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Was originally just gonna post this on YouTube but it turned out so well that I wanted to post it here too
Dear 'Rock Paper Scissors' creators; Just make then canon. It's not that hard-
A H E M
Papercut canon? 🤨📷📸
“The Objective of the Mission” Act I
Before you read this was supposed to be Part 3 to this whole series, but I still don't know what to do with Part 2, so think of this as a somewhat Part 2 I guess! Also, Papercut and Shivrye shippers...I don't really think you're gonna like what comes near the end. 😬 Jokes aside, enjoy!
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The masked figures we’ve seen in Part 1 arrive at their destination after hopping into a portal themselves. A closer look at the masked figures, and it’s seen that they are the famous idols representatives of the Splatlands, Shiver, an octoling, Frye, an inkling, and BIg Man, a manta ray, together better known as Deep Cut. They simply see being idols as a day job and view banditing as their true passion.
Shiver removes her mask and smirks. “Well, well… why don’t we see what precious treasures this world has, hm?”
“Ay… Ay? (I’m still not too sure about this… How’ll we get back home?)” Big Man asks, still unsure about Shiver’s whole plan.
“Don’t think about that now, Big Man.. Besides, how could we know that there’s a whole bunch of loot in other worlds waiting to be stolen by us and NOT enter one!?” Frye eagerly chimes in.
Shiver laughs at the side antics of her friends. She then notices that they’re in a city with…humans? “Wait… What did we learn about humans in history class?”
Frye lazily chimes in; “That they did a whole bunch of historic junk or something before they went extinct. Why?”
“...This world is full of them.”
“Seriously? For Eel!?” Frye turns around and sees the city. So many humans…it looked like a fantasy to Deep Cut.
“Ay!! Ay! (Wow! So many humans! We have to talk with them!)”,Big Man excitedly remarks.
Shiver sighs. “Slow down, Big Man. We didn’t come to interact. We came to bandit, and that’s exactly what we’re gonna do. Now where should we start?...”
“Ay.. (Alright..)” Big Man looks for a place with Shiver until he notices something. “Ay? (By the way, where’s Frye?)”
“Hm?” Shiver looks around for Frye and quickly spots her. “Oh. She’s stealing the tires off some guy’s car.”
Frye giggles as she mischievously removes all the tires off some guy’s car while the said random guy just arrived once she was finished. “Ah! My car!”
She eagerly runs back and puts the tires in a bag. “Heh! These humans are dumber than they look! See how easy I did that?”
Shiver sighs in annoyance. “Yes, but what good are car tires? We can’t even drive!” She continues to look around until she sees an apartment building. “Look at that building…Unguarded…Unattended…We can loot it so easily!
“Huh?” Frye also looked at where Shiver was looking. “Yeah! We can pick the locks and steal their stuff!”
“Ay? Ay- (But apartments are other people’s homes! Banditing from other places is okay, but people’s homes? We can’t just-)”
“Oh, but we can! Don’t worry. We’ll just hit up a random apartment and get what we want.”, Shiver says while cutting off Big Man’s words and trying to reassure him.
“Yeah!! Deep Cut now has their first banditing spot in a new world!” Frye rushes towards the apartment building as Shiver follows her.
Meanwhile, Big Man does follow them while muttering to himself. “Ay… (I wish those two would at least try to control themselves when it comes to banditing…)
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In one of the apartments of the building, specifically Apartment 3A, a sentient pair of scissors was watching a show about people getting bulldozed while his friend, a sentient piece of paper, was scolding him.
“SCISSORS! I told you to take out the trash!”, Paper furiously yelled out.
Scissors continued to watch TV, ignoring Paper’s yelling. “What’re you freaking out about? I told you I’ll get to it.”
Paper grumbled in annoyance. “Every time you say that you don’t even get to it!”
Scissors turned his attention towards Paper. “Come on, I’m sure it’s not THAT bad.”
…Paper points at the trash can which was overflowing with garbage.
“..Well, if you know I won’t do it, why don’t YOU do it?”
“Because it’s YOUR chore, and I shouldn't be responsible for it!”
