[GP] puppies and kitties and buns, oh my!

[st_ubby]

Not everyone had a Trinket, Vex thought during a lazy afternoon tickle fight-turned-cuddle session with her most excellent bear. In fact, most people wouldn't want a Trinket, but that was because they lacked appreciation for the finest things in life. They probably would've liked him better when he was still a cub.

Aaaaaw, Trink had been so fucking cute when he was a baby.

Baby animals were always cute. Even the dangerous ones.

Whether it was a harmless twist to her brother's penchant for pranks or a desire to shake things up a little in this resort prison that was way too quiet or hint of boredom and curiosity about the limited magic Vex had, she couldn't say, but one Conjure Animals later, and her room was full of small, fluffy, cuddly baby animals... and one much larger bear sniffing at them in confusion.

Looking very pleased with herself – and okay, a little surprised at just how many fuzzballs there were – Vex opened the door to her room. "There are lots of people here. Go make friends and have some fun."

The animals tumbled, stalk-pounced, and hopped out of her room and all over the inn looking for people to play with, and just before they were out of her sight, Vex added, "And if you see my brother... you can pee on him if you want."

[OOC: fey creatures in the form of baby animals invade the inn for an hour. have fun. feel free to link to pics or gifs of the cuteness in your tags if you'd like.]

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Vex - OTA

[st_ubby]

Vex had left Trinket sprawled out on his bed with a tiny puppy climbing him like a mountain, both of them looking as happy as could be, and went out to see the effects of her spell. One of those purry effects had wound itself insistently around her ankles and was now tucked away somewhere safe and warm (with memories of doing the same with a polymorphed Trinket) waiting to surprise someone, and Vex murmured softly to her new buddy as she walked into the cafe for lunch. They could share some chicken if nothing else.

Re: Vex - OTA

[st_abby]

Vax was as surprised to see the albino wiggle-noodle as it was to see him, when the both of them came around a corner and stopped to stare at the other. He'd never actually seen a wild animal indoors here, not even so much as a rat, which struck him as strange on its own. But even outdoors in the tall grass of the meadow, he'd never seen a snake quite like this. It was no bigger than his hand, as he caught it up for closer inspection, the snake curiously wrapping around his fingers and sniffing about, but not looking much aggressive or upset. It was really rather cute.

"Sister dear," he sing-song called over at her once he'd spotted Vex coming into the cafe, giving the noodle's head some soft little scritches with the pad of his gloved thumb. "Take a look at this! You think they're poisonous, or no?" He? She? Who knew with snakes?

Re: Vex - OTA

[st_ubby]

"It won't bite. Not unless it's attacked. It just wants to be friends," Vex assured him as she came to get a closer look at Vax's new snake buddy. "But no, it shouldn't be poisonous anyway. Cute, not deadly, is the theme of the day. Haven't you noticed?"

Re: Vex - OTA

[st_ockandbarrel]

Percy wasn't looking for Vex specifically, but he was hardly displeased to see her as he entered the cafe from another door. He crossed the dining area to her and touched her hip by way of greeting. "We seem to have something of an infestation of small animals, today."

Her cleavage seemed to be purring. Percy was not surprised, though he was a bit envious of the critter.

Re: Vex - OTA

[st_ubby]

"It's not an infestation," she corrected with mock indignation, after acknowledging the touch with a playful wink. They were in public, after all, where discretion was the better part of Percy's affection, and one of the many things Vex found charming about him.

"They're ambassadors of joy, fun, and mostly fluffy cuddles. "

Caroline [OTA]

[st_raighttovampire]

Caroline left the back office feeling hungry and a little annoyed that she hadn't set up that blood bank like Regina had suggested. Now she was going to have to trek out to the stables and find Lindsey (and avoid Snow who still treated her like a demon which was strange because Snow shouldn't even remember Caroline was a vampire.) She'd taken three steps into the lobby when a rabbit ran across her foot.

Caroline stopped. Looked around.

There were three rabbits in the lobby. And not the long, skinny hares that dashed around in the surrounding chaparral, more bone than anything, but fat proper rabbits like she had learned from Stefan to use in place of eating humans.

Caroline eyed the rabbit nearest her. The rabbit eyed her back.

Was she really thinking about becoming a bunny murderer to avoid walking out to the stables? Yes. Yes, she was.

She glanced around, didn't see anyone else, and darted quickly after the bunny.

Re: Caroline [OTA]

[st_illsabrae]

The blonde might not have seen anyone, but someone definitely saw her. Merrill tilted her head and watched the woman hunting rather...oddly. Surely no one was going to be able to catch anything like that.

