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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Nov 23, 2021 1:33:38 GMT
"Yes we do-gooders can be obnoxious but without people like us both worlds would likely be ruined by those with ill intent." Stacy said with a grin after Zack laughed. "I try to be a good person despite how hard it can be sometimes. What can I say? I am my mother's daughter. That and I guess the forces of evil should be lucky I am generally benevolent even when I tap into my dark side." Stacy said as her grin transformed into a mischievous smirk.
"Yes, Marigold, protecting both worlds is a team effort even if everyone has different ways of going about things. While I agree with some of the views of AEGIS regarding them trying to take care of the bigger picture. I help out the little guy while not at headquarters so I guess I'm quite busy." Stacy said before then continuing "Man I know age brings wisdom but I feel old compared to some people that go to the Digital World. The reason I think I can even keep up with the younger tamers, spirit wielders, and xros generals at all is because I can digivolve."
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Post by supesman on Nov 23, 2021 2:45:46 GMT
"Xros general. Those people spook me. In a good way but holy god damn do they spook me. Like I said, I have enough of my hands full with this little...THING sitting in my lap." he said, gesturing down to Marigold heavily like he was gesturing to a massive mess someone had spilled all over his pants. Marigold, in on it as always, placed her legs under her chin and batted her little eyelids, giving the most sugar sweet and overplayed innocent look she could muster. "Like, how on earth is someone meant to take care of, much less wrangle like three, five, ten or more digimon that they're personally responsible for!?" he said, balking at the idea of the whole thing in the first place.
"I feel like I should have something to say about that. being a bee and evidently coming from a big, buzzing hive and everything but I have no idea either. I mean, I know me, I'm pretty good friends with me. Having like thirty of me running around mashing and mixing together with each other would turn into an apocalypse scenario really, REALLY fast." She said, blinking off into the middle distence at her little moment of self recognition
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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Nov 23, 2021 3:20:57 GMT
"And I thought I had it rough hunting for spirits to keep my hide alive. Let's face it as a human I know I'm a physically weak slow moving target with poor stamina and it's been that way since I was a kid. Now that I think about it, you as a Xros General wrangling an army of digimon like Marigold sounds scarier than the concept of a Xros General itself." Stacy said with a chuckle at the thought of Zack doing his heroic work while managing an army.
Then when Marigold mentioned the concept of multiple versions of her meshing together Stacy snickered at the thought despite it being potentially disastrous like Marigold said. "All I know is the Digital World chooses its destined ones for a reason even if it never really makes sense to the one chosen. I myself still don't get the reason I was chosen but still understand why my brothers would be chosen. Funnily enough all three of us are Spirit Wielders to boot."
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Post by supesman on Nov 23, 2021 18:36:27 GMT
Zack's face changes, taking on a focused look of thought out into the middle distance as she brought up the idea of him leading a whole army of other digimon. Giving the state of his extracurricular activity he could only imagine a bunch of digimon being led by himself, triumphant music blaring as they soared over the rise to fight some nebulous bad guy. Marigold jarred the fantastical thought out of his head by smacking him upside the back of his skull.
"Stacy, you gotta learn to know better than giving him ideas. I mean seriously, this is my father we're talking about. Explaining in no uncertain terms why something would be a disaster just makes him want to try it." She says, snuggling up against his lap again with a grunt, as if mentally placing a possessive marker on him in relation to any phantom horde of digimon that might want to take him for themselves. She was his one and only daughter and that would be the way it would stay.
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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Nov 24, 2021 0:33:33 GMT
When Zack's face changed into a look that suggested he was considering something potentially disasterous Stacy knew instantly that she done goofed.She facepalmed and let out a sigh at her oopsie which was more confirmed by Marigold's words causing the spirit wielder to look down at the Fanbeemon in Zack's lap and how possessive she was being towards her father at the mere thought of having to share which made Stacy snicker.
After thinking about what she would say, with a roguish grin plastered on her face, then said "Now. Now. Marigold, didn't the possibility of your father having other children enter your head. If he did have more children he would still love you all the same. I should know as I had to share my mother with two younger brothers before she died when I was eighteen. Makes me wonder how she would of handled the whole digimon thing now that I think about it. To be honest she would of been the first relative I would of told since I don't like my father all that well."
