It was gonna happen sometime.

[heromedal]

🐄Hey kids! It's Indrik! King of Beasts (in training), ex-earth spirit, now Rex spirit and generally weird critter!🐄

Indrik is usually quite a sleepy baby, and as long as he's got a full tum-tum, he'll laze away his days either in the stables or in Rex's creepy van. But sometimes, a freakish beast has gotta do what a freakish creature has gotta do. One of those times is when the door to his pen is left open by mistake. As such, the pony-sized, cow-faced, golden-scaled, firey red lion-maned, lizard-tailed, thing with a big chubby belly is going on an adventure! Dare you be a random encounter in Indrik's epic tale?

Hit the Bench
So you're enjoying a nice quiet sit on a bench, eh? Whatever your doing can't be that important because it does not involve Indrik, but fortunately he is here to solve that. With a crash, Indrik's little cow head busts through the wood of the bench's backrest. Hello, his little cow face seems to say, by jutting his tongue out and staring.

Screaming
Some days, you just gotta scream. Don't matter where you are or what the time is. He's already worked out if you smack a door a couple of times it will either fall off its hinges or someone in there will let you in. Indrik finds himself a nice person and just shrieks at them. Head jutting forward, body lowered and mane bristling he unleashes something which is half devastating mooing and half paralysing roar- except miniaturised, so it starts as a meep and becomes a squeak.

I didn't know I could do that!
The original Indrik was known for making the earth shake when he walked and unleashing flames to destroy those with evil hearts foolish enough to cross his path. The current Indrik is just a chunky boy concerning the former, and with the latter, he has yet to demonstrate any flames at all.

Until two minutes ago when he started burping up fireballs because he's been eating from trashcans all day. They're not terribly hot and burst much like dazzling fireworks after a few seconds with a bang, making them more startling than dangerous, but the fact he's running around shooting them off everywhere is probably a little offputting at least.

(( For those not in the know- Indrik is a super weird spirit linked to Rex's soul, who shares Rex's general paranoia that everyone might possibly be an enemy except he's an unstoppable idiot, so watch out for your kneecaps! He can be friendly, but mostly he's angry. His feelings on people are influenced by Rex's own too. Good with kids. Anyone is free to know Indrik is Rex's 'pet', as he often walks him around campus. Rex will probably show up after a bit in each scenario because Indrik is not allowed out unsupervised. ))

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S C R E A M I N G

[suddenlybees]

If Rex were looking for a time where Kano's heart rate actually picks up above his usual tachycardia, now would be the time, when he hears somebody pounding on at his bedroom door and before he can say something annoying like "What's the password?", the hinges break and he jumps back with a yell before he gets squashed into a pancake.

Hey, what the actual fuck is this thing. Is this karma for stealing people's doorknobs...?

"Sorry, you got the wrong guy, you want to go a bit further down the hall," he mumbles through gritted teeth, trying to stand the door back up so he can reseal the entrance to his room and pretend this monster doesn't exist.

[heromedal]

No, Indrik says by putting a big hoof on that door and pushing. A pony is deceptively strong for its size and Indrik is even more so. So even if Indrik apparently has no intention of actually going into Kano's room, he's damn sure gonna make sure he listens to his screaming.

It's actually a very apt metaphor for Rex's feelings on Kano, when you think about it.

[suddenlybees]

Oh, geez—- Kano wouldn't have the strength to go up against any reasonably sized person, but a pony is something else and this thing is a category all on its own, and Kano does the smart thing of stepping aside and accepting his fate, because otherwise Indrik might put a hole through the door or snap it clean in half, and he wouldn't be able to live without an intact door.

"Alright, alright, calm down! I'm just going to..." he trails off, taking another step back into the room, just far enough to grab a rolling chair and swing it around in front of him so he has something to hide behind now that the door is out of the question.

"Shoo... Go away. If you want somebody to play with, there's a guy down the hall who'd love you. Or be terrified of you, I dunno! ...I can't believe I'm talking to a... Can you understand me at all? What do you want??"

[heromedal]

Good choice Kano. Indrik ceases letting out the sounds of a calf and lion cub falling down the stairs in a sack for a moment when the chair is rolled into his path, tilting his head sideways so that glorious mane flows beautifully. Taking a minute to compose himself, Indrik listens to every word and turns his gaze down the hall. Maybe...

Nah, he turns back and screams some more. Deep breath, snout lowered almost to the floor as he starts, building up as his head rises almost like a howling wolf. Meeeeeeeeeeeaaaaeek.

Once that's done, Indrik takes a single experimental step over the threshold of the door frame.

I didn't know

[yokeye]

Indrik is half-adorable and half-terrifying. No matter how many times Toki's seen him around with Rex; he's still undecided on whether to reach out to pet him right now, or be afraid. He's never been this close to Indrik, and he's leaning towards petting. He's just such a cute little chimera-like creature.

