oddsandends | 27TH ♫ | Come to think of it, today's the last day of summer vacation

[ he actually is ryslig monster; a werebear. all his info can be found here.

if you want to do a monster that isn't his ryslig form lmk ]

Edited 2016-11-25 00:36 (UTC)

[ It's getting on to winter and Dia is exhausted. Even under all her fur, the air feels bitingly cold and all she wants to do is curl up somewhere warm and sleep the days away. She's sleeping longer and harder than she usually does -- she's getting even worse than Ruby who actually has an excuse what with the weather meaning a bit less sunlight.

But keeping her eyes open during the day is getting absurdly hard. And it's starting to worry her a little. So the only thing she can do, she figures, is to ask the only other werebear she knows.

Good morning Choro, there is a fuzzy Dia knocking at the door to the Matsuhouse and she does not look happy to be here or awake right now. ]

[ A CUTE ROSE NYMPH EVEN REDDER THAN USUAL. Her skin's almost completely white with a greenish tint and she has roses and vines growing all over her. Her hair has basically been replaced with rose petals the same colour as her actual hair colour with two fat rose buds hanging where her twintails would be.

She's got all the usual nymphy connections with nature and her particular plant is a rose bush. She feeds through photosynthesis and gets sleepy and a bit woozy if she goes too long without natural light. ]

[It's a lovely day outside, and Ruby has just run into someone attempting to build a nest.

The problem is that turning into a harpy has not taught Chuuya how nests actually stay together. Rather, he has a bunch of sticks of varying sizes laying on top of each other in a vaguely spherical pattern. And that's all that he has.]

Shitty birds make this look so easy...

[ I JUST CAN'T GET AWAY FROM BEARGIRLS FUUUUCKKK

Dia is a red panda werebear SO SHE BASICALLY LOOKS LIKE SOME KIND OF KEMONOMIMI RED PANDA. She is Hella Tall because of bear height and has orange fur on her back, shoulders, and arms. She has a pair of slightly pointed fluff white red panda ears just a little higher than where her human ears would be and a bear-like face with A CUTE LIL SNOUT AND FUR AND EVERYTHING. also sharp teeths but that's less cute. She's strong, and has the enhanced senses and protectiveness of usual werebears.

SHE DOESN'T EAT PEOPLE BC I'M NOT DOING THAT SORT OF HORROR FOR THIS MEME but she does have a way bigger appetite for meat, especially raw meat. She also has the same hibernation instincts as a bear so she gets very dopey and sleepy when winter comes around. ]

[Based on a Japanese skylark, because reasons.

Chuuya has developed wings on his back, pointed ears, and most annoyingly - talons instead of feet and claws instead of fingernails. They make it hard to write, but he's getting the hang of it by necessity.

Also featuring enhanced eyesight, a soothing singing voice, and a tendency to be even grumpier than normal while molting.]

[uhhh i don't have any character info on this journal. he's 15? he's the atlus "persona sidekick dude" character formula except they replaced all the jackass tendencies with cinnamon roll mix.

OPTIONS

Were~~wolf~~: A FOX. Loyal to a fault, Hallelujah is loathe to strike out on his own as a monster, and latches onto friends hard whether they're a fellow weredoggo or not. Less directly Ryslig version: he's friends with a fox guardian spirit and has ~connections~ in the forest, but prefers the company of the human and formerly-human to Chiro's acquaintances.

Demon: Less cute, and wrestles with the steady corrosion of what was once (and still is mostly) a heart of gold. Check his spoiler icons at the bottom for a color scheme. Has the full repertoire of demon visual tells, but the horns and wings and whatnot are all kind of nubby-looking and underdeveloped at the moment.

I like cute shit but also actual transformation scene hurt/comfort shit so do your worst

not super interested in the eating-people-is-mandatory side of things right now though]

[Fifteen is a little out of Chuuya's 'protect kids' range but Hallelujah's enough of a cinnamon roll that harpy-Chuuya feels like he should look after him anyway.

...Although his methods of 'looking after' are not always the greatest, as evidenced by him dropping out of a tree directly in front of the werefox while holding a big bottle of sake.]

Yo, Hallelujah. Took me ages, but I finally found some. Ready to go drinking for the first time~?

[Normal wine had been rejected based on what grapes do to foxes. Rice wine should be fine to get totally wasted on.

...Except that's still a bad idea, but don't tell Chuuya that.]

Guh.

[Once you start to expect sudden arrivals from above, it dulls the surprise a little. There's still the little internal scramble, the am I presentable self-examination and the lingering wariness over what his apparent new guar...dian...? wants at any given moment, but a flat guh is the best he's got for what is that.

