. Do you like little girls? Have a little girl.

Oops. She bumped into you. What will you do now?]

[dothelokomotion.livejournal.com]

[No, Byrne doesn't like little girls. He's not into loli either.

He merely stares at her as she bumps into him.]

....

...Yes?

[Oh hey look pointy ears. Is she from Hyrule? Maybe he'll ask her later.]

[cutelilbugs.livejournal.com]

[Oops again. Wow. He's so tall. And she's so small. He's like, over a foot taller than her.

But she's also only twelve.]

...Are you a giant?

[dothelokomotion.livejournal.com]

[...What. The hell. Yes, he was tall, but not that tall.]

...

...

...

No.

[cutelilbugs.livejournal.com]

[She points at his ears and then wiggles hers for him.]

Oh. You have ears like mine.

[What follows next is a curtsy.]

My name is Agitha. I'm the Princess of the Bug Kingdom. Do you like it here more than home, too?

[Whoops. She assumes he's from Hyrule Castle Town, also.]

[dothelokomotion.livejournal.com]

[The Bug Kingdom. What the eff is that. Does he like the Academy more than home? Well, seeing as he never wants to return to his home, he'll have to say yes.]

...

...I suppose.

[He wanted to ask if she was from Hyrule, but clearly if she claims to be from the Bug Kingdom, she's either A. from that land, or B. has serious mental issues to think she's the Princess of a Bug Kingdom. So he doesn't say anything more.]

[cutelilbugs.livejournal.com]

[She smiles, blissfully unaware of his thoughts and his hostility towards her. Well, hostile thoughts anyway. But Agitha is young and tends to think the best of most people. Living in a house for so long on her own is bound to do that.]

Oh, me too! Everyone here is so nice!

[Agitha pauses.]

Everyone in the castle town is very nice, too, but I get to play outside a little bit more here. I'm really happy here, but I look forward to visiting home sometime. You should probably do that, too. It's good to see your family every now and then.

[dothelokomotion.livejournal.com]

[Mental note: don't trust children. They're annoying and deceptive.]

Castle town?

[He doesn't care about all of the other stuff she mentions, but he is rather curious about her origins, due to her ears.]

[cutelilbugs.livejournal.com]

[She nods.]

Yes! You haven't been to it? Everyone in Hyrule knows that's where the Princess Zelda is. She's the prettiest princess in all of Hyrule. I think even people who don't live in Castle Town come just to see her.

[But Agitha's never seen her. Well, she's seen the Zelda at the academy and she looks similar to her own Zelda, but...

Time paradoxes. They are lost on the girl.]

[dothelokomotion.livejournal.com]

...

[Okay. Hyrule. She's from Hyrule. At first he would have thought it would be his Hyrule, but then he remembered Nabooru being from far in the past. So perhaps Agitha is the same way. Or from the future.]

I have not been there.

[Technically he has been to the Castle Town, but he has a feeling that her town is different.]

[cutelilbugs.livejournal.com]

[For a moment, she simply stares at him and then she continues along, as if it's easy enough for her to do most of the conversing between the two of them.]

Oh! It's very, very pretty! I live on one of the side streets, but in the centre of the town, there's a beautiful fountain. And each side of the fountain leads to a different part of the town. When you're entering Castle Town, however, the princess is to the east pathway, but the guards usually won't let anyone in.

[Agitha pauses momentarily.]

At least they've never let me in. They didn't say why, but they said they couldn't let anyone in at the time.

[In spite of the troubles Zelda went through with Ganondorf and Zant, Agitha doesn't seem to know anything about this. Never mind that she was present during the entire time it took place.]

[dothelokomotion.livejournal.com]

[Yet another Hyrulean here at the Academy. It's somewhat of a relief but somewhat disconcerting to Byrne. He doesn't want his past to catch up with him.

But he would have to make note to tell Nabooru about his finding of another person from Hyrule.]

I'd think that they wouldn't let you in because the ruler of the land needs to be protected from unwanted intruders.

[He would know all about that.]

[makes-ground.livejournal.com]

[It wasn't often that Pele was at the school. But this is one of those instances. Why exactly, well, she was not divulging. But she seems a little lost in the hallways. Or indoors in general, really.]

[dothelokomotion.livejournal.com]

[Oh, it was that lady from the mountain. She was so strange, but there was something so interesting about her. The way she spoke and the way she commanded that mountain. Well, let's just say that Byrne didn't immediately write her off as someone who held no interest for him, like Slippy.]

You look lost.

[makes-ground.livejournal.com]

[Ah. A face that managed to stir a passing familiarity in her. She stopped in the middle of her path to face him - that by itself being a considerable honour, she deemed - unaware of the mistletoe's presence in the halls.]

Do I?

[Super deadpan. It did not matter whether she was lost or not, and she cared little to appearances. Pele certainly was not one to stop and ask for directions, much less tell him where she was going. But this man had her attention, for now.]

[dothelokomotion.livejournal.com]

[Her deadpan expression reminds him of himself. And if he knew her inner thoughts, he would have thought she reminded him even more of himself.]

Indeed.

[A pause. Something tells him to tell her about this cursed mistletoe...]

I would advise you to be aware of the mistletoe growing all over the place. It seems someone put a hex on it.

watch me be the slowest

[makes-ground.livejournal.com]

[At this, Groudon lifted her head to survey the ceiling. Ah, so there were indeed some of these parasitic plants above them. Specifically, above her. How strange. It certainly wasn't there a moment before.]

...

[Oh, it seemed like. She couldn't move.]

. . .

ffff don't worry

[dothelokomotion.livejournal.com]

[Byrne watched as Pele surveyed the ceiling. She wasn't saying anything, but if she was anything like himself, her pride was preventing her from proclaiming her inability to move. But obviously he didn't know for certain.]

The hex, I might add, seems to make people immobile.

[He had no desire to mention the escape clause to this curse. He was tired of bending to the whims of plants and having to kiss everyone he hated in public view.]

I am an expert worrier

[makes-ground.livejournal.com]

[Pride? Yeah, he called that one. Pele simply clacked her teeth and crossed her arms. She didn't look particularly bothered, but she didn't try to move from the spot either.]

...

I see. This consideration is noted.

[dothelokomotion.livejournal.com]

[And Byrne was not the type of person to rescue people from these situations, so... Sorry Pele. Maybe if she asked nicely he'd consider it.]

Indeed. Have a good day then.

[So he starts walking away.]

[makes-ground.livejournal.com]

[Well. She definitely wasn't going to ask, much less ask nicely. Pele simply watched him go.

So she had a few options:
1) Level the entire building with an earthquake so that it was no longer above her.
2) Summon a heat so intense that all plant life withered.
3) Stand there and sleep until either the effects wore off or the building decayed.

Seeing how the third option took the least amount of effort, she closed her eyes and waited.]