Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice (Bean!/Inv)

"OK SO, NOW ICE CREAM MAN JUST NEED BIG HAT!" Bean! declares, looking on proudly at the masterwork that he and a few of the children visiting the mountain had created. The creation was akin to a snowman, but given that snow had not been seen on this mountain for many months this particular man was made out of different flavours of ice cream. With chocolate buttons for eyes, a liquorice scarf and some biscoff arms. Oh and of course a popsicle for the nose.

Bean! was currently in his civilian 'disguise' with his cape wrapped around his neck to appear like a scarf instead of the usual. Originally tourists and visitors to the mountain had steered clear of him due to his bizarre appearance and boundless energy being mistaken for aggression. But it had become more common knowledge recently that he was a resident of the mountain. And tourists would sometimes seek him out as a tour guide or basically get him to watch their kids for them while they went whatever it was adults did when kids weren't present. Bean! didn't know, and nobody would tell him.

"HMMM!" He grumbles loudly as he thinks, drawing the eyes of the surrounding children. "WHAT AM MAKE GOOD HaT FOR ICE CREAM MAN?!" He scratches his head and some of the children do the same, each of them thinking for a good sweet treat to place upon the head of their construct.

But then Bean! paused, and sniffed the air. The Majin couldn't sense energy, not in the traditional sense at least. But a strong enough power would tickle his nose (or the area that his nose should be) somewhat, and it just so happened a strong enough power was wandering nearby. 

He whips around and spots Griselda, and though he couldn't be sure she was what was causing his nose tickle, but at that point it didn't matter. He had spotted her and her tall friend, and now he had to talk to them. Especially because they were floating, and in his experience floating people always had interesting things to say.

"HEY YOU GUYS!" He calls to them, marching through the whipped cream and over the cookie dough. It could possibly be interpreted as an aggressive stride, if he wasn't quite so diminuitive. Once he's close enough, if he was allowed to be close enough, he would turn and point at the Ice Cream man a few metres back. "WHAT AM YOU THINK HAT SHOULD BE?!" He asks them, excited for the input of a floating being.

Bean! did stop and stare in stunned silence for just a moment as the smaller person was suddenly eaten by a bear. It was quite a horrible thing to see, someone be devoured by a killer mammal right in front of you. Only until he realised that the young woman remained happily undevoured and all that had occurred was the manifestation of a comfortable looking...if a tad oversized, fur coat. Ethically sourced via magic.

"BEAN! AM NOT YELLING, WHY YOU YELLING?!" He yelled. Though in truth there was no anger or even negative emotion tonally behind his words. It seemed as if he just pronounced every word with all his heart, as if he was proud of everything had to say. Or he just lacked any sense of volume control.

Finally arriving to the pair Bean! has to look up very slightly at the younger person and look up a lot at the older person. He could deal with it for now, neck strain wasn't quite as bad as stretching himself up and down constantly so that he could look them both in the eye properly.

"YES, HAT FOR ICE CREAM MAN! ME AM NOT NAME HIM YET. ME SUGGEST DAN BECAUSE DAN RUN THE ICE-CREAM TRUCK IN BIG CITY! BUT THE KIDS AM NO LIKE THAT NAME SO WE STILL AM THINK!" He eloquently explains, turning his head to Griselda as she inquires as to whether or not the snowman needed a hat. A statement Bean! was about to politely destroy with facts and logic.

"ME AM NOT KNOW. BUT HE AM ICE CREAM MAN, NOT SNOO MAN OR WHAT YOU AM SAY! SO MAYBE HE AM NEED A HAT? MAYBE HE DESERVE HAT? MAYBE EVERY BUDDY DESERVE HAT?!" He presents a philosophical argument to the pair, one that scholars would surely think on for years to come.

"WE AM GIVE HAT ANYWAY, ME THINK BIG ICE CREAM CONE. BUT KIDS THINK THAT TOO EASY." Now the two could clearly understand the dire predicament they found themselves in.

