video; un: reddeer

[rightfoot]

Name: Louis
Date: Late 8/1, Early 8/2.
Format: video.

[ Hello there, network! It's a face that many of you haven't seen for awhile, he thinks. This time, there's no chaos attached to this post. ]

Hard to believe it's been a year here. Is this the sort of anniversary someone celebrates? It's my 'Abducted to a strange planet' anniversary. Maybe I'll get someone [ ahem ] to make a cake or something. Castella is my favorite, by the way.

[ He's not going to push his luck. ]

So those who have been here for awhile, what have you learned since arriving? If you're ... newer, what do you hope to learn?

Personally, I learned that despite monsters being a big thing: deer with fingers are still a novelty. Oh, and pet ownership is still weird to me. I don't think it'll ever not be weird.

[ There's a small quirk of the corner of his mouth, and the slightest, small smile when he makes the offer. It's reminiscent of what he posted almost a year ago. Just way more -- polite. ]

That being said - I am going to give the same opportunity that I gave when I first arrived:

I am not a Monster. I am a deer who happens to be a witch. I never saw a human before getting here. And I have ten fingers and five toes.

And, if you have any questions, it's okay to ask, I promise. I don't bite. No question is too weird at this point, I think.

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video! un: kirstein

[trost]

[ Oh it's that deer. Hello again. Jean is bored and up for asking some questions. ]

You said there were other animals like yourself back home, didn't you?

Voice

[afoolshope]

Are deer with fingers really that weird?

[Anthropomorphism wouldn't be a word in his world if it were truly unheard of, even if it really was only in stories, movies, etc.]

[rightfoot]

[ Oh - it's you again. ]

I did. Of a variety of species, too. Carnivores, such as lions, herbivores like myself. We live side by side, even.

How have you found your first few weeks here?

[ He asks!! Because he's polite like that. ]

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[rightfoot]

I guess in real life it is. I mean, have you met any before me?

[ Small smirk. ]

[afoolshope]

Mm... guess not. Do cartoons count?

[He's being serious.]

[trost]

[ Carnivores living side by side with animals they typically would be eating is ... not so easy to wrap one's head around. He definitely wants to ask how that works. ]

It's been ... mostly peaceful. I don't get a lot of this back home. Still getting used to not being thrown into the fray so often.

un:ma voice

[stopfen]

Ten fingers...but five toes?

[Never heard of someone having an odd number of toes before without losing one. It's dry though, she's seen too much to be really surprised by it.]

[rightfoot]

It has been pretty quiet here lately. Nice even. I wouldn't be optimistic that it'll be like this forever, but it's a good break.

Just ... look at it like a vacation.

[ that's what he did ]

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[freecshow]

Wow!!! Thats so cool!! Are you popular with Fauns?? It must be really super weird seeing a bunch of humans who kinda have animal features but dont really look like animals, even after all that time!

[rightfoot]

When you can talk to cartoons, yes.

[ Oh, boy... ]

[afoolshope]

[It earns a small chuckle.]

Fair enough. Still, I don't think it's all that weird when even on my world, people came up with stories all the time of human like animals. A lot of gods of antiquity were humans with heads of animals and stuff like that.

[rightfoot]

Yes. Not too long before I got here a year ago, I lost part of my right leg in an accident.

[ That's what he's calling it. He tossed that in to see if someone would catch it - congrats. It earns her a small, small smile. ]

So - I have five toes. Only the ones on my left foot now. It happens.

[rightfoot]

I'm not any more popular with faun than anyone else, to be honest. It was weird to see humans at all. I hadn't seen one before getting here, either.

I think to fauns, I'm more like a long lost cousin. Similar to humans and primates.

[rightfoot]

Funny, our gods all have animal heads, too.

[ Louis, shut up. Is he kidding? ]

I've heard that, though. I guess it is weird to people for something that use to be fiction... become real.

[afoolshope]

What a coincidence.

[It's fine.]

For some, yeah. I come from a world where AI robots with emotions exist and a missing 25th hour of the day that only those with the potential could see. So I suppose it's just not that weird to me.

un; aragaki (voice)

[hoboagogo]

I've learned that deer are way bigger dicks than they make the ones over in Nara seem.

[trost]

That's what I've been doing. Better than stressing over something that can't be changed.

[ Selfishly, he likes his life here too, and he knows he'll return back to the point he left, so it's nice not having to feel guilty over that unfinished business. ]

I was thinking of ... trying new things out. [ Hobbies............. He does not have any. ]

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[sylphid]

I knew I was the side piece.

[sylphid]

... oh, wait.

[hoboagogo]

Are bigger dicks.

Not have.

[rightfoot]

Nara's a place at home, I assume?

[ he doesn't even argue it. ]

Yeah, yeah, I know this is how you show you care.

[rightfoot]

Fie no.

[hoboagogo]

Yeah. People love to go to the parks and shrines there and see the deer. Never been, though.

[Sorry bro, but you don't even do that cute bowing thing for food.]

And I think people find the fingernails weirder than the fingers.

[sylphid]

My bad.

[sylphid]

Oops.

[Sounds like she doesn't care. And she probably doesn't.]