I get a little warm in my heart [mingle log]

[hellawrath]

Who: anyone looking for some wintery fun!
What: admiring mysterious icy artwork, warming up by campfires, making a fool of yourself while ice skating, snowball fights?? it's a snow party!
When: Jan 14 and on
Where: Enso, in and around the temple ruins
Warnings: snow-based violence

When you've had to deal with a literal apocalypse every single year for a hundred years, a little battle for the sun isn't really gonna grind your gears that much. Sure, the elf twins are still nobly doing their part every day. Lup is keeping several small campfires going inside the temple ruins, as well as periodically blasting two large stone slabs in the main chamber with a Fireball - those babies radiate heat for hours afterwards. And Taako is graciously handing out truly delicious soup from a huge bowl to anyone who asks nicely. Island Walmart is still a thing too, the large scrawled sign declaring this month's name to be The Hot Spot. Looks like it was Lup's turn on the naming.

But they're also just kinda bored of the whole thing? Like, everyone's so focused on preparing, on gathering and planning and training. There's a place for that, and Lup is pretty psyched for the actual fighting, but this pall of doom and purpose that's fallen over the islands as heavily as the snow? Neither of them is here for that.

So anyone who makes their way up to the temple will not only find the usual warm respite from the freezing temperatures, but also - a ten foot tall ice sculpture of a majestic as fuck unicorn rearing on its hind legs. And a smaller one of a figure with long ears hiding its face in the crook of its elbow, arms pointing upwards do we have a single modern day character who knows what dabbing is. Off to the side in a clearing, there's a twenty foot circle of clear ice that's just begging to be skated on. Just don't admire the artwork for too long, or you're gonna get noscoped with a snowball by a pair of horrible winter goblins.

Comments

[ichininyaanshi]

Hello fellow awkward kid what's the mood.

If it's total discomfort, Ichimatsu can relate. At some point, having gotten his fill of the social campfire scene, he's trailed away to the trees on the fringes of the get-together to escape all the chatter and goodwill. Curled into a lonesome ball with his back to a tree trunk, gloved hands wrapped around his knees, he seems perfectly happy to completely ignore his company at first.

Until Ginko starts glancing between the ice sculptures. That look of confusion on the guy's face is so utterly thorough that it kind of annoys him. He looks over.

"... it's dabbing."

[onegreeneye]

"...What?"

So far as Ginko can tell, this guy wandered over (which is fine), sat around in silence (still fine), and is now... uttering complete nonsense. Which, he guesses, is probably also fine?

He is, however, clearly no less confused now than he was a moment ago.

[ichininyaanshi]

"Dabbing," he says again, a bit more forcefully. "You know, like..."

Straightening up, Ichimatsu proceeds to demonstrate. Only his hands stay curled in little quasi-paws, so he probably looks utterly ridiculous.

"Nya."

[onegreeneye]

Okay, well, he's. Doing the same thing as the statue, but not quite, so that's... mostly useless. It means he knows what it's called, anyway.

"Okay. Right. What... is it?"

[ichininyaanshi]

He looks up from the crook of his elbow, obviously annoyed.

"How many times are you gonna make me say it? It's dabbing. Even trash like me knows that." Ichimatsu waves his cat-paw curled hands a bit. "Nya. You try."

[onegreeneye]

"What... what is dabbing. Why is the statue doing it." He gestures helplessly at the ice sculpture, then blinks, his ears flickering back and forth.

"...Why?"

[ichininyaanshi]

His eyes narrow, arms lowering to cross back over his knees.

"'Cause you won't learn otherwise." Ichimatsu frowns. "What's with you? Too good for the rest of us? Tch... I can't blame you for thinking that, but come on. If an ice sculpture can do it, you can, too."

[onegreeneye]

"I'm not worried about being able to do it, I want to know what it is. And don't tell me what it's called again. Is it... I don't know, does it mean something?"