{Character -> Doopliss [Paper Mario TTYD]}
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{Doopliss rehearses for a bubbly prank he plans to inflict on others.}
{Other -> Commission for epicbubbs ! Hope ya love it uvu}
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In the midst of an unending night, where the sun never shines, deep within an abandoned steeple… a little troublemaker resides, one who has caused an uproar within the region in the past, all in the pursuit of getting a little kick out of himself. It was a place no one often ever visited, if at all, and yet, it seems the one person who’s made this place his home… has received a delivery, but not without scaring the poor deliveryman off.

Who else would be up to trouble here, than the one who claims this place as his home- the trouble-making duplighost, Doopliss. It seems he’s got himself a nice glass bowl for the table in the middle of his little room, and with the package he’s received, he pours it full of… a particular, familiar candy. But why?

“...Eighty… ninety… one-hundred. At least the poor soul who had to bare with me took care to leave it all intact. A hundred pieces of the finest bubblegum I could get my hands on, I almost feel sorry for anyone I’m gonna inconvenience with this. Yeah, gumming up all the doors, whoever comes to visit, or really anyone who crosses me. Yeah, I think I can get my way with this, and not without getting in hot water like the last time…” As his eyes roll to the side, thinking about his last little dumb escapade, which certainly didn’t go well, angry mob notwitstanding. If this was to go any better though, he needed practice, and a fair bit of it, not being anything of a trained bubble blower himself.

No time like now to take a single gumball from the newly-filled gum bowl, and to pop it into his maw without a second thought. The sugary flavor is quite prominent, but it’s nothing that’ll drive his mind off the walls, surely. Regardless, he’s got a single hand up to his cheek as he lightly blushes, admiring the flavor. Give it a minute, and he takes a step back away from the bowl, giving a confident, sly smile.

“Yeah… it’s ready. Bet I can blow a big one like in the slapstick shows…”
Quickly taking a deep breath, shoulders hunched up, he then leans forward as he rapidly begins blowing a bubble, cheeks puffed out. At the rate he forces out, it expands to to around his face size, if just a tad bit bigger, before the bubble snaps, coating most of his face. A single eye shut as he looks down, a hint of disappointment in his expression. Well, that didn’t really pan out as he envisioned, which was unfortunate, but he licked up the goopy remains, getting it back in his mouth, resuming chewing.

“Okay, that one wasn’t very slick, but of course I’ll cut myself a break, every great prankster starts somewhere with a new act. Now, let’s try doubling up this act-” As Doopliss yoinked a second gumball from the bowl, proceeding to pop in that one too. The flavor in his mouth intensified, as he forms a soft but visible pink blush, in utter delight of the flavor. A minute or so passes, and before he gets too ahead of himself, he takes in a deep breath once more, before leaning in, cheeks puffed up as he begins to blow another bubble. His eyes roll up as it fixates on the inflating pink sphere, which comes to a crawl before stopping as he runs out of breath.


It hasn’t popped yet. So, from the corners of his mouth, he takes another breath, and exhales once more, watching as the bubble exceeds his own face size, listening to his own exhale into the bubble as air flows into it. Running out of breath once more, his point of view is mostly covered in translucent pink now, and given his small build, it’s at least half his body size now. One more inhale, and he lets another fwoosh of air into the bubble, but is promptly cut off by the bubble bursting, causing him to recoil in startle.

His eyes widen as he glances left to right, feeling some small hint of embarassment in regards to where his emotions are going with this. No boos coming in on him uninvited, he had hoped. After a moment, he was sure he had his privacy, good enough for him. He still had 98 to work with for later, so he decides to let curiousity get the best of him, as he scoops up another ten gumballs in his mouth, before hurling them all into his mouth.

His eyes dilate the moment he bites down, he feels like he’s going to suffer a sugar rush, but that wasn’t what he’d consider a bad thing. He’s bit off more than he could chew, almost literally, as he’s straining to get the wad into a softer state. Not just that, but emotion is getting to him too, as a warm blush’s on his face just from chewing the gum.

“...Haha- hahaha- come on, this ain’t very sly of me, ain’t even got to the good part yet and what little heart I have is getting tipsy, this is an embarassing look on me.” Doopliss lightly complained to himself, knowing well how awkward he’d be making himself look to others, getting… turned on, was it? And by just chewing gum no less. Another minute or two passes as he tries to look past the initial burst of flavor in his mouth, now playing it off cool.

