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Post by supesman on Nov 29, 2021 3:35:33 GMT
Zack grinned and let out a short, breathy chuckle at that. He didn't want to burst out laughing again for a couple of reasons. One, his stomach still hurt from the last time and the scar he was still adjusting to didn't help in that factor. Two, he didn't want to make it seem like he was laughing at Harmony for asking a question. So instead, like "the adult" which he tried to pretend he wasn't, even in this scenario, he simply explained.
"Uhh. No, not literally at least. Like I said I didn't get a whole lot of notice when an egg the size of my torso popped out of my computer screen and cracked open to reveal THIS one now sitting in the middle of my dorm room floor." He said, jerking a thumb at Marigold who batted her eyelashes, propping her legs under her chin in order to get the most faux innocent look possible.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Nov 29, 2021 4:46:00 GMT
Blackjack watched his sister as he heard Zack chuckle. Apparently Harmony had said something funny but, since he wasn't paying good attention, he didn't notice. Harmony cocked her head in confusion regarding Zack's chuckle. Did she unknowingly say something funny when she asked her question. Now she had a look on her face of sheer befuddlement as she went back through what she said trying to puzzle things out.
Then when Zack explained things Harmony nodded before she said "So her egg came from within your computer? I've heard of digimon moving between worlds that way but it isn't the most favored route in most cases. Amazing what one can overhear from passing humans while foraging for food, isn't it?"
"Don't get the wrong idea about my sister, Zack. She and I aren't nosey. It's just that some passerby talk pretty loud. One reason I'm glad we don't have sensitive ears since with some people they can be heard by the entire forest." Blackjack said with a shake of his head as he floated back up fully recovered from his sister's tickle attack. He knew getting back at her was difficult as she was the wiser of the two but, if he was honest with himself, he wasn't really mad at her anyway.
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Post by supesman on Nov 29, 2021 17:52:06 GMT
"I don't think she did it on purpose, not by herself anyway being like...an egg and all, not easy to hack my computer when you don't have any fingers to type with." he said, holding his hands out against the table and tapping his fingers in a random order against the surface to pantomime the use of a keyboard. Marigold huffed as she hoisted up her front limb, looking down at them. She STILL didn't have fingers most of them time and when she got them they were about half a foot long and more like knives than limbs.
"Apparently for tamers and such it's...weird. I mean. SOMETHING is tossing digimon eggs out into the ether to be found by random humans who aren't aware of the digital world in the first place." She said, gesturing to her father as an example of that. "Though it's pretty much impossible to tell at this point whether the thing chucking eggs out into the human world is an intelligence doing it with a purpose or just a natural function of the digital world itself, if eggs just sometimes get sucked into random holes in the digital world and spat out of the first open computer screen that they cross after that." She said, obviously showing she'd puzzled over this before just now.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Nov 30, 2021 2:46:34 GMT
Blackjack and Harmony looked at Marigold while Zack pantomimed the motions for typing on a keyboard and Blackjack said "Yeah not all digimon have hands even at the rookie level but at least Marigold can type if she is careful with her claws. As for Harmony and I, though you can't see them, the two of us have hands. What you were witnessing earlier was not telepathy."
"Yes the Digital World can be quite strange at times even for the digimon that live their what with anomalies and the laws of physics as humans understand them are also often defied seemingly on purpose." Harmony said before she continued "As for your egg, Marigold, it is likely it was chucked as you put it because you were meant to be with Zack. I don't know how humans are chosen by the Digital World nor do I understand the process. It's just one of the weird wonders of this world, I guess."
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Post by supesman on Nov 30, 2021 3:06:25 GMT
"On that, sister, we can most harmoniously and heartily agree." Marigold said, raising one of her plates as if in toast before knocking it back, letting all of the food left over on top of it disappear down her gullet before wiping her face with a totally separate leg. "Also, no way. Invisible hands? High five me right now." Marigold said, lifting up one of her legs into the air toward Blackjack. She wanted to test this empirically before she believed it and it wasn't at all just because an invisible high five is one of the coolest things she could possibly think of.
"Can't disagree with you on having to adjust to the way the digital world...is, Harmony." Zack said, shaking his head in a very world weary and chuckling sense. "Most humans are not accustomed to things like gravity, the linear flow of time and the cubic expansion of light to be mere suggestion is all I'm saying."
