A Partridge In A Pear Tree

[showmelove]

Who: WILD CITY & any visitors???
Where: WILD CITY dorms
When: Day 185

[Hey fanmail is pretty cool, right? So you definitely won't notice new people in the dorm, right? Right.]

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[showmelove]

[Venus is coming out after a few moments, trying to sneak a little in some footie pajamas, which is dumb because where is she even going to go after sneaking out of the dorm??? She has to come back sometime so she can't avoid the attention forever.

Might as well get it over with.]

H-hello...?

[earthquaked]

[ lounging in the catio living room, and looking up in surprise. ]

... another new kid? At least you're quieter than the last one.

[showmelove]

Ah, yes. Sorry...

[Already apologizing. Good going, Venus. She mentally smacks herself a little for it.] Uh, I guess I belong here for now. Oh, this is a lot. [Mostly looking at so much animal print] N-none of this is real, right?

[earthquaked]

You're good, kiddo. But yeah, sorry, it's all real. And if you wake up in Wild City, you belong here.

[ a pause. ]

I'm Nychta. You'll probably hear some of the others call me mom, too. You got a name?

[showmelove]

"Mom"... You look too young to be a mom...? Well, maybe if your kids were very young.

Oh! But this is Wild City, then? The whole city isn't called that, is it? Uh, my name is Venus. My profile says something weird, but my name is definitely Venus.

[iamverybadass]

[ Talon's been napping on the couch, but he stirs and props himself up on one elbow to frown vaguely in her direction, eyes still pretty cloudy ]

Hello...? Who are you?

[showmelove]

Um... Sorry... I didn't mean to wake you up, I just didn't want to startle anyone. I'm Venus? [Why does she seem confused by that? She knows who she is.] Uh, I am part of this um, club. Now.

[iamverybadass]

[ Sits up more properly with a groggy sound, scrubbing a hand over his face ]

Don't apologize for that. I prefer to be awake for new arrivals anyway. And we are more than some mere club; we're a team.

[showmelove]

A "team"...

Um, well I look forward to, uh, working with you? Oh gosh. I haven't done any team stuff since the Summer Scouts. What exactly is our team supposed to do?

[shutthefoxup]

Hey there, sleepyhead.

[showmelove]

...Ah! You must be the "dad"!

[shutthefoxup]

...I mean you're not wrong, but also is it that obvious....

[showmelove]

Oh, uh! N-no, sorry, I just. Nychta mentioned a Silver being the dad and that sounds like something my dad would say, even if this situation is so weird that that seems like a really strange thing to say... but dads do that kind of thing, right?

[rollyourluck]

Oh, hey there! Welcome!

[ please say hi to the super excitable wolfboy ]

[showmelove]

[Shit, he's the one she's scared of. "The people person". Venus tenses up when getting happens and she slowly raises a hand covered in eye tattoos.]

U-uh.. hah... Hi... I'm Venus and I'm um, going to be staying here for awhile I guess.

[rollyourluck]

Hi, I'm Bark, it's nice to meet you!

[ there's no metaphorical dogtail, it's actually there. wagging ]

[wakeupfeelingsohorny]

Oh, hello. Are you another new unitmate?

[showmelove]

Aha, yeah. That's what it sounds like. [SWEATS. She didn't expect so many people! This is a very big group to her.]

We've got a lot of people here, don't we...? It's a little overwhelming.

[wakeupfeelingsohorny]

There's eight people to a unit. But don't worry, everyone's very friendly.

[earthquaked]

[ for general mom-bothering purposes, though, Nychta is hanging out on the couch (probably with talon), flipping through pictures on her phone and gnawing on some of her imeeji-assigned ?questionable meat? sausages. ]

[shutthefoxup]

Do you want me to try cooking those into something? We could try putting them in a soup for you or something.

[iamverybadass]

[ Talon is also around for general bothering! He's lounging on the couch, either napping or listening to some audiobook he's loaded up on his phone ]

[shutthefoxup]

[Leansssssssssssss on him to see what's on his phone]

[iamverybadass]

[ Slumps over with a half-hearted grumble. It looks like he's got some technical book on theoretical physics loaded up now. Just regular reading for teens ]

You're heavy.

[shutthefoxup]

Nah, I'm definitely sure I'm feather light.