Open September Log

[monochromatically]

Who; Mono & Anyone
What; Mono found a new friend!
Where; The Park
When; Early September
Warnings; None
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A boy and his… moth? - OTA

When it came to days where he wasn’t working or practising with his abilities, Mono found that he really enjoyed the park. Sometimes he enjoyed to sitting by the pond and watching frogs or sharing bread with the local ducks that gathered nearby. If he was lucky and wandering the paths, he might meet someone who had a pet with them and they’d be okay with him giving them some friendly pets or give them a treat. Pets were always something of a curiosity for the boy. He’d met so many in the last few years! They were all so different. Different kinds, different personalities... It was always neat to meet a new one and see what people liked to keep them company.

Occasionally he wondered what it would be like to have a fuzzy friend himself, especially with Nida and Ignis’s pets or meeting Rhy’s bunnies… But he was always a bit afraid of if he'd be a good pet-parent or not, considering the responsibility and how crushing it might be if the creature he got attached to suddenly decided it disliked him...

Fate was a funny thing, though, and the universe sometimes liked to throw a surprise or two at you. For Mono, one crossed his path on one of the days he spent wandering around the park. The boy was walking around a bush when he was greeted by a large fluffy, fluttering moth creature with big curious eyes and a playful demeanour. It made Mono stop short for a moment with a little start of surprise. “Wow... You’re so fluffy, and big, and cute!!” The child murmured in awe at its soft white appearance, tilting his head one way and another as the oversized moth mimicked his head’s movement in midair playfully. “You remind me a little of something I saw in my world, but less sad! Where’d you come from…?” And then, a little more cautiously. “You’re friendly, right?”

The creature had no answer beyond a slight, quiet squeak. Mono considered the not-quite-answer carefully, before he decided that it was safe enough. It was just so cute, and it seemed really excited to see him! It had to be nice, right? So he reached out carefully, just to test the waters a little. With a couple of gentle pats to the soft, fluffy thorax behind its head, he found it fluttering closer to flutter around his head. “H-hey that tickles!” He giggled a little as it brushed by a cheek, and he shook his head. Yup, definitely friendly! So, he guessed that meant he made a new friend, right? A friend he didn’t know the name of, but still a friend!

Now begged the question, what did you do with a giant moth friend…? Admittedly, Mono wasn’t sure. He doubted they were like the animals he learned about here. Tilting his head curiously, he addressed his friend with a curious little chirp. “Do you like to play? Or do you wanna go for a walk? I know people take their fuzzy creatures for walks sometimes or play at the park.” He tapped his chin. “Except Mr. Rhy’s bunnies, I think they just explore their hutch. But I don’t think you would like that, ‘cause you can fly and all and your wings are so big.”

The creature, if given words, would probably agree with that. She’s much too big and fluttery for small spaces. Mono also couldn’t forget how sad the confined ones had been in his world. So... Decision made! “Okay, let’s go explore the rest of the park! Maybe we can find stuff you like or find snacks. I wonder what you eat...” He mused to himself, as he started walking and his new friend fluttered along in the air next to him, offering the odd friendly squeaking sound in return to the boy’s musings.

Probably made for an interesting sight to anyone nearby who happened to see the two playing around the park. Either playing an odd game of hide and seek or climbing trees and enjoying the view and a little rest while puzzling over what to do about snacks.

(Well, one of them climbed. The other was fluttering around to find a branch to land on to keep an eye on the other.)

Comments

[legacy_blade]

Oh yeah, it's definitely weird. Zack sees the little kid moving around with a little thing chasing him. Was it dangerous? That was something should probably figure out.

"Hey kid!" Zack says, calling out toward him. Maybe if he was lucky he be able to get the kid away from danger!

[monochromatically]

Mono was enjoying a weird little game of tag that was made more interesting than usual since the moth could fly. It was a lot of fun, and he was enjoying having someone around to play with and not having to worry about keeping up a conversation outside the odd word or signal.

The boy stopped short, though, when he heard an adult calling for his attention. “Huh?” The moth took this moment to score another point in their game by landing lightly on his head and looking like a funny, fluffy hat. “Aw nuts…!” He mumbled, sounding disappointed; he had been doing so good! “Guess you win this one.” He commented with a tiny glance up, before fixing his eyes on Zack curiously.