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Post by supesman on Nov 24, 2021 3:21:44 GMT
Marigold's expression becomes instantly stricken, giving Stacy a death glare as she inches further and further up her father's torso, wrapping more of her legs around him and gripping tighter until Zack's own face began to look more than a little strained, making some red begin to flush to his cheeks as his superhuman daughter wrapped herself around him with the intention of keeping him all to herself even from the purely intellectual concept of having to share him with someone or anyone.
"No." She said, speaking the words in a comically succinct monotone as she continued to squeeze her father around the center of his mass like she was trying to pop his head off. He reached one hand up, tapping on her shoulder and making her look at him.
"Not that I don't appreciate the cuddling, pumpkin. But I really need to breathe." He says in a wheezing, strained tone before Marigold with a little, embarrassed squeak relaxed her grip, prompting a hard, breathy gasp to come from the home made superhero, doubling over at the waist as he sucked in air.
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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Nov 24, 2021 4:34:20 GMT
Marigold's reaction was as cute as it was comical as Stacy struggled to maintain a straight face at the Fanbeemon's actions. She watched as Marigold began to possessively hug her father a bit too hard only to be corrected for that. "Looks like the thought of sharing you with anyone at this point is something Marigold is not yet ready for, Zack. I don't know if that is a normal thing for a first child as I don't have any of my own even at my age and it's mind blowing now that I think about it. Here I am a grown woman who can pass for a twenty five year old at most but in reality I am about old enough to theoretically be your mother, Zack. I'm glad I age well but it took me years to stop looking like a teenager and I still get the occasional double takes when asked to show my ID. It's like the person checking is having their brain short circuiting." Stacy said when she was finally able to speak without bursting out laughing again.
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Post by supesman on Nov 24, 2021 17:31:15 GMT
Zack's hand reached down at Marigold again settled in his lap, smiling as he worked his hand over the top of his head and down her back. That seemed to settle her some, a little huff escaping from her mouth as she let her eyes shut, resting herself a small amount.
"It's hard to blame her. Considering what she's been through she's not exactly a standard first child. Honestly being a little possessive is probably the most healthy outlet that anyone could hope for her to have." He said, looking down at his girl, Stacy able to watch as a soft expression took over his face. All that he wanted was to be right there, with her, in that moment. "As for children of your own well, that's a decision that only you can make. I mean, Marigold sorta literally just fell into my lap. I wasn't prepared for anything, I'm still not but I'm glad things have turned out the way they have. It's...it's a lot. And if it's what you want I can confidently say that it's the best and worst thing that can ever happen to you."
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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Nov 25, 2021 1:18:25 GMT
Stacy chuckled as she looked down at Marigold before looking back up at Zack and said "Fair enough. Makes me wonder how either of us would of handled life if we underwent what she did in her early life. At least with you she has family that loves her and is also making friends. That is a huge improvement compared to what her life was in the beginning."
"To be honest many parents who plan for children aren't fully prepared and do their best to adapt with what knowledge they have. Maybe I should adopt a little digimon of my own to raise since, at least I know how to handle digimon at some level. A biological is not very likely for me since I am old enough to be your mother, Zack, and that is if I had a kid in my late teens." Stacy said and in the last few words she chuckled again. Yes she was indeed still single at almost forty but she still had a relatively happy life despite that.
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Post by supesman on Nov 26, 2021 16:49:31 GMT
"Now THAT is a hard question. I only am who I am, naivete and all because I grew up loved and cared for, never wanting for much of anything. My only hope is that I can impart some of that onto her now that she's got me." he said, running his hands along the back of Marigold's head. The usually high strung little insect digimon settled deep into his lap, letting out a yawn as her blinking got slower and heavier with each opening of her eyelids.
"Oh don't be so hard on yourself, Stacy. You barely look twenty five, and that's on an off day for you. I'm sure there are plenty of folks your own age who would be tripping over themselves to leave you a bundle of roses or something equally romantic. i don't know, as you can imagine I'm not super expirienced in that sort of thing." He said, shrugging his shoulders. Possible dating had gotten tossed down his list of priorities at the best of times and that was before he ended up a single father.
