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Rex Arany ([personal profile] heromedal) wrote in [community profile] daybreakacademy2019-03-20 09:26 pm

It was gonna happen sometime.

🐄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. ))

[personal profile] yokeye 2019-03-22 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"He doesn't!? Well, I guess he didn't choose to come to the alchemy labs and that was all me~!"

Watching Indrik with the chair dampens the excitement of the fireballs somewhat. They're not as destructive as suspected.

"Wait, what did you mean he'd do it eventually!? Are there more of them out there!?"

[personal profile] yokeye 2019-03-22 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"Just one? They must be endangered!"

It was sad to think so. He imagines an entire herd of Indriks traipsing over the purple sand in the Outlands.

"Is he like an Outlands species?"

[personal profile] yokeye 2019-03-22 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Toki was right (maybe) about parasitic familiars after all.

"So he sucks out your life-force!?"

[personal profile] yokeye 2019-03-23 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Toki still thinks of magical things in science terms, so he's expecting that there should be some sort of exchange in funneling power to Indrik. But magic doesn't work that way.

He is all for continuing the experiments on Indrik's fire and heads for the firepits at Rex's suggestion.

"How much power do you think he'll have eventually!? Oh! Will he also get bigger!?"

[personal profile] yokeye 2019-03-23 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh my god, that's gigantic!"

Indrik may be cute as he is, but one three times as big as Yuya's dragon would register as a monster. Toki eyes Indrik a little warily, imagining him growing to frightening proportions and melting buildings with fireballs.

[personal profile] yokeye 2019-03-23 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
King of Beasts is a title Toki hopes cute little Indrik never has to live up to. Toki sets out his previously gathered items by the firepits in ascending order of flammability. He laughs as Indrik manages to take down Rex. The creature was at the perfect height for that in comparison.

The phrase isn't funny in translation, though. The academy app goes from amusing 'get fucked by a horse' to the simplistic 'stop' in Japanese, instead of a direct translation.

"How do you want to do this?"

Rex may have a better idea for keeping track of data on Indrik; Toki's original plan was little more than 'will this burn or not?'

[personal profile] yokeye 2019-03-24 01:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Toki's amused by Rex and Indrik. He doesn't often see Rex as anything but calm and almost stoic; mostly because he rarely gets the jokes Rex attempts. Toki looks over his selections and picks up a small wooden box. He sets it in the firepit, in line wit Indrik's current position.

"Let's try this one~!"

He stands back to observe and take notes.

[personal profile] yokeye 2019-03-24 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Toki's a bit mesmerized by the rainbow flames. The color doesn't last, and that snaps him back to what he was supposed to be doing. He scribbles down the characteristics of the fire and details about the box. He sets a larger paperweight or desk decoration statue thing (he doesn't know what it is) next to the still smouldering box. He's not sure what it's made out of, some kind of pewter-ish metal or the like.

"Think it will melt, or burn!? Oh! And later, we should see if he can burn things that have the fire protection rune on them! Because it's like magic fire!"

[personal profile] yokeye 2019-03-25 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
No. No, he doesn't. Indrik could melt his fingers off; look at the statue!

"Yes~!"

He takes the offered coal bits and holds one out to Indrik hesitantly. However, he quickly forgets the hazards presented by Indrik's fire that close to his hand. Toki has a thought. If the beast eats coal and makes fire, is it like a stove or a steam engine... is Indrik a machine and not an animal? Did Rex like build him with synthetic scales and fur and just go around telling people Indrik is some weird familiar? Is he remote-controlled somehow, or independent like the golems?

"Is he a robot!?"

[personal profile] yokeye 2019-03-25 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Toki laughs nervously as they both stare at him for what feels like forever. Was is that weird of a question? It made perfect sense to him. That reaction is starting to make him think he's right, and Rex is covering it up. Indrik is a robot.

"I think... yes. If you don't want anyone to know he's a robot, you wouldn't make him look like the conventional ideas of robots, right!? People would never suspect a fat cow lizard thing!"

[personal profile] yokeye 2019-03-25 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
He thought that through completely, Rex.

"He's not useless! He's a companion~! You made a robot friend~! They don't all have to be impressive and destructive! You can just talk to companion robots and they'll never tell you you're wrong or interrupt you~!"

[personal profile] yokeye 2019-03-25 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Toki knows how Indrik feels about those types of words used more often than your name. Which is his point.

"You're friends with me and I'm definitely in the 'burdensome companion' category, right!? No practical use whatsoever, so it stands to reason you'd have the same standards for robot friends~!"

[personal profile] yokeye 2019-03-25 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
At first, Toki thinks he's said something wrong, because Rex's expression is... not good. Before he can apologize, Rex asks the question. He's overreacting to this, like it's an insult and not a fact.

"Uhh. A lot of people? I mean, not exactly that all the time, but some people are definitely more direct about it and then there's the more subtle like euphemisms or the way they look, you know! I guess it wrong to say Indrik was at like that level of uselessness, but you kind of said he was! I'm sorry?"

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