national kick a tall person day

[weenwoon]

Who: you and Hythlodaeus! Or you and any other person taller than you. Or shorter than you.
Where: errywhere around Mango City
When: October 25
What: national kick a tall person day! Get 'em in the shins!

[As you walk around the city, be it for pleasure or on some errand, there is a very good chance that you will suddenly be swarmed by tiny kids who arrive to happily kick you in the shins. Fortunately, they are still very small, so the kicks are about as effective as being slapped with a soft toy. In fact, some of them choose to press their Pokemon's paws against your ankles instead. Upon questioning, the kids happily explain: it's kick day! The day you can kick if you're small! A day of revenge, cries one of the kids!

An older child, tagging behind the group - clearly the designated babysitter, and bored of the antics, - explains that it's the National Kick A Tall Person Day. That's it, really. You kick anyone taller than you in the shins, - here she half-heartedly taps your legs with her foot, - and you can try to dodge kicks from shorter people. The toddlers love it.

There you have it. You are now free to participate in tormenting anyone taller than you! It seems like the power of the kick is fully dependent on your desire. Do you take this chance at revenge? Do you ignore it to go about your business and avoid further attacks for the day? Do you have an (ir)rational fear of getting kicked and hole up in your room for the day?

Should you try to return the kick favour, however, the kids stop you, frowning, and explain that no, you're not allowed to kick back, you're only allowed to throw the shorter people! Almost immediately, you are surrounded by children demanding you throw them up and down. Enjoy!

For those looking to extract revenge, be it for your height-related complex or for his personal transgressions, Hythlo is wandering around the city on his day off. Go get him.]

Comments

[authoriser]

[ Sooyoung was definitely on an errand, which already doesn't put her in a good mood. With the kids swarming around her, trying to kick her in the shins, she screams at them to scram after getting the message that it's "kick tall people day". Unbelievable. She's not even all that tall to begin with.

So if you're taller than 158 cm, chances are, Sooyoung is going to take out her anger on you by immediately kicking you in full force in the shins. Hope you know how to dodge. Does it matter if she knows you? No. Die. ]

[patcheel]

[This one. This one had the murderbird that hurt her! Hana-chan flies in from the left, running too fast for her stubby legs and weaving all over the place, but she's going for those shins! She makes a probably premature screeching noise of victory before she kicks.]

[authoriser]

[ Oh god it's this thing. She also recognizes seeing one with Toki, so she's assuming it came for revenge. Though right before Hana-chan makes it to kick Sooyoung in the shins, Sooyoung just holds her foot out in Hana-chan's face so that her kick doesn't... reach. ]

You.

[weenwoon]

Uwa--!!

[Hythlo was not expecting to suddenly get an extremely painful leg sweep from the short girl he was passing, and goes tumbling forward like the tree that he is. The only thing that saves him from breaking his jaw on the sidewalk is the fact that he manages to shield himself just a little bit with an arm, so he just gets the air knocked out of him and maybe some rib bruising. He pulls himself up, hissing in pain.]

W-What's the big idea?!

[authoriser]

Today's a special day that I can kick as many tree people as I want.

[ She puts her foot down on his back. Victory is hers now. ]

[rateup]

[ HEY HE'S LITERALLY JUST MINDING HIS BUSINESS HERE but down he goes... again... ]

Ow...! Come on, this is the second fucking time! What the hell did I do to you...?!

[ he didn't have to collapse on the ground so dramatically, though. ]

[authoriser]

[ Yeah, she's absolutely going to point that out. ]

For your preemptive dramatics. What's up with that, you drama king?

[bythefurry]

[Joss, being extremely tall, has been extremely kicked today.

It probably doesn't help that he was just running some errands in town and therefore didn't expect any kind of aggression; he looks particularly non-threatening right now, having traded his spiky armor for a shapeless tunic that most closely resembles a potato sack with a belt.

(It is, possibly, just a potato sack with a belt, because Joss couldn't find anything that fit him in the local shops.)

If you run up to him to add more bruises to his ankles, he'll just look at you with the most long-suffering look a person can have.]

return of sexy hythlo(?)

[weenwoon]

[As Joss makes his way through the city, stoically suffering the many kiddy kicks, he may come across a not-entirely-regular sight, which is Hythlodaeus sitting under a tree some way off the sidewalk, with all of his shirts off, a strange vaguely cone-like Pokemon next to him. The Pokemon keeps shaking its head, and with each shake sparkly droplets fall on Hythlo. If Joss manages to catch the angle from his back, well, Hythlo's back sure took a beating, as though someone dropped a rock on it, and then jumped all over his spine several times.]

sadly for hythlo joss isn't into bdsm

[bythefurry]

[Joss does catch the scene from Hythlo's back, and very nearly drops his cargo from shock. The tall figure in front of him can only be Hythlodaeus, but what in hells happened to him?]

By the Fury!

[He doesn't say anything else, but he's close enough that Hythlo likely heard that exclamation.]

[authoriser]

[ Oh, look. An actual tree. Sooyoung kicks his shins while holding a bag of groceries. It honestly isn't much effort because of how Joss just is... sorry, dude. ]

[bythefurry]

[Joss sadly stares at the ground as Sooyoung adds a particularly nasty bruise to his ever expanding collection.]

Sorry.

[For... being tall? Maybe?]

