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daybreakacademy2019-03-20 09:26 pm
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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. ))
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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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!?"
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"I've only seen one other. Its breath was... much more impressive a conflagration," he explains without informing Toki the 'other' Indrik was actually the same one currently making a frustrated face at the chair and trying again with the fireballs. This time he launches several in a row, which does start to have an effect. Rex steps over to grip Indrik's mane lightly.
"No. Don't."
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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?"
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Going down on one knee, Rex grips the sides of Indrik's jaw with one hand in a way that makes him open up, letting him looking inside for bits of chair leg. In case there's anything sharp stuck in there or something. Once he's done, he gets a tongue across his face for the trouble. Another sigh from him.
"This one takes it from me."
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"So he sucks out your life-force!?"
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He lets go of Indrik's mane, then glances over at the fire pits. It might be an idea to test it all out after all.
"It has been difficult so far to quantify the energy that he receives from me, but it seems to always be equally split between us and losing it appears to have no detrimental effect on me."
He stands and jabs a thumb at the firepits, wordlessly asking if Toki does want to see stuff fire.
"Unfortunately some forms of spiritual magic are rather... abstract, like that."
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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!?"
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"Well, the adolescent one I saw was ten metres tall or so and it was... quite alarming to be in its presence."
Toki probably knows Rex well enough by now that he gets 'quite alarming' from Rex probably means 'pants wettingly terrifying' and he barely survived it by luck alone. He shudders lightly at the memory, not only because of that but because that day was also the deepest he went into the disgusting euphoria of a fight to the death.
"But that one was drawing power from an entire mountain range and I'm just one human. I doubt he'll be such a beast."
Unless the human spirit is, you know, infinite and impossibly precious or something but pfffft that can't be right.
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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.
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Meanwhile, the fat baby has scampered after them when they wandered towards the firepit and manages to gallop into the back of Rex's knees. "Kon da te ebe!"
Which is Bulgarian for 'get fucked by a horse' and is what Rex shouts as he falls down with his idiot creature on top of him.
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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?'
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Rex spends a moment on the ground, propping up his chin with one hand and rapping on the floor impatiently with his fingers with the other, Indrik sitting on him with tongue hanging out. It looks exactly like a villain and his comic relief idiot sidekick. "And are we intending to get off anytime soon?"
Indrik jolts upwards and bounces off, clattering through some chairs as Rex gets up, brushing himself off.
"...Let's just see what will burn or not. Indrik! Over here!"
He smacks his fingers against his palm repeatedly, the signal for the beast to come over. Now, how to get him to... Okay, Rex goes on one knee and holds Indrik's mane to aim him. "What's first?"
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"Let's try this one~!"
He stands back to observe and take notes.
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Weee! Ka-Boom!
The box is singed by the first one, but Rex pats his side to encourage him. It's fine! Go nuts! A barrage of firework balls go off, quite a thundering bang, but the singe turns into scorch, turns into actually on fire! The flames themselves burn with the same dazzling array of colour as the firework blasts for a little while before they turn to normal fire.
"Interesting."
And Indrik is given a small piece of coal from Rex's pocket. He loves it, crunching away with a meep.
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"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!"
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Since the statue is shaped like an animal, Indrik doesn't hesitate this time. He rears up, sucking in air and lets loose not a fireworks ball but a constant stream- it still seems to be mostly sparks, some of which whizz off in random directions, but after about thirty seconds the statue... goes a bit droopy and Indrik has to stop and catch his breath.
"...Good job!" Good job, fat baby! He gets another small piece of coal. After a second, Rex offers Toki a handful of coal bits. "Do you want to feed him?"
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"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!?"
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Rex gives Toki such a fucking look for his question though. It lasts so long and is so baffled that Indrik notices, looking up at Rex as he swallows his coal and then turns to give Toki the exact same look, or as close as his cow face can get..
"Toki. If I was going to build a robot, would I make it anything like Indrik?"
No one builds a robot to be a fat useless idiot son of a bitch rat bastard.
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"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!"
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"But then he would still be as useless as he actually is, but I would have gone through a great deal of trouble making him."
Come on Toki. Rex, despite all evidence, doesn't think Toki is dumb. He just doesn't think things through all the way. It's Rex's duty to prod him in the right direction.
"If I were to make a mechanical beast I would make it vastly more impressive."
...Well, there's an idea...
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"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~!"
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"...I'm not sure what about me gave you the impression I'd ever build something that had no practical use."
Indeed, Rex did just fine for twelve years choosing weapons over companionship and it didn't scar him mentally or anything.
"Or at a minimum, was not a burden to me."
Indrik hears the word 'detriment' and seems to think it's a name of his, turning full and butting against one of Rex's hands, which instantly strokes the mane.
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"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~!"
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"Who said that about you?"
The tone he says it with has a very 'so I know who to beat up' angle to it, because as little as Rex thinks of himself the reaction to Toki talking badly of himself is that someone has been making him feel bad about himself. That loud grave voice inside of Rex says it's just a way to keep up that false pretence of the promise to protect him but...
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"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?"
This conversation has gone to a confusing place.
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