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 Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2018 9:38 pm
Prompt While out and about in Destiny City, you notice a particularly strange street performer who isn't getting much attention on the corner he's stationed himself at. He's a rather peculiar looking clown, complete with cliche red nose and squeaky shoes. No matter how many balloon animals he makes or tricks he tries to play, no one seems to pay him any attention. You happen to make eye contact with him and unfortunately, it seems to excite the fellow to have finally won over someone's attention. You manage to cleverly excuse yourself from the situation but nearly everywhere you go after that point, the strange clown is following you. The more you try to ignore him or brush him aside, the angrier he seems to get - and it's a little creepy, just how menacing he looks with that bright red smile gets turned upside down. Even as you manage to make your way to you or your friend's home, you can't help but notice the familiar, disturbing honks of a bicycle horn or the squeaks of oversized shoes following you... even up onto the front porch steps. It seemed impossible that no one else had spotted the clown. John Jr's gaze flickered from the girl who stood beside him, to the other people walking by, back to the clown. "That's a little sad, isn't it?" he said to Cynthia, gesturing at the clown with a hand. "He's working so hard, and nobody's noticed." John Jr had spent the last year and a half filling out in the shoulders and the chest. He looked more like a twenty-five-year-old man than he did a nineteen-year-old boy. But he would never be too big or too strong to enjoy a good balloon animal.
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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2018 1:14 pm
Cynthia looked at the clown and could only shiver. It reminded her of that fake Circus that she had been caught up in... never again. "Well clowns can be creepy. And sometimes people don't want a creepy-looking strange-clown interacting with them." Really, wasn't there a couple of movies and books about killer clowns or something? At this point they were just a cliche! If the clown didn't have the red nose on it might have been better. She looked over at John Jr. with a smirk. "But if you want one of them I'll wait for you to get it." She would just stay far away from the creepy fellow. She couldn't help but feel something was... off about him. Maybe it was because he wasn't a paid clown and was on the street trying to make balloon animals. Or maybe she had seen one-too-many scary movies.
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2018 12:31 pm
He supposed she had a point. Clowns could be creepy. It was hard to look at this one and not be reminded of Stephen King's creature It. His first instinct was to brush aside the little spooked tingle at the base of his spine as insignificant. It was just a clown. But. This was Destiny City. But. He was a page of Mars. There wasn't a clown in the world that could take him in a fight. Reassured, John Jr lifted his shoulders and crossed the street to get a balloon animal from the lonely clown. At his approach the clown made a "HEE-YUCH" sound, and positively BEAMED. His eyes reminded John Jr of a pug dog. They were too far apart, kind of shrunk into his head. John Jr instantly felt less sure of this decision, but was too stubborn to admit it. "Uh, could I get a giraffe?" Quick as a whip, the clown blew up a green balloon and twisted it into the shape of a giraffe. He thrust it at John Jr. And then he pulled out a red balloon. Turned this one into a dog. Thrust that at John Jr too. He turned a yellow balloon into a bird. A purple balloon into a butterfly. Threw everything at John Jr and belched out a laugh.