"THAT AM SPIRIT!" Bean! grinned, pleased to have another pair of hands on board for this most important of public works. The children just a few short metres away also seemed pleased with the idea, each of them scooping up a load of whipped cream in their hands in a similar fashion. "HMM, WHAT IF HE AM...HE AM HAVE HAIR WITH HAT?!" Bean! suggests, scooping up some cream of his own to provide a visual demonstration to go with his idea. 

He dollops a bit onto his head and starts shaping it into something of a pompadour, complete with sideburns that then conclude into a bushy whipped cream beard. He completes the look with sprinkles as requested, but for the cherry he decides to use that as a little mouthpiece to dangle out from his lips, similarly to how some snowmen would traditionally have a pipe. "THUSH AM COO WOR!" He declares, stuffing up some of his words as he tried not to open his mouth too far and accidentally drop the cherry.

Pointless really as he took it out of his mouth soon enough, gesturing for Griselda to follow him to the Ice Cream Man. Tsuya was welcome also, but Bean! wasn't good at multi-tasking, and considering Griselda was the last person he had spoken to it would mean he momentarily forgot Tsuya was even present.

"WHAT IF HE AM WIZARD? LIKE THE ONE WHO MAKE COFFEE MOUNTAIN?!" He suggests, speaking as if it was a quiet dialogue to himself, but his boisterous tone making it audible to all nearby that he believed the Ice Cream man should be a wizard Ice Cream man.

With an exaggerated gesticulation he conjures a waffle cone that appears on the floor and then droops slightly due to its softness. "AM STILL KINDA ICE CREAM CONE, BUT IT AM FLOPPY, LIKE WIZARD HAT!" 

"HEHE YEAH!" Bean! giggles, though he had absolutely no idea what a 'visionary' was. Griselda had said it in a positive enough tone that he could assume it was a good thing. Bean! was now looking stylish in his whipped cream hairdo and it was with that confidence that he and the legion of tourist children would set to work on the Ice cream wizard. 

He would make sure Griselda felt involved, offering to help her if she required it as they all worked on getting the perfect wizardly look for their beloved Snowcream Iceman. Everybody was getting properly messy stomping around on the mountain as they were, but as far as Bean! was concerned that was all part of the fun.

He stops his creative pursuits for a brief moment as Tsuya spoke to him. He turns around slowly to face her and cocks his head to the side as he listens to her question. "OH, THAT AM THE STORY!" He explains. "MOUNTAIN WERE AM LESS FUN BEFORE! THEN MAGIC WIZARD COME! MAKE MOUNTAIN GOODER!" Throughout his explanation he would perform wild gestures with his arms to better articulate the events he was detailing for her. "BUT NO-ONE AM SEE THEM SINCE!"

Tsuya would seemingly go ignored by Bean! for a few moments as he stares at the newly decorated Dan the Ice Cream man, or whatever they wound up calling their creation. Only to realise he was being spoken to and snap to attention. "HMM...DESCRIBEY? LIKE, AM LOOKEY LIKE?" He confirms, scratching his head a few times. "UM, DIS AM BEFORE ME TIME. SO ME AM NOT KNOW...SOME PEOPLE WAS THERE THOUGH...THERE WERE UM..."

He goes quiet for a bit as he raps his knuckles against his forehead, as if trying to shove a memory into his own skull...if he even had a skull. "BEAN! AM NOT KNOW. ME WERE AM NOT THERE." He shakes his head, he wanted to be helpful. But all of this had occurred just before he spawned into the world, as such he had no useful recollection.

His dismay did not last long as he was immediately distracted by Griselda's creation of a second ice-cream being. His smile spreading into a wide grin. "YOU AM MAGIC!" He exclaims happily. With a movement of his own arm he summons two chocolate bars. One he shapes into a makeshift bowtie for the newly summoned Ice Cream Person, the other he offers to Griselda as a prize for her amazing magic display. It would seem Bean! couldn't quite link up his own abilities to magic in his head, even though they were fundamentally the same thing.

