let's go to the carnival!

[shelliemay]

the carnival meme

WHAT TO DO: 1. Post with your character! 2. Pick a scenario and reply to people! 3. Have fun and try not to get sick on the roller coaster! OPTIONS: 1. Games: From classic ring toss to the shooting gallery, here's your chance to win a prize for yourself or for that special someone. Some say the games at a carnival are rigged, but maybe, just maybe, you'll get lucky! 2. Food and Drink: The sweet smell of funnel cake and the familiar briny aroma of popcorn draw you over to the food and drink tent. There's cotton candy, candied nuts, and cheep booze, all here for your enjoyment. 3. Classic Rides: The carousel, the ferris wheel. All carnivals need these classic rides for kids and adults who aren't looking for the excitement of the faster-paced rides. Snuggle close to your partner and see if you can see your house from the top of the wheel. 4. Something More Exciting: This is for thrill-seekers. Here you'll find the Tilt-a-Whirl, the Gravitron, the Screamin' Swing--all the rides designed to make you lose your lunch. Hope you didn't have too much cotton candy! 5. Freakshow: Do they really have a bearded lady in that tent? It's time to find out. Buy a ticket and see the greatest oddities the world has to offer. 6. Tunnel of Love: Or perhaps tunnel of mild boredom. The red-tinted lights and quasi-romantic music are meant to make this ride a great makeout spot, if the chemistry is there. 7. Hall of Mirrors: You and your partner entered, thinking it would be easy to get out again, but dead ends abound in this wacky mirror-maze, and each mirror seems to show a more and more distorted image of each of you. 8. Fortune Teller: Whether one of the creepy machines or the even creepier women dressed up in a culturally insensitive costume, you cross someone's palms with silver and get your future told. Will it be happiness forever with your partner, or will ill tidings be bound your way? (Feel free to use this online tarot spread for extra fun!) 9. Wildcard: Any situation of your choosing happens in a carnival today! Go with the flow.

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[eights_and_aces]

Pardon her for a moment Hawks. She quickly downed the bottle in one pull and gave a deep sigh as caught what little spilled onto her lips with one finger.

"I'm close to one or surprised. I guess 'a lot' can be added to that list too." Bemused mutant is bemused. "Hell of a good way to find that one out."

If it was the distance, the beer, company, or combination of all three she was finally starting to settle down. Holding up the now empty bottle with an expression that asked for another on her face, before she continued.

"They used not to bother me. I mean I grew up in the country, but when I was about twelve or so a rattle snake spooked the horse I was on. It reared, I went off to one side and when I looked up after face planting I was looking at a very pissed off Mr. NoShoulders right in its creepy fucking eyes."

Shudders from before had nothing on the one that she gave after telling that story.

Fuck snakes.

[icarusincarnate]

Oh, he most certainly could get her another beer as he listened to her story. By the time she was done he had another beer to offer her and some vendor was stupefied to find a small pile of bills on his counter out of nowhere.

"Holy shit. No wonder you're freaked out." He said sympathetically, pressing the new bottle into her hand as he took the empty one to throw away. "I can't even imagine... They should warn you about that sort of thing before you go into a haunted hell house. What even was that room? It seems way too expensive for a carnival. I wouldn't be surprised if you're not the only one who's had troubles."

[eights_and_aces]

Anna would let him trade her bottles and she gave him a smile. Still a bit muted but no less genuine. This time she took a moment to hold the cold glass first to her forehead and then to each cheek before taking a sip.

Shifting a bit on his lap and nodding. "Well they did call it a haunted hell house...I can vouch for that, cause that was.." Anna shook her head. "Maybe we missed it, cause I wasn't paying much attention and who knows where they got them all. In fact I don't want to know where they got them from."

Another sip, and she looked at him. "At least got to play hero."

[icarusincarnate]

"That is the real question. Is there a Amazon website where they only sell snakes in bulk? Because I vote we shut that down." He smiled a little bit, glad to see her cheering back up. "As for playing hero, I didn't do that much. Now if one of those snakes turned out to have giant muscular arms and legs that tried to punch you into next year, then I could have really played at hero work."

[eights_and_aces]

"God I hope not." Anna just pales at the thought and takes another beer. "Unless they are cowboy boots or belts. 'Bout the only good they are for."

Yes the girl had a definite approach.

She snickered around the bottle as she tried to not cough up a mouthful of beer. Shaking her head and swallowing. "Well, I think you did alright. Side's no sense of messing up your face."

[icarusincarnate]

"Sorry, didn't mean to make you choke." He apologized, glad though that he had managed to get her to laugh. "I'm offended that you think that I'd let a snake with fists hit me in the face. This is the money maker!"

[eights_and_aces]

"Oh it is? Do you have a side hustle going on to make a little bit of change on the side?" A bit of a grin, and most of the distress in her voice now gone.

[icarusincarnate]

"I wish I had time for that. I do get to model, sometimes, if a brand wants me to be a part of their commercial. I don't get to make most of those decisions, though, that's my PR people... Heroes often partner up with brands we like, or sometimes ones we just find mostly tolerable. It's kinda like being any other sort of public face, you know?" He explained, returning the grin.