Scissors smirked at Paper's words, “Remember when the apartment turned into a trash kingdom? Do you WANT that to happen again?”
Paper, still being annoyed, responds to Scissors. “No, I don't, but you have to learn to take up your own responsibilities.”
“...But you know I won't.” Scissors goes back to watching TV.
“...Fine, I'll do it myself..”, Paper grumbled as he picked up the trash and went to take it out.
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Outside of the 3A apartment door, Deep Cut prepared to pick the lock and take all that they can.
Shiver smirks, “Alright, you two. Ready to do this?”
Frye eagerly hops around. “Booyah! Let's do this!!”
Big Man hesitantly responds. “Ay.. (I guess so..)
“Okay, so after I pick this lock, we'll go in…” Shiver prepares to pick the lock until the door suddenly opens.
Paper begins to walk out of the apartment, muttering to himself while getting ready to take out the trash. “Stupid Scissors…why do I have to do everything around here?” He then noticed Deep Cut. “...Who're you guys?”
Shiver blanked out. She didn't expect anyone to be in the apartment. “Uhhhh….. We're…..”
Frye quickly chimes in. “Neighbors! Yeah, new neighbors! We're totally not bandits from another world who wanna take your stuff!” Frye didn’t expect anyone to be in the apartment either.
Shiver hesitantly plays along with Frye's lie. “Uh, yes! We'd love to look around your apartment and steal your things- I mean look at what a lovely home you have!”
“...You’re bandits, aren’t you?”
Shiver now looked dumbfounded and irritated. “What?? How’d you know!?”
Big Man sighed. “Ay.. (Well, you two weren’t being very secretive with what we’re here for..)”
Frye only got more confident of the situation. “Oh well. We sure didn’t expect anyone to be in there, but It’s not like he can stop us himself!”
Paper just stood there, unfazed at Frye’s cockiness. “I can call the cops.”
“I didn’t say anything about cops!”
Scissors hears what's going on outside and goes up to everyone else. He turns to Paper to try to see what’s happening. “So… We’re getting robbed?”
Frye got enraged at Scissors’ appearance. “ANOTHER ONE!?”
“AY?! Ay.. (SERIOUSLY!? You know what? You two can handle this yourselves..)”, Big Man says while leaving.
Shiver only sighed in rage. “Actually, I’m with Big Man. We should rob someplace else-”
“NO!! We’re staying here, and there’s nothing these little…objects can do to stop us!” Frye says while tossing her mask aside, revealing a mischievous smile.
Scissors responds to Frye’s mischievous attitude with a cocky demeanor of his own. “Oh yeah? Well, there’s no way in hell that’s happening! Right, Paper?”
He turned to his Paper, who now seems to be fixated, or at the very least…attracted to Frye’s face. Her golden eyes.. Her perfect smile.. Her flowing hair.. Yeah, he seemed REALLY attracted.
Frye snickers at his expression “Oh? Well it looks like Paper’s got nothin’ to say!”
“...I love you.”
“..What?”
Paper then realized what he just said. “UH, I SAID…I’ll still call the cops!!”
Shiver sees what’s happening now. She thought of an excellent idea to handle the situation. “Hm.. You won’t. Tell you what. We’ll stay here with you both and maybe not steal your things in the process~..” Shiver noticed Paper’s new little crush on Frye, and she was more than willing to exploit it as much as she could. She made the latter turn and face Frye. “Of course… I bet that you won’t have a problem with that, will you?”
Frye just seemed skeptical of him. “...You don’t even know me, and you say you love me.” ..She bursts out in a fit of laughter. “Oh, cod, that’s hilarious!!”
This made Paper feel more embarrassed of his previous actions. “Well…If anything I was referring to the other girl..!”
Scissors even joins Frye in laughing at Paper’s actions. “Yeah! What a dork, huh?”
Paper growls at Scissors. “You shut up!”
Frye finally calms down from her laughing fit. “Hahah.. Whatever, I’ll stay!” She and Shiver walk into the apartment without hesitation.
Scissors is still snickering at the past ordeal “Okay, smart guy. How do you plan on winning that girl’s heart? You gonna say you were some dead history guy?”
