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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Mar 22, 2022 12:47:26 GMT
Blackjack looked surprised to hear from Zack that he agreed with him about humans being weird. "You have a good point. No one knows humans better than humans. Maybe Harmony and I should check out the Human World so we can learn more about them in their natural environment as it were." Blackjack said happy that Zack wasn't offended even if the Cardmon was confused at first.
"In their natural habitat.." Harmony started to snicker before she said "Blackjack, now you sound like some host of a wildlife program."
Blackjack blinked stupidly for a second at the comparison before getting it and began to laugh as well before he said "Fair enough, Sis, you have a point."
Harmony then turned her attention to Marigold and said "What I like about digimon fashion is it is more straightforward than human fashion in many ways though there will be the occasional variation in a digimon's choice of fashion much like your scarf, Marigold. Kinda like how some Agumon wear leather bands and others don't as another example."
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Post by supesman on Mar 23, 2022 14:12:49 GMT
"Most humans can't get away with only wearing a scarf for...environmental and cultural reasons." Zack said, trying to avoid being unnecessarily vulgar about it. Most digimon didn't seem to understand the more...natural parts of being human that most humans preferred to keep to themselves, especially in public.
"Most of the time a human gets arrested for walking around naked." Marigold said, making Zack smack his face with the flat of his palm, sighing. He had tried to dance around the issue but leave it to his beloved daughter to blunder head first into the point he was trying to leave the pair to get to themselves. "What? That's what you meant, wasn't it?" She said, looking down at him and throwing up her front limbs like a child who didn't understand what they had gotten in trouble for.
"Yes, Marigold that is what I meant but generally there are more polite ways to go about it in mixed company." He said, using two fingers on either hand to rub his temples on either side of his head, looking at her with an unimpressed look.
"See what he means? Most humans don't like talking about that stuff." She said, still carrying on as if Zack hadn't said anything, making him throw his head back with a groan, rubbing his face in frustration, which of course only made Marigold's grin wider.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Mar 23, 2022 22:41:33 GMT
While Zack struggled to explain what he was saying in regards to, let's say human issues, leave it to Marigold having taking over. Both Blackjack and Harmony began laughing at Zack's reaction of facepalming. Apparently Marigold was not the type to dance around even with what humans would call delicate subjects
Deciding to add fuel to the proverbial fire for poor Zack, Blackjack said "Oh Harmony and I are well aware of the silly reasons for the nudity taboo humans have. That and that there are some parts humans have that digimon don't given our nature as genderless beings."
Both Blackjack and Harmony began snickering at Zack regarding his reaction to his daughter. Harmony was definitely enjoying watching Marigold and Blackjack stir things up for the human. "Marigold, this is just another reason digimon think humans are weird." Blackjack said returning Marigold's wide grin with a roguish grin of his own while Zack was groaning and rubbing his face.
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Post by supesman on Mar 24, 2022 13:57:59 GMT
"I could have sworn I raised you to be polite." Zack said with a sarcastic grumble turned in Marigold's direction. The insect digimon put on an innocent looking face, looking to all the world the image of the perfect little angel.
"Impolite? Who me? Never." Marigold said before catching a look at her father's expression and breaking, unable to hold up the cherub act at his glare, rolling backward and barking her laughter into the air, holding her stomach as he rolled his eyes.
"Momma, I tried, really I did. But she's turned into her father and there's nothing I can do about it." Zack said, clasping his hands together and looking up into the sky as if sending up a silent prayer even though he was speaking out loud.
"Your mother is NOT dead, we just talked to her this morning. She reminded you to wash your underwear." Marigold said, pulling the proverbial rug out from his gesture and making him again spin to glare at her, blush beginning to soak into his cheeks deeply.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Mar 24, 2022 22:30:18 GMT
Blackjack grinned at both Zack's sarcastic grumble directed towards his daughter, Marigold, followed by the Fanbeemon responding with an innocent face. The angel act made Blackjack snicker and as he was about to say something, Harmony cut in as she sternly said "Blackjack, don't you dare add any fuel to this fire."
