Submission (#1118) Approved

Pumkin time, it’s pumkinin time! Daere is staying home today to prepare for Halloween while Bite is outside chasing leaves. Perfect time to prepare pumpkin decorations! He has plenty prepared and is ready to go bonkers. Lining them up evenly on his kitchen counter, he picked up a large kitchen knife and got ready to slice up the first one. He starts by poking the eyes out of the first one… although you’re supposed to gut it beforehand. Daere wished that he knew about that in hindsight as he carved out a beautiful face including detailed eyelashes and disturbingly luscious lips, but not being able to put a candle inside. In a desperate attempt to fix it, he tried to hollow it later on but this just mutilated the face completely, while the insides of it are a bit spread around. Sad, but it’s whatever, the next one is shaped a bit… Ovally, and is seemingly missing its top, but Daere makes work of it, delicately getting rid of the contents and then getting to work! He… clumsily begins on the eyes, which is unlike him. The subject of the knife is weirdly toppling from one side to the other, as if it's a drunk gymnast losing its balance, nevertheless, he does his best, going for a simpler approach and having a simple smile on it, although one of the eyebrows are disproportionately large since he stumbled a bit when doing that one. But when the grand reveal came, he noticed an embarrassing error… It was upside down the entire time. The reason he stumbled was because of the little stump on the bottom. Now, it was practically worthless in Daere’s eyes.
The rest of the evening went somewhat like this. One time Daere accidentally scraped the counter through the pumpkin due to his frustration, another time the end result was actually really satisfying, but Howl and Growl were running, playing… and accidentally knocking it down during so. Before Bite returned, the house was a mess. A lot of pumpkin insides were scattered in and outside of the building somehow, the finished products were mostly messy and somewhat spooky, Daere was terribly ashamed of the result.
“HONEYY what happened”, Bite came into the house.
“It all just… went wrong”
“Don't worry about it! I mean look at the place, it’s horrifying” He tried to console.
“Well exactly” Daere started to frown.
“I mean no it’s great! What’s a cooler halloween house than a pumpkin battlefield”
Daere looked around and maybe he was right! I mean it’s certainly not pleasant, but the amount of… flavour, in every sense, was definitely going to attract some trick or treaters, which cheered him back up as they cleaned up the inside of their home, all thanks to a chaotic evening of pumpkin carving.