A/N: Thanks for all the reviews guys! Admittedly, the story is going in a different direction than it was when I first sat down to write it, though that's because I got better ideas, haha. :) As for the guest reviewer who said Ri's process of awakening reminded them of Mewtwo, that thought only crossed my mind as I was working on finishing up the chapter, which is kind of funny because I love Mewtwo. Anyway, in this chapter Ri will finally be introduced to the Emotions we're familiar with! So, here we go!
Disclaimer: Inside Out belongs to Pixar, the Emotions' parents belong to me.
In a large house a couple miles from the laboratory, Joy's four friends were seated in Disgust's living room. The TV was ready to be turned on, the popcorn bowls were set, and the five colorful beanbags were perfectly placed. Perfect for their weekly Movie Monday Night.
There was only one thing missing—or rather, one Emotion.
"Where's Joy?" Fear asked, twiddling his thumbs, trying not to let worry overtake him as he paced around, glancing at the door multiple times and expecting Joy to walk through it at any moment. "She was supposed to be here for Movie Monday half an hour ago!"
"Chill out, worrywart," Disgust scolded, suppressing the urge to roll her eyes. "She should get here soon."
Sadness sighed, collapsing on a light blue beanbag chair and sinking into it. "She probably went to talk to Ri again."
Disgust didn't even try to suppress her eyeroll. "Ugh, I don't know why she's so intent on talking to her that much. Ri can't even talk or move or do anything yet. It's like talking to air!" She paused. "Air with really tacky-looking orange clothing."
"Joy doesn't seem to mind her," Fear pointed out, trying to defend his friend's enthusiastic attitude, despite his own misgivings about the human-like being.
"You're one to talk," Anger grumped, looking up from his newspaper to meet Fear's eyes. "You nearly ran out of the chamber as soon as you saw her!"
"I said stuff to her!" Fear felt heat rise to his face. Did Anger have to remind him how he had embarrassed himself in front of Joy and his father?
"Yeah, one sentence." Anger turned back to his paper.
"I got nervous being in there!"
"You're afraid of her, aren't you?"
"I'm not afraid of Joy," Fear protested, blushing, "I—"
"I meant Ri!"
Fear was about to bite back with a sharp response, but Anger's last sentence silenced him. He... well, he didn't really know what to think about Ri. He had only went into Ri's chamber once, by request from his dad and with encouragement from Joy, saying a few quick words before scurrying out of there. Something about Ri's very nature unnerved him. She wasn't fully human, though she looked it, mostly lacking the look of energy particles that everyone else had. But she wasn't an Emotion like them, or any sort of Abstract. She was an in-between being that was unpredictable, and potentially dangerous. But he knew his dad cared for her, and Joy definitely did. If Joy and Panic could befriend her, so could he, right?
But his father was the main technician, so becoming used to Ri was kind of a requirement. And Joy... Joy was so open and bubbly and willing to talk to nearly anyone, no matter who or what they were. It was only natural for her to feel so open toward Ri.
Even so, they had cared for Ri when she was still developing, while she was still in that silent, curled up, comatose state that he had had a nightmare about once. When she did finally wake up, what if things changed for the worse? He went over his mental list of 'Things That Could Go Wrong When Ri Wakes Up':
1. Horror film-style murder spree.
2. Black hole from disintegration instability.
3. She dies and Joy is heartbroken.
4. Dad or Joy dies from an excitement-induced heart attack.
5. Ri goes rogue and tries to take over the world.
6. Mechanical failure.
7. Mental breakdown.
8. Existential crisis.
9. The building blows up.
The list went on and on.
"You're being paranoid," Anger said, breaking Fear out of his thoughts, barely even glancing up from his paper.
"Huh?". Fear hadn't realized that he had been muttering his list out loud, and quickly composed himself. "I am not!"
Anger only acknowledged him with a disbelieving grunt.
"I just hope she gets here soon," Disgust muttered, unable to help feeling grumpy. "She'd better have a good reason for being late."
Ri managed to slowly reposition her body from being curled in on itself, feeling slightly disoriented at the change in position. She still had to squint to get used to the bright light, and the machines making that loud buzzing only served to confuse her more. Suddenly being awake and able to see felt so perplexing now with all this abuse to her senses and unfamiliar territory.
The violet Emotion in front of her was pacing around excitedly. Now that she was properly awake, she could hear every word he said.