"WHAT AM BRING YOU BOTH TO COFFEE MOUNTAIN ANYWAYS?" He asks curiously. "NOT THAT YOU AM NEED A REASON, JUST HOPE YOU AM NOT HERE TO EAT IT LIKE PINK GUY AM WERE."

"SAM AND DAN! DAN AND SAM! SAMDAN! DANSAM!" He mulls the names over out loud, as if testing to see how they feel on the tip of his tongue. "ME AM LIKE IT!" He nods, satisfied with Griselda's name for the twin Ice Snow Cream man. 

He turns to look at Tsuya and listens again as she explains her reasoning for being there. He nods almost contemplatively at her response, putting his hand on his chin as he uses his empty head to try to think of a good answer to her queries.

"MOUNTAIN AM BE HERE AS LONG AS ME KNOW!" He explains. Which was true, as far as he was aware the Mountain had always been this utopia of sugary treats, the only evidence to the contrary was the ocassional protestors and some very enthusiastic individuals that claimed such a thing had not always been the case. Who would say things like they needed to "clean up the Mountain" as if there was something wrong with it. The Mountain wasn't dirty, the food didn't even rot. Preserved as it was by Wizard magic.

"IT AM NO CAUSE TROUBLE, SOME PEOPLE AM NO LIKE IT. BUT IT AM COFFEE MOUNTAIN, IT AM HOME!" He tells them both, taking a look at their ice-cream creations once more as Griselda protests that she is in fact not a child. Bean! nods his head, because it was true you didn't have to be a child to enjoy the sweet things the world could offer. He plods over to Tsuya and offers them a conjured chocolate bar as well. 

"ME CAN SHOW YOU ROUND MOUNTAIN! IF YOU AM LIKE? BUT YOU AM MUST PROMISE YOU NOT HURT IT!" 

"THEY AM SAY IT AM...UM...WORD BE...EN-VRON-METAL! CAB-LAMB-ITY." He explains, proud of his expert pronounciation of such difficult words. "ME THINK THAT AM MEAN BAD, BUT LOOK HOW HAPPY EVERY BUDDY AM! HOW AM THAT BAD?!" As he talks, he gestures to the smiling children, the contented parents, and the tourists and sightseers enamoured with the confectionary delight. 

His attention turns to Griselda as she comments on his age. "ACTUALLY, ME AM NO HAVE PARTY YET. SO ME AM STILL ZERO." He beams, he knew eventually somebody would come to throw him a party so he could finally be a year old, but there was probably a lot of parties to get through first, so he was happy to wait. Though he was pretty sure to have a birthday party you needed friends to come to it. He'd need to check if the friends were provided by the Party Planner Person or if he needed to make his own.

"STICKY FEET AM PART OF CHARM! THERE AM TUBS IN LODGE OVER THERE!" He points to a converted Ski Lodge, that was now making quite a killing from the mountain's new tourism boom. "YOU AM CAN WASH IN THERE WHEN YOU DONE!" 

He pulls a 'Hello, my name is...' sticker out from...somewhere and slaps it on his bare chest proudly. It was discernable that his name was indeed Bean! but the B was backwards, the a and the e were swapped around and the exclamation point was upside down. He got the n right though, he's good at that one.

"ME AM BEAN! AND ME AM BE YOUR GUIDE TODAY!" He turns his back to the pair and motions for them to follow him. "WE AM CURRENTLY ON THE SLOPEY BIT WITH LOTS OF COOKIE FLOOR. THIS AM THE HOME OF SAM AND DAN." He grins and gestures to the two Ice-cream men, who had definitely had a few bites taken out of them by the hyped up children. "IF YOU AM FOLLOW ME, ME KNOW A GREAT SLEDDING SPOT!" He starts walking, though if the pair cast their eyes further up towards the mountain peak. They would see a small cave entrance, one that looked like it had been created by something inside the mountain breaking out.