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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Jan 31, 2022 23:13:31 GMT
Alucard thought on Zack's words and knew that he had a point. "Fair point, Zack. I know I've made my fair share of mistakes but if I am able to teach Poseidon well enough he may not make some of the mistakes I have." Alucard said glancing briefly at Poseidon seeing the young Gomamon laying down on the arm of the chair but not going to sleep.
"As for me, I plan on continuing your work fighting the good fight long after your gone, Dad." Poseidon said before he shrugged "Maybe one day I'll even have an apprentice of my own."
"How did that human saying go? I think it was let's not put the cart before the horse, Poseidon. You still have a lot to learn much like Marigold." Alucard said his voice calm as he began scratching between Poseidon's shoulder blades.
Looking at Marigold, Alucard grinned briefly before he said "As long as you keep looking after Zack he has a good chance of making it to old age."
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Post by supesman on Feb 1, 2022 13:52:44 GMT
"I have to second that opinion. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. I might live as long as a goldfish compared to the immortal data packets in the room but I can assure you I've got quite a lifespan ahead of me." He said, narrowing his eyes in a bit of a grumble as he heard the other discussing his own inevitable death all around him. not the sort of thing that humans liked to confront head on like that.
"Well so long as I keep watching you, he's got that right. You'd have been dead inside a week doing what you do if I wasn't there to bail your fat out of the fire every single time." She said, looking in his general direction in a stance and energy that said she would be sticking her tongue out at him if she possessed one.
"That's...only mostly true." He said, crossing his arms over his chest but unable to stop a grin from pouring over his and Marigold's face as they stared the other down, breaking down into giggling fools. "Oh me oh my, little girl, you're going to give me gray hairs before my time." he said, reaching out and rubbing the top of Marigold's head, making the bee digimon squeak and coo in response to the personal touch.
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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Feb 2, 2022 22:04:24 GMT
Poseidon flinched when Zack began to grumble and looked at his flippers guiltily before looking back up at Zack and said "If the topic of mortality upset you Zack, I can assure you I never meant it too. I'm so sorry." As the Gomamon apologized he sat up bowing his head like he saw humans do in Japan.Fortunately Marigold was able to get Zack to cheer up with both her words and antics. Alucard couldn't help sneaking a brief grin as the cheeky Fanbeemon stuck her tongue out at her father. Zack than patted her on the head causing the bee digimon to make adorable squeaking and cooing noises though Alucard himself might never of admited such out loud. He then looked down at Poseidon and grinned cheekily himself before he moved his hand along Poseidon's left side causing the Gomamon to squirm from the sudden ticklish sensation before he began laughing due to his father's tickle attack. Such playful behavior was rare from Alucard which is why it caught the youngster by surprise.
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Post by supesman on Feb 3, 2022 15:14:52 GMT
"Upset me? Poseidon I live with queen snark over here." He said, jerking his thumb to one side so that it was pointing at Marigold, who grumbled at the nickname granted, though she couldn't disagree. "I've made my peace with being the human in a world of digimon a while ago. it won't slow me down, not for one second, of that you can be one hundred percent sure." He said, giving the Gomamon a thumbs up as to not let him linger on any guilty feeling he might have about what he said. Though the sudden tickling attack seemed to take his mind of of.
"...Don't you dare...I mean it...daaaddd!" Marigold said as Zack seemed to get the same idea as Alucard, his hand slowly drifted away from the armored parts of Marigold's shell, jamming his fingers against her neck and wriggling them against the soft joint, making her instantly scream with cooing laughter, dropping to the floor with a heavy thump as her wings gave out on her all at once.
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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Feb 3, 2022 22:56:37 GMT
Zack's words made Poseidon feel better though he couldn't voice that because of Alucard's tickle attack. Poseidon squirmed while laughing as well as occasionally swatting at Alucard's hands. It was seemingly to no avail though as Alucard's fingers found their way from his ribs to his arm pits causing the Gomamon to squeal with laughter as his most ticklish spot. "Dad, s-stop. P-please s-stop....I c-can't....." Poseidon gasped out between giggles. After awhile Alucard stopped and noticed Zack had begun tickling Marigold after she said 'Don't you dare'. Only Marigold reacted by dropping to the ground as if her wings could not function while she was being tickled. Panting Poseidon then managed to say "Hey Dad. Are you and Zack sure you aren't evil?" The tone was playfully teasing causing Alucard to smirk. Then Alucard wiggled the fingers on one of his hands as he looked at Poseidon and the Gomamon said "Please no more tickling Dad. You win. Why don't you seem to be ticklish?"
"Because I plan to take that secret to my grave, Poseidon. Besides I am in hardly any shape to be tickled right now." Alucard said resting his hands in his lap.
