if i were yours

[floofcoaster]

Behold the wolf in his unnatural habitat, eating the foods of his people in traditional quantities, his typical companion away in the distant land of The Bathroom.

That is to say, Zeus is in Milliways with one and a half heavily topped pizzas, waiting for Harley and Andrea to come back.

Comments

[subtly_artistic]

"...Uh, are you clear that Butterfly's visitor whitelist is a whitelist and not a free-for-all for reasons?"

[hold_infinity]

"...Eh?"

[subtly_artistic]

"Butterfly is on a low-stress diet while she decompresses. She made a list of people who don't stress her out, and no Jokers are on it. Let's not relay messages just yet."

[hold_infinity]

"...I think the specifics of 'let's not relay messages' are a lot more obvious to you than to me," says Robin.

[subtly_artistic]

"Please do not attempt to serve as a relay point for anything resembling real-time conversation between Trouble and Butterfly, nor distribute detailed information about what Butterfly's up to, nor bring her news about current events since most of her world is on heavy dilation and there shouldn't be any current events that need her attention. One-off yes-or-no questions like you first came in with are fine."

[hold_infinity]

"Okay, well, if you wanna know what War has to say about your guess, ask him," she says.

[subtly_artistic]

"I may. Thank you. If Jokers want to talk to me they have all sorts of ways of doing it without interfering with Butterfly."

[instar]

Butterfly sighs.

[hold_infinity]

[instar]

"She's not keeping me in solitary or anything, I made the list," Butterfly says. "What're you looking at us like that for?"

[hold_infinity]

"I dunno, you just looked - more upset than I'd expect from somebody who just got tons of superpowers and a free vacation from all of life's problems," shrugs Robin.

[subtly_artistic]

"Pealing is pure upside, to the point where it comes with enough leeway for Butterfly to be something other than completely on and controlled and functional one hundred percent of the time. So some stuff is bubbling up."

[hold_infinity]

"Okay, that makes sense."

[instar]

"Which is good, being on all the time is exhausting, especially without magic boosts."

[hold_infinity]

"Well. Have a nice magic holiday?"

[instar]

"I am, thank you."

[hold_infinity]

"Good!"

[instar]

"Did anybody tell you you're a template? I mean, you'll have to check with Glass to be positive, but you resemble a template."

[hold_infinity]

"Who do I resemble?"

[instar]

"They're called Kingfishers, because the ones who go by Rupert and the ones who go by Ripper are embarrassed by each other and they compromised on the suborder shared by the animals they'd have as daemons."

[hold_infinity]

...Snort.

[instar]

Butterfly produces a square and spends it.

Striped kingfisher illusion.

"That'd be yours."

[hold_infinity]

"Aw, it's cute," says Robin. "Go me."

[instar]

"So it looks like I was right. And they all have Ethans too but most of them don't like them nearly as much as you like yours."

[hold_infinity]

"Really? Why not? I mean, Ethan's very... Ethan, but I still like him fine..."