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White Sands Blue Sea(OPEN)
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Post by supesman on Nov 19, 2021 1:21:19 GMT
"Uhhh...no, no...not sports, as such." She said, looking off to one side with a deflecting attitude on her face and tone in her voice that made it clear that she would be chewing on her bottom lip if she had any lips to speak of. Which brought to mind the realization that most people had from listening to Marigold talk for a while, mostly the fact that she didn't have any lips...or a tongue...or any teeth or cheeks or...the more one thought about the way that her body worked around the mouth area the less it seemed to make any real sense. "Though he does wear a helmet and often comes back with a concussion and some bruises." She says off handedly, just tossing another fat pile of confusion on top of everything else.
"Digimon are thinking, feeling beings, Blackjack, you don't have a food chain." He said in reponse to his talk about being weak and having to forage with the understanding that they might end up being attacked. "If another digimon attacks you, they're doing it for the same reasons that people attack other people and they don't get to hide behind some darwinian excuse." He said, his voice changing, showing off a rock solid sense of justice.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Nov 19, 2021 1:46:31 GMT
Marigold's words only confused both Blackjack and Harmony more. Wore a helmet and came home with bruises but didn't play some kind of sport? What in the name of both worlds was he doing anyway? The confusion of the brother and sister duo's faces was as plain as day to the first one who noticed it.
Then Blackjack looked at Zack recovering from his confusion and said "Yes, Zack, digimon are thinking, feeling beings but there are some not above murdering their own kind and absorbing weaker digimon for sustenance. That and some are feral making them more like wild beasts than sentient lifeforms."
"Yes, feral digimon are a problem but they usually don't know any better. The real monsters are the ones that attack the weak just because they can and there is no excuse for such a thing." Harmony said next with a sigh. Then she snapped her gaze to Blackjack as she suddenly remembered something. "Oh I can't believe I forgot to tell you what happened while I was underwater, Blackjack. I guess the earlier incident pushed it briefly from my mind."
Now interested Blackjack looked at Harmony with a look that encouraged her to continue. "When I was swimming a field appeared around my body that allowed me to breathe underwater and it extended about ten feet so we can go swimming together without worrying about drowning. Isn't that great?" she said bubbling with excitement.
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Post by supesman on Nov 19, 2021 14:22:50 GMT
Zack simply walked along as he allowed Harmony to speak. One side of his lips curled upward into a smile as she excitedly shared the discovery of some new power for herself. It was an innocent moment of discovery that he wouldn't have dared try to bury under continuing the deep and heavy conversation that might have started about the Digital World's ethics. The sun was too bright, the sand too white, the sky too blue to be thinking about such things. Lord knows he'd go back to thinking about them sometime soon, for the moment he had a trio of digimon who were expecting him to foot the bill for whatever absurd spread they got for themselves as they all stepped under the shadow of the snack bar's canopy.
"What? That's so cool!" Marigold said, able to engage with the pair much closer to their own level. "You should take me with you sometime, I wanna know what seaweed tastes like!" She said, a sparkle in her eyes as she got excited about the notion by herself. That remaining child-like enthusiasm was something that Zack was thankful for, it means that no matter what the world hadn't beaten her silliest notions out of her quite yet.
"Marigold's diet is...plant based, let's say that." Zack said, half explaining the slightly odd tangent that had leapt into Marigold's mind at the mention of going underwater as they all stepped up to the counter, analyzing the menu.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Nov 19, 2021 23:13:54 GMT
Marigold seemed just as excited about Harmony's discovery as Harmony herself. This ability along with Blackjack's gave them more than just more potential food items as both siblings' abilities had the potential for other uses as well. Harmony smiled at Marigold's enthusiasm before she said "I would love to do that some time. Blackjack and I haven't tried seaweed before either as we spent our early lives scrounging the ground for food when not in a town. As for Blackjack, he also has a cool ability unique to him."
"Yeah when I was climbing a tree earlier I learned I could stick to other surfaces like adhesive tape but I can choose when to stick to the surface at will." Blackjack said bobbing up and down while floating. Yes his ability was pretty cool but at some level he was humble enough to admit to himself that he thought his sister had the cooler ability by far.
As the group arrived both Blackjack and Harmony floated to the counter while Blackjack said "Nothing wrong with having a plant based diet. Harmony and I had to rely mostly on plant matter as meat apples weren't always accessible to us when we were Sakkutomon."
"At least we learned fast about edible plants so we didn't get sick while eating things we foraged." Harmony said as she and Blackjack were browsing the menu themselves.
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Post by supesman on Nov 20, 2021 22:39:14 GMT
"I Think you're both assuming I mean something NORMAL when I say that she's plant based. It's not like normal plant based diets at all. When I say plant based, I mean ANYTHING plant based." He says as he takes a handful of paper napkins out of the dispenser, brown paper, dry, very cheap things that you could find on any food stall or truck. He lowers them down to her eye level, bunched up in his hand like a crumpled tissue ball anybody else would toss into the trash.
