All Around the Dorms, Thursday Evening

[spin_kick_snap]

Kathy loved Halloween. It was the one night of the year back home when she could pretend to be anything other than quiet, bookish Kathy and become someone loud, exciting, and colorful. Even here, where she was doing a semi-okay job of that by herself, Halloween remained the best holiday ever.

Which was why she had put on a pair of mouse ears, a silly outfit, and whiskers made of eyeliner and grabbed a pillowcase.

She was going to go trick or treating around the dorms, dammit. There was candy falling outside. No one had the right to complain about not having any candy.

...And hopefully not regret this too much tomorrow, after the sugar crash and resulting embarrassment kicked in.

[Open for anyone who wants to join her on her rounds, make fun of her for being a dork, or to have trick or treaters hitting up their room! Express permission given to anyone who wants to mod Kathy knocking on their door.]

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Room 209

[myownface]

Yeah, Sparkle hadn't really expected someone to hit up his room looking for tricks or treats, considering the weather out there today. And sure, he'd gone out there and had filled up his backpack and pillowcases three times over, because really, you get an opportunity like this and you just don't pass it up. But that didn't mean he was going to hand out the spoils of his trek outside, here.

"So," he noted, lounging in his doorway and giving her a side-eye, "you have looked outside today, right?"

Re: Room 209

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Kathy just sighed. "Yes, I have, and yes, I have some candy in my room, too. Did nobody ever just go trick or treating here for the fun of it? To put on a cool costume and wander around saying hello?"

Fandom High Jaded Society. Population: Everyone.

Re: Room 209

[myownface]

"Yeah, no. Back home once you hit like junior high school they'll laugh you away from the door if you go around asking for candy. Usually I just throw eggs around."

Because if assholes weren't going to give him candy for being 'too old,' they got what was coming to them, damn it.

"I'm usually a bigger fan of the 'trick' part. Why, you want something that bad?"

Re: Room 209

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Kathy wasn't sure what he meant. "Are you asking if I want to trick you for not giving me candy or something?" she asked. "Because, no, I don't want anything that badly I'm going to prank someone for it."

She frowned, thoughtfully. "You could have spent money on candy instead of eggs to throw at people's houses, right? But you didn't. So, obviously, it wasn't just about the candy."

Re: Room 209

[myownface]

"Nah, I was asking if you wanted to be tricked. I mean, you're going around offering up the option."

Sparkle was a shithead and he was proud of it.

"Anyhow, who says I spent money on those eggs?"

Re: Room 209

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"Bull. It's 'Offer me a treat or get tricked' and you know it. And why aren't you all dressed up anyway. I would guess that you'd've loved this holiday."

Call it a hunch, but she saw your makeup, Sparks.

"And even if you didn't spend money on them, you still chose to grab eggs to fling rather than candy to eat. So you know there's more to trick or treating than just getting candy."

Re: Room 209

[myownface]

"Costumes cost cash I don't have, little Mouse," Sparkle replied with a shrug of his shoulders. "Mom and Dad didn't see fit to buy me a costume this year."

Was he going to mention that he didn't have a mother or a father? Nope.

"What's the point of going door to door if you're not going to actually get anything out of it? I can grab you something for your bag if you want, Mouse, but it's not going to be, like, anything awesome."

Room 207

[pulseof_life]

Yeul's door had been open enough to hear Sparkle talking, and someone answering him back, though aside from the fact that she idly noted Sparkle seemed to be enjoying himself, she didn't really listen since it wasn't any of her business.

When the knock on her door came, though, she set her book aside and blinked calmly at the girl in her doorway.

"...Hello?" she said politely, but somewhat puzzled.

Guess who didn't know about Halloween, Kathy? Guess.

Re: Room 207

[spin_kick_snap]

"Oh, awesome!" Kathy said, delighted. "Someone else who dressed up! High five!"

Re: Room 207

[pulseof_life]

Yeul blinked, smiling at the enthusiasm she was greeted with, even though she didn't understand the cause.