Blackjack grinned before copying Marigold's angelic expression while struggling to maintain a straight face before he said "Oh Harmony you wound me. I thought you knew me better than that."
"I do know you and that's why I know you aren't a perfect angel." Harmony said her stern glare fading as her brother began snickering again.
Marigold keeping up her innocent cherub act before she broke also caused Blackjack to burst out laughing as well somehow remaining aloft as he shook from the force of his laughing. Harmony couldn't help but smile at Zack's reaction as he looked as if he was sending a prayer but Marigold had to pull the proverbial rug it seemed when she not only reminded her father that his mother was still alive but also reminded him to wash his underwear. That was it for Harmony as she then joined her twin brother howling with laughter not noticing the human's blush or the laughter may have been worse.
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Post by supesman on Mar 25, 2022 14:39:05 GMT
"Alright little lady, if that's the game you want to play this afternoon. You're right, my mother is alive. So...if you don't start acting a whole lot more polite, I'm telling Grammie." Zack said, referring to his own mother in her role as Marigold's grandmother, placing his cheek in his hand as he looked into her eyes as she froze solid in an instant, a twinkling grin spreading across his face.
"H-hey, w-woah there...there's no need to be hasty right?" Marigold said, breaking out into an almost instant sweat as her father drummed his fingers against the table in front of them.
"I dunno, you've been pretty naughty lately. She might have to reconsider sending her next care package." He said, his grin growing wider as he knew that he had her, hook, line and sinker. Part of it was a joke between the two of them, part of it was that Marigold really, REALLY wanted the fresh honey and maple syrup that her grandmother set her every moth or so in a big basket full of other goodies.
"W-well you know guys, washing your underwear is important. It was good of her to remind him to do it, after all." She said backpedaling so hard on her own joke that the pair of gamblers could almost hear the screeching of tires from how hard she was switching gears mid-stream.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Mar 25, 2022 20:10:12 GMT
"Uh oh! Marigold's in trouble!" Blackjack said in a sing song tone much like a child watching one of their siblings being punished which only made Harmony laugh harder.
When Harmony recovered she used one invisible hand to wipe tears that had been forming in her eyes from all the laughing she had been doing before she said "Wow. Zack is resorting to thinking of tattling on his daughter. I find that in and of itself even funnier."
Zack's words seemed to have an instant effect as Marigold had begun sweating. Apparently this grandmother of Marigold's had quiet a lot of pull which made the twins wonder just what was so special about that care package that using it as part of his threat seemed to make the young Fanbeemon backpedal with her words.
"I don't know, Marigold. Your father seemed pretty embarrassed when you mentioned his mom reminding him to wash his underwear. Do parents just make a regular habit of messing with their kids like that?" Harmony said curious seeing that, as far as she and Blackjack knew, they had no parents. This meant such knowledge was almost unknown to the pair of Cardmon.
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Post by supesman on Mar 26, 2022 13:39:06 GMT
"It's a tradition in humanity as far back as we can trace. My mother embarrasses me in front of my kid, her mother embarrassed her in front of her kids and if it should work out this way, someday I'll embarrass Marigold in front of her own kids." Zack teased, poking Marigold on her softer underbelly, making her giggle and squeak slightly as she waved off his hand.
"Dad says its because parents will always see their kids as kids, at least partially...and also because they know all of your secrets and can't resist using them sometimes." Marigold grumbled, knowing the sorts of things that her father knew, the memories he had, the photos he had taken and it made her puff up slightly as he looked on with total innocence.
"The amount of stories I will be able to tell at her hypothetical wedding. Well let's just say that I'm going to give any potential bride, groom or otherwise a lot of things to hold onto, you know?" He said to the pair listening. He wasn't sure how much, if anything, they knew about weddings in the human tradition. The toasts and the roasts and the endless stories being told to cackling crowds becoming slowly more drunk well into the night.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Mar 26, 2022 19:42:34 GMT
"And I'm willing to bet such a tradition works both ways." Blackjack said with a smirk before he continued "Just as parents get a kick out of messing with their kids I'm sure Marigold gets back at you many times, Zack."
