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Um, hey there. Ah, Ruby Rose, here. I'm new, but you probably figured that.

[Okay, she's definitely a little bit nervous. Ruby's not exactly what one would call a social butterfly - she definitely got comfortable enough with Beacon to make friends there, but that's not really relevant anymore. Once she had any downtime in Atlas, she didn't know what to do with herself. And now, THIS? Is a lot to adjust to.

She fidgets and clears her throat.] So, got a tiny question, here...

I think I kinda get the whole familiars thing, but mine is, well... it puts me in a bit of an odd place.

Basically, has anyone ever gotten anything that should be a soulless killing machine back in their world? That, I don't know, would've been born in power surrounding your world's greatest evil...? [That, back home, she has a power specifically meant to ERADICATE things like the Grimm, AKA the very form her familiar has taken.] Anything like that?

[She realizes she's being very specific here.]

Because I'll be honest, the fact my familiar isn't trying to eat me, or anyone around me, is almost more unnerving than if he was.

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Something like that. That'd be putting it a little strongly in my case, but my familiar is definitely a beast that I'd expect to take down dozens of Camelot's inhabitants in normal circumstances.

Maybe that's why they made him so small. Honestly, I feel embarrassed for him.

Come to think of it, I guess mine is smaller than I'd normally expect of their kind, but then they can come in... all sorts of sizes, to be honest.

It'd be honestly kind of funny if I couldn't connect these creatures to so many bad things.

Seems that it's a lot more common than I expected, though. Don't wanna say that makes me feel BETTER, necessarily, but it's not QUITE as disconcerting. Just a little disconcerting.

You've got me pretty curious about your familiar now. I take it it's not just the kind of thing that's a wild animal with a violent nature, but something more malicious.

Oh yeah, regular animals are one thing. If it was just a regular wolf I'd be a little nervous, but not like this.

They are DEFINITELY creatures that are more malicious. I'd say "malicious" is about all they know - the Grimm are drawn to our negative emotions. They don't really do anything but... seek us out and destroy.

And yours isn't showing any signs of that at all?

Not to grill you on it or anything, but I'm curious about this too. My familiar is a hydra. It's called D'yavol Tron, where I come from. I got to know them over the months I spent in that country, and they're nothing to be messed with. They're brutal demonic beasts. But they aren't evil. Just animals.

I thought that was intense enough without people having familiars that are actually drawn to seek out and destroy people.

No, really, my familiar just seems kinda... grumpy. Like an old man who's having to help out whether he likes it or not.

No problem with the grilling, though! I mean, I asked, right? It's only fair. Still, seems like it's not an uncommon thing around here for people to have familiars that aren't, like... The NICEST things back home. Be it evil or just dangerous.

Now it's just starting to make me more curious about what they are just in GENERAL. Or why they end up like this.

I can't help but feel a little bad for mine under the circumstances. I mean, shrunk down, not to mention stuck with me? I'm more surprised they're not all angry as hell about it. I think about that a lot.

[Huh. She hadn't really thought about her familiar's... feelings? Mentality? Not much, anyway, given what he is.] I guess I hadn't really looked at it like that. My familiar being what it is, I've been more side eyeing it...

But I guess he CAN'T be any happier about it than I am, when you put it like that.

I feel like I accidentally gave us all something to be paranoid about here. But it is something to consider.

Well, don't worry TOO much about that. I'm really not one to criticize folks about being paranoid.

[Honestly given her recent experiences, it comes natural to her now.]

I'd rather be considering it and it turn out to be nothing than not consider it and it turn out to be a problem.

Yeah, sounds familiar. It makes me a downer sometimes, but at least I'm a downer who's prepared.

Sometimes.

[It's always what you can't prepare for that gets you, though!]

If it means anything, being an optimist has bitten me in the butt a few too many times.

[But then so has taken the cynical approach on her end. Really, disaster seems to happen to her regardless.]

It's not NECESSARILY the worst quality.

It's definitely not mine. But that's another issue. Optimism's just one of those things I never got the hang of, even when I wished I could.

Anyway, you introduced yourself, but I didn't. Just in case you wanted to know, my name's Kadoc Zemlupus.

Well... it can help to have some folks around you to balance that, I guess. Both ways, whether you're optimistic OR pessimistic. Even if you wind up butting heads.

Heck, sometimes especially then.

But, oh! Well, nice to meet you, regardless!

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