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2018 7:16 pm
Cynthia really wanted to laugh at John, but the whole thing was just way too creepy. She even thought about catching up to him and telling him that he didn't have to do it, but it was too late by the time she had the courage to do it, and John had already gotten the balloon. And another. And another. And another. That was enough. She ran up to John and tugged on his arm. "John, we should get out of here." She really, really wanted to get away from the creepy clown. She was starting to get flashbacks of the fake Circus event. Her mind was telling her that they needed to leave. Now. "It's fine John, you got some, but let's go." She said, tugging on his arm a bit more and refusing to look at the clown's face. wuthering gee hope you don't mind me just calling him John
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2018 12:09 pm
Big as John Jr was - it was impossible for Cynthia to drag him anywhere he didn't want to go, but when she tugged on his elbow he fell in line easily, arms overflowing with a rainbow mixture of balloon animals. "Yeah," he agreed, looking over his shoulder at the clown as Cynthia pulled him away. "Yeah, let's go." The clown had worked himself up to a frenzied pace now, twisting balloons into animals faster than John Jr could blink. When It realized they were leaving Its face twisted into a miserable pout. It pulled out a sewing needle the size of a garden carrot and POPPED the blue rubber dog clutched in Its white-gloved hands. Unwilling to abandon the other balloon animals to a similar fate, John Jr did his best to hold onto all of them while he and Cynthia made their escape. SSBrosB John is find if you like~
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2018 5:15 pm
Cynthia was glad that John went with her so easily, though she supposed it was out of shock or fear that she was even able to move him. "Freaking clown." She muttered as she saw the huge needle that was taken out. She felt fear making her body fill with adrenaline and started to walk/run a bit quicker. It was then that she noticed that John was still holding the other balloon animals. "You don't have to keep those you know?!" She said, slightly panicking. Sure, it was probably just a clown, but that didn't mean that her fear was silly. Clowns were evil. It was a known fact. She tried to turn a corner to get them both away from the clown, but she felt as though it's gaze was still on them, even after she couldn't see them and they were already halfway down the street. She looked behind them both just in case and gasped when she saw the clown at the corner that they had just been in. "S***!" She shrieked as she saw him. "Why?!" She was now officially starting to panic. wuthering gee I can change it if you think that's too much modding on my part!
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Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2018 2:50 pm
'You don't have to keep those you know?!'"But he'll kill them if I leave them!" And they were perfectly harmless, he was sure. Faceless, the balloons creaked wherever they rubbed together in John Jr's arms. It was unusually loud, he thought, and echoed off the brick walls behind them as they ran. He looked around when Cynthia gasped and swore, his own eyes widening at the sight of the clown at the end of the road. It grinned at them. As John Jr watched, It pulled out its long silver needle again and stabbed the air with it. In John Jr's arms the balloon giraffe went pop. The clown stabbed the air again, and the balloon bird went pop.Pop. The red dog. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop.John Jr swore, disbelieving, glaring at the colourful shreds of rubber at his feet. Cynthia was panicking. That clown was obviously something other than what it seemed. There was only one thing, really, that he could do. He powered up. One moment John Jr, tall and broad-shouldered, stood beside Cynthia. The next there was Syrtis, page of Mars, also tall and broad-shouldered, but half-naked in his leathers and armour, metal discuss gleaming in his hand. He stepped between the girl and the clown, blocking her from view, and gestured at the road ahead of them, "ladies first."
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2018 8:10 am
Did he seriously just say that he was worried about the f***ing balloon animals like they were a basket of kittens or something?! They were BALLOONS!!! And of course, since he refused to get rid of them, and they're squeaking was incredibly loud, the freaking clown found them! In fact, the both of them almost ran into it! And then it destroyed the balloon animals! Because John just had to keep them! Luckily he powered up pretty quickly, but for a moment she did wonder how effective that would be considering he could easily be stabbed in the chest. But oh well, he didn't have to tell her twice to run! She powered up herself, only to get that extra power to run and jump faster and farther. "You got it!" She said, letting John deal with the freaky clown since this was all his fault in the first place! She took the chance to jump over the two of them, and when she landed, took off running!
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Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2019 11:29 am
The momentary shock Syrtis felt when Cynthia powered up too was outweighed by a surge of irritation when she did actually leave, instead of standing to fight. Before he knew what she was, when he thought she was just an ordinary girl, protecting her from the thing that stalked them was paramount. He was a soldier. It was his duty to defend and shield. He watched her go and then felt sad. Another Mars knight would have joined him in this battle. He pursed his lips. Now that he knew Cynthia could take care of herself, the weight of his responsibility fell somewhere else. He squared his shoulders. Turned to face the clown, prepared to face it head-on. Alone. SSBrosB I think we can call this a wrap~
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