Flower PSA

[glazedonutholes]

[ The recording opens with Donut standing in front of his bed that's currently covered in an ocean of flower petals. Beside him stands a decorated bike that holds a few bouquets. ]

Hey guys! Private Donut here from the popular Bluehaus with another friendly PSA. 

As you all know, it's February and that means love is in the air! For those of you unfamiliar with Earth lingo, this is the month we celebrate a little thing called Valentine's Day! It's a day when a guy in a diaper named Cupid hits you with an arrow and BAM! Instant love at first sight! Isn't it great?! 

[ He vibrates with giddy delight. ]

Well! I've been hard at work collecting all sorts of seeds in anticipation and now it's time for all of them to bloom! As your friendly neighborhood Flower God, I'll be making fresh bouquets for anyone who wants them! And this month only [ he throws his hands out to show off the bike - TADA! ] - 
I'll be making home deliveries!

You just tell me what you'd like and [he starts reciting the postal service motto ] neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays this Flower God from swift delivery! I got all sorts of bouquets for all tastes! There's your friendship ones, your first date ones, pure love, wild love, going steady, and all sorts of other ones for every occasion! 

So... [ Here he rocks back on his heels, his hands behind his back. ] I was thinking, if any of you have a little time to spare next month, maybe you can help me set-up a real flower shop and help me move-in upstairs? You know what they say, it takes a village. 

[ He keeps rocking back and forth on his heels, buzzing with so many vibrant emotions they spill over and behind him the larkspur flowers start to bloom. Reds and blues. Purples. Whites. A whole rainbow of colors come to life. ]

Either way, I love Valentine's Day, so I'd do this for free! [ He smiles before remembering - ] I'll be accepting orders all month! 

[ He waves at the recording. ] 

Happy Hearts! 

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[knifecollecting]

How do you know it's February?

[Jo's been here a while and never known what month it was. And it's not like weather has ever been helpful, considering the caves were always the same. The desert too, if she thought about it.]

[glazedonutholes]

That's what my space suit says it is. I guess, not everyone here has Space Marine Armor to keep track of the time.

[ Donut... you've just reduced a state of the art future space armor to a damn clock! ]

[knifecollecting]

That doesn't mean it's actually February here anyway. [Just that it was February as far as the armor was tracking. This planet probably doesn't even have a twelve-month year, who knows?]

How did you get the flowers? [They're surrounded by Canada. She's very curious.]

[glazedonutholes]

It's February somewhere!

Oh, those.

[ He waves it off. ]

I've been collecting all sorts of flowers ever since I got here hoping to make a Red Base made entirely from them! I figured, if I want Red Team to stumble onto this place then I gotta make a Red Base for them. I mean, the answer was staring at me the whole time. If they had a BlueHause over there then it only stands to reason that we have a Red Hause over here! And once I realized what I had to do, I got to working!

But man has it been hard finding only red flowers to make a whoooole base. I spent days and days just growing chrysanthemum and that was only for the bunkers. Don't even get me started and on the training facilities or the kitchen. Did you know petals burn?! [ He looks very serious about this ] Well, let me tell you - they do.

[ Yup, he learned that the hard way. ]

[knifecollecting]

[Who doesn't realize flowers burn?

Is it even possible to make solid surfaces out of flowers? She kind of misses when she did have to wonder about these things because of conversations.]

You can't just build a regular building?

[glazedonutholes]

Why go small when you can go big!

I bet Sarge would love it!

[ No, Donut. He'll hate it along with the rest of red team. ]