ᴠɪᴅᴇᴏ | rats are people too

[sylphystia]

Who: Dezel and you
Broadcast: Yes
Action: The Golden
When: Now

[video]

[A group of ship vermin are all sitting in a circle, waiting patiently for... something. A bowl full of scraps appears and seems to float in the air before it sits down in front of them. The rats make cute happy little noises as they dig into the food.

... And then, the greatest evil comes.

The roomba.

One of the tiny maintenance robots comes screaming around the corner at high speed. DIRT DETECTED. [...] PESTS DETECTED. It heads straight for the the poor rats. They all scatter save for one really fat one, who's too focused on the food to notice what's coming.

But what's this-- the droid is scooped up by someone invisible! Dezel's voice might be familiar to some; it's the "don't sleep in my room" guy.]

Leave. The animals. Alone.

[A thin wire appears. With a hard jerk, he shreds the cleaning droid into pieces. Imagine if that had been someone's neck.]

It's all right. You can come out now. [And then the rats come scurrying out of their little holes again. A couple of them crawl over Dezel's invisible shoes, then go back for the food.]

Comments

[sylphystia]

[If it's not the hat, then he's okay just putting it back on.]

He looks just like me, huh. [A half-laugh.] Figures.

You remind me of Sorey sometimes. I'm not sure how much you resemble each other, though. [He reaches out and puts his hand on top of Sora's head.] ... He's taller. The wind tells me you both have brown hair and you wear weird clothes. [... That's about it, really.]

[notzubats]

[No the hat's cool and fine. But he definitely grins at that. He doesn't even mind being called short because well, he is. No denying that.]

With a name like Sorey, I'm not surprised you get reminded of him.

But hey. Can you really talk about weird clothes when your pants look like they're splitting open?

[sylphystia]

[He grits his teeth suddenly.]

These clothes belonged to someone important. There's nothing wrong with them.

[... ah.]

[notzubats]

[Whoa okay that's a more emotional reaction than he was expecting. He quickly holds up his hands in surrender]

Whoa, hey it's okay. Sorry, I didn't mean anything by it.

[sylphystia]

[He eases a bit, and realizes he didn't mean to freak Sora out. He adjusts his hat with more than a trace of diffidence, decidedly not making eye contact.]

I... know you didn't.

[And, softer:]

Sorry.

[notzubats]

No, it's alright...

[He rubs the back of his head; internally relaxing a little as Dezel eases up]

I do like your hat.

[sylphystia]

[Dezel likes his hat, too. He misses his old friend but there's not much to be done about that. He used to think about growing his hair long and wearing it the same way Lafarga did, but he always gets tired of it and cuts it with a dagger before it gets that long.

The silence stretches on for a moment, two, and then Dezel takes his hat off. He plunks it right into Sora's hand so he can look at it.]

No one's ever said that before.

[That's because no one can see you, nerd.]

You'd better give that back, though. Feels weird without it.

1/2

[notzubats]

Probably 'cause you're invisible-

[!]

[Okay, getting the hat dropped into his hands was definitely not what he was expecting, and he has a surprised and awed look for a moment]

[notzubats]

[But once the quick moment passes, he grins]

Ha- Yeah, I will!

[Dezel trusting him with this hat must say something right? Even if it's just for a little bit. He takes a moment to examine the hat. It's a good quality hat, even better looking now that he can see it up-close and not when it's much higher than he is. He does like it]

[Which of course, after that appraisal is done? Of course he's going to try putting it on his own head with that grin on his face. It's a little big for his head so it tilts to the side and covers part of his face with a small "plop" sound, though his spikey hair stops it from completely covering his face. He tries to adjust it, so he can at least see]

How's it l- [Oh, wait.] - I mean, wind's got anything to say?

[sylphystia]

[He should've figured it wouldn't fit. Sora's got big hair, but his head's not quite as big as some. Good thing he's not keeping it!

Dezel doesn't need to see the grin to know he did a Good Thing. He can hear it in Sora's tone. His silver eyes are still locked on a place kind of above Sora's head. Coincidentally, this makes him look at the hat.]

The wind says it's too big for you. Don't feel bad about it; it took me a while to fill the shoes, too.

[notzubats]

[There definitely is a big grin on his face. He chuckles some and takes one more moment before he takes off the hat and offers it back to him]

That's okay. I'd rather have you here filling your own shoes anyway!

[Having a friend here beat living up to any legacy or image any day in Sora's book, after all]

[sylphystia]

[Two dorks, grinning at each other. What a... sight. Dezel takes the hat, nods, and plunks it onto his hair.]

I might be here for a while. Turns out I don't have anywhere else to go.

[notzubats]

[...Well. That's concerning]

You don't?

[sylphystia]

[A little bit. But of course he's maddeningly unspecific.]

Nope. So if it's okay with you, I'll just bum around here and make cookies until someone needs me.

[notzubats]

[Yeah seriously Dezel way not to share the deets!]

Of course it's okay with me!

I gotta get home sooner or later, but until then we can stick together.