Carl x Tangomangle fic...IM GETTING TOO SHY...(just to clarify 1, I DO NOT SHIP THE REAL HUMAN TANGOMANGLE WITH CARL!! IM SAYING IN GAME!! 2,during my 2nd hyperfixation/my first rehyperfixation IT LITERALLY SAID TANGO IS DATING CARL HENCE WHY I SHIP THIS SO MUCH)
today was a regular day. Asdwz was playing fortnite, carl was attempting to pick up the gun but cannot because he is an npc, tangomangle was at his stand, Aviella was at the bus stop since she was waiting for her bus, and groovydominoes was asleep near a tree. (i GENUINELY want to include reader/player here but I KNOW IMMA MISCHARACTERIZE WHOEVER READS THIS)“JUST LET ME PICK YOU UPPPP” Carl said angrily to the gun as the attempted to grab the gun but obviously the code won’t let him do so. Carl sighed as he sat down, thinking “why can’t the code just let me pick it up?”. he’s been trying for a loooooooong while, and it was annoying that he couldn’t pick it up and screw his bullies over with it. “hey carl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! whatcha doin there??” Tangomangle asked from his stand with a smile while waving. “hello tangomangle!! well, i just tried to pick the gun up as usual. didn’t work.” Carl replied while looking at Tango. “ooh want me to help??????” Tango asked while approaching carl, who was a bit skeptical. “are you SURE you can do that?” Carl asked, and when tangomangle approached, he could somehow pick the gun up!! (lol) “here!!” Tangomangle happily said as he handed the gun to carl, who was some how able to take it. “wait what…” Carl was flabbergasted, bamboozled, shocked, in awe, swept off his feet (i think?), taken by surprise and whatever other synonyms for that!! “you could do that all this time??” carl asked in confusion as he looked at the gun in his hands. “yeppp!!” tango replied and grinned. “thanks tango!! byeee!!!” Carl said happily but before he could go, tangomangle asked “wait!! won’t you at least..uhh…hang out with me????” as he gently grabbed carl’s arm (”gently” gives me ddlc flashbacks…”i gently open the door…” (SAYORI MY BABBYYY NO…)) “huh? oh sure! why not!” Carl replied and he looked at tangomangle, who had an expression of glee on his face. “yippee!! ok so uhhh i found this cool garden!! dunno why i thought its a good idea but its, like, very cool!!” Tango said excitedly and before Carl could ask anything he was already getting excitedly dragged by Tangomangle. (IDK WHAT TO WRITE, OK!? IM SORRY) when they got there, carl noticed there was a deer in the distance and…*it was standing on 2 legs…*. “…” Tango was definitely shocked and looked at Carl and asked “what is that thing!?!?” and Carl, who was just as flabberghasted, replied with “i dunno!?” and was about to shoot it when the “deer” asked “wait, IT IS HUNTING SEASON!? sorry, sorry!! please do not shoot me!!” and ran off in a panic. “that was weird…” Carl muttered, and tangomangle said “understatement of the century, what WAS that!?” in confusion.
Carl noticed Tangomangle was also holding his hand tightly and…absolutely did nothing about it! “uhh anyways…look at this cool flower!!” Tango said as he held up a forget-me-not (ik its kinda a reoccurrence in my ship fics in fandoms (first Kevin x Allen and now these 2) but i love themmm) “oh wow that looks cool!” Carl said as he looked at the flower in Tangomangle’s hand. “yeah it does!! there’s, like, a whole cluster of them over here!!” Tango happily exclaimed (raihanah tries not to use “said” part 2763/j) as he pointed to the cluster of the flower. “also i tried to count em but uhhh lost track…” Tangomangle continued. Carl picked one of the flowers in the cluster and looked at it. it kind of reminded him of a flower he saw a while back while groovydominoes52 was helping him with something and he had a flower with him. wasn’t the exact same thing, but it was similar enough. “soooooo you wanna make flower crowns??” Tangomangle asked excitedly, and carl nodded with a pretty rare smile. time skip to a few minutes later and they’re both done (but tango finished the flower crown first) when they both wore each other’s flower crowns, it fit them both perfectly!! (but Tangomangle didn’t take off his cap lollllllll) “woah it looks sooo pretty on you!!” Tango happily said while looking at carl with a smile. “thanks…” Carl responded as his plug tail swished behind him (i think its canon bcz we actually see it in the video where Carl sings hello world by louie zong!!). “oh, i forgot this thing existed.” Carl muttered to himself. “you’re welco-” before tangomangle could continue that sentence of his, he was getting called. “hello?” Tango questioned to whoever was calling him. “uhh groovydominoes kinda needs Carl for a moment and i thought you know where he is!! kthxbye” the caller then hung up.
