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.]

Comments

[ video ]

[rarestcandy]

...That has got to be the saddest thing I ever heard. You should go get yourself a cake.

[ video ]

[imthe_shit]

If I could find a cake out on the battlefield, then sure, I'd eat that.

[ video ]

[rarestcandy]

Well doi, you're not on the battlefield right now, are you? Hop to it, soldier! Something nice and sugary for all your hard work.

[ video ]

[imthe_shit]

Huh.

[ Should he even be eating cake at his physical age? ]

I thought the whole point of this was to answer what you'd eat for the rest of your life?

[ video ]

[rarestcandy]

[Everyone should be eating cake.]

Yeah, okay, fine, but that doesn't mean you have to start now! And rations are something you choose because you have to, not because you want to.

...You don't actually want to eat rations for the rest of your life, right?

[ video ]

[imthe_shit]

[ Snake blinks, rubbing his neck. ]

They're not that bad. I'm not much of a picky eater anyway... As long as it's not burnt eggs or raw, I'll eat it. [ Well, he's a bit pickier than his father, who would literally eat a snake while it was slithering around. ]

[ video ]

[rarestcandy]

But you've gotta have some kinda favorite! Not something that's just tolerable, but something that you'd go nuts over. Think really hard, okay?

What's your dream food?

[ video ]

[imthe_shit]

[ David sighs, leaning his head back a bit, grumbling. ]

... I don't know...... Ice cream. How's that? [ He does like ice cream. Ice cream is something soldiers rarely get to eat! Especially on a mission... ]

[ video ]

[rarestcandy]

There you go! That's a nice treat. So scratch the cake and make it an ice cream cake.

What kinda ice cream d'you think is best?

[ video ]

[imthe_shit]

I don't really care.

[ That probably won't fly, so Snake sighs and thinks a bit more. ] ...Chocolate, I guess. Vanilla's okay, too.

I don't think I'd want to eat it for the rest of my life.

[ video ]

[rarestcandy]

[She does indeed give him a look that implies she ain't taking that answer, no siree.]

Y'know, some places do this thing like a twist cone, where it's both chocolate and vanilla, and it's split down the middle.

[Vanellope tilts her head to the side.]

Do you get brain freeze real easy? Or do you just want it to be a treat, so it's gotta be a splurge thing?

[ video ]

[imthe_shit]

Not so much my brain freezing, more like all the stomach aches I'd get.

Mission or not, stomach aches pretty much prevent you from doing anything else with your time. [ Crawling around on your belly when you have a tummy ache is also not recommended. ]

[ video ]

[rarestcandy]

Oh. I don't really get that problem.

[It was weird to hear everyone talking about stomach aches and sweets together... They just made her stomach happy, really.]

I guess I wouldn't even want to eat ice cream all the time if I did, though...

[ video ]

[imthe_shit]

You don't get stomach aches?

Man, you must be a pain to raise. [ Harsh? Perhaps, but imagining a little kid who never got stomach aches from eating candy was actually kind of terrifying. ]

[ video ]

[rarestcandy]

[She doesn't seem any hurt by it, if that helps.]

Who needs raising? Not me! I'm all set, you know.

[ video ]

[imthe_shit]

No parents?

Hn. Guess you're pretty tough, then.

[ video ]

[rarestcandy]

You bet I am!

[Parents weren't exactly a thing, especially when any backstory you had was never programmed in. That was a bit hard to explain to the ones that had forgotten that they were just characters, though...]

Tough as nails. And anything I can't handle? My good buddy Ralph the Wrecker can take care of.

[ video ]

[imthe_shit]

Ralph? You mean that guy with the huge hands?

He says he's from a video game, and I am, too.

[ video ]

[rarestcandy]

[Her expression changes a little at that, a little less carefree and more thoughtful.]

An' what do you think about that?

[ video ]

[imthe_shit]

... I don't know. It would explain his enormous hands, I guess, but if I went back to where I'm from proclaiming we're all video game characters, then I'd be locked in an insane asylum.

[ video ]

[rarestcandy]

Soooo... You do think he's crazy, or you don't think he's crazy?

[ video ]

[imthe_shit]

Doesn't really matter what I think. I don't really care that much anyway.

[ private video ]

[rarestcandy]

Okay. [And just give her a second to fiddle around and -- boop! Private conversation.] Well he's not. I know he's tellin' the truth 'cause I'm from the arcade, too.

That's why I don't need to be raised.

[ private video ]

[imthe_shit]

... Why did this need to be private?

[ Snake's not sure how confessing you're in a video game could be dangerous, he's pretty sure there's no asylum here. ]

Hn. Well, I guess if you can vouch for him, then it makes sense. I don't really judge on these kinds of things... As long as either of you aren't dangerous, then I don't care.

[ private video ]

[rarestcandy]

Because it did, okay?

[DON'T ARGUE WITH A LITTLE GIRL, SNAKE.]

...You don't really seem to care about a long of things, huh.

[Blamin' it on the rations.]