The boy didn’t know Zack, and he hadn’t been following new people around as much as he used to… But he could at least hear the guy out to see what he wanted, even if he had made him lose the game. “What is it, mister?” He asked, studying the guy skeptically.

[legacy_blade]

"Are you okay?" he says, coming closer. Slowly. With his hands cautiously out. He's ready to scare the moth off if he needs to.

[monochromatically]

Okay? Why was the guy asking him that? “Um… Yeah?” The guy seemed to be moving pretty slowly, and maybe with an ounce of caution. Weird… Or not so weird, he guessed, considering that’s how you had to approach most things where he’s from. So maybe this guy was from a similar world? Or maybe Mono unsettled him. The boy had been waiting for that to happen. He knew he wasn’t the most normal looking kid around here, but everyone was nice enough to just accept that, mostly.

“Are you okay?” He asked in return with a slight tilt of his head, the moth’s wings fluttering lightly to maintain balance before the boy straightened.

[legacy_blade]

"I'm fine," he says, keeping his voice soft. "But there's an animal chasing you. And if you need saved from it, I can do that. I'm a hero."

And more importantly, he's worried. Doesn't the kid know that random wild animals could be tainted monsters that want to eat you?

[monochromatically]

“Huh?” There was an animal chasing him…? He didn’t even know! There was just him and his new giant moth friend playing. Had he somehow missed something dangerous? Was he getting careless, living in a place so different from his own world? The boy turned to look around, trying to see what the man was talking about, and finding that he didn’t see anything at all.

The moth is still on his head. Its feelers wiggled a little in Zack’s direction, observing him carefully from its comfortable perch.

“I don’t see any animals around, except maybe a squirrel by the trees over there.” He said finally, looking back at the apparent hero again. It was not connecting at all that Zack meant the moth. Because giant moths were normal where he came from, and compared to everything else there… They didn’t seem dangerous at all. The boy viewed them on the same level as Nomes. He hadn’t ever gotten to know one properly before now, on account of all the actual dangerous things, but so far he was quite pleased to find he’d been right.

[legacy_blade]

"There's one on your head," he says, frowning. How does the kid not know it? "It just must be super light. I think it's going to bite you."

And that's going to be a problem, right? Super right. Zack needs to save him.

[monochromatically]

OH! This finally clued in to what Zack was getting at!

… Even if it was still kinda confusing to Mono that he seemed worried in the first place. “Wait, you mean the moth? Moths are just bugs, and she’s the nice kind. She won’t bite, unless you’re a leaf. She’s been munching on those between games. Oh, and kinda my coat once… but I just found her more leaves then.” He babbled a bit in his quiet voice, giving the guy a clumsy half smile.

Had the guy just never seen a moth before? Wait… Right, moths weren’t that big here normally. “I think she’s from my world, moths in my world are super big. ‘cause everything is super big aside from kids like me.”

[legacy_blade]

"It's a monstrously sized moth!" Zack said. Come on, she's so HUGE! That's not natural.

"Bugs that size in my world want to hurt things. And people."

[orangewayfinder]

Terra was on his way home from work. He'd been steadily getting the house set up and it had taken awhile. but he knew winter was going to be here so he wanted to have a nice warm home to come back to every day. So he had worked and worked on it with every spare moment he had.

The races at the Coliseum seemed to be slowing down, and he had to cut a lot of time out there so that his home could be finished. When he started working at the carpentry place, he never thought he'd end up taking on his friend Jacob's work, but he had and had learned quite a bit.

Hearing someone talking, Terra's head came up. He spotted Mono climbing a tree and saw that there was something flying near his head. His steps quickened in case something was wrong, but whatever this was keeping the boy company seemed to mean no harm.

Keeping a small distance, he folded his arms across his chest with a smile. "Looks like you found a new friend."

[monochromatically]

By the time Terra approached, Mono was sitting comfortably on a sturdy branch. His feet kicking slightly in the air and looking pretty pleased with the afternoon’s events. He’d been having a lot of fun with his new friend, and it had been a new and rather joyful experience that he hadn’t been afforded much in his life. The creature fluttered down to land on the branch next to him, wings settling to fold against its back and feelers wiggling a bit.

At the voice, they both looked down and the one who could speak spoke up! “Oh, hey Terra! Yeah, isn’t she cute?? I just met her, but she’s really nice and good at playing tag!”

