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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Nov 11, 2021 23:15:37 GMT
Curious of what Zack meant by what he deemed weird she watched as he went into the kitchen returning with what appeared to be a wooden stirring spoon. When said spoon was offered to Marigold she began chowing down on it causing Stacy to drop her jaw in shock. Then the Fanbeemon went back to the normal food as if nothing weird had taken place.
Collecting herself as her jaw came closed, Stacy said "Damn you weren't kidding, Zack. I knew digimon had diverse diets but that was insane. I know lots of plant matter is edible but most don't eat wooden spoons. If she wasn't so relatively well behaved such eating habits could be potentially destructive so I can see why this would wig you out."
Stacy finished the second sports drink before turning back to the food and resumed eating her appetite seemingly insatiable. Another curse that came from her speedy metabolism. A random thought regarding her being able to digivolve into not just one but three speedster lines so, in a funny way, her digimon forms made more sense than her true form hyper metabolism and all.
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Post by supesman on Nov 12, 2021 14:17:29 GMT
"Well I think YOU guys are the weird ones. Eating all that gross meat and cheese and stuff. Yuck-a!" She said, making a face like a child rejecting the food set in front of her as she popped another bar into her mouth and set the wrapper to one side. She seemed to be mostly satisfied for the moment, collecting all of the plastic wrappers she had gone through into a big ball that she buzzed over to one side of the room and dropped into a big trash can.
"Yep, she's my little vegan princess~" Zack said, grinning at her and making Marigold's expression turn into a huffing pouty face that could only belong to a child being embarrassed by their parent. "I was more than a little shocked on the...discovery. When I made her first meal, just a little corn and potatoes and ground beef. She turned up her nose at the beef, munched through the spuds and corn in a few bites...and then completed the meal by making the little wooden table I was serving her on vanish before my very eyes. I have pictures if you wanna see." He said, jerking his thumb to a cabinet near the door to the kitchen.
"Daaaddd!" Marigold groaned.
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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Nov 12, 2021 22:39:31 GMT
"Well to be fair, Marigold, digimon are considered weird to humans at first. Then as humans learn how much digimon have in common with them then the weird vibe fades. If anything the Digital World itself is stranger than it's inhabitants." Stacy said as she also began picking up her own garbage before getting up, though a bit wobbly, and following Marigold to the trash can deposited her large collection of wrappers plus two sports drink bottles into the garbage can before walking back over to the couch sitting down again.
"Not all humans are omnivores, Marigold, and there is nothing wrong with disliking consuming meat products. Everyone has their own dietary preferences after all." Stacy said to the now pouty Fanbeemon. Then Zack mentioned what happened when he fed Marigold for the first time before she said "I bet the look on your face was priceless when she did that." Stacy then began to laugh at the thought of Zack's look of shock that likely happened when Marigold devoured the table.
"Now. Now. Marigold, its normal for proud parents to share pictures of their children with others even though sometimes they get carried away and become embarrassing. Believe me I know that all too well." Stacy said before looking at the cabinet before turning back to the father and daughter. "Marigold, would you feel better if he didn't show any of the potentially embarrassing pictures? You were probably a cute baby."
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Post by supesman on Nov 15, 2021 4:08:29 GMT
"...I was a really cute baby..." She said, huffing her voice and making a voice and a tone as if she was going to puff out her cheeks if she had any. The lack of any "mouth" other than her mandibles and the hole at the bottom of them really did make her expressions a weird thing to read.
"I'm taking that as a yes before she realizes what she's agreed to." He said, humming as he pulled open the drawers and pulled out at least three big binders full of photos. Which "informed" Stacy of exactly what she had gotten all of them into by giving Zack an "in" to gush about his baby. Stacy was one of the first people to MEET Zack and Marigold after they were brought together, she KNEW that it had not been nearly long enough to actually justify three full binders of that size, meaning that it confirmed what she had always suspected...Zack was down bad with first child syndrome. he was overprotective, constantly reading, constantly worried and was documenting EVERYTHING. He slapped the first of the heavy binders down on top of the table they were all sitting around and flipped it open. "This...is the first one..." he said, slipping the printed photo from it's sleeve and handing it to Stacy.
It was Marigold in a way that Stacy had never seen her. None of the normal fire and life in her eyes. A Pupumon looking out from around the edge of a half shattered digi-egg, eyes large and filled with one emotion. Fear. Drawing back the description of Marigold's past to Stacy's mind.
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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Nov 15, 2021 4:41:10 GMT
When Marigold huffed and did what appeared to be her equivalent of a pout Stacy snorted back a laugh at how cute and funny she looked. Meanwhile Zack had returned with three big binders of photos. Stacy stared in amazement at the amount of pictures he gathered in likely a short time. "Wow it seems since you met Marigold you've become a bit of a photography nut, Zack."
