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[Being a doll doesn't appear to have deterred John from his usual antics at all. It being April Fool's Day, and him being a bit of a prankster...]

[Well, most of the doorways in the Manor have been rigged in some way. Some of them drop buckets of plastic snakes on unsuspecting victims' heads (because there was no running water due to the event, which was such a bummer!!), others pull the trigger on canisters of silly string. Some even drop small vats of molasses or some other sticky substance and then pull the switch on a fan, to blow the age-old trick of chicken feathers all over the poor sap that opened the door.]

[John is prowling around the Manor, watching his traps and waiting, hoping to come across something wildly hilarious and amp up his Prankster's Gambit.]

[[ooc; If you can think of something you'd like your character to be pranked with today, feel free to assume John has it set up somewhere. He's a crafty little brat, go wild. >D]]

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[Unfortunately, Kanda hasn't been introduced to the concept of April Fools', even though he's been pranked before. So, naturally, the little tricks around are quite aggravating to him, and the last straw is when opening a door makes a bucket full of powder fall on his head, leaving him nice and white.]

What is it with today?!

[And John is sitting on the back of a chair somewhere-- the cool thing about being a doll is that he can just sit somewhere and not move and nobody will really notice him until he moves.]

[Or in this case, cracks up laughing.]

Oh man you walked right into that one!!

[Kanda growls, looking around for the source of laughter, and goes in for the kill. Unfortunately, Mugen has turned plastic as well so he might as well be whomping things with a stick rather than a deadly blade. He doesn't find that funny at all.]

You set all of this up?!

[John honestly just laughs the entire time, stick-whomping or otherwise.]

It's April Fool's Day, of course I did!!

[Damnit. He's just going to put the stick away safely now as it should eventually turn back into what it should be, and shake the brat by his collar instead.]

And you think it's funny, four-eyes?

[John just rolls his eyes.]

Ooh, burn. I wear glasses, how insulting!! Yes it's funny. April Fool's Day is all about pranks, grow a sense of humor.

[Kanda will just shake him again for good measure and let go.]

This shit isn't humor.

[Pause. Actually...]

So what's with this April Fool's day?

[Never heard of it.]

[He brushes himself off needlessly, quirking his mouth. Geez, some people just have no funny bones.]

...wait you don't know what April Fool's Day is??

[What a terrible tragedy!!]

Edited (...terrible, not terribly.) 2012-04-06 02:05 (UTC)

[Seems like it. And it is rather terrible indeed; care to fix it? Kanda had a pretty good time when some guy explained Santa Claus to him.]

Not really, no. Why?

Oh man that is so distressing. Now I actually kind of feel bad for pranking you.

But only kind of. [Grins.]

April Fool's Day is a... primarily Western holiday, I think? Celebrated on the first of April by playing pranks on people. It's been celebrated since the Canterbury Tales came out in like the 1300s!!

Che.

[Kanda has a sinking suspicion that some of the people he knows well, namely Lavi, has in fact celebrated this day and therefore made him suffer since long ago, he just wasn't aware of it being some international prankster's holiday. How annoying.]

[So he actually listens, and while he doesn't look like he's planning to ease up on the kid, he's not doing anything violent, either. Baby steps.]

What's the point of it?

[John isn't overly bothered by Kanda's ominous presence, he just rolls with it, and gives him a sort of confused headtilt and a quirked eyebrow.]

Does there have to be a point? It's just for fun.

[Kanda's ominous presence grows more ominous as he opens his mouth to, apparently, ask what the point of fun is, but decides not to at the last moment.]

Oh.

[Sounding as if he had just stepped into something disgusting.]

[John's expression sours somewhat, and he scrunches his face up.]

...man, how old are you? You act like an old fogie, but you look like you're maybe twenty. Did you miss the part of life where you're supposed to enjoy yourself? [...John you really should stop.]

[Oh John, that is actually a surprisingly good guess. Not that Kanda is going to admit it is, of course. He just continues looking displeased.]

Nineteen. Or twenty, I'm not sure how time passes in these places.

[Doesn't say anything to the second question. He doesn't prance about telling everyone he was grown up in a lab, after all. Technically he's been at the world for ten strictly disciplined years, not counting visions from past lives.]

[John's sour expression persists.]

You act a lot older. Loosen up a little, okay? Have some fun, life isn't always about being serious.

[And Kanda's giving one right back. Is this a competition of sourness? What is it with those brats from other worlds, lots of them are so set on 'having fun'. As if four year olds aren't supposed to have responsibilities somewhere! Someone needs to bring up the whole all work and no play makes bob a dull boy thing.]

I'm a soldier. I'm supposed to be serious.

[Unamused.]

Soldiers can still have fun, you know. Yeah, it's important to be serious when you've got responsibilities, but are there any wars going on, right here and right now? Do we need a soldier in these hallways? I think we're pretty okay, dude.

Edited (...wtf is a solider.) 2012-04-10 19:50 (UTC)

[Not so long ago, Kanda would have trashed the kid and left. But after spending this much time around weird places without getting attacked, he's gotten just a teeny bit calmer about things.]

[So he actually takes a moment to consider that it is a valid point. His responsibilities and even purpose of life are all left behind somewhere else. There's just a tiny little problem. Beyond fighting a war, he doesn't know shit.]

...I've never done anything else.

[Grumble. Scowls to the side. This whole relatively peaceful environment is annoying at this point.]

~~[TEACH THIS BITTER CHILD FUN, OH GREAT ONE.]~~

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