"You're up, you're actually up! You know, we were starting to think you wouldn't wake up and I was trying not to freak out but now you seem fine!". He paused and looked at her. "You feel okay, right? Not hurt or anything, no fuzzy feeling of disintegration?"
Ri frowned. He asked her a question, and she had the capacity to respond, but she had never attempted to speak before. Before she was about to try, her attention was drawn to a nearby door opening, and a blue-haired being who was literally glowing flew into the room, with others soon following.
"Oh wow, you're awake!". The first one who entered bounced over in a few strides, grinning. "We're so glad you're okay!"
A smile crossed Ri's face, recognizing the voice as the Friendly one. One of the ones she liked.
Delight waved everyone in with an eager expression. "Come on, everyone, get in here, quickly!"
"Don't scare her." Panic called from the controls, his purple hair a mess like he had been in a marathon, and his glasses sliding down his nose. Joy tilted her head and saw that Panic had a long list of all of Ri's stability progress notes over the past few weeks, his eyes rapidly flicking back and forth from Ri to his coworkers to the papers. "I mean, too many of us at once could intimidate her, we don't know..."
He reminds me of Fear, Joy thought to herself fondly, scribbling notes down on everything that could go wrong. Like father, like son.
"Oh, hey, good to see you!' he said in a rush. "Perfect timing!"
"I know!" Joy exclaimed, clapping her hands. "Oh man, this is so exciting, when I tell the others about this they are gonna FLIP!"
"Get her out of there." Aggravation's voice was abrupt, no-nonsense, shooting a slight glare at Panic.
"She can watch," Panic protested, especially since Joy was one who chatted with Ri the most. "She's been here—"
"I MEANT RI, YOU IDIOT!" Aggravation shouted, causing the purple Emotion to jump and work the controls again among a few quick mutters of "Of course, my mistake."
Ri winced, the shouting not helping her headache and struggle to become more used to this world. So the large red-orange one was Stern, great. Why did he have to be here? Couldn't just the others stay? She told herself to stay away from him as much as she could once she got out.
Panic hurried over to the control panel to lessen the volume of the equipment's alarms now that Ri was awake and stable. "Gotta be careful now, she may be disoriented at first."
"Looks fine to me," Contempt said bluntly, trying to use some water from a cooler to get the coffee stain out from his clothes.
"You never know," Panic insisted, pulling buttons and levers and allowing the wires to disconnect.
Ri suddenly felt less floaty as the atmosphere suspending her in the tube vanished, causing her feet to make contact with the cold floor of the containment as she stumbled. Though she accidentally hit her head on the glass, she managed to reach her hands out to press against the walls for support and to avoid any more potential injury.
Grief winced in sympathy. "That looked like it hurt."
"Oh crap!" Panic exclaimed, rushing over so that he was nearly touching the glass. "Ri, you don't have a concussion, do you?!"
"A bump like that wouldn't concuss her," Aggravation said dismissively before Ri could even attempt to get a word out. "Just get her out of there."
Looking carefully to make sure that Ri wasn't terribly injured, Panic ran back over to the controls and pushed some more buttons to make the cylinder open at last.
"Aaallllright, all done!" Panic called. "Welcome to the world, Ri!"
She was out. She was free.
Taking a deep breath—a breath that caused her to cough a little from the sudden rush of air pouring into her lungs—Ri stepped down from the platform and onto the tiled floor, looking cautiously at the others. Now that she could interact with them, nothing separating them except those feet of empty space... she suddenly felt a little self-conscious. It was one thing to hear their voices, but now...
Joy sprang into action, crossing the gap between them in three hops. As Ri managed to steady herself, Joy noticed that Ri was a little taller than her own 4'2 height, now that they were standing on the same ground. "Wow, you looked so much smaller when you were curled up." She grinned. "How are ya, Ri? I'm Joy! Man, my friends are gonna go nuts when they find out you're up! You doing okay?"
So, Chatterbox was actually called Joy. It was a start. And now the time had come where she could actually respond to Joy's chatter—if she could get her body to cooperate. Speaking was something she could do, right? She just had to figure out how, her mind was still hazy... She had cognitive knowledge, but knowledge and ability were two different things. She swallowed, her throat feeling dry.
"You didn't hurt your head too badly, right?" Joy asked, her expression showing her slight concern.