“uhhh carl? i think we should go back! groovy needed you for whatever reason so yeah…” Tango said to Carl while looking away to a nearby peony. “oh ok.” Carl replied and they both made their way back to the location (i KNOW it is not called the location but what-freaking-ever) when they got there, Carl waved to tangomangle and left to go see what groovy wanted. Tango, assuming carl might take a bit of some time before he returns, went back to his stand and waited for a customer or something. then, someone came up and tangomangle, with a smile, asked “do you want-” but before he could continue, the person said “i want to know when you’ll shut up.” with the meanest expression ever. “thats very rude!! if you don’t like me, don’t come to my stand!!” Tango said a bit annoyedly, but the person just said “no i literally HAVE to tell you you’re annoying to you face, ok!? i just can’t roast you in private anymore!!” while kicking Tangomangle’s stand. “nuh uh you’re leaving RIGHT NOW and youre blacklisted from my stand!! no nuggets for you!!” Tango said as he pushed the person far away from the stand. “whateverrrr!! also, your flower crown looks cringe!!” the person shouted angrily (bro is angry he didn’t get free chicken nuggets) and Tangomangle said “you’re cringe!!” back before shoving the person away and returning to his stand.
Tango was a little sad but his mood would be brightened up a bit after eating some chicken nuggets. “hm, i should put the crown in my house or something, it might be blown away or get lost if i don’t pay attention…” tangomangle thought to himself, and he went to his house and put the flower crown in the drawer with a smile before returning to his stand. (btw i headcanon everyone in the groovy gang has plushies of each other!!) it was a bit windy today and thats kinda rare so thats cool. a while later another customer came and put 50 bucks on the table and grabbed nuggets before leaving quickly. Tangomangle didn’t even get to say anything!! “hm, must be busy.” Tango thought to himself in confusion as he looked at the customer who was running away frantically. he adjusted his cap and happily smiled, waiting for the next customer (off topic but i got punched hard in the throat twice by my 10 year old cousin while roughhousing lollll should i be concerned). Tangomangle then noticed carl and groovy walking out of his house and they were talking. Carl seemed to have his tail swish behind him as he talked to groovydominoes about something but tango couldn’t hear it THAT clearly and he wasn’t gonna eavesdrop!
“i’ll leave you two be! i gotta talk to my friend, Avi, right now!!” Groovy said as he pushed carl to tangomangle and skipped away. “groovy! i-…” groovydominoes52 was already away from earshot before carl says anything. “oh well…hello, tango!” Carl then said as he stood next to tango. “hey Carl!!” Tangomangle replied as his eyes darted to Carl before then looking away and he smiled. then a customer came and asked “do i even exist?”. “i can assure you very much exist…” Tango replied in confusion and the customer said “oh wait i thought this was a lemonade stand sorry bye” and left quickly. (Renai circulation is the best song btw) Tangomangle was pretty confused as this isn’t really normal but he shrugged and then asked Carl “soooooooo how did it go?”. which made Carl’s head tilt in confusion and he asked “how did what go?”. “uhhh whatever groovy needed ya with!” Tango replied while adjusting his cap (yes, it is that windy). Carl’s eyes darted away a bit and he replied with “oh that. Groovy needed help with something, that’s all. that went good, i suppose” and his plug tail swayed due to the wind. “ooh what did ya help with??” Tangomangle questioned curiously and he leaned slightly forward. “……he wanted me to test some code.” Carl replied and his cheeks were ever so slightly pink, *odd*. “oh cool!!” Tango commented as his eyes sparkled in interest (gosh, sometimes idk how to write reactions!! i can do so for characters with nonhuman traits like a tail or nonhuman ears but yah-). Carl nodded with a smile and then someone approached. “do you wa-” tango mangle was cut off with a “YES. RIGHT NOW. NO NOTES.” and slapped 50 bobux on the stand’s table. “wow-uhh ok!!!!” Tango immediately gave the person his nuggets. “thank you. adios.” the person said before leaving. “come again!!“ Tango exclaimed as the person left off to god knows where.
