revenance_rpg | I'm Climbing Up The Walls

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I'm Climbing Up The Walls - [Open]

Who: Amaterasu and anyone else!
What: Ammy's got some new Spirits, and wants to teach them some old tricks...
Where: Tram Common area in Twilight Town
When: Afternoon
Warnings: None thusfar

Amaterasu has decided to make two new Spirits as a result of her playing games at the carnival, and at least one of these she felt could help her out in another manner. However, that meant she had to give it a little training.

So, she stood with her two new Spirits -a Cyber Yog she'd named Chu, and a Necho Cat named Lucky- beside one of the tall walls stretching up the Square in the tram area. She sat down next to the wall, considered it for a moment, and then sat up so that she was placing both her front paws against the wall. She turned back just slightly towards her two Spirits, trying to remember the pose that Kabegami always stood in. Lucky tilted her head at her.

She barked back to the Necho Cat: when I ask, stand against the wall like this. Do you understand?

Lucky gave a little head roll and sauntered over to the wall. Was that all? Sure, she could do that. She sat down beside Ammy and placed her paws against the brick surface. Like this? That was easy!

Ammy nodded, and walked back towards Chu. Lucky started to follow, but Ammy barked back to her: no! Just stay that way for a moment!

Lucky looked a little sheepish, and resumed the asked position. Once Ammy had enough distance between them, she pulled up her canvas and tested out her brush. There was purple smoke coming off her brush when over Lucky...first step, good! Once she had that, she painted a line off of the Spirit and up the wall.

Lucky seemed to live up to his name, since once she resumed time, there was a telltale line of glowing paw prints up the side of the wall, starting from Lucky. Just one more test to do! Ammy ran forward, and jumped up onto the pawprint line. She gave a couple experimental jumps, and found her paws sticking to the wall, just as she'd hoped.

Still stuck halfway up the wall like a bug, she turned her head and barked down to Lucky: Yes! It's supposed to go just like this!

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He was less affronted that the dog was on the wall, and more that the dog had the nerve to give him a look of puzzlement.

"Oh, it's a regular Spirit team-up," he said as he stepped forward, looking back from Cat to dog with a frown. Something didn't seem right about this, though...

The image of a talking horse popped into his head abruptly. Not all these creatures were Dream Eaters after all, were they? But then again, the horses did talk.

...another image popped into his head, of a girl that didn't. "I am officially no longer sure where the line is any more," he mumbled.

Ammy nodded. Well, it was a team-up in that her Spirit was helping her with a brush. He still seemed a little bit perturbed at her being on the wall, so Ammy decided to just hop down and talk face to face...in as much as she could, considering she didn't talk, anyway.

She gave him a look as if to say "what line?"

Edge crouched down, holding out a hand for Ammy to sniff, as one ought to do with a large dog to make friends. "You at least look normal," he said, proving he was completely blind to her spiritual side. "Well, mostly normal. Not like those... whatever they ares, with the horns and the voices that'd be incredibly nice to listen to if they were coming from human girls..."

Ammy stepped forward and sniffed the offered hand. He smelled nice enough, like most of the people in this strange dream place. So he couldn't see her divinity, but that was about normal now.

She cocked her had at him in confusion. Yes, the Dream Eaters had odd colors and horns, but why would he want them to sound like girls?

Ammy got some friendly petting, then; probably not the strangest thing she's had to deal with here. Unfortunately, he can't sense her thoughts... "So how come a doggie gets Spirits, anyway?" Heck, he half-addressed that to the Dream Eaters. Somehow the thought that Ammy must be more than an ordinary pooch just hadn't clicked in his b rain.

Ammy was always happy to accept the pettings; those felt nice! She didn't try to answer the question, since it would be a bit difficult to explain. Chu, however, appeared indignant, bleating back and shaking out his head. Hey, he was helping guard an important diety! Why shouldn't she have Spirits?

"So same deal as any normal person?" he asked Chu, inwardly feeling idiotic. "If a chocobo showed up here, would it get Spirits?"

Chu still didn't see his issue here, and just bleated back his insistence that he was needed. If any person, human or otherwise, needed Spirits to survive here, then that's what they were here for!

Ammy cocked her head at Edge in confusion. What was a chocobo?

Edge... sadly, remained oblivious to Ammy's nonverbal cues. Maybe she should bite him.

"All right, smart guy -- what if a Dream Eater from another world showed up here personally instead of being made from figments? Would IT get Spirit companions?"

On the other hand, watching him make insane arguments in the direction of a Dream Eater is good comedy value, isn't it?

Chu shook out his head again, bleating exasperatingly. How could another Spirit come from somewhere outside the Realm of Sleep? That just didn't happen!