Paper grumbles. “No..well..I’ll think of something!...”
Scissors laughed again. “Like what? Saying that you're a bandit just like her?”
Paper then got what he thought was a brilliant idea. “...That’s it!”
TO BE CONTINUED
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Well, that was Part 2-ish of whatever this is! What I wanted to add couldn't actually fit into one big part so that's why I'm making an Act II to this! and I know what you're thinking after reading this; "Was this chapter created to express your obscure crossover ship?" ...Maybe. Also I didn't make Big Man leave during the chapter and cut Rock out entirely for nothing. They're gonna be more present in Act II.
Praying my new fav crackship makes the Rock Paper Scissors tag come back to life 🙏
I just thought about it and while working on my fanfic, I'm a Papercut and Shivrye shipper too, but the Frye x Paper crackship is taking over my brain very slowly.
I'm serious I nearly drew ship art of them as Jessica and Roger Rabbit but I just scrapped it- (shout out to @gamegem92 for the idea when they commented on that post on my og account!)
Paper, you know that Scissors is already going to Hell.
I want to redraw this it's so funny
(OG is from HolyRPS on Deviantart)
Okay, preview time again!! This ones for "To Love an Eel Tamer" where Frye and Paper show each other what they can do (Frye is more impressive, obviously/j), and Paper tries to impress her in the process. (While lying. Classic Paper nature.) The context of this bit is that Frye invented a giant robot which, impressed Paper after he thought she was just like Scissors all along.
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Paper was still shocked. “...And, you built that?”
“Yeah!! Now, do you see what I was talking about?”, Frye said, still very excited about what she made.
Paper stared at her. “But if you built that…and now that I think about it, you were saying really wise stuff earlier…that can only mean…” His eyes sparkled while he looked at her. “...You’re super smart…”
It seemed like Paper’s perspective on Frye changed rather quickly. He went from loving her, to somewhat disliking her, to loving her again. He would wonder how long this pattern would repeat if he wasn’t so attracted to her smarts at the moment…and her beauty again.
Frye however, was oblivious to his gaze on her. “So…now that you showed me your thing, why don’t I show you mine?”
Paper continued to give her a lovestruck gaze. “...Run away with me.”
“What?”
“Huh?”
“N-no, what did you say? Something about running away with geese? I couldn’t really hear you.”, Frye said, looking skeptical of Paper yet again.
“Well…I didn’t exactly….It wasn’t…uh…” Paper stammers while trying to compose himself and distract Frye from what he said. “You were saying that you had another thing..?”
Luckily, Frye was distracted from him saying she was gonna tell him about her thing. “Oh, yeah!!” She grabs him and rushes outside. “Come on! Come on! We gotta be outside for me to show you!”
Paper was shocked once Frye pulled him with her. He thought to himself again; “A case of hidden smarts, I see…”, but that didn’t change what he thought about her overall.
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...I'm not finished with the thing yet, but its probably gonna be one of my favorite things I ever wrote to be honest-
To Love an Eel Tamer
Alright, second Mediaverse bonus! Obligatory warning for all those Shivrye, Penper, and Papercut shippers; This fanfic features a fan ship that I have a gut feeling will definitely piss you off. If any of you go up to me on this site opposing to this in any way, I WILL draw Frye and Paper kissing to scare you away. I know I'm not a very talented artist, but that doesn't mean I'll ignore the amount of power I have.
All jokes aside, I hope you like this!
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After Act 1 of TOOTM (The Objective of The Mission), Shiver and Frye formally introduced themselves to Paper and Scissors. While Shiver and Scissors were busy with a quarrel of their own, Frye was poking around at Paper's different inventions in his room, while Paper himself was trying to figure out a way to approach the girl.
“These things look super cool!” Frye holds an invention up in her hands and it explodes shortly after. “Hm. Too bad they keep exploding.”
Paper paid no mind to Frye screwing around in his room, as he was lost in his own thoughts about the situation. “Okay, Paper, a weird..squid alien…is she an alien? Whatever. This woman is in your room right now. Before you mindlessly fall in love, think about what she could be plotting against you. She came from another world for crying out loud! And to top it off, she’s a bandit! She could steal your money, your friends, your….your brain…Okay before all of this, find out if she’s an alien.”
