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(I am Hopping in your Asks for the character pen pal game! This letter is from Tooth to Cricket)
Dear Cricket,
Hello, my name is Tooth! In case you wanted to know, I picked out that name myself! I’m 11 years old and I’m 5 feet and 2 inches. I heard you’re 1 foot tall, but I’m finding that really hard to beleive. But I guess I don’t really have room to say that cause I can speak to ghosts. 👻
My school is making us write letters to pen pals and I thought your name sounded interesting because I love bugs! My friends are named Spider, Beetle, and Bee. You could fit right in! My favorite bugs are 🪲 stag beetles, rolly-pollies, and cicadas (I like to scare my brother Morgana with their skins). Here’s a fun fact: some cicadas spend 17 years underground for a huge chunk of their life, which is longer than I’ve been alive! What are your favorite bugs/bug facts? 👀
Do you want to hear about the gang me and my friends made? Too bad! >:p We play with ghosts and sometimes even help them pass on if they’re nice enough to tell us stories. Places like shut down parks, 🏫 schools, or wearhouses are the best place to find ghosts! Personally, if I was a ghost, I wouldn’t want to die somewhere I knew would become empty and boring. Maybe at a 7 11 where everyone goes so that it won’t be hard to find me.
Anyway, I hope you see this letter and I hope I labeled it correctly!
From,
Tooth 🦷
Hi Tooth!
Glad to report that you labeled that letter correctly! Now let’s hope that I did, too. I like your name, too. I didn't get to pick mine, it was just a nickname from my parents that stuck, but I wouldn't pick anything else. I got it because I can imitate a cricket chirp perfectly! Anyway, I’m glad to hear from you! I was afraid I’d get a letter in the program from someone boring who only wants to know why I’m so small and nothing else.
To get that out of the way: yes, I am small! I’m 14 years old and a bit taller than 11 inches. It’s funny what people will believe when it comes to magic and the supernatural. My friend, Auster, runs an apothecary with his family, and they’ll get people calling them snake oil salesmen and calling his magic a hoax—in the cursed town! But I guess it’s different when it’s right in front of you. In fact, I was a bit skeptical when you mentioned ghosts, but then I took a step back and figured that maybe New Royston just doesn’t have a lot of ghosts. Though there have been some spooky things going on, so maybe I just can’t see or hear them. Got any tips?
Anyway! Yes, I love bugs, and I’m so glad to have a pen pal who also likes bugs! I’ve never met a stag beetle, but my friend Monty’s family’s farm raises rolly-pollies! Among other bugs: crickets, dragonflies, and a couple others. I’ve never met a cicada either since the last time our brood emerged was in 1996, so I’ll have to wait a few years yet. I do wish you wouldn’t scare your brother with their skins, since so many people just crush bugs when they see them because they’re scared and so many people think I’m crazy for liking bugs or make faces at me when I try to talk about bugs, but I can understand the temptation. Monty and I scared some people in our elementary school with dragonfly nymphs when we were little. My favorite bug fact is that some ants are farmers. They’ll grow crops of fungus and keep cattle in the form of aphids since they secrete sugar.
I can understand wanting to die somewhere where there’d be a lot of activity. I get pretty lonely with my parents not home a lot, and I wouldn’t want to feel that kind of loneliness forever. Maybe, if I could choose where to die, I’d die at the school, so I could always listen in as generations of students pass through. This school’s been here for hundreds of years, and it’s the only high school in town, so I doubt it’d be abandoned anytime soon. But at the same time, I catch glimpses of those ghost shows with those people walking around screaming “Hello?! Is anyone there?! Show yourself! AAHH DID YOU HEAR THAT?!?!?” and I just feel bad for the ghost. I wouldn’t wanna be annoyed like that all the time. I guess ghosts have it rough no matter which way you spin it!
It’s really nice that you help them pass on. Like I wrote, I don’t think New Royston has a lot of ghosts, but just in case, how do you go about contacting and helping ghosts? Doesn’t it ever get dangerous, like if they’re mad? Also you said you play with ghosts, so what kinds of games can ghosts play? I imagine they’d be way too overpowered in a game like hide and seek. They could just go between two walls and they’d never get found!
Anyway, thanks for writing to me. Hope to read more from you soon!
Cricket
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“Happy new year!”
Elias, light ‘em up!
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Have you Been Naughty or Nice?
Swiped from @lil-kissy
“Serafina, you’re new here. You should go first!”
“Okay. Who’s next?”
“Estrella said we’re going to be going from newest muse to oldest this year.”
“Oh, that’d be me!”
There's a reason Santa created a Naughty List. And you're just one of those reasons, Serafina.
“Seriously?!”
“This thing isn’t always right. It put Ghost on the naughty list for slacking off at work last year... And it doesn’t have a job.”
Annabelle, you must have been EXTRA nice this year. Santa has a smiley face next to your name on the Nice List!
“Hooray! I want a doll.”
