aefenglom | {1st Cat; voice}

Name: Kyo Sohma
Date: Late May
Format: Voice

[Kyo is used to transforming. He's the Cat of the zodiac and all, so he has two forms back home. The regular housecat and....well, his True Form. The reason he's both more calm over being called a monster and the reason he bristles at it, given that situation back home and all.

That is not to say that he isn't finding this frustrating all the same. Namely in regards to clothing with this being a more gradual transformation rather than just instant where he suddenly usually no longer fits into whatever he had been wearing with the zodiac curse back home.....]

....Dammit! This damned tail! So what, I'm just expected to rip holes into all my pants now? Not being the only one is debatable in this if that's comforting or more irritating in pissing me off.

[His life. He's finally free of the curse here and he is still. Turning into a cat anyway. Because of course he is. And then he winces, hissing briefly in pain when he nicks his lower lip with his fangs.]

Seriously though, there's probably some kind of tailor or something around, right? For....for people that are changing like this? Ah, right. And uh, introductions, I guess. Or whatever. I'm Kyo. Kyo Sohma.

[For those that he might not yet have run into or talked to. Introductions were only polite and all, so he should probably. Add his name in there somewhere at least, for this first time. Not that Tohru is around to remind him about that sort of thing but. Well, over time, she is rubbing off on him some, at least.]

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You grew a tail?

Yeah, apparently.

[Which isn't new? He's just used to that happening because he is a full cat, not needing to worry about it getting in the way in regards to his clothes like this. So yeah, it's frustrating.]

[But is it a nice tail? (Actually, tail envy is doomed to happen regardless.)]

... It's easy enough to make a hole in the right spot. Open your pants along the seam and you can sow them up again, probably.

I'm not necessarily the best at sewing. It's just frustrating to need to do this with all my clothes now. Even if I know I'm not the only one dealing with this sort of thing.

[It is a nice long orange cat's tail, swishing with Kyo's moods, not that he has video on to show that.]

[It's -... It's honestly better that way. Konoe will be so jealous...]

It's easier that way than the other way around.

[Imagine losing a tail and being stuck with holes in awkward places!]

Anyway, I think it's good that you have a tail. [Too many people don't have one, it's weird.] They're good for things like balance.

The other way -- oh. Suddenly not having a tail and needing to fix the pants. Yeah, I guess either way is a pain to deal with. But I know about tails.

[Considering he spends an alarmingly increasing amount of time as a cat these days with Tohru around and all back home. Not that he is about to mention and admit that.....]

... You do?

[Admitting to it or not, Konoe can't help but be curious, with talk like that.]

I mean, I read about it?

[Sure. Let's go with that. Kyo does and can study if he forces himself to. And that's about the best excuse he can manage short of admitting about the zodiac curse.]

...

[That is literally the least believable thing Konoe has heard in his entire life, and he has Heard Some Shit.]

Were you always this bad a liar, or did it come with your tail?

[Like Pinocchio, except with tails! ... Not that Konoe knows Pinocchio, but, you know.]

W-what?

[He isn't wrong though. Kyo has always been a rather open book on how easily he wears his emotions and expresses himself. Kyo had just been hoping to last a bit before he actually got found out.]

You definitely know about tails from more than just books.

[Or maybe Konoe has just decided that because of his own lack of book knowledge, but. He sure does believe it.]

I...have also been around a lot of cats.

[Not actually a lie. At all. He's been around far too many cats. They just kept showing up around him given his being the Cat of the zodiac back home and all.]

[That still doesn't sound like a complete answer... but it's still enough of one that Konoe can't call bullshit on it.]

Oh, really?

[It's halfway a serious question, but it still comes out partly mocking, just to let Kyo know that Konoe knows he's bullshitting. Except for the fact that he doesn't.]

Yeah. Cats seem to like me a lot. Like some kind of magnet for them or something.

[Or at least. Back home that was the case, with the curse.]

[Being a cat, Konoe wonders if he should feel insulted. It's not as if he likes Kyo all that much... but it's not like he can say he hates him, either.

So maybe it's true, after all.]

Well, there are a lot more tails to deal with here than just cats'.

[Speaking of which...]

... What kind of tail did you get?

A cat.

[Which explains his comparison? But also, Kyo kind of figured, given the irony, that of course it would be a cat he would turn into. Even here, when there were so many other options. As if in a way even separated from the other Sohma, from Akito, he was still Cursed regardless.]

...

[Of all the tails in all the world, you had to get a better cat tail than Konoe's dumb crooked one. He doesn't even have to see it to know it's better. That's just a fact for cat tails everywhere.]

You really are a magnet.

[He's. Mostly kidding. Mostly.]

So I've been told.

[What with the collection of cats that just. Show up in the classroom just because he is there. That on top of trying to avoid the girls makes it something of a challenge, to say the least.]

You should be glad. There are a lot worse tail you could have gotten.

Like a mouse tail.

[He's picturing that now. It makes him feel a little better about his tail envy.]

......

No.

[He would not have tolerated that. At all. He is barely tolerating the irony of this option with the cat as it is.]

Yes.

[It could have happened?!? Don't argue with him!]

Or maybe a bunny tail.

....Nope. Never.

[The Rabbit is Momiji's year. That's his thing. That and Kyo could be closer with the younger Sohma, but Momiji just has a habit of annoying him sometimes.]

[Just let yourself be mocked in peace, gosh!]

How can you be so sure?! There's magic here. You could even have gotten a lizard tail, and there's nothing you could have done about it.

It's -- more that I figured from stuff back home if I had to turn into something, it'd be the cat. That's all.

[A lizard would be new though. Probably the closest would be Hatori with his zodiac.]

Whatever your home was like, its rules don't apply to this place.

[Except when they do, apparently.]

Just be glad you got a nice tail.

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