Candy crush saga is not an appable series.

[punchtheflute]

Who: Sonny, Jolt, Likeminded folks who want to eat all the terrible candy
What: Eating all the terrible candy
Where: Somewhere on campus under a tree
When: Let's just say this weekend.
Warnings: Too much candy is bad for you. Unless you're Sonny. Or Jolt.

It had been a chance meeting at S*Mart (Shop Smart! Shop S*Mart!) but it had blossomed into something wonderful.

You see, even in our consumer culture, driven by sales and promotions and discount pricing, sometimes there can be too much of one particular thing. Like, say, Valentines Day Candy. Remember Valentines day? You probably wish that you didn't. But someone at S*Mart had sure been on the ball because they had ordered a triple sized quantity of candy to fill those shelves. And those end caps. And those stack out displays. And a massive portion of the stock room. And oh holy crap what are we going to do with all these sweet tarts and cherry cordials and heart shaped boxes of pink whateveritis that haven't sold yet!?

You put it on sale, that's what you do. You heavily discount it. Like... just try and get it out the door kind of discount it. Like, this store is going to lose thousands on this but we can't return this stuff to the vendor so people please come and buy boxes of chocolate for a dime and bags of chalky aspirins with vapid sayings printed on them in god only knows what for a nickel and if you buy ten dollars worth we'll throw in some Easter candy because we ordered too much Easter candy too.

Oh. Yeah. And that chance meeting I mentioned earlier? It was Sonny Moe and Jolt.

The aftermath of this as you can probably imagine is two young guys, relaxing in the sunshine, strumming on a ukulele and eating inappropriate masses of super discounted candy. If that sounds like your idea of a good time? Well come on over.

[[OOC: I'm going to make one thread for Sonny and Jolt to just chat. Anyone else who wants to come on over can feel free to start a new thread of their own! ]]

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Sonny and Jolt

[punchtheflute]

Sonny strummed a few more notes and then set the Ukulele down. He was about ready to shove some more Cadbury eggs into his face. He'd lost count by now. But the crumpled up pile of tin foil sitting in the empty chocolate covered cherry box was kind of telling.

"So." he said, once he'd chewed the egg enough to talk. "How've you been?"

[rivalthunderbolts]

Jolt, by contrast, seemed to entertain himself biting the heads off of gummi bears before devouring them. Hey, he was a dog and had certain predatory instincts. Or maybe he just liked to decapitate gummi bears. It's all good.

"It's been a weird couple of months, lemme tell you," he sighed. This felt more like the kind of event he wanted to enjoy on valentines day, as opposed to what actually happened. "I'm catching up on all the candy I didn't get to eat on V-day! How about you?"

[punchtheflute]

"I made cupcakes for Voile on Valentines day!" Sonny replied, biting another Cadbury egg in half. "It was a pretty good day. But my couple of months have been pretty OK, really! I'm enjoying classes and stuff."

He was missing seeing Red around on a regular basis, of course. And Marie. And Mawrow. And Riwane. And... others. Plenty of others. But he did his best to stay positive.

"Sorry you didn't get any candy on Valentines. If I'd known that I would of made you some muffins too."

[rivalthunderbolts]

"Glad to hear at least YOU had a good time," Jolt chuckled. But he shook his head in response. "Nah, I'm good without muffins. But the thought's appreciated. I had the weirdest time..."

[punchtheflute]

"Really? What happened?"

Sonny scooched around so he was sitting facing the Jolteon. It was easier to pay attention and listen when he was looking at the other boy, instead of looking at all of their candy. Beautiful, sweet, wonderful candy...

[rivalthunderbolts]

Jolt was about to reply. But then he remembered. Sasha was Sonny's sister/teammate. This wasn't exactly a conversation he wanted to have with the Snorlax, therefore.

"Um, I'd just as soon not talk about it," he replied honestly. "But pass me some of those Peeps!"

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"Pffffft. Really?" Sonny replied. He kind of almost thought about holding the peeps hostage until Jolt spilled the beans. But he wasn't mean enough to withhold peeps from a bro. He passed the little marshmallow chickens over.

"That's a bummer! It sounded like it would of been an interesting story."

[rivalthunderbolts]

"Maybe, but I'm keeping it to myself," Jolt replied. "I don't kiss and tell."

Wait. Shit. That was saying too much already. DAMN IT. Jolt smacked himself in the face.

"Wait, forget I said anything," he replied, grabbing the peeps and stuffing them in his mouth to shut himself up.

[punchtheflute]

"Nope! I don't know Amnesia!" Sonny replied, leaning forward a little. "You got to kiss somebody? That's super lucky!"

