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[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]

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.

[thescaronhisface]

...You don't want me to answer that.

[Lopmon takes a few steps away from Kovu.]

[changelingdude]

...ick.

[He rubs his face a little with both hands then shakes it to clear his head]

Alright well anyway, meat eating is OK but you don't eat other humans.

Or Digimon please.

Right. We can show you where the food is for now...sorry there's no hunting.

Maybe we can find wildlife out there that he can hunt. I know there's still fish out there.

[thescaronhisface]

I don't know if I even can hunt, like this.

[He gestures to his human body.]

I'd have to learn how to all over again.

[changelingdude]

Baby steps, we'll get you going at least. How are you at walking on two legs so far? Can you run?

[thescaronhisface]

Can't run yet.

[He scowls at the prospect of being so useless.]

[changelingdude]

Hey, hey now. Don't worry furry...err...formerly furry. You'll pick it up fast. We all had to go through an adjustment period.

[thescaronhisface]

How long did it take you to learn how to walk when you turned into a lion?

[He feels like he should be asking about how that worked, but this guy probably couldn't explain it anyway.]

[changelingdude]

Uh well...

[He rubs the back of his head sheepishly]

That's different. Humans have to learn to crawl on all fours before we can walk. So walking on all fours was easy. But fighting as a Lion? That took practice.

[thescaronhisface]

I bet.

[Experimentally, Kovu swipes at the air with his arm, as if he still had a front leg with claws on it. It looks like some of the muscles stayed with him, because the speed of the swipe would create a powerful impact if it actually connected. He looks down at his hand, glad that at least something feels normal.]

[changelingdude]

And it was way awesome when I finally did get it down. The lion is one of my strongest forms. And with a mighty ROAR!

[Does his best to imitate a lion noise]

[thescaronhisface]

[Kovu can't help but laugh.]

That was a roar? You sound like a cub!

[He doesn't try to show Beastboy up, though. He already tried to roar at Lopmon earlier, and only managed to hurt his throat.]

[changelingdude]

[Beastboy laughs along because he knows it's true]

Well it USED to be way cooler.

[He relaxes from the laughs]

So what's the plan? Gonna wander around? Need a tour? Or just a quick and direct path to your new den?

[thescaronhisface]

[That makes Kovu straighten back up from his laughter.]

...New den?

[There's...there's a place for him to stay here?]

[changelingdude]

You got it chief!

[He gives him a thumbs up]

Everyone gets a new den when they come here. It's not much but it's a place to sleep and clean yourself up safely. You gotta share it with your Digimon and one or two other Tamers though.

[thescaronhisface]

I bet it's better than sleeping on a cold rock outside a cave.

[Kovu's still pretty sore over how Simba had made him sleep outside that night.]

[changelingdude]

Oh dude, you don't even know. We humans are experts at comfort. Just you wait.

[He waves to urge Kovu to follow him]

Your room number will be listed when we get there. At least that's how it was when I showed up.