★ SCAWWY: ASHLYN

[nyas]

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WEEK 0, MONDAY.

[nyas]

[ what is she up to, izutsumi is just perched nearby watching with unblinking gold eyes. ]

[killies]

[ she is... doing stretches in the theater. why the theater. it's quiet. don't worry about it. ]

[nyas]

[ izutsumi thinks that is..... boring and weird. ]

What are you doing?

[killies]

Warmups.

[ by the way she is just audibly popping every fucking bone in her body while she does this. ]

[nyas]

[ wtf ]

Sounds more like you're breaking your bones.

[killies]

That's what happens if I don't stretch for too long...

[nyas]

That doesn't sound normal. Do you have weak bones?

[killies]

I don't think so.

[ she's just a freak ]

Week 1: Monday

[killies]

[ she is in one of the animal crossing houses. looking at a picture of a bipedal cat. then looking at izutsumi. then back to the picture. ]

[nyas]

[ the cat stink eye is given, OFFENDED ]

What?

[killies]

They're standing upright.

[ SHE'S STUPID, ]

[nyas]

And? Those aren't Beast-men!

[ SHE'S NOT A CAT ]

[killies]

What are beast-men?

[nyas]

It's what people refer to what I am.

[killies]

Oh. Well, yeah. You look a lot different from these guys.

[nyas]

That's because I'm a Tall-man.

[killies]

[ just staring at her again because we're? basically the same height? ]

... Not that tall.

[nyas]

[ this look ]

It's one of the many races we have. Some of you people compare it to "human."

[killies]

Oh. Well yeah, if you're human then it makes sense you're not like whatever these things are.

[ another mystery SOLVED ]

[nyas]

[ it was solved to begin with....... ]

Of course not. If anything, they're just feline versions of Kobolds.

[killies]

I don't think there are Kobolds in my world. What are those?

[nyas]

They're like that [ points at the picture of a bipedal cat ] but dogs.

[killies]

And they wear clothes and everything?

[nyas]

Clothes, armor, just like everyone else.

[killies]

Huh.

Not a lot of armor where I'm from.

WEEK 2, MONDAY.

[nyas]

[ the shadows take hold, and a memory plays out. ]

[killies]

[ truly watching this like. huh. this is like video games.

but also with genuine sympathy because—okay, izutsumi strikes her as being childish here, but ashlyn understands wanting to just get things done. being stuck with other people when you'd rather do it alone.

maybe. ]

Do you like being with those guys?

[nyas]

...They can be useful, I guess.

[ a off-handed comment, as if to be nonchalant about the whole thing but her ears do flick back a little with a swish of her tail. she doesn't say anything more, but she doesn't necessarily say it in a bad way.

not when her posture droops just a fraction. not able to tear her eyes away from them while that memory is still there. ]

[killies]

I know what you mean. I got stuck with my team, too.

But they come in handy.

[nyas]

They were my first opportunity to finding a way to deal with my curse so, I stuck around.

[ an ear flick, head tilting. ash looks relatively very normal to her so... ] What got you stuck with them?

[killies]

[ ignores the question. ]

What curse?

[nyas]

Ain't it obvious? It's my body. May have been this way for as long as I remember but I wasn't born like this.

[killies]

Oh. Sorry, it's not as obvious to me since I don't know what people normally look like in your world.

[nyas]

Some of you really do come from widely different kind of places.

[nyas]

[ in that "oh, right" kinda way ]

All these different world stuff really is confusing.

[killies]

It's hard to get used to, right? Stuff that's normal for me makes no sense to other people.

[killies]

We'll get used to it just in time to go home and not have it make any sense again.

[nyas]

No point in worrying about it then.

[killies]

Well, for as long as we're here not thinking about the circumstances people come from would be stupid... Even if it's annoying.

[nyas]

[ a shrug. ]

What kind of circumstances we talking about?

[killies]

I don't know. But everyone's bringing their own expectations and things they're used to. Their own skills. So it's worth keeping in mind. That's all.