1 Time Loop ☼ Video

[knightime]

[The first thing the video feed picks up is a ton of red feathers.]

Damn it! Get back here with that.

[There's some rustling before you see the face of a baby chocobo and Dave picking it up along with his communicator.]

Well, there you guys go. Dave fucking Strider got won out by this little feathery asshole. Said feathery asshole still doesn't have a name though, so this is where you guys come in.

Give me some good ol' name ideas and I might choose one to name him. As much as I love calling him feathery asshole, I don't think he really likes the name. And it would be fucking rude of me to keep calling him that. And it's kind of long anyways.

I had some names in mind, but calling him Bro would be really sappy and lame.

[He stops for a minute before talking as though he meant to say that.] Right. So give me your best shot. You'll probably see me around town with him by the way. [Dave ends the feed.]

Comments

[withoutasign]

Would you mind playing something for me? I'd really like to hear it.

[knightime]

I wouldn't mind I guess, but I don't think I have any shit to play at the moment.

Gonna have to give me time to procure that shit before I can let out a sicknasty song that'll blow your shit away.

[withoutasign]

All right. Please let me know when you get all that together; I'm looking forward to hearing it!

[The chick on Signless' shoulder, who has been riding along docilely enough, suddenly peeps loudly and launches himself at Dave.]

Heh... I think he wants to hear some ... beats?... too.

[He brightens up.]

How about that for a name? Beats?

[knightime]

[He makes a slightly undignified noise before catching the chocobo before it could do anything. Like maul his face off. Or worst. Hit the floor. He is not going to have his pet turn into chocobo pancakes.]

Huh. That doesn't seem to bad. [Why is naming this thing so difficult.]

I'm pretty sure he wants to maul my face then steal my sunglasses. It's his master plan as of late.

[withoutasign]

[Signless sees the way you act around that chick, Dave, and you're not fooling him. He knows you're completely smitten with the little bird.]

He probably just wants something to play with. Do you have an old pair of glasses you could give him to chew on? Maybe then he'd stop going for yours.

[knightime]

[It is his pet. Don't judge him just because he's attached.]

I've tried letting him play with other shit. He just really likes stealing my shades. It's like it's his job every morning to fucking have them and me trying to get it back.

Little dude needs to realize that he has to earn them first. [In the meantime, it seems to be biting at his fingers again.]

[withoutasign]

[It's because the chick looooooves you, Dave.]

What about Shades? Maybe you could name him that.

[Signless is not good at this names thing.]

[knightime]

I'm sorely tempted to just call him Feathery Asshole Strider. Except he'll get the last name Strider regardless. Need to make him official family. Since it's all I got apparently. [Scowling again.]

[withoutasign]

You could call him F.A. for short.

[Signless reaches out, trying to distract the chick from Dave's fingers with his own. He's concentrating solely on the bird when he speaks again, almost as if he's talking to the chocobo.]

I know, little one. You're not with the family you were born with any longer, are you? But you've made a new one, haven't you? Dave is your family now, and I'm sure you'll make other friends that will be part of your family too.

[He looks up at Dave then, staring straight into his shades with his red, red eyes.]

I'd be part of your family, if you'd let me.

[knightime]

Tempted. But weren't you the one who told me I shouldn't even be calling him Feathery Asshole?

[Dave's chocobo start biting at Signless' fingers. Nomnomnom.]

Woah, what? [Shifting awkwardly now. Could you not stare at him so intently like that? It makes him feel like you can see passed the tinted glasses. And he rather not lose his shit like that.]

[withoutasign]

[Signless looks at Dave for a second more, then drops his gaze back to the chick.]

Hmmm? I was talking to F.A.

[knightime]

[Said chick pecks the tip of his nose curiously. Dave just raises his eyebrow.]

And we can be the hugest fucking human troll pet family everyone has ever seen.

[withoutasign]

If you'd like that. I'd like that.

[knightime]

I don't care I guess. If everyone wants to be a fucking family, then go all out. No one is stopping anyone. [Gonna just drink his apple juice moodily.]

[withoutasign]

Okay. That sounds like a good idea to me.

[Dave: Gain One Troll Dad!]

[knightime]

[Welp. Why does he keep gaining parents out of the blue?]

Got to say though. This family is off its fucking rocking horse.

[withoutasign]

[Oh look, Dave, you have your Troll Dad's eyes!]

I understand that happens sometimes with families.

[knightime]

[Oh shit. We are not talking about the color of eyes. This is a conversation that won't happen for awhile. Even if Game Bro Strider wants his sunglasses for some fucking ridiculous reason.]

Yeah, just this one is full of fuck ups.

[withoutasign]

[Oh, is that the chick's name? Game Bro Strider?]

As long as we all care about each other, right?

[knightime]

[John continues to successfully partly name these pets apparently.]

I guess so. Not very often I can tell people that my relatives might be some alien race from a completely different fucking universe that actually created mine.

Yep.

[withoutasign]

You have to admit, though... it'd be a good conversation starter.

[Playing with the chick some more, om nom nom, delicious troll fingers!]

[knightime]

Or everyone will think I'm off my rocker.

I feel like you're more in love with him then I am. [You can't see the eyeroll he makes, watching Signless play with the rambunctious chocobo.]

[withoutasign]

Oh, he's just interested in me right now because I'm new and giving him attention. Watch, as soon as I stop playing, he'll go back to you.

[Which is what Signless does, moving his fingers out of the chick's range and standing quietly again.]

[knightime]

[It only take a few seconds for Game Bro Strider to start tugging at Dave's sleeve with its beak, making small KWARKs at him.

This is also Dave, failing miserable at keeping a straight face because he smiles a bit.] It's only because he's kind of dumb.

[withoutasign]

Or because he likes you best.