THE DENNY'S MEME

[anonasu]

It's late. Like, 3 AM late. You're hungry as fuck, but nothing is open.





Except Denny's.

RULES

1. Post to the meme.
2. Find somebody to eat with. Figure out why the hell you'd do this to yourself.
3. You went to Denny's for New Year's Eve? Denny's? Jeez. At least they still have pancakes in the shape of Rudolph's face, right?

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Lapis Lazuli / Steven Universe

[waterwing]

[peri_doh]

[ Okay, so this is the wrong Peridot, but screw it.

Lapis has a table with a cute bunny-eared witch-hat-wearing little girl. She is happily munching on pancakes with her hands like some kind of filthy animal with no manners. ]

Ha, all-you-can-eat pancakes! Can you beat that?

[waterwing]

[ She's sure going after those pancakes, isn't she? If Lapis had an appetite to begin with, she would have lost it by now. ]

...Apparently not. [ LOOK SHE HAS NO HORSE IN THIS FOOD RACE so she's just going to sit here and...awkwardly not eat anything... ] Won't you make yourself sick if you keep eating those?

[peri_doh]

Ahahaha, what? No way. These are delicious! I could eat at least a dozen - two dozen!

[ She does not know how to hold back. On anything. ]

[waterwing]

[ She hadn't even realized humans had the capacity to eat this much... ]

Could you really? [ Not that she really understands how this whole eating thing works...did they just stack up inside a human body? What would happen if they piled up too high?? ]

[jamminshield]

[Either all the bad things have already been solved, or this is a world where the bad things didn't happen to begin with. Either way, all the problems like horrible gem fusions and homeworld invasions are out of sight and out of mind for now.

So, Steven is giving Lapis a chance to try something special: her first meal.

While waiting for a waiter, Steven idly scribbles on the back of a paper menu with a crayon on his side of the booth.]

Alright, Lapis. I've got a real big meal planned for you! Are you as excited as I am? It's okay if you're just half as excited - that's still a lot! [Steven's really excited.]

[waterwing]

[ She can tell he's really excited. Honestly, she has no idea what to expect from food, but if Steven is this excited about it, it must be something special.

So, she'll give it a try, if only for him.

A smile smile. ] I guess I am a little excited... [ Okay look that's a big commitment coming from her. ] What do you have planned for me?

[jamminshield]

[He's really hoping that she likes it! It'll be one more thing to have fun with together, and he can't wait to find out what her favorite foods are.]

I don't even know where to begin! I'm picking at least one thing from every category, so you get to try out everything! And you're a gem, so it's okay if you eat a whole lot!

Cool idea, huh? So, for starters, what do you think of this?

[He slides the paper towards her side of the table. It's a crayon drawing of what is supposed to be a pancake with a smiley face and bacon eyebrows.]

[waterwing]

[ One of every category? Judging from the size of this large stiff plastic thing in front of her - the menu, was it? - that would be a lot of categories. Even if she has the capacity to eat a lot, what if she doesn't like it?

But Steven is so excited about it...okay, this will be fine.

She peers at the picture. ] It's a...face? Does food look like faces?

[jamminshield]

It can if you want tooo! [He says that as if it's a very strog selling poit.]

That's a pancake with bacon on it! And they can make it look like it's smiling. Isn't that great, Lapis?

[waterwing]

[ Well, food having pleasant smiling faces doesn't hurt... ]

It's...nice. [ Then, a small frown. ] But if I eat it, it won't be smiling anymore...

[jamminshield]

Y-yes it will! [He's quick to try to reassure her.] The smile will still exist, always. Just inside your belly!

[waterwing]

...Oh. Well, when you put it like that, I guess it doesn't sound too bad.

[ Though it might feel weird to have a smiling face inside her belly always... ]

[jamminshield]

[It's one way to have a happy meal...]

See? Trust me, Lapis. You'll love it!

[He then pokes at his chin. It looks like he's deliberating some serious biz.]

But there's still some important decisions to make. Before the waiter gets here, we gotta figure out what you should drink!

[waterwing]

[ He DOES look very thoughtful. Is food something you need to think about a lot before eating it? Were there some kind of human rituals involved? Maybe she's not so sure about this... ]

Drink? Um...Steven, I don't know anything about drinking. [ Is it different than eating?? ] Does that involve smiling faces, too?

[jamminshield]

If we're lucky, then it'll involve your own! [Steven uses his fingers to trace the image of a smile along his own mouth.]

You know how your whole dealio has to do with water? Well drinking's like eating, but with water and all kinds of other liquidy objects! You just... drink it all down!

[He raises an invisible cup and makes some glugging noises.]

[waterwing]

[ If there's anything Lapis knows, it's water. Plenty of it flowed through her, though it's definitely odd to think of humans ingesting it. ]

Oh! I see! [ ...Or sorta, anyway. ] So what kind of drinks are there? Aside from water. [ she should probably try something that is not water. ]

[jamminshield]

So many kinds! Water's just the tip of the iceberg. ...Or I guess you'd call it a water-berg in this case!

But I think we'll stick with some of the classic breakfast standbies. Orange juice or milk! One comes from a fruit, and the other comes from a cow!

[waterwing]

[ ...Since she has no idea what a cow is but can at least vaguely identify "fruit": ] How about...orange juice? is that alright?

[ JUST. MAKING SURE. ]

[jamminshield]

It's super alright! Good thinking, Lapis! Orange juice is... like the heart of a good breafast. The orangey, juicey heart. [He puts a hand over his chest dramatically as he says that.]

But, that begs another important question! Lapis Lazuli, do you have any feelings about pulp?

[waterwing]

[ The heart of a good breakfast sounds...nice. She feels pretty good about her choice there.

Then, she blinks. ] ...Pulp? What's pulp, Steven?

[jamminshield]

Oh! Well pulp is like little bits of the fruit that get mixed in with the juice. Some people like it, buuuut I think it's really weird. So you can get your juice with pulp in it, or just as pure juice!

[waterwing]

[ ...Sorry, Steven. She still looks thoroughly perplexed after this explanation. But! When in doubt: ]

I think I'll like it the way you like it, without pulp.

[jamminshield]

Alright. We got ourselves a deal! [He gives a thumbs up, and then the waiter does stop by! He gives the order.]

Two of your freshest and non-pulpiest ojs, my good sir! ...Oh! And how could I forget? Two silly straws, too!

[waterwing]

What's a silly straw? [ They sound...silly. ] And...who was that person?