...Oh that smells nice.

He's in travel-mode right now - it makes him feel like he blends in more in the woods, and there's just something easier to deal with about being entirely fox instead of partially fuzzy for some reason, anyways - and he backs up a bit, blinks, tips his head back and puffs his chest up a little.]

Who says it's the first time?

[I'M COOL TAKE ME SERIOUSLY

not that it's not true but TAKE ME SERIOUSLY]

[The fact that Chuuya bursts out laughing at that probably does nothing for Hallelujah's confidence.]

Sure it isn't. Sure it isn't.

[He believes that even less based on Hallelujah's show of 'coolness'.]

Anyway, I've got a place set up a little further in. Shouldn't be bothered by anybody.

[People get weird about monsters sometimes, not what they want to deal with when they're drinking.]

I'm- [-serious dies on his lips, because he knows the more he protests the more he opens himself up to teasing. Sigh. He tucks his tail and follows.

He's still not sure what to make of Chuuya, besides that he's been looking out for him enough that Hallelujah doesn't ever consider not hanging around him.]

So...

[He seems more easygoing than Abe, which is unnerving at the same time that it's sort of liberating - Abe was stern in a way that made him predictable, a constant pressure.]

Why do you want me to drink so badly, anyways?

[With Chuuya, he can never figure out whether the space he's given is a longer leash or just extra rope to hang himself with.]

It's a rite of passage.

[He gets a serious answer for once as Chuuya leads him towards the space he's set up for their drinking.]

It's fine if you don't like drinking - hell, lots of people don't - but you should try it at least once. It's an adult thing, and you're getting to that age, y'know?

And you should try it first when you're in private with somebody you at least sort of trust instead of at a party with a hundred people you don't even know. That's just a terrible idea.

[Not that drinking with Nakahara "angry drunk" Chuuya isn't also a terrible idea, but he'll rein himself in.]

[...That actually retroactively explains a lot about the way Abe introduced him to alcohol. They weren't alone, exactly, but Tokyo is a very different place than this.

......Now he really can't press the issue. Chuuya put a lot of thought into this, it'd suck if he realized it really wasn't Hallelujah's first drink.]

If you say so.

[Dammit.]

[Yeah well Abe's a dick so anything he does retroactively doesn't count. By order of Chuuya, who is not a dick in any way. Definitely not.

It's not far - a clearing set up with cups and all of the tatami mats Chuuya's managed to find here, so two. There's also a couple of bottles of water, so they can Drink Responsibly.

Chuuya takes a seat and starts pouring sake for both of them.]

Don't drink too quick, have some water between cups, all that stuff. Oh, and obviously watch your drink if you ever go out drinking at a party. Teenagers are menaces these days. - Eh, they always were.

[Chuuya was a teenager in the 1920s, but they haven't actually changed all that much except in what tools they have access to.]

[No Abe is the coolest!!

Hallelujah's struck for a moment by how odd the scene here is, between him being a fox and there being, like, a little room set out in the middle of the fucking woods, and also the woods existing in general? Grass smells so fucking excellent Chuuya you do not even know.]

Huh. [He says, like he's listening, because he is, but he's also trying to figure out what all he needs to do to make this a convincing "first drink". He does this while trotting his little fox self over and sitting like he has no intention of going furry mode for this.

...Sniffs the cup.

Squints at Chuuya like okay am I supposed to on-the-count-of-three this or just take my time or what's the plan here.]

Edited 2016-11-27 00:09 (UTC)

[Furry mode would probably make things easier, but you do you, Hallelujah.]

So have some whenever you're ready. You're gonna drink while you're like that?

[Chuuya takes a sip of his own sake. He's learned to pick up cups with talons getting in the way, at least.]

...Yeah? [He's not sure if that's an implied criticism, but his tongue is halfway to the cup.

(Furry mode is kind of weird and makes him feel kind of weird.)]

Huh. Has to work better than trying to drink as a bird, anyway. [Which he has, in fact, attempted.] Go for it.

[Phew.

...Lap lap lap.

It tastes exactly like he expects it to, of course. He screws his face up a little for show, and hopes that being a fox makes it harder to tell that it's forced.]

Huh. Wow. [He...can't quite remember how he'd reacted the first time, but he thinks Abe had said something right away, so he hadn't had to come up with any comments.] It...it sure doesn't taste like anything but itself, huh.

[Chuuya is not at all practiced at reading foxes' facial expressions, so Hallelujah gets a pass this time!]

Nope. You get used to the taste after a while. Be glad I didn't get you cheap beer.

[Don't start your drinking on like, Guinness. Ick.]