"It makes sense for parents to always see their kids that way seeing as they raised them. So as a result this tradition likely came to be because both parent and child know what embarrasses the other and can't seem to help taking advantage of such knowledge." Harmony said noticing her brother's smirk and new it was Blackjack just being himself.
"Well digimon do have weddings but I don't know how similar they are to human weddings. One thing I am sure of is depending on the region of the Digital World wedding traditions can be very different." Blackjack said as the topic changed to that of weddings.
It was then a thought came through Harmony's mind that caused her to shudder. While she could imagine Blackjack potentially marrying the thought that made her shudder was the concept of her twin one day being a dad. Not that he would necessarily be a bad father but the thought of a mini Blackjack running around made her hope any such offspring took more after the other potential parent. As much as she loved her brother he was a handful in multiple ways.
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Post by supesman on Mar 27, 2022 13:48:33 GMT
"Let's not be overly hasty alright. He hasn't even finished school back in the human world, let alone gotten enough of his head in the right order to go looking for someone like that." Marigold said, trying to keep her jovial spirit about the conversation even if she couldn't fully keep the jealous huff out of her voice. It was obvious that she didn't exactly relish the idea of her father dating, falling in love and getting married. It had always just been the two of them, partners in everything the world could throw at them and Marigold didn't seem awfully fond of the idea of a third wheel stealing her father's attention.
"No matter what happens, I always know who my number on gal is." Zack reassured her, leaning down and kissing the top of her head. As far as he was concerned, potential romance was never going to come between them. Before he was anything else to anyONE else he was her father, first and foremost. That always came first in his list of priorities and that was never going to change for as long as he was still kicking. "Besides, she's got a point. I don't even have my own two feet under me as far as my education, my career, my own income. Let's just say any potential romantic adventures are being kept in my back pocket for a while yet." He said, smiling. In truth he wasn't actually looking for that kind of relationship so, save for the storybook outcome of it falling in his lap, he was more than content for the time being.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Mar 27, 2022 21:44:50 GMT
Blackjack noticed Harmony's shudder and looked at his twin in curiosity before he asked "Are you okay, Harmony? I saw you shudder."
Well crap. Looks like Blackjack caught on and with him being just as stubborn as her, Harmony knew he wouldn't let her go but boy she was bound to catch hell for it later. Deciding it was better to fess up, Harmony sighed before she said "Looks like you noticed. Might as well fess up to you. See Blackjack when the subject of weddings and children first came up I suddenly pictured you with a kid and let's just say the concept of there possibly being a mini Blackjack running around some time in the future, when we are ready of course, kinda made me nervous. It sounded like something out of a horror movie."
"Yeah fair point." Blackjack said after a moment of silence. His tone was thoughtful but not teasing which surprised Harmony as he then said "Besides if anyone of us would most likely be a parent it would be you, Harmony. Let's face it I can be a handful to you so there would be a good chance any spawn of mine could be the same way and then you would be at your wits end."
When Marigold mentioned not being very hasty and that Zack hadn't even finished school. "I forgot that compared to digimon who get most their education on the road don't go to school nearly as long as humans. Don't some humans spend as much as over twenty years in some school or another? I mean it makes sense seeing as humans also mature at a slower rate then digimon."
After Zack finished speaking, Blackjack looked at Marigold before he said "You hear that, Marigold? Sounds like even if Zack eventually starts dating or you have any siblings, he'll always find time for his little girl."
