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Post by Loner。 on Apr 13, 2017 21:34:36 GMT
SHIREN
(casual rp, animal characters preferred, but not necessary.)
Shiren had a pretty marble. It was a large thing and the small child was energetically rolling it around in the dirt. she was enthralled by the way the light reflected through the glass and onto the ground, so the orb continued to hold her attention for quite a while. until she lost hold of the smooth glass, and it rolled through the grass and out of sight. fortunately it had not rolled far. Unfortunately, when she went to retrieve it, she found it had rolled at the feet of another.
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Post by 0 on Apr 15, 2017 10:39:17 GMT
A small spotted skunk, the color and pattern of a wild night sky, had been ambling slowly through a flowery thicket. Only the white tip of his long bushy tail remained visible above the stems, twitching and teasing the tops of the blossoms' heads.
All at once, however, the tail shot up straight into the air, bristling, the body below stiff. His legs splayed wide as a strange object came rustling through the plants, rolling up his paws, practically as big as his head! He gave a hop, then another, the tail bobbing up and down among the weeds.
When no reaction came from the object, his fur began to settle down, only to stand right straight up again when something else came bumbling into the weeds. The skunk gave another few hops, fell on his side, and then began rolling away.
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Post by Loner。 on Apr 17, 2017 18:54:46 GMT
The marble was large for shiren too, for the child was not much larger than a small variety of skunk. By body shape she looked quite similar as well. Of course differences probably outweighed the similarities. Yet the similarities were enough that when shiren spotted the skunk, the child thought she had maybe encountered one of her own kind. (she rarely saw creatures of her own kind anywhere so if so, that was kind of special.)
Being clumsy with the verbal, the child squawked at the skunk, wanting the stranger to stay around, though unable to figure out how to shape the words in any sort of recognizable meaningful tongue.
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Post by 0 on Apr 18, 2017 8:34:06 GMT
Sunlight opened up overhead as the skunk rolled right out of the flower bed. He scrambled to his paws, hopping a few body lengths away, before pausing and whirling around, tail held high. A squawk had sounded off behind him, and he watched to see whatever would emerge from it, curious as to what it was, but also prepared to slide away at a moment's notice.
His body trembled slightly, but still he managed to chirp out a few syllables, wobbly though his tone was. "Y'a-arre bird?" His voice was noticeably high pitched and quiet, not too far off the mark from a shy child, which itself wouldn't be a bad bet -- although nearly adult-sized, he could still have been considered just a pup.
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Post by Loner。 on Apr 18, 2017 17:36:10 GMT
the child pushed the large marble in front of her in order to follow the skunk, and not leave the glittery glass treasure behind somewhere where she couldn't see it. That meant getting out from the wildflowers and into the sun, which was even better for her enjoyment of the marble. The colors on her pelt rippled and danced in an animated fashion similar to the light as it reflected inside the sphere. In the light, the skunk could probably see that she didn't look like a bird, even though she possessed some kind of wings. The child's ears, usually folded back in a default position lifted slightly as she tracked the quiet, timid, broken speech, and tried to parse meaning from it. She thought it made sense...
"No!" The child nearly shouted, her speech more aggressive and louder than it need be. She wasn't deaf but she sometimes misjudged how loud she needed to be to make a point. Lucky she was't all loud. "Furu.. Furusi." She stumbled, trying to say a proper word, but not familiar enough with the word in question to Identify herself by it. Finally she simply answered, "cat." She'd been partially raised by cats so that kind of made sense to say.
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Post by 0 on Apr 18, 2017 22:12:46 GMT
The skunk hadn't seen anything quite like it before. It almost looked like him, but the colors were all wrong (granted, his weren't much better), and he saw as the creature's coat shimmered in the light, same as the object it was rolling along the ground. It had wings, but no feathers-- well, unless that odd mane of its wasn't fur, after all.
When the shout came, instead of flipping away, the skunk crouched low to the ground, pressing his belly into the dirt as his long tail fell and wrapped around his body, slipping over his head and spilling down his nose. Paws wiped nervously at his face, pushing out between the hairs as an answer came.
He tried to echo the stranger's odd word, pushing himself up slightly, the tail falling away. She didn't seem too bad. Hadn't attacked him straight off, anyhow.
"C-cat?" he said, nose wrinkling. The tail reminded him a bit of a wildcat, but... "Y...you loo--nothing like it!"
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Post by Loner。 on Apr 19, 2017 1:37:24 GMT
The child's fur changed, imitating the pattern of a grey striped tabby domestic feline. Now the colors were right. Of course nothing else was. Her shape was wrong, her mane was super fluffy and so was her tail, Her paws were designed differently, and her head was more rodent or weasel like than cat like. He was right she looked nothing like a cat, but the child stood up proudly waving her tail, glad to at least try and look the part.
Of cours as soon as she stopped focusing her pelt became its animated light-play combination of hues once more. She rolled the marble around slowly, looking into its depths. "Not cat..but...cat bester word." She decided. Finding difficulty expressing this idea, though fortunately she had decided to try.
