june catch-all

[mehanizovati]

Who: viktor and others, open to all with some closed prompts in comments
What: june catch-all, some tdm prompts
When: june
Where: various

content warning; terminal illness, arcane season 1 spoilers



misc lab stuff and various fruits.

[viktor's lab in the willful machine is usually left unlocked when he's working inside. friends or acquaintances have likely been told they're welcome to stop by if they like, either to say hello or to get help with whatever a vaguely sketchy lab could handle. of course someone he doesn't know can just walk in too or knock. maybe there's a sudden downpour and that ajar door is tempting? go for it.

the lab has been slowly filling with all sorts of nonsense on the various tables- lasers! tasers! some weird machine hooked up to a blood gem? it is not unlikely to be walking by and hear some minor booming noise and either a curse in czech or a satisfied 'a-ha!' feel free to investigate.

this month there's something else too, a bowl full of fruit. all the fruits mentioned in the tdm in fact, there to be tested on though it looks more like they're just for guests if people are unaware there's some weird shit going on.]

Just a moment, make yourself at home. [he might say to guest. that would include eating some fruit, right? enjoy. probably not the raw lemon though, that's weird.]

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gaze and time loops.

[having lungs mostly working for the moment is pretty great, in viktor's humble opinion. it means walking around the trench doesn't come with the risk of coughing up blood and attracting beasts and generally having a bad time, along with added perks like not getting so easily winded and going for longer. it also means he finds himself out longer than he usually would, which maybe isn't the best, as it turns out.

for example, making his way home through gaze and hearing the chilling cry of a beast, sighing and trying to make his way around what turns out to be the wrong corner. maybe that's where he sees your character before the snarling of a too close beast starts in earnest.

and then snap! they're both back about an hour, where they passed on the street. the look viktor gives is somewhere between resigned and 'fuck this, actually.'] There is a term for this. 'One of those days,' I think.



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Comments

[brushy]

[ things to consider: ammy is excited. it's a feast! nevermind the belatedness, it's mother's day every day if one would like, plus ammy would always busy herself with things to do unless summoned, like tonight. rio gets a warm welcome from the she-wolf with wet, slobbering kisses on her hind legs, before she bolts into the bunker when an open door allows. oh, it's so cozy in here! so tight-knitted and welcoming, smells delicious.

first thing's first, amaterasu feels compelled to take this new experience head-on and with her everything. she has her snout to the floor and is trotting all around the home, to be familiar with the scents, what has happened here, the people and the corners. she happens upon viktor's shoes and leaves a trail of thick, foamy saliva in her wake, while palamedes has been gifted the greeting of dog: she is sniffing the rump.

he is new to her. he must be familiarized. ]

[megatheorem]

[Palamedes has never met an ordinary dog before, and he supposes he still isn't— but where Sansa's Lady had just left him alone to shrink in her own space, Ammy's arrival to the bunker is, hm, exuberant? In comparison? There's not too much to investigate down here, so that's a time saver, apparently there's drool involved, and yet nothing in the world could have prepared him for the sniffing of the rump.

Particularly not Viktor who did not mention rump sniffing at all!! Palamedes says,] Oh—

[And then, with a sort of awkward torso twist, to look down at her without, uh, interrupting?, he adds,] Charmed, I'm sure. I don't know what I'm supposed to do in this situation.

[Ha ha... he smells like skinny nerd and ink and, obviously, Viktor. Palamedes spares Rio a glance as if to beg her not to interpret this meeting as a fun new name of Knock Over Palamedes, and then finally, to Viktor:]

For, I think, the third time: it's enough food.

[mehanizovati]

I should have made more blini. [viktor decides, again, and it's probably just the paleblood itch for more baking but who can say. he's resisting at the moment, admirably, and glances up in time to see rio nearly knock over the nearby chair by the force of her tail thumping.

she is having a good time.] Hello Ammako. [pal gets a shrug. right, probably should have mentioned what dogs are like and how rumps are indeed sniffed. to be fair he's never sure how dog ammy will be at any given time.] This is Palamedes, who has not met any dogs as far as I am aware? So bear with him.

[brushy]

[ oh, has he not? what an absurd stroke of bad luck! to have never met a dog before . . . well, on top of a dog, palamedes and his luck have hit a double— there is wolf involved in this, too!

amaterasu glances upwards with a gooey, warm sort of stare that revs up the engine of her tail, only a gentle little sway at the moment. well, now that you’ve finally met something as large and furry as her— would you like to hold her?

sadly (or, wonderfully???) the wolf doesn’t ask before she does it: standing on her hind legs and pawing at the the tall man’s chest for balance. oh no! look! she’s going to fall—!

right into his front. hello, pal. you look handsome up close! ]

[megatheorem]

[viktor please chill about the blini]

I'm doing my best, given the circumstances— and the available space!

[That ends on a surprised sputter of a laugh, when she rears up into his whole zone. He doesn't know what to do with his hands? He settles on going for a dual-handed head patting motion, the kind Rio likes, as Rio is his only frame of reference.

Rio is also now desperately needed, to slink around behind him and brace his skinny nerd legs before he gets entirely knocked over. He's completely pinned, but at least he's not on the floor. This is a deft handling of the situation, for sure.

Anyway, hey gurl...]

Well— welcome to our home. For Viktor's sake, I hope you like blini.

[mehanizovati]

[he is mentally and physically incapable of being chill about the blini.

rio is happy to act as nerd support system, she is basically viktor's service lizard at this point anyway. viktor watches this fondly and with absolutely no intention to move and help, because he's a bastard. in fact he grabs his omni to snap a picture that will inevitably go to shōyō, so there's some thread inception.]

Of course she will like blini, it is like pancakes. What is not to like? [viktor huffs as he starts moving some of the plates to the table, even if they're going to probably be using the couch. he scoots around pal, leaving him to his fate as he says,] She can speak through the omni, when she feels the need. When we first met it was mostly charades.