caughtinanetwork | > Nepeta and Gamzee: Ship all the things

[When the recording starts the picture is moving along in a rather strange, jerky motion, up to a door that gets headbutted open by the feathery head that's holding the starfish in its mouth, revealing...

...what seems to be the low-lit interior of something more akin to a cave than a room, littered with messy piles of soft scraps and plushies and yarn and even the occasional teapot.

A monstrous shadow looms on the wall, a fearsome looking four-horned creature.]

You're the best, Gamzee! I'd nefur have been able to reach to use all that extra wall if you weren't here, nope nope nope!

[And with a squawk the chocobo drops the SFC, sending it cartwheeling until it points at the origins of that shadow, a messier-than-usual kitty troll perched on a clown troll's shoulders, various hues of paint staining her hands and clothes and even her cheeks, still dripping a bright red from an outstretched paintbrush that had been adding the finishing touches to a heart high up on:]

Oh, Pounce! Hi Pounce! I'm really glad that Gamzee brought you to visi...POUNCE WHERE DID YOU GET THAT?! OH NOOOOO...

[She attempts to leap at the wall to block it from view; this doesn't go well when instead it just makes both trolls topple over in a tangle of limbs.]

My wallllllll! [click!]

((ooc: image by our amazing Gamzee-mun!))

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Wait here, aight? I'll go grab 'em.

[He doesn't keep his picture album in his sylladex. He loves his miracle modus, but there is no denying it sometimes swallows items for weeks at a time as a joke. It is a bit silly like that.]

Okay! I'll wait!

[And she will, rolling around and answering people on her SFC and fluffing Pounce's feathers a bit.]

[It is a good thing their houses are so near! It means he is back in hardly any time at all, clutching a huge, very nice looking picture album to his chest. It is his treasure!]

[GUESS WHO IS WAITING BEHIND THE DOOR FOR A KITTY HUG ATTACK?]

[OH NO IT IS A MONSTER

no wait, just Nepeta.

He laughs, catching her with one arm, and half stumbling over to one of her piles, flopping down onto it and dragging her down with.]

I'm back!

Heehee, I know! I want to see the photos!

[Just lying on his tummy like a comfy little kitty now.]

[He tucks her properly under his chin, arranging them in such a way that they can both see the pictures as he thumbs open the book. It is filled to the brim with those kind of snapshots you'd get if you'd follow the daily lives of two people living together. Nothing seems posed, but everything in the pictures is very very really. Even if a little out of focus sometimes.

Gamzee's voice is a low comforting rumble as he points out pictures sometimes.]

That were my good bro all fuckin' working on those violins of his. Motherfucker was amazing at that. Made fuckin' miracles happen. And that were him playing it. Oh. And that were the time I sorta all went and smashed a jar of motherfuckin' jelly on my nug.

[you know, same old, same old, daily life pictures.]

[Yaaay, storytime with Gamzee! She snuggles up beneath his chin, fixes her hood which had been knocked askew when pouncing him - she needs to get a good view of the photos, after all, and purrs happily as he starts showing her all those precious memories of his life with his first moirail.]

He looks so nice, Gamzee! And furry clefur too. It looks like you had a really good time together!

He was real smart. And really fuckin' nice and good to every motherfucker and I wish you could've met him. You would've like him is what I'm all thinking.

I wish I could have met him too! I bet we'd have been really good furrends. Maybe one day I will...you nefur know.

Yeah! He all like fuckin' came back once, maybe he'll be coming back again.

[Except that was after five days and not after more than five months like now. But gotta keep the hope alive. That is the only thing he can do.]

Uh huh! That's right!

[And she'll believe it's possible for his sake, kitty-nuzzling at his hair for a moment.]

Do you have more photos?

[He pats the picture book.]

Just alla these. We didn't-- I fuckin' got this all when they fuckin' celebrated 12th Perigee's Eve. Fuckin' magic gift, you know. How did they even all know a motherfucker was missing getting his gander on for his ol' pale bro's face?

Ohhh. I see! I don't know how they could have known but they seemed to know I was missing Pounce too and that was when I got my plushie of her!

[Said plushie is pulled out of the large trenchcoat pocket where Nepeta keeps her whenever she's not being hugged, and then placed reverently on the photo album.]

[He smiles, patting the pounce plushie for a moment.]

This magic land is real fuckin' good to us, yeah?

It is! Much nicer than Alternia efur was.

[Pounce plushie seems to like that! Judging by how she now sits on his shoulder instead, Nepeta giggling as she makes the plushie pretend to lick him.]

[He laughs, happy to play along.]

Woah, now ain't you mess up a brother's paint none, Pounce. That's shit's wicked important.

['Pounce' purrs apologetically and settles on his head instead, grooming his hair for him as Nepeta collapses giggling against Gamzee's shoulder.]

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