Tango accidentally/unconsciously/subconsciously IDK WHICH WORD OK!? uhhh tango subconsciously got closer to carl while being unaware of that. *huh, must have been a windy day today.* “so-” tangomangle cut himself of when he saw carl holding one of groovy’s bee.s and petting it like a cat. “oh sorry, uhh groovy told me to watch over him…do you want to help?” Carl asked and he looked at the bee. in his hands (bee. IS SO CUTE) “oh sure!!” Tangomangle replied while patting the bee too. “hello, i would request thy chicken nuggets, if you may!!” someone at the stand said (YES ITS TWO TIME FROM FORSAKEN I NEEDED HIM/THEM HERE) with a smile. “oh sure!! that’ll be-” before tango could finish, two time pulled out a dagger before realizing ”ah, my mistake…greatest apologies!!” and putting it back and giving tango the actual bill instead and tango give him the nuggets happily. “i’d like to thank thee for thy service!!” Two time said happily and then he left. “no problem!! thanks for-uhh thanks for buying!!” Tangomangle replied as he waved to two time. tangomangle looked back to carl and noticed carl was holding the bee. tightly while wagging his tail (i love how this story was kinda following carl at first and now its following tangomangle XD ) and he thought that was a bit cute…he is just thinking about the bee. though, right? anyways Carl asked “…isn’t it weird how just 10 years ago, i thought i’d never be here you know? like, i have a bunch of cool friends now and…actually no I’m getting too sentimental. uhh…” as he continued to pet the bee.. “…yeah we’ve kinda come a long way!! did i ever say happy 10 year anniversary on being here?” Tango vocalized as he hugged carl.
needless to say, Carl was shocked but he noticed the bee. went to a nearby flower because nectar so Call hugged tangomangle back. huh, this was nice… tangomangle DID say happy 10th anniversary to Carl at may 26th of 2026, but for some reason he wanted to say it again (i feel like the timeline is wrong… :[ okok this is ok!! its an AU) “uhhhhh hello?” a customer asked in confusion when he saw the two hugging. Carl immediately let go since he got startled. “oh, yes sir?” Tango asked and the customer mentioned “you usually work alone…anyways here you go” and payed tangomangle, who gave him the nuggets that the customer ordered. (ughhhh I AM BEING IMPATIENTT I WANNA WRITE A CONFESSION SCENE BUT MAYBE IF I GET TOO IMPATIENT IT’LL HAPPEN SOON (this fic was made by a person who hateloves slowburn!!)) since they were still close to each other, carl kinda leaned onto Tangomangle and the bee. returned to the two. Tangomangle felt like he was overheating and gosh, did it feel nice. Carl was also wagging his plug tail a bit hard to the point where uhh you know that one girl who’s dog fractured his/her/their tail from how happy the dog was?? yeah carl is, like, 1 step away from that.
“…” Carl was a bit quiet for someone who was pretty opinionated, and the silence was doing something to the both of them. or maybe this already had happened but they didn’t notice until they were with each other. (eeejehheehheheheeee) “uhhm, what time is it?” Carl asked, attempting to break the silence. Tangomangle looked at his watch and replied “oh, its 5:30pm!” and carl leaned a bit more onto tango, his tail slowing down slightly. Tangomangle smiled as he wrapped an arm around Carl (idk what to write beyond this point) and a customer appeared and Carl kinda backed off a bit. “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean commodo ligula eget dolor. Aenean massa. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Donec quam felis, ultricies nec, pellentesque eu, pretium quis, sem. Nulla consequat massa quis enim. Donec pede justo, fringilla vel, aliquet nec, vulputate eget, arcu. In enim justo, rhoncus ut, imperdiet a, venenatis vitae, justo. Nullam dictum felis eu pede mollis pretium. Integer tincidunt. Cras dapibus. Vivamus elementum semper nisi. Aenean vulputate eleife-” the customer was cut off with carl asking “are you going to say the entire thing?” while tangomangle looked at the customer with a very confused expression.
