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

[prontissimo]

What kinda world d'you come from if you need to give a warning if anyone arrives...?

[ 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. ]

[themogget]

[Mogget blinks once, slowly.]

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.

[prontissimo]

Uhhh, oookay...

[ 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?

[themogget]

In a way.

[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.

[prontissimo]

Oh. So you had another form before a not-cat?

[ 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... ]

[themogget]

[Mogget shifts, not answering immediately. If anything he looks... vaguely uncomfortable for just a moment.]

I still have another form. I have many. But right now, I'm bound to this one.

[prontissimo]

Huh. Okay. Cuz you're here...?

[ 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.

[themogget]

My true form is composed of Free Magic. I expect I can't use it here for that reason.

[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.

[prontissimo]

Whoa, so you're made of magic? A magic talking not-cat?

[ 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. ]

[themogget]

In a manner of speaking.

[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.

[prontissimo]

Man... How come all the other monsters and stuff are made of magic, eh. I met a kid who told me monsters in their world of made of magic, too. Sea monsters are just— y'know— normal. The only special thing we can do is make the Change on land... But even fish can do stuff like that! You got like magic not-cat super powers or something? I mean, apart from the magic super powers here— back home, y'know.

[themogget]

Yes, and no.

[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.