SECOND LAP. [rocket frequency audio; video from lake of rage.]

[rarestcandy]

[AUDIO; LOCKED TO ROCKETS]

So... How come we never do anything fun? I mean, I guess some of you guys think explosions are fun or whatever -- and they can be! -- but shouldn't there be like, I dunno, a company picnic, or a morale-boosting festival? Let's face it, guys, as a team we don't have the greatest track record of successes.

[NOT THAT SHE...MINDS THAT...]

Even some of you old, boring guys gotta enjoy something fun! Throw us younger members a bone, here.

[VIDEO; OPEN TO PUBLIC]

Alright guys, I've got a question. And I need you to think really hard on it! This is important.

[She stares into the camera for several seconds, brows furrowed to show the seriousness of the situation.]

...You can only eat one thing for the rest of your life. Go.

[...Yeah, she might be going a little bit stir-crazy in her tent, today.]

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[video]

[rarestcandy]

[This girl...

Vanellope only hesitates a second before continuing with the same deadly serious tone she's been using with everyone else.]

No, it's just want you want to have to eat for eternity. In fact, limiting yourself to this one thing is actually keeping you alive longer. It's food magic.

[konpeitoqueen]

[...kcan

Saionji hums for a moment, then decides on it.]

I'll choose konpeito, then! Of course, I'll miss tuna, rice, veggies, soy sauce... but the taste and the effort that goes into those sweets are fine enough for me to enjoy them for the rest of my life. While other staples might go stale in flavor after too long, konpeito never will.

[And, if Vanellope thought Saionji was civil for a moment-] Of course, I also can't expect a Western girl like you to know the intricacies of a delicacy like konpeito.

[rarestcandy]

What kinda Sugar Rush racer would I be if I didn't understand sweets?

[ACTUALLY SOMEWHAT OFFENDED GIRL IT'S CANDY.]

[konpeitoqueen]

A Western one.

[#racist

...Even though Sugar Rush is technically a Japanese game. She doesn't know this, however, because arcades are Not Her Thing. Handheld consoles, now, there's some good games. Plots are much better than mindless buttonmashing, jeez!]

So many fools don't even glance at the refined, artisanally-made sweets that I enjoy the most. Those big, mass-produced candies that taste only of sugar have no tact and delicacy. They're the fare of uncultured morons- which you most likely fall under. After all, in this whole post, you seem so open to all kinds of sweet products... what low standards, kyahaha!

[She certainly gave you quite the speech to reply to, Vanellope.]

[rarestcandy]

[wow rude]

...Uh huh.

[It sure is a speech... Vanellope takes a deep breath to prepare her retort...!]

Nice "haircut".

[Fingerquotes and all. Someone was at the circus.]

[konpeitoqueen]

[OH

BITCH

it kinda looks even worse now, because someone else took a snippet of her hair but that's not the point]

How dare you make a jab at something like that! I had no power over what happened to me, you know!

Why do people always go after the victim?! [Saionji's such a fucking hypocrite- painting herself as a victim when needed, and as a villain otherwise. That much hasn't changed, over her stay in Johto. At least... she doesn't cry much, now...?]

...uh that was kind of unintentional AHAHA...

[rarestcandy]

Great glittering gumdrops... Look, maybe if you weren't so loud and thought about what you said, people would agree with you more! But you gotta stop being mean, if you don't wanna hear that kinda stuff.

People are people! Candy is candy! And both of those things are good. No one made you Queen of Konpeito, so who cares.

i've done it. i've fulfilled the username prophecy

[konpeitoqueen]

[Just. Get a long, long glare in return, Vanellope. She spends a literal half of minute just staring at the screen with a terrible expression.]

...Well, if you think people are inherently good, that's just another sign of how naive you are. [ >:( ] And 'who cares'? You really don't know who I am, still!

[a nobody

that's who

she's beginning to grasp this. give her a bit more time.]

congratulations

[rarestcandy]

[She's honestly not too bothered by it. Plenty of the other racers have given her similar looks.]

Maybe you should let people want to get to know you then instead of making everyone want to run away screaming when they hear your voice.

[konpeitoqueen]

Hah! I don't need people to 'get to know me'. That's only exposing your weaknesses to the masses!

Besides, everyone likes a girl who's playing hard to get.

[Saionji's obviously joking at the second statement, but still says it in the most confident manner she can muster.] They wouldn't run away screaming unless they have due reason to.

[rarestcandy]

Then don't complain that people don't know you! An' not everyone is going to use a weakness against you. That's how you find real friends!

I may not have many, but I bet I have more than you.

[konpeitoqueen]

By 'know me', I meant 'know who I am without needing to know me personally'.

And I have allies, thank you- nothing like what commoners call 'friendship' so whimsically. [Basically, she has no friends.]

[rarestcandy]

You have never even heard of the word "fun", have you? What is your problem?

it happens to the best of us

[konpeitoqueen]

[She glares at the screen once more, because she's obviously the one in the right here this time, of course!]

I'm not the one with the problem, moron! Someone as ditzy and ignorant as you won't understand so easily- this kind of attitude towards partnerships [not friendships] will only do you harm. I hardly see what's 'fun' about that!

But go ahead and continue on your own way, I won't complain. It'll only give me more things to laugh at in the future, at your expense.