"Don't rush her into answering, Joy," Delight said gently. "She's just waking up."
Ri tried to smile in what she hoped was a friendly way. "I'm..." She paused for a moment. It was a bit startling to hear her own voice for the first time, but she liked it. "I'm fine."
Joy's face lit up like a Christmas tree, and the glow around her brightened. "Great! Glad to finally talk to you!" She eagerly held out her hand and shook Ri's eagerly, relieved that her new companion's hand didn't feel all fuzzy like it was breaking apart.
Ri laughed a little, surprising herself. "Uh, same here."
The humored grin on her face warmed Joy's heart. She had gotten Ri to laugh, to feel more comfortable even though she had only been awake for less than five minutes. All my talking with her must have paid off! She looked at her mother with an elated grin, then back to Ri. "Come on, Ri, I gotta introduce you to my—"
"Not. So. Fast," Aggravation interrupted as he put his hand up. "We have to make sure she stays here."
"What? Why?"
"She could still be unstable. She needs more tests."
Ri's smile turned into a frown. Was he serious? After finally waking up and being able to see the world she was part of, Mr. Stern-Voice wanted her to stay?
Delight looked at her superior. "But Aggravation—"
"No buts, Delight!" Aggravation barked. "It's not safe, she can't be exposed like that!"
Ri winced at his firm tone. The more she heard this guy talk, the more she wanted to get away from him. But how could she? She had just opened her eyes to this place of bright strangeness only minutes ago.
"He's um, right,". Panic felt sympathy for Ri and understood her plight, but her safety was top priority. Letting her wander off on her own without proper supervision wasn't at all a good idea.
"Guys..." Delight looked from Panic to Aggravation, noting the despondent, confused look on Ri's face. She crossed her arms. "We're supposed to let her learn about life, remember?"
"Within reason," Aggravation muttered.
"But no matter what, life isn't something than can be experienced just through telling her!" Delight insisted. She stepped toward Aggravation. "Life needs to be experienced. So let her. An hour or two can't hurt, right?"
Their eyes met for an instant. Sometimes Delight's views were infuriating. Why did she have to be such a parent to the kid?
Aggravation let out a slow sigh. "Only—ONLY—if someone accompanies her. Someone responsible."
"I'll go," Panic instantly volunteered. He ran over and quickly got a few more monitors, counters, and arm bands. Ri felt a little uncomfortable at all the proddings and claps and beeps, but each only lasted for an instant and by Panic's tone of voice, things seemed to check out okay.
"Just one more thing, and this one we're taking with us!" He then hurried over to a silver cabinet next to the control system for the chamber, and rummaged through it before withdrawing a silver armband. "Aha!" He held it up triumphantly and hurried back over to Ri, grabbing her left arm and clasping the band around her wrist. Green numbers lit up on a panel to read "100%".
"What's this?"
Panic smiled kindly. "It's a stability monitor. To make sure your particles are holding up as they should. Which it sure seems like it in your case. No extreme particle fuzziness, you look more, well... human. Not that that's a problem."
Ri tried not to show any change in expression at that wording, but her confusion was written on her face. The word he used, "human", had no meaning to her, and it filled her with confusion. What did that word mean?
The way the purple one had said the word indicated something as a variant from what she was, like a difference. Ri looked down at her hand, and frowned. She looked back and forth from the others to her own skin—she didn't have a brightness like they did, and they had some weird shimmery particle-look that she could see her own hands lacked. Still, she was still one of them, even if her stable appearance didn't show it, right? That was what counted, right?
"It's just for precautions," Grief added, trying to offer a smile toward Ri. "We want to make sure you'll be okay."
Their caring put the uncertainty of her nature out of Ri's mind for the moment.
"So we can go now?" Joy asked eagerly, practically bouncing.
"Sure can!" Panic grinned in pride that Ri was actually up and walking around, before a worried look suddenly overtook him as he stopped short. "But if that reading falls below 95%, we're coming right back here."
"Panic," Delight said gently. "Ri's up and fine now. I think we can afford a bit of leeway. She went down a few percentage points below that in the containment chamber and she didn't break apart. She'll be fine!"
Panic darted his eyes around, thinking. "Alright, 85%. But anything below that, even just for a second, we're getting back here, no exceptions—oh, I almost forgot!" He took Ri's wrist once more and pressed a small black button on the armband's side. "Now a tone will go off if it gets below 85, so we don't have to keep checking it.". He glanced away a bit. "Though it might be a good idea anyway..."
