worthathousand | ( Imeeji ) continuations

Lucifel—?

[ Her eyes go a touch wide when she sees him: a little bit of surprise at his own change, but also there's a bit of the feeling of having been caught out. That he shouldn't have to see her like this. ]

You look quite a bit more striking than I do, right now.

. . . I could say the same for you.

[ despite the situation all 9 tails are wagging. happy to see mom ]

Are you alright - ?

[ oh! son happy. ...and very soft-looking. ]

I'm alright, yes. Things were just a little unsettling to start.
All I knew about vampires before was that they drank blood, not anything about the... ah, undeath bit.

[ slow tail wag

stop

:( ]

. . . So you're dead, now . . .

[ ....oh that was what she was afraid of ]

Ah... seemingly. A false, temporary sort of death, but...
I suppose it's why my hair went white.

[ the most unfortunate part about being a fox is that, even when he smiles, his ears still flatten, tails still wilted ]

Is that so? My own is a product of something else rather than death itself, so -

[ with a pause ]

In any case, temporary is temporary. This game really is distasteful, but are you at least feeling alright? Earlier, too, I had a similar sort of form, so - are you thirsty?

Oh, ah—

[ it's not so hard to ignore—when she isn't reminded.
she worries her lower lip a moment, inadvertently highlighting the elongated point of a canine. ]

...Y...es. It has been... occasionally distracting.

. . . It might not be the best, but the sink in my dorm produces blood, if you'd like to quench your thirst.

[ a cautious tail wag. mom going home to dorm ]

Why does sensitIV have a sink that produces blood...?

[ it's so absurdly over-the-top that she can't help but laugh a little, half out of surprise ]

Ah, I mean— yes, that would be very helpful. And it would be nice to get away from the crowd.

[ MOM LAUGH

WAG (x9) ]

Just in case, I suppose? For something like this.

[ offering her a hand, now ]

Then, this way.

[ wry ] Just in case the producers decide to turn people into a creature that doesn't even exist in every world?

[ But she doesn't hesitate to take his hand, her fingers unnaturally cool against his skin. ]

...You know, you can't hide your emotions at all with those ears and tails.

[ wagwagwagwagwagwagwag (x9) ]

- Eh?

[ ......this is the same son who tried to manipulate Requiem into killing him for her own good, who has sacrificed himself endless times for the sake of an impossible goal, who is loved by All The World's Evil— ]

All nine of your tails are wagging right now. I hope it's a good thing, but it's very charming regardless.

[ appropriately looking flustered, briefly, before he gives a helpless smile ]

. . . Well! I'm - just excited to be spending time with you . . . !!

[ !!!! love and appreciate son ]

I don't know that I can express how happy that makes me.

[ a beat ] —At least not without nine tails of my own.

Maybe once you fill a bingo you'll be able to?

[ anyway let's walkies ]

[ we are walkies. ]

Oh? Is that, ah... how it works?

Well . . . At least for my own card, it works that way.

It sounds... more than a little disconcerting.

[ gently teasing, but it masks genuine concern ] Even for the sake of nine excellent tails.

. . .

[ the tails do slow to a stop, ambient hover idle animation ]

It really was . . . Truth be told, this form isn't without its downsides either, but I would much rather be this than your current form, so even the awkward process of change was welcome.

[ ....oh. oh no son. ]

Ah.
I'm so sorry you have to see me like this, Lucifel.

. . . That isn't anything you can help, though? I'll be grateful that the form is temporary, but I'm not upset by it, Mother.

Aren't you, though? At least a little.

It sounds as though this type of... unquiet death... was especially painful for you to experience, too.

[ his smile falters then - and it steadily drops off, gaze dropping to the ground ]

. . . Something unnatural . . . No, not to say such creatures defy nature, but rather - something like that, so starkly against my own nature - to have such parasitic urges -

To say the least - . . . It was difficult.

[ half-echoing him ] It is difficult.
It is only knowing that it is temporary, and that I will be prevented from doing genuine harm, that allows me to stay as calm as this. Otherwise...

[ biting her lower lip a moment ] ...Ah, it would be too like how things were in that House, being myself and not myself.

Re: Monster Bingo: Lucifel

sancrimony - 2019-10-20 07:10 (UTC) - Expand