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tabularasa_rp2021-02-16 02:26 am
symbolofstrength) wrote in tabularasa_rp2021-02-16 02:26 am
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February Prompts
Who: Samuel Oak + OPEN
What: February prompts. Science, mostly. Let me know if you want to do something else with Sam, I can start something else for you!
Where: Various
When: February -- can be before the overgrowth event, or happen during, as Sam has not been affected by it.
Content Warnings: Innocent slimeberry deaths! Will add others as needed.
What: February prompts. Science, mostly. Let me know if you want to do something else with Sam, I can start something else for you!
Where: Various
When: February -- can be before the overgrowth event, or happen during, as Sam has not been affected by it.
Content Warnings: Innocent slimeberry deaths! Will add others as needed.
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Viridi is very good at being accusatory.
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"I've already apologized to them. You, on the other hand, I owe nothing. This entire affair is none of your business." So, you know, she's not in a position to be dictating anything to him, as far as he's concerned.
He'd love to stay and study the berries some more, but it's clear he's not going to get any peace if he does that.
"Come on, Pidgey." He cups a hand around the bird to keep it from flying off or attacking, and turns around to leave.
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"I'm the Goddess of Nature, you stupid old man. And now that my powers are back, I felt its dying pain stabbing through me like a knife."
Which explains how she knew this was happening from five hundred feet away.
"Run away, then. Humans are all the same."
((Hello! At this point, Viridi would ICly curse him for his actions, but in the interest of not overstepping please feel free t take it if you want to play with it or ignore it otherwise!))
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"You're not the first woman I've met here who claimed to be a goddess." Yes, woman -- to Samuel, Viridi looks like an adult, not a child. A small, bratty adult perhaps, but an adult all the same. Even the most traumatized children have a certain air of... innocence, for lack of a better word, about them that she doesn't have, and the way she's treated him so far only confirms it to him. "And just as before, I have no reason to believe you." Only her word, which based on their interactions so far, he's not going to take as proof.
It's not just his profession as a scientist that makes him skeptical -- in his world, the closest thing they have to deities are Legendary Pokemon. Very few of them are even humanoid, much less actually look like humans, so why would a deity, especially a deity of nature, look like a human?
((I forget what curses do -- I think they just cause bad luck for a while, right? If so, that's fine with me! It'll give me something to post about in late February/early March. I may have even thought of a few prompts already....))
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The expression she turns upon him is withering.
"And like all humans, he thinks his opinion matters."
She is tending now to the fruit trees, sweeping up fallen leaves and petals and smoothing out the dirt.
"For your lack of remorse, I decree that the pain you have inflicted shall be returned tenfold by nature. Believe me or don't."
A faint pause.
"I mean, not that you're going to die ten times. Metaphorically. Expect a lot of bird poop your way."
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He stares at her for a moment, fighting back a chuckle... but eventually loses the fight and bursts out into laughter. She's misunderstood him entirely; it's not that he doesn't regret what he did, he just doesn't see the need to make it up to some stranger. Some stranger who came along and told him her opinion matters. In the face of such hypocrisy, what can he do but laugh?
At the phrase 'bird poop', Pidgey squawks and puffs ups its feathers, offended. It's got better discipline than to relieve itself on its friend, thank you very much!
"I'd like to ask you one more question. Where did you think I was going to get the seeds to plant more berries without killing more berries?"
They do look a lot like the berries from his world, and if they're anything like them, then one berry equals one plant.
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The expression progresses to 'more withering.'
"Their life cycle is seven days, after which they fall off the tree and die. Don't try and 'gotcha' me, you weirdo. What is this, an MTV show?"
She thrusts out a bag of dried fruit corpses that she's... carrying around in her pocket for some reason.
"I'm obnoxious, not obtuse."
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"Seven days. Right." The air quotes are heavily implied. They might be able to keep track of time now, but he still wouldn't call a 24-hour period a 'day' -- not until they get an actual dark/light cycle of some kind.
"I'm not sure they've even been around for that long."
Meanwhile, at the sight of the source of picked berries, Pidgey suddenly darts forward to try and snatch some. Samuel might have forbidden it from eating the one he picked, and won't let it pick any of its own, but these are clearly fair game!
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Pidgey is intercepted by a buzzing creature that resembles a flying upside-down chestnut with a single eye that chirps and whines.
"Not for you. Fly off, child. You -- " She gestures to Professor Oak. " -- can also go, by the way, Captain Pedant, if we have nothing more to discuss. And they've been here for fifteen days."
She refuses to engage with the pedantry.
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"You know, despite your bad attitude, I was still perfectly willing to cooperate with you when this conversation started. Maybe a little self-examination is in order, to determine what you said or did to change my mind." It didn't have to turn out like this; one personal attack too many was the straw that broke the Camerupt's back, and even a peaceful, gentle man like him has his limits.
With that final opportunity for education sorted, he takes a few steps away, just out of conversation distance... and sits down on the ground as Pidgey flies back to him for comfort. He pats it and gives it gentle scritches, making soothing sounds.
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This is about all she has to say to any other comments he might have. Viridi has played this game many times in the past and has quite a lot of practice. From her perspective, the idea that he thinks that an apology makes up for his actions of what she perceives to be murder is laughable.
Though as long as he's not speaking to her, she won't bother him, either. She tends to the trees, waters them, and begins her own task of planting more along this leyline.
"May your life be renewed."
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So instead he continues to pet Pidgey, teeth silently grit behind his lips as he takes deep breaths through his nose. It takes the arrival of one of the Pidgey-chimeras, curious about this new creature that looks so similar yet different from itself, to begin to bring his mood up.
While the two creatures, Pidgey and the chimera, squawk a conversation and examine each other, he realizes he recognizes this one.
"Hello there, little one! I haven't seen you in a while." And for the first time since she arrived here, he sounds genuinely happy. "Is your wing feeling better? Let me take a look." He reaches over to gently stretch out the wing in question, examining it. It doesn't seem to be the first time he's manhandled this particular individual, as it seems pretty calm about him grabbing its wing.
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She truly has nothing else to say to this human - so perhaps the scene will fade to black as our heroes passive-aggressively ignore each other.