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nexus_sages2015-11-22 06:23 pm
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There's weird and then there's WEIRD.
There's a dog in the Nexus.
It's small, a breed of toy poodle by the looks of it, and is nosing around various garbage bins, sometimes overturning them to paw through the contents. It looks pretty lean and is probably hungry!
One might be tempted to approach it and check it for tags or offer some scraps. Right up until it turns around and you get a look at its face. Its clearly human, likely middle-aged man's face. Y I K E S. It's even wearing glasses.
Still, the thing acts as skittish and furtive as any stray dog would. And there's no denying that it's clearly malnourished, going on how thin it looks. After another bin is tipped over and yields no edibles, it looks towards the forum with trepidation. He won't compromise his presumed safety of staying near an alleyway in the event he needs a quick escape, but asks:
"Does anyone have any food?"
It's small, a breed of toy poodle by the looks of it, and is nosing around various garbage bins, sometimes overturning them to paw through the contents. It looks pretty lean and is probably hungry!
One might be tempted to approach it and check it for tags or offer some scraps. Right up until it turns around and you get a look at its face. Its clearly human, likely middle-aged man's face. Y I K E S. It's even wearing glasses.
Still, the thing acts as skittish and furtive as any stray dog would. And there's no denying that it's clearly malnourished, going on how thin it looks. After another bin is tipped over and yields no edibles, it looks towards the forum with trepidation. He won't compromise his presumed safety of staying near an alleyway in the event he needs a quick escape, but asks:
"Does anyone have any food?"
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"Do you... want, uh... a fork?" Okay, asking that is when things start to feel weird. Can he even use a for? This little dude has paws, but he's got a man's face. A sad, unfortunate man's face, but a man's face all the same.
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Said yokai sneaks closer one slow step at a time, looking furtively between Harrowheart and the pie. When he's about in reach of the food...he nabs it in his teeth and scampers away with it to hide behind that overturned garbage bin. Two bites are scarfed hastily (no paws required) before the dog-man-creature peeks towards the pale guy again. The plan had been to just grab, run, munch, then run some more with the assumption the human would be hot on his trail.
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"I'm not gonna hurt you, little buddy," he says quietly, careful not to make too much eye contact. He doesn't want to scare this gross little thing off, for better or worse. "I'm here to be your friend!"
And for his next trick he gets down on his knees and pats the ground with his hands in excited little slaps. He moves his
forepawshands side to side like a playful dog while he smiles at the yokai. He's good! He's good and he wants fun! It doesn't occur to him that this is going to be a terribly embarrassing thing to do if this monster is more man than animal, but when has that ever stopped Harrowheart?no subject
"You're not scared?" Most humans by now would be hollering, throwing things or taking pictures with their phones. That last one is the worst, because that means he has to find another district to move to. Supernatural-hunting nerds are the pits.
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"I'm not scared. I'm like you. I got a human face, but I got a dog's body. Sometimes. Not right now."
He shifts so that he's laying on his side with one arm propping up his head and the other on his hip. Being on the dirty ground is a Cool and Good Thing.
"So what's your name? What world do you come from?"
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"You DO smell sorta like a dog." And skunk weed or something. Smoke and plants. But still! Dog! "I'm, uh. I'm Manjimutt. I don't know what you mean by world? I come from the Yokai World. But I live mainly in the human world." It's more familiar.
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"And yeah! Dog body! When I want. When I'm here in the Nexus, I use my human body. The hands are more convenient. I can bake pies with 'em. Did... Did you like the pie? Tell me if it's good? If you like it, I could always make more! Or... If you don't... I could try harder next time?"
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"And yeah, the pie was great." He paws at the now-empty tin, his little dog claws rattling against it. "You did a good job, don't worry about it." Manjimutt 's the opposite of sorry that he ate the whole thing.
What an amazing icon
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This probably means he has to explain where he came from. A hind leg kicks at one ear nervously for a few moments. "I used to be a human, but there was an accident. A car accident. And I turned into what I am now. Apparently, that happens when someone dies on the road like that. Like I said: rules."
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"So if there's rules for what makes a yokai, then... Do you exist for a reason? Sometimes spirits on my world have business they have to finish before they move on. Is that what a yokai is like? Or is this the new you, forever, and it's just another way to be?"