Pumpkin Party

[palletspride]

Who: The Reds, Leaf, and Green, to start with. Open to the rest of the Pokécast!
What: Pumpkin party. Or on black-haired Red's end: what are these people doing in my house
Where: Cloud Spires
When: Backdated to shortly after this post.
Warnings: Only for silliness. And black-haired Red being himself.

First the candy, now these pumpkins. Red hadn't really thought much of the things suddenly springing up, other than that Charizard was fond of smashing them. He'd briefly noticed Leaf's post regarding what to do with them, but he hadn't paid much attention to it, ultimately (mainly because he was at work, and baby dragons required all his attention).

When he got home, however, he was starting to wish he had. Pikachu had leaped off his shoulder the moment he walked through the door (probably to where things were happening), but there were more people here than there were when he'd left that morning.

"What's all this?"

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[aftermtsilver]

"Finally joining the party, Red?"

Hello, brown-haired Red here to meet your acquaintance. At least from the spot that he's present at inside the house, pumpkin in his hands that he raises in a playful welcome to the other boy (can't wave if both hands are full, after all), along with that perpetual smile of his.

"Don't worry, you didn't miss out - we've got plenty more of these to get through. You know anything about pumpkin carving?"

Also for Pikachu, there is another of its kind in the room to be met. How exciting.

[warlord_of_aurora]

Enzan is in the house, having come to give the ingredients Leaf needed for the pumpkins pies she was going to bake. Eevee was perched on his shoulder with his dragonfly resting on his head-crest like always.

"Hello Red," the warlord greeted him when he spotted the Kanto champion.

[almostthebest]

"He dragged me here," Green says immediately, not looking up from hacking ferociously at a pumpkin (though he's not doing that badly). "I can leave if you want to."

[aftermtsilver]

"He was coming over anyway, so I just made it easier for him," Red butts in, because he can and why not if he's going to be blamed.

"He heard Leaf wanted some pumpkins carved and jumped at the chance of being a good friend."

[almostthebest]

"Oh, shut up," he snaps, brushing his bangs out of his face as he lifts his head to glare at Red. "I was just coming because I didn't want her to kill herself. You think I trust any of you with a knife."

[aftermtsilver]

"You can trust me, I've always got a knife with me!" he shares, oh so casually.

Like he's got one now, for his pumpkin, that he sits between his legs as he slumps down onto the floor near to Green because hi. He points the knife down towards Green's pumpkin.

"Shouldn't we be afraid? You're really going at it with that pumpkin." He slowly moves the knife side to side, grinning and husking his voice low, "Are you imagining it's me?"

[almostthebest]

"That's terrifying," Green deadpans, sitting back from his work for a moment to shoot Red a look. "And no, I'm not imagining it's you. Where do you even come up with this nonsense?"

[aftermtsilver]

"Dunno," Red answers simply, voice back to normal, and then he asks, "How's it coming along?"

And the look Green receives back is a smile!

[almostthebest]

He just gets a blank look from Green for a few moments. When he finally speaks, it's brief. "It's fine. What's wrong with you?"

[aftermtsilver]

"What?" Red cocks his head, confused for the question and the way he looks at him. "You're giving that one a face, right?"

[almostthebest]

"Sure? I don't actually care." Though the face is actually emerging spectacularly well.

[aftermtsilver]

"Did you empty it first? I can just start stabbing out a face right now, can't I?"

Which is exactly what he starts to do, putting his knife straight through one area to begin at an eye. What is waiting for an answer.

[almostthebest]

"Empty it first," he says brusquely. "Then do whatever you want."

[aftermtsilver]

"I think I'll do a normal face, then try a pikachu." He nods to himself, happy with this brilliant sounding idea. And he'll just finish up that one eye before going back to the lid area to start out the scooping process, even if he can't really take the eye part out.

Oh. But. A knife. Pumpkin insides. ... Time to stare at the pumpkin, face pulled in thought.

[almostthebest]

"Like I said. Whatever you want." It takes him a few moments to see that Red has stopped moving, and his eyes flick up to the other boy again. "What?" he asks, though it comes out in an almost-snarl.

[aftermtsilver]

Red wasn't even paying attention to Green there, and to hear his voice sound as it does, and then to see it's directed at him, makes him look at the other boy quizzically in return. "...What?"