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Nov 30, 2021 3:22:39 GMT
Harrmony watched as Marigold tipped the plate back into her mandible the food vanishing rather quickly. Harmony briefly turned her attention back to what was left of her food consuming it almost as swiftly only in Harmony's case she used the provided silverware before turning back to Marigold. Who had went to Blackjack asking for a high five. Blackjack smiled before giving Marigold the high five she was asking for. Despite being invisible and seemingly ghostly in nature the twins invisible hands were warm like normal hands. Blackjack chuckled before he said "I gotta admit that I have never been asked to give someone a high five before. Then again I never mentioned that Harmony and I are able to lift things because we have invisible hands. Maybe others think we're telekinetic. Oh well."
"Makes me wonder how some digimon adjust to the Human World since that world is very different from this one judging by what my brother and I heard." Harmony said with a smile at Zack's chuckle.
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Post by supesman on Nov 30, 2021 21:47:32 GMT
"...huh..." Marigold paused, looking down at the leg that had been smacked by the offered invisible hand. She smiled at the social interaction, she wasn't rejecting it or anything of the sort. Instead she seemed to be considering something in front of her mind's eye more than the leg in front of her physical ones. "So does that mean that you guys have like, literal, super details, totally human hands hanging around you at all times? Like...do you have arms or is it just like...dad, help me out here." She said, not really able to fully articulate.
"it IS sort of an odd image to image you two little spheres with wrinkly, clammy human hands hanging ghost-like to either side of your heads." he said, holding out his own wrinkled human paws flexing them open and closed to demonstrate what he meant. "I was imagining like...poofy, mostly rounded cartoon hands, maybe with fewer fingers than a normal human, again, sorta like a cartoon just to avoid plunging into the uncanny valley and the like."
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Nov 30, 2021 23:57:35 GMT
Blackjack smirked before he said "I guess the concept of invisible phantom hands is a bit strange by human standards but they come in handy since Harmony and I have taken a liking to playing card games. As for arms, no we don't really have them just the invisible hands that can only float a short distance from us but far enough to pick up and carry things of course."
Blackjack and Harmony giggled at the thought of having such cartoony hands but since they had felt their own hands against their faces they learned they were more akin to hands owned by humans and humanoid digimon. "As weird as it seems to imagine, Blackjack and I have hands more like yours at least judging by how they feel. Since we they are invisible we don't know what they look like just how they feel since we placed them on our faces." Harmony floated up to Zack resting one of her warm invisible hands against Zack's hand as if trying to prove her point.
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Post by supesman on Dec 1, 2021 2:35:11 GMT
Zack looked down at his hand, then up at Harmony, then back to his hand, and back to Harmony. he could see the depression of force against his skin, he could see the mark that it made in the thickly applied sunscreen that he had slathered his body with. Marigold was looking equally closely.
"Woah dad, it's like that Invisible Man movie you showed me. You can see the way their hands effect things just not the hand itself. That's so weird...and COOL!" Marigold said, looking up close and squinting as hard as she could manage as if she was trying to force herself to see something that for all intents and purposes wasn't there.
"yea except when Claude Rains did it it took fourteen hours of special effects. This is just...I mean THAT is definatley some uncanny valley stuff. If I wasn't already far past jaded when it came to how lawless anything in the Digital World is when it comes to physical feedback. THAT alone would be enough to freak me out for days." He said, pointing down at what looked like the back of his own hand but everyone at the table knew he was actually gesturing to the other hand on top.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Dec 1, 2021 4:26:46 GMT
Genuine expressions of curiosity came over both Blackjack and Harmony as the young twin Cardmon heard about the movie Marigold mentioned. While not familiar with much in the way of human media they did understand what a movie was as they had been to a couple before digivolving into rookie. "There is a movie about a human that can become invisible? That's pretty interesting." Blackjack then said as special effects to make the invisibility happen came up. "I guess one thing we digimon have on humans regarding movie making is various crazy powers so special effects aren't always needed. Must take humans a while to make a movie since they have no powers. That probably means a lot of imagination is put into play to figure out how to do the effects so that can be considered a good."
"Then again there a both freakier and stranger abilities than floating invisible hands when it comes to digimon. I think digimon are capable of basically any power found in human media and then some." Harmony said as she lifted her hand off of Zack's.
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Post by supesman on Dec 1, 2021 21:35:55 GMT
Zack shook his head, clicking his tongue and leaning back, considering the duo of digimon in front of him. He head turned so he could look over his shoulder at the crowds of digimon enjoying the beach. he let out another overindulgent sigh, shaking his head as her turned back to the table.
