USER #030066

[passio]

Hello, everyone. It's Dextera.

I've recently come into the possession of a potion that allows me to speak with animals. It's limited in both quantity and effective time, but with everyone coming in recently, I've noticed that there are a lot of new animals running around the town. If anyone has very strong feelings about learning the emotions of their animal companions, please let me know. I'm willing to use the last of the potion to ask.

Additionally, it seems that the thoughts of the creatures in the forest are as distorted as their bodies. I could understand them, but I couldn't "understand" them. I did learn that the geese are very angry. For those of us who have been investigating the forest, I thought this would be of interest.

Thank you for your time.

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[photoshooter]

you can talk to animals??? THAT'S SO COOL!!

my friends managed to bring some chocobos here and i'd love to know what they think!!!! only if you don't need it for more important things though. i can already tell they're super happy and well taken care of. ♪(๑ᴖ◡ᴖ๑)♪

[passio]

[ chocobos... this guy must be one of noctis' friends, and that's very exciting. ]

Don't worry. I've already spoken to the Chocobos.

They really like it here, because there are so many people to meet.

[photoshooter]

that

is

AMAZING!!!!

i'm so happy for them!! we gotta take them out for walks all the time so they can meet more people!!!!! aaaaaaahhhh that's so cool thank you so much!!!

[passio]

It’s not a problem. Spot and I are good friends.

You must know Noctis.

[photoshooter]

lmao! yeah he's just my best friend in the world, no big. i guess you must know him too, huh? well, i'm prompto!! (*˙︶˙*)☆*° it's nice to meet you, any friend of noct's is a friend of mine.

& more importantly any friend of spot's must be pretty cool~!! 三⊂( っ⌒◡|

[passio]

We live together. I think I've heard him mention you a few times, but I'm sure if you come over enough, we'll get to know each other like that.

I suppose you didn't bring a Chocobo of your own.

[photoshooter]

[...]

dude are we messaging each other from different rooms of the same house??

also sorry no i didn't have one with me when i came here (*´；ェ；`*) i'm the only one without a chocobuddy of my own................

[passio]

[ ... ]

Are we? Are you in the house right now?

[photoshooter]

ya

should i poke my head out the door? of noct's room i mean.

[passio]

Please do.

[ and then dextera is checking out of his room at the same time, listening for the sound of a door opening—he's alone today, no guren in sight, so he's not too worried about letting anyone see what he's up to. ]

[photoshooter]

[And there's the telltale creak and Prompto himself, literally poking his head out the door like he's still too shy to actually step into the hall.]

Hello?

[passio]

[ dextera waves with two hands, which is a surprisingly cheerful gesture for someone who isn't smiling. he looks a little nervous, actually, and if it weren't for the fact that he's clearly out here and trying to get prompto's attention, it might look like he's trying to shoo prompto away!!

but it's really just that he can't speak. hello, new friend! ]

[photoshooter]

[Oh! Prompto comes out and waves back.]

Dextera? Hi! Um, this is Prompto. Obviously. Nice to meet you in person!

[passio]

[ dextera nods his head in an automatic greeting, and then it takes him a moment, but his soon hands move in an answer where his voice would be—luckily, whatever magic over the town enables them all to understand each other vocally, it works with a sign language, too. ciao! ]

Nice to meet you, too.

[ and now, he does smile, albeit awkwardly. ]

[photoshooter]

[Oh. Prompto blinks, mostly because he's not sure how he understood that, but tilts his head to one side--birdlike himself--and smiles more encouragingly. Nothing like someone else's social anxiety to put your own at ease.]

Sorry for not checking in to introduce myself before. I just get kinda shy sometimes, you know? And it's been a pretty overwhelming few days. You really seem like a cool guy, though!

[passio]

[ dextera doesn't know that he seems like a "cool guy," exactly, but he's grateful for the compliment anyway. he exhales, softly, and he seems to be relaxing somewhat himself. ]

I'm shy too. [ and quiet. his sign language isn't perfect yet, but it's enough to try this: ] Prompto, stay?

[ what he means to ask is if prompto is living here permanently. ]

[photoshooter]

I mean... sure? I'm not going anywhere, dude.

[...]

Oh! You mean, am I gonna stay here? Uh, yeah, haha, I don't know. Probably?

[He runs his hand down the back of his neck, sheepish.]

It's kinda crowded in there with the chocobos and all, but the house with my laptop is full of girls, so I'd feel pretty weird staying there.

[passio]

...heh!

[ it feels like such a mild thing to be worried about, amidst everything else, that the house he's been designated is full of girls—but dextera might have been hesitant, too, if he were paired up with more than just estelle. he gestures around them, and then to a different room, off somewhere else. ]

One girl. E-S-T-E-L-L-E.

[ joshua was here first, technically, but estelle is apparently a package deal. ]

[photoshooter]

Heh, well, one girl is okay! I just... if I stay here, I've got a place with Noct and Ig--Tellus. Totally different from just me staying by myself with girls I don't know.

[Or even staying with other people he doesn't know.]

And Estelle's really nice. She ran into me in Flavo before I knew the guys were here. I think I can handle living in the same place as her.

[passio]

[ props to him for sticking with ignis' fake name, even though basically the whole town is more than aware that his name is ignis thanks to a certain loud-mouthed prince. dextera doesn't seem to react to prompto's slip, since he knows well enough that "tellus" and "ignis" are one in the same. ]

With Noctis? [ he has a whole special sign for noctis' name—an "N," held against the face like the sign for "sleeping." ] Share a room?

[ that's the part he's blinking at—the idea that prompto and ignis and noctis might all pile in a place together. it's not a modesty thing—just personal space! he's got room in his area, although it's unlikely that any of those chocobros will want to stay there. ]

[photoshooter]

[He laughs, delighted by that particular rendition of Noct's name, and nods.]

As long as they'll have me, yeah. We're pretty used to tight quarters.

[More importantly, he picks up his hands as if to mimic what Dextera was doing, but he's not familiar enough to have caught it.]

How'd you do that, what was the sign for Noct's name?

[passio]

...?

[ dextera looks at his hand, like he’s surprised that he did anything of note, but he’s really just surprised that prompto noticed it. it’s nice, to feel heard.

so he repeats the gesture, this time breaking it apart. ]

N. [ two fingers, held together and pointed down. ] Sleep.

[ he lays his hand against his face, like someone miming a pillow, but that really just is the sign for sleeping. then he puts them together, replacing his flat hand with the pointed fingers instead, and that makes— ]

Noctis.

[photoshooter]

N. [He says it aloud as he copies the movement, trying to fix the meaning in his head.] Sleep. Noctis.

[It's simple enough. He checks Dextera's expression to see if he got it right, then grins.]

So fitting, dude. You know, once I drove his dad's car off the road and he didn't even wake up in the back? I could've crashed and killed us all!

[passio]

...!

[ the alarm is apparent! there's so much to unpack in prompto's light, conversational comment, and dextera mostly just seems shocked that noctis' sleepiness would go that far. he does take one hell of a nap, though. ]

Are you OK?

[ are any of them really okay ]

[photoshooter]

Haha! Don't worry, it was a long time ago, man. And I didn't actually hit anything. Though then--then Telly took the wheel after that. Guess he was kind of annoyed with me.

[He will remember! Tellus Argentum, Tellus Argentum, Tellus Argentum.]

But it was for a puppy so he wasn't that mad. He's an understanding guy, Telly.