“Ten of these… yeah, I think that should be enough to blow a bubble big enough to catch anyone off-guard. Two for one, maybe? Three even? Who knows? I won’t ‘til I give this a real good try.” Feeling ready to really push himself now, he takes a few steps back from anything else in the room. Doopliss takes in a real good, deep breath, as his chest puffs up, as does his cheeks, and he momentarily holds in the breath, then-

Fwooooooooosh~!

A big exhale, as Doopliss once again begins to blow a bubble, the first breath by itself seeming as if it’s not gonna stop. His eyes shut tight, he doesn’t realize it initially, but that rushed, hearty exhale of it is pushing it to a little over half his body size in one go. Another moment before he finally runs out of breath, and it’s a good amount of the way there to his whole body size. Just now does he see the scope of the bubble so far when he temporarly opens his eyes back up while catching his breath. He’s not pleased with himself yet, sure this might catch someone off-guard on a forest stroll, but he’s no longer content with that.

He’s inclined to just keep blowing, this is nothing like what he sees in those little toons that sometimes plays on that TV of his. He takes in another deep breath, before leaning forward once more as he pushes out another big exhale, eyes shut from the force he’s exerting. The bubble swells and grows, past the duplighost’s own body size, moonlight from outside now causing noticeable pink light to reflect off of the bubble. It continues to swell, until Doopliss’ cheeks deflate, spent of breath once more.

He pauses to catch his breath once more, peeking an eye open, causing a large similarly pink blush on his face. If he had to say, about one and two-fifths his body size now, that’s pretty good for someone who’s just blowing his third ever bubble. It was still not enough however, thus he took in another breath, eyes already shut, before another big, wooshing exhale escapes his mouth, his blush starting to deepen from the physical pressure. Once his third breath subsumed, it was close to twice his body size, to him it seemed huge, but what if it didn’t to others? Furthermore, what if this still wasn’t good enough to catch more weary folks? This still didn’t match some of the more spectacular sizes he’d seen on the TV either…

So Doopliss kept doing what he was doing best at this point, and kept up the huffing and puffing, now with more rapid, less spaced out breaths. At this rate, one had to question the viability of this act as a prank at all, by now he’s been at this for just a little under a minute, if not longer at this point. It was quite clear Doopliss wasn’t capable of a bubble of this scope in a quick few seconds, and his expression at this point suggested- this now filled a quota entirely separate from fulfilling a prank. This was for more… pleasure time.

Doopliss pushes the bubble a little over past double his body size, before he pauses at the sound of the bubble beginning to shove against his furniture. It was a bit troubling at first, but it was nothing a little bit of backing up wouldn’t resolve. As he took some careful steps back, the bubble lightly bobs forward and back from the movement. Soon enough, he found himself in the corner furthest from any obstructions, and that meant he could resume blowing to his heart’s content. Sure enough, he did, and gladly so, watching as the bubble slowly puffed up even further.

Not long after resuming, does his face start to warm up again, from a mixture of pleasure and strain. Even if this act was physically getting harder to keep up, by no emotional means did he want to stop, and thus he kept at it. Puff after puff, the bubble begins to reach triple his own size, and to him, this was more like it. Doopliss could’ve easily stopped here and now, spared himself the trouble and just pre-emptively pop the bubble. Sparing himself the trouble of having to clean up any of his actual belongings seemed like the better option. Yet, envisioning how abruptly and drastically he could get people off-guard in the open like this, and how big of a record he could set for himself for a later date, here and now…

It was now caution to the wind for him, it was now a matter of blowing to pop, he wanted to see how much further he could push this thing. So, after a brief pause to take it all in, he gets right back to business, huffing and puffing as quick as it could. At this point, the bubble was getting a good bit transparent, and starting to look rather taut, which wasn’t exactly good if he would’ve wanted to keep it going… but he didn’t even care anymore. He was too elated to just stop at this point, what was supposed to be rehearsal for a silly little prank idea, had instead become a means to reaching an emotional high.

Just a little more, and the bubble would inevitably give out. With the pace he was puffing up the bubble, it started to expand to four times his own size, and starting to creak ominously. This was only a wake up call however, for him to take a deep breath, and blow with due vigor. Once he was spent of breath, he took in another, and blew even harder, eyes shut from the force. Then, one more deep breath, the deepest he could go, and he then blew, and blew, and blew… the bubble momentarily let out a high hiss, before-

Pop!!!

The bubble burst in a sudden show of pink, goopy fireworks, the pink residue scattering all across his corner of the room, and a fair bit of ways out. Most of his furniture suffered the consequences, and Doopliss was just left there, sighing out a big sigh of bliss at the end of it all. Completely coated in the pink substance, he instinctively took in and started chewing what was already up to his mouth… seeming as if he was already ready for round four tonight.