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 Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 5:39 pm
She'd only been back on the Island a couple days, and already she was learning that minipet duty was not her favorite. To be fair, most duty wasn't her favorite. Given her druthers Astrid would have spent half the day in bed and the other half on the beach, and her heavy pursuit of the latter ensured that she was even more tan and freckled than ever under the lab scrubs as she came around the corner of a row of tanks, carrying a bucket in one hand and using the other to pinch her nose closed. Oh, good, her duty partner was here. She didn't even look at them, just put the bucket down on the floor. "Take care of that, will you," she said absently. bittiface Battle of the spoiled princesses is a go
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 5:43 pm
"As if!" Kiki scoffed, a muffled sound from her light pink scarf tightened over her nose and mouth. She kept her arms and hands close to her body. She'd wrapped her lolita style shoes and tights in clear plastic bags to save them from the filth. She also wore a plastic bag poncho over her tiered pink knee length skirt and frilly blouse. "This is man's work! How dare they task me with such a shitty job!"
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 5:45 pm
This gave Astrid pause, and she backwards-walked back to the end of the aisle, to crane back and peer more closely at her mission partner and her... interesting get up. "Well if you'd rather," she said, queenly, "you could scrape it out instead of emptying the bucket."
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 5:48 pm
"I would RATHER empty the bucket than scrap anything!" She haughtily replied, gingerly approaching the bucket with a hidden sour face. Scraping things from walls risked getting pooped on. "Nasty little creatures ought to be gassed."
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 5:54 pm
She snorted, crouching down in front of a cage to do exactly what her dutymate didn't want to and kind of wishing she hadn't left it as an option. "Well you're gonna have to scrape the other half anyway, I'm not doin' the whole thing. Anyway they're not all bad. Some of 'em are pretty cute. They look like if a Sanrio store came to life, sometimes. And grew a couple extra eyes, maybe."
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 5:59 pm
"What ever. Plushies are cute. These things aren't." She huffed, holding the bucket as far from her body as she could. "One is kind of cute. A room full of them is just disgusting. Smelly, noisy vermin."
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 6:02 pm
"They are kinda smelly," she conceded, her nose wrinkling. "Which is why you're gonna scrape this other half," she reminded her. It seemed wise to keep reminding her. "So like. Brace yourself, or whatever. It's only an hour. This is pretty messed up, though, you'd think they'd have like... dedicated minipet staff, or like, maybe people do this when they broke things or failed tests or something. I didn't break nothing. Or fail a test."
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 6:06 pm
"You are absolutely right!" Kiki agreed, finally dumping the bucket somewhere and returning to actually lend a hand. "If this place had a regular crew, cleaning and maintaining the cages, it would never reach such a hideous state. The only other way it could be this bad otherwise would be if the minipets have explosive diarrhoea on a regular basis." She began to scrape away at a cage. "Nasty, dirty things."
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 6:11 pm
She was, in all honesty, a bit startled when this worked, and the pink princess deigned to actually contribute to the work. "I like your tights," she said politely, "but maybe you should wear jeans for this, or something. Especially if you think they're so disgusting."
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 6:13 pm
"I don't own jeans." She scoffed. "What's the point of owning beautiful clothing if I must hide myself in rags at all times?" She then laughed. A laugh that sounded like a royal cackle of amusement. As if a cackle could actually sound beautiful. "I refuse."
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Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 10:45 am
Astrid considered this for a long moment while she half-heartedly set to work on another cage, shooing its many-tentacled occupant off to a corner first. "But what's the point of owning nice clothes if you gotta go around in plastic on top?"
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Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 11:01 am
"Most of my duties aren't quite as dirty as this one." She huffed indignantly, flinching when a minipet started sniffing about too close to her hands. "Shoo." She ordered it, flicking her wrist as a gesture of warning at the thing. "Go away." She worked slower than Astrid did, unaccustomed to cleaning duties despite the time spent as a trainee on Deus. "Besides, one day I won't have to do such menial tasks. It is a sacrifice I pay now in order to be better off later down the road." "Jeans are for farm girls. I am a mother ******** Princess."
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Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 12:10 pm
"Princesses don't say the F word," Astrid returned mildly. "I got a pair of jeans that's pink with white polka dots on, they're pretty princess-y and I can scrub floors in them, but like. To each her own I guess. I'm in Life, I'm pretty sure I have to do menial tasks forever."
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Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 1:16 pm
"You aren't a princess, so you don't get to decide what a princess does or doesn't do." Kiki replied with a snort. There was something about this girl that rubbed Kiki the wrong way. She reminded her of someone. "I will in fact wear what I want. Your suggestions are moot. And inferior."
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Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 7:50 pm
"And what kingdom do your parents rule?" she asked, very politely.
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