OPEN : AUGMENT MALFUNCTION

[passingthrough]

Who: Kitty Pryde and YOU!
Broadcast: Open
Action: Twin Roses & Iskaulit
When: 3/4 - 3/10ish

[ Video ]
[Kitty appears on video looking a liiiiiiittle different than the way she usually looks. The augment had some fun adjusting her. She’s not a cat, but she’s certainly got a lot of catlike features which isn’t unheard of for a mutant.

The pupils of her eyes are no longer round, but a slit. Her nails have also changed, growing to a point and hooking slightly to serve more as claws. Her fangs have extended slightly. Her ears now come to more of a point and are soft and fuzzy like the rest of her body. There’s a short layer of fur everywhere now, similar in color to her usual skin tone, but with gray tabby-like striped markings appearing over certain parts of her body like her face, legs, arms, and tail. Oh, yeah, there’s a tail too. Of course there is.]

Okay. Just get all the puns and jokes out of your systems right now.

[ Twin Roses ]
[You might spot the direwolf pup, Seeker run by with Kitty following him.] Come on, it’s still me.

[Or maybe you just run into her in the kitchen, bridge, lounge, engine room, or shuttle bay. There are only so many places to be on the ship after all and she gets cagey being all locked up during the drifting weeks when she’s at her best. Right now she’s even more restless than usual. And you know how she’ll often sit on a table or counter instead of a chair? Well, she’s still doing that, but sometimes she’s taking it even more extreme being up on the top of book shelves and various equipment.

You could also find her in her room if you’re looking for a more private moment.]

[ Iskaulit ]
[As awkward as she feels in this body, she’s not going to stop living her life because of it. That means time spent training in the gym where she very awkwardly isn’t sure what to deal with her tail. You might get to see her step on it again. It also means she’ll drop by the library to replenish her book supply and Jarvis’ for some food. A girl’s gotta eat!]

Comments

[candothat]

Far more. This, clearly, is one of the underappreciated hazards of having a name like yours.

Have the puns been merciless?

[passingthrough]

I think Anders had been waiting all his life to pun at this level. All-in-all I'd say it was a catastrophe.

[candothat]

That was terrible and you should be ashamed. [He does not mean that. Even if he did, it would just be because he's not that good at puns and is jealous.]

Do you feel more like a cat? Is there an inclination to do cat things?

[passingthrough]

Always. [She smiles at him.]

Mmm, like knocking water glasses off of tables for sport?

[candothat]

For example, if that is a cat thing. I haven't known enough kitties to guess at what they like to do.

[passingthrough]

It's a thing Laura's cat [who is kind of her cat now] does occasionally, but I haven't known that many cats personally.

[candothat]

Is this the cat that you were trying to give to me when you were drunk?

[passingthrough]

If I say yes does that mean you won't want her?

[candothat]

You weren't joking about that?

[passingthrough]

We really do have a lot of cats on the Twin Roses. I don't think Laura would mind as long as it's someone I trust, and you are. But don't take her in if you don't want to.

[candothat]

I would take her. I've thought about it before, getting a pet, but it seemed like an inadvisable thing to do when all of the ships are full of left-behind animals already.

[passingthrough]

You are wise. I never really got to the point of thinking about it before I had a room full of them. I can bring her by. Although they're all a little freaked out by me right now.

[candothat]

That's what you get for being popular and trustworthy: a room full of inherited pets that appreciate this new look even less than you do.

Are you comfortable going around like this? I can come instead.

[passingthrough]

I'm...working on at least pretending I'm comfortable? I actually feel better this way than I did in the male body. [There were certain fun things to explore with that, but those were mostly rated R and didn't translate to the general populace.] I don't mind going out.

[candothat]

You do? Even with the tail? [He can't imagine being more comfortable with a tail than he was as a woman, but to each their own!] If you're certain, then I will see you soon.

[passingthrough]

Even with the tail. Is that weird? Offensive? But yes, the meeting up. I will do the thing.

[candothat]

Not offensive or weird, no. Only different.

[Are they meeting on the Tourist? They probably should. They might run into Anders and Anders loves cats.]

[passingthrough]

I am good at different.

[She can do that. But Anders already punned so hard at her he might be on overload. But as it happens she does NOT run into Anders on his way to find Chekov.]

Meeeeow?

[candothat]

[She finds him with ease, almost as if he was waiting for her!]

This look is slightly unsettling.

...And I believe the correct pronunciation is Мяу-мяу.

[passingthrough]

That is a terrible compliment. [Smiling at him as she tries to make herself comfortable which is less comfortable with the tail.]

Only if I was a Russian cat. Clearly American from the top of my uncomfortably soft ear to the tip of my inexplicable tail.

[candothat]

I meant it in a kind way.

Ah, sorry, you are in the right. Is the actual cat American? I want to be sure to speak to her in a language that she understands.

[passingthrough]

I doubt you ever mean anything in any other kind of way.

Pavel, [She whispers as she leans forward.] there isn't an actual cat here.

[candothat]

I meant the cat that you drunkenly promised me, not you. I would like to be prepared.

[passingthrough]

[She laughs.] You know, I'm not even sure if it's a cat from Laura's home that she got by holding hands in front of a tree or found in a vending machine or something or some alien cat breed. [Those were two ways she knew of to get things from home, okay? She didn't make them weird! Take it up with the Atroma!]

[candothat]

You're being silly. No one has ever gotten a cat from a tree. [That feeling when vending machine and alien cat sound extremely plausible?]