"I think she'll feel if she starts to disintegrate," Contempt pointed out.
"If you feel it, it's nearly already too late," Panic countered, crossing his arms.
"You've never seen anyone disintegrate," Grief reminded him, looking a little worried herself.
"Can't be too careful."
Ri smiled, grateful for the precautions. But more importantly, she wanted to leave with Joy and see what was beyond this laboratory room. What was the world like out there?
"So, can we go now?" Joy begged. "Please, please, please?"
"Oh don't be such a child," muttered Aggravation. 'I guess... you can go for now. But STAY under watch, and if there's any sense that something might be wrong, she's coming back."
Ri wanted to protest, but she figured she didn't have much of a choice.
"Great! Come on, Ri, I'll take you to Disgust's house!". She turned and waved to Delight. "Bye, Mom!"
"Bye, honey!" Delight called just as eagerly, raising her hand in a little wave. "Have fun!"
Holding on to Ri's hand, Joy zoomed out of the lab with Panic hurriedly following and shouting "Wait up!", and the three were gone before anyone else could say, "see you later".
Contempt followed with a bored sigh. "I can go after 'em, going home anyway.". With that, he turned back before leaving. "Panic and me will make sure Ri's unharmed and comes back soon."
With that, only half of the team members were left.
Aggravation put a hand over his face, looking distinctly unamused. "You know Ri wasn't created to be a playmate."
Delight nodded. "Yeah, but come on, Aggravation!" Her smile brightened, already feeling quite fond of Ri. "What's life if you cant live it? We still ought to let her have a little fun!"
Aggravation's fists clenched. Even though Panic and Contempt were with Ri, he swore to remind them that Ri was created for the mission.
Like it or not, eventually she'd have to go to Earth. But he'd let Delight's opinion slide this once. After all, two members of the team were with her.
It was just Delight's daughter who could potentially be a danger.
"...And Anger's Aggravation's son. He's the shortest even though he's older than us, late-20's..."
Along the way, Joy had been chatting with Ri about the town, her friends, and who was related to who when comparing the adults at the lab to them. And while Ri had been eagerly listening with half of her attention, the other half was focused on taking in the sights of the colorful world around her.
The laboratory building, as in turned out, was shaped similarly to a giant flask, the silver structure glinting in the light of the setting sun. In contrast, the other scattered buildings appeared bright and colorful, lights all around nearly blending together in a blur.
"What's that?" Ri guessed that was about the fifteenth time she had asked that question, but she couldn't stop herself. Everything seemed so amazing and wonderful and bright. Her question this time had been directed at a large, colorful pinwheel that towered overhead a good distance from the city, spinning slowly.
Panic smiled fondly at Ri's inquisitive nature. Contempt rolled his eyes.
Luckily, Joy didn't mind her questions. "That's what we call a Plutchik Wheel. It's like a ride that can allow us to see everything, even beyond the city!"
"There's more?" Ri felt so overwhelmed by the vastness of the city that it seemed like it was a whole world unto itself.
"Of course! The city just seems so big because you're new, you'll get used to it—in fact," she practically spun around and grinned, gesturing to the environment around them, "me and the rest of Team Happy could give you a tour tomorrow!"
Ri chuckled, arching her brow. "Team Happy?"
"Our name for our gang, it was my idea." Joy looked proud of herself for coming up with the name.
The energetic emotion started to talk more, but something else drew Ri's attention: the people they saw. There were only a few on the street, but most of them had skin and hair that were a similar shade, just as was the case for most of the team at the laboratory, though there were a few exceptions.
But all of them, not just those she knew from the lab, had that same shimmery-particle look. And all of them who noticed Ri were staring at her. Some looked away almost as soon as they had turned, but others held their gazes for a time.
Ri got that self-conscious feeling again and tried to ignore them. Were they staring at her because she was someone new in the city, or were they staring because she was different? But she didn't want to bring her concern up to Joy, or Panic, or Contempt—if they just focused on getting to their destination, things would be fine.
Joy slowed her pace, coming to a stop in front of a large building. "Well, here we are at Disgust's house!"
Ri took in the view of the house in front of her, the glancing stares of the others taking a backseat in her mind for the time being. It was three stories tall, with a pointed silver roof and what looked like a shiny green brick for the house's structure.
