Isle kids visiting the Zoo!!
Because they live in my head rent-free
Yes, happy headcanons in our Descendants fandom
First of, it's Auradonian Zoo. It's security measures consist largely of „Hopefully, our visitors are not suicidal idiots,“ and the Isle kids will take advantage of that.
AKA the animals can't escape and harm people, but sufficiently reckless teens could totally climb into some exclosures.
Cut to all three Hook siblings jumping into the croc exclosure to show everyone how it's done. And leaving the employees and everyone not-Isle frozen and dumbfounded as they proceed to wrestle the crocks and win.
Unlike Jade. Yes, everyone will remind her of that.
*points at random lizard* „Mal, this is you.“ *another lizard* „Look, Mal! Here you are!“ *after looking for a reptile for slightly too long* „Finally, there she is! Everyone, come look, I found Mal!“
Mal: „WILL ALL OF YOU JUST KINDLY SHUT UP?!“
This was started by Uma and Jay.
On unrelated note, Uma's pirates enjoy finding the hiding reptiles in terariums entirely too much.
Uma's favourite is the Sea World exposition though, because, come on, people, there are sea ponnies!“
Harry would be happy to stay there with her all day, looking at the sea ponnies and sharks and fishes and totally not her reflection in the dark glass, how dare you even suggest that.
She also has to be physically dragged away from the manatee-petting-pool, because she kept chatting with them and attempted to climb into the pool, which is apparently not allowed.
Neither is allowed to jump into the bear's enclosure, not even if they „Look cuddly.“ Though to be fair, Uma, Harriet and Evie all pointed out that it looks like a safety hazard as soon as they saw that the railing is climbable-over and the drop is „not that high.“
Also, turns out that the Zoo keepers are not exactly amused by wild villain kids trying to race on the zebras, antilopes and camels:
Jay and Jade tried to persuade the camels into a race after climbing into their enclosure, a feat that the Isle kids agree could be accomplished by a sufficiently determined two years old. (The camels do not cooperate.)
Harry and CJ have better luck with the oryx gazelles, you know, the ones with the long sharp horns that could totally impale a person. („I'll bet you I could ride on that.“ „Bet's on.“ „What are you doing?! Miss?! Mister?! GET BACK HERE!!“)
The kids have too much fun comparing eachother to animals. Peacock is a fan favourite (All three Hooks, Evie, Anthony Tremaine); everyone agrees that Jay and Jade are some sort of big cat, only lying in the sun all day, and every single cute little animal you see? Yeah, that's Claudine. (She stopped finding it funny after the second time)
Everyone's favourite animals to watch are suricatas.
Everyone will deny it.
And by the way, did you know that you can't jump to them to pet them a bit?
Nor can you take the goats from petting zoo home. The employees will hear them making noise under your cloak.
Oh, and Harry attempts to steal a turtle. It's valuable and it's shell would make for pretty jewelry.
You know these walk-through monkey enclosures that have ropes in them for the animals to play on? CJ bolts from the tourist-route to climb on it too. The zookeeper protests that it's not safe, but Harriet just waves them away, stating that CJ will be fine. CJ is hanging upside down on the rope by this point and Harriet might or might not have spiked that cola she bought.
Oh, ice cream!
So much ice cream!
„Ben is paying for this, right?“ „Well, he better be.“
They are also very ready to ignore the no food inside rule until the Smee twins point it out. No one wants to be a bad example for the Smee twins.
Facilier sisters are good at pointing out the hiden animals. Like, freakishly good.
They also enjoy the Night Time pavilon too much. Celia climbed into the half-way open space for bats and stuff and have been petting them in peace, unnoticed, until Freddie realized her sister was missing about twenty minutes later. She then offered to read Cards for the zookeeper that went to fish her out.
Freddie and Diego get into a singing contest with parrots and/or ravens. Carlos dryly says that the birds are better and then has to escape the wrath of Facilier sisters and CJ Hook.
Carlos is constantly lagging behind because he wants to read all the info about all the animals. Every now and then, Evie or Jay come and drag him back to the main group so he wouldn't get lost.
On unrelated note, Freddie and Zevon linger too long on some of those. It is a complete coincidence if anyone finds themselves turned into these animals in the following weeks, of course.
They spend too much money in the souvenir shop. Gil gets Uma a stuffed shark and they name it Bartholomew Junior. Mal, of course, gets a lizzard. Long-suffering Anthony buys a stuffed suricata for Dizzy.
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