Way to help that old lady, Valeriya. Santa will certainly add you to the Nice List this year.
I must say, Ekaterina. You've really improved last year's performance and made the cut on the Nice List!
“Yay!”
Wow Dmitri, rescuing those Orphans from that burning building got you a free ride on Santa's Nice List for years to come!
“That’s nice... But I haven’t saved anyone from a burning building.”
“See what I mean by this not always being right?”
Little ghost, you must have been EXTRA nice this year. Santa has a smiley face next to your name on the Nice List!
Aleksei, you REALLY put ex-lax in Santa's cookies?! Don't expect to see your name on the Nice List anytime soon.
“No I didn’t!”
“Press the button again.”
Ho ho ho! Nice try, Aleksei. Thought you could slip one past the Big Guy, huh? Naughty.
“I didn’t, really!”
Aleksei, do you really think Santa is unaware of your inappropriate Facebook posts? Naughty.
“WHAT THE HELL IS ‘FACEBOOK’?”
*Snickering*
“It’s just a game, Aleksei. Don’t worry about it.”
“And don’t laugh at him, Ekaterina.”
“My turn!”
Dyanna, shouldn’t you be working, instead of surfing the web during office hours…?
NAUGHTY LIST FOR YOU!
“I’m only eleven, I don’t have a job!”
Hmmmm... you've got a couple weeks left to redeem yourself, Elias. Right now, you are on the Naughty List!
“Alrighty... Will do.”
... 👀
“Can I try?”
“Have at it, little guy.”
In the words of Larry David, you've been "pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good" this year.
🎉
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*points at Sergei*
“Yes?”
...
“Oh, alright.”
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⚰️ A Cheerful Soul am I, as I Watch Time Pass by ⚰️
★ Over two years of experience
★ More than welcoming to OCs, AUs and crossovers
★ Run by @daystar-daydreamer
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What does Your Heart Look Like?
A tangled ball of red strings
Who are you without the company of others? You aren’t sure, but you know that you aren’t fond of whoever it is. You are an actor, a pretty face and a pleasant song. Many idolize you, or love you, but you can never be sure of how sincere it is. Your heart is buried under the letters they leave you, sealed with a kiss. It can’t be untangled from the red strings they’ve attached to you. You deserve to find something, someone, true and faithful to hold your heart in place. You don’t have to be everything to everyone.
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“What was that?!”
“Is it Xiuying and Ignatius?”
“We’re right here...”
“Oh!”
“False alarm, everybody. It’s just Elias.”
“Then what were those noises?”
“I brought firecrackers for everybody!”
“What are firecrackers?”
“They’re little capsules that you either throw on the ground or set on fire, and it’ll make a colorful explosion. The noise came from me dropping a box.”
“Is it for the new year?”
“Yep!”
“But didn’t we already set off fireworks almost a month ago?”
“It’s tiger new year again!”
*snickering* “Lunar new year. And it’s the year of the cat this time.”
“Close enough...”
“Cat? There’s no cat on the zodiac. It’s the year of the rabbit.”
“Rabbit?”
“The cat would have raced, but the rat didn’t wake him up the morning of.”
...??
“Xiuying, you’re Gudanese. And Elias, your mother was from Xuyen. Maybe you have different versions of the legend!”
“That makes sense.”
“There’s a legend?”
“Yea...”
“Annabelle and Serafina weren’t here last year.”
“Oh, right!”
“Thanks.”
“‘Back when tigers used to smoke, there was race between the animals. The Jade Emperor, who was the ruler of the heavens, asked all the animals to participate in his birthday on the ninth day of the first lunar month and held a great race. The first twelve animals that came would be given a place in the calendar.’”
“‘Although the rat got up early and ran fast, he became worried when he arrived at the river bank as he was a poor swimmer. After waiting for the come of the ox, he asked the help from the ox to carry him across the river. With the help of the honest and helpful ox, the rat successfully crossed the river. However, he didn’t jump off from the ox’s back until they arrived at the door of the Jade Emperor.’
“‘Just as the ox was about to win the race, the rat leapt to the Jade Emperor before the ox. Thus, the rat won the first place in the race and the second the ox. Later came the Tiger, Cat, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, and Dog. The lazy pig arrived last and got the last place.’”
“Now come and get your firecrackers, everyone! We’ll set them off tonight!”
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“Can we come out now?”
Yea, come on, you two! :D Come introduce yourselves to the rest of the gang!
“Alrighty!”
“My name is Xiuying, I’m twelve years old, and I was born in the year of the monkey.”
“I’m Ignatius. I’m ten, and...”
“What year was I born in?”
“The dog.”
“Woof woof!” *giggling*
“Where are you two from? I’ve never seen anyone dressed like that before.”
“And what’s your gimmick?”
“Our what?”
“We all have something special: Aleksei is from a fandom; Annabelle, Dyanna, Katia, Dmitri, Elias, and Serafina are main characters from Estrella’s stories; I kept my story’s main characters from getting themselves killed; and Ghost is... Well, a ghost.”