Ammy groaned a little...could he understand Dream Eaters, but not wolves? That seemed pretty odd. Regardless, she still wanted to see about her question. So, she went for her next nonverbal tactic: she pulled out a piece of paper, set it in front of her, and painted her confusion.

And since she was painting with her tail, it would look like the ink was suddenly forming itself right onto the page.

Hey, he had a Dream Eater companion of his own! He'd learned a couple of things about their communication and body language.

He DEFINITELY hadn't heard of dogs making punctuation appear on sheets of paper before, and it surprised him so much he nearly tripped over his own cape as he took an involuntary step backwards.

"What -- how -- Did you just -- what just happened?!"

Wow, he got quite a surprise from that. At least it had finally gotten his attention, for better or worse. She barked back to him: she was using her brush! Hmm, how to convey that...

She pulled out another sheet of paper, and painted another picture:

"So... you're a dog who can paint by magic?" Edge said, completely lacking the context that the other images she had painted had a deeper meaning. He rubbed at the back of his head awkwardly. "Are you an Eidolon, by any chance?"

He already knew the answer -- that pooch here wasn't an Eidolon any more than the ponies were -- but he had to hope just a little that maybe Ammy would fit into an understandable category.

Well, magic wasn't quite the right word for it, but in this case she guess it was close enough, so she nodded yes. To the second question, though, she shook her head no. She'd never heard of an eidolon...were those gods or sprites in his home country?

"They're never an Eidolon," Edge said wearily (and quite out-loud). "Why is it never easy..."

He took a deep breath, ran his hands down his face, and rallied. "So! Now I understand a lot more, anyway. You're a magic dog... somehow!" Ugh, was it right to pet a magic dog that was clearly sentient like an ordinary dog? Well, she hadn't bitten him. "I... guess I should introduce myself. The name's Edge!"

Okay, perhaps not. Well, she could sympathize being a long ways away from things that were familiar to her, too.

Ammy liked pets and scratches, personally. Just because she was a god didn't mean she didn't appreciate some affection. She nodded acknowledgement, pulled out another sheet of paper, and painted her name on it. Considering she only knew how to write her name in Japanese, it was another matter entirely whether Edge would be able to read it.

He looked blankly at the paper.

"Nope, you lost me," he said with a cheerful shrug. "Guess the world you come from is a pretty strange one even by the standards here! So does anyone around here speak... dog language, I guess?" Having a translator would sure be helpful...

Well, that wasn't surprising...not that many people here could read her name, or her language at all it seemed.

She nodded, but did so with a bit of a shrug. Only a couple people seemed to, and she wasn't sure if they were all here anymore. Besides, she was used to nicknames. If he wanted to call her something else, she didn't mind that much.

"Oh good, now I just need to find one. Maybe then we can actually have a proper conversation..."

How weird would that be -- talking through someone else so as to have a meeting of the minds with a big pooch. What has his life become...?

Actually he was unwilling to just nickname her randomly. For one, he had no idea if she was okay with it, and if she's intelligent, just picking one might be insulting. For another, spending time with a Caller had made him aware of the importance of names...

Again, Ammy shrugged. It seemed like they were having a conversation right now just fine, right? Or at least, they would if he would just listen a little more and not assume too much! And even then, she didn't really write so much as draw.

Anyway, she hadn't seen anyone who could read that around for awhile. She sat down and yawned, looking all around the town buildings about them.

"Soooo," Edge said, aware that he likely wasn't going to get an answer (by his standards), but curious nonetheless. "What was with the wall-climbing thing, anyway?"

Ammy barked back once again. She was training! To demonstrate, she barked again at Lucky to do the same pose as before. The Necho Cat complied, and she brought up her canvas and painted another invisible line up the wall. She jumped up onto the wall again so that her paws stuck to it, and nodded back to the Necho Cat. She was doing this with her Spirit's help!

Edge moved over to the wall, prodding at it with questing fingers, trying to figure out how that had worked anyway. "I just... is this a Spirit thing? Is this a you thing?"

Heaven help him, he's trying his best to understand something so far out of his element...

Ammy jumped back down to the ground, and retrieved the piece of paper she'd already drawn for him showing her painting the different parts of life. It was specifically a her thing, just with her Spirits' help!

Okay, so...he asked if the dog did it, and she picked up the paper. Edge tried to connect the chain of logic. Well, the paper was something she did, not her Spirit. So clearly she was trying to communicate that the wall-walking thing was also a thing she could do.

"Oh good, I was starting to wonder if someone was holding out some special tricks on me! Okay, is that YOUR special power, or do pooches where you come from all have tricks like that?"

...he really wanted to avoid "bark once for yes, twice for no" if he could help it...

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