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Post by 0 on Apr 19, 2017 10:23:09 GMT
The skunk blinked, then sat up higher at the stranger's odd display. He didn't quite get what she was trying to do, but it caught his attention nonetheless. He eyed the marble the "cat" kept fiddling with, wondering if it held some sort of significance.
"It's--it's...okay," he stammered in a low voice, and it was unclear whether he was speaking to the stranger or himself. His tail flicked back around and over his body, falling atop the crown of his head, the tip now sitting just past his nose. "I'm a...a --s-sk-skunk. L-lop--" he took a step forward, then back, and crouched down on the ground, a glance given over both of his shoulders. "my--my name. It-'s Lop."
He shifted nervously on his paws, watching the curious critter through wide, beady eyes.
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Post by Loner。 on Apr 20, 2017 3:57:05 GMT
Visually, the marble was fascinating to shiren. Beyond that... it really depended. Many people would say it was just a bit of glass, no value whatsoever. Shiren wasn't able to word why she liked the thing so much. Yet the child was still listening even if she didn't show inclination to look at the skunk for the moment. She did glance at him when he told her his name. Lop huh? he didn't look like a lop to her. Oh well. Shiren vaguely remembered a teaching where if someone tells her their name for the first time she ought to say her own. Okay..."Shiren." she answered without extra words. at least her name was easy to say. "Kalti Lop." The other word wasn't a name, more like a term of greeting she had picked up from somewhere, so to her it was another 'good' thing to say in this situation.
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Post by 0 on Apr 20, 2017 4:20:40 GMT
"Uh--huhuh...?" the skunk mumbled, twisting his paws together. What did she call him? Was that a nickname? Unable to figure out how to address it, he simply spurted, "H.hh..hi," before falling into an awkward silence.
Pulling himself back to his feet, the skunk gave another look around the area. All he could see were the plants and their shadows. He sidled a few steps towards the stranger, then stopped, maintaining what was in his mind a healthy distance.
"A-are-are you a...lone?"
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Post by Loner。 on Apr 21, 2017 16:18:55 GMT
Shiren looked around as if realizing for the first time that there could be more individuals possibly about. she seemed almost surprised at the idea. "Snek somewer." she determined, referring to an individual who had sort of become a parent/guardian to her in this season despite the fact that 'sneks' were not the most tender of species when it came to care-taking. Shiren didn't see the snek anywhere right now though.
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Post by 0 on May 1, 2017 2:13:57 GMT
Only a snake? The skunk appeared to calm down considerably; his shaking was finally starting to stop, his focus returning more wholly on the..."cat". He didn't know of any dangerous snakes; they were basically bigger earthworms, or limbless lizards, right? Nothing scary about that.
He sat up on his hind legs, looking over to the stranger. "Do--do you...knooow any games?" he asked slowly, glancing at the object she continued to fiddle with. Perhaps she played something with that? The skunk rubbed his toes together, nervously wondering if perhaps she wasn't the playing type, and what he would do then.
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Post by Loner。 on May 1, 2017 4:33:03 GMT
Shiren tilted herself back, looking up towards her hair, till it looked like her eyes were about to role backwards towards her skull. She ended up rolling heels over head. The fall certainly looked awkward, but she got up and shook her fur back into place as if nothing happened. She certainly wasn't harmed. she had just been trying to sort out her thinking. "No." she determined. at least she could say the word without it being a shout this time around. She tucked her head towards her chest, trying to think more through the memories about games. and then find the right words for the experiences. She was drawing a blank, and thus was unable to explain that she had often been kicked out from organized games for various offenses and misunderstandings on her part, and thus left to play on her own. Streaks of darker grey rippled through her color changing fur like waves against a shore. She jumped on the glass orb, wrapping her limbs around it, and flopping on her side with a childish squeal. She was used to 'playing' on her own.
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Post by 0 on May 2, 2017 11:55:08 GMT
The skunk wriggled in place while the stranger took a few moments to answer, nose tilting back in the silence that followed. Come to think of it, he wasn't entirely sure why he'd asked. He didn't really know any games himself-- well...none that he'd ever played with a cat. Or whatever the stranger truly was.
While the cat fiddled with her sphere, the skunk fell back to all fours, dragging a paw through the soil. He glanced towards her, watching the colors change in falling streaks along her body. It really was rather odd.
The skunk had rolled up a neat ball of dirt, when there came a squeal that sent the hairs along his tail spiking upwards. He fell back with a yelp of surprise, wrapping himself up in his bristling tail as he curled into a ball. A foot shot out in his scrambling haste, kicking the dirt ball, which was then sent flying the cat's way.
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Post by Loner。 on May 3, 2017 14:26:45 GMT
Shiren had not meant to scare Lop. Being loud just tended to be how she leaned with making certain kinds of vocal sounds, particularly the non-verbal ones.
The clump of dirt sailed towards shiren. Shiren got hit by it, for she had not been looking and had not the forethought to try and avoid it. She instantly reacted. Lashing out with a growl, she clawed at the mud ball until it fell completely apart. Anything which remained was unrecognizable from the other dirt in the area.
Once satisfied that her perceived threat was eradicated, she grabbed the glass ball once more, and draped herself over it, watching the curled up Lop, puzzled.
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