“Do you have magic?”
...
“I was a spellcaster...”
“Ghost wants you to show it some spells.”
“Oh, and can you show me how to cast one?”
“You were a spellcaster? What are you now?”
“Are you kinetics now?”
...!
They’re Fragokinetics! Xiuying’s always had her powers and Ignatius just got his.
“They can blow things up.”
:)?
“You can befriend them if you want, they can’t hurt you.”
“Should we... Go?”
“No, please stay.”
“Really?”
“... So you’re not scared...?”
“If you keep your powers as under wraps as I do, then I don’t see a reason to be. I’m a Cariesgenetic. Until Katia and Dima showed me how they buried offal in their garden to fertilize it, I had no idea that rot could be anything but disgusting, like my father always told me. I know what it’s like to be afraid of my own powers.”
“That does make me feel a little better...”
“I can ask my friend if she knows a spell to counteract your powers. Would you like that?”
“YES!”
“I have a good luck charm, if it would make you feel better to have.”
“There are things called amplifiers where I’m from that makes powers stronger. I’ll ask my parents if there are reverse-amplifiers.”
“Those would be very nice, thank you.”
“And where are you two from?”
“I’m from Yuan Gudai.”
“And I’m from Ephesus.”
“Oooh, tell me all about them!”
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...~!
“Yea, we should send a package in return. Whoever sent it, it was really nice of them!”
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(sins of the sea) Little boxes bearing dried mangoes, coconuts, tamarind, and puka bracelets for everyone! "Luna" in particular gets a little gold-chained bracelet with a small carved moon for a pendant! And though Dimitri won't know who is sending this or why, he'd get a specific gift too: a nazar. Hm…..
"These bracelets are beautiful!"
“Do you want mine?”
"YES!"
*jingle jingle jingle*
“Look, Ghost got a different bracelet.”
“Who’s ‘Luna’.”
“Do you think it’s from your friend?”
✨💞
"Oh, Dima got something special too!”
“Yea!”
“It’s an eye!”
“Who’s it from?”
“I've no idea.”
“What are these... Bendy dry things?”
“Mango and coconut. They grow everywhere in Permico.”
“I like them!”
“The hard brown ones are tamarind, you have to break the shell and pull off the strings to eat it. My mom gets a pile every time we go to Xuyentown.”
...
“Oh.” *crack*
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👏👏
“Uh... Thank you.”
“What’re these for?”
“It’s for Christmas!”
“What’s Christmas?”
“It’s a holiday from where Ghost is from."
“It told us it’s for a man named Jesus who was the son of God. It’s his birthday.”
“Alright.”
“Mary was sitting in the sun outside her house. It was a normal day; a bit of cooking, a bit of helping around the house. She was having a few minutes rest, when suddenly an angel appeared.
“‘Are you Mary?' he asked.
“’Yes, who are you?' the startled girl replied.
“’I’m an angel from God, and I have a surprise for you. You’re going to have a baby.’
“Mary raised her hand to her mouth. ‘It would be a surprise, I’m not even married.’...”
...
“... The three wise men were just going to go back home when God said: 'Don’t tell Herod where Jesus is. He wants to hurt him, not worship him.'
"’Right,” they said. 'We’ll go back a different way.'
“They did, and so King Herod never found out where Jesus was.”
“Alright, now let’s see what everyone got.”
“A doll! Thank you!”
“Sweet, a cookbook!”
“Was that a pun?”
“Maaaaybe...”
It was a happy little accident, truth be told.
“A necklace!”
“It’s beautiful.”
“Oh, tea. What flavor?”
“A toy bird... Uh... Thanks”
“Turn its tail?”
“It flies!”
“More toy soldiers!”
“Oh, ribbons! Thank you.”
“Oh, I got a doll too! Annabelle, maybe we can have a tea party.”
“Tomorrow?”
“Tomorrow.”
“Can I come too? I’ll bring some of Mama’s bloodleaf tea.”
“You’re a boy...”
“And bring your soldiers!”
“And you too, Ghost.”
“Oh, I got something for you!”
💞
“You’re welcome.”
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“I made pie!”
“What flavor?”
“Bloodberry and cottage cheese.”
“Que?”
“Where’s the milk?”
“And where are Dmitri and Ghost?”
“Maybe they’re busy?”
“I doubt it. Dima’s always with Katia, and Ghost is the last person to miss a gathering.”
“It’s Dima’s birthday, I sent Ghost to go get him.”
“Oh, there they come!”
“Everybody, hide! Valeriya, lights off!”
✨✨ :3
“Is... Is this what you wanted to show me?”
...
*nods*
.
.
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“Hey, don’t be sad-”
“Happy birthday, Dima!”
!!
“There you are!”
“Katia made pie.”
“Really?”
“It’s your favorite, too!”
🎉
“I love you, Katia.”
“I love you too.”
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