“sorry i just wanted to prank someone!!” the customer replied and then asked “anyways can i have my nuggies now????” as he gave tango the money and Tangomangle smiled and gave him the nuggets and the customer said “thank you!! bye!! congrats on your marriage or something i don’t know!!” and then bolted. the bee. buzzed near Carl before settling on the desk next to him (or table whatever its called) while carl’s cheeks seemed even pinker than before as he was about to ask “what did that mean-!?” to the already gone customer who was giggling. Tangomangle looked at Carl and then back to the stand. bee. looked at the both of them and decided to go and consume more nectar from a nearby flower. Carl, trying to ignore his plug tail was wagging a lot, asked “do you think they memorized all that??” while his eyes darted to bee., who was watching them but as soon as carl looked at bee., the bee. pretended to have just been eating nectar like an innocent gal (IM NOT THAT INNOCENT TIKITA TIKITA IM NOT THAT INNOCENT-*dies of niche*) “maybe,maybe not…i dunno…“ Tangomangle replied before eating some of his chicken nuggets. “also i think it’s time to close up shop, I think i have a headache…” Tangomangle continued (he didn’t eheehee) as he grabbed his stuff. “well… wanna come over??” Tango asked as he drowsily rubbed his eyes (be gentle on him, today was slightly odder than usual!!) “oh sure!!” Carl replied and yay they’re both going to tango’s house. normally. as friends. very platonic, everyone. (i think I’m high i woke up at 2am and i feel weird its 12:28pm I’m mentally unable to function like a human being XD ok we’re so back) when they got to Tangomangle’s house, Carl attempted to open the door for tango and he said “ladies-err, gentlemen first…?” and died inside. tango giggled and said “and what are you doing?” as he grabbed his arm and both got in the house at the same time.
(i forgot how tangomangle’s house looks like ;-; waitt have i ever even seen the guy’s house??) carl felt a bit weird because although this wasn’t his first time in tango’s house, he’s still not as used to it, but it was nice!! “come on!!” Tangomangle called to Carl while patting the spot next to him and he is sitting on his bed with a smile. Carl walked over and sat next to tangomangle, who then wrapped an arm around him and pulled him closer. “uhhh your house is very nice!!1!” Carl remarked, trying not to think too hard about the fact that one of his closest friends is wrapping an arm around him, and that this is pretty real, and that his face feels warm, and that this was making it worse (or better who knows). (BTW FORGOT TO MENTION BEE. CAME WITH THEM DONT WORRY ABOUT HIM!! wait…is bee. a boy or not..? I ALWAYS THOUGHT BEE WAS A BOY SO THATS GONNA BE HIS GENDER HERE UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE) bee. was also on carl’s lap because, again, groovy told Carl to take care of him!! Carl hugged bee., who seemed to enjoy the warmth (I LOVE bee. SO MUCH THE BEE. IS SO CUTE) Tangomangle looked at Carl and Carl knew he was being looked at and felt uncomfortable with the butterflies he felt in his stomach. not REALLY uncomfortable, but just enough to make his tail wag a bit as he hugged bee. tighter. often more than not the bee. wished he could voice exactly how he felt about the fact that these two are oh so OBVIOUSLY into each other and both are oblivious (bee. might as well be my self insert atp 😭/jkjk) so what did bee. decide to do? since this bee. was for SOME reason that strong, he managed to push Carl onto Tangomangle and Carl fell onto Tango, who kinda caught him before he could hit his head or get injured. gosh, this felt like a rom com!!
