Ghosts'Ghoul Gang

The List

Running an errand or two was the ghouls job, their job to serve Papa of what he asked. The ghouls served a day to day job, that's why there were eight of them, each ghoul had enough of a workload to share on their own. That's why they found todays mundane ask unusual, it certainly wasn't enough to warrant all eight of them. That's how the ghouls found themselves squeezing into a black monstrous suv on their way to collect Papa Copia's shopping list. A ghoul sporting droopy, icy blue eyes, leaned forward from he sat in the backseat to pull a folded piece of paper from one of his various pockets.

"What do you got Rain?" a sweeter voice asked, dark fingers plucking the paper from Rains hand. Rain looked back at the other ghoul, larger golden eyes cast downwards as he read, the screws on his mask glinting in the lingering sunlight.

"Nothing Swiss." Rain said, "just chicken scratch."

"Oh?" Cirrus asked interested.

"Papas shopping list." Swiss announced.

"Oh-" Cirrus said flatly, sitting back disinterested.

The ghouls were slow to make sense of the list, letters scrawled in all caps, some words scratched out with spelling mistakes read:

TINY POT PLANTERS

WIRE CUTTERS

GROUND BEEF

ROPE

PUSH PINS

BLACK GEL G2 PENS

GENERAL MATERIALS, YOU KNOW.

Maybe it was the fact it was written in all caps, or that it was so out of order, but something about the list felt very off putting and confusing.

"Should...we check on Papa?" Aether joked, his voice a low rumble in his chest.

Mountain- with his two tone horns- who sat occupied in the drivers seat and knew nothing of the list said, "He's fine."

"Well-"

"Fine, he's okay. He's good for Papa."

"If you say so," Swiss said, "But im not gonna be the one getting the rope this time."

"Mhmm." Cumulus hummed, voice warm, "We remember."

Swiss suppressed frowning, passing the paper back to Rain and sitting back against his seat with a huff and proclaiming again "Not-dibs". So the eight of them split the list between groups to spend as little time in public as possible, and to minimalize the risk of a 'blow up' as Papa so called their explosive emotional outburst. Each ghoul had their own emotional responses of wide variety, and each had a fix it or a tell all. For instance:

Rain- the water ghoul- was empathetically emotional. He wasn't 'easy to upset' but instead could feel the energy that radiated around him, he was prone to feeling melancholy. Rains distress was subtle to catch on to; first being tense then gradually becoming fidgety before he would break. It was usually just overstimulation, or an overly complicated situation.

Sodo- the fire ghoul- was unsurprisingly was very easy to tick off, but the thing about Sodo was that he was always angry; its just sometimes it was easier to swallow and shove down. Much unlike the water ghoul Sodo's tells were very rapid in succession. First his jaw would go tight as he stopped responding, then his fists would start to clench and unclench as he physically tried to suppress rage, maybe even building up to pacing before erupting. If you got to him before he started pacing you might be able to side line his anger with a quick teasing dismissal or changing the subject; but Sodo was pretty much uncontrollable and unpredictable.