how to mother hyperactive pink monstrosites

[ex_seventh238]

Who: Ciel, Nena Trinity (bridezilla), later on Mami Tomoe (headedforhope) and apparently one uninvited Merem Solomon (splitthebaby)
What: Nena has acquired babby goose syndrome. Due to her Rank E Luck stat Ciel is the unfortunate (?) one who has to deal with it, to Mami's ~chagrin~ once the two actually manages to get home. IN SHORT: Carnation shenanigans and a lot of pokerfaces.
Where: Grocery store → 1125 Taylor Road and hopefully it'll stay there
When: February 14th or sometimes during the Flowerfield period
Warnings: Rated N for Nena she is her own warning.......

[Having already ran into her share of people acting strangely (and having done a rather good job avoiding them for the most part), Ciel did consider if it wasn't best for her to just stay home today and wait until the flower pranks run their due.

But unfortunately she has forgotten to get a new pack of sugar the other day when she did her huge grocery run, so gotta go back and pick it up! ...It should be quick, so hopefully she won't get caught in anything too ridiculous.

Alas, she got too optimistic (and failed to account for just how shitty her own luck is). She got distracted in the vegetables alley remembering that she's starting to run short on potatoes again when she notices a familiar shade of extreme acidic pink out of the corner of her eyes. This is...]

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[bridezilla]

[ ....Nena freaking Trinity. It was odd how carnations were eerily abundant around the Bunker Street home and, now, they've taken a full deep affect onto Nena. She walked around town, sniffing more and more carnations. The drones suddenly became cousins, Lucy Smith was the name of a niece she inexplicably had, and her drone mom was actually her aunt. The threshold of the carnations was not reached until she smelled a fresh bouquet of them in the grocery store where she immediately attached to the first thing she saw, like a baby duckling.

That first thing happened to be Ciel, investigating the greens. With this, Nena strolls over and stands right next to Ciel doing her damned best to mimic her exact posture as she looks through the vegetables.

Of course, Nena lacks any expertise with dealing with this strange and unusual objects; she looks enormously out of place as she inspects the vegetables as if she has the slightest clue of what to do. To cope with this, she just awkwardly gazes to see what Ciel is doing from time to time and quickly adjusts herself to the new positions. Enjoy your new family member, Ciel! Add one pink peg! ]

[ex_seventh238]

[Her mimicking doesn't get unnoticed, but it definitely does strike Ciel as... odd. Nena's more likely to greet her explosively, not... try to imitate her while being really not subtle about it.

What is going on here

So she'll just throw half a dozen potatoes in random into her basket before turning around - this is Mayfield they're probably all the same anyway, I mean think about it.]

...Good morning, Nena. Are you okay...?

[bridezilla]

[ She tosses a dozen potatoes behind her, which, coincidentally, is filled with just about all of the sugar in the general store. She doesn't even seem to inspect them. If Ciel threw them in, she can too!

She turns to Ciel, happy and filled with glee! ]

Of course I'm okay, big sis! I love shopping with you! [ Translation: You're fucked, Ciel. ]

[ex_seventh238]

[w................hy......]

It's nice to see you again too, but this is a coincidence, Nena. [...i-isn't it?]

Ah, but... "big sis"? [awkwardly adjusts her glasses...........]

oh boy oh boy it's trashy pop music references time

[bridezilla]

[ cause you dope, you the white to her stripes, brady to her bunch. ]

What's a coincidence? [ Nena is not seeing the uncanniness to her actions... ] Yeah! You're my big sister! Why are you acting so silly, Ciel? [ awkwardly adjusts her nonexistent glasses.......... ]

didn't I tell you these will all fly over my head deadcat

[ex_seventh238]

[Stops

Lowers that left hand, raises her right hand, idly scratches her right temple.] We don't live in the same house and I haven't seen you on my way here, so isn't it by luck that we've met? [Can't be divine interference, n...ope...]

I'M SURE SOMEONE GETS IT.... somewhere.... tosses another deadcat into the deadcat pile

[bridezilla]

I guess so! It must be my lucky day! But I'd track you down or wait outside your home anyways to be with you! [ oops. sorry Ciel. She doesn't leave you alone! Sort of like the church! Or Merem! Or...everyone else. ]

deadcat in pool of tears

[ex_seventh238]

[Wait so does that mean she stopped imitating her actions for a second there.

Was it just in her head.

Is this too much to hope for...]

...Does that mean you want to come over, then?

all of the deadcats

[bridezilla]

[ Nope. She didn't stop imitating her actions. She's just agreeing with everything she says. ]

I'd love to! We can brush each others hair, and play games, and bake things and drive and fight evil in bright costumes-! [ ....yep. Mayfield has become Tiger and Bunny over night ]

[ex_seventh238]

--Ah, there are a few things we can do, baking would definitely be okay, but I just cleaned the house yesterday. [After both Merem and Bazett trashed it looking for a tape/a person......] I can't agree to all of these, but some are okay.

[...

Ciel is more of an Anti-hero, tbh...]

Tomoe-san is home, though. Are you really okay with coming with me, knowing that?

[bridezilla]

Which ones don't you agree with?! [ CAUSE SHE'LL DISAGREE WITH THEM TOO...

and Nena falls nowhere on the Morally Good spectrum so it'd be a stretch but... an interesting one. ]

Tomoe-san is home! I am definitely okay knowing that~! I'm still going to your house so we can play games and do all sorts of fun things, big sis! [ And now she'll giggle in a way that seems like a giggle Lucy Smith would make except much more hollow. It's going to be a long day, Ciel. ]

[ex_seventh238]

Fighting evil and drive, I'll need to hear more about the type of games you have in mind too... Like I said, I can't have the house be reduced to shambles.