[eights_and_aces]

"Kinda sounds like you're a Calvin Klein model..." She gave him a side eye, glanced down and glanced up. "Are yo a Calvin Klein model on the side as part of your 'PR'"

She said it with a straight face and took another drink. Completely ignoring pretty much everything outside of those enveloping wings.

[icarusincarnate]

"...Well." He trailed off suggestively, raising his eyebrows. "I'm not going to lie and say I haven't modeled a few pieces of clothing here and there... But nothing in my underwear. Yet." He grinned and winked. "You have to look at the fanart of me for that."

[eights_and_aces]

"Are you sure you want me looking at the fanart? It might ruin my innocence and all." She quipped back.

[icarusincarnate]

"Oof, good point. Never mind, never look at the fanart. Or really, just don't Google me at all. It won't end well." He laughed! "Sometimes I really don't understand my fans, though I appreciate each and every one of them."

[eights_and_aces]

"Well since you just really got to know me, I figure I might as well warn you." She gently tapped the end of his nose with one finger. "Never tell me not to do something." She paused and took another drink. "Cause I might just do it anyway."

[icarusincarnate]

"...Oh, shit." Hawks laughed again, grinning ear to ear. "I knew I was going to like you when we first met, but now I'm starting to think we were destined to become good friends. I'm exactly the same way; it's a bad habit I'm not even bothering to try and correct."

[eights_and_aces]

"Sooooo.....it wasn't the shorts and crop top then?" Anna gave him a sly grin over the bottle resting on her lower lip. Cackling a bit. Obvious her earlier panic, no sheer terror forgotten. "Well then Hawks, you might be in trouble."

[icarusincarnate]

"I'm not going to lie and say those didn't help." He replied honestly with a grin of his own. Anna seemed like she had fully recovered, which was good. He looked around at the other rides, wondering what they could go on that might boost her mood even more.

"Hey, let me pick another ride as an apology for my choice last time. How about one of those big swinging ship things?" He suggested, spotting one a little bit away.

[eights_and_aces]

A bit of a smile.

"Good, least ya ain't dead." She followed were he was pointing and nodded her head, making her mess of a hair bounce slightly. " Hawks, you ain't got anything to apologize for. That shit came out of the blue and you didn't even know.

But yea, if you want to, I'm game." Finishing off her beer. "I do like a good ride an all."

[icarusincarnate]

"Not dead yet!" Hawks grinned and helped Anna to her feet, squeezing her hand. "Still, I feel bad." Felt so bad, in fact, that he wasn't going to tease her over the "liking a good ride" comment. Yet.

"Do you even like the boat ride?" He asked as they headed that way.

[eights_and_aces]

" "Yet' seems to be the operating word, eh?" Grinning a bit as she felt the squeeze of her hand, returning it instinctively. Blowing some stray locks out of her face and crooked a brow. Letting him guide her through the crowd. "The boat ride?"

A moment wracking her brain but for the life of her she didn't recall seeing one. "Where? I missed it."

[icarusincarnate]

"That's what it is, isn't it? Or, I guess it's more of a ship..." He nodded towards the giant swinging ship that rocked back and forth at increasingly precarious angles. "That one looks like a pirate ship, I think."

*facepalm*

[eights_and_aces]

Anna nodded, apparently still a bit scatterbrained from earlier. For some reason she had thought he was talking about another boat ride.

"Yes, or the giant swing. But most of them are done up like ships. Priate, like that one" Gesturing with her chin. " or viking ships. I have no idea why. Maybe cause it's like getting caught up in a big assed storm with huuuuuuge waves?"

Whatever, she was game. Hell at this point of the night, she'd right it standing on her head as long as there were no snakes involved. A bit of a shudder at the chill induced by the thought as now she dragged him into line. Breaking his grip to shift her phone from her back pocket into one of the zippered ones on her jacket. Looking at him.

"Anything you want me to put in?"

No worries!

[icarusincarnate]

Anna had had a pretty traumatizing moment earlier; that she had recovered so quickly spoke of her resilience. "I think if I was in a boat that rocked that much, I would just abandon ship. There's no way that thing wouldn't capsize no matter how good the pirates and/or vikings were... Oh, thanks."

He offered over his own cellphone and wallet, checking the former to make sure nothing had blown up (literally or figuratively) while he had been off having fun. Looked like things were good! "You must have magic powers, no one is asking me where I am yet."

[eights_and_aces]

"Well not everyone has wings either." She laughed and let him put his stuff into her pocket, zipping it up and patting it lightly confident in the zipper's powers of securement.

"Oh? Are you saying I'm a singular distraction?"

[icarusincarnate]

"I mean, fair enough, but people who go out on the ocean without wings or some sort of swimming quirk are crazy. I respect them, but they're crazy." His wings meant that he couldn't really swim, so Hawks was leery of big bodies of water. Pirates were cool though.

"And yes, you're a very singular distraction, and you're dangerous because you know it." He chuckled, glancing over at her as they stepped up onto the ride.

[eights_and_aces]

Anna pondered that. "That is what people do, Quirks or not, they strive to survive." It may sound egalitarian at its face. "I think there is a quote...something about themselves themselves against the the stone." Her brow crossed cause she could not place it exactly.

Stepping along side him and sitting, ensuring Steve was properly stowed. "Do I? I am just me Hawkes."