There were plenty of things going on in Animalia and its colonies, and it wasn't just because of Animalia ComicCon. But there were plenty of those going on as well.
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At Kat's Klub Ella and Simone were rather confused about one of the songs that three guys had chosen for their dance "number", mainly because it was one that they seemingly never heard before.
"While the song is better known as 'The Numa Numa Song'," said one of the guys' friends, "It's real name is Dragostea Din Tei, by Moldavian group O-Zone."
"That's part of what happens when you don't keep up with the times." said another friend, "You get left behind, and you get lost on what's popular, what's not, and when it was."
"But I still don't understand why a song sung in a foreign language would be so successful." said Ella, as one of the guys did a daring backflip, landed a little awkwardly, and fell off the stage.
"It was just one of the songs that you don't need to know what the lyrics are, because its just as fun to make up your own." said the first friend.
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Meanwhile, Sgt. Bash and Sgt. Slash were Skyping with each other over their new "recruits". While originally it was a discussion over what to expect, since Dino City just had an influx of hippies while Lyre/Animalia was dealing with the upper classes, it quickly devolved into a debate over who was having the hardest time dealing with their current group.
"But they're still insisting on altering their exercises to do really ridiculous things, like doing their warm-up stretching in a circle." said Sgt. Slash.
"That's nothing." replied Sgt. Bash, "It's not so much the parents as the kids. Even after conversion, they're still expecting their parents to bail them out if they get into trouble."
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The cosplay contests, both the family friendly one and the more daring one at the Meat Market, were making it clear that there were plenty of mixed results at attempting to 'become' a favorite character. One of the rarest things to happen (but it did happen) was the costume coming apart and causing a case of 'accidental exposure'.
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Zak, after his "tribal" conversion into a four-armed cobra, was able to apply for the GGAC, and didn't really mind having to start at the beginning, but it was what he sometimes heard there among his fellow members that made him cringe. Especially those who thought that the GGAC would lead them to their perfect 'waifu', even though that wasn't how that worked, either in the GGAC or in real life. But what made it somewhat bearable were the higher ranking members expressing their disgust at such things by coming up with creative ways of pretending to kill themselves out of disgust, such as finding new ways of miming shooting themselves in the head using only their hands.
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Brett Horne, meanwhile, was dealing with a relatively new headache, mainly from fanboys who were requesting add-ons to UFC-A and the Jurassic Fight Club. While Brett was now technically the organizer of the Jurassic Fight Club, he was still responsible for the UFC-A as a whole, and thus was in charge of everything from rules to "special matches". But it was some of the requests that made him shake his head and fight off a migraine.
"For the last time," he said at an official online Q&A session for Claw Coliseum, "We simply can't allow female members to wear high-heeled boots during their matches. Even if said heels were square enough to prevent them breaking, such things could still cause severe ankle spraining."
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Animalia ComicCon was doing good, even with signs of the times everywhere, so it was inevitably decided to do it as a biannual thing.