video ; @aa (backdated sometime before the Goop Festival)

[livingdeadgirl]

[ Ami looks a little different in today's video - her usual pigtails have been swapped out for twin braids, draped over her shoulders like Wednesday Addams, and although she's still got the black lipstick and eyeshadow going on, there's also a smudge of black dirt across her nose. She's vlogging, holding the camera in one hand while she waves to it with the other. ]

Hi, Anchor! It's ya girl Ami, coming to you live from the Agricultural Zone! Which, as you probably already know, has become -

[ She turns the camera around to show off an area that hasn't been harvested yet. It's bursting with colorful fruits and veggies and produce of undefined gender. One bright pinkish-purple shape, though, turns out to be Elleru - or at least her hair, since she's doing her bipedal thing.

Ami finishes her declaration in a goofy voice that probably signifies she's referencing something. ]

- a ROYAL RAINBOW! Haha. Hey Elleru, say hi to everybody!

[ Elleru waves and says something back - the mic is too far away to pick up what, but apparently it's funny, since Ami laughs as she turns the camera back to her own face. ]

Okay, but the thing is - we have no idea what any of these weird fruits are called. So clearly, we're just going to have to make up our own names for them! We've already gotten started.

[ She reaches offscreen and retrieves an oblong, speckled yellow fruit that's almost pyramidal in shape. Since it's ripe, the bottom has flared open to drop its seeds, leaving behind only the juicy, golden flesh. ]

For instance, this one is a hanging trumpet! And this one -

[ Next up: a smooth fist-sized fruit that's such a deep blue it's almost black, but as the light moves across it, it has an iridescent sheen. ]

- is a midnight puncher! Elleru came up with that one.

[ She pauses for a sec before holding up a third specimen, side-eyeing it like she's trying to think of something nice to say. At a glance, though, it looks like a regular ol' Red Delicious apple. ]

This one, uh... well, let me show you.

[ She sets the apple down on a blanket, where it immediately starts jittering around like a four-frame animated gif. Also, as it dances, viewers will soon see its other side, where there's a cartoonish but unmistakable face, wearing a big, stupid grin. ]

This one's just a seizure apple.

[ She keeps the camera on it in silence for several increasingly uncomfortable seconds. It's so... hypnotic. Gaze upon its juicy redness. Observe how it jitters. Witness its doofy-looking majesty.

Okay that's enough witnessing! We're moving on!!!! ]

Anyway! We don't want to unilaterally name all these bad boys by ourselves, and not just because we would definitely forget most of them! So let's make this a community effort.

[ One last camera pan (sorry about all this, by the way, if any of you get motion sickness) reveals a wide assortment of exotic fruits, neatly laid out on the same blanket as before. A smaller rainbow, but still eminently monarchical. 🌈 ]

Pick a fruit, any fruit, and give it a name! And be creative, there are no wrong answers!*

[ * There are some wrong answers. ]


[[ ooc: Ami and Elleru will both be responding below! How this'll work is, you can either have us make up a weird fruit visual, or you can invent your own! THE WORLD IS YOUR OYSTERFRUIT. ]]

Comments

text; @onni

[scowlish]

[That apple is the most disturbing thing he's ever seen.

Well. Close.]

Why is it doing that.

text [un:bearly.bewitched]

[birdical]

Which do you speak of?

[scowlish]

The one with a face that moves.
It's disturbing. Would anyone eat that?

[birdical]

We eat many things with faces.

[scowlish]

Fair point. But I've never seen a fruit with one. Have you?

video

[livingdeadgirl]

[ What's that? You want more footage of the seizure apple? CAN DO. ]

I... don't know? Back home it was because of this weirdo named Jim, but I have no idea what they're doing here, TBH.

[ Yeah she sure did just say the letters. ]

text; he embarrassed himself once on video so never again

[scowlish]

[What. Why would she do this?]

These are from your home?

[livingdeadgirl]

[ shh only jitters now. ]

From home... Uh, sort of? I think they belonged somewhere else first, but then Jim made them exist as part of the most bonkers marriage proposal in human history.

... Which I know must sound really weird out of context, but trust me, the context doesn't make it any less weird.

[scowlish]

[....this response takes a few minutes to come back because, look, it takes a bit to process all of. That. Especially while the weird apple is still jittering.]

Who would marry a person who showed them that thing.

un: lalli

[lallipop]

why does it have a face

video

[livingdeadgirl]

I honestly have no earthly idea.

text forever, video sux

[lallipop]

kill it

well fine she will just be like one of her favorite twitch streamers!

[livingdeadgirl]

[ Ami puts the camera back on her face to he can see her "haha what" expression. ]

Haha, what? Lalli, I don't think it's technically alive!

[lallipop]

it has a face and it moves

text [un: bearly.bewitched]

[birdical]

That is its nature.

[lallipop]

no it isn't
it's a fruit

[birdical]

Do you know all fruits?

@Pratt

[theweakhavepurpose]

Liked and subscribed.

[livingdeadgirl]

dont forget to SMASH THAT BELL
seriously though
which fruit would you like to name mister deputy

[theweakhavepurpose]

You know the orange sorta spikey one that looks like a kooshball? Kooshfruit.

[livingdeadgirl]

kooshfruit!
omg i love it
the spikes are even kinda floppy like a koosh

text; @Qubit

[superposition]

Top row, 3rd from the right is a Myœzelan cressiea. Rather bland fresh, but makes an interesting wine.

[un: bearly.bewitched]

[birdical]

How is that said? I must know.

→ audio

[superposition]

[ He starts to write it out phonetically, then thinks better of it and switches to voice. ]

"Myœzelan cressiea."

[ The "œ" he prounounces roughly like a German "ö". MYÖ-ze-lan cress-EE-a. ]

Cressieas in general are endemic to the planet Ovis N48, but as the name suggests, that particular cultivar only grows on a small archipelago called Myœzel. Odd that it should turn up here, of all places.

[ It raises so many questions. Were some former residents Myœzelan themselves? Or can the portal target plants as well as sapients and animals? Or did the original specimens arrive in a Redshift? Curiouser and curiouser. ]

[voice]

[birdical]

[He switches, and she does the same.]

Myœzelan cressiea. [Her accent is quite thick, but she does her best to mimic his pronunciation.] How exciting it must be to see such a rare plant appear here, so far from its home!