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[fierybluebird]

[Option A:]

[It's Sunday night when Marco finally returns from the mission against pirates. He feels pretty good, it's always nice to be back out at sea doing something familiar that was absent for so long. Still he has a feeling his family that couldn't come might have had some massive explosions. They're all like Ace with a bottle of booze and some fireworks. It'd be nice just to make sure they're all in one piece. He will of course, be glad to see anyone however and probably give hugs to random CR. Affectionate tired-happy pirate get.]


[Option B:]

[Throughout the next week Marco has both made posters asking to vote for him for Homecoming King, and then doodled all over them. Feel free to catch him in the act, or to just find random posters of Marco with a top-hat, mustache, and monocle plastered all over them. MUCH MUCH later in the week, he'll also make chocolate cupcakes with blue frosting and sprinkles and hand them out with a little Whitebeard flag decoration stuck in. It's not a bribe. Obviously he just felt like it. Obviously.]

Comments

Option A!

[corruptedsouls]

[Sorry, tired-pirate, but there's someone else happy to see you.]

Dad!

[Tackle hug go!]

Option A! 1/2

[fierybluebird]

[Picks Toby up and spins him around in a circle.]

Toby~!

2/2

[fierybluebird]

[.....]

OI! What happened to your eye? [D:<]

OH SHIT SON

[corruptedsouls]

[Oh crap, he totally forgot about it.]

It was... just an accident...

[Pleaaaase don't make him elaborate he knows you're more sane than Mom but COME ON.]

XDDDD

[fierybluebird]

What happened?

Come on, you can trust me, eh? I won't do anything crazy. [Legitimately truthful here.]

[corruptedsouls]

...Something happened to me. I don't really remember it but I know I did something bad during it. Espio punched me because of it.

Mom wanted to kill him, but it was my fault in the first place. And Espio didn't mean to and was really sorry, so it's okay, right?

[fierybluebird]

[Despite the horror of that, Marco's actually still pretty calm. Especially outwardly.]

And she didn't kill him? Remind me to get her a very big present after my next mission, eh.

[And he'd be taking her shopping as promised...] Okay, but you don't know what the "something bad" was?

[Ruffles Toby's head to show it's okay, he's safe now, and Marco isn't planning to kill his boyfriend. Yet.]

[corruptedsouls]

Yeah... I don't... just that I did something really, really bad and I can't remember.

I mean, Espio wouldn't hurt me unless I really deserved it... Right...?

Option A

[espio]

[Marco can't even get through the gate properly before Espio decides to tackle him from behind.

Well, okay. It was less of a tackle, more of "run to greet, forgot to stop" crash, but even so.]

A

[fierybluebird]

[If Epsio weighed more, Marco would be seriously faceplanted into the ground. Luckily, as it is, he just tries to catch the chameleon and put him on his shoulders.]

Missed me or are you running off somewhere else?

[espio]

[Sorry, Marco, did you ask a question?]

Toby went insane, and I mean actually insane, I got him to snap out of it but it could happen again and he can't remember but I haven't told him everything about it because it was creepy as fuck, and I think I broke Grell because she didn't even try to kill me she just talked about cake and boycotting homecoming!

[Espio is only vaguely aware that none of this makes much in the way of sense.]

[fierybluebird]

You... broke Grell?

I didn't know that was possible.

Okay. Tell me everything that happened with "insane Toby" all right? Do you need to go somewhere calming?

[espio]

I don't know how else to put it, she should have tried to chainsaw me but didn't and I have no idea why! And - I - ugh...

[Really, really worked up. He's shaking.]

What would "somewhere calming" even be?

[fierybluebird]

I don't know, I find rooftops soothing. Come here.

[Picks Espio up to cradle in his arms and gives him a big hug.] That must have been scary, eh? Both during and after. [Pats Espio's head!] I'll handle Grell in a bit, but first, Toby. Start from the start.

option b

[senseofjustice]

[Someone is doodling on Marco's pictures, like drawing red strawberries that look like terrible circles with green. There's also one with a smilie face on it. Someone thinks that this is some kind of weird game.

This time she's in front of a poster and wrote the words "JUST" in blue instead of a customary red fruit.]

option b

[fierybluebird]

[Arches an eyebrow at the Just. He's all for strawberries, even his head is much more a pineapple, thank you very much, but "Just"? That's a bit more suspicious.]

[He's got his own blue marker and writes "a Pirate" right underneath. Just a pirate? Yes, he can go for that. Clearly not Homecoming King material.]

option b

[senseofjustice]

[Terezi giggles and adds in 'OF R1GHT3OUSN3SS' at the end. Still in blue.]

Sounds like an interesting candidate we have here!

option b

[fierybluebird]

Can pirates be righteous?

[You know, this is why he didn't want to run, he's ruining his street reputation already.]

option b

[senseofjustice]

[But she thinks you have a good reputation!]

Maybe! I imagine there might be ones who give to the poor, or only ever attack the evil nobles on the sea.

option b

[fierybluebird]

[Bursts out laughing.]

Evil nobles... I like the sound of that. Though you'd really have to be the first and only person I've heard calling nobles "evil."

A!

[redcinemareel]

[Grell is not in their room, but on a rooftop, brooding and plotting. The plotting is mostly in her head, and the brooding is all over her face. The kittens are in the room however. Have fun with them if he stops there first.]

[fierybluebird]

[Yup. He will just herd them back into a basket and dangle some string while he waits for her. And some minutes go by... Well that was fun. Time to find his wife. He actually goes to the roof to look first, because well... It's Marco. He would live on rooftops like a gargoyle if not for rain.]

Hey Kitten. I talked to Toby and Espio. Seems like I owe you a really big shopping trip, eh? [Pets her head affectionately and springs a quick present on her.] Good job on not killing anyone.

[redcinemareel]

[Those kittens adore Marco and his string! Too bad he left. Sadness.

Marco's arrival breaks her out of her thoughts and she smiles to him. Once he mentions Espio, her mood returns.]

Espio is a total nutter and deserves far more than what I can dish out--

[Oh, a present! Grell takes it quickly and inspects it.]

Absolutely stunning!

[fierybluebird]

[Grins, at least she's pleased! Success!]

He seemed genuinely really shook up. And also seemed to think he broke you.

Toby on the other hand might have a second, protective personality, eh?

[Tickles under Grell's chin gently and tugs her into a hug.]

[redcinemareel]

Well GOOD! He-- [what wait...] Broke me? What utter nonsense! I'm just biding my time. [She puts on the earrings with zest.]

Does he? It would explain a few things... [She hugs him tightly.] I don't like when you're gone this long. It's unnatural!