"Hey there~!"

He doesn't actually know Indrik's name, or what kind of creature he is. But Rex's pet has to be friendly, right? Toki reaches out to touch Indrik's soft-looking mane, and suddenly there's a loud noise and some weird sparking fireball comes out of the creature's mouth. Toki shouts and jerks his hand back. Indrick does it again, and it's not as startling the second time. Though he's still keeping his distance.

"Uhh... Are you supposed to do that? Are you sick?"

[heromedal]

Indrik accepts Toki's petting for a twofold reason- first, he has been influenced by Rex's fake promise to protect Toki which these days Rex himself has taken very much to heart. Rex won't admit it to himself, but Indrik is much simpler. Second, he is absolutely sure he could squash Toki if he wanted to.

Indrik looks as surprised as Toki, staring up with his little red eyes wide as they can get. His body jerks a bit, almost like a cat about to cough up a hairball, lights flaring in his nostrils before another loud fireball blasts out. Indrik has at least the sense to turn his head straight up- boom! The sparkles fall softly down.

Meep! is the reply, followed by some on the spot trotting. Excitement! Joy! Praise him.

[yokeye]

Ugh. He's so cute with that little wide-eyed expression. After the third fireball and rain of mini-fireworks, Toki has classified them more as awesome and less as potentially dangerous and harmful. Indrik doesn't seem to distressed by them, so he's not going to worry too much.

"That was amazing~!"

He pets Indrik with minimal caution. It's a weird feeling to go from a soft mane to rougher scales. Sparkling fireballs are now a negligible concern.

[soft_focus]

There is first a CRASH. And then, a mEEEAAAK.

Also, Reira is on the other side of the bench, blinking. Hey! Hey, you're the one from the picture! With the fluffy mane! The mane of softness! The-

"...H'llo." Does Indrik seem mad, hopefully the answer is no. Extra hopefully he is not in a mood of hating things.

[heromedal]

Indrik has ever-present anger, but upon seeing Reira it's less explosive and more gently bubbling. She's small. He may attack, but he also protect.

Struggling forward a bit to fit more of himself through the bench so he can give her a proper sniff, the snorting from his snout warmer than it should be, he eventually concludes-

"Meep." Yes. This one is allowed to share the same planet as him. Not only is she a small non-threat, but add Rex's decision she needs to be cared for and her own unique relationship with spirits... she's okay! It's a meep of acceptance.

[soft_focus]

Excellent. Small and bubbling is something she can work with, and also keep her sprites from reacting to. So Reira gives a slow blink to Indrik, before eventually asking-

"...Can I pet the mane?"

She has no idea if he understands words. Maybe? Hopefully?

It looks soft, though,

screaming seems appropriate

[transfusionem]

There had been something off about the knocking on the door, but it was insistent. Against better judgement, Adelaide found herself opening the door and staring down a...a...

Well. Whatever it was, he was kind of cute. And loud.

She's, unfortunately, never seen him out and about with Rex, but knowing that probably wouldn't have stopped her from blinking at it curiously as it shrieks at her. After a moment of just letting him get it all out, she decides to ask it a question. "Can I...help you?"

[heromedal]

For Adelaide, it seems one scream is all that is required for now. Unless she doesn't get out of his way, because he's going to nudge her in the hip with his head (thankfully not as forcefully as he did the door) a few times. Make way! King Indrik coming through, peasant! He has things to do and places to be and the place is here and the thing he will decide when he does it!

And if she don't move, he got plenty more screaming where that came from.

[transfusionem]

Well, this thing sure is insistent. She's not so sure what he wants to do inside her room, but she's going to let it in anyways. Apparently, it doesn't talk - or understand English - so whatever schemes it's devising are a mystery to her.

Hopefully it doesn't try to topple her fish tank.

Interrupting Cow Says... (screaming, maybe fireballs)

[thedevilwearsgucci]

"Now, while Edward most definitely does NOT embody the classic image of a vampire, it can be argued that Bella hardly fits the definition of a human being either."

Since it happened to be a nice day out, Cereza figured it would be a nice idea to teach outside in the courtyard that afternoon. That would certainly take the edge off of today's loathsome topic, anyway.

"The key here is subtext. Think of the concept of forbidden fruit. If we swap out the concept of blood drinking with idea of losing one's virginity, and it's the exact. Same. Book. Just with strange sparkly boys running around, which to be fair, it WAS Portland in the early two thousands, so--"

Her explanation is cut short by a mighty bellow-slash-roar-slash-squeak sound, and she does actually startle to the point of her book flying into the air. True to her nature, she rounds on the little behemoth and catches said tome behind her back like nothing happened. The whole class explodes in laughter, because while THEY saw him coming up behind her, she certainly didn't.

Keep in mind that she does have a finely-tuned danger sense that never fails her; however, that requires the thing actually be dangerous to work. What she sees here is just... weird.

