Realm ask: Hey guys! What do you wanna be when you grow up?
Hank: p l e a s e d o n’ t a s k m e t h e s e t h i n g s oh god I dunno- I’d love to have one of those touristy farms with the you-picks and things- I dunno, maybe. If that fucks up I guess I could be a gym teacher? I’ve got NO idea.
Bobby: A soldier! Nah nah nah wait! Cop! But the kind that like, puts animal abusers in jail! Oh! Or if Hank stops being such a flake I wanna handle animals.
Presto: I’d say stage magician but I HATE people, so y’know that’s not a thing. So maybe a sound or special effects tech? Behind the scenes type stuff? Stage crew I guess.
Sheila: Ballerina still, hopefully. Kindergarten teacher? Or pet foster mom? Something nice like that.
Eric: I don’t know, something that’s not my parents’ company, anything Five Dragons doesn’t do is what I wanna do, could be a lawyer, the cool kind not the slimy kind, or a sales rep... or an actor.
Diana: A QUEEN! Nah, jk jk, I wanna travel, a lot! So an international news reporter or a travel blogger would be what’s up for me.
Presto: what- yea- no it’s like 80 degrees outside Eric! What genius gave Wizard robes so many layers?! And you! How aren’t you roasting like a rotisserie chicken in that chest plate?!
Eric: Looking at my chest plate?
Presto: *smacks him repeatedly with his hat* you are such a pain!
The Party at Spirit Halloween
Hank: groans because there’s a lot of cool Halloween stuff but he’s broke as hell. Pokes pretty much anything that has a “try me” button on it cuz boredom and not wanting to look like he’s not shopping. Accidentally breaks one of the cheap plastic animatronic Knick-knacks and is so embarassed he hides behind the store for the rest of the trip until Diana finds him and pulls him back in.
Bobby: makes it his sole purpose in life to ”sample” every mask in the store, by that he means hide behind costume displays and scare the living shit out of as many people as possible. He assumes Sheila will be an easy target but is pleasantly astonished by how unimpressed she is. Hank is no fun cuz he’s way too used to it, and taught him to do it so he knows all the tricks. Presto jumps a few times but is more annoyed than anything. Eric is the most fun, the guy is a total scaredy cat but after a close call with a knuckle sandwich he gets tired of it. His reign of terror ends when Diana pulls the mask off “you think you’re gonna scare me?! I’ve got five little brothers. Put that back you’re gonna get us kicked out.”
Presto: Roasts every crummy voice effect and obnoxiously historically inaccurate costume piece (but secretly adores the steampunk section). Largely spends his time scrolling through Instagram and being Eric’s low-key meat shield. Waits until everyone else is done to buy anything cuz he doesn’t wanna look like a bigot after joking about the whole store.
Sheila: Goes absolutely apeshit over e v e r y t h i n g in the store. She LOVES Halloween and scary movies, all of it. She saves up her allowance months in advance and blows it all on Halloween stuff. She gushes and rambles about all her favorite Halloween movies to anyone who’ll listen (usually Hank or Diana) and comes out with a whole grocery cart full of Halloween stuff to dump into Hank’s pick up or cram into the trunk of her dads’ car.
Eric: Totally acts all macho and confident like he isn’t afraid of anything, but is the polar opposite of Sheila. He only came inside because Diana dared him and Bobby challenged his masculinity and Presto was going in anyway. Jumpscared by Bobby, and every animatronic in the store. It gets to the point where he’s so jumpy he sucker punches an animatronic so hard he destroys it, he has to shell out a few hundred bucks and gets them kicked out.
Diana: Picks out a few things she thinks are cute and/or that her little brothers will like. Mostly wrangles the tweens and makes sure Hank doesn’t sneak off. Steals one of those “Jamaican” wigs with the blandly handsome white boy in fake ass dreads during the “Eric punches a robot zombie” fiasco. Nudges Sheila and goes “I’m gonna burn this in the dumpster behind my house later, wanna come?” Then keeps walking like nothing happened.