"Alright, that tears it, I need to start hosting movie nights at the shelter. The lack of culture and knowledge of the legit classics that most digimon seem to have is starting to out and out depress me. I mean, two young folk like you unfamiliar with The Invisible Man? That's just a travesty, full stop." He said, chuckling and tapping the fingers on one hand against the wooden grain of the picnic table. "Assuming you folks have nothing going on on Friday night, swing by the shelter after dark. We'll pop some popcorn, get some unhealthy sodas together. Watch a bunch of old, cheesy monster flicks. It's a promise." He said, winking and pointing a finger gun at both of them.
Marigold trilled, buzzing off of her seat at the idea of inviting friends over for a cheesy movie night.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Dec 2, 2021 2:13:18 GMT
"A movie night sometime does sound like fun but you got to forgive some digimon for not being aware of all matters regarding humans especially more so when it comes to their media. Besides Harmony and I aren't very old." Blackjack said before turning to look at his sister as he asked "Hey, Harmony, how old where we again?"
"We are about two months old as of last week." Harmony replied after thinking back on it for merely a few seconds.
"Wow. I know digimon digivolve up to rookie at different rates but I thought we were a bit older than that. I guess I lost track of time somehow." Blackjack replied looking somewhat surprised his twin had remembered how old they were but knowing her it shouldn't of surprised him that much.
"So Friday, huh? I think my brother and I can make it there if given the directions." Harmony said smiling from a mix of the thought of food and being with those she and her brother knew weren't out to consume their data. Maybe she could consider this odd father and daughter pair as friends as they got to know them more.
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Post by supesman on Dec 2, 2021 17:30:44 GMT
Zack took the flyer that he had passed the twins. it already had general directions on it once one got to Rosewood but he pulled a pen from the side pocket of his bag anyway and clicked it into it's useful state. he hummed and scratched out some more detailed directions on the blank back of the paper and handed it over to them.
"There. That should be enough to get you folks where you'll need to be." he said smiling. "And yea, I know, it's only to be expected that digimon don't really know about movies or books or stuff like that but that also means that sharing movies and the like with the at a place like the shelter would mean all the more. Bringing digimon and humans together with something that we can all enjoy, you know? Besides, the Universal monster movies really are the kind of classics that everyone should watch at least once." He said, unclicking the pen and stuffing it back into the bag as he handed the flyer over to them.
"Gosh, you two really ARE young. My first birthday is going to be in...in uhh..." She tapped her chin, thinking.
"One month, one week, two days,..." he checked a watch that he had stowed in his bag. "Four hours and twenty five minutes." he said, basically revealing that he knows her "birth" down to the exact minute of time.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Dec 3, 2021 2:00:59 GMT
After Zack scratched out more details regarding the shelter on the back of the flyer the twin Cardmon looked it over from front to back. "Says it's near Rosewood so should be easy enough to get their most of the way by Trailmon." Blackjack said after he finished looking over both sides of the flyer. "One would think with the fact that Human and Digital World are connected to one another that information on both worlds' media wouldn't slip out to one another more often. It may explain how some digimon formed appearence wise if you think about it."
"Being almost one you are pretty young by digimon standards yourself, Marigold." Harmony said taking her attention away from the flyer to look at the Fanbeemon. "I don't know if you'll believe it but Blackjack and I left the Village of Beginnings much younger than most of the young ones leave and have been doing pretty well surviving by staying out of the way of stronger digimon."
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Post by supesman on Dec 3, 2021 3:42:19 GMT
"I was...never in the Village of Beginnings." Marigold said, scratching lightly at the surface of the tabletop with her front legs, looking at the wooden surface intently like a small child looking at her own shoes in an attempt to avoid an uncomfortable conversation.
"Marigold, you don't have to..." Zack said, reaching out and placing his hand on top of her head. She seemed to relax a little at that, raising her eyes up to face the duo now that she was able to take a deep breath and actually consider what she was about to say.
"No, it's alright. The more I tell the story, the easier it gets to tell right?" She said, smiling up at him. He smiled, leaning down to kiss the crest of her head and nodding, giving her an open floor to speak. "I was...abandoned, in my first life. It barely counted as a life. All I remember is being cold, and hungry, and afraid. Crying and crying because I didn't have anything else to do. Then the memory of just...slipping away from the hunger that had been with me from the first moment to the last. I was alive maybe...two weeks?" She said, laying it all out.
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