Game 045 [Action/Voice] - And a Five, Six, Seven, Eight

[neverplaysfair]

[ Well. It wasn't enough that he had been forced to track down every mermaid he could find and berate them one by one, outside world this, Malnosso world that...

Of course not. Experiments always had to go the extra mile, didn't they?

So this fine day, Joshua could be found clad in all red with a crab hat on his head, in the fountain. Singing. With his journal open. ]

In Luceti...!

In Luceti...!

Darlings it's scarier outside the barrier, take it from me!

[ Of course, the Malnosso had to give him his own musical number. Of course. ]

Comments

[neverplaysfair]

You are aware I haven't actually sprouted gills myself, correct? [ Never mind that he doesn't really need to breathe, it's still a nice convenience that keeps him from passing out. ]

[aphephobic.livejournal.com]

So? Don't you feel it too? It's home in here.

[neverplaysfair]

Home is where I'm not drowning.

[ But he steps ankle-deep into the water. Happy now? ]

[aphephobic.livejournal.com]

You're not going to drown. [Crab, he will yank you under if you're not holding on tightly enough.]

[neverplaysfair]

[ Hold on to what? ]

Just because I'm d--[ SPLASH into the water he goes, then! ]

[aphephobic.livejournal.com]

[THERE, see? That wasn't so hard!]

I told you the water's fine.

[neverplaysfair]

[ ...

Swimming for the surface and taking a deep breath the moment his head is above water. B| ]

[aphephobic.livejournal.com]

[Line. Face. Hisoka follows grumpily, raising his head above water only past his mouth.]

Quitter.

[neverplaysfair]

It's nice to know that you don't value breathing, but some of us have our priorities in a slightly different order.

[aphephobic.livejournal.com]

I don't have a problem with it. You haven't even tried to take a breath under here.

[neverplaysfair]

You also have fins.

[aphephobic.livejournal.com]

Just the one.

[neverplaysfair]

One more than I have. Point stands.

[aphephobic.livejournal.com]

So you'll grow some gills. Where's your sense of adventure?

[Hisoka is aware that this sounds absolutely nothing like him. He just can't really help all this sudden enthusiasm.]

[neverplaysfair]

At home, in a box on my mantle. Sometimes I take it out and admire it.

[aphephobic.livejournal.com]

...Look, I know it sounds stupid, but I really need you to go exploring with me. Didn't you say you had to do what I told you?

[neverplaysfair]

I might be exempt from being told to go drown myself.

[aphephobic.livejournal.com]

[Well, Mermaids are kind of accidentally murderous like that in a lot of mythologies.]

You won't! You'll adapt! Come on, Joshua!

[neverplaysfair]

[ Good thing Joshua is wonderful at not listening to others, then! ]

If I were going to adapt, I would have done so already.

[aphephobic.livejournal.com]

But you haven't even really tried!

[neverplaysfair]

Are you sure?

[aphephobic.livejournal.com]

I didn't see you trying to breathe while you were down there.

[neverplaysfair]

And have you been with me for the whole experiment?

[aphephobic.livejournal.com]

No. [So?]

[neverplaysfair]

I've already tried it.