"No fair." Poseidon pouted.,
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Post by supesman on Feb 4, 2022 14:16:41 GMT
"Pant...pant...If they're not sure they're evil then I ABSOLUTLEY am." She said, Zack letting up at around the same time that Alucard did. She wobbled slightly as she propped herself back up on the spiked ends of her legs. "Look at them, look at the cold blackness behind their eyes." Marigold said to Poseidon, drawing attention to the giggling grins that both of their fathers shared as they looked upon their children. "Chilling, Poseidon, truly chilling." She said, speaking like an over dramatic documentary film maker talking about something serious, not the two of their fathers looking like that cat who got the cream.
"See, she's just mad because she knows she can't tickle me back, exactly like Poseidon can't tickle you...though in her case it's for a bit more of a practical reason." Zack said, pointing offhandedly to her making her point upward with one of her gleaming leg spikes. Not only did she totally lack an opposable fingers but the only limbs that she DID have ended with implements that would leave any attempt at tickling more screaming than laughter.
"Stupid dad, stupid legs, stupid mumble mumble..." She said, pointing for her lack of lips which only further proved her father's point about her unfortunately inhuman bodily reality.
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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Feb 4, 2022 21:28:57 GMT
As Marigold regained her footing after being tickled by Zack, Poseidon looked between Zack and his own father seeing just what Marigold was getting at. It was odd to see such a look on his aloof father so maybe it was something about Zack. Zack seemed to have an attitude that was contagious. "Okay maybe not evil but you have a point, Marigold. Dad smiling like that is so creepy." Poseidon said before chuckling at Marigold's dramatic documentary film maker tone."Poseidon, just because I rarely show my emotions doesn't mean anything. In many ways I am still just as playful as you are." Alucard said catching Poseidon's attention causing the young Gomamon to look at his father.
"Yeah makes sense seeing as I was born from copying your data. It explains why we're more alike than most people realize." Poseidon said after thinking on what his father said. When Zack mentioned Marigold not being able to tickle him back a thought came to his mind before an evil grin spread across his face. "You sure about that, Zack? Wasn't Marigold capable of digivolving to a form that could tickle you?" Poseidon asked a mischievous glint in his eyes.
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Post by supesman on Feb 5, 2022 14:13:33 GMT
"...you son of a bi-" Zack said as Poseidon planted the idea directly in Marigold's brain. Even without lips he could see a smile spreading across the features of her face like the Grinch.
"Stingmon." She said, a flash of light and a puff of dust and she was still sitting on the floor next to her father who locked eyes with her as she very slowly and deliberately raised the grey clawed hands that this form offered her. She wasn't used to having such nice hands and now that Poseidon had planted the idea in her head...
"Marigold no, I-I'm serious, I'm your father and I'm telling you-" He was cut off by a crash that brought him toppling out of his chair, both of the heavy hands of the towering Stingmon diving right into his midsection, leaving him squealing with a cackling laughter as she pressed the tips of her powerful fingers right into the softest parts of his midsection, making him kick and scuff the heels of his boots against the hardwood flooring.
"I owe you one for the suggestion Poseidon." She said, giving him a quick thumbs up as Zack's confidence had been replaced by a guffawing laughter bouncing off every wall.
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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Feb 5, 2022 23:11:17 GMT
Poseidon's mischievous grin became one of amusement at both Zack's words and Marigold's grin. He watched as Marigold digivolved into Stingmon. She sat near her father with her claws raised her method of planned attack clear as day. Zack's attempts to stop his daughter fell on deaf ears as Marigold soon had the human toppled out of his chair with Marigold focusing her attack on his midsection. When Marigold said she owed Poseidon for his suggestion, Poseidon grinned before he said "Don't worry about it. Glad to help." The Gomamon was looking proud of himself.Alucard looked at his son noticing in that moment how much Poseidon reminded him of himself before his life was turned upside down. Thinking more Alucard realized his son was more like him than he originally thought but Poseidon still had his childlike innocence. "I guess he is just like me. How did I not notice this earlier?" Alucard muttered to himself.
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Post by supesman on Feb 6, 2022 14:20:54 GMT
The violent tickling attack went on for a few moments, leaving Zack gasping and sputtering for air, his face a bright red mask of sweat and exhaustion as he rolled onto his stomach, chin propped up against the floor. Marigold seemed quite satisfied with the pound of flesh she had extracted from her father, shrinking back down to her FanBeemon form and settling onto the tabletop in a comfortable position.
"You know I...always thought...this place was missing a...seal skin rug." Zack said, his forehead now pressed against the floor, his words mixed with muffled panting and groaning as he made the sarcastically violent suggestion in the Gomamon's direction.
