Mission 6: Ring Around Runaround [Visual/Action]

[strawberryredgrave]

(In a very visible corner of the Crystal Empire is a large, red dragon who sparkles and shimmers like the locals of the empire. Clearly, this guy went out for a swim at one point during his stay...but he doesn't seem very amused. In fact, Dante has the hardest lineface he's put on in a good long time. Why, you ask?

Well, why not ask the ponies tugging on his ear? Or the ones playing in his glorious mane? Or how about the ones swinging on his tail? Somehow, this dragon's been converted to a full on playground and it seems the ponies are taking full advantage of it...and why wouldn't they? It's not often they get to see dragons up close, let alone sparkly dragons that don't attack anyone and don't mind being used as a jungle gym. He at least seems to be humoring the ponies, bouncing a few on his tail, spelling out names with smoke...the works.

And just for an added touch, someone decided to add a little bear mask to him. The size clearly shows it's meant for a filly and it can barely stick to his snout. Somehow, it does.

He rests his head on his hand, tapping his claws impatiently.)

Recreational sports.

(You'd almost feel bad for him, but knowing Dante, he probably did something to deserve it. What, exactly? Well, perhaps it has something to do with a familiar pink pony princess who's also playing with a few of the kids...and Dante's hair.)

Comments

1/?

[neighfeni]

[...She really can't take her eyes off you for two seconds, can she, Dante? Here your sister was, going to get lunch after returning from swimming after going to check on the Commune, when she spots this.

For a few moments, all she can do is stare. Firstly, because ~sparkles~, secondly, because you are a playground, Dante.]

2/?

[neighfeni]

[Next, she's just working her jaw a little, holding up a hoof and moving it like she's about to say something, then lowering when words fail, several times. Because...what? How? Why?]

3/3

[neighfeni]

[...And then the answer to all of those questions becomes clear.

Because Dante.

After that revelation, she's biting her lip, simultaneously looking at the spectacle and thinking how cute it is, and trying so. very. hard to not laugh. SO HARD.

Approaching him, she and Daisy look at the scene for a few moments more...]

...Ah...[For a split-second, she thinks she's got nothing, but then the bear mask, and it's all she can do not to grin like a Cheshire cat.]
Ya know, Ah've not see ya be so impatient... is it really that unbearable?

[NEPH GET OUT.]

[strawberryredgrave]

...

(If he wasn't busy being a local attraction, Dante would award Neph with a slow clap. Truly, this is a moment for the history books: she made a pun.

And Dante can't help but feel proud. It got him to smile, at least.)

Not entirely. Everyone else is enjoying it.

(Including the Puntinel, apparently.)

[neighfeni]

[Not the first time, to be fair, but with no outside influences, it's one of the first. Just a dragon with a bear mask...sounded like the beginning of a joke in itself.

Smiling gently now that that was out of her system, his sister/student looked at the kids running around and tumbling on him, and, spotting Cirno, it became a little wistful. But she'd comment on that in a second. With a raised brow, first things first.]

So...what'd ya do to get in this situation?

[strawberryredgrave]

I asked a princess out on a date.

(Because what is Dante and restraint)

[neighfeni]

[The words don't tend to go together unless the words "has no" are between those two. Spotting the pink pony princess in his mane, she can't help smiling a little bigger.]

Uh, ain't Princess Cadence married? The one from here is, so... [Then again, Dante.]

[strawberryredgrave]

Yeah, she is.

(And that's all he has to say about that.)

[neighfeni]

[Dante, you cad. Good thing you never tried to hit on her after she got into a relationship; she'd do worse than make you a jungle gym. She just raises a brow, shaking her head.]

So, totally deserved this, got it.

[strawberryredgrave]

I might have, I might not have. All I'm saying is I like her enough to hit on her.

(That's also not helping matters, you dork.)