"I'm guessing her family likes green," Ri said with a small grin.
"Yeah," Joy said, "they're thinking about redecorating though. Anyway, come on!" She bounded up to the front door and rang the doorbell, letting a light 'ding-dong' reverberate through the front of the house.
"My friends might not hear it since they're likely in the living room," Joy added, "but Disgust's mom Revulsion will probably answer."
Just as soon as the sentence had left Joy's mouth, the ornate door opened to reveal an Emotion who was about Ri's height and looked quite similar to her daughter, aside from her hair being a good deal curlier. "Well Joy, Panic, good to—who's this?"
"This is Ri," Joy exclaimed. "She—"
"Oh, hello there, Ri! Contempt was saying the other day you'd probably wake—what in the world are you wearing?!" She gestured to Ri's outfit and looked a bit repulsed, recoiling as if in horror.
"Uh, they just gave me it," Ri admitted, not exactly feeling this was the best first impression. At least Revulsion seemed pleased to see her and not scrutinizing, aside from her outfit.
Revulsion looked like she wanted to smack whoever had given Ri those clothes. "I swear they have no taste at that lab—"
"That was Aggravation's idea," Contempt commented with a shrug.
"And neither of you said anything?" she looked from her husband to Panic before shaking her head. "Well, Ri, sometime we are going to have to get you some more suitable clothes. Maybe I have something in your size—but, we'll take care of that later." She hurriedly waved them inside. "Come in, come in, Disgust and the others have been wondering when you were going to show up! They're right in the living room."
"Thanks!" Joy called cheerfully, happily humming to herself as she hurried down the halls with Ri following after her. Panic followed behind them silently, glancing nervously at Ri's stability monitor bracelet every so often.
Now that they were just a short distance away from meeting Joy's friends, Ri frowned in thought, raising her voice to get Joy's attention. "Uh, Joy?"
"Yeah?"
"Do you think they'll like me?"
Joy went over to her and squeezed her hand. "They are gonna love you, Ri. I mean, sure they may have to get used to you first, being new and all, but that shouldn't take too long!" She moved in front of Ri and put her hands up. "Now wait right here for a minute, and I'll introduce you!". She stopped and turned to Panic. "Um, I can, right?'
Panic looked a bit anxious, but the hopeful look on Joy's face and the cautious look on Ri's had him reconsider—he could barely say no to such hopeful enthusiasm. He took a deep breath and nodded. Joy's friends were a good bunch, they wouldn't hurt her.
She hurried over a few feet and opened the door, causing her friends to turn. "Hey, everyone!"
"Finally!" Anger exclaimed, setting his paper down. "At least you got here before Fear had a conniption."
"I was just worried because you were half an hour late!" Fear exclaimed, running over and hugging Joy. Joy eagerly hugged back.
"Why were you late anyway?" Sadness asked, finally getting up from the beanbag chair.
"Did something happen?" Disgust looked curious, able to tell that Joy was holding something back. "There has to be some reason."
Joy looked so excited that she bounced in the air for a moment. "Oh yes, something happened!"
"Were you hurt?" Fear asked worriedly.
"Nonono, it was a good happening!" Joy gripped Fear's hand excitedly. "I have a surprise for you guys!"
Before her friends could inquire what it was, Joy sped out of the room for a second before they could hear excited talking. She quickly returned with her guest, her expression alight. "Say hello to Ri!"
The four other emotions stared in shock. Ri was here. She was awake and walking and staring at them with a hopeful curiosity.
The silence was then broken by Fear yelping and jumping back, looking as if he were expecting the girl's particles to disperse and attack them (which was in fact point number 19 on his aforementioned list even though said particles weren't visible). Though the others didn't react as strongly as Fear did, they didn't look too keen to approach either. Ri was just so... different from them. Not just from emotions, but from any sort of being of their world. She wasn't bright, she didn't shimmer, she didn't glow, she didn't have that particle-look about her like she did at 83% stability. She was too... human. And that unnerved them.
And she's still wearing that unflattering orange outfit, Disgust thought, recalling the couple times she had entered the lab.
Joy smiled in an attempt to ease their worries. "Guys, it's okay! Ri's not gonna hurt you!"