[orangewayfinder]

Terra had to smile because this was something Ven would do. He was always going around making new friends and playing with people. Sometimes he envied the boy's ability to befriend people, but it made Ven happy and that was all he could ever ask for, considering everything else that had happened and had gone wrong.

Blue eyes peered at the new friend Mono had made briefly before returning to rest on the young boy. "She is cute. And you said you just met her today?"

[monochromatically]

“Yup!” the boy confirmed as he reached out to gently pat the fluff behind the moth’s head. “She reminds me of the ones in my world.” He added with a little curious tilt of his head. He’d always liked the moths. They weren’t dangerous, nor did they seem like anything bad. The ones he’d found kept in that room had looked so sad, and he’d always kind of wanted to go back… But he never got to.

So meeting his new friend today felt kinda special!

[orangewayfinder]

Terra was half surprised the fuzzy one allowed the pat, but that was totally fine since it did. "Oh, you have things like this in your world?" It was always interesting to him to find something out like that.

He then turned his gaze to the creature who seemed content if that could be said of them. But as long as the boy was happy and he did seem that way, Terra wasn't going to say anything.

"Glad you found a new friend here."

Because that was important.

[monochromatically]

“Yup!” He confirmed with a little nod from the tree. “Most stuff is bigger than things are here.” So giant moths were abnormal here, but hardly anything strange where Mono was from. The only thing of note was their temperament seemed very calm and gentle compared to most things, and that was why he’d had an easier time trusting the creature despite its large size. They seemed like as easy a target for trouble as he and the other kids were.

“Me too. It’s kinda nice to have someone to hang out with.” He responded with a little nod. He liked his adult friends too, of course! But this was a little different, and it was nice to have a quiet companion. Someone he didn’t have to feel weird about talking to about some things that he wasn’t sure how to explain to adults who were used to very different places.

[orangewayfinder]

Terra couldn't help but smile at the boy, who seemed pretty enthralled with his new winged companion. Not that it was a bad thing by any means. Friends were hard to come by, unless someone's name was either Sora or Ventus. Putting his hands on his hips, Terra had to smile.

"The wings remind me of a pixie I met once. But..her wings weren't that big of course." He was of course referring to Tinkerbell, but he didn't mention her by name. Once he'd freed her of that cage the captain was holding her in, she kicked the man in the face. And then that crocodile showed up with that odd ticking sound.

Looking back at Mono now, he nodded and folded his arms across his chest. "Friends are good for things like that. Hopefully everyone here can find a good friend."

And it made him miss Ven and Aqua at that thought.

[monochromatically]

Mono perked up at the mention of pixies. Harry had mentioned them to him a little while back when the Nomes from his world were running around. They weren’t something found in his world as far as the boy could tell, so it was interesting to hear about things from other places. “Most stuffs really big where I’m from, so that makes sense.” Legs kicking back and forth idly, the boy reached over to pat the moth’s fluffy body. “What was your pixie friend like?” Mono wondered if it was ‘all bark’ like Harry had said, or if it was nicer sounding than that.

The comment gets a small nod. “Yeah, good friends who know how to be friends.” Because there were, unfortunately, people in the boy’s experience who didn’t seem to know what friendship was supposed to be. Six had meant the world to him, and then she’d left… Here was different, though. He wanted here to be different, even if he was a bit wearier of people outside the few who’d proven to care about him. “Do you got any friends here yet?”

[bufus]

Mitsuru hadn't really expected to run into anyone on her way to work today. Then again she hadn't really expected to take a detour into the park. She found herself with a bit of free time on her hands though and she'd meant to spend a bit more time trying to relax. The last thing she expected to see when she came by was Mono climbing up a tree followed by some sort of creature fluttering about.

"Mono?!" She called out as she moved over to where he was. "Careful! There seems to be some sort of creature coming towards you!" As if he hadn't already noticed the thing.

[monochromatically]

Mono was just pulling himself up to the next branch when he heard a rather panicked sounding warning directed at him. The boy looked over his shoulder carefully, but all he saw was the moth and Mitsuru below moving towards the tree.