"I still think your ability is..." She says, leaning her head toward the ball of napkins like she was about to take a sip from a soda cup in the middle of her sentence. Her mandibles closed around part of the napkin ball, shearing a chunk out of it, mashing it between her gleaming silver chompers and swallowing it with a soft gulp. "...pretty cool too, Blackjack. I mean that's what Spider-Man does and Spider-Man is the coolest." She says, looking up at the menu, fluttering up so that she can place her front legs against the front of the sill in front of the ordering window and starts to rattle off her order. Zack, assuming that what the pair just saw might require a bit of explanation, turns to them.
"Anything plant derived. Wood, paper, grass, leaves, even stuff that would make most digimon stick, even. It's part of her...I don't know, bee data." he shrugged.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Nov 21, 2021 0:26:36 GMT
As Blackjack and Harmony rattled off their orders receiving their sodas while waiting for their food, Zack decided to demonstrate what he meant by a diet that was plant based as he took tissue from the nearby dispense balled it up and put it near Marigold. Marigold respoding by ceasing to sip at her drink before taking a bite out of the napkin. As it disappeared into that black hole most digimon referred to as mouths Blackjack almost spat out his soda in surprise but it instead went down the wrong pipe as humans put it and he began coughing before feeling Harmony's invisible hands pat him on the back to until he stopped. "That was....That was not what I was expecting at all." Blackjack managed to get out.
Marigold's next words confused the twins who stared at her as if not processing her words before Blackjack asked "Wait a minute. Who is Spiderman?"
Recovering from her confused state Harmony turned to Zack with soda in one of her invisible hands looking as if it was floating in mid air before she said "I see what you mean by plant based. Though I never saw other herbivores eat napkins."
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Post by supesman on Nov 21, 2021 14:16:50 GMT
"You see what you've done, dad? You've ruined me. I can't even relate to my own kind!" She said, playing up a melodramatic effect, folding one of her arms across her forehead at the elbow like the fainting damsel in a bad play. The comedy was only heightened when she immediately dropped the act and went back to slurping up the sugary soda.
"Spiderman is a superhero from the human world. As you can see Marigold has a...different reference pool from most of her fellow digimon. Being raised by a human in the human world makes her a bit of a barking cat, if you get what I mean." he says, fiddling with his Digivice to pay for the food that the quartet had ordered at the front register, walking with them toward a table set on the sand where they could wait for their multiple courses of junk to come out to meet them.
"He means that I end up talking like a human. More specifically talking like him. There is truly no greater curse." She said, shaking her head in "sad" resignation, a small giggle catching the edges of her voice even as she says the joke out loud.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Nov 22, 2021 1:32:06 GMT
Blackjack and Harmony giggled at Marigold's dramatic display before grabbing their food as it was set on the counter. Blackjack was having what appeared to be a sandwhich of some kind while Harmony was having what appeared to be some kind of fruit salad with various kinds of fruit in it.
"We've heard of super heroes but should of suspected humans had some in their media too since our worlds are connected in various ways so many things tend to overlap." Blackjack said as he floated to a nearby table with his food and drink before setting it down with Harmony doing the same. Since they were small digimon that couldn't see over the table when in the chairs, they sat on the table.
"I think lot of digimon talk like humans especially ones with human partners or wild ones that visit the Human World regularly. There are always worse 'curses' than talking like humans." Harmony said giggling a bit when she sarcastically said the word curses. She didn't know why but she couldn't help herself. She must of been around her twin far too long if she acted like a calmer and wiser version of Blackjack.
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Post by supesman on Nov 22, 2021 2:30:52 GMT
"You're not wrong there, little lady. People and digimon are social, communicative species at the end of the day. We can't be in such close quarters without taking something from each other. We can only hope that we pass on good things." He said, passing several different salads in front of Marigold, bowl after bowl of leafy greens. Some of them were normal salads, some of them had "plant derived" things on them that would once again raise the pair's brows. Hard candy that was mostly sugar, hard dark chocolates without any of the milk of lighter chocolates, the top leaves of strawberries and oranges and the like, even some straight up branches and wood-stuff mixed in.
"Dad, you're soliloquizing again." She pointed out to him as she stabbed one of her pointed leg parts into one of the bowls in front of her, catching a fat chunk of the contents on the insane shish-kebab as she began munching off her own leg like a corn on the cob.
"Hehe, sorry, can't stop my own brain sometimes." he said, both of them revealing how broad, moral and even philosophical he can be sometimes. Another odd trait for the seemingly milquetoast young man.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Nov 22, 2021 3:05:42 GMT
Harmony chuckled before she said "That is quite true. I know about all that first hand from sharing an egg with Blackjack. Shame that rogue of a brother of mine didn't get any of the wisdom I ended up with. That and his temper is volatile especially more so when startled as you and Marigold witnessed earlier. I don't know if that was leftover instincts from having weapon type digimon as our fresh and in training forms respectively but at least I can calm him down when he blows his top."
