Carnivale!

[jigoku_mod]

[ WHO ]: ALL! Mingle log.
[ WHERE ]: Jigoku's Carnival Grounds
[ WHEN ]: All through the carnival's stay! But mostly on the first night.
[ OPEN/CLOSED? ]: OPEN
[ RATING ]: TBA
[ WARNINGS ]: 2 SPOOKY
[ NOTES ]: Information post here!


Rides
Souvenir Stalls
Game Stalls
Food Stalls
Freak Show

Comments

BUMPER CARS

[jigoku_mod]

brrm brrm splat

[overwinters]

[ Who cares about what other people think or what the atmosphere of this place is like, Ilya is still stoked. Normally she'd be a little more wary, but she knows it's dangerous - she knows some places at least look dangerous, if not most of them. But on the other hand, this one looks relatively safe (as if Ilya is going to be fazed by a few guts, please) and it's a carnival. A real one. She's never been to one before.

You can either see her standing outside the bumper cars ring, staring with wide, near-sparkling eyes with excitement, or you can catch her later and see her driving one around enthusiastically, riding over the ghouls without a single care. She's even giggling. Whoops. ]

[wearefriends]

[Viola wrinkles her nose at the sight of the bumper cars. It seems rather... messy. And she's wearing too cute a dress to get it all messed up, really.]

You're not interested in this ride, are you, Ilya?

[overwinters]

.. Huh? [ She blinks, like she's seriously confused at all this. How can you not like something so full of lights and noise and action? It's better than anything she's ever seen, it looks more fun than anything in her castle back home.. ]

Of course I am! It looks like a lot of fun..!

[wearefriends]

[She huffs.]

I don't see what's fun about bashing into each other and people standing in front of you in a... whatever those things are. [She scowls. She doesn't like not being completely knowledgeable.]

[overwinters]

No way, it's like those big cars out on the road, except they're much smaller so I can drive them too!

[ Although nobody wants an Einzbern to drive a car.

Nobody. ]

Come on, let's go in them together! [ Despite the other girl's attitude, Ilya just gives her a big smile. ]

[wearefriends]

Ugh. [She makes her displeasure known.]

Fine. But only if you do something I want to, as well.

[overwinters]

Hmm, sure, sure! [ Ilya is okay with anything either way - it's a carnival! The very first in her life! She's got to see everything either way, so it's fine if Viola picks after her.

She grabs the other girl's hand without asking, dragging her over to the bumper cars to pick one. ]

[wearefriends]

[She nearly trips as Ilya grabs her, and blinks in confusion at the car she's dragging her to.]

It's not big enough for us both.

[overwinters]

.. Really..?

[ Apparently she didn't even consider it, and the expression on her face deflates a little. ]

Not even if we squeeze?

[wearefriends]

... Maybe if we squeeze. [She says it dubiously.]

[overwinters]

Then let's hurry up and squeeze!

[ She laughs, dragging the other girl over to the bumper car all the same and already moving to sit in it. Come on, Viola, believe in the power of friendship.

And squeezing. Especially squeezing. ]

[wearefriends]

[So much squeezing. Viola hates every second of it, but they are eventually in the bumper car... with Ilya at the driver's side, of course.]

What now?

[overwinters]

[ Ilya always gets what she wants. For now, either way. She giggles, grabbing the wheel. ]

I've heard about these.. you need to bump other things as fast as you can! So here we go! [ And they.. sure.. go... did I mention yet that Ilya's mother is a horrible driver, because it's pretty genetic and especially for a girl who's never even touched a car before. She's going so hard that it almost seems like they'll drive right out of the bumper car ring, and she drives so hard over some of the ghosts that the guts spill everywhere.

Even so, Ilya laughs, like a normal kid having a very normal time of her life. ]

[wearefriends]

[Viola holds up her hands so that the worst of the guts don't go all over her dress, and shrieks when someone's lungs smack her in the face.]

Stop it! Stop running into them!

