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[hairflyingheartpounding]

Mun? Hello, yes, it's me.

Um... Alright, look, I really don't think this is a good idea. I know you have a lot of doubts about it, too, and... This time? I think you should listen to those doubts.

You can't just take me from the middle of a great adventure and make me part of a family. Especially not if I'm going to be a kid. I'm eighteen now, and I've--

No, I'm not saying I want to suddenly have a stranger for a husband, but...

[Sigh.]

Fine. If you won't listen... I won't let you. If I could handle Eugene, I bet I can handle you, too.

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[truffulacide]

[oh gurrrrrrl, you did not just go there]

I can - well, I could if I wanted to. All I gotta do is put on a different pair of gloves - [wiggles his fingers.] - or, heck, a new suit and boom: I'm another shade of green.

I know it's not the same thing, but it's better than nothing.

[corona]

[ Oh baby but I did, I did! And now she rolls her shoulders in a lazy, nonchalant shrug. ]

Maybe. [ said with the beginnings of a smug smirk ] But it definitely isn't better than being a chameleon. Pascal can also fit into small places - like strawberry jars. He lives in a strawberry jar. Can you fit into a strawberry jar? Or - or stretch your tongue even! Chameleons have very long tongues.

[truffulacide]

[h-huff!] You don't have to be a lizard to stretch your tongue. Anyone can do it.

[guess what time it is? if you guess watch-Once-ler-try-to-touch-his-nose-with-the-tip-of-his-tongue time, you're correct. to his credit it doesn't seem like much of an effort; he's had practice stretching his tongue ever since he was a little kid trying to scrap cookie batter off spatulas.]

Eathsy, asth you canth seeth.

[this would almost be silly if he wasn't so dead serious. goddamnit, he's so superior to a reptile.]

[corona]

[ And all Rapunzel can do in the face such tremendous talent (she's actually a little miffed beneath the wonder; this is one thing she hadn't at all expected to be wrong about!!) is gasp, hands coming up to cover her mouth before she breaks into enthusiastic applause. ]

That's incredible!! [ her grin is wide and slow, but equally as genuine ] I've never seen anyone do anything like that at all! How -- Are you part chameleon? How is that not painful!? Have you practiced? Can people learn? Could -- oh! could you teach me? Though I really doubt I'd be able to... [ Not that it keeps her from trying. Or looking like a moron while trying. ]

[truffulacide]

[gosh, that went better than expected. it never hurts to have your ego stroked, especially when it's as battered as his is. beaming, he does a quick little bow.]

It's not hard at all if you have the right tongue. Oh, and lips of course. Yours are small enough, so you might be able to do it if you relax them like - this!

[he pulls his upper-lip down over his top row of teeth, then bends his tongue over it like he did before.]

Liketh thisth!

[move along folks, it's just a couple of idiots playing with their tongues.]

[corona]

[ Considering the way this script is going, they're likely to draw more people out of horrified curiosity than anything. Frowning with comical concentration, she mimics him and...again, only succeeds in making herself look like an idiot. ]

Ith na woakin! Mebby malipth ah too big afta all... [ no really you can stop now ]

[truffulacide]

Maythve you're noth tryingth harth enougth! Andth stopth makingth funneth faythes!

[okay, enough of that. it's making the underside of his tongue hurt.]

- It's distracting!

[corona]

[ She laughs - which sadly means pulling her tongue back in and holding her hands up in a little surrender. ]

You know if I remember? You started it with your showing off. Making funny faces.

[truffulacide]

I have no idea what you're talking about.

[glistens]

[ ... ]

[ Don't mind if she mimics his first demonstration, exaggerating the face a bit. ]

Eathsy, asth you canth seeth!

[truffulacide]

[rude! have a lineface like so 8|]

What a vibrant imagination you have. The world needs more like it!

[and he did not look that silly! excuse him while we goes off to sulk.]

...Keep practicing.

[glistens]

[ Pouting is a surefire way to get Rapunzel smirking and making snide remarks. Like so: ]

Awww, did I do it wrong? [ babytalk babytalk ] Maybe you should show me the proper way to do it, huh? My imagination probably got in the way.

[truffulacide]

...That doesn't even make sense.

1/2

[glistens]

[ she scowls ]

It does!

[glistens]

[ ...just this face. ]

Doesn't it?

[truffulacide]

No, it doesn't! Big imaginations never get in the way. If anything, they make it easier to do great things.

[glistens]

Great things? [ Now her smile is much less snarky and much more warm. ] Then I'm sure your imagination is just as big. You've already done a pretty great thing. [ And she giggles, indicating her tongue and nose and his spectacular skill. ]

Oh! What's your name?