Then Zack opened the first binder before removing one of the photos and handing it out to Stacy who reached out gently taking hold of it in her left hand. She then lent forward a bit for a better look seeing the tiny Pupumon peeking out from her digiegg and yes she was indeed cute but the look of fear was heartwrenching to see especially more so on a newborn. Then Marigold's past came to mind. "Poor Marigold. Since she remembers her past life this is a sad thing to see on such a cute baby." Stacy said wiping a tear from her cheek before placing the photo on the table and removed her glasses to dry her eyes before putting them back on. Stacy always had a strong sense of empathy for others.
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Post by supesman on Nov 16, 2021 2:29:57 GMT
Zack's expression was very solemn when he considered the picture in full. The image still came to him sometimes, the way she was just sitting there, shivering like she was waiting for this whole new world to lash out and destroy her just like the last one had. All of the wonder and curiosity of a young child viscously beaten out of her by a life that she had been born with no control over. It was his vow that she would never be there again, not for a single moment would he allow her to stand under that cold spotlight and feel like she was all alone. Never again.
Marigold, on the other hand, looked between the two of them and banged her front limbs on the table.
"Why are you both being so weird!? Show her the funny pictures!" She said, very much like an impatient child as she made the table jingle slightly underneath her onslaught. Zack was torn out of his deeply considerate mindset and couldn't help but laugh more than a little as his mind was put through the tonal whiplash of her demands and the next slide he handed to Stacy.
"This is the one I was just talking about." He said, handing it over to her. Marigold, still as a Pupumon sitting in the middle of a small field of sawdust, a porcelain plate, the ground beef on her plate untouched as the last inches of a table leg vanished into her maw.
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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Nov 16, 2021 3:03:04 GMT
Marigold interrupted both Stacy and Zack by impatiently banging on the table. Her behavior not only made Zack laugh but Stacy did as well. Marigold apparently had no idea how adorable she was with her impatient fit. "Easy there, Marigold. I know it's hard but you need to learn to be patient." Still not perturbed by his daughter Zack brought out another picture and the image on it was enough to make Stacy burst out laughing at the sight of what was left of the table being shoved into her maw. Even as a baby it seemed Marigold had quite the appetite for someone so small. After almost toppling over from her fit of laughter Stacy struggled to regain her composure but that was a difficult struggle as she tried to imagine what Zack's face in that moment must of looked like.
When she finally got herself under control she said "All I can say to that adorable picture is that the look on your face was most likely priceless when she snacked on that table. At least there was only sawdust left so cleanup couldn't of been that bad."
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Post by supesman on Nov 16, 2021 3:28:12 GMT
"The clean up of the table and other assorted remains? No, no that only took a couple of minutes. If you're referring to the mental and emotional cleanup of the entirety of my life that she shattered and tossed to the four winds I am still in the midst of THAT clean up to this day." He said, leaning back and pressing his hands over his eyes, letting out a long sigh, trying not to let the curling grin on one side of his mouth expand outward into a gut busting laughter like Stacy had. If he lost it now, the rest of these photos coming out would probably kill him. "because honestly, I mean HONESTLY how do I react to that? How in the fresh hell is a person meant to react to seeing an entire TABLE vanish it this little monster~" He said, reaching out, curling two fingers under Marigold's chin.
"hehehe, st-stop it, stoooppp!~" She giggled out loud, whimpering and trying to pull away from his tickling fingers that darted to one side and then the other, not letting her escape the teasing gesture no matter what she tried.
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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Nov 16, 2021 3:56:59 GMT
Stacy smiled as she reflected what Zack said before she said "You have a point. In one day you became the father of a digimon who had suffered abuse in her previous life and tragically remembers it still. Yet you managed to do pretty well with her giving her the love she didn't recieve before." Thinking back again to the picture she then said "To be honest if I was in the same shoes as you. I would of been shocked too when she ate the table. Now that I think about it grasping the idea of being able to become ancient digimon like I do is something that still would of been easier for me to grasp even back when I got my digivice."
Stacy watched as Zack tickled Marigold and the little bee's seemingly futile efforts to escape Zack's efforts. "My. My. Looks like cute little Marigold is quite ticklish." Stacy said smiling at the father and daughter interaction.
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Post by supesman on Nov 16, 2021 22:50:22 GMT
"Honestly with how weird our lives have become it's sorta become standard procedure for me to stop questioning things until well after the fact. I mean let's be honest, I just charged head first into the crosshairs of a fat black bug monster that was trying to swat me like a fly, ironically..." He said, making and impossibly shit eating expression of his face as he almost seemed to pause for the groans in reaction to his own terrible pun. "And my first instinct was to charge in and slam myself onto his face, spread eagle like I was trying to hang on to the front of a moving car. if I think about that one too much in the moment anything could happen. I mean where would we be if my common sense kicked in right in the middle of me doing something borderline suicidal?" He said, giving her a much more self aware grin as he made fun of himself. he wasn't totally lacking in understanding of what he was doing, he just didn't let it bother him.
