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wildestlands2021-11-11 06:35 pm
furtitude) wrote in wildestlands2021-11-11 06:35 pm
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Think of the children!!!
What the hell, I need help. Like lots of help.
[The mirror opens on Little Cato's face looking scandalized and distraught.]
[Then it turns to show some of the cat colony, lying around on some rocks sunning themselves.]
They're babies! Who would leave babies just - just by themselves! They didn't even leave them clothes. Someone abandoned them.
[He is not the type to think cats are children, he thinks they're actual baby Ventrexians. He knows about cats but there's no reason to go human-centric in a world that apparently has lots of species. Of course his brain went to his own species first.]
And something is wrong with them, they look weird. Their legs are all busted and mutated.
[He points the mirror back at himself.]
I keep trying to catch them but they're freakishly fast. I need help, we can't just leave them here.
[The mirror opens on Little Cato's face looking scandalized and distraught.]
[Then it turns to show some of the cat colony, lying around on some rocks sunning themselves.]
They're babies! Who would leave babies just - just by themselves! They didn't even leave them clothes. Someone abandoned them.
[He is not the type to think cats are children, he thinks they're actual baby Ventrexians. He knows about cats but there's no reason to go human-centric in a world that apparently has lots of species. Of course his brain went to his own species first.]
And something is wrong with them, they look weird. Their legs are all busted and mutated.
[He points the mirror back at himself.]
I keep trying to catch them but they're freakishly fast. I need help, we can't just leave them here.
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Ooooooh.
So that's why my dad always compares Ventrexians to cats. Wow, they really do look just like us.
Well, little mutant Ventrexian baby us's anyway.
[Now that he isn't trying to chase the cats, he's able to edge in closer. His mirror hovers along as he crawls over and then sits down, scooting in slowly. He holds out a paw while looking away, knowing instinctually that direct eye contact will be considered a threat. An angry stare absolutely is a threat on Ventrexia.]
[One of the friendlier cats sniffs his hand, and then immediately rubs its face against it. Some cats are natural foster parents and this one is interpreting the smell as "very large kitten" and assuming it's a new kitten to be communally cared for. It starts grooming his arm.]
Ewww, you weirdo.
[But he's smiling and he doesn't move away.]
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[ He’s not one to think in terms of cute and endearing, but Tommy assumes a certain amount of youth and unfamiliarity with Earth-things like cats from this whole scene (and Ventraxians. Gotta ask alien friends about Ventraxians).
Which is why he doesn’t get too snotty about the usage of the word mutant. ]
You say mutant like it’s a bad thing.
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[A pause.]
Actually, the creepiest part is the sprinting, honestly.
But even if they were actually mutant Ventrexian babies, they'd be cute mutant Ventrexian babies. And I'd still want to take them somewhere safe.
[The cat that was grooming him takes his arm lightly in her teeth to try to take him somewhere, but finding him too large, he gives up and wanders away. He focuses on gradually greeting and petting the other cats, and before long the cat that ran off comes back scruffing a kitten. It's not shaky-small, only just small enough to still scruff. She piles the kitten against his leg and then runs off to get another one.]
[The cat couldn't bring him to where she had her other babies so she's bringing her other babies over to him, to keep them all together.]
[He gasps a little gasp of delight and picks it up in his hands. Despite being feral, it doesn't hiss, because it's not interpreting it as being picked up by a human, regardless of his size. The smell is just too cat-like, despite his alien-ness.]
[The kitten greets him by booping its nose against his. His sparkly, big-eyed look of delight could only have its essence truly captured by anime.]
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It’s unavoidable.
It’s all really so cute. ]
Don’t look now, but I think you’re getting adopted. Mazel tov.
Let me know if you need to be saved from the kitten pile.
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[There are many kittens in his lap.]
Do humans just see these guys in the wild or do they actually hang out with them?
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[ And just in case the vague pronouns confuse it. ]
The humans adopt the cats. The cats you find in the wild are huge, like lions. They’ll eat your face.
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They're like me, except smaller and can't shift, so you don't have to worry. They don't need clothes, their legs are fine, and you're probably going to scare them if you keep chasing them.
I can introduce you, if you want. I've been getting to know them these last couple of days. They're really sweet and fun to play with.
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I think I'm good. I think they already think I'm one of them.
[It helps that, to them, he doesn't smell like a rival adult cat. He smells like baby so they're much more inclined to be friendly.]
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[Elle thinks she might cry. She absolutely is shifting and getting over there ASAP, because she wants in on this action.]
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I'm not adorable. I'm a tough man-cat.
[He says, adorably.]
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It's kind of odd how many felinoid species are out there, though. My universe has the Caitians and the Kzinti, and the Caitians actually look almost exactly like you.
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[There are kittens in his lap now and it's a very good thing.]
We're a pretty tough species so maybe it's like how most planets have some animals that are tubes with teeth, or how lots of things in oceans evolve to have claws.
[Carcinization isn't limited to one world in his universe apparently.]
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My team's building was abandoned for years and there was a cat living there when we moved in. She didn't seem to have any trouble.
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They really are like tiny little not sentient Ventrexians.
[A pause.]
...They aren't sentient, right? Because if they were I'd wanna apologize for saying they look weird.
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[ Things he never thought too hard about before life got weird: +another one. ]
One of my teammates talks to animals. It doesn't seem like most of them, at least where I'm from, are sentient, but she seems to have actual conversations with Koppe - that's the cat in our building - just fine.
[ Pause. He doesn't really want to assume they're not, in light of that, and considering all the other weirdness here? ]
I don't think there's any harm in apologizing either way, though. If they understand it, you guys are square, and if they don't, that's okay too.
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...
Ange doesn't have the heart to say they're not babies. Thankfully, other people will/already did, depending on when she chiming in takes place. Continuity is nebulous sometimes]
It's too many to take along, but...if you really want to, perhaps taking one is fine. Could you really take care of one, though?
[Well, regardless of when this takes place, her proposal would have been the same because it's an attempt to appease him. If Cato is so concerned about them, perhaps he could take one, but...she does have doubts it'd be a good idea]
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[Even if he gets away from the dangers of this, what he and his dad are trying to get back to...]
[Well. They'll have a better chance of surviving here.]
It looks like the babies have moms or dads already.
[The same cat that was grooming him sits there grooming her kittens.]
I thought they were abandoned, weird-looking baby Ventrexians at first. I looked a light like these guys in my baby pictures.
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Ventrexians, huh. It's such an odd thought, that these animal-looking people are definitely very real, not just delusions or daydreaming. They have species names, they have, well, names, they have baby pictures. They're truly, truly real. You're not in Kansas anymore, Ange Ushiromiya.
She actually smiles, though]
I don't know how I'd have reacted were I in your place -- finding infants all of a sudden.