#starnoodle

(Joy slowly opens her eyes, still trying to wake up. The lights were so bright).

Joy: "Ugh." The lights are too bright...

Ennui: Oh, your eyes have already adjusted to the dark. It's completely normal.

(Joy felt her teeth and noticed her canines have become longer and sharper. She then grabbed her handheld mirror on her nightstand and saw she had no reflection).

Joy: I really am a vampire now.

Ennui:(panicking) You don't regret this, do you? Because once you become a vampire, you can't change back, I'm so sorry!

Joy: It's okay, I don't regret it one bit.

Ennui: You don't?

Joy: Of course not, I'm so happy we now get to be together forever.

(Joy kisses Ennui on the lips, and Ennui kissed back. They continued kissing until Joy's stomach started growling).

Ennui: Sounds like you're hungry, my étoile petite.

(Ennui takes her to the kitchen and gives her a bloodbag. Joy bites into the bloodbag, and it tasted so sweet).

Joy: "Mmmm... This is so sweet. What makes it so sweet?

Ennui: The person who donated the blood in your bloodbag must've had a sweet tooth as the taste of blood mainly has to do with the person's diet.

Joy: Really, I thought it had something to do with blood type, like A positive being sweet while B negative being bitter.

Ennui: Nope, blood on its own is mostly tasteless with a slight metallic flavor.

Joy: Huh, the more you know.

(Joy finishes the bloodbag when the door opens).

(Joy decides to buy some strawberry pocky to play the pocky game with Ennui).

Joy: Hey, Qui qui.

Ennui: Yes, Joy?

Joy: I have some pocky. You wanna play the pocky game?

Ennui: "Hmm." Sure thing, Joy.

(Joy and Ennui start eating the pocky from both ends. At one point, Ennui decides to bite to the middle and kisses Joy to her surprise. Joy blushes, and Ennui finishes kissing Joy).

Ennui: (Lovingly) À bientôt, Joy...

I've been so mean to y'all, feeding you Twitter scraps HAVE SOMETHING FRESH FOR ONCE!!

i definitely really like it! i like how ennui kind of gives joy a hard time in the movie, without also relying on joy at the same time. i feel like some of the other joy ships teeter on the edge of codependency (which, don’t get me wrong, is a very compelling concept to explore), whereas the starnoodle women are opposite in their roles, but without ennui depending so heavily on joy for comfort and reassurance. i just feel bad for joy sometimes.. she has so much pressure on her. ennui definitely has the capability of taking some of that pressure off joy, simply by being her calm and blasé self. these two are very powerful together… i’d love to explore them more.

(This is a series of silly stories where the emotions have weird dreams).

Joy: That was a great day, everyone. Now, who's on dream duty tonight?

Ennui: "Sigh." I guess I'll be on dream duty.

Joy: Alright, good luck, Qui qui.

Ennui: Sweet dreams, Étoile.

(Ennui starts dream duty while the other emotions go to bed. Joy falls asleep, and her dream starts with her standing in a field of knives).

Joy: Oh, my God!

(Joy freaks out about standing on knives but then notices that the knives aren't hurting her).

Joy: Huh, why aren't the knives hurting me?

(Joy picks up one of the knives and finds out that the knives are actually made of chocolate).

Joy: Ohh, chocolate.

(Joy takes a bite out of the chocolate knife).

?: Hey!

Joy:"Hmm"?

(Joy turns around to see a bunch of sentient balloon animals. Joy swallows the chocolate).

Joy: What the?...

Pink balloon animal: How dare you eat our chocolate!?

Joy: Oh, sorry. I didn't know it was yours.

Purple balloon animal: How do we know you're not lying!?

Joy: How do you know I'm not?

Green balloon animal: Oh, she's being a smart-butt!

Pink balloon animal: Get her!!!

Joy: Oh, crap!

(Joy starts running, and the ballon animals are chasing her).

Red balloon animal: Come back here, thief!

Joy: No!

(Joy keeps running and accidentally breaks all the chocolate knives).

White balloon animal: That jerk broke our chocolate!

Pink balloon animal: Well, if we can't have the chocolate, then no one can!

(The balloon animals start pooping on the chocolate off screen).

Joy: Oh, God. That's nasty!

(The balloon animals finish pooping on the chocolate).

Pink balloon animal: Now get her!!!

(The balloon animals lunged at Joy, and she woke up. Joy looks around the room, and then towards Anger).

Joy:(whispering) Anger? Anger, are you up?

(Joy lightly touches Anger's shoulder).

Anger:(sleep talk) I am the king of dragons...

Joy: Okay, he's still asleep.

(Joy heads to the console and joins Ennui on dream duty).

Joy:(tired) Hey, Qui qui...

Ennui: Why are you up so soon, Étoile?

Joy:(tired) I had a weird dream...

Ennui: Really?

Joy: Yeah...

Ennui: What happened in the dream?

Joy: Well, I was in a field of knives made of chocolate.

Ennui: Chocolate?

Joy: Yes, chocolate. I took a bite out of one of the chocolate knives when a bunch of balloon animals got mad at me for supposedly stealing their chocolate. They started chasing me, and I broke the chocolate knives when I was trying to run away. The balloon animals got mad and decided to poop on the chocolate so no one could have it.

Ennui: Oh, God. That's nasty!

Joy: That's what I said. They then lunged at me, and then I woke up.

Ennui: That's definitely one of your wilder dreams.

Joy: I know...

(Joy looks at the screen).

Joy: What is Dream Studios broadcasting?

Ennui: It's a rerun of "I can fly".

Joy: That has to be my favorite classic...

Ennui: I think it's mine too...

(Ennui lovingly places her arm around Joy's shoulder).

Joy: I love you.

Ennui: I love you too.

(Joy and Ennui kiss).