Tangomangle and Carl both looked a bit shocked and the bee. was watching this unfold very casually (aka with the same energy of someone who has shipped them for a month/silly) “OMIGOSH HE’S SO CLOSE TO ME OH MY GOODNESS OH MY GOODNESS” Tangomangle thought since, well,CARL WAS LITERALLY BARELY A FEW INCHES AWAY FROM HIM. “oh wow what a situation we are in!!” Carl commented while trying to act like he isn’t about to explode right freaking now. Carl’s cheeks were pretty pink and his tail was definitely not being subtle about how he is feeling right now. Carl’s eyes darted away, trying to hide how flustered he is but the body never lies. Tangomangle was also in shock for a moment before he started to giggle a bit and pulled Carl a bit closer to him. Tangomangle noticed his cap was slightly off and he adjusted it before asking carl “what even happened?” (since he didn’t notice bee. pushing him lolllllll) as he kept Carl close. “bee. pushed me…thats all…” Carl replied, unable to really maintain the neutral expression he always had. Tangomangle giggled and said “you must be pretty light or the bee.’s very strong!!” (sorry if i mischaracterize!!) as he stroked Carl’s face (me attempting to write but i feel like imma explodeee) Carl was clearly flustered and he kinda leaned into the touch. Tangomangle wrapped both his arms around Carl, who didn’t know what to do. bee. was being a happy 3rd wheel while also nomming on nectar from some flower that tango has in his house for some reason. (IDK WHAT TO WRITEE AAHDSFGEGHF SORRY IF THIS GETS WORSE (WHICH I HOPE IT WONT) BUT YAH) Carl flusteredly backed off a bit, and not knowing what to say, he said “uhh, sorry.”. this of course didn’t change the fact that carl is still kinda on Tangomangle’s lap (kinda). Tango smiled and kinda shyly looked away. be gentle on them, they DO NOT know what to do!! bee. was watching and he kind of wishes he had popcorn with him right now, before then realizing popcorn might be dangerous to bees, but then bee. realized he isn’t like other bees and he is a bee. not a bee so he COULD theoretically eat popcorn (PULLED THIS OUTTA THE BAG BCZ IDK WHAT TO WRITE) “…so…uhm…” Tangomangle didn’t know how he’d ask this, “can you stay at my house??” he finally asked shyly as he looked at his pillow shyly. “oh? y-yeah, sure!” Carl replied as he kinda leant a bit more onto Tangomangle. Tango didn’t quite know what to do as Carl was a bit too close and he was a bit too adorable up close as if he wasn’t already cute from afar!! Bee. was waiting for them to kiss at this point (SO AM I, BEE.. SO AM I.) and uhhh GOSH i wish i knew how to writtteeee…
“so…uh…we aren’t friends anymore, are we…?” Carl asked a bit shyly as he kinda wrapped his tail around himself (THIS FIC STARTED WITH CARL TRYING TO PICK UP A GUN AND IT HAS NOW BECOME THIS I AM SO-*before you know it, i am getting dragged to le mental hospital/j*) “i don’t think so!!!!” Tango replied while finally looking at Carl, who was clearly blushing. Bee. was looking at Carl and Tango and thought this is it THEYRE FINALLY DATING!!! (ngl my writing style for bee. is similar to my writing style for Kevin Spencer-) “so now what? should we, like, kiss or something?” Carl asked while his tail unwrapped around him and is now wagging (wHY does carl kinda act like a puppy here..? AM I MISCHARACTERIZING THO!? *you always have, raihanah* n-no I’m nawt!! .ÓmÒ. ) “uhhh sure? yeah why not!” Tangomangle kissed Carl as soon as he finished that sentence. Bee. watched and was happy to bear witness of something that should’ve happened YEARS ago and its HAPPENING RIGHT NOW YAY! after some time, Tango broke the kiss and…yeah its clear this wasn’t going to be platonic any time soon. due to my epic timing, someone knocks the door, and Tangomangle says “coming!!” and Carl backs off of Tango, who then gets up and asks “who is it?”. “its me!! Groovydominoes52!! do you know where bee. is? or carl? or, well, like, the both of them??” the voice answered from behind the door. “oh yeah they’re both with me right now!! need anything? come in!!” Tangomangle opened the door for groovy, who said “thank you!” and walked in like the absolute epic person he is (can you tell I’m a huge fan of groovy btw????????) and all 3 of them talked for a while as bee. sat in Groovy’s lap and Groovy petted him. after a while of them talking (i do NOT know how to write social interaction as an antisocial girlie XD ) it was pretty much night and Groovy had to leave. “well, it was nice hanging out! cya guys later! or tomorrow. I’m going to bed. bye!! and thanks for taking care of bee.!” Groovy picked up bee. and they said their goodbyes before Groovy left. since its midnight everyone is sleepy Tangomangle got onto his bed sleepily and said “come on!” as he made some space on the bed for Carl. Carl wasn’t the type to get shy or hesitant but this was a bit different. he got onto the bed anyway and they both cuddled and slept (UGHHH IM MISSING HER SO BADLY…*SOBS*)
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