Blackjack and Harmony looked from their food to look at the varied mix of salads and various other plant based things. Definitely had things neither twin would eat like wood but then again Marigold's diet was different from theirs as they had an omnivorous diet and tended to be opportunistic in their eating habits. For the most part food was food and being picky was impractical. "I understand the need to say what is on your mind. It even gets me in trouble at times as I seem to not think before I speak sometimes." Blackjack said before starting to eat his sandwhich.
"Quite a big thing for you to admit to, Blackjack. Maybe there's hope for you yet." Harmony said earning herself a raspberry blown at her by Blackjack after he swallowed what he put in his mouth. Then Harmony giggled before starting on her salad herself.
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Post by supesman on Nov 22, 2021 16:03:02 GMT
Zack observed the entire table, eyes sweeping from one lunch guest to the next. He smiled. This was something he liked, it was even something he was working hard at getting good at, taking care of people like this. It was why he had opened his shelter in the first place, so that he could bring digimon and people together like this in a sage space. Digimon tended to be much more friendly when their stomachs were full, granted that could be said of most people too but Digimon were much more pronounced in how much they let their momentary hungers drive them. he leaned down, propping his forehead in one hand and turning to Marigold "whispering" loud enough that being heard was his intention.
"See this? This is why I'm glad that I only got one of you. You're already smarter than me, god knows how I'd keep my head screwed on straight if there were two of you." He said, rolling his eyes and pressing his hands against his face with an exaggerated groan at the idea. he joked, though he was getting more sure by the day that he'd end up with "another one" before too long. nature of him opening the shelter with the way his better nature worked.
"There only needs to be one of me to keep you busy, besides, most of the things that threaten to pop your head around the wrong way are situations you got yourself into." She said inbetween pleasant munches, pantomiming the point of one leg skating along her own throat as she talked about him "popping his head off" making it clear what she really meant.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Nov 23, 2021 1:46:49 GMT
Among the general good vibes between the group Blackjack and Harmony felt calm and safe which was not always a certain thing. Sure Blackjack would need some work to control his impulses to try and attack when startled but that would come with time with the two of them. Harmony giggled at Zack's words before she said "Sounds like you might be overwhelmed by twins. Maybe it is good that, for now, you only have to worry about Marigold and yourself. Twins for tamers can be quite an undertaking considering the average growing digimon's appetite. Meaning that could be two bottomless pits to feed instead of one."
"Sure Harmony and I won't be filled by our meals but it will be more than enough to hold us over until we go foraging for food. Since we are near the sea we can forage for things like seaweed and shellfish before we leave for points unknown." Blackjack said before diving back into his sandwich only stopping to occasionally sip his soda.
Seeing Marigold's gesture Harmony said "I'm sure you take good care of your father, Marigold, no matter how challenging he may make it for you."
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Post by supesman on Nov 23, 2021 2:49:56 GMT
"Well...about that..." Marigold said, responding generally to the entire conversation. She looked up at her father. Shrugging in a "there's no time like the present" sort of way. There were a LOT of things that these two were going to find out about the two of them that would probably blow their minds but this was at least one of the more mundane ones. "My dad's sorta resigned himself to taking care of LOTS more digimon in the future. This is sorta what I was talking about when I said most of his pain is his own fault." She said, propping up her cheek on one of her legs as she stuffed her mandibles with one of the skewered offerings on the other.
"In case you two ever get tired of foraging and need some warm food and fresh bedding for the night." Zack reached down into one of the pockets of his duffel bag, pulling out a folded over piece of paper that he pressed across the table toward them. When they unfolded it it would reveal a scratchy but passable sketch of the shelter, along with directions toward it from the location of Rosewood
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Nov 23, 2021 3:06:37 GMT
Marigold mentioning her father's desire to take care of other digimon in the future grabbed the attention of the Cardmon twins as they hung on her words. Then when the mentioning of warm food and fresh bedding came up, Blackjack swallowed what was left of his sandwich before turning his curious gaze at Zack and asked "Just what do you mean about fresh bedding and warm food? Do you and Marigold own some kind of large house in the Digital World that looks after wanderers passing by or something?"
Harmony was just as curious as her twin brother but didn't say anything for awhile as she was currently chowing down on her salad and didn't want to come off as rude by speaking with her mouth full. That and food that tended to fly everywhere when that happened with some foods wasn't all that an appealing image to the marine based Cardmon.
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Post by supesman on Nov 23, 2021 18:32:58 GMT
"Yea, pretty much exactly that really. We run a shelter just outside of Rosewood. Door's always open, food and beds are always free. Doesn't matter where you come from or why you might need it. Hell, even if you just need a friend or some help when your backs are up against the wall. You'll always know where to find us." He said, placing the flyer out in front of them and tapping it down with two fingers so the pair would be able to fully inspect it.
"Helping people is what's most important to us. We're good at it too. This is just another, better, more long term way to help the people who need it the most." She said, considering the idea with a more far away look in her eyes. She didn't know if she should share why this idea was close to her own heart in particular, so she just letting the two consider it in a vacuum.
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