32nd Teddy Bear [Video]

[asobouyo]

[Elicia has had a really great New Feather round. For one thing, dad was back. For another, so was Sanji. These reasons alone made her the happiest person in all of Luceti (save for maybe... I dunno, Grune. She's always pretty happy and stuff. Oh, and that dog Dug she hasn't met yet). But otherwise, happiest! And when she pops in on video to address the populace, she's got a big ol' smile. Even if she sounds a little stuffy.]

Hi, new feathers! My name's Elicia! It's getting real cold, so make sure you all got real warm coats, okay?? 'Cause getting a cold is not a good thing; your nose gets real stuffy and you go through... a lot of tissues...

[aah—achoo!

... She might be coming down with something. It happens to the best of us.]

Ummm, I wanna make really tasty hot chocolate and cookies and give them to you... I think I'm gonna ask mama and papa if we can go to the Welcome place so I can... Or maybe I can give the nice people who work there some, so they can give to people...!

[UM UM. IS THERE MORE.]

Oh, yeah! My papa and my big bro are here again, so make sure you say hi! My papa's name is Maes, but lots of people call him Hughes, and my big bro is Sanji—he's a cool chef at the restaurant, so you should definitely try his food! And my papa is a military guy! Is there other people who work in the military? You should meet him!

[... one more thing!]

And Mr. Uncle Jack, I gotta see you again so I can give you back your cool compass, so if you want it...!

Comments

[asobouyo]

Oooh! They're shoes?? I should get some ga-lo-shes then! Do you think they're at the store??

[rollypolyclover.livejournal.com]

Maybe! Daddy got my galoshes from somewhere, so he might have gone to the store to get them. Make sure you get yellow ones! [The colour is the most important thing here.]

[asobouyo]

Okay!

Why do they gotta be yellow? Is that super important?

[rollypolyclover.livejournal.com]

Super important! If you don't pick yellow then they won't be the same colour as mine. [And yes, this really is super important.]

[asobouyo]

[OMG YES MATCHIES

ELICIA CAN APPRECIATE]

You wanna match, really?! We'll look really cool!

[rollypolyclover.livejournal.com]

Yeah, really really!! We'll look cooler than cool. So that means we'll look super cool!!

[THEY CAN MATCH AND GO PLAY IN PUDDLES. AND SNOW. AND IT WILL BE BRILLIANT]

Then we can go splash each other in puddles and play in the snow!

[asobouyo]

And then we can play Jungle Explorers!! And we'll find all kinds of cool treasures!!

[rollypolyclover.livejournal.com]

[Jungle explorers? With lions and stuff and other big animals?






WHY DIDN'T SHE THINK OF THAT?!] Yes!! We can tame all the big cats and ride on elephants and-- and... Dig for treasure! The cool treasure!!

[asobouyo]

Digging for treasure sounds like a great idea! What kinds of treasure do you think we'll find?! O-oh, like pirate treasure?! Or maybe dinosaur bones...! And they come to life and chase us!!

[rollypolyclover.livejournal.com]

Maybe!! Yotsuba has never gone looking for treasure before! It could be stuff like... Money! Lots of gold coins! And if we find bones, maybe we'll find some other old stuff too.

We'll have to run really fast so the boney dinosaur doesn't eat us!! We can get in our car and drive off! [All explorers have cars, right?]

[asobouyo]

But there aren't any cars here!! They all got taken by the malnosso, I bet!

...

But maybe we'll be okay! 'Cause dinosaur bones don't have bellies, so they can't eat us, right??

[rollypolyclover.livejournal.com]

Do you think so?! That explains why I haven't seen any cars here at all. Or any bicycles either!

...Maybe they'll try to eat us anyway!! But we'll just fall out again when they swallow. Then they'll be sad, not being able to eat stuff...

[asobouyo]

Ohh! I have a bicycle!! You can ride it if you wanna!

[:D]

'Specially if you get chased by sad dinosaur bones!

[rollypolyclover.livejournal.com]

You do?! [Guess who recently learnt how to ride a bike before coming here?!] Does it have training wheels on so you don't fall off? If I'm gonna be chased, I don't want to fall and get eaten by some big sad boney dinosaur!!

[asobouyo]

Uuuumm, I got the training wheels took off, but we can put them back on if it'll keep us extra safe from dinosaurs!

[rollypolyclover.livejournal.com]

You had them taken off?! ...Is Yotsuba behind with the times yet again? [...] Now I really need to learn how to cycle good like daddy and Fuuka and... Asagi and Tora... and everyone else! Otherwise dinosaaaurs will eat everyone!!

[asobouyo]

That's okay! I'm six, but when I first got here I was five and I didn't know how to ride a bike without training wheels then! It doesn't take very long if you work hard!

[rollypolyclover.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh! Someday, Yotsuba will be six too... Before then, I should work really hard to learn to ride a bike with training wheels. Daddy will be really impressed when he finds out!!

[asobouyo]

He'll be super proud!! You can come over whenever you want and I'll show you how to do it!

[rollypolyclover.livejournal.com]

Really super proud!! Yotsuba will come over right away, right now! [Seeing as she's used to just wandering over to the neighbours house whenever back home she's quite happy to do the same here. Too bad people live much further apart than next door here.

The journal falls silent for a moment... And then Yotsuba returns!] Where am I going? [Seems she had already walked out the door before realising she has no idea where to go.]

[asobouyo]

Uuuuh!! Mama and papa call it House 23!! If y'walk down the road there's a bridge, too!!

[rollypolyclover.livejournal.com]

Twenty three? Ohhh. Okay okay, got'chya. I'm off again! [Whoosh. And away she goes...

...Only to return again shortly.] I'm not supposed to leave the 'partment on my own. You can come with me though! ['You' being 'the journal'. Picking it up now.] I'm allowed to go to the store and stuff on my own, but new places I should visit with Otonashy first.

[asobouyo]

O-oh, but I can't leave the apartment on my own, neither!!

[;~;]

O-oh!! I know! Do you go to school?? 'Cause I can bring my bike to school and we can ride it around outside when we're allowed!

[rollypolyclover.livejournal.com]

It's okay, we're going to be together now! [The journal totally counts as parental supervision. Yup. And out the door she goes, off in search of house 23!

...She is going to get all sorts of lost.]

School? Ena goes to school, and Fuuka goes to school... Yotsuba doesn't go to school.

[asobouyo]

You don't?? Why not?