video; un: mogget

[themogget]

[There is a cat on the screen. A white cat wearing a red collar sporting a small silver bell and a green, tear-drop shaped pendant. He looks at the communication device for several moments with a pair of sharp, vivid green eyes.

Then the cat speaks.]

Ah, good, it's working.

[The cat's voice sounds... more or less as you might expect a cat to sound. He doesn't have a human voice, but rather the various sounds a feline might make are twisted around into entirely coherent words. He shifts in place, adjusting the position of his small white paws.]

I thought it best to get this out of the way as quickly as possible, having no wish to spend another year explaining that I am not someone's familiar. [His ears flick back momentarily.]

Nor am I a human choosing to look like this, or a simple housecat. Do not treat me as such. [The talking part probably gave that last bit away, but he's met a lot of stupid people. Mogget pauses here, and lets out a quiet sigh.

He ends the communication there, though one might hear a mutter of '--don't know why I bother' just before it shuts off.]

Comments

audio; un: langa

[langa]

So if you're not a familiar, a house cat, or a human... what are you?

[themogget]

[Ah, audio, is it. Mm. That's fine. He responds in kind.]

What I am is irrelevant. You need only know what I'm not. You can call me Mogget, if you have a need to have a name to call me by.

[langa]

Oh. Alright, then.

[ no reason to argue, just whatever ]

Alright, Mogget. I'm guessing a lot have already made this mistake for you, then?

video; if Mogget is Aef-CRAU he is welcome to recognize her! she won't know him though

[omnicrafter]

You are choosing to look like that, human or not, I hope. As opposed to being forced to be a cat. Beyond that, I suppose it doesn't matter.

You could do worse, for sure.

[themogget]

[He blinks once, and slowly.]

I'm no more choosing to look like this than you are choosing to look as you do.

[omnicrafter]

Really? Were you trapped in that form before you got here? Or is it just the magic of this place preventing you from changing it?

voice; un: manslayer

[hitokiri]

Y'know every cat says it ain't just a cat.

[ he's maybe been talking to some of the local population. ]

[themogget]

A cat is a still cat, regardless of what it might wish to elevate itself to.

[He doesn't sound either moved or impressed by the assertion.]

That they have inflated egos doesn't make what they say the truth.

[hitokiri]

No kiddin'.

Point bein' how do I know this ain't the same thing.

video; un: hpotter

[phoenixwiz]

It’s not everyday that I get to hear normal looking cats talk: I never came across one before in my world.

So I was wondering: how you got into your current form if I’m crazy enough to ask?

[themogget]

[Mogget stares for a few moments, silent and unblinking.]

That's really none of your business, is it.

[phoenixwiz]

Um, okay then. Is there anything else that we can talk about? Like what kind of magic you did get upon arriving here. Mine is kinetic and elemental.

video; un: nyakira

[fooligans]

It would be funny if your familiar was a cat, though.

[ At least he seems to have acknowledged that Mogget isn't a cat fairly easily. ]

[themogget]

Hm. I can't say much for your sense of humour.

[Absolutely not. But at least he isn't having the 'but you look like a cat' argument.]

sorry for the late tag 🙇

[fooligans]

I'm afraid you're not the first one.

[ He's getting that once in a while. Or rather, quite often. ]

So what is your familiar like, then? If it's not a secret.

video;

[reloves]

[ .. A talking white cat.

That sure is familiar to Minako of all people, and for a moment her heart almost jumps when she sees the video - only to realise that the way this cat speaks is entirely different from Artemis', not to mention the lack of the crescent moon on its forehead.

It's too bad, but it still leaves Minako's heart soft and longing enough to respond. ]

I don't think it's a bad announcement to make, considering some people here.. But not everyone is from places that lack talking cats, you know.

[themogget]

Were you looking for some kind of accolade for having seen a talking cat before?

[He was with her right up until she said that, at which point he might have rolled his eyes if he could. Mogget isn't giving out any prizes for people who aren't surprised he's a cat who can speak.]

Or maybe I should have said nothing, because a handful of people here have already seen talking cats. I'm sure that's not what you're trying to say, and you actually have a point to make.

video; un: kingjj

[kingfuckboy]

You are really cute, though. What is your familiar?

[ he will call him cute forever, not sorry ]

[themogget]

[He lets the 'cute' comment slide, if only because... well, he's been called cute before, and he knows people find cats cute. Mogget does, in fact, often use this to his advantage.]

A gore crow. I expect we will be spending as little time together as possible.

Video | un: pikohammerhero

[pricklybloom]

[ Amy takes a moment to study the image of the cat, to make sure she can recognize him in case she ever sees him face-to-face. ] Okay, noted!

[ Really, she's seen weirder things. ]

What's your name?

[themogget]

[This is an acceptable response. Far more acceptable than the people trying to be clever, or the ones who simply can't seem to grasp that he exists.

Better to do it all at once, he thinks, rather than dealing with it for the next twelve months.]

You can call me Mogget.

video: un - starblazing

[letmewin]

Hi again, Mr. Mogget! It's real nice to see you again.

Uhm... is a house cat what it sounds like it is...? Do they just live at home?

( Look... it was super uncommon for someone to keep pets in the Underground. )

[themogget]

Cats, in my experience, are usually kept as pets. In the homes of humans, or at least fed and sheltered there.

[He doesn't dismiss what Asriel says outright, as he can at least be patient enough to realise that this curious creature has vastly different experience to most people he knows of.]

And they do not talk.

video; un: signorvespa

[prontissimo]

Sooo... if you're not a cat, and you're not a human that made some kind of weird Change... then are you another type of creature, one that just so happens to look exactly like a cat — but can talk? Or what?

[ Inquiring minds want to know. And yes, he was nosy enough to skim through some of the other comments, so he's coming at this from another angle. ]

[themogget]

Yes.

[And that's... well, that sounds like all Alberto is going to get out of him with regards to that subject, because while Mogget doesn't necessarily need to be cagey about his past and origins with the freedoms afforded to him outside of the Old Kingdom, he still most definitely is.]

Any further questions?