un: momo-chan~♥

[yesdoubt]

Name: Momo
Date: Feb 9th
Format: Video

[Despite the cutesy username, this video opens on a man visibly somewhere in his mid-twenties, muscular arms crossed over his knees and a cheerful smile revealing canines about as sharp as you'll find outside of the monsters here.]

Hey, so, I'm one of the newcomers that showed up at the start of the month - nice to meet you all. [He waves one red-nailed hand before resting it over his left, slightly concealing the black ring on it.] I was asking the lady who explains what's going on to everyone whether she knew anything about what people being here means for where we came from, and she told me she'd heard some stories about Mirrorbound who saw stuff going on in their worlds through their mirrors. So if that's happened to any of you guys, could you let me know a little more about it? At this point I'm kinda crossing my fingers people aren't freaking out about me being gone back home. Or hey, if you showed up at an awkward time and want to commiserate about it, I'm here for you.

[The "freaking out" is honestly an understatement, considering the depths his partner has dropped to after losing people in the past. But to offset the more serious question, he reaches a hand offscreen and holds up...well, it's the right shape and size to be a soccer ball, even if it hasn't quite reached the modern style of them yet.]

And for anyone old or new - I'm looking for some people to play soccer with. If you don't know it, it's a sport where you split into teams and try to kick a ball into goal defended by the other team. Obviously it's more fun with more people, but if anyone wants to learn to play or just get a bit of a workout, we can go one-on-one.

[A brief pause after that, and then:] I think that's it for now, so let me know, okay?

[He's still not quite enough out of public image mode to openly ask for someone to practice fistfighting against. Maybe another time.]

Comments

[spaghettimonster]

Tried, and true, and still used sometimes. There's a witch in the market with a cat familiar... He always hisses at me.

[No accounting for taste, or for how a feline might dislike turnskins to start with, but really dislike the skeleton turnskin. At least the witch hasn't held it against him, and still lets him browse and shop without too many ominous expressions. Especially since recent events.]

[yesdoubt]

Maybe it's the dog look? Cats and dogs are kind of the classic enemies... [Momo circles his own face with a finger to indicate he means the shape of Papyrus' skull - canines have fairly distinctively shaped skulls even without the fleshy bits, so maybe the cat caught on.] But I'll keep it in mind just in case I don't find a bond so quickly.

[He's not exactly planning to bond until he has to, but this could prolong things a little longer for him.]

[spaghettimonster]

Alas, I think you're right. The cat just can't seen into my boney heart, and see that I'm a friend! Someday I will win him over. Maybe with bribes.

[If he gets a fish from the docks, will the witch mind...? Or even discount his next purchase, as thanks for the gift? He can dream. And that kind of dreaming is always a pleasant diversion from being worried or annoyed.]

Please, do everyone else a favor... Make sure any familiar you get is friendly.

[yesdoubt]

Bribes are good for cats. Do they have catnip here? That might open some new doors to friendship.

[It's the cat equivalent of getting people drunk to get to know their life story, which...is a thing Momo does worryingly often considering his choice of industry back home.]

I'll try! I don't really know what my options are, honestly, I guess I'll have to ask some locals.

[spaghettimonster]

I don't know... But asking locals sounds like the best bet.

[To both their questions, really. The knowledge circulating through the Mirrorbound network tends to prioritize settling into their world, panicking about changes and magic, and occasionally asking each other for favors. Not thorough listings of flora or fauna.]

You do that! And I'll do that too.

[yesdoubt]

I bet it'll be the most important question they've had all week. [Momo grins as he says that, but he sounds genuine enough about it - far be it from him to impede the potential enjoyment of cats and their catnip.]

Sure thing. Thanks for your help, it answered some questions I didn't even know I had yet.

[Like the fact that he's definitely going to be looking into familiars now.]

[spaghettimonster]

[Papyrus is going to be inundated by good stories about cats flipping out over catnip, but there are worse fates.]

That's the Papyrus experience! And you're welcome for it.

[Certainly it's the Papyrus experience he wants to give people. Friendly helpful cheer, seeing to things they hadn't even realized they needed. He has some questions to bring to the Coven, sooner or later... But he has other positive things in this world to look forward to, too! And that makes the optimism so much easier. A good note to end the conversation.]