driftfleet | Video: DON'T blow out all the candles

Who: Lumière and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Wonderduck
When: December 27th

[Christmas is always something of a bittersweet experience for Lumière. He loves the holiday, yes- but it's also the anniversary of the curse. The fact he has experienced an 11th Christmas stuck in this form is not a comforting one. Were he back home, that would have meant it was permanent.

Still, he's managed to keep his usual upbeat attitude- and then today happened. The video opens to him in the cargo hold of the Wonderduck. A footstool snuffles around him, occasionally letting out an excited yap before bounding off to explore other parts of the hold back end (or what you'd ASSUME is the back end) wagging. See, Sultan was a NICE gift, Atroma. This. This is bullshit.

Lumière is staring at a cake. It's his cake. And, of course, it wouldn't be Atroma if it wasn't mildly offensive. There's also a shitton of candles on it- 42, if you care to count. ]

Oh...wow. Atroma. You....shouldn't have. No. Really. You shouldn't. [He gives the offending cake a prod.] I am not sure if I should offer this to anyone or not. I dread to think what is inside of it and I'd hate to give any of you food poisoning before New Year.

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[That gets a laugh.]

I should be nicer. I don't even know him. I prefer to only be mean to my friends.

To be honest, he does tend to bring it on himself. He's very...frustrating.

I'd probably be frustrating too if I was a clock.

He was frustrating as a human, too. That's nothing new.

[She laughs at that.] Nothing like being cursed with a frustrating person? Not that I'd know from personal experience.

Of course not, you wouldn't have a clue at all. [He chuckles. ]

I have been in guys bodies a few times, but never an inanimate object. I mean other than to walk through them.

Honestly, you're not missing much. You can let it be something you never tick off your bucket list.

Now that I've mentioned it I'm probably doomed. There'll be a glitch and the next thing I know I'm a bookshelf.

I promise if that is the case I will do all I can to help you adjust to your, hopefully temporary, new existence.

The's very sweet of you. At this point in my life it might just feel like another Tuesday. As long as it doesn't last as long as a curse.

It is important to learn to roll with the strangeness, no?

...Though yes, let's hope it does not last this long.

It is. But to be fair, there's an excessive amount of strangeness here and I used to work with a guy with a weirdly stretchy body who could shapeshift into anyone and anything.

...

Every time I think I have heard the strangest thing about your world and every time you surprise me.

Oh, Lumy, no. There is so much more strange to go into back home. [And, yes, she just called him "Lumy".]

[The nickname pleases him, he will wear it like a badge of honour. ]

I think I can believe that, somehow. I'd probably buy just about any strange fact you'd give up to me about your world at this point.

Well, now I just want to mess with you. I'm going to need you to be more careful. I have terrible self control. [Her self control is...questionable, but mostly okay.]

[He laughs. ]

We could always make a game of it. See if I can spot a lie or a truth.

Would I have to tell you if you were right or not? I think that might take some of the fun out for me.

No no, you can keep it a secret. Keep me guessing forever.

[She laughs lightly.] You're my favorite human candle of all the human candles I know.

Awww, mecri becoup. You're my favourite mutant that I know.

Hah! Take that Remy, Kurt, and Billy.

[He had no idea they were from the same world, the more you know! ]

Ah hah! Yes, take that, those guys.

[Just Kurt. Don't make her explain the greater Marvel Universe to you. Ain't no one got time for that!]

I should go let them know how badly they've been burned. I hope you and the footstool have a lovely rest of your day.

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