"I'm sorry," she said lightly, "but I'm afraid I don't understand. I usually wear this."

Re: Room 207

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"Oh." Kathy stood there with her hand raised for another few seconds before letting it fall sheepishly back to her side. "So, you're not in a Halloween costume?"

Sorry, Yeul. But with the veil and the clothes, Kathy just kind of assumed.

Re: Room 207

[pulseof_life]

"No," she said, shaking her head, "I'm not."

Yeul considered her clothes thoughtfully.

"...Should I be?"

Re: Room 207

[spin_kick_snap]

"Erm, no one else is that I've seen?" Kathy said. "But then there are weirdos like me who don't care that the holiday is just for kids, so..." She shrugged, realized that was kind of a non-answer and said, "I mean, you can if you want to be, but you don't have to."

Room 306

[theoplustwo.livejournal.com]

Theo had considered going out to the party in town but he hadn't made it there yet. He didn't know anyone and that made him a little hesitant even if both Ange and Dev were encouraging him for different reasons.

Right now, he was hanging out, eating some candy that had hit him in the head earlier. When someone knocked on his door, he wandered over and opened it up.

"Hey, Kathy!" he said, smiling as he pulled open the door.

Re: Room 306

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Someone who answered the door without being confused or scornful? THEO WAS THE BEST EVER.

"Happy Halloween!" she said, holding up her pillowcase sack. "Trick or treat!"

Yup. She was that corny.

Re: Room 306

[theoplustwo.livejournal.com]

"Hey, I actually have candy too!" He'd even bought some earlier in the week so he wouldn't just be giving out candy that fell from the sky. "Hang on a second."

He left the door open and went to retrieve the bag of peanut butter cups that he'd bought. He reappeared quickly.

"Ta da!"

Re: Room 306

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"You are so prepared!" Kathy just had to grin at him and applaud. "So far, everyone else has just pointed outside and told me to get my own darn candy if I wanted it so much."

And then she had to explain time and time again that she wasn't trick or treating for the candy, exactly.

Re: Room 306

[theoplustwo.livejournal.com]

"I liked trick or treating as a kid," he said, dropping the candy into her pillowcase. "So, I bought the candy just to kind of bring the feeling back."

He didn't have a costume but he had the candy so he was halfway there. "Your costume looks great, by the way."

Re: Room 306

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"Thank you!" she beamed. "I just grabbed stuff that I had around my room, you know? For pretty much the exact same reason you got the candy; I wanted to get that little kid excited feeling back."

She tilted her head and looked at him. "No costume for you?"

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Cecil was kind of missing Halloween back home. There was always all kinds of fun things to report on around then!

He hadn't had any luck buying the traditional good-luck charms and poisoned bits around here, so he'd just made a few of his own to hand out, just in case.

Charms. He hadn't managed to find the right kind of poison for the other. You were welcome, Fandom.

Now he was just sitting in his room with Carlos's lab coat wrapped around him and a pair of fake glasses on, waiting to see if anyone would come.

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And lo and behold, there was a knock on his door and a muffled, "Trick or treat!" from the other side of it.

[voiceoverdue]

Cecil scrambled up and answered it, beaming. "Hello!"

[spin_kick_snap]

"You're in a costume!" Kathy said excitedly. "Yay! You're the first other person I've seen in costume all night!"

She looked at his coat and the glasses. "Scientist?" she guessed.

A doctor probably would have had a fake stethoscope or something.

[voiceoverdue]

"Yes!" Cecil beamed back. "It's sort of really my boyfriend's, so it doubles as a security blanket," he confessed. "And you're a mouse?"

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"Awww, that's the sweetest!" Kathy said. "Does he go here, too?"

One of the best parts of living in LA? Being told about a guy's boyfriend didn't even rate a blink.

"And, yeah. I'm Minnie Mouse!" she said with every expectation of Cecil knowing exactly who and what that was.