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avalononline2021-08-13 09:21 pm
themogget) wrote in avalononline2021-08-13 09:21 pm
video; un: mogget
[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.]
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.]
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[Mogget sighs, closing his eyes for a few seconds.]
Very well. I will keep an eye out for your friend. Is he as prone to dramatics as you are?
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[Not always, but often. Mogget himself is often drawn to people of opposing personality to his own.]
If he isn't here now, there's a possibility that he might show up later.
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[ Hopeful. Optimistic. Unrealistic. But a bubble the child clearly does not want popped. ]
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[Mogget does not, at this time, attempt to break said bubble.]
It's possible. I've seen it happen before. [Something else to consider - that perhaps for some, one person from a world being present increases the likelihood that others will follow.]
If I see him, I'll send him in your direction.
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[If it's forgotten, he won't take it too personally. But he may also not give it again.]
And you're welcome.
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[ It's admittedly a bit of a funny-sounding name to him. But he's scarcely heard any names that weren't popular with Italian sea monsters, after all. He mostly repeats it for memory and emphasis, though, as another thought strikes him. ]
If you're already going to look for Luca, um— if you meet this huge human guy... Massimo... Let me know if you run into him, too, okay? He's probably the biggest human ever, bushy mustache, dark hair, kinda scary, really quiet... Only one arm... Oh, uh— and a white cat with a black arm and a black mustache, too. They kinda match. Machiavelli. I'm looking for them, too.
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I'm not a detective service.
[But then he sighs.]
But, fine. If I see any of these friends of yours I'll let you know.
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Okay, well— who’re you looking for? I’m sure you’ve got people from home like that, right? So I can can keep an eye out, too.
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[Mogget doesn't have friends. At least, he doesn't have friends here and he isn't going to get his hopes up in thinking anyone he happened to like from the previous world he occupied might show up.]
A girl called Sabriel might ask for me if she ever appears, but I don't care to know if she's here.
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[ He raises a brow curiously, frowning incredulously. ]
If you meet a jerk named Ercole, same story — I doubt he'll be asking about me, but, uh... Stay clear, just cuz, y'know— he's a jerk.
[ That is to say, he's not dangerous. Just aggravating. ]
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[As if that explains everything. It doesn't look like he's going to volunteer further information on that count in any case.
Sorry Alberto, Mogget is just like this.]
And I have no fear of bad personalities. [Given that Mogget, too, has something of a terrible personality and Alberto would eventually identify him as a jerk if he hasn't already.]
I doubt that anyone of real note from my world would come here, but if they do, I'll make sure to give a warning.
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[ His tone is mocking, but there is clear suspicion, skepticism, and apprehension on Alberto's face. Nevermind whatever an Abhorsen is. Alberto doesn't know the word "abhor." He can't even use context clues. Must be a not-cat thing. ]
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There aren't many, but certainly a handful of individuals who might give me pause should they come here. Even without their power they would be formidable.
[Orannis. Chlorr. Kerrigor. To name but a few.]
But it's nothing you need to concern yourself with at the present time.
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[ His voice is drenched in skepticism, glancing to the side, but his face turns to a perplexed scowl as a thought occurs to him. ]
Are you, like— some kind of super-cat? Not-cat, whatever. Did you have magic powers even back home?
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[He's not about to get into the details of his powers or the state of them at his current point in time, and given he has no reason yet to expect that his full capabilities will ever be returned to him he's still somewhat bitter about the whole thing.]
I am not a cat. This is simply a form I have been bound into.
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[ Okay, so, Alberto had said that he didn't have questions when they first started talking, but now they're chatting, and he does have nosy questions, he lied... ]
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I still have another form. I have many. But right now, I'm bound to this one.
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[ Alberto cocks a brow, noting that discomfort. So while that doesn't stop him from prying, he offers some info about himself in exchange, at least, unprompted though it is. ]
...My other "form" works here. I mean. I guess you could call it that. It's still just my body, y'know — that's just how it works, I guess... But I can still make the Change in this place.
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[As an aesthetic shape alone it would be pointless, so it's likely he wouldn't use it even if he could.]
I have also been bound in this shape for a very long time. Whatever translates our innate power into Avalon's magic may have recognised that.
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[ Alberto's imagining him like... the consistency of a ghost or something. Oof.
But he sure as hell wants to tell Luca about this. That's no question. ]
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[Mogget is cagey about his origins for a multitude of reasons, few of which actually matter here, but he remains so simply as a habit deeply ingrained over many thousands of years.
His true form would be very destructive here, if he were also allowed access to his power. As a matter of aesthetics only there's no use in it at all except a bit of showing off.
Not that Mogget ever really objects to a bit of showing off.]
In the simplest terms, yes, I am a being of conscious magic.
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[He isn't sure why he's being so open with this boy. Even though he may still be coming across as cagey and secretive, he's still told Alberto more than he usually affords anyone.
Maybe it's because he reminds him a little of Roxas.]
As I am bound in this shape thus too are most of my powers bound. Not that it matters here, since I'd be constrained either way.