[rivalthunderbolts]

"Don't know how lucky it is," Jolt replied cryptically. "If I had to do it over again I probably wouldn't have. But whatever."

[punchtheflute]

"Really!?" Sonny asked, pretty perplexed. "But kissing is pretty great. Especially Valentines Day style kissing."

He thought about it for a second.

"Ooooh. Wait. Did you wind up kissing someone you don't like? Sometimes that happens. Things sting you in the butt and make you do that."

[rivalthunderbolts]

"I--" Jolt stopped himself in mid-sentence. What DID he think about Sasha? It's not that he didn't like her. He thought she was a good friend. Was it more than that? He really didn't know. He certainly didn't NOT like her. He thought for a few moments about how best to explain it, and when he couldn't find an answer he was satisfied with, he finally explained, "It's complicated. But yeah, that's what happened."

[punchtheflute]

"Trust me, I know a lot about 'complicated'." Sonny assured the Jolteon, leaning over to clap a hand on his shoulder.

"...I know you don't want to talk about it. And that's OK! I don't want you to feel like you have to or anything! But... well. Everything else aside, we're friends. At least, I consider you to be a friend. So, if there's something I can help you with all you have to do is ask me!"

[rivalairslash]

And here comes Pidge. He was on his way to somewhere, probably the library to get some studying done, but he slows his walking down as he notices the large pile of candy with two familiar figures. He could care less of what the one of them did, but he made a frown as he saw his teammate eating all those unhealthy sweets.

He approached the two and folded his arms across his chest as he looked down at the candy.

"What's with all the junk food?"

Have a frown of disapproval.

[rivalthunderbolts]

Jolt looked up at Pidge. He had been on the receiving end of that look more times than he could count. It hardly fazed him anymore. And so when he saw Pidge looking down at them, he replied, "It was on sale."

[punchtheflute]

"Yeah! Really, really cheap! Here you go!"

Pidge, have a box of chocolate covered cherries. A heart shaped box of chocolate covered cherries. With a pretty golden bow and a little card stuck to it that you were supposed to write in but Sonny hadn't written in. He's offering it to you. Like, shoving it right into your arms.

"You can sit down too if you want!"

[rivalairslash]

"I--" Pidge was cut off as he suddenly found himself with the box of delightful sweets in his hands. He looked down at them before looking over at the two, a look of uncertainty and confusion showing up on his face.

"Uh. Excuse me?"

Sonny was always hard to understand with all of his cheerfulness. Pidge vaguely noted that's why perhaps Jolt and he can hang around together so nicely like this.

The sweet smell was getting a little distracting for Pidge, though; it was starting to make his mouth water...

[rivalthunderbolts]

Jolt grinned. "C'mon, Pidge, give in to the deliciousness," he beckoned.

Second worst influence in the team. Char is the worst, as if there were any doubt.

[punchtheflute]

"Yeah! Come hang out with us! We have plenty enough to share!" Sonny agreed, grinning at the Pidgeot. He knew that Pidge found his friendliness disconcerting but he could only hope that it would become more welcome over time.

[rivalairslash]

It's going to take a little more for Pidge to give in. Of course, Char is always the worst, yes. Always.

"Plenty?" He looked back at the large pile of sweets, frowning. "That's more than plenty to feed an army. I hope you two aren't trying to eat all of them up..."

[rivalthunderbolts]

Jolt's smug little smirk just got wider. "Well, you know, there IS a pretty simple way to stop us from eating all of it," he replied. "Have a seat and eat some of it before we can!"

His logic was irrefutable.

[punchtheflute]

Indubitably!

"Yeah! What kinds do you like, Pidge?" Sonny asked, picking up a few more boxes. "We have gummy candies too instead of just chocolate. Oh! And Peeps!" he said, offering a box of little yellow birds to the guy that was kind of a big yellowish bird.

[rivalairslash]

Unfortunately, Pidge wasn't well-versed with what sort of sweets are there. So when he saw the box full of tiny cute yellow birds Pidge made a horrified face.

"What!? Humans turn little ones into SWEETS!?"

Oops, his bad habit of jumping to conclusions.

[rivalthunderbolts]

Jolt tried to stifle his laugh. He really did. But it didn't work, and he snickered. "Relax, Pidge! They're just marshmallows shaped like birds," he explained.

[punchtheflute]

"They aren't real Pidgeys! I promise!" Sonny said with a little laugh.

"They're made out of Marshmallow. Look!" He popped one from the plastic of the box and tore it's head off with his teeth. Because That was Surely a reassuring gesture. "Shee? Mashmarrow."