#[yes those clothes are a reference to lloyd's outfit lol]

[recklessinventor]

I don't know if you're still doing the happening in canon meme but... Jeff having sunstroke in the desert?? because he's more susceptible to that stuff bc he lives in Winters? where the sun don't shine??

Send me a scene that happened in canon and I’ll write in detail how my muse felt in it - No Longer Accepting

Jeff hadn’t known much about Eagleland before he’d crash-landed in Threed. He knew a little from television and books and movies, though it was probably mostly stereotypical, but one thing he’d never really thought about was the weather. Threed had a nice fall breeze and a little sun (when it hadn’t been, well, overrun by zombies), and Grapefruit Falls had been a little warmer than Jeff was used to, but nothing worth complaining about. 

But this was his first time experiencing a desert.

And yes, he knew that the two biggest deserts were on the poles, and thus weren’t hot and that hot wasn’t a prerequisite for a biome to identify as a desert, but he meant the hot kind.

Jeff, Ness, and Paula were the only ones on the bus to Fourside now passing through what the driver referred to as Dusty Dunes Desert, and Jeff had his head in his hand as he rested his elbow on the windowsill, watching the arid landscape fly by as he tried to ignore the headache he was getting. Even with the bus’ air conditioning lightly blowing his hair out of his face, it was still hot and sticky and Jeff wished he’d brought the shorts that came with his uniform. Ness was sitting next to him, reading a comic book he’d picked up from the Threed drugstore, and Paula was asleep in the row across from them. 

The heat was making him sleepy, but he didn’t want to fall asleep with their destination so soon, so to distract himself, he looks over Ness’ shoulder to see what he’s reading. Next to the superhero comic was a full-page advertisement for a video game he hadn’t heard of, the illustration featuring a boy with spiky red hair, a blonde girl, and a girl with glasses and a helmet in a large spaceship. Ness notices him looking and turns the comic so he can look, too.

“Do you think you could make something like that?” He pointed at the spaceship.

Jeff smiled a little. 

“I could try. What’s the ad for? ”

“It’s this new game for the Super Nintendo. I think you’re this guy with a sword, and you go through time, or something? It looked cool, I saw an ad for it when I went to Blockbuster with my sister a few months ago, but it doesn’t come out for a while. My neighbor made fun of it, though. He says Nintendo’s for babies.”

Okay, now Jeff was interested. He and the other boys on his floor have had this argument about once every two weeks. “Everyone who has a Mega Drive says that, but even though Sega had 16-bit first, I still like Nintendo games better--”

He was cut off by Ness dropping the comic book and furiously shaking his shoulders. “Dude, no way! Why didn’t you tell me you liked video games sooner?! What games do you have?”

Ness and Jeff were halfway through an excited discussion about Super Star Wars when the bus came to a screeching halt. Both boys scrambled to look out the window, and besides the bright desert sands and the dusty highway, there were more cars than Jeff had ever seen in his life. That had to be the world’s-longest traffic jam.

After twenty minutes of not moving, Ness woke up Paula and they got off of the bus, and the heat of Dusty Dunes Desert hit Jeff for the first time.

 He immediately regretted agreeing to walk the rest of the way to Fourside.

Because Jeff had spent his entire life in a place where it snowed year-round, he’d never felt heat like this before. It beat down on you, and his cheeks, though usually rosy to contrast his pale face anyway, were bright red. He’d already folded up the jacket to his uniform and kept it in his bag, but as he followed behind Ness and Paula, weaving through the stopped cars on the highway, he unbuttoned his sleeves of his dress shirt and rolled them up. That didn’t do anything at all. 

The headache he’d gotten while on the bus had intensified, and he felt a little nauseated, and every time he looked at the sunlight reflecting off of the desert sands he had to close his eyes. He could vaguely hear Ness and Paula mentioning some kind of… slot machine… but he was more focused on putting one foot in front of the other. He was starting to get a little dizzy, now that he thought about it. Jeff closed his eyes one more time, trying to ignore his throbbing head.

When he woke up, he was on the wood floor of a cabin.

He tried to immediately sit up, his head throbbed in protest and he groaned, laying back down. The fuzzy figure of who could only be a sunburned Paula was above him. She probably took off his glasses. 

“Morning, sleepyhead.” She joked lightly, clutching tightly to her teddy bear.

“What.. what happened?” Jeff slurred slightly, his accent thick with sleep. He put a hand over his face to find it was hot.

“You passed out big time. The guy who owns this house says it was sunstroke.”

Jeff made a noise and turned his head away from Paula, feeling guilty. “Sorry… I probably wasted a lot of time. We could’ve been in Fourside by now--”

“Jeff.” That was the tone that Paula used to reprimand any enemies or Jeff and Ness whenever they were being unreasonable. The tone of someone who had to handle rowdy preschoolers every day and not get paid for it.“You’re from a place that snows all the time! You probably haven’t been to a place where the temperature was above, like, 80.”

Jeff was too tired to convert that to Celsius. Paula got on her hands and knees and leaned over so Jeff was forced to look at her. “Am I right?”

“...Yeah. But I’m still sorry, anyway.” Jeff squinted up at Paula, and she handed him his glasses. He poked himself in the eye trying to put them on, rubbing his eye as he finally sat up straight. “Where’s Ness?”

As if on cue, the rickety door to the cabin opened and Ness walked in, carrying two large paper sacks. 

“You both’re redder than a lobster!” He laughed, tossing Jeff something and he fumbled to catch it. It was a wet towel, which he gratefully put on his head. Much better. Ness also grabbed three Skip Sandwiches out of the bag, passing them out, then three bottles of water. He then sat in front of Jeff, crissed-crossed.

“And I have a special surprise for you, Jeff!” He said lightly, handing Jeff the bag. Confused, Jeff pulled out its contents: a red tee shirt with a pocket on the chest, and a pair of black shorts. “Your outfit totally sucks for the heat, and I saw some clothes in the drugstore, so I thought that’d be better. Maybe you won’t pass out on us again, huh?”

“Ness.” Paula had that tone again.

“Sorry.” Ness snickered, and Jeff stood up, thanking Ness, and quickly found the cabin’s bathroom to change. The clothes were a little big for his gangly frame, but he appreciated the thought too much to say anything. When he returned, Ness gave him a thumbs-up, and that was the end of it. Jeff still felt a little guilty for slowing them down, but he had to admit, it was nice to take a break and eat lunch together, even if they were on the splintery wooden floor of an old shack in the desert. If he had to get sunstroke and pass out in front of anyone, Ness and Paula were pretty good options.

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