Introducing Benvolio

[keep_the_peace]

Waking up in a strange bedroom, in a strange house, was bad enough, but then when Benvolio finally made his way to the front door he was greeted by snow outside. Summer might be coming to an end, but it definitely is not snow weather yet, nor is Benvolio dressed for such, in his black silk doublet, black and blue trimmed trunk hose, and black stockings. He does have shoes on, thankfully, though he can't imagine how he would have fallen asleep wearing shoes. It's not like he's had much opportunity to celebrate to the point of blacking out lately, after all.

Regardless, he takes one look at the snow outside and decides to shut the door and instead turn his attention to the table covered in different pamphlets and papers. He has many questions.

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[summerdude]

"Yeah, that makes sense," Magnus says, stretching... and clocking the mischief in Drosera's eyes. "Dro, go catch some fish for dinner, okay? We can give some to Mothwing and Angus."

angus!!!!!!!!!! Drosera shrieks, and she lopes off toward the sea, shaking snow off her feathers and fur as she runs.

"Angus," Magnus tells the new guy, "is this total dickhead of a tomcat, but Dro has the biggest crush on him." He adds, in stage-whisper, "I keep waiting for her to outgrow it."

[keep_the_peace]

Thankfully for Benvolio, the mansion translator takes pity and translates crush into something that makes sense in context, rather than a direct translation of the word itself, and he laughs. "Unless this tomcat is unlike any I have seen, it would seem Dro has already outgrown him by size, so hopefully the infatuation shall follow. What doth the cat do that is so offensive?"

[summerdude]

"Just... extreme frat bro vibes," Magnus says. "He's a womanizer and thinks he's, like, cock of the walk or something." He pauses. "I guess he's not that bad, but he's definitely not into fathering his children."

[keep_the_peace]

There's a few words in there Benvolio does not know, but he gets the gist close enough, he thinks. "I have known many people like that," he says, as if they aren't talking about a cat. "'Tis best to keep thy child away from such a man."

[summerdude]

"He's, like, mostly harmless in this situation, because -- as you said -- a griffin is a lot bigger than a cat, and she just has a kiddy kind of crush on him, but... at least he was a decent babysitter before she got too old for that."

[keep_the_peace]

Mercutio said something about Magnus being a demigod, right? Demigods probably have magic powers, right? "This may be foolish to ask, but forgive me, canst thou speak with this cat?" Because he's certainly acting like he has full on conversations with it.

[summerdude]

"Huh? Oh, yeah. Any animal, actually, but I only have, like, telepathy with fish."

[keep_the_peace]

"Telepathy?"

[summerdude]

"Well, not true telepathy. I can't read all their thoughts or anything. I can mostly just figure out what they're feeling."

[keep_the_peace]

"Have they... many troubles?" He never considered the feelings of fish before.

[summerdude]

"Only if you take away their water," Magnus says. "Or if Dro decides to take a swim, I guess."

[keep_the_peace]

He laughs. "'Tis easy to see why those issues would be troublesome."

[summerdude]

"Yeah. Like, not to quote the Lorax, but it does seem to suck to be a fish out of water on hot dry land."

[keep_the_peace]

"What is the Lorax?"

[summerdude]

"Oh! He's this guy from a book and a cartoon. Kind of a weird orange creature? His whole thing is he speaks for the trees." Magnus is still lowkey annoyed that he can't speak to trees himself.

[keep_the_peace]

Ah, some sort of fae from a story then. "As well as the fish, it seems."

[summerdude]

"Well, in the movie, they can sing." Magnus pauses, something occurring to him. "Wait. Has anyone told you about movies yet?"

[keep_the_peace]

"I am afraid not."

[summerdude]

"Okay, it's short for moving picture," probably. "They're stories that you can watch, kinda like a play, but they're put on a screen and you can watch the exact same thing again and again. It has moving pictures and also sounds."

[keep_the_peace]

He's definitely picturing something a little closer to a puppet show where you've got pictures pasted onto popsicle sticks for the puppets than what a movie actually is. "Ah, perhaps I will see one some time then. Do they happen often?"

[summerdude]

"Um... not here," Magnus says, with real regret. "Or at least, I haven't found any. Or a DVD player or VHS. --Those are the things that play them. We do have a TV -- which is what you play movies on -- but it really only does video games."

[keep_the_peace]

There's not a lot of words in there that Benvolio understood. "...There is much here I need to learn," he says in response.

[summerdude]

Okay, he's definitely losing him. "I only bring it up because sometimes people -- me, mostly, but also Shen Yuan, whenever you meet him -- are gonna mention movies. If I ever find one, you'll be the first one I show it to, okay?"

[keep_the_peace]

Benvolio nods, making an attempt to commit all of this brand new information to memory. "That would be much appreciated, I thank thee. I should like to see one of these pictures that move."

[summerdude]

"We'll do what we can, dude," Magnus says, grinning. "So how are you settling in? Having fun with Mercutio?"