text | 003 - Bad Moons Rising

[spaghettimonster]

Name: Papyrus | Username: CoolSkeleton95
Date: Maiuril 6th
Format: Text

HELLO, FELLOW MIRRORBOUND,
IT'S PAPYRUS AGAIN!
UNLESS YOU HAVEN'T MET ME YET, BECAUSE YOU'RE NEW.
IN WHICH CASE, IT'S PAPYRUS, FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME. HOW LUCKY YOU ARE!!

I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE ELSE HAS NOTICED...
THIS FEELS LIKE. MAYBE. THESE AREN'T GOING TO BE THE GREATEST FULL MOONS.
MAYBE KIND OF TERRIBLE.

AND I, BEING A SUPER STABLE AND CONFIDENT SKELETON,
WANT TO OFFER MY SERVICES TO ANY UNBONDED WITCHES!
YOU DON'T NEED TO FACE THESE BAD MOONS ALONE!!!!
PAPYRUS IS HERE TO HELP, WITH A TEMPORARY BOND.
OR EVEN THREE OF THEM, BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE ANY RIGHT NOW.

[ooc: 4th wallers welcome! If the capslock is too much, let me know and I can drop it OOC - though it continues IC.

Papyrus is soliciting temp bonds for his own stability's sake, but I'm good with this being used as a staging point for your characters to threadjack and plot their own bonds together.]

Comments

[weiward]

some of my family is here, but they all seem to be monsters too.

[which is a shame, really. here's someone willing to help and it just isn't a match.]

so...who raised you? did it happen here?

[spaghettimonster]

OH, NO, I DIDN'T GROW UP HERE.
IT WAS SORT OF A COMMUNITY EFFORT... MY BROTHER HELPED.

[Misunderstanding the use of 'raised', there. Being spooked by necromancy isn't the same as remembering the terminology used with it...]

SPEAKING OF FAMILY. SEND THEM TO THIS MESSAGE!
MAYBE THEY'LL HIT IT OFF WITH SOME LONELY WITCHES, AND BOND FOR REAL.

[weiward]

i will, thanks.

[but about that other thing...]

no, i meant who raised you from the dead?

[spaghettimonster]

HUH?
OH MY GOD, NO.
I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, AM NOT A WALKING CORPSE!
NO DEAD PEOPLE INVOLVED.
I'M A NATURAL SKELETON, FROM A WORLD WHERE THAT HAPPENS.

[He's come to realize that's not the norm, and is in very unusual.]

[weiward]

...you're telling me that you were born a skeleton?

[spaghettimonster]

YEAH, THAT'S IT EXACTLY!
I KNOW, IT'S HARD FOR TO UNDERSTAND.
FOR LOTS OF PEOPLE. BUT IT'S TRUE.

[weiward]

how do you eat? where does it go??

[spaghettimonster]

WITH MY MOUTH. AND INTO MY BONES.
FOR THE MOST PART.
SOME OF IT GOES INTO MY FUR INSTEAD!

[There's more to it than that, but explaining the differences between monsters and humans - or other more physical peoples - is complicated.]

[weiward]

i guess drinks must do the same. even alcohol.

[always thinking of the priorities.]

are you worried about what you look like? you used text, after all.

[spaghettimonster]

WHAT?? NO.
I USED TEXT BECAUSE...
WELL, YOU NEVER KNOW, WHEN PEOPLE MIGHT REPLY.
REREADING A CONVERSATION IS SO MUCH EASIER THAN RELISTENING TO IT...

[The way the watch records the little snippets back and forth, aside.]

IF YOU'RE CURIOUS WHAT I LOOK LIKE, YOU NEED ONLY ASK.

[weiward]

[that's good. he didn't want to hear that he was being bullied over his appearance. so what if he's a fuzzy skeleton, he seems perfectly nice. and some of wei wuxian's best friends have been skeletons!

well. he wouldn't call them 'friends', exactly. necromancer humor.]

i really am. can i see you?

text & video

[spaghettimonster]

[Well. He's maybe being bullied a little bit by people off the watch network, as - Wei Wuxian likely already knows - people of this world have long and negative experience with necromancy. And no few respond to the sight of him with fear.

But that's nothing to keep him from sharing cool selfies on the network!]

OF COURSE!

[With a brief delay, the next response from Papyrus is a video feed. He is a particularly fluffy skeleton with a long canine snout, though - unlike the artwork - he's wearing a t-shirt and short pants over top it. The shirt has an embroidered skull and flowers on it, and the fur on his bones tufts out of neckline and sleeves alike. He smiles awkwardly at the camera, the bone of his face shifting slightly in imitation of skin.]

Don't judge my fashion too hard - I'm at home. Taking it easy.

video

[weiward]

[the skeleton part doesn't phase him.

the canine part is what scares him.

but he did have something of a warning, so he just laughs awkwardly for a moment before he collects himself.]

Why would I? If I found a shirt like that, I might trade it for my robes for a while.