video | un: wisdom

[glossophobia]

[ He probably shouldn't be making this a video, but every day is an endeavor for him to get better at public speaking, so at least it'll be worth it in the long run. Maybe. ]

I... um, h-hello.

[ Rosho's never actually spoken on the network before. It's glaringly obvious. He fidgets. Then fidgets again. ]

I wanted to ask about a problem— ah, or, not really a problem, it's just. I'm not sure what to call it.

[ For those who happen to have animal magic you can hear a faint voice in the background:

RORO! ]

S-so, normally my magic is alchemy. And, I have... death magic too. But since I teach, usually, I help with alchemy practice. At the school. Except when I went to work I couldn't use it anymore. Alchemy I mean.

[ The voice is getting a little louder and more persistent:

RORO! RORO, LISTEN LISTEN!! ]

Instead as I went to work I noticed that, that something was weird. Animals, I... I guess I can hear them now. That's animal magic, r-right?

[ RORO! RORO! RORO!

Rosho trembles, but it isn't from his anxiety this time, as something that looks like a ferret begins crawling up his shoulder. And then there's another one on the other shoulder. And now another one is crawling up the front of his sweatervest. And then there's one on his head, and all of them are making the same chittering sound to those without animal magic, but they're all speaking at once.

RORO RORO, LISTEN LISTEN! TALK TALK, FRIEND! WE FRIEND! SCARY SCARY, GO AWAY! NO SCARE!

They're now trying to climb down his arms in order to get at the communicator he's using, sensing that it's the cause of his stress. Even if the kuda-gitsune are meddlesome chatterboxes, they're still very protective of him. Too bad Rosho does not share their sentiment and honestly looks like he's going to lose his shit in seconds as he talks between grit teeth. ]

H-has anyone's, magic, just... suddenly changed like this? And...

Are all the animals I can talk to, going to be this loud and annoying...?

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[glossophobia]

[ Never get a fox talking, huh........ Rosho somehow missed that memo. ]

Japanese lore says that foxes are intended to be mischievous, so... I guess they would be noisy. I just didn't expect this guy to be that noisy. It's not even like he's a normal fox. My familiar, it's an animal called a kudagitsune. They're so small that they can hide in bamboo pipes.

For a little thing, he's got a huge annoying voice.

[dottedline]

Perhaps so you know where he is and won't step on him?

[If Azul were anyone else, he'd make a comment about how that's typical for tiny things, like his classmates and small children.]

[glossophobia]

I wouldn't do anything like that.

[ Even if its been tempting... ]

It's really clingy, otherwise it climbs all over stuff. Sometimes it walks otherwise it floats.

[dottedline]

Then maybe he's just happy that you can understand him now?

[glossophobia]

Ah... do all kinds of animals feel this way?

[dottedline]

I'd assume so, yeah. Most animals in my world have spoken to at least one human or whatever, so it's only the children that get that excited.

[glossophobia]

Animals can talk to people naturally in your world?

[ He's so used to his own reality at home, with this place being the exception, that sometimes he forgets to think about what things must be like for other people from other worlds. Usually he mostly meets other humans from regular versions of "Earth" similar to his own. ]

[dottedline]

If the people learn animal languages, yes. They're unfortunately incapable of learning human languages, so it falls on us to learn theirs.

[glossophobia]

I guess that makes sense...? [ He honestly has no idea. ]

I know people have theories and assumptions on how animals communicate to each other but I never would've thought they'd have a whole language of their own, let alone one you could learn.

[dottedline]

Maybe that's unique to Twisted Wonderland, but I can't imagine a place where no one speaks Cat or whatever.

[glossophobia]

I'm, assuming Twisted Wonderland is the name of where you're from...

[ The hell kind of a name is that?? ]

[dottedline]

[That is a question everyone asked when it was made canon.]

The Coral Sea, technically, but that is part of Twisted Wonderland.