Catch-all: Taichi

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[ercnerd]

It's a talking bear. How's anyone supposed to guess what he considers noteworthy?

[goalsides]

If they would let us talk to the talking bear I bet we could guess pretty easily.

[ercnerd]

If we could talk, we wouldn't have to guess.

[goalsides]

You really think even if we talked to him he'd be straightforward and believable?

[ercnerd]

How devious can a bear be?

[goalsides]

Depends on if the bear's already evil or not. How many bears have you met before?

[ercnerd]

Enough to know that they aren't evil by nature. It'd be a different story if he were a beastman, though.

[goalsides]

Okay, what's a beastman? Like a different kind of monster?

[ercnerd]

They're people like you and me—just different. In some aspects they resemble their animal counterparts. That's the only time you'd find a talking bear in Aernas.

[goalsides]

[...those kind of sound like digimon, sieg.]

So they're like...[dontsayfurriesdontsayfurries. wait.] Kind of like Catra then? Or more animal-like?

[ercnerd]

[Maybe they are Digimon, Taichi.]

Is she a student? I haven't met her yet. Does she have different ears and a tail?

[goalsides]

Yeah, to both of those. She's around somewhere, she's in the summer dorm. Cat ears and cat tail. And cat paws? Kinda?

[ercnerd]

Sounds like they are, then.

[Does this make Catra a beastman slash furry slash Digimon? What a talent. She's so versatile.]

[goalsides]

You could always ask her yourself. [this is so much, stop.]

[ercnerd]

You're the one who asked.

Anyway, an ordinary bear is less likely to mislead us on purpose.

[goalsides]

So on a scale of one to ten how dangerous are Beastmen usually?

[ercnerd]

They're as much of a threat as we are.

Get it? What I'm saying is not that they're bad, but that people are craftier than animals.

[goalsides]

[he seems to think about something thanks to what sieghart says and suddenly there's a frown.]

Yeah. I get it. [but with that, he drops his soccer ball on the ground and kicks it ahead, walking the short distance after it.] Not a bad thing to keep in mind either.

[ercnerd]

[Hm . . . ]

Should I spot you?

[goalsides]

[oh.]

...sure, if you're up for it. I was just gonna chase after it myself.

[ercnerd]

Don't expect me to do the same. But I'll watch and kick the ball back if it comes my way.

[goalsides]

Good enough for me. [give him a second to kick the ball a little further away, proceeding to start a few warm-up drills. soccer is a good distraction, and despite the grief he just gave sieg trying to get him to play he seems content to do things by himself.

wild.]

[ercnerd]

[Ah, youth.

Sieghart, meanwhile, is more than happy to stand by and watch in the comfort of the sidelines. It's not like he has anywhere urgent to be. Watching someone else hard at work can be relaxing in its own way.]

[goalsides]

[fine by him! it's pretty obvious that he belongs here more than he does in a classroom given the way he's controlling the ball and running over the field.

but after a while he does notice sieg is still there and purposefully kicks the ball to him. you know. just to see how he responds.]

[ercnerd]

[Sieghart watches the ball, expression unwavering, as it hits his foot and rolls away. The rascal. He brings a foot back and taps the ball with just enough strength to return it—quite lazily, as it were.]