Huh. Men wear shorts and women wear dresses in our ocean— but it all looks the same, it's just seaweed, it's not like... fashion like humans have, heh. All these colors and different styles and materials and stuff. It's a lot. Seems like you're an expert, though...
[ Alberto's weirdly enjoying having his measurements taken, very curious about it now. He's not developed much interest in fashion or human clothes, entirely utilitarian, but not even that, because his clothes aren't season appropriate or even well-fitted and functional... He ties his shorts up with a rope, for crying out loud. It's pretty much to just not be naked and to "blend in." Except for the fact that he only owns one pair of shoes he hardly wears. Ahem. He clearly has a lot more to learn, Jade is way ahead of him in humaning. He's making mental note of that. It's good to know someone like this, decidedly.
He lets out a little sigh unconsciously, eyes drifting up above Jade's head, not thrilled to be talking about his finances. He hates money as a general thing... ]
I don't really have the money to buy more clothes... Even here. I dunno why everything's so expensive. It's stupid. It's even stupider here cuz the money isn't even real Lire like the humans use back home; here it's all in the Everything Machine, it's imaginary! I hate it. Sea monsters don't have money where I'm from. We don't need it — we just trade, y'know, share, cuz we find everything we need in the ocean. So I still just find most my stuff, but— ugh, it's annoying...
[ By "ugh, it's annoying" he means it's annoying when he's gotten caught stealing and had to put things back. He has a very fuzzy line between "stealing" and "finding..." He's been very begrudging to let it go, as a matter of principle, because he thinks it's dumb. Stubborn child. ]
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[ Alberto's weirdly enjoying having his measurements taken, very curious about it now. He's not developed much interest in fashion or human clothes, entirely utilitarian, but not even that, because his clothes aren't season appropriate or even well-fitted and functional... He ties his shorts up with a rope, for crying out loud. It's pretty much to just not be naked and to "blend in." Except for the fact that he only owns one pair of shoes he hardly wears. Ahem. He clearly has a lot more to learn, Jade is way ahead of him in humaning. He's making mental note of that. It's good to know someone like this, decidedly.
He lets out a little sigh unconsciously, eyes drifting up above Jade's head, not thrilled to be talking about his finances. He hates money as a general thing... ]
I don't really have the money to buy more clothes... Even here. I dunno why everything's so expensive. It's stupid. It's even stupider here cuz the money isn't even real Lire like the humans use back home; here it's all in the Everything Machine, it's imaginary! I hate it. Sea monsters don't have money where I'm from. We don't need it — we just trade, y'know, share, cuz we find everything we need in the ocean. So I still just find most my stuff, but— ugh, it's annoying...
[ By "ugh, it's annoying" he means it's annoying when he's gotten caught stealing and had to put things back. He has a very fuzzy line between "stealing" and "finding..." He's been very begrudging to let it go, as a matter of principle, because he thinks it's dumb. Stubborn child. ]