Twin Roses Mingle

[passingthrough]

Who: Twin Roses crew & whoever dares to join them!
Broadcast: Nah
Action: Twin Roses
When: June

[Twin Roses is +1 Sara Lance and recently equipped a set of poker chips, a flimsy basketball hoop in the cargo hold, and a set of Bag Toss boards and beanbags. The ship lounge also upgraded to a flimsy drink cart complete with drinking glasses, containers, and a replenishing ice bucket. There's also a dart board with a set of plastic darts. Does anyone on this crew has good aim? Mystery!]

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[goldenglasses]

The evil twin just got the princess to kiss him! She thought it was his brother! Now she's cursed for not kissing her one true love under the light of the aligning planets! [Vash grumpily announces out loud before he even registers who's speaking to him. Clearly overly passionate about wanting to talk about the event that just happened in his book and happy someone asked for his opinion.] That's not fair! That's cheating!

[ecclesiophobic]

[ Kurt's eyebrows furrow together, his eyes narrowing slightly. ] What is it, a retelling of the Swan Princess? [ Without waiting for an answer, Kurt vanishes in a purple puff of smoke, reappearing crouched on the back of Vash's chair. He brings with him more smoke and the distinct smell of brimstone, neither of which he apologizes for. Instead he leans forward, trying to peer at the page Vash is on. ]

[goldenglasses]

I don't know. What's the Swan Princess? Is that the one where an ugly swan is kissed and becomes a princess? [Not many stories about aquatic animals where he's from.

Vash tries not to cough and does his best to act like the smell and smoke doesn't bother him. It nearly has the opposite effect as he coughs in the way people do when they've swallowed a bit of water down their windpipe and they're trying to hide their "peril" from others.

The page is a bunch of flowery words about how the princess knew instantly when she kisses the evil twin that he was not her true love. Not just because she felt the curse starting to take her over, but because her heart rejected him. The true lover was just kicking in the door shouting Wait! But he had taken too long with the traps his twin had set up on the way and was too late the text was explaining.]

I suppose they do still have half a book to go, but this one better have a happy ending!

[ecclesiophobic]

[Kurt, because he's a jerk, does not apologize for the stench. As he scans the page, he reaches to pat Vash on the back 'helpfully' and probably ineffectively.] Princess who was cursed to become a swan. She was the one with the evil twin, not the.. prince? [He's not that familiar with it, enough to recognize similarities between the story he knows and the one on those pages. And, of course, the end.

Kurt cranes his head to look down at Vash, a sly smirk creeping across his face.] Better hope they take more creative liberties in your book, then. In the Swan Princess, she commits suicide. [Kurt you're a jerk.]

[goldenglasses]

WHAT!? [He frowns and starts skimming towards the end of the book.] Aw man, I like the happy ending stories better! I disapprove of suicide more than anything!

[ecclesiophobic]

Sometimes that is the happy ending. [Kurt actually does agree with Vash, but says it to continue needling the man. A small part of him feels guilty for it, Vash has been little but kind to him. But he's just so much fun to wind up.

Case in point: Kurt watches Vash's furious flipping through the pages with distinct amusement, though he does also lean over to glance at the book himself. Sue him, he's curious--and he always did like a good love story, tragic or not.]

[goldenglasses]

How is that happy? If they keep living who knows what could happen next! They could find a cure or something! They'll never get that chance if they're dead!

[It's almost like he's practiced that speech before as he absentmindedly answers Kurt's question. More interested in the task of spoiling the ending.

Vash is in luck! In this story right before the princess can commit suicide the prince gets himself cursed as well. Choosing to also turn into a vuablissae (whatever that is) as well instead of living apart from his princess. Their actions of being unable to live without the other is the key to break the spell on both of them.]

Oh thank goodness!