[Dude all the food around here is good. Even the honest to god raw mice he finds in his mouth when the fog lifts sometimes?? There can't be that much of an issue with whatever it is you're thinking of.]

Uh, thanks. [But Chuuya does make it sound like it took extra effort on his part, so who is Hallelujah to be dismissive? His tone is a little somber; he hovers over the cup for a moment, like he's judging whether he should extend that thank-you somehow, but leaves it at that and goes to lap up the rest of the cup.]

[...mice and beer are entirely different things, and Chuuya likes to think he still has some standards. Even though he doesn't.

He takes another drink. Normally he'd have downed the cup by now, but he's trying not to get too drunk. Look at him being the responsible adult here. He's so good at this.]

So how've you been holding up, 'Lujah? Anybody giving you any grief?

[OH BOY this part. This is his favorite part, which is to say it is the most weird and uncomfortable part, because admitting to trouble involves a certain amount of drawing attention to yourself and drawing attention to yourself is The Worst.]

Uh? Nah, not lately. [..."Not lately", what the hell, is that really the best he could come up with.] I mean, I've been cruising around like this a lot. Kinda makes it easier to blend in. [And it makes it feel less gross to raid garbage for edibles. THESE ARE THINGS HE IS DELIBERATELY NOT SAYING, BECAUSE HE'S PRETTY CONFIDENT THEY'RE WEIRD BY NON-TOKYO STANDARDS. Or like...standards, in general. But look when the tradeoff is scrounging mostly-uneaten hamburgers in order to not be looked at like an incarnation of evil and potentially yelled at or worse there is an obvious choice here because real meat is real meat and that's pretty swell.

He gets to the bottom of the cup, and also the end of an excuse to not keep talking.]

I haven't really talked to any, uh, humans in a while? Just people like us. Some of them...I don't know, they're kind of nutty. I guess from being here too long.

Going weird in the head's the kinda thing you'd expect from sticking anybody in a weird place and not letting 'em leave. The foxes and birds and shit part is just extra annoying.

[It's natural, is what he's saying. Some of his fellow authors would have a field day here.]

Probably better that you don't go talking to those weirdos. Not that I don't think you can take care of yourself, but not everyone likes picking fights as much as I do, yeah?

[Chuuya's argumentative at best and has absolutely no qualms about getting rough with humans if they 'start it.' He's never killed anybody because, I mean, come on. He's a dick but not a bad person.]

[Is this weird? Maybe he's weird in the head too, coming from Tokyo.] ...Right. [His tail shakes with exactly one wag, and he noses the cup forward, either a signal he's done or to let Chuuya refill it. It could be taken either way and he won't protest whatever assumption is made.

...Speaking of Chuuya's propensity for picking fights, and also Hallelujah's propensity for worrying fiercely when things don't happen as expected.]

So, where've you been, anyways? There's no way it takes four days to find some sake. [...Does it?? This is, like, the land of instant gratification. Are there things you can't just buy, even here?]

[Chuuya takes it as a sign to refill the cup. He answers while pouring, sounding utterly casual:]

Jail. Not for anything big, so don't worry about it, yeah?

[...He'll probably worry.]

[Worry, like this?]

-What?!

[His fur all stands on end. The first thing he does after...yelping is to look wide-eyed down at the cup, up at Chuuya, down again, like he's juggling a couple of different thoughts up front, then lean down sharply and just kind of do the fox equivalent of downing the whole thing in one go.

Because he's not going to like any possible explanation and there's nothing he can do about that so he needs this.

Also, yeah, this isn't even remotely his first drink and hiding that just shot way down the list of things he's paying attention to.]

Edited 2016-12-12 04:17 (UTC)

Calm down, 'lujah, I said it wasn't a big deal.

[Sheesh. It's impressive he downed that whole thing, though.]

Broke somebody's window, spent a couple days in jail, nothin' exciting. The fine's probably the worst part.

[He was also roughhoused a bit for refusing to come quietly but he can handle the bruises.]

[His tail wraps tightly around his feet, ears pricked back. Yeah, it's not much to talk about by Chuuya's account, but he can't bring himself to trust this place's concept of laws. Being imprisoned, naturally, puts you at the mercy of your jailers. And being a monster...]

What were you breaking windows for? [Maybe he's overstepping a boundary, but, jesus shit Chuuya.

If it was related to this whole grand plan to booze up Hallelujah, he's going to feel like a jackass.]

Had to test out the sake to see if it had anything weird in it, y'know? And I had too much.

[So sort of, but it's not all that out of character for Chuuya anyway. ]

I'm fine, honestly.

[Don't mind the occasional wince.]

27TH ♫ | Come to think of it, today's the last day of summer vacation

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