Free Fish Fry [Event] [Open]

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Wei was S C R E A M I N G.

It wasn't the good, happy, screaming of him when he was laughing or just screaming for the hell of it. He was screaming because he was being bullied by fish.

Multiple fish.

They were all ganging up on him at once and it was very unnecessarily rude and he was ready to punch every fish.

He screeched as their heavy flopping bodies made it hard to carry the crate to the designated place for the fish fry.

Fuck.

But Wei was determined, as he threw the fish towards the location. See them flop around when they have sand in their gills. Stupid fish.
 
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WHAT WAS GOING ON WHAT

WHY WASN'T HE IN THE WATER WHAT

ALL HE COULD SEE WAS FISH WHAT

SO MUCH PANIC

FISH SCREAMING

WAS HE EVEN STILL A FISH OR WAS HE WATER AND JUST STUCK TO OTHER FISH

Oof, now he was looking up at flopping fish and a... kid. A monkey kid. He was definitely not a fish now. No, now he was a puddle of water sinking into sad this was not going very well at all.

Hah! That was more like it. Human form. Covered in sand and fish scales, because his water had gotten all mixed up with both, but dry and clothed. He patted his t-shirt and hair back into place and just grimaced at the shiny flecks all over his skin.

"What's the big idea?" he asked, turning towards the tiny guy who'd been carrying him around. Towards and down. There was kind of a lot of height difference there.
 
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Wei thought he was pretty smart for a few seconds as he walked over to the much less wriggly box now that a good amount of them were dead from slamming into each other and also sand in their gills. He'd have to wash that off, but he had to wash them either way.

He was surprised by the suddent appearance of a dude covered in sand and fish scales being close to him.

"I--... I'm having a fish fry. To encourage people to vote for me."

Wei wracked his brain. Did he know this guy. The monkey gave a confused squint.

"Where... where did you come from even."
 
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Kid was confused. That was...

that was common. Mason did his best to hide his disappointment, but also relief that he wasn't immediately recognizable while covered in sand and fish scales. It wasn't very cool.

"I'm a nerite. I was hanging with some fish and then BAM I'm bouncing across the beach. If you think you're confused, guess how I am." He tried to brush his hair to the side but the fish scales in it... really didn't help. He casually let the top of his head wobble into water just long enough for the suspended debris to drift down a bit, and then returned to full humanness and fixed his hair.

Sure, there was probably now a line of sand and fish scales around his neck, but there were worse things. Like having his face and hair full of fish scales.

"So, fish fry? What're you running for?"
 
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Wei listened to his story, hefting the fish towards the line of barbecues and their set up and cleaning station. He had to get all these fish gutted and scaled and chopped before it was time for everyone to show up.

Thank god for cooking class.

Though, he still wasn't sure what a Nerite was, and the kid didn't seem to want to explain it, so it probably had something to do with... water and fish and maybe bullshit.

Maybe.

"I was Secretary last time," he said. "I actually won president but i didn't accept it.... this time, I'm gonna go for the gold. I wanna be the president too."

Wei gave him a smile. "Would you like to help me?"
 
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Mason noticed hesitation. Well, not everyone knew every single kind of water spirit that splashed around on this planet, never mind all the other worlds that connected to Starlight Academy in one way or another. "A nerite's a water spirit," he said quickly and casually. "I can shift into water and marine life."

He refrained from humming the Jaws theme; he was in public, after all.

Besides, helping out a (potential) future student council president wasn't too bad, even if he was out of high school. College support and all that, plus he remembered being in high school.

"Sure, I could give you a hand. Fish cleaning, right? I grew up on it; it's been a few years, but it should come back fairly easily."
 
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Wei nodded when he explained what a Nerite was, and explained that he could... literally become water and sea life. That sounded like it would be inconvenient if he accidentally shifted while taking a shower and ended up going down the drain. Now Wei wondered what would happen in that situation.

And it seemed like it would probably end up badly no matter what route he ended up taking.

The small Chinese boy found himself humming the Jaws theme and he was ashamed of himself.

Still, he handed the knife and other tools off to the more experienced party. Wei had caught a lot, so while he worked on that, Wei set about prepping the grill. "So, you're not a highschool student, are you?"
 
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Oh look, Mason didn't need to hum the Jaws tune because the hopeful-to-be-president was doing it for him. That worked.

The nerite accepted the knife and flipped a fish to the cutting area by the gills. Sure he'd just been one of those fish, but a) if someone had tried to gut him he'd have just turned into water, and b) he'd long since dealt with any internal issues about eating seafood. Hey, he turned into things that tasted good.

"Nah, I'm in university. Messing with engines is my thing. That doesn't mean I can't lend a hand, though. I'm just playing casual volunteer right now." Working quickly, Mason had the first fish gutted, descaled, and definned before he realized he wasn't sure how they were going to get cooked. "You want these just cleaned or what? Heads on, heads off? Scales? I can fillet them if you want."
 
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Wei watched as the other male went to town on the fish, cleaning and gutting the fish faster than he would have ever been able to at the moment, Wei decided to just focus on making sure the grill would end up clean.

"Hey, that's cool," he said, secretly glad his hunch had been right on the money. "I'm glad you're helping me."

He hummed a bit, scraping off some grease. "Oh, yeah, I'm planning on serving them on skewers. Use your best judgement there."

Thinking about it, the aspiring president quickly added, "Uh, I think heads off is good in any case. Seems like people here get uppity about that."
 
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"Whole fish on skewers? Best to be rid of the scales, then." Mason grabbed a heavier knife to crunch through the first fish's spine and pushed the head out of the way. The cleaned fish went to start a different pile, and he started on the whole process again with a new fish.

"People get uppity over all sorts of things. Fish heads, rain, borrowed cars. Totally unnecessary; people need to relax more." Slide that fish, grab the next. Good thing his hands were already covered in scales; it made no difference now!
 
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