CATS

[thescaronhisface]

Who: Kovu, Hollyleaf, and anyone else!
What: A couple of new arrivals to the city!
When: Midday-ish
Where: Just outside the main Terminal

[It takes Kovu a good few minutes to finally figure everything out with his new body - well enough, anyway. Now there's a different problem, in the shape of a really annoying animal trying to tell him what to do. He growls at it - or tries to at least - but doesn't get much of a reaction. Eventually he gives up, and takes the...digivice? Whatever the thing's supposed to be. There's also a...leaf he's supposed to pick up. The weird animal calls it a "letter."

He walks outside, only to get tackled immediately by another strange animal.]

You must be Kovu!

[The former lion is bowled over, since he can still barely walk without falling, and glares fiercely at the thing that pounced him before shoving it off.]

Who're you?

[The rabbit-like animal stands up, and brushes off his ears.]

I'm Lopmon, and I'm your Digimon partner!

...What?

Didn't you read the letter?

...Read?

[The Digimon hits his forehead with a paw.]

Hand it over, lunkhead.

[Kovu gives the animal a look, then kneels down to give him the letter. Lopmon takes a minute or two to read it to him, and to try to explain things as best he can to someone who never even had written language in his world, much less buildings or any sort of technology. Kovu does his best to understand, but not all of it's sinking in. There's just too much to get.]

Comments

[changelingdude]

Ah, not your first throwdown then huh? Well that's good. We need people with experience.

Um...but if you don't like fighting you don't have to. I don't like fighting either so I tend to find other ways to help.

[thescaronhisface]

I'll just do all the fighting for this big fraidy-cat here!

[Lopmon chuckles for a second, before seeing the look Kovu shoots him. There's a lot more than just anger there, and it shuts up the Digimon quick.]

[changelingdude]

Whoa whoa! Easy now. That's not cool little Lopmon.

You know Tamers shouldn't fight to begin with.

Yeah...check this out. Back home I was a big deal right? Big brave hero, saved the world a few times. But here? I can't even get through one fight without Rita.

[He holds up his shirt to show a scar on his stomach from what must have been a deep stab wound.]

And this was from one of the little guys.

[thescaronhisface]

[Kovu cringes at the sight. A wound like that would've killed someone in the Outlands...they wouldn't have lasted even a day.]

I see what you mean.

[changelingdude]

[Shirt back down]

But that's not entirely true. We still need you to make us strong enough to fight.

Yeah, it's this whole magic thing, has anyone explained it to you yet?

[thescaronhisface]

[Kovu just shakes his head.]

Lopmon tried, but I don't get it.

[changelingdude]

That's OK dude! We're experts.

Well..

See first, you gotta connect with your partner. Get to know them. What they like, what they hate, what they want from life. Like my buddy Rita here? She wants to be an entertainer. Song, dance, comedy all of that fun stuff.

And Beastboy loves being a hero. He wants to help people and keep them laughing and happy while saving the world.

[thescaronhisface]

[Kovu looks over at Lopmon, and for just a moment looks like he could be carrying the weight of the whole world on his shoulders.]

We...still don't know that much about each other.

[changelingdude]

Well that's a good place to start. Ask some questions...here I'll start! What's your favorite food?

I'm a real fan of sweets. Cookies, ice cream and stuff.

And me? I'm all vegan. No meat, just veggies and fruit and stuff.

[thescaronhisface]

Favorite? Man, I love a the feeling of sinking my fangs into a zebra right after a good chase!

[Even Lopmon looks a little taken aback. It doesn't help that Kovu's kind of...miming it, a little, and he's wearing a rather predatory grin.]

[changelingdude]

[Beastboy boggles but Rita actually rolls with it]

I've never had Zebra, is it anything like beef?

I...you...really?

[thescaronhisface]

Yeah, really! The killing bite is the best part!

[He is way too enthusiastic about this. This is made more clear when Lopmon takes a step away from his own partner, and toward Beastboy.]

I dunno what beef tastes like though. Never had it.

[changelingdude]

[Beastboy laughs nervously] uh...please tell me you weren't a human before you got here...

I'm afraid you don't really kill your own food around here. But we can show you to the best places for food in town.

[thescaronhisface]

...Huh? No way. I was a lion.

[And he was a way better hunter than any of the other male lions he'd ever met, too.]

[changelingdude]

Phew...had me worried there for a minute.

You should have seen your face.

I bet! I mean, I've been a lion before. I know how it feels but I'm still not a meat eater.

Picky picky.

Anyway, what about you little Mon? What's your favorite food?

[thescaronhisface]

...What, do humans not do that?

[Lopmon looks up at Beastboy, and seems thoughtful for a moment.]

Hm...Bacon!

[changelingdude]

H-heh, nope. Sorry dude. Our bodies just aren't equipped to handle raw meat. In fact? It makes us sick.

That's OK though, there's plenty of people around who know how to cook and you can pay them to prepare the food for you...at least till you learn to do it yourself.

And lucky for you I just so happen to be particularly excellent at teaching people how to be human!

[thescaronhisface]

...You're kidding. I can't catch my own food?

[That...is gonna take some getting used to. Even if males usually had the food killed for them by the lionesses, that was not how Kovu did things. He was a better hunter than most of the girls anyway.]

And how could raw meat be bad? I see monkeys eating it all the time and they're fine.

[changelingdude]

[He gives a shrug]

Sorry dude, humans aren't as good at the stuff as monkeys or lions. Trust me, I've been both.

Have you ever eaten meat as those animals though?

When I was younger yeah, but that was before I thought about it.

[thescaronhisface]

Before you thought about it?

[changelingdude]

Ah...sorry, I guess I should explain.

See, I'm not a normal human. Obviously.

[He wiggles his pointed ears and pulls on his green face]

I was bitten by a monkey when I was a kid, and got really sick. So my parents used a type of magic called science to save my life.

Anyway, as a special side effect, I got the power to turn into any animal I thought of. It's super cool! I can't do it anymore though. Coming here kinda messed up my powers.

[thescaronhisface]

[Great, two words he doesn't know in the same sentence. What are "magic" and "science" supposed to be? Kovu just decides to ignore them both.]

So you've been a lion before?

[changelingdude]

Yeah! Every animal from Lion to warthog to tiger to bird. Even bugs. So it just felt kinda weird to be eating animal meat and thinking how I'd been that animal. Like...can you imagine being a Zebra and like...EATING zebra?

[thescaronhisface]

I've eaten monkeys before, and I don't feel that weird now.

[changelingdude]

[He's looking more green the more they talk about it.]

Think of it more like, how would you feel eating another lion?

This conversation is getting weird.