"...Oh. Hello. Now just what pocket dimension did YOU tumble out of?"

https://i.imgur.com/FyOxLLf.png

[heromedal]

I wish I could say Rex has enough pop culture understanding that Indrik's opinion on Twilight has been directed to interrupt purposefully, but sadly no. Indrik is just like this. Shockingly stealthy for a fat useless pony, Indrik had sneaked up with his big ol' belly nearly to the ground. He, of course, stands out like a lemon in the limes but if your back is to him how would you know?

Now that his target has shown the proper reaction to him, which is an abject terror of his unparalleled might, Indrik stands proudly with his head raised. He's even getting a whole crowd to cheer and praise him! (Indrik belongs to Rex, he doesn't know what laughter sounds like.)

Although after a few moments of Cereza not bowing or petting him or doing anything else respectful, he lowers that head and starts to paw the ground, gearing up one of his patented headbutts. That danger sense ain't doing nothing even for that either, because so far Indrik has no managed to even reach anything that isn't a very broad inanimate object with one.

8D

[thedevilwearsgucci]

"...So that's how you're going to be, is it?"

The thing is, while Indrik doesn't look like he's very good at aiming himself, Cereza happens to be standing between him and a bunch of seated students that bear an uncanny resemblance to squishy bowling pins at the moment... She thinks fast and pulls up one of the picnic blankets meant for seating, and flaps it with a flourish to deflect Indrik's attention and trajectory.

"Olé!"

Hit the Bench

[heartofasamurai]

With the increasingly more pleasant weather, and finals upon them, Seiji has taken to studying whenever he can. Getting to study out under the sun on a bench on campus was even more enjoyable than doing it in the quiet library or his room.

Only to feel the oncoming presence of something behind him and more just in time to avoid his back being rammed by a head through the wood of the bench.

"...Indrik?" Why is Rex's pet damaging school property?

[heromedal]

Indrik spends a few seconds just staring at Seiji. This is not uncommon, because sometimes it takes a while for the beast to work things out sometimes. In this case it’s actually because he recognises that guy and he just said his name. Rut-roh!

He’s gonna get into trouble. But now Indrik is faced with the classic problem of ‘it’s easy to get your head in but hard to get it out’ problem and his attempt to pull back just drags the bench with him.

[heartofasamurai]

Seiji's body jerks from the force of the bench being pulled backwards as the animal tries to escape. He jumps off the bench and then tries to grab it, hoping to calm Indrik down.

"Hold there, it is all right. I can help you. If you pull too hard, you may hurt yourself."

[deuteranope]

He'd just wanted to sit here and read. That's all he wanted. A nice quiet time where he could breathe fresh air while he studies instead of staying holed up in his room.

He is a fool. And this fool lets out a strangled yelp at the sickening crack of wood splintering next to him, and that horrible, horrible dopey face appearing next to him.

"No! Bad whatever the fuck your name was! Fucking giving me a heart attack, what the shit you stupid bastard, where's your fucking owner?!"

[heromedal]

Indrik seems not to react to Maverick’s tirade at all, his big red eyes just stare like the two brain cells between them are not colliding today.

Then a few seconds afterwards, he goes ‘pbbbt’ by trying to squeak without pulling his tongue back in.

[deuteranope]

UGH.

"I fucking hate you so fucking much, goddamn stupid monster asshole..." He quickly devolves into grumbles, gathering up his things and shoving them in his bag so that there are fewer targets for rampant destruction, then hopping to his feet so that's one step less towards running the fuck away if he needs to. Why did Rex's pet have to be so dumb and weird, why couldn't he just get a fucking cat, cats are great... And so, so much smarter.

"Pbbth right on back to you, dumbass. The fuck're you doing?"

Fireballs

[thebreakfastbug]

[As Rex's RA, Bee definitely recognizes Indrik on sight. And he's keeping a fair distance. He fires a text message Rex's way.]

It's 3pm, do you know where your Familiar is? Because I do, and he's becoming a fire hazard.

[He'll keep an eye on him, and he'll get involved if Indrik actually does manage to set anything on fire. That said, he not interested in trying to wrangle the Familiar without his armor.]

[heromedal]

Where?

[ Forgive the terse reply Bee, but Rex is well aware that Indrik can be dangerous despite his goofy nature- and if he's started developing his fire breath, someone has to do something about it. That someone is, naturally, Rex.

In the meantime, Indrik is enjoying scaring any student that enters an invisible ring around him. Step in, wee-BANG fireworks! ]

[thebreakfastbug]

The quad. I'll try to keep him from running off.

{Either by actually keeping him there, or getting the littl monster to chase him in circles.. Net effect of both was the same. Bee jogs over to where Indrik is terrorizing everyone.]

Time to knock it off Indrik. I already told Rex. He's not going to be happy with you and you know it.