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towerofanimus2013-09-18 01:53 am
notachickenhawk) wrote in towerofanimus2013-09-18 01:53 am
it all keeps adding up, i think i'm cracking up;
Characters: Tobias and open.
Setting: Floor 14, Floor 63, and Floor 87
Format: Either.
Summary: A day in the life of a birdboy?
Warnings: Probably nothing aside from usual body horror if he morphs. Maybe mild language?
[Floor 14]
[Even with everything that happened, Tobias is still a teenager. A nerdy teenager, at that. So it's not really that surprising for someone like him to be on the media floor, playing a video game - an FPS, specifically.]
[What is probably surprising, at least for other people, is that he's still in his hawk morph, perched on the controller. One talon is on the stick controlling movement, and the other is resting on the face buttons.]
[… These graphics are awesome.]
[Floor 63]
[Birds are not made for water, generally - at least not hawks. That's just not something they do. But Tobias is fighting that instinct today as he rolls himself out into the water.]
[Today, he's decided to use his dolphin morph, despite having almost been drowned acquiring it. There's just something about being a dolphin that's sheer fun, even though he's eyeing some of the fish uneasily. Still, the dolphin instinct takes over, so anyone heading through this level will see a dolphin speeding around, chittering and trying to play with the fish.]
[Every so often he pokes his head into the column of air around the stairs, spraying out a wet breath from his blowhole and sucking in another fresh breath before zooming away again.]
[Floor 87]
[It's not totally unlike Tobias to sit and admire wildlife. He's part of the wildlife, after all. He'd smell the flowers, but his sense of smell is way inferior to most of his other senses now. Even still, it's not that hard to spot the flash of reddish-brown from the stairs.]
[It's starting to get harder to spot him, though. Tobias closes his eyes, hunkering down a bit. A nap shouldn't hurt, right?]
[Hasn't he seen this in a movie somewhere?]
Setting: Floor 14, Floor 63, and Floor 87
Format: Either.
Summary: A day in the life of a birdboy?
Warnings: Probably nothing aside from usual body horror if he morphs. Maybe mild language?
[Floor 14]
[Even with everything that happened, Tobias is still a teenager. A nerdy teenager, at that. So it's not really that surprising for someone like him to be on the media floor, playing a video game - an FPS, specifically.]
[What is probably surprising, at least for other people, is that he's still in his hawk morph, perched on the controller. One talon is on the stick controlling movement, and the other is resting on the face buttons.]
[… These graphics are awesome.]
[Floor 63]
[Birds are not made for water, generally - at least not hawks. That's just not something they do. But Tobias is fighting that instinct today as he rolls himself out into the water.]
[Today, he's decided to use his dolphin morph, despite having almost been drowned acquiring it. There's just something about being a dolphin that's sheer fun, even though he's eyeing some of the fish uneasily. Still, the dolphin instinct takes over, so anyone heading through this level will see a dolphin speeding around, chittering and trying to play with the fish.]
[Every so often he pokes his head into the column of air around the stairs, spraying out a wet breath from his blowhole and sucking in another fresh breath before zooming away again.]
[Floor 87]
[It's not totally unlike Tobias to sit and admire wildlife. He's part of the wildlife, after all. He'd smell the flowers, but his sense of smell is way inferior to most of his other senses now. Even still, it's not that hard to spot the flash of reddish-brown from the stairs.]
[It's starting to get harder to spot him, though. Tobias closes his eyes, hunkering down a bit. A nap shouldn't hurt, right?]
[Hasn't he seen this in a movie somewhere?]
14
That's a bird--
--playing a game. And it has a collar? So this place has animals as prisoners, as well? Moving closer, he slowly cranes his neck to get a closer look, only standing a couple of feet away.]
Uh... hi.
[It can play games. Therefore, it has to be able to talk. Luke logic says go.]
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<Uh. Hi.>
[Awkward...]
<You... aren't Asch. Are you related to him?>
[Sorry about the thought-speak he can't exactly use vocal chords to make words like this.]
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You... uh... [Let him just start over and completely switch to something else.]
No, not... ... technically. Not the way you're probably thinking. [But, more importantly...]
How are you... doing that, though? [He gestures to his right temple. He's only ever had Asch's voice in his head, after all. But that's because of something that makes a LOT more sense than... this--a bird speaking into his mind.]
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<Alien technology. Basically if you're in a uh... nonhuman form with this kind of technology you can speak directly into someone else's mind. It makes sense since the aliens who invented it don't have mouths so this is how they normally talk.>
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O...kay... [And, he thought he'd heard everything... before now.]
So, you're... human, then? You can just change into a bird? [Is he following this right?]
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[Bird bird bird, bird is the word.]
asdf... I hate that song! /SWATS AT
He's still pretty confused about all of this, but... he's guessing he might figure it out as it goes along.]
I like it sob.
So does Steph. She listens to it all the time. And watches that episode of Family Guy a lot. ;;;
A few years ago? So you haven't always been like that? [Pause.] How did it happen, then?
[He better be prepared for a nice stream of questions from this redhead, cause they're coming.]
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[Yeah it's okay, he's used to them by now.]
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How did you get the power, though? Was it some kind of... uh... thing where those 'aliens' gave it to you, or did you happen upon some weird technology? Or was it some kind of thing where you got sick and all of a sudden you woke up with it?
[Okay, he needs to stop using his imagination.]
Uh... ...yeah. [Funny how crazy thoughts can arise when meeting a talking bird who says he got the powers from an alien?]
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[He 'sounds'... sad? Upset? There's definite emotion behind it, but it's not positive.]
<We use it to fight against other aliens. Ones who want to enslave humanity.>
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How do you fight with it? [Looks back to the bird, tilting his head. OH! Suddenly, he looks exceptionally apologetic.]
My name's Luke, by the way! [Nervous laugh. How... rude to go this long without introducing himself.]
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[He lets out a little chirping squawk.]
<I'm Tobias.>
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So you can change into multiple animals? [He smiles. That's genuinely impressive, Tobias.]
Earth, huh? [Looks upward as though attempting to imagine what kind of world would be called ....something like that.
Huh...What an odd name for a planet...]
What's it like?
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[What's it like? That's a... hard question to answer.]
<It's... it has its problems. But it's worth protecting, because it's my home, and because... well. There's people I care about.>
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[He smiles and nods.]
Heh, that's how I feel about Auldrant.