[open]

[emotive]

Who: emotive & anyone else
When: Backdated to 7/9 = 5/18, prompted by this conversation in particular
Where: The Park
What: Ai goes to do community service by cleaning out the pond and relieving it of a robot skeleton.
Rating/Warning: Skeletons

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[ People may have noticed that the carnivorous fish in the pond looked plumper than usual and usually content at that. The remains of robots had yet to be cleaned up at this point and it's an eerie sight considering the city is usually spic and span. Ai Thao is someone who's quite neat and tidy. In fact, she feels bad whenever she doesn't pick up after herself and that includes the fact that she did push her robot double into the park's pond. It's about time she got around to this since she's been putting it off for too long.

So you may be walking along a path in the park, minding your own business and suddenly fattened fish with long, sharp teeth are floating up into the air...

Wait.

Oh, they're going down again and there's a splash and a voice. ]

It HAS to be down there somewhere!

Comments

[sayonaradumbass]

[siiiigh] No fun.

Nah, just for a bit. No one's puking yet.

[swordplays]

[Yeah, he's just going to go ahead and ignore that "thank you" and pretend he didn't hear anything.]

When it comes to destroying those kinds of things, I don't think going that far is too much. Better to be sure than risk it coming back at all.

[adminproof]

[ He floats over (he can walk but he can't swim, he's not far enough into his canon that he learns that beach episode is a thing!!) and unceremoniously dumps the robot corpse onto the ground, kneeling over it to examine it better. There probably isn't much of it left, but maybe a few stray patches of hair and clothing match. ]

Hm...I believe you are more familiar with your own physical appearance than I am.

[ He hasn't gotten to that level of creeper with Ai. ]

[neverexpected]

[It's how she do!]

Don't be worried if it is!

I'm a mage myself, so I wouldn't judge you for it.

[prosecutory]

Er...I wouldn't call it "amazing", either.

[He blushes a little. Playing video games is not that amazing even if he did it for his dog.]

[sunnymerc]

( Soleil shakes her head. )

No, no. It gave me a perfectly good reason to talk to you, so there's nothing to apologize for. Your smile will warm me up enough that I'll be dry in no time.

[emotive]

[Ai waves her hands and shakes her head to dissuade the elven lady.]

Oh, no what I'm saying is, it's different from magic! I don't have magical energy.

[emotive]

[wow so suave]

Ah... That's very kind of you to say! I appreciate it!

[even though she was going robot corpse fishing, but hey, let's not ruin the moment]

[emotive]

[Ai sighs herself and sits down next to Kaneda looking somewhat dejected.]

It looks like feeding the fish is fun. I never thought about feeding them since they mostly scare me away.

[emotive]

[Alcor please, take her out to dinner first]

Hmmm...

[Ai kneels down to study the skeleton. The teeth marks are prevalent and the patches of hair although matted, are dark, and if dried out...]

It's my hair color. And this is a dress it took from me when it started to try and echo me.

[Ai nods.]

I'm positive. It's mine.

[... Ai stands up silently looking rather solemn.]

Saiduq? Please destroy it.

[emotive]

And drowned in the process of being bitten??

[why must she be the logical one in the situation she's FEELS.PNG]

[emotive]

[everything must be done for dogs, they'll do everything for you!!]

I think it is! I don't play ViViD that often these days, but I think being good at the game shows a great amount of skill and not just in playing video games!

[niceguypose]

Ah yes! Drowning would be another challenge to endure to against...

[Sorry Ai, it's because you're not Lee.]

[emotive]

[what a cold fish]

Did you have trouble with any of the robots yourself? They were all so eerie to begin with, but to think it would develop into trying to copy and replace us...

[emotive]

[truly, only one green beast can shine among them all]

Lee.

Can you promise me to go home safely and change out of your wet clothes? At the very least?

[so that ai doesn't have anymore heart attacks please god]

[niceguypose]

...

Would this be a heartfelt promise of youth?

[sayonaradumbass]

Scare you? You're afraid of fish?

[prosecutory]

I suppose I ended up with a lot of practice, but I wouldn't have done it if I didn't have the chance to regain Pess.

[HE REALLY DOES EVERYTHING FOR HIS DOG...]

[sunnymerc]

Hehe! It's only the truth, you know. But, um...what are you doing playing with huge fish in the first place? The fishy could have gobbled you up whole.

( Probably, maybe. Ai doesn't look like the fishing type either way. )

[adminproof]

...Very well.

[ Well, if she's asking in that way, then she must be certain it has to be destroyed by someone else's hand, and not hers. Perhaps she isn't confident in her ability to reduce it to ashes. Saiduq, however, is.

He leans in, examining the robot corpse, and then brings his fingers together, in a pinching motion. As he does so, the rusted joints creak and bend under an invisible pressure that gets stronger the closer his index finger and thumb get to each other, as if trapped in a ball that keeps shrinking and shrinking, until they meet and the corpse disappears entirely in one loud, metallic pop. ]

[swordplays]

["Trouble" is putting it lightly; robot or not, anything wearing Yata's face crying that it didn't want to die was a pretty terrible day.]

... They gave me some trouble, but I handled it. It would have been better not to touch them at all, but anyone that actually trusted them to function normally clearly wasn't thinking.

[neverexpected]

Is that so?

[Now she's super curious! Making things float without using magic is a pretty neat trick.]

What is it then, if not magic?