New friends, new catastrophes

[seadevil]

Who: The crew of the Katabami
Where: At sea, Manila Island
When: After departing Isla Empieza after the battle and covering events until the end of the month
What: Catch-all log
Warnings: Foul language, excessive dumb
Style: Any
Status: Closed to crew

Itinerary
- Meet and greet for new crew
- MANLY STORIES
- Visiting Manila so our more studious crew can get their research on and your esteemed captain can piss the moths off
- THIS COLD CURSE THING

EDIT: The turkey is now officially named Lord Buffalo Toritaro Stuffington, "Twitchy" for short. Feel free to make use of this.

Comments

[thatsmycue]

[Fortunately for Ragna, Gold is flying far too high for him to overheard the grouchy reaper's mumbling. But, after a few more moments of soaring, the Togekiss does tilt into a nosedive, landing smoothly on the deck after a steep plummet]

Aaah, well, we'll just hafta hope we find land soon, huh Togetaro?

[By now, the trainer has noticed Ragna staring]

Whatcha need, Sir Grouchy of the Grumpy Table?

[rebellions]

[The man frowns at the stupid nickname (is it just him, or has it grown longer in the past few days?), but figures it's not worth bringing up for the time being. If the brat keeps coming up with shit like that, he'll just punch his lights out, big deal.]

Nothing.

[And that's quite true. He doesn't want anything to do with the kid (he's had more than enough of that back on Isla Empieza, thank you very much), though he doesn't avert his gaze from the Togekiss. Ragna is no stranger to weird creatures -- take all the monsters poisoned by seithr that he would be running into while traveling between Hierarchical Cities, Rabbit's annoying servants, or heck, even his Master -- all of those and more he's seen are probably just as odd as Gold's little pet shop. Still, he's certainly never seen a huge... flying... fluffy... is that a marshmallow? It sure looks like one.]

... 'S that one of your mascots?

[thatsmycue]

Give him more credit! He's not a mascot. He's my partner!

[Togekiss gives a disgruntled snort in response. How dare he be referred to as a lowly mascot >:(]

[rebellions]

Suit yourself.

[Which is to say that no, he doesn't care, and yes, he'll probably keep calling it a mascot anyway. Why the hell not call things what they are?

... Though he has to admit this one's cuter better than the others he's seen so far.]

At least it's less freaky than that goddamn plant.

[Let's be real here, what he's trying to say is "more cuddly".]

[thatsmycue]

Sintaro isn't freaky. If ya keep sayin' that, next time she uses Flash I won't warn you beforehand.

[It wasn't as though warning in advance had done much good last time, though]

[rebellions]

[That (pitiful, in Ragna's opinion) attempt at a threat is met with a snarl coming from the man.]

Like that helped.

[Maybe if he had told him what the warning was all about, but nooo...]

'Sides, there won't be "next time".

[Because even if he ends up fighting the Navy or whoever else again, he'd rather not have this brat getting in the way.]

[thatsmycue]

Uh huh. You don't know that.

[Flash came in handy at the most unexpected of times, after all]

[rebellions]

[Let the man dream.]

I know I'm not getting anywhere near that thing again.

[Even as he says that, though, he's not looking at Gold, but rather focusing on the Togekiss next to him. It's... awfully distracting, in a way.]

[thatsmycue]

. . .

[This doesn't go unnoticed, by either Gold or the Pokemon]

Are you starin' at Togetaro?

[rebellions]

[... SHIT. He is, isn't here. Hang on a second, he needs to come up with an excuse for that.]

You surprised? We don't get flying marshmallows back where I come from.

[Perfect.]

[thatsmycue]

Well, yeah. Starin' is kind of weird. Is he weirding you out, Togetaro?

[The Togekiss just gives Ragna the stink eye]

[rebellions]

[Wouldn't be the first animal on board to do that, actually. But sure, he can have a staring contest with a living pillow, why the hell not.



Staring...



Staaaaaariiiiiing...


Okay fuck that he can't.

Without as much as a warning or explanation, Ragna walks over to the Pokémon and

... gently pets it on the head.]

[thatsmycue]

. . .

[This action is met with silence from both Gold and Togetaro-- the latter too surprised to really move away as Ragna pats his head]

[And then eventually, Gold speaks up again, amusement obvious in his voice. . .]

Hehehe, you've got a soft side!

[rebellions]

[Ragna doesn't seem to notice that both the trainer and Pokémon are too dumbstruck to react, far too focused on feeling the fluffiness under his glove. If one looks closely, they might even notice a tiny hint of a smile forming on his lips.]

Wow, it's really soft...

[And this continues... until Gold calls him out. At which point he turns back to look at him with his usual, annoyed glare.]

The hell are you talking about? I was just... checking... if it's real.

[Which would probably sound a lot more convincing if his hand wasn't still stubbornly buried in Togetaro feathers.]

[thatsmycue]

Why wouldn't Togetaro be real?

[Yeah, he's not buying that excuse at all.]

You don't hafta hide it. There's nothin' wrong with havin' a soft spot for soft creatures.

[rebellions]

I told you, we don't have anything like that back in my world!

[Which isn't necessarily a lie. Sure, he's seen a talking, expandable red bat and a shape-shifting cat that turns into an umbrella, but this is a new one. Though it probably doesn't explain why he's still petting him.

But holy shit, he could do this all day.]