Frye continued to dig around Paper’s things and found a box that was labeled ‘box of failures’.
“Hey!!”, she calls for his attention, breaking his train of thought. “What’s this box of junk for?”
Paper immediately turns to Frye in shock of her sudden call and spots the box. “...Oh, that's just a box of junk from my…failed..inventions, but trust me, most of them are guaranteed to work-”, he says right after yet another invention explodes behind him. “...I didn't even touch that one!”
Frye looked skeptical, but not from the exploding invention. “Uh huh…So, you just hoard all of this junk and not do something with it?”
“...what?”
She continued to dig through the box. “Think about it, man. You keep this box that's LITERALLY named ‘box of failures’. If you don't do anything with it, it's super pointless, and it'll remind you of your past screw-ups! Do you actually WANT to be reminded about how much you failed!?”
Paper looked slightly offended by Frye's words. “Well…I don't, but…what you said can be true…but they failed anyway, what's the point of going back to it?”
An annoyed expression was on Frye's face. “Yeesh. I know you're an inventor, but you're missing A LOT of things about being one.”
Paper instantly looked fed up, not believing that he almost fell for this girl. He began to think to himself; “...Geez, Paper, you should've saw this coming when you first saw her. She's just a carbon copy of Scissors..”
Frye continued to ramble. “I mean, look at all this! So much potential from ideas that your brain forged, and you decide to just give up on them the second they fail? That's nonsense! I mean, if you don't want to bring these inventions back to life, at least try to mesh them up into one ultra-mega-big invention!”
Frye began to dig through the box and grabbed some tools to build the ultra invention she was talking about.
While Frye built something with the junk, Paper turned around to see what she was doing. “Wha-...What are you doing??”
Frye scoffed playfully. “Pfft. What you shoulda been doing.”
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After a few minutes, Frye was finally finished with building and eager to show Paper what he she did, and what he should've done this whole time.
Paper was shocked and couldn’t believe what he was seeing. “...So…what is this supposed to be…?”
Frye smirked. “What do you think it is~?”
The two were looking at a gigantic, menacing, evil-looking robot. Frye jumped up and down in an excited manner. “Look! Look! I built a robot that dispenses food, has speaker-shoulders so you can listen to music, a teleporter that can teleport anything a 100 feet away…and has a formula for no-smear makeup!!”
Paper was absolutely speechless. “..I-”
“And, you, Mr. Smart Guy, get to see what it does so you don’t think I'm bluffing.”, Frye chimed in as she pushed a button on the robot.
The robot did everything Frye had designed it to do, such as dispensing food like ice cream and cheeseburgers, blasts loud music from its speaker-shoulders, teleports a wrench to who knows where in 100 feet, and puts makeup on the both of them and splashes water on their faces to show how it doesn’t smear. It even wipes them off after it was done. What a nice robot!
Paper was still shocked. “...And, you built that?”
“Yeah!! Now, do you see what I was talking about?”, Frye said, still very excited about what she made.
Paper stared at her. “But if you built that…and now that I think about it, you were saying really wise stuff earlier…that can only mean…” His eyes sparkled while he looked at her. “...You’re super smart…”
It seemed like Paper’s perspective on Frye changed rather quickly. He went from loving her, to somewhat disliking her, to loving her again. He’d wonder how long this pattern would repeat if he wasn’t so attracted to her smarts at the moment…and her beauty again.
Frye however, was oblivious to his gaze on her. “So…now that you showed me your thing, why don’t I show you mine?”
Paper continued to give her a lovestruck gaze. “...Run away with me.”
“What?”
“Huh?”
“N-no, what did you say? Something about running away with geese? I couldn’t really hear you.”, Frye said, looking skeptical of Paper yet again.
“Well…I didn’t exactly….It wasn’t…uh…” Paper stammers while trying to compose himself and distract Frye from what he said. “You were saying that you had another thing..?”