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Post by supesman on Mar 28, 2022 13:56:34 GMT
"That's a common...parental instinct, in this case, even if you're not his parent it seems you sorta act like it sometimes." Zack said, pointing out that Harmony had basically appointed herself as Blackjack's caretaker for better or for worse just because she was slightly more mature in mind if not in age. "Imagining your kids, younger siblings or what have you with children of their own is always a slightly unsettling prospect. You can imagine how my mother reacted finding out not only had I had a child in my early twenties, before even getting a real job, that that same child I was now a single father to was this little bee monster." Zack said, jerking a thumb over to Marigold who waved one of her glimmering leg parts, seemingly taking no notice of her father calling her a "little bee monster".
"I remember that video call. I think grammie almost passed out a couple of times. She wasn't...prepared, I don't think. Then again who on earth possibly could have been?" Marigold admitted. She was much more familiar with how UNfamiliar most humans were, how unprepared for the concept of something like digimon to cross their paths out of the blue they were.
"I'm pretty sure she got over it, considering you two will now hog a video call for four hours straight laughing about how silly I am and listening to music while you knit and she reads." Zack said. Marigold and her grandmother hadn't been in the same physical space, not yet, Zack simply hadn't been able to find the time to head home, halfway across the planet while in the middle of his education. Not that it had ever stopped the pair from acting like they were in the same room, just silently absorbing one another's company over a video call for hours on end. Zack was going to take his daughter home one day and she'd be well prepared for a more comfortable family life.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Mar 28, 2022 22:15:55 GMT
"Well yeah. Harmony, while only a few minutes older, she is definitely the more mature one. While I am a bit of a mischievous but loveable rogue." Blackjack said with a smile before he said "At least as caretakers go, she is a pretty good one."
"Aww, Blackjack, that's quite the sweet thing to say. With your ability to sweet talk you might be as good at the dating scene when we're a bit older as you are at playing cards." Harmony said as Zack mentioned his mother reacting to finding out about digimon. Then Marigold mentioned her grammie almost passing out a couple times. "Almost passing out a couple of times is not that bad considering some reactions to digimon I've heard of humans had. Sounds like she took the concept of digimon fairly well but I wonder if she knows about the Digital World."
"Aww!!!" both twins said at learning about the video calls. Blackjack definitely was surprised with himself that he did that.
"Maybe you're mom will one day come to visit you two." Blackjack said after he recovered from the rush of cute he felt.
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Post by supesman on Mar 29, 2022 12:59:04 GMT
"HA! Now that would be a sight indeed, my middle class American mother flying halfway around the world and ending up in Shibuya. I think it'd give her a heart attack just looking at all the jumbotrons" Zack snorted slightly, trying to imagine his mother in the hustle and bustle of Japanese modernity without her sticking out like a sore thumb.
"Yea, for sure. I don't think she could take it being dropped in the middle of a city like that. We take her out into the scramble crossing and I think we'd lose her like a child in the supermarket." Marigold sighed, shaking her head slightly. She loved her grandmother but she wasn't exactly the most cosmopolitan woman on the planet having grown up in the same mid-sized american city for her entire life. "Dad has a hard enough time adapting to the big city on his own time." Marigold continued. Her father came from that same, not exactly metropolitan American city as his mother and he too often just had a hard time wrapping his head around so many people in such a tight space, always busy, a city that never fully slept.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Mar 29, 2022 23:19:36 GMT
Hearing that Zack's mother may not handle a huge city made Blackjack cringe for suggesting she may visit. "I didn't know your mom's heart was delicate. I meant no harm." Blackjack said with a tone that was almost a whimper. Harmony floated over to her twin noticing he was getting visibly distressed and began patting his back.
Then when Marigold mentioned that if Zack's mom came to Shibuya they would likely loose track of her and said "Easy, Blackjack, I think Zack was just exaggerating but losing someone in the middle of a much larger place when they come from someplace much smaller could be a problem."
"Is Shibuya really that big? Maybe Harmony and I really should check it out to see for ourselves." Blackjack said a little calmer but still sounding unsure of his words.
"Sounds like I would have to keep a very close eye on you knowing how much of a rogue you are, Blackjack. While I don't think you'll intentionally cause any harm, you have a habit of unknowingly attracting trouble even with me around to do damage control."
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