CUPCAKES FOR ALL Y'ALL

[mechromantic]

you know what's fantastic? cupcakes. cupcakes are fucking incredible. are you upset, friend? did your cat get sick? have a cupcake. is your bff trying to take over the world with an evil corporation? have a cupcake. did your planet get destroyed by a psychotic alien and are all your friends dead? sit down, motherfucker, have a cupcake on me. shit, did you not want a pink one? that's okay, there are ten thousand of those rainbow assholes right behind you. no, they aren't magical. no, they aren't drugged. you know why? because cupcakes are already the best they can be. like you. NO, I'M NOT REALLY HERE, DON'T ASK STUPIDASS QUESTIONS. THERE ARE JUST CUPCAKES. EVERYWHERE. YOU ARE A SPECIAL PERSON. YOUR HAIR GAME IS STRONG. WOULD YOU LIKE A CUP OF TEA WITH THAT CUPCAKE? RIDE THE FUCKING WIND, CHAMP, IT'S YOUR DAY. HAVE SOME SPRINKLES. the nick fury CUPCAKE SHARE meme • name & series in the header. • HAVE A CUPCAKE. HAVE TWO. SHARE WITH YOUR FRIENDS. no rules, just be excellent to each other.

credit goes to chopsocky

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[bleachout]

...Tch.

[Whether or not it was the right answer, Kanji looks less than satisfied. Reaching past Roxas, he gently removes the cat cupcake in question from the tray and holds it out, all with the same glare on his face.]

There. That other one's no good any more. But you better be damn careful with the rest, alright? I -

[Oops. Now his expression flickers, turning very faintly pink.]

- someone spent all that time on 'em, dammit, and there's only so many to go around! So scram.

[heartismyown]

[He doesn't look happy with what Roxas said. Maybe he said the wrong thing, or maybe it's because he's doing the wrong thing in the first place that has this guy upset. He watches him take another cupcake and offer it but instead he gets a fleeting feeling he can't place.

He still looks kinda pissed at him, and he does notice the slip.]

You made them?

[Someone had to have, although he probably shouldn't ask the question, sometimes they just get blurted out before he thinks. He's probably taking someone else's cupcake and he just shakes his head, refusing to take it from him.]

I'm gonna have ice cream later. I shouldn't have taken your...cake thing.

[bleachout]

[Kanji almost drops the cupcake he's holding out, though thankfully without any adorable feline casualties - and just like that, it's back to the shouting.] They ain't my cake things, I'm saying! And who cares who made 'em!? Just take it already so's I can clean up, you little brat!

[Is this kid really much younger than him? ...Man, nobody cares about that either!]

[heartismyown]

[A little or a lot younger depending on how one looked at it. Roxas seems more confused than anything and he takes a step back from him. He realizes that Kanji means the mess he made and he shakes his head.]

I can clean it up.

[That, he knows, he is supposed to do. Instead of taking the cupcake, he takes a napkin from the table and crouches down to pick up the ruined one.]

I...don't care who made them. I was just curious about them. [Does Kanji even care about what he's talking about? Maybe not.] I never had any before. I don't think. I don't know how you make them. They looked good.

[There's a reason he's not really supposed to do things like steal innocent cupcakes from normal people.]

[bleachout]

[... Huh? Insofar as Kanji expected anything, a reaction that meek wasn't it.

He scratches his head with his non-cupcake-filled hand, looking awkward.] Well, uh... tell ya the truth, s'kind of an experiment for me too... They're pretty simple, though. It's the decorating you gotta be careful with. You wanna make sure they don't look sloppy.

[heartismyown]

Decorating? What do you mean?

[Roxas peers up at him from where he's crouched for a moment before wiping frosting off the floor. Never mind he'd smeared some on his boot, and his other glove. He gets up and puts the mess in the trash and grabs a napkin to wipe his hands with.]

How do you do it?

[bleachout]

Huh? Can't exactly show ya while we're standing around like this... [His friends might be great people, but barging into someone else's kitchen without a really good reason, like if they seriously piss him off? Nah, that's not what he's here for.] Well, for the things on top, you can get these sugar sheet things and just cut 'em out, same as anything else. And the frosting's, uh, frosting.

[He starts to mime it, passing the kitty cupcake he's still holding over the rest of the tray in a slow, careful spiral, but soon feels like a world-class moron and sets it down.] Anyway, it ain't that interesting.

[heartismyown]

[Strange as it may seem, Roxas is watching with a great deal of interest. He's never really given that much thought to how food is made, and to him it's kind of fascinating. The animals are made of sugar and Roxas knows he likes that.]

You can get sugar in a sheet? Where? Can you eat it just like that?

[Wouldn't Axel be surprised if he brought him something that cool?]

I could make a cat like that and put it on our ice cream!

[He's been completely distracted from the various things he's supposed to be doing.]

[bleachout]

[That there is a little too much enthusiasm for Kanji to keep up with.] Huh? Yeah, I guess ice cream'd work too, it's literally just sugar... But I just saw a new place with the stuff for it in town the other day, I don't really... Maybe I shoulda brought the rest?

[He rubs at his neck. By this point, it's pretty obvious that the unimposing blond kid is making him more nervous than vice versa.]

[heartismyown]

It's okay, I was just thinking out loud. My best friend and I have ice cream every day. It sounded like something cool I could show him. Although he probably knows about these little cake things. He knows everything.