Luckily, Frye was distracted from him saying she was gonna tell him about her thing. “Oh, yeah!!” She grabs him and rushes outside. “Come on! Come on! We gotta be outside for me to show you!”
Paper was shocked once Frye pulled him with her. He thought to himself again; “A case of hidden smarts, I see…”, but that didn’t change what he thought about her overall.
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“Okay, you ready for this? You better be!” Frye flips onto a car outside and plays a short tune on a wooden flute.
…
“...So, is flute-playing your thing?”, Paper asked, confused as to why Frye brought them outside just to play a flute.
Frye shushed him again. “Give it time..”
Cut to the portal where Deep Cut came from. A swarm of moray eels fly out of the portal, causing destruction in their path.
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It did take the eels quite a while to get to Frye and Paper, however.
Frye seemed to get irritated. “Come on, come ON! What’s the hold up?”
Paper still seemed confused. “I’m sorry, what are we waiting for, again?”
Suddenly, the eels swarm towards Frye and create a tornado, which she’s seen on top of. “YES, YES, YES! About time!”
Once again, Paper was shocked. He couldn’t believe that what looked like hundreds of eels just swarmed over to his supposed dream girl, and she’s taming them like it’s nothing! “...HOW ARE YOU DOING THIS!?”
“See, see? This is my thing! You like it? It’s amazing, isn’t it?”, Frye says while laughing away and spinning on the tornado of eels. “Wheee!! Wheee!!”
While Paper saw all of this, his brain screamed at him; “You are in love with a MANIAC!! This woman is insane!”
While Frye cackled and tamed the eels with ease, the eels suddenly left since something seemingly caught their attention, leaving her to fall right onto Paper.
“OW!! ….Hey, where are those eels off to!?” She noticed that she fell directly on Paper. “Oh. Sorry about that. Guess you lightened the fall, eh?”
“....owww…..”
Frye also notices that she landed right on her flute as well, and it broke on impact. “Huh? NO!! I didn’t just.. This can’t be!!”
Frye gets up and helps Paper up too. “Listen, we’re like friends now, right? You gotta help me get a new flute so I can get those pesky eels back!”
Paper just stared at her. From the looks of it, this girl was insane to him and the best option is to get away from her, but he couldn’t help but just look at her and have these mixed feelings of love, fear, and curiosity. Pencil is a great girl too, but Frye was entirely different. He never expected to fall in love with someone like her.
Frye gets irritated again and shakes Paper around a bit. “Hello!? Anybody home? I’m talking to you!”
He stopped Frye from shaking him. “Okay. Okay, I'm hearing you!” He thought for a minute. “...but…what if I build you a new flute and it can work just as well as your old one!”
“....okay, cool.”
With that, the two went inside and Paper got to building. This felt so exciting to him; he was gonna show Frye his true capabilities of being an inventor…and maybe she’ll be impressed enough to be his girlfriend! Or not…those mixed emotions were still there..
He handed the finished product to Frye…and it exploded before she could even finish the taming melody on it.
“....Yeah, let’s just buy a new one.”
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The two were walking down the street to the nearest music store in hopes of finding a flute.
Paper guided Frye to the music store. “Okay, we go to the music store, you get a new flute, you get the eels back and send them back where they came from, right?”
Frye angrily searches for her eels but still listens. “Right. I swear, those eels are gonna get such a scolding when I-” Suddenly, she gets distracted by seeing a skatepark. “Cool! A skatepark!!” She drags Paper with her.
Paper yelped as Frye dragged him. “W-weren’t you just angry a second ago?”
“C’mon, we can’t just be outside without having some fun!” Frye grabbed a nearby skateboard…well, stole one, and prepared to ride it. “Besides, didn’t you ever skateboard before? This could be a first-time experience for ya!”
Paper huffed. “In fact, I have experience riding a skateboard before, now can we please get a flute so-”
“Really!?” Frye’s eyes lit up in anticipation as she shoved the skateboard into Paper’s hands. “Why don’t you show me?”
“Uh…I don’t really think we have time to…you know…do this..”, Paper said, obviously having lied about his ‘past experience’ skateboarding.