Marigold was snorting and squealing as she was on her back now, one of her father's hands roaming up and down the bottom side of her body, her spiked leg parts kicking and shivering in the air as she squeaked and sniffled, lost for words as her "weak point" was used against her.
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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Nov 17, 2021 1:50:18 GMT
Stacy chuckled before she said "Charging head on into things, yup that sounds like you all right. Not that I'm against shielding others with my body to protect them. I'm just more cautious and only rely on such a method as a last result." As if barely rattled by Zack's shit eating grin she returned one of her own before she said "Life is a funny thing sometimes. Strange how I myself adapted fairly well to being able to digivolve when I got my D-Tector last year. I think the whole digimon thing wasn't so odd to me since I was exposed to anime fairly young. At least you and Marigold look out for each other and make a good team which is important for superheroes like you and Marigold after all."
It seemed Zack's tickles were now directed at Marigold's weak spot as the little Fanbeemon was now on her back squealing with laughter her legs kicking as it seemed words were no longer possible as a result of her father's tickle attack.
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Post by supesman on Nov 17, 2021 3:09:03 GMT
"I suppose that's probably why I've taken it so much in my stride considering how short the time I've actually been a part of all this is. Can you imagine someone from like a century or more getting exposed to the digital world? Theoretically I mean. Without all the pop culture and global osmosis modern people are put under I think their heads would explode before they wrapped it around the first word of all of...this." He said, gesturing broadly to the air in front of him in order to get the idea across that he was talking about the digital world in general. he eventually pulled his hand away from the underside of Marigold's body segments, leaving her panting, legs lightly pointing at the ceiling. She rolls onto her stomach, wheezing and letting out grunting half chuckles.
"I'm...gonna get you for that...dad!" She said, panting and huffing through her words as she shook one of her legs up in the air like a cheesy supervillain cursing the hero as the credits roll. her body slumped slightly though, totally exhausted by the losing tickle fight.
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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Nov 17, 2021 3:37:28 GMT
"Makes sense as both the wiser or more accepting of the humans of that time would likely take more time to fully adapt as the most weird things they would of likely of been exposed to was the occasional book with odd themes in it. Then they would probably struggle with the fact that digimon, despite the somewhat monsterous appearance some species have, are still people too and not all the intimidating ones are out to kill others since many digimon at worst just want to be left alone." Stacy said after Zack articulated his thoughts through various hand gestures which Stacy understood as she herself sometimes communicated with her hands especially more so if words weren't getting through alone.
Meanwhile Marigold managed to roll onto her belly now recovering from her father's tickle attack and Stacy smiled at the Fanbeemon while Marigold shook her leg like a super villian. Stacy's smile turned into a mischievous smirk before she said "Perhaps your revenge could include a surprise tickle attack of your own but for it to work best it would be better to wait until he doesn't see it coming." Yes despite her kind and generous nature, Stacy had a mischievous streak most would not be aware of until it usually was too late. Her dark forms were like a living example of such as her playful mischief in those forms was dialed up to eleven.
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Post by supesman on Nov 17, 2021 17:24:34 GMT
"Dang it." Zack said, looking at Stacy as he sipped from a drink he had unscrewed from himself. His eyes shiftily darted between Marigold and Stacy, narrowing his eyes in a joking glare of suspicion and analysis like the sort of exaggerated look someone would expect out of a cartoon character looking dubious. "I should have known better than to let you hang around, Stacy, now you've got her plotting against me." He said, laughing he set his drink back down in front of them. It was good for him to have another human in the digital world that he could keep this kind of rapport with. Lord knows his feet only nominally touched the ground most of the time anyway so Stacy's very human banter with him and Marigold kept him honest and grounded.
Marigold giggled devilishly at Stacy's suggestion, flattening herself more against the ground until only her eyes peaked over the edge of the table, her eyelids closed into slits as she played at a childish version of being sneaky, shuffling back and forth, side to side behind the hiding edge of the table, trying to move out of her father's line of sight for just long enough to slip under the table, though it was clear that her boisterous giggling would keep her from actually sneaking up on anything but a deaf rock in that particular moment. Her enthusiasm was nice anyway.
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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Nov 17, 2021 23:23:07 GMT
"Who me?" Stacy asked returning Zack's suspicious look with a look of mock innocence but boy was it hard to do with a straight face knowing she likely looked pretty silly while doing it. Then when Zack laughed she couldn't hold it in for anymore and, as if Zack's laughter was contagious, began laughing as well. Fortunately she was able to calm down before a mischievous smirk appeared on her face and said "Now. Now. Zack, I figured turn about was fair play since you were tickling Marigold. Besides I always had a bit of a mischievous side long before I could become a demon spider monkey."
Upon hearing devilish giggling from Marigold she shot a quick glance to her seeing the little bee was flattening herself and trying to sneak but her giggles would make doing that difficult. Thinking it was both cute and hilarious she started to snicker. Sure it was unknown if Marigold would succeed still but who knows?
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