[OPEN] bird bird's the word

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Who: Yusuke 'has a furby for a soul' Urameshi (fingerbanged) & YOU!
When: IC - 7/4 for the first part, anytime through 7/14 for the second | OOC - 5/8 and until the interlude, probably??
Where: A CERESbucks close to one of the apartments, and then anywhere/everywhere in Cerealia!
What: A trip to the local coffee shop grants Yusuke one (1) penguin-shaped Spirit Beast! Also a catch-all throughout the month for anyone who wants to meet/run into Yusuke and his smol creature.
Rating/Warning: YUSUKE BEING YUSUKE aka chances of bad language, punches, and generally bratty teenage boy-isms, sprinkled with cute flying pudgeballs getting into people's business

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A: Would you like to make that coffee order a combo? (7/4)

[Ah, coffee shops.

The strong smell of a good brew filtering through the air, a quiet atmosphere with unobtrusive music, lots of comfortable seats and adorable pastries... a perfect place to center yourself before a long day at work. Or maybe you're catching up with some reading and studying for school? Perhaps you're just waiting in line for some coffee, a quick pick-me-up before other errands or something to put the spark of life into the tired shell called a body.

Unfortunately, that peaceful lull is about to be broken, as a small, blue penguin-like creature flutters wildly out of one of the bathrooms, making loud 'PUUUU!!' noises of distress. It flaps haphazardly around the shop, slamming into tables, upsetting cups of coffee and plates of croissants, getting tangled up in a few unlucky customers, much like a fat, agitated pigeon. If one was spiritually keen or able to sense auras on things, the animal feels exactly the same as someone else in the store right now, who is currently dropping the iced coffee they were nursing in shock at the sudden chaos.]

P... Puu? Why're you--??

[At the sound of his name, Puu beelines for Yusuke, divebombing into his arms and letting out a happy cry. Yusuke looks down at his spirit beast for a moment, dumbfounded, before turning his eye on the aftermath.]

... oh jeez.



B: You're like a 'get people into danger' tour guide (7/4-7/14)

[Wherever you are, whatever you may be doing-- meditating, going shopping, eating a tasty sandwich, disposing corpses... er, robot pieces-- you're going to have an unexpected companion joining you! Maybe Puu will be landing in your lap, or stealing a piece of bacon from your burger, or conveniently sitting on top of that last scrap of helper-bot you need to destroy... it's all relatively innocent, even if it's a bit obtrusive. Whether or not Puu's made too much of a nuisance of himself, though, it all ends the same... Yusuke running up and scooping the tiny blue penguin-thing away, looking mildly irritated.]

Dammit, how'd Keiko even keep an eye on you in the first place? I'm gonna have to find a leash for your fat ass if you keep doing this crap!

Anyway, er... sorry about that. Stupid thing's still getting used to this place.


C: Wildcard???

[Basically this is a catch-all log for most of May in regards to Puu, so if you want to plan anything aside from this, hit me up over at Urameshi!!]

Comments

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[Honestly? Puu was pretty useless in the grand scheme of things. He didn't have any particularly handy powers, aside from generating shields and being a pretty handy get-away creature when he was larger (not to mention acting as a telephone for dead old ladies), but-- he was good for self-reflection. Not that Yusuke paid much mind to THAT, but it was besides the point.

The real shocker here was this guy's knowledge of them-- Yusuke had said that as a rhetorical question, but he didn't expect the guy to know his stuff.]

Hey, he's not usually like this, okay? He's... bigger. And has more feathers. And looks a helluva lot more like a bird than he does now.

Though, uh... where have you seen 'em before? I've never really spotted anyone else with them back home, so I don't have a good means of comparison.

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It transforms?

[While transforming in and of itself was not peculiar to him, he had never heard of a spirit beast doing so. It was even rare for the beast gods.

Well, if he wanted answers he probably should give some as well, it wasn't as though the information was terribly important.]

My brother and I once trained under a demigod of the forest, such creatures were not terribly uncommon there. Of course they were more plentiful in general before your kind started running amok.

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Transformed, yeah. It was more like hitting a growth spurt than anything else. It wasn't supposed to be a repeat thing. [Unless Yusuke's powers somehow got tampered with here, but he didn't feel any weaker, so that theory was out.

And there's a scowl at the not-so-veiled accusation, although the information was interesting. Koenma said that spirit beasts usually took at least a century to hatch, so it would make sense that they would be in a different sort of realm altogether.]

My kind? Look, just because humanity's done some dumb crap over the years, it doesn't mean you have to lump all the bad stuff that's happened on their shoulders.

Besides, maybe your blindfold is messing with your senses, but I'm not fully human. I lack the horns and weird colored skin, sure, but the blood's the same.

[unpreparer]

[This suddenly took a turn for the more interesting. He could not say the boy carried anything he recognized in terms of detecting a demon though, no trace of the fel corruption he was riddled with. It made the new little puzzle more intriguing at the very least, and despite completely ignoring the defense of humanity's overall competence, he loses some of the edge to his voice from maybe a little shred of respect.]

I noticed you looked peculiar, but I could not place how. It would seem you and I have more in common than I initially thought.

[And perhaps the little fat bird was not as dull as it looked. Didn't completely take it off the menu though. It could have also been a fluke.]

But you are human and demon?