vatheon | 002 - feeling a little down in the ducks-- i mean dumps. down in the dumps.

Who: John Egbert, Casey the salamander, and you
Where: The park
When: Early afternoon to evening, whenever you feel like chatting
Style: Starting action but I'll match
Status: Open!

[Anyone who just so happens to be taking a stroll through the park today just may catch sight of a boy dressed in blue sitting on the edge of the pond. Next to him sits a yellow salamander dressed in a black cowl with a purple-striped scarf, though it's quite a bit bigger than your average salamander and it is...quite literally seated next to the boy. Clearly this is not your typical salamander, but the boy doesn't seem at all perturbed by this. In the boy's lap rests a bag with at least half of a loaf of sandwich bread inside. Occasionally, he takes a slice out and rips it up into tiny pieces, tossing them into the water.]

[Just skipping work to feed the ducks, apparently. Real productive use of his time here.]

[At one point, he holds out a handful of bread chunks to the salamander.]

Here, you can throw a few too.

[The salamander looks at the bread, "glubs," picks up a few of the piece, and........attempts to eat them herself.]

Ack! No, Casey don't eat it! Throw it! Fuck you'd better not get sick from this...

[And isn't it just a little bit sad that this is the high point of John's day at the park?]

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[Cutting through the park was a great way to go back to the base and after a day at work, Cielo was in the mood to see a little more greenery on his way home.

Passing by the pond, he's just in time to hear John scolding his...lizard...thing.]

Hey uh...you need help, bro?

Nah, I got i-- [Wait...that voice sounds familiar. Kind of hard not to forget something that distinct, even if John didn't actually have much of a conversation with the owner of it last time. He looks up, fairly confident that Casey is done trying to eat the bread crumbs.]

Ah! It is you! Cielo, right?

[Oh? This guy knows his name? But Cielo has never seen, much less introduced to himself before. Unless...yes! Then this must be the batbro!]

Ja! And you're John.

Hehe, yup! That's me! What gave me away?

Because I didn't recognize you! The only way that would be possible would be if you were the little bat I met.

[Recognition via no recognition. Go figure.]

So this is what you normally look like?

Correct again!

[Behold: John in all his 5'2", windsock-hooded ~~nerdery~~ glory!]

So the ears really weren't yours then, huh? Hehe.

[He didn't know John was a kid when they first met. Your hoodie is pretty cool, bro.]

Nah. They were cute though. I never did find out what kind of animal they belonged to.

Edited (Eliminating redundancy) 2012-11-13 06:51 (UTC)

They kinda looked like uh...what is it called... oh a llama! Or an alpaca. [What is even the difference between those two animals.] One of the two, anyway.

[Llama? Alpaca? What strange names for animals.]

I'll just look for a picture of those somewhere.

Might be your best bet. Unless a farm sprang up here in addition to an island while I saw away or something. They just don't strike me as the type of animal you would find here.

In any case, it's nice to meet you in person with full use of my vocal capabilities, Cielo.

Nice to meet you too, ja? And there's no farm on the island. I would have found it from the air.

[Yeah just casually talk about how you can fly Cielo.]

Edited (what is keeping canon straight) 2012-11-15 09:01 (UTC)

From the...oh! You can fly too?!

[It's okay, luckily John can too. And the chance to get to talk to other people who can is always great. Because that means potential flying buddies.]

Ja, with wings.

[He's been looking for regular flying buddies since his first day in Vatheon.]

What about you?

[John quirks a brow and kind of...leans over a little to try and see Cielo's back. Did he somehow miss the wings? Or was he perhaps making a joke about airplanes?]

Mmm, I can fly.

[With a smile, he pushes himself off the ground and into the air, hovering high enough off the ground to be eye level with Cielo.]

See?

[Oh! He really can fly! And not as a bat! That is absolutely fantastic. Now that John has shown him, it's only fair that Cielo shows his own method of flight. Stand back bro, there's some transforming going on here. Once he's fully in demon form, Cielo hops off the ground to hover a few inches off the ground.

No more eye contact for you, unfortunately John. It's difficult to maintain eye contact when one lacks eyes.]

This is how I fly, ja?

Holy shit you're a...dragon?

[He thinks? Maybe? Possibly?]

[All John gets is a headtilt. Dragon...? He doesn't know what that is, but if he did, it might bring up memories of two particular enemies that were a challenge to fight.]

Demon.

Oh, my bad sorry. Haha. I haven't met a whole lot of demons before. That's pretty cool though! So you can just change at will then? Can you turn into other stuff too? Like I mean, are you a shapeshifting demon basically?

[Oh no. Cielo, you've unleashed the geek.]

[Nothing to be sorry about, bro! He didn't expect John to know. But what are these dragons you speak of?]

Ja, no, no. If you want to see different demons, you should ask my comrades.

[Though most likely not all of them would be as willing to show off their demons as he is.]

[Magical creatures. Terezi would know better than John though.]

So... okay, if you don't mind me asking, which one is your...I guess true form? Like how does this work, it's fascinating.

Human.

[Which he's reverting back to, by the way.]

I was a human first, and then I got my demon. But they're both me.

[Despite its terrible downsides, he knows that Dyaus is a part of himself.]

Ahhh, gotcha! Sorry, I didn't mean to imply they weren't both you, I just wasn't sure if it was like... you were like from a world where you needed to disguise yourself as a human for some reason or if it was...what you actually just described. Which is the actual case.

[A beat.]

Uhm. You know, if that made any sense.

[Why would anyone need to disguise themselves as a human? Like...if a demon got a human form? If a human can get a demon, he supposes it could work the other way around too!

...there were no "pure" demons where he comes from, but there must be a world out there where demons were cursed with human forms somewhere, right?]

Nah. Everybody where I come from is like me. Though not everyone in the real world was.

...real world? I am not sure I follow.

Of course you don't!

[Because he didn't tell you!]

My body is human, ja? But I'm also a combat artificial intelligence.

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