[She has a persona to keep up here, Ilya!!]

[overwinters]

Kya kya kya kya!

[ She's just giggling, even when Viola starts shrieking and screaming, like she thinks the girl might just be doing it since she's having fun too.. ]

What's wrong with it? It's like a game! When you run over them all, I bet you get a prize..!

[wearefriends]

Is the prize a shower? [Her voice is dry and displeased - then she yelps again as a set of kidneys go soaring just overhead.]

[youlostme]

Ilyaaaaa...

[ Somehow, Shirou didn't quite manage to jump into the same bumper car as her. So he's puttering after her, bumping her car occasionally, in another car entirely.

He looks slightly ill at the sight of all the guts and ghouls.

But she's enjoying herself, so he swallows down his nausea. ]

[overwinters]

[ Compared to his nausea, Ilya is completely unfazed. In fact, this is probably the most fun she's had in a really, really long time. Which is why she's acting like a complete kid, trying to ram her bumper car as fast as possible into the other ones and over the ghosts while laughing wildly - although it's a happy rather than a malicious giggle. ]

Shirou, you're not going fast enough! [ She looks over her shoulder at him, totally unconcerned as her car drives over more things. ] You need to hurry up or you'll get bumped! That's how it works, right?

[youlostme]

Yeah, that's how it works normally! But you've got to have noticed, these aren't--

[ He catches himself. Maybe she really doesn't know what normal bumper cars are like? In that case, he shouldn't ruin this for her.

It's just really nice to see her happy. ]

All right. I'd better not get bumped!

[ And he revs up the speed and proceeds to run over a particularly squishy, rotten patch of guts. Urgh... ]

[overwinters]

[ Heh! When he actually gets into the thing, Ilya finally turns her bumper car around and focuses on him - she starts grinning at it, even. Not really in an omnious way, maybe just a little bit, but nothing beyond that.

She steers it directly at him, in fact. ]

There, I'm going to get youuu! [ At least she really is happy. She's even laughing. ]

[youlostme]

[ ...it's nice. It's nice to see her smiling so freely. So Shirou sucks up all his dubiousness and discomfort, and he aims the car at Ilya's... ]

No, you won't! I'll win this ro...und...

[ He tries to suck up all his discomfort, anyway. But it rushes up his esophagus and-- ]

BLEEEEARRRGH

[ The zombie guts were just too much. He throws up all over the bumper car's controls. ]

we're really getting on nasu's level in here now

[overwinters]

[ ...

Okay, that makes her stop her car, blinking at him instead. At first it seems like disgust mixed with surprise, but once she realises what's really going on, it changes to something more like concern. ]

Huh..? Shirou, are you okay?

it's practically an h-scene up in this joint

[youlostme]

[ He stares bleakly at the befouled controls for a moment, suddenly ashamed of ruining this nice time. He really should have been able to control himself better... ]

Uh, Ilya, it's nothing--

[ It sort of is. After all, it's not the gore that bothered him. Nothing like that ever really gets to him anymore. It hasn't for a very long time.

It's just the mess and the smell, and if they were fresh dead bodies and not rotting ghouls he'd probably be fine, and--no, that's not true. It's also the dissonance of seeing Ilya surrounded by this gruesome scene, enjoying herself. ]

Why don't you go see where I can get a mop and a bucket, or something like that? I'd better clean things up. And don't make things hard for her!

[ He directs the last comment, with a weak glare, at a nearby shambling ghoul. ]

inserts random sea creatures metaphors into my tags

[overwinters]

[ No way he can just be fine if he just threw up, right? Even if he says it's nothing, it doesn't feel like it's nothing. And she genuinely doesn't get what could have caused it since she really was enjoying all of this, it was a fun time at an amusement park with Shirou - the kind of thing she never got to have before and never thought she would.

It's why she stares in bewilderment for a few more moments before she nods slowly, like a kid who was just told to go to their room, and slowly climbs out of her bumper car. ]

I don't know if I can find something like that here though..