So, he was slightly confused by the warning… but answering while he was still dangling from a branch was kind of silly, so he finished pulling himself up to sit more securely before he called down to his friend. The moth fluttered around a bit before lighting on the branch next to his side and wiggling its feelers in Mitsuru’s direction. “Hey Mitsuru! I didn’t see anything bad. Do you mean the moth?”

Because he did at least understand at this point in the day that the moth was kind of bigger than people were used to.

[bufus]

Did she mean the moth...? She blinked at how innocently and bluntly he'd said that. She blinked even more as she watched the creature land on the branch as if it weren't some sort of monster. It was enough to make her wonder if perhaps she was somehow mistaken about what this creature was.

"This is definitely not like any moth I've seen before..." she narrowed her eyes from him to it. "Is it...yours then?" She sounded rather perplexed about the very idea that it could be his somehow. If it was, where did he get it? Or better yet, where had it come from? Was it harmless...?

[monochromatically]

Mono waited for her to answer, legs kicking lightly as they dangled off the branch and his hand reaching out to pat the fluffy moth next to him. He was mindful of the feelers, because they seemed kind of important. Especially as it wiggled them in Mitsuru’s direction and tried to decide what it thought of her.

When she did finally respond, he tilted his head slightly at her narrowed gaze with a slightly curious look. “Thought so.” He responded bluntly, but innocently. “A few people said that today, but they’re pretty normal in my world. But not in the bad way things are normal in my world, they’re nice!” He continued a moment later when he realized he should probably say more.

“I dunno if she’s mine. She just showed up earlier while I was playing. But she can stay with me if she wants to, ‘cause she’s nice and good at playing tag.” The boy responded to the question, unsure if he could say the creature he just met was specifically his. But he’d been thinking a lot about pets lately, considering the ones the adults he lived with had and the other pets he’d met…

[bufus]

Mitsuru for her part kept a very keen eye on the strange creature. There was a hint of judgement in her expression as she watched it, clearly trying to figure out what to make of this thing. She blinked a few times at Mono's admission that the creatures were normal in his own world.

"Are they? What are they called?" What sort of species was it exactly? Not that she entirely expected he'd know the answer to that. It seemed like his world held as many mysteries as this one.

"How strange...I wonder where she came from."

[monochromatically]

Mono blinked at the question, and unfortunately for Mitsuru, the kid doesn’t really know the ‘species’ or anything like that. To him? It was just…. “Moths?” Which wasn’t going to clear up much of anything, unfortunately. The inquiring mind used to a scientistic study approach was going to find the other’s answer more than a little lacking.

The comment gets a little shrug. “Right? Never saw her around before today.” He looked down at the moth, still returning Mitsuru’s looks of judgement with its own mothy version, the antenna still wiggling a bit. “Maybe it’s like the nomes from my story, and just kinda here ‘cause I mentioned them to a few people before?” Only… Mono hoped not, the nomes disappeared at the end of last month and that had been a kind of sad. He didn’t want to see another new friend go.

[bufus]

"They're....unique moths." There was a slight hesitation on the word moth, as if she didn't quite believe this was a moth. If it was it was certainly no ordinary moth. However, she got the distinct impression that she wasn't going to get much more information out of him in terms of what these things actually were.

"That's possible...I suppose we'll have to wait to see if it disappears at any point. If not then..." she tapped her chin thoughtfully. "I'd be very curious to know where it came from. "

[monochromatically]

Mono got the idea as she continued that he probably hadn’t answered the question quite as well as she would have liked by her tone… But that was normal, the boy had noticed a lot of the time he couldn’t quite explain things in a way that adults expected or needed him to. He did his best, but without knowing more himself or being sure of how to explain it well…? It made it kind of hard. Given the way his world was, finding answers from adults who might know was kind of impossible from what he could tell.

The boy nodded though, “Yeah I guess so… Kinda hope she doesn’t though, be nice if she could stay.” And he hoped she’d want to stay with him. He was still hesitant to assume she would, and the boy certainly didn’t want to try to force the moth to stay with him. That would just be mean, after all. “You would?” He wondered if it really mattered where the moth came from, though, as long as she wanted to stick around. It seemed to matter to Mitsuru, though, so maybe it was important. “I guess if it’s not like the stories, then maybe someone brought it here from my world some other way. Like the guy with the shop, Raimon?” Mono supposed he had talked to him while carrying messages about moths once or twice, and he was good at bringing stuff from other worlds.