Frye continued to encourage him, still believing he could skateboard. “Aw, come on! I’m sure it’ll be super awesome!”
Paper began to sweat and position himself on the skateboard. “Okay….here it goes ….about to skateboard…” He knew there’s no backing down now. Frye and multiple people at the skatepark were watching him…but at least this was considered a chance to impress Frye since she seemed excited about watching him skateboard. “...One…Two-” While preparing himself, Paper slipped down a slope on accident, and to make a long story short, he got pretty banged up while slipping, sliding, and crashing around the park.
“Haha! Wicked wipeout, man!”, Frye teased.
Paper lies there on the ground in serious pain. “...I knew doing this was a mistake…”
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After Paper got patched up, he and Frye got back to their original objective.
Paper sighed, hoping that he won’t have to put himself into a situation like that today. “Okay, no more distractions. Just going to the music store and buying a new flute, got it?”
“Hm. Alright. I really gotta find those eels anyway.”, Frye huffed. She looked over at Paper again. “Hey…are you alright from crashing all over the place?”
“Oh… Yeah, I'm okay…” Paper looked away from Frye for a second. “Listen, why don’t we-”
Frye pointed out something once again. “No way! You got a candy buffet here!?”
“Hm?” Paper turned his attention to the candy buffet. “I…actually never noticed that here-”
“Well, notice it now, and come inside with me!!” Frye drags him inside the restaurant.
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While the two were inside, Frye was eating what seemed like a truckload of sweets, while Paper was eating a simple cake slice.
“Uh… are you sure you’re gonna be.. Okay after you eat all of that?” Paper said, concerned about how Frye would feel after eating so much sugar.
Frye laughed. “Psh. I’ll be fine! I ate a ton of sweets like this before, it’s what gets me goin’! Sometimes I wish I knew someone who could eat as much sugar as I can. Imagine the insane eating contests we’d get into.”
Paper listened. Perhaps this was another chance to impress Frye. It was a very stupid idea to do this but, hey, he’s taking the chances he gets.
“Well, Frye, consider yourself to be looking at that very person.” Paper knew he’d regret this the same way he regretted lying about being good at skateboarding.
Frye gasped happily. “Really? Well, I don’t wanna get into a contest right now…”
For a moment, Paper sighed in relief. “I'm safe…”
“...But just for confirmation…” She dumps half of her sweets pile onto his plate. “Can you show me how much you can eat?”
Paper sweated in fear but still smiled nervously. “Uh… yeah… alright…”
His brain yelled at him again; “Why do you keep lying!?
Once again, to make a long story short, Paper felt sick like any normal person after eating that much sugar.
“uuuuhhggg…..”
Frye saw him lie on the table in numbness and abdominal pain. “Aw. Guess your stomach wasn’t up to the task today.” She got up and (literally) dragged Paper out of the restaurant. “Welp, there’s no use lying around now! We still got some eels to catch, and I'm hyped up now!”
Paper groaned again. “So NOW you wanna find them….”
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The two were on the walk again, and luckily, Paper began to feel a bit better.
He grumbled in annoyance. “That’s it. No more stopping for anything. We NEED to focus on what we’re doing!”
Frye listened carefully. “You’re right! I know i got distracted, but I promise that I got my head in the game. We’re finding those eels right now!”
Paper looked at Frye and thought about the things that happened to him today. How can someone so smart act so airheaded and get distracted so easily? He couldn’t really comprehend that factor about her. “That’s fine…” he sighed and looked away from her. “Let’s just really focus and-”
Frye gasped loudly when something else caught her attention.
Paper quickly turned to Frye again. “What? What happened?”
“Is that…..a CARNIVAL!?” Frye eagerly pointed at a carnival nearby.
Paper knew that Frye would get distracted again. “Oh, lord…”
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The two found themselves roaming around the carnival, Frye being excited about it, wanting to do about everything here, and Paper just wanting to do what he and Frye came to do in the first place.
Frye happily bounced around. “So whaddya wanna do first? Ride a ride? Play some games? Get some food?”
Paper grumbled. “Whatever gets done quicker so your eels don’t destroy anything before you get them back..”