[rateup]

[ itaru's going oof-owie-ow over his knees getting kicked by random kids today, and he isn't sure if he'll take this over being flocked by random women and standing there awkwardly while they confess their love for him...

but like, he doesn't envy the new guy either, who towers over them like a skyscraper. he'll offer a sympathetic look, though. ]

I won't kick you, man. Don't worry. I know a suffering man with suffering knees when I see it.

[bythefurry]

[Wow, this man certainly has a sense of style about him. Joss isn't particularly bothered about fashion, but he feels a little self-conscious about how frumpy he looks now.]

Much appreciated.

[He gives Itaru a short, grim nod.]

You've been a target as well.

[nyom]

[ Efi doesn't kick Joss, but she does go over to him and lightly taps his shin with her hand. ]

Do I win?!

[ She doesn't seem to fully understand the meaning of this day... ]

[bythefurry]

[It's ok because he doesn't either. At least Efi's gentle tap is a nice change of pace compared to the other toddlers' vicious kicks. Who knew young kids have so much strength in their little bodies?

Joss nods appreciatively, though he feels the need to correct one thing.]

I believe it must be your foot.

[scension]

[Somewhere in town, a sidewalk bears several recent-looking scuffs, localised water puddles and muddy footprints that suggest a Pokemon battle happened here mere minutes ago, and a boy in red has just crumpled across the concrete. His feathers are ruffled, currently almost opaque, the wings taking up quite a lot of space for someone who isn't exceptionally tall.

Did he black out from losing a fight? It looks that way from a distance. Get a little closer, and he may be cursing very quietly. Sagi does not swear all that often for his age, but this doesn't happen very often, either.

Get too close in the half a minute or so before he manages to pull himself together, and the Pawniard standing over him nearby will hop right up to you in a fit of righteous zeal, motioning from her glaring yellow eyes to yours and back again with one of her claws. Move along, buster, nothing to see here. She's (probably) entitled to kick you in the shins if you don't.]

[bythefurry]

[Swablu sees Sagi's giant wings, and only one thing comes to her mind:

Prime nest material.

The bodyguard is an issue, of course, but she doesn't feel worried about it at all. What can a single Pawniard do, if she decides to swoop down and pluck a feather before flying off? Nothing, that's what.

While Sagi is busy crying about balls, he may suddenly feel a sharp tug on his back - provided Pawniard can't do anything about it, in which case he may just hear a lot of indignant bird screeching instead.]

[scension]

Wh--?!

[Sagi jerks upright into something closer to a sitting position, the relatively mild but sharply immediate pain of Swablu yanking his feather out almost a welcome distraction. Pawniard sees Swablu coming and leaps at her, little claws gleaming. Inside a Pokeball at Sagi's waist, his Sigilyph recognises the Swablu swooping down and bursts out with an angry scream. None of them catch her before she's out of reach with her large, fluffy, green-and-white prize.

Which, separated from Sagi, quietly fades from her beak about five seconds later. Oops.

Whether Swablu notices this or not, Sigilyph in particular refuses to let this bird-bully fly free after both this and her earlier forest crimes. It shrieks again, its three eyes burning bright blue. The air twists. Gravity intensifies. The branches of a nearby tree crack and fall, a couple of underripe berries thudding onto the sidewalk.

Sagi, finally bringing himself to lurch to his feet after his earlier misfortune, still a touch disoriented from the uncomfortable pricking sensation somewhere on his back, loses his footing and drops to his knees with a yelp.]

[authoriser]

[ Sooyoung was just passing by and she would have kicked Sagi but he's already just... on the ground.

She's not too close to be kicked by Pawniard just yet. ]

Damn, what happened to you?

[infiltrationtools]

[Akira is not the tallest person here. However, he is six foot two at the age of seventeen, and that puts him with confidence into the range of 'kickable'.]

[After the first two assaults on his shins, he's gotten into the habit of trying to dodge every attack he can. In this way, by turning it into a training exercise, something that used to thoroughly annoy him has now become enjoyable. It keeps him on his toes, even though sometimes it's really easy to see an attack coming.]

[Perhaps some of the goblin children have started talking to each other about that one guy with the glasses and his mythical ability to dodge kicks. Naturally this makes more people want to kick him. He dodges. The cycle continues. Of course, most of these people are six years old, so maybe a grown ass adult or even a small Pokémon will have a better chance.]

[Hit him with your best shot, cowards. Who wants to be the One?]

[bythefurry]

[Joss is struck by a revelation as he watches Akira get assaulted by a horde of five-year-olds in the distance:

You can just dodge the toddlers.

When he's sure the disappointed children are gone, he approaches the teen with a pensive look on his face, his errand nearly forgotten. He's sure whoever ordered Pointless Fetch Quest Item on this most holy of days can wait.]

I did not know it was allowed.

[nyom]

[ Efi just sees this as a fun game, so when she sees Akira dodging here and there, she feels like she's compelled to accept this as a challenge. ]

Mister Aki! I wanna play too!

[partymagician]

[ Fai is on the taller side, so his shins have been getting kicked all day long. It's a good thing he's fast, because he's able to dodge the kicks most of the time, but when a lot of people are kicking you a bunch of kicks are still going to land.

If anyone shorter than him comes nearby, he immediately smiles and gets ready to dodge.

But if he spots one of the taller ones in their groups, he'll wave them down. ]

Don't worry, I won't kick you! Not right now, at least.

[selfconcept]

[ Hien is immediately going in to kick Fai in the shins even though he's only like two inches taller.

Surprise!! ]