somnioergosum: (Even and especially Ronan can make faces)
Ronan Lynch ([personal profile] somnioergosum) wrote in [community profile] riverviewlogs 2017-04-03 11:14 pm (UTC)

Mingle: Buttercup Farms Petting Zoo and Flower Garden

[Grudgingly hosted by Ronan Lynch. He'll be in this to approach but if you want to grab someone else and do your own thing unrelated to a "difficult" character, be my (his?) guest. It's for everyone. Just let me know if you want him.]

This year, Buttercup Farm had their own way of celebrating the festival. While they dealt mostly with animals, the owners were very proud of their flowers. To celebrate both, they put up a small petting zoo/flower garden hybrid exhibit. There one could see glorious flowers of all kinds of varieties and species, some familiar to Riverview’s new arrivals and some entirely different. Some native, some clearly exported though from where was still in question. To go along with it, they showcased their rabbit and rabbit-like animals. If it ate plants, especially flowers, it was there. There were floppy, long eared specimens with round and fluffy tails and other with little fuzz on them and ears. But all were cute. Well, according to the owners.

In a cruel twist of fate they made Ronan, who wasn’t overly fond of any of it, man the exhibit. Ronan hadn’t been easy to persuade. Eventually his supervisor said something about letting him take off work to celebrate, and hinting that he could get drunk and not have to come in the next morning with a hangover. It was a win/win. Ronan had days off and still got the money for his vacation and everyone else got a few days vacation from Ronan.

Ronan questioned this decision after some little girl stuck a crown of flowers on his head. She pouted when he rolled his eyes so it stayed on. It stayed on the whole the day, even though he did his best to look as disinterested and cold as one could when surrounded by flowers and mostly fuzzy rodents. His raven Chainsaw, always close to him, wasn't much help in that.

Ronan idly stroked one of the fluffier rabbits. “If you crap on the ground again, I’m renaming you Shithead.”

Why did they think he would be good for marketing?

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