Frye frowned. “Aw, you’ve been acting a little boring today….I can understand why you’re like this..”
“Oh, yeah? Why am I acting like this?”, Paper replied somewhat sarcastically.
“You’re super used to people acting the way I do, I can tell. Not being too pushy, but I already told you I’m not from here! I just wanna see what this place has to offer.” Frye smiled again. “I just wanna have a little fun, y’know? I’m sure you felt the same way, but if you wanna get this over with, can we do at least one thing here?”
After Frye spoke, Paper softened up a bit. Frye only wanted to experience a new world and look for a bit of fun, despite doing that at a bit of an inappropriate time, but he was just stopping her in some cases…Wait…
At that moment, Paper’s eyes widened. He finally realized WHY he fell in love with Frye. She was just acting like…herself! She’s smart, mischievous, peppy, stubborn…all those traits and more bundled up inside of her. He finally came to terms on why he had these feelings of love, but…he wasn’t used to falling in love with someone like this.
Frye was waiting for him to speak up until she saw her eels riding the ferris wheel. “....WHAT!?!? HEY!!” Frye growled at the eels.
Paper broke out of his thoughts after he heard Frye’s growl. “Huh??” He turned to where the eels were. “They were HERE this whole time!?”
‘Those darn EELS!!!” Frye hissed, but then turned to a street performer who just so happens to be playing a flute! “A-ha!”
Frye went to the street performer and took their flute.
“Hey!”
“I’ll give it back!”
Frye played the taming melody on the flute and the eels immediately rushed to her side.
Paper watched the whole thing unfold. “Well, I didn't expect everything to be resolved like this.”
Frye angrily scolded the eels. “So THIS is where you’ve been!? I can’t believe you’d disobey me like this and run off! You could’ve wrecked EVERYTHING!!”
While Frye scolded the eels, Paper began to feel a bit of sympathy for them. “Wait, Frye.. Maybe they had the same idea you had. Maybe they only wanted to experience a new world, too!”
“Hm… Is that really what you guys wanted?” Frye turned back to the eels, and they nodded in confirmation. “Aww… you guys just wanted to have fun, too!! …You can stay with us, but you better not leave without my permission!”
Paper stood there and watched. A part of him just wanted to blurt out his true feelings to Frye right here and now, but the other part was too nervous to do so.
Frye suddenly wrapped a friendly arm around him. “So, all’s well that ends well, right? Things turned out just fine! And…sorry for getting sidetracked earlier. I know you musta felt pissed.”
Paper looked at Frye and smiled. “You don’t have to apologize for anything. Just getting to know you and doing things with you today has been really fun!” He frowned a bit. “But… I’m sorry for trying to prevent you from having fun here.”
Frye looked shocked. “You? Prevent me from having fun? Don’t be silly!” She hugged him a bit. “Today has been AWESOME! Creating a giant robot, hanging out at a skatepark, and now we’re at a carnival! This has all been amazing!”
…Paper smiled widely and leaned into the hug, feeling happy and…safe in Frye’s arms.
Frye only saw it as something weird. “Aaaand, this hug feels awkward now.”
Paper snapped out of it and quickly pulled away from the hug. “Uhm…s-sorry about that… What do you say we spend the rest of the day here? Neither of us have anything to do now, and I kinda want to spend a little bit more time with you.”
Frye smiled and hopped a bit. “I thought you’d never say that!” What was she excited about specifically? The carnival. She was happy she got to stay at the carnival a little bit longer.
She giggled and walked around the carnival with Paper. “This is great! We can go on rides and stuff… and do other things too! Look at us! Frye and Paper: a duo of awesome friends waiting to get into all sorts of adventures!”
Paper smiles at Frye’s enthusiasm “Yeah.. I’m sure we’ll have lots of fun.”
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Thanks for reading! A little progress update on the actual series, "One Job At A Time" featuring the Squid Sisters, Captain 3, and the Warioware gang is up next! This, "Expectations", and "Shiv vs The Siz" will be up on AO3 soon, so be on the lookout for that!
And with that, I finally got some of my little crack ship off my chest. :)