Ri tried to smile as well as she looked at Joy's friends. They really did bear a pretty strong resemblance to their parents who she recognized. She didn't think this was exactly the "they're gonna love you" response that Joy had assured her of, but she had to make the most of it. She waved at them slightly. "Hi everyone."
After a few moments of silence, Anger decided to be the first one to speak. "So, uh, you're finally awake, huh?"
She nodded, stepping closer at Joy's encouragement and holding out her hand, kneeling down. Joy sure wasn't kidding when she said Anger was short, though she decided not to bring that up. Not the best way to make a first impression.
Anger paused, but he shook her hand. "Nice to meet ya."
"Nice to meet you too," Ri said, at least glad that one of them approached her instead of fleeing.
The moment Anger had finished, Disgust stepped closer to Ri and looked as repulsed as her mother. "What do they think they're having you be in, prison?!" She shook her head. "If Mom were on the Council instead of Dad, she NEVER would have let that slide! Don't you have anything else to wear aside from that tacky thing?"
Ri shrugged. "Your mom mentioned she might have something in my size."
"Yeah, but the question is will it fit you in atmosphere," Disgust pointed out. "The more fashionable clothes don't work on everybody, I should know."
"Drama queen," Anger muttered. Disgust ignored him.
"Hi, Ri." Sadness stepped closer, but only waved a little. "I'm Sadness." It was clear she didn't have much more to say, but she did manage a smile.
Joy moved a bit closer to her last friend, noticing his anxiety. "Fear? Come on, say hello! She won't hurt you!"
Fear blinked, wide-eyed, only taking a cautious step toward her that was barely noticeable.
Fear's mannerisms confused Ri. According to Joy, he was Panic's son, and she could see the family resemblance, though Fear was a lighter shade and sported just one strand of hair. But how could Panic be so kind and caring toward her while Fear seemed terrified at her even being there? She tried to reach out to him. "I'm not that scary, am I?"
Joy gave Fear a pleading look, and he couldn't help but give in. "Fine..." He glanced at her quickly, but didn't step closer. "I'm Fear, Ri... nice to meet you." He was clearly still wary, but the fact she hadn't attacked him yet was at least of some comfort, and Joy was fine.
Ri at least felt relieved that Fear hadn't absolutely refused to speak to her. "Glad to be here.". And despite the unease of the others, she meant it—at least, it beat being curled up alone, blind, and half-deaf in the chamber.
"So," Joy exclaimed, gesturing to her friends and pulling them in all for a hug, "now you know the names of all the members of Team Happy!"
Anger groaned, finding a further annoyance along with the group hug. "You told her about that?"
"Well if she didn't before, she did now," Disgust pointed out.
All of a sudden, Joy's eyes lit up, and the glow around her brightened. "Oohhh, I just got a GREAT idea!". She quickly spun the others around so they were now in kind of a group huddle. "Give us just a minute, Ri!"
As the group talked, Ri tried to listen on the conversation, only picking up a few phrases.
"You serious?"
"Bad idea."
"Aggravation will kill you!"
"Come on, Ri deserves this!"
After another minute of back-and-forth conversation, culminating with Joy mentioning their "Team Happy" name again as a way of encouragement, the five broke out of their huddle and started to walk out. Joy eagerly gestured for Ri to follow, looking like she had just got an early birthday present. "Come on, Ri!". She pulled the taller girl into a hug. "This idea calls for a celebration!"
Ri felt a little stunned by Joy's sudden bounciness and closeness, but she was glad to be included. "Why? Where are we going?"
"Off to the part of the house that has the library," Joy said, "because we're gonna do something very important."
The weight in Joy's words intrigued Ri. "What's that?"
Joy turned to face Ri with a broad grin, looking as if her next words would be one of the most important announcements she'd make in her life. The aura around her body shone in excitement.
"We're gonna give you a new name!"
A/N: Yeah, no prizes for guessing what Ri's new name is gonna be. ;) This chapter was a lot longer than I initially anticipated, but I wanted to get to the point where Ri actually interacted with Joy's friends. Fun factoid: the Plutchik Wheel that Joy pointed out to Ri is basically a physical version of Robert Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions. Check it out on Wikipedia sometime' :)
Also, as another note, I'm trying to think of potential voice-actors for the parents of the Emotions to give an idea of what they sound like in my head. For now, I'm considering Delight to have the voice of Ellen DeGeneres. :) Hope you enjoyed and remember to review!