"Laid out like you are now. I think you ARE the rug." She said, drawing attention to his position on his stomach, legs and arms splayed out away from his body, looking every bit the image of a classical looking animal skin rug. He mumbled something indistinct in response.
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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Feb 6, 2022 22:31:59 GMT
After a while Marigold ceased her relentless tickle attack on her father leaving the human in question gasping for air while he recovered. Marigold dedigivolved back into Fanbeemon after Zack rolled onto his stomach appearing quite satisfied with herself. When Zack muffled out the place missing a seal skin rug, Poseidon chuckled as he carefully climbed to the floor before he playfully shot a weak stream of water from his mouth soaking the human before he said "What's wrong, Zack? Can't take what you dished out to Marigold." Poseidon's tone was playful and mischievous as if he was trying to bait the hero to play along.
When Marigold mentioned Zack looked more like a rug with the way he was laid out Poseidon burst out laughing. Even Alucard looked amused though he was more controlled than his son. Poseidon only laughed harder at Zack's indistinct mumbling clearly not enjoying being compared to a rug. Finally Alucard said "Personally I never understood the appeal of animal skin rugs that some humans have."
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Post by supesman on Feb 7, 2022 14:31:33 GMT
Zack flinched ever so slightly upon the back of his head and neck being splashed with ice cold water. For the moment though he seemed to exhausted to do anything about it, he actually seemed to sigh and deflate a little upon the chilling splash, he was still sweating like a beef tomato and turning about the same color.
"I'll have you know I would never ask my daughter to do anything I wouldn't do...except maybe asking her to jump off of a twenty story building. She can fly after all and I feel like that would have a significantly worse outcome for me." He said, pointing out the physical differences between the two of them as the only real dividing line he mentally placed between the two of them, as far as he was concerned the only thing that separated her from a little girl of his own flesh and blood was her wings and lack of hands. "Honestly Alucard? We've got ook-ook monkey brains and we probably always will. if you don't understand the primal energy of having a skinned bear on the floor with the head still roaring at you then I don't think I can put it into actually logical terms." he said, fully admitting that many if not most things that humans did didn't make a whole lot of sense when you stepped back and looked at them.
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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Feb 7, 2022 23:18:56 GMT
Other than the slight flinch from Poseidon squirted at him Zack seemed too tired from Marigold's tickle session looking much like a deflated balloon which made Poseidon giggle. Poseidon rolled onto his side and said "At least she can catch you when you jump off that said building. Unfortunately humans don't fly very well."
"I guess digimon like myself will never understand human logic despite sharing many traits in common. The only primal things I understand is hunting for food to stay fed and fighting to avoid becoming a meal for someone else. You know those basic primal things." Alucard said sounding a bit tired as he began slumping a tad in the seat.
"Dad, are you okay?" Poseidon asked looking up at his father who merely silently nodded in response. Poseidon knew that pushing more would get nowhere. As much as he was concerned he wasn't going to force Alucard to crush his sense of pride.
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Post by supesman on Feb 8, 2022 14:14:28 GMT
"Oh humans can fly just fine, made an entire industry out of it and everything. it's just that we don't hit the ground so good." He said, rolling onto his stomach and looking up at the softly flickering lights. he pursed his lips with a grunt, looks like he needed to buy some lightbulbs.
"I don't think there's any logic to it at all, Alucard. i think it's just these physical-mental compunctions that humans have left over from their natural selection. Digimon evolution doesn't seem to work the same way so I don't think we have any of the same pressures still lingering on us." Marigold said. Digimon obviously did evolve but certainly not in the same way that humans or other creatures of flesh and blood did, slowly, over immense periods of time and with plenty of violent outcomes marking failures in the endless lane of experimentation and slight tweaking that was life on the planet Earth.
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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Feb 8, 2022 22:11:41 GMT
Poseidon snickered at Zack's last sentence before he rolled belly up and said "Yeah but when The devices that allow flight for humans fail one can only hope that person has a parachute. Makes me wonder why the species never got so much as gliding membranes like some other Human World mammals do."
"It was likely brought on as one of the evolutionary trade offs for a larger brain as well as opposable thumbs." Alucard said shifting a bit with a soft pained grunt that managed to escape the young Gomamon's notice.Then Alucard focused once again on Marigold and said "Yes digimon evolution is somewhat different as it appears the connection between the worlds has in many ways affected how digimon have evolved. Why else would there be so many digimon that resemble Human World animals or beings from their various mythologies."
"There is one thing that seems the same in both worlds regarding evolution and that is successful traits tend to repeat with many different species." Poseidon said his flippers resting over his stomach looking pretty comfortable.
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