♉ in the veil

[clapifyoubullieve]

Who: Tavros, Azula
What: Hanging out!
Where: In the Veil.
When: Some time after the trolls have settled there but before Tavros gets his robolegs.
Warnings: None!

[There's Tavros, just chillin' in his four wheel device near one of the computers. It looks like he'd been trolling someone earlier but has since given up in favor of shuffling his Fiduspawn cards. A small, white stuffed bull is set on the floor across from him, and there is a pile of host plushes nearby.

Surely he's not pitiful enough to pretend to play fiduspawn with the likeness of his dead lusus, right? Surely.

But wow, does it look like that's what he's about to do.]

Comments

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

What does it do?

[clapifyoubullieve]

Well, I haven't drawn its power cards, yet, but, uh... [here he grins, looking rather pleased with himself] I sort of have a strategic advantage, in a sense, being that I can commune with any beast and have them tap into any of their powers.

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

I've heard that. It's part of how Vriska was able to kill Aradia.

[clapifyoubullieve]

[his expression loses some of that lustre]

Um, yeah...

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

Should that not have been brought up?

[clapifyoubullieve]

No, uh, it's okay...

[meanwhile, Scorplague shuffles over to the stuffed Tinkerbull and curls around it]

[Tavros turns back to Azula] Um... So did you want to play?

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

I can just watch. I'm not really in a gaming mood.

[moping forever is apparently a much more appealing idea]

What's that white one there?

[clapifyoubullieve]

Oh. [trying and failing not to sound disappointed] Okay.

[he wheels over to the plush and picks it up, while the Scorplague simply watches him]

This is a doll that Kanaya made for me. It's of my lusus, Tinkerbull.

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

I remember you talking about him.

[clapifyoubullieve]

Yeah, he, uh, he used to play Fiduspawn with me. Well, as best as he could, anyway. He couldn't do some things, like, you know, picking up and throwing an oogonibomb and such, so it was kind of a little one-sided. But it was okay.

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

Could you communicate? Did he have intelligence, or was he like an animal?

[clapifyoubullieve]

Oh yes! That is, he couldn't talk, but I could commune with him, in his mind. And he was definitely animal-like but not unintelligent. A lot of animals are very smart, and Tinkerbull was even smarter when I prototyped him with my kernelsprite! He could even talk, then.

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

It's good to have people you care about. ... Or lususes, in your case.

[clapifyoubullieve]

[nods] And also it's good to have people who, uh, care about you, as well. [smiles sadly at the doll before setting it back down next to the Scorplague, which wraps its tail around it]

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

It is.

[clapifyoubullieve]

Yeah...

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

Do you miss it?

[clapifyoubullieve]

My lusus?

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

Having someone like that.

[clapifyoubullieve]

[looks around the lab, a bit unsure] Uh, well, my friends care about me, most of the time, I think, so...

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

[amazingly, Azula senses his discomfort and shuts up]

Good, I suppose.

[clapifyoubullieve]

Yeah... You have people like that, don't you, Azula? Like your guardian and sibling, right?

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

Yes, I have my mom.

[AVOIDING THE SUBJECT OF LILITH RN...]

[clapifyoubullieve]

Yeah. But not the girl you called your sister? Or, uh, is that... something I shouldn't have asked, just now...

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

Lilith is a little complicated right now.

I suppose you could say I found out that we weren't as close as I thought. Or we weren't in her mind, anyway.