JULY - AUGUST TEST DRIVE MEME

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➞ Post with a character you wish to test drive in this game's setting.
➞ Tag other people's starters and thread out shenanigans!
➞ Invite your friends! Try out new characters! Come play with us!
➞ Have fun!

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Comments

[cutesneeze]

Catra notices the man shoot to his feet out of the corner of her eye and stiffens, shoulders going rigid as she tenses in preparation to fight or flee. "You'd better not get me in trouble," she tells the little fluffy monster, then spoils the admonishment by setting down a second bowl of ice cream, this one the same shade of purple as her Ponyta's mane, for the two pokemon to share. She doesn't even taste this one first - she doesn't trust anything that colour to actually be proper food for people.

Pastel horses and little horned fluffy things, on the other hand...

[worthallthis]

"Stevie?"

The little Absol looks up. "Absol!"

Over comes big metal-armed guy, hovering just out of Catra's reach, looking down at Stevie with a mix of relief and apology. "Sorry, ma'am. He seems to think everyone will share with him." Though in this case, he appears to be right. Really, in most cases he appears to be right. It's weird, how much people share around here.

Still, one must ask: "Is he bothering you?"

[cutesneeze]

Catra looks the large man up and down, then shrugs, rigidity seeping out of her posture as she adopts an air of nonchalance distinct from actual relaxation. "If she wants to share her portion," she says, cocking a thumb in the direction of the Ponyta, who looks up from her snack just long enough to bump her trainer's hip with the side of her head in question - challenge?, "that's her call."

Admit she finds the fluffy thing intriguing (and charming) enough that she might've fed it even if her companion hadn't decided the matter for her? Never.

"What is he?"

[worthallthis]

"An Absol," the Soldier says. "A baby one."

"Absol!" Stevie says cheerfully.

"They always say their species name," the Soldier explains. "It's the only word they can speak. Though they understand us all just fine."

[cutesneeze]

Her brow furrows slightly in thought, and she leans down to get a better look at the little creature.

"So do they learn what they are as babies, or are they named that because it's the only thing they can say?"

[worthallthis]

"Think it's the second one, but I'm not an expert," the Soldier admits. "Stevie is from the first eggs Grace gave us. First batch I'd ever seen. But he knew the word right from hatching. No time to really learn it unless he learned it through the shell." But then why only that word and not every other word spoken around him? It has to be hereditary, and then humans picked that for their names. Has to be.

Stevie finally seems to realize that his person isn't eating anything, and noses his bowl the Soldier's way. He blinks, then nudges it back. "If you're enjoying it, you can keep eating it," he tells the little one gently.