Without thinking too much about it, Merrill cast ensnare at the rabbit. She'd done it enough times over the years when Tamlen and Mahariel were being insufferable and weren't the best hunters yet. At least, until the Keeper scolded her for it.

Re: Caroline [OTA]

[st_raighttovampire]

Vines snaked up from the ground and pinned the rabbit in place. Caroline froze, as effectively as if she'd been snared as well. Her head whipped around, blue eyes seeking the source of the magic - because it was definitely magic - and spotted the waif-thin elf that she'd somehow missed before.

...maybe she'd think the blurring speed had been...a trick of the light?

Caroline cleared her throat and straightened her shoulders. "Hello."

Vax - OTA

[st_abby]

After determining the small white snake he'd found squiggling about didn't have fangs, Vax'ildan was entirely happy to give it friendly pets and let it squirm about his person more or less as it pleased. "I know you're not here long," he told the snake from where he'd sat them at a table in the cafe. The snake itself had curled around his neck for a bit, then slid itself over to investigate one black, feathery shoulder, where Vax had tipped his face towards the thing to watch. "But maybe you should have a name for the time being. If there's other snakes about, we don't want to go getting you confused," he said by way of silly excuse. "Simon's been taken. If you've got other ideas, I'm all ears."

Re: Vax - OTA

[st_upidgravity]

"What about Sebastian?" Steph asked, amusement clear in her tone. She strolled over and dropped into an opposite chair, holding a glass of orange juice. A robin perched on her shoulder, half-hidden by her hair. "Or Helga, if it's a girl."

Re: Vax - OTA

[st_abby]

"My stubbier half, in all her knowledge about such things, says he's a boy." Vax reached to scoop up the long body carefully with one hand and then the other, holding the snake out cupped between them for Steph's approval. He didn't know if she'd much appreciate snakes or not, but the big-eyed smiley-noodle leaned its face in her direction as if to smell what she was about.

Re: Vax - OTA

[st_illsabrae]

Merrill didn't know where the little white fawn had come from, but he seemed to enjoy wobbling after her, so she wasn't going to argue over much with it. It was the closest to a halla she'd seen in months.

It leaned heavily against her leg and squawked up at her. She didn't- She wasn't involved with the halla. How on earth was she meant to know what they needed.

Out of the corner of her eye, she caught feathered shoulders and didn't even think that much before she turned and reached for the elbow. Anders. Anders knew about animals. He could help. "I think he's- Oh. Hello. You're not Anders. I'm sorry. The feathers threw me off."

Re: Vax - OTA

[st_abby]

Vax turned to blink at the elven girl with the curious tattoos for a moment before it sank in what she meant. "The tall fellow with the cat and the staff," he supposed. He thought he'd seen the two together at one point, though he hadn't exactly made proper introductions with either of them. "Yeah, no, you've got the wrong brooding bird."

He might've been more guarded around her, what with the ears and the very little love to be lost there. But it was difficult to be cool and serious when the girl had a huge-eyed fawn that was all legs and wobbly knees bumping along at her side, and he found himself smiling at the pair.

Re: Vax - OTA

[st_ableandbar]

Lindsey needed a drink, and beer wasn't going to suffice. Which was the only reason he was in the main building today, studiously ignoring the line of ducklings stupid enough to have imprinted on him of all people. When he saw emo-bird, boy-twin elf – Vax, not to be confused with his sister Vex who had a bear she didn't hide nearly as well as she thought she did although there had to be magic involved somehow, and no, it didn't matter Lindsey'd never been formally introduced, not knowing things was a good way to get yourself in trouble Lindsey didn't need – playing with a snake, he paused. Why couldn't Lindsey have been that lucky? Fucking ducks.

"I didn't know we were a stop on the Whitesnake reunion tour." No, he didn't expect Vax to get the reference. Yes, he made it anyway.

Re: Vax - OTA

[st_abby]

It was the very growly stablehand, Vax realized as he glanced over. Which was something of a surprise, because he didn't seem to much like talking to anybody, except for the girl that hardly ever spoke herself. Though they'd seen one another now and again, Vax had never quite exchanged more than two words at a time with the man.

"Have you got one as well?"

Constance - OTA

[st_eadiesthefour]

Constance didn't know what was wrong with her today. She'd been fine. Then the most adorable puppy had run up so fast it had bowled into her and turned heels over head in its excitement. It really was the cutest thing tugging on her apron strings and bouncing about, all eager to please and to play, with huge sweet eyes, and... next thing she knew, she was sitting on the floor, head in her hands as tears overflowed her eyes. The puppy licked the tears from her cheeks and nuzzled under her chin, and she pat it vaguely while trying to hold the tears back with her other hand.

