a welcome : part II;

[mallowmods]

Who: Everyone and everyone!
What: Welcoming in the new members to Mallow Hallow
Where: Everywhere!
When: March 2nd.

[This is an overflow post for the intro log, so feel free to continue all threads from there over here! Or start a new thread entirely, if you'd like.]

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Comments

[puppetcrumpet]

The game was a bad idea from the start, but a necessary bad idea. [he lets go of her hand so she could move back away if she wanted to]

As for fragility. Humans are only as fragile as we don't train ourselves to be. [yep, there was a confusing sentence]

[allseeingtongue]

Define necessary in this context, Mister Bro. You raise interesting questions with such a provoking statement!

[Terezi grins and leaves her hand right where it is. Having been so nicely invited into his personal space, while being so curious, she wasn't going to leave so soon! He was different from Dave and Rose, and it intrigued her. She wanted to pin it down, figure out what it was that made him different.]

[That, and as soon as he seemed distracted, she wanted to lick him and see if he tasted as interesting as he smelled!]

[puppetcrumpet]

Necessary, in that none of us would have existed otherwise. Or was it different for you?

[allseeingtongue]

Hmm! I do not see why we shouldn't have, if the game had not existed! You bring up a good question. Perhaps we would not have had the specific abilities we do.

[Terezi leans closer, just a little - don't spook him yet! - and snuffles again. Just another lean and she'll be able to reach his cheek. His heartbeat is steady under her palm, his soft human flesh warm. Terezi finds it interesting that humans are always so warm! Well, mammals, she supposes, but she still thinks it's interesting.]

[puppetcrumpet]

Perhaps we would have, perhaps we wouldn't. [he raised an eyebrow] But as we are now is because of the game. And paradox space would rip apart any other iteration.

[he is perhaps weird as he's not pulling away or questioning why she's getting closer. He figures he could handle one teenage looking troll girl. Well... he isn't sure if she was a teenager or not. And aliens didn't necessarily have years like humans. Hmm... his thoughts were getting rather philosophical]

[allseeingtongue]

Indeed it would. You seem more familiar with the ideology of paradox space than Dave or Rose were, Mister Bro.

[There! Terezi closes the last gap with a quick lean, and licks him on the cheek; he tongue is long and pointed and faintly dry and raspy, like a cat's. He tastes like salt and apricot and good honest steel. She sits back licking her lips, contemplating his flavor.]

[puppetcrumpet]

Well... [he begins only to stop when she licks him. It makes him laugh] Do you get to know everyone you meet by licking them?

[allseeingtongue]

[A laugh! She likes that human sound, it has very different resonances and tones than any troll's laughter. It's easier on the ears. She grins at him, brightly.]

Only if I like the way they smell!

You taste almost as good as Dave does.

[puppetcrumpet]

[his grin becomes a little lecherous] Do you lick my lil bro often?

[allseeingtongue]

Yes! He is most delicious.

[Terezi also enjoys the way Dave goes all squirmy when she licks him in ticklish places, like behind his ears. She grins cheerfully at Bro.]

I like the way you taste. It is very fresh and sharp!

[puppetcrumpet]

Freshest of the fresh. [he says] The secret is infinite showers.

[allseeingtongue]

Legendary infinite showers?

[Terezi cackles, remembering this phrase from a Dave-style rant. She enjoyed listening to Dave ramble. Bro is not quite so forthcoming, but she bets he'll be fun to hang out with nonetheless.]

I see!

[puppetcrumpet]

Legendary? [eyebrow raise with a smirk] Sounds about right to me.

[allseeingtongue]

Dave liked to talk about you, sometimes.

I know all your secrets.

[She smiles, brightly, and knows it's not the truth but it's impressive to say! There were tangles and inconsistencies Dave picked at, worrying the threads of it until his grief faded into bearing. Terezi had often felt the same way, picking and picking at Vriska's death until the ache of it and the rough edges had become something she could stand under again.]

[puppetcrumpet]

I find that doubtful because Dave didn't know even half of my secrets and half of those he knew he would deny.

[allseeingtongue]

You underestimate the interrogation powers of a legislacerator. I am going to be the best legislacreator! I have practiced on Dave.

[Within reason, without harming him. But together they'd caused courtroom drama and crime-scene desecration, and Terezi had enjoyed it all immensely.]

[puppetcrumpet]

I'm sure you will you seem forward enough. Still don't think you know me as well as you think you do.

[allseeingtongue]

That is all part of the fun.

[Terezi grans at him, delightedly.]

[puppetcrumpet]

So, you're Dave's age? Or the alien equivalent? Speaking of... you probably don't call yourself human on whatever planet your from.

[allseeingtongue]

I am! I'm six sweeps old. That's about thirteen of your human years.

[She tips her head curiously at him, then decides he's asking what she is. Maybe? Yeah, probably.]

No, we're trolls.

[puppetcrumpet]

Trolls. [he snorts, he can see it] You're just a little baby~ [he has a teasing grin on his face]

Totes winging it on troll anatomy/society lalala

[allseeingtongue]

I am not a wiggler! I am almost all grown up!

[Terezi bares her teeth at him and growls playfully, a deep reverberating sound that definitely is not human.]

I only have a few growth-molts left.

[puppetcrumpet]

Just like a human teenager, just because puberty hit doesn't make you grown up.

[he's grinning though, because it is rather interesting that even though they were separate species they had things in common]