i've looked at clouds from both sides now (𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥)

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<sup>Who: Peter Graham + you! Prompts will be placed here.
What: Canon update business, potential event things, tba.
When: Through the month of November.
Where: Various places in Trench / tba.

Content Warnings: This character comes with demonic possession by default. There's a gif including nudity (non-sexual, just a couple of people shown naked from behind) in one of the posts. Additional warnings will be placed in individual spaces.</sup>

^{( On Peter's birthday and Blessed Month, he will go through a canon update that's given him updated memories. For weeks 1 - 3 he will mentally be MIA, and Paimon/Charlie may be interacted with. On week 4, Peter will return. Closed starters will be placed under the appropriate posts. Please hit me up @ plot post / plurk / large bat#2354 / pm if you're interested in a starter / if you'd like to plot for the month! )}

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[ Weird noise, but you know what, this is a weird everything. A weird everything that's in progress, we'll figure things out along the way. The bossiness doesn't even register more than a possible eagerness, and the ends of Robby's lips quirk for it. And so, he'll show, making a fist and holding it out, tilting it so the space between the knuckles show flat. ]

'kay, do this? [ He figures he might need to give the demon guy a second, and that's fine; he'll direct Paimon how to point the fist with the main knuckles pointed downward, patting the surface of his own.

And once Paimon has it, Robby will reveal the magic: of a fist-bump, from Robby to him. The edges of his lips twitching and lifting again as he considers how he's showing a demon a fist-bump, and giving and receiving one, too. ]

Do this? Just enough to connect. You can do it to say hi, not everyone does it--but you do it with friends. Show you're cool with each other.

[ A grin. Is Luna going to suffer this? Hope she doesn't mind fist-bumping the demon inhabiting her boyfriend..... ]

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( Oh, we're doing something with our hands — Paimon looks down at the demonstration and slowly imitates it, though it does take him a few moments to sort it out. It's not a gesture he's done much of, and it's an odd one, to hold his fingers in and keep them there. But this definitely seems important, he can tell that much from the start. Something is happening here.

Then it reveals itself.... the other's hand makes contact with his own, knuckles to knuckles. A gesture of Literal Connection... and simultaneously of Greeting...

Learning something new is always a big thing for the Demon of Knowledge, and so he's just gazing down at their hands in awed silence for a few moments before he slowly lifts his fist up to try to do it to Robby again. ...And then another, this time lifting both his fists and holding them up expectantly for Robby to bump his against. He may have created a monster with this...

But it's simple yet meaningful, and doesn't require verbal speaking... It's a gesture. He very much likes this. It reminds him of another human gesture he's picked up on— )

There is something called.... hand shake. The hand shake. ( You might possibly have heard of it, Robby! ) This is not the hand shake. But it is.... almost.

[strongroots]

[ ...for all the oddities, it's difficult to be focusing on the weirdness when you're introducing someone to a fistbump. The first successful attempt gets a 'See? You got it' in encouragement. And when the double fistbump is introduced?

Robby laughs, and he replies with two fists coming and bumping both. ] Nice.

[ Look at this master of fistbumps. The kind of move that surely many young boys in the playground have made to show their status of friendship (and then forgotten about by the end of the week). But it's more funny than anything, and Robby can handle funny, a small nod as the topic of The Handshake is introduced. ]

Yeah, it's a same idea. Handshakes are formal, what you do if you're meeting someone new and it's serious. Kinda like--meeting another king. We'd do it for someone we want to be on good terms with. And then this, a fistbump, [ want to do another? we can do another here, Paimon, ] is for people you're friendly with. A person at a shop you see every day, that has the right vibes. Someone you know casually, or a friend.

This is closer to a handshake, the same idea. Here. [ Robby's holding up a hand, this time with his fingers kept pointed up. ] Do this... and curl your fingers like I'm doing.

[ Is he showing him the diagonal bro-handshake? You bet. Though, he's not going to include the man-hug in this. That's for Peter. ]

You wanna practice these last two with friends, or people you like. We're from all over the place, so -- I don't know how many people do them.

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( Robby is very encouraging and the patience is appreciated... Peter would've snapped at him.... (He's so mean sometimes; why couldn't someone like Robby have been his Vessel instead? Things to think about)

But all of this is taken very seriously. It's not that the demon necessarily wants to blend in with humankind — he's something much different, and he's proud by what he is, he doesn't want to hide it — but learning how to exist more easily among them? It's certainly on the agenda, given he's more or less trapped inside of one. Learning how to communicate with them would be beneficial to himself, to making exchange with them, connection, engaging with them. And he's also just incredibly curious by all of these new things to learn, and Robby certainly has a way of explaining it that makes a lot of sense to him...

The Handshake holds more severity, ahhhh. He understands; it'd be reserved for a fellow king, or someone else of high standing. Whereas The Fistbump is informal. Oh yes, he likes this very much. Different greetings depending on hierarchy...

But oh? There's another one to learn? Paimon's peering widely down once more as he slowly, stiffly, parrots the gesture on into the joining of hands. So this is another casual greeting.... it's a sideways one.... What valuable information he's been given. He will certainly make use of it. He'll practice with... everyone he knows..... and after a long moment of just gazing down at their hands again— )

For your knowledge.... I am grateful, human. Boy.

( Paimon reaches upwards to stroke Robby's hair a couple of times, almost like he's petting him. It's what you do to humans to show them that they have done well, and it's not at all creepy. )

We will learn and discuss many things together. Great things. Powerful. ( Like the aforementioned skateboards. )

As blessed by my Lord Lucifer, Himself.

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[ robby!paimon coming to a thread near you....

Robby's had experience with teaching, though that was always karate before, well...forms of greeting. It's kind of fascinating in its own way, however, how Paimon seems intrigued; the right amount of liveliness in his hands missing with each example, but you know, that's expected from a demon who forgets to blink unless you tell him.

But it's easy enough, and for it--...comes a pat on the head. Robby's brows shift slightly, but he hasn't forgotten he's talking with a demon (especially with the following mention of Lucifer), so he'll ''allow'' it. And maybe be inspired by it to do what he does next, which is to give Paimon a pat on the shoulder.

(it definitely is. you have to do something after a guy pets you on the head, demon or not.) ]

Cool. Looking forward to it. [ How can promising to help out a demon go wrong??? ] Alright, but we should focus on this mushroom hunt for now. And blinking. [ Don't forget! Said with a customer service grin. ] If you take care of your body real well, I bet Luna will be impressed.

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( Just saying.... it's good to have some Backup Vessels in mind in case Trench pulls some fuckery...

The Return Pet is met with another pleased little hum-sound, because it's what Paimon expected should happen — that whole, exchange thing — so he's feeling very pleased that Robby clearly gets it. Many humans do not! But this one... knows what to do and say, and how.

A point that is made ever more clear at what Robby says next, which is probably the most important and helpful thing he could possibly say. Bringing Luna into it has the demon's eyeballs widening in one fluid motion, pupils re-swelling, blowing out like a cat that's spotted something particularly engaging.

Robby.... is right, of course. He's so right.... )

Yes.... Yes. You are right.... I must..... I shall.

( There's a severe nod, and then Paimon's staring straight ahead, into the forest they're moving through, attention fixed. The mission at hand.... and also the secondary mission, which is to take care of Peter's body for his Witch....

Which means that he's purposefully blinking again, and this time without even having to stare at Robby to match his! (He might start blinking too frequently, but it's okay. He'll be fine. For the rest of this little expedition, he'll look to Robby for guidance on Human Body Maintenance.)

Really, Robby, you're very good at handling and working demons! Perhaps a skill that you never imagined you possessed.... )