Re: Constance - OTA

[st_arkcrowblack]

Snow White was generally still rather bewildered that other people could cry, let alone that they actually did it. It made her world tilt in ways she still did not fully grasp. Carefully she approached, sitting beside Constance with the fox kit in her lap. She stayed quiet for a long moment before drawing a breath and quietly asking, "Pourquoi vous pleurez?"

Re: Constance - OTA

[st_eadiesthefour]

Constance stiffened when she felt someone sit beside her, but the puppy only clambered over her legs to try to sniff at the newcomer, so there probably wasn't any immediate danger. She was taking a deep breath, trying to pull herself together when she recognized Snow's voice.

Wiping the tears from her face, Constance blinked away the ones waiting to fall – or tried to – and gave Snow a hint of smile she didn't feel but wanted to. "Je ne sais."

OTA

[st_affandskull]

If there was one major result of being trapped in what amounted to a very large terrarium entirely lacking in demons, rebel mages, insane templars, and attacking wildlife, it was that Dorian tended to get lost inside his own mind more often than he might have otherwise. Virtually no one here knew - or cared! - where he'd come from, and just as few cared that he was a mage.

It was certainly relaxing, and a bit boring, hence the keeping himself company.

But that was also why, when he picked up the teacup that he'd been forgetting was empty for several minutes already, he just barely managed to stop himself from attempting to drink a rather adorable tiny dog that had somehow found its way into the cup. "So it's going to be one of those days, is it?"

The puppy made what Dorian assumed to be an agreeable sort of noise and leaned mostly out of the cup to try and lick his hand.

"Yes, you're very cute." And decidedly magical, but somehow experimenting on the puppy to figure out how it had come to be felt... wrong. Because it was very cute.

Re: OTA

[st_ubby]

Her brother had – unsurprisingly – introduced himself to the somewhat glorious if not at all Gilmore spellcaster months ago, Vex knew, but she hadn't gotten around to it herself. Time to do something about that.

She slid into a seat next to him and flashed a smile. "One of those unexpectedly awesome days, you mean?"

Re: OTA

[st_affandskull]

"Entirely possible!" Dorian replied cheerfully, with an answering grin. "Assuming 'awesome day' might be defined as 'the sort of day where one absentmindedly attempts to consume a puppy." To prevent that from happening again, he removed the puppy from the cup and let it roll around on his hand instead.

Re: OTA

[st_illsabrae]

The little white fawn was being so stubborn Merrill was of a mind to call it Mahariel out of spite. She was kneeling on the ground with it as it wobbled around her, nudging and being all too chatty as sometimes small things were wont to do.

"We've already established that you're not hungry and you don't really know how to play so what is it? Hm? I don't know where your herd is, love, I'm sorry."

Snow White - OTA

[st_arkcrowblack]

Snow was lounging under a tree in a rare moment of contentment as she teased a tiny fox with the end of one of her long braids. The little animal tried to pounce on her hair, on her hand, tried to follow the thing that tickled, and she actually laughed. Soft and warm, not harsh and jangling and mocking as most of her laughter was. She laughed when she was wounded more than when she was pleased.

She gathered him up on her belly and he chewed on her finger, not hard enough to break skin. Snow remembered her own dear fox Thompson back home who had chewed on everything and followed her faithfully. She knew that had meant I love you.

Re: Snow White - OTA

[st_ubby]

Vex had wanted to see what sort of response the sudden influx of cute was having, and sometimes that was easier to do if people didn't realize at first she was around. That was the only reason she was being sneaky, but when she heard that easy laughter and saw Snow playing with the fox kit, she was glad for the stealth. This was why she'd wanted to do the spell the way she had. Not for Snow specifically, although Vex would keep it in mind for the future.

She only watched for a few moments, though, before moving into view still a ways away. "Trinket's going to be jealous."

For Illyana

[st_oriedqueen]

Regina had made the mistake of going out to see what the fuss was about. Then she'd seen her daughter teasing a baby fox with a braid, and it was the most unguarded she'd ever seen her, and Regina was stuck. She couldn't just walk away from that sight.

And the next thing she knew, she had a baby hedgehog in her hair, a baby deer chewing on the hem of her skirt, and of all fucking things (because she needed a reminder of wolves right now??), a baby wolf pouncing on her feet and "attacking" them when she moved.

"You've got the wrong Disney princess," she snarled and summoned a small ball of flame to her hand.