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[stupetballs]

They have these cute chubby little cheeks and are honestly the superior rodent.

[Just in Waverly's totally biased opinion. And then, almost as though she's anticipating the question.]

The Simpsons is a television show. Like a bunch of plays all put together to tell a story.

[Then another beat.]

Do you have plays in Westeros?

[buried]

[ elena bites back a smile at the range of expressions that play out on jon snow's otherwise stoic face, and takes a sip of her drink as she awaits this answer.

she's curious, too. ]

[nighted]

[ jon is absolutely confident the visual that appears in his head when she describes a hamster is not accurate, but rats are the main rodent in westeros. rats with chubby cheeks are not... cute though. hrm.

the explanation for the television show makes sense. there are tvs around, but they don't play television shows only messages from lucifer usually. this explains why those black boxes would exist in modern worlds at all. just gonna drink more from his glass now. ]

No, not in Westeros. They do in the Free Cities. My friend, Sam, told me about how the mummers there would act out fully written stories. [ there's even a full play written about his family performed in bravos that he thankfully has never seen or heard about. ...though he did hear about joffreys group of 'entertainers' at the wedding, and how they treated robb's death. ] In Westeros, mummers juggle, breathe fire, walk on stilts, or they tell ridiculous jokes, exaggerate for laughs.

[middlefinger]

Sounds like clowns.

(or circus performers in general, anyway. wynonna takes another long swig of her drink.)

[stupetballs]

Did they have really dramatic makeup?

[Because Wynonna is not wrong, that does sound like clowns.]

[buried]

I bet they did, though probably no big red noses...

[ though now she's thinking about introducing jon to television, and wondering what might be a good place to start. ]

[nighted]

[ big red noses? clowns? the modern world is a strange one, but he would definitely not know what to make of tv or movies in the slightest. the realism would be difficult to wrap his head around. ]

Aye. Exaggerated makeup. It's generally all a big joke to make people laugh.

[middlefinger]

Are they actually funny or do they tend to make more people creeped out than amused?

(the real clown test, in wynonna's opinion.)

[stupetballs]

Clowns for us tend to skew more towards creepy.

[As though for clarification.]

They might have been funny once, but their time has passed.

[buried]

[ elena tips her head to the side. ]

It has. If someone calls you a clown nowadays, they mostly mean you're either being a fool or you're fooling yourself.

[ welcome to the modern world. ]

[nighted]

[ the modern world is so strange, but there's some things he finds familiar and recognizes. ]

...most people find them funny or annoying, but we call them fools too. Some kings have their own jester or fool to entertain them and their court.

Not me. [ yes, he's had enough to drink to casually speak about being a king, pfft. ]

[middlefinger]

(wynonna chokes on her whiskey a little at that.)

Wait? You're a king?????

(way to bury the lead, snow.)

[stupetballs]

Did we know that?

[Waverly tries to think back on if Jon had mentioned that he was king of anything in their various conversations.]

My drunk brain can't remember if we knew that.

[buried]

I knew that! I thought we all knew that?

[ but then, she and jon have been fucking. she takes a dignified sip of her own drink. ]

[nighted]

[oh fuck, right. that's a thing that he doesn't like advertised. well, least this is team human so he can count on them, and elena does know already and doesn't tell anybody about it. and he loves her for this (and many, many other things). ]

Only recently. People in the North chose me as their king, which is weird cause I'm a bastard. [ but yes, he's a king at least for a short while, and he downs more of his drink. ] ...don't tell anyone. The demons are asses about it already.

[middlefinger]

Well Waverly has you beat. She's a bastard and an angel. A literal one.

(sorry waverly, drunk wynonna is just spilling things all over the place. also slower on the uptake)

Or did you mean they're asses to you about being a king?

[stupetballs]

Oh. I remember the king thing now. They dressed you up as one for Halloween.

[There had just been much more important aspects of that conversation for Waverly to remember than Jon is uncomfortable in a king costume.]

[buried]

[ elena grows quiet, partly because she knows these are complicated subjects for jon and waverly.

but also: ] I can't believe that was almost four months ago.