...[swallowing a sigh, rank Z luck why] I see, I suppose it can't be helped. ...Are you done with your groceries then -- if you really came here for that reason? [gee yes just a hunch isn't it...]

[bridezilla]

Okay!! [ She doesn't question anything about fighting evil or driving, despite the fact that she's somewhat competent with the latter. As long as you have a seat belt on and no other cars or things on the road. ] I'm not sure about games but duck duck goose is usually harmless! [ ...Yep. Duck duck goose has led to injury sometime in Nen'as life before. ]

I did come here for that reason!! I came here to buy all the sugar! [ ....Delicious delicious sugar... ] And to buy potatoes. And [ She takes a long look at whatever Ciel has already and just starts listing it. But she ends it with this gem: ] And to get glasses. And to dye my hair blue. And to get it cut. [ is she The Creepiest Thing Ever yet? ]

[ex_seventh238]

...That'd need more than two people though, wouldn't it?

[
















no but it's up there]

Why do you need to do all that, Nena? It sounds like it'd be quite a chore. [pokerfaces...]

[bridezilla]

Which is why we can have Tomoe-san and Merem over! I'm sure Merem would love to be goose! And we can have my haro, and my stuffed animals and your stuffed animals [ Ciel must obviously have stuffed animals!

And now she'll up the creepy ante. ]

Because I want to be just like you and blue is the greatest color and my hair can be so pretty like yours but I think it'd be a bit more purply [ Yep. That's a word to Nena! ] It'll take a bit of work but it'd be worth it!

[ex_seventh238]

[the drones may have some but she doesn't live with drones. MAYBE... MAMI...]

Merem doesn't live with me anymore. [inb4 he just magically is there once they get back.] I suppose something could be arranged in the living room... [...







w h y]

No, your favorite color is pink. Nena, why don't you put everything you picked up back to where you took them from? What I have now is enough, you can help me carry those to my house. You don't need to buy anything here at all. [WOULD SHE LISTEN TO HER...]

[bridezilla]

So!? We can still call him over! There's no party like a party where you kick him out of the house! [ ....At least her heart is in the right place. ]

My favorite color is blue! Where did you get the silly idea that it was pink?! [ Ignoring that she's wearing pink, has her hair tied in pink ties, and has bought sugar packages that are exclusively colored pink. She is, however, really enthusiastic to Ciel work! ] Okay! I'll put back the sugar and the potatoes and everything else! [ And now she'll start to toss the potatoes back into their proper places. ]

[ex_seventh238]

We'll see once I get back. [...] I'll pass by the cash register now, meet me by the exit once you're done?

[KEEP THE POKERFACE SMILE STRONG.]

[bridezilla]

Okay! [ Nena will attempt to put the sugar back. And by attempt, I mean, she's too short and she got all of these things by knocking down the aisle so she'll just toss them around and hope they land in a way that isn't visible to Ciel.

Two noisy minutes later, Nena emerges, with a bunch of sugar covering her. And she's licking her acidic pink suit. She attempts to carry a conversation with a sleeve in her mouth. ]

Ready to go, Ciel!

1/2

[ex_seventh238]

[my life]

2/2

[ex_seventh238]

[--that is. She's got two bags ready and stuff... no ok make that three. The third one is a small one that just contained like.

3 potatoes.


She can risk sacrificing these......]

Welcome back, Nena. [not even going to ask. God can she just pretend today is bad sitcom day or something.....] Do you think that you can carry this? [gestures towards the small bag while she'll hold onto her two bigger ones, kthx.]

[bridezilla]

[ Her sleeve is still in her mouth but she nods very excitedly at the prospect of actually doing a task for Ciel! She grabs it with the hand she isn't currently devouring. ]

Yes! Of course I can carry those, Ciel! [ Surprisingly, upon making contact with the potatoes, they do not spontaneously combust. ]

[ex_seventh238]

[]

Please, and thank you. Shall we get going? [Without you causing further property damage to the store, she doesn't want to be sued by the drone...

Making her way to get out..........]

[bridezilla]

Yeah! Let's do it! [ Nena follows her like a secondary party member in a jrpg. If Ciel runs or walks, Nena will run or walk at a slightly slower pace. She starts to sing a song she learned a little while ago at the diner after the first line, the singing quietly turns into a light hum. ]

[ex_seventh238]

[She starts going when...

...

Well that doesn't sound creepy at all... She'll keep walking with the groceries, but will turn towards Nena looking slightly curious.

Also no she'll just walk at her normal speed as always, running is pointless and she's carrying quite a bit...]

...What are you singing, Nena? It sounds a bit familiar. [...Well no, she knows it's a nursery rhyme, but still, Ciel was fairly certain that Nena didn't exactly bother going through the books here or spent a lot of time around elementary-level drone children to pick one up by normal means. SO...]

[bridezilla]

Oh? The song? It's something I learned when I was in the diner during the whole April Fool's prank thing. It was sung by a little girl too, the same one that laughed at us when we learned it was an April fool's joke. [ Yep. A song sung by our very own Lucy! Nena keeps walking behind Ciel for direction, and because she doesn't want her out of her sight since she's never ever ever letting a family member getting harmed again even if Ciel is much more capable at holding her own than her own brothers and their robots.

As for Ciel's suspicions, they are correct. Drones only live for brief moments around Nena for some mysterious reason, and Nena only reads whatever Miss Susan assigns because she's a Glory Hound. ]