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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Nov 27, 2021 0:46:33 GMT
"I guess naiveté is one thing in that regard we share in common as I had pretty good childhood despite not always having a lot of money. At least one trait I picked up from my mother other than a kind and generous spirit is the ability to budget even without many coupons handy. Comes in handy when you don't have much money leftover after paying bills." Stacy said looking down at Marigold before she said "At least you are able to give Marigold what she needs most to be happy which is more than her mother did for her."
Stacy chuckled as she looked back up at Zack before she said "Yes I have done quite my fair share of dating only to find a bunch of less than desirable choices in many of them. I have seen some good looking guys with all the charm of rotting meat. Not only that they were idiotic misgynists to match. Man my luck in dating has been more miss than hit to be honest."
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Post by supesman on Nov 27, 2021 4:22:38 GMT
"I don't have a mother." Marigold said, speaking without opening her eyes, still totally settled in her father's lap. That was how perfectly inarguable the point was to her. It didn't take much for her to explain it either. "I have someone who gave birth to me and I have a father. Calling that monster a mother is giving her much more credit than she did ever or could ever deserve." She said, settling back into her restful silent. Zack placed his hand on the top of her head, giving Stacy a shrug and an expression that basically communicated "you can't really argue with her on that front, I suppose" before he actually spoke in reply.
"Wow, really? Yikes that's...I mean that's idiocy on two separate levels. One because being sexist is stupid on the face of it and two because anyone who knows you at all and also possesses double digit braincells would know that talking that way to a woman like you is a really good way to, at best, get tossed face first out of a third story window." he said, laughing a slightly dark and sarcastic laugh.
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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Nov 27, 2021 4:44:40 GMT
"You're right, Marigold. Just because she contributed her data into making you doesn't make a monster like that your mother. Family is far deeper than that and if she would abandon babies to die then she shouldn't of had any in the first place. Sounds like one of the few things she did right was creating you so you and your father could eventually meet." Stacy said to Marigold's statement after seeing the expression on Zack's face before responding with an expression that clearly said 'You got that right.'
Stacy chuckled before she said "One particular date of mine basically did himself in the moment he opened his mouth to speak. Talking to me like I was some kind of imbecile and that date didn't last ten minutes. Basically I got up thinking one word and it was 'done'. Then I left the restaurant. The only reason I didn't clobber him was that it would of been a waste of my time and he had wasted enough. That and he wasn't worth getting arrested for. Boy the fit he threw as I walked out the door was priceless though. I was out the door in just enough time to get the last bus home."
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Post by supesman on Nov 27, 2021 14:52:16 GMT
"...I can't argue with you there. Dad says you should always try and find the positives even after bad things happen." She said, letting out a sigh, still not opening her eyes to speak as she simply rested herself in her father's hold.
"I don't want the things that bad guys do to define the way she thinks." He said, explaining to Stacy why he would have that particular folksy truism in his arsenal even if it was only one of dozens that he seemed to have imprinted onto Marigold even at this early point in her young life. "As for that date. Wow, I mean just WOW. I could at least appreciate why a date was talking to ME like an idiot, because we all know I am one but Christ on a bike I'm not sure how dense one man can be." He said, actively considering that and deciding that he was actually depressingly familiar with how dense one man can be, especially when dealing with a woman. He sighed and shook the thought off before continuing. "If I EVER found out that a guy had talked to a friend of mine like that...well, we can all be thankful that you're probably not going to share with me where this slimy lowlife lives, can't we?"
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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Nov 28, 2021 0:00:50 GMT
"Those are wise words, Marigold. Even though finding the positives is not always easy." Stacy said with a smile surprised such wisdom came from Marigold. Was this taught by Zack or even Zack's mom? Who knew but the father and daughter themselves?
"Zack you may be a bit of an idiot in battle but at least your heart is in the right place. I have personally come across humans and digimon that were far stupider. As for how dense men can be when it comes to women, who knows? Sometimes it is a result of how they were raised and others seem intimidated by intelligent women and end up making fools of themselves with their senseless posturing." Stacy said before hearing Zack sigh. "What's wrong, Zack? You seemed lost in thought for a minute." Stacy asked as she shifted her body weight. "As for that guy, that was years ago so I don't know or particularly care where he slinked off to when I left."
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