Ickle Meatships!

[bluebrassmonkey.livejournal.com]

Hopefully no one sues me for semi-stealing the SLEEP meme format but!



ICKLE!

Think about or think back on the childhood days/younger days of your character (or your character now if they already are kids). There's a huge playroom with a mountain of toys....

Have fun, Kids! And no fightings!

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TINY PLAYBOY AL- wait what

[notlewis]

This cute little guy is sitting next to a massive stack of books over in the corner, reading one that looks too big and heavy for him to even lift up. It's called The Physician's Reference Guide to the Human Anatomy.

TINY HEALER ALERT

[notastaffchick.livejournal.com]

"What are you reading?" Hunter asks from the other side of the stack of books. He's not quite tall enough to see the cover sitting down.

[notlewis]

"Physician's Reference Guide to the Human Anatomy." Spoken in a thick Spanish accent, still a bit unfamiliar with conversational English. "Want to see?"

[notastaffchick.livejournal.com]

"Sure. Are you Mexican?" Hunter asks, more out of curiosity than anything. He's from a tiny town in the middle of Georgia, and has the accent to match... all Hispanic people tend to be labeled 'Mexican', no matter their background.

[notlewis]

Luis sits forward and deposits the book on the floor, smoothing out the pages for the other kid to look at. It's a positively thrilling chapter about neurons and dendrites. Ooooh!

"Soy de Valencia, España," he replied, then paused to decipher the English. "I am from Valencia, Spain. De donde eres?"

[notastaffchick.livejournal.com]

Oooh, the nervous system. Hunter's not quite sure of all the technical names for things, but he can pretty much tell anyone who'll listen how it works and how to fix it.

"Eth-pawn-yah..." Hunter says, cheerfully mangling the Spanish pronunciation. "Sorry, what'd you ask?"

[notlewis]

"No no. Es-pahn-ya," Luis corrects. "And I asked where you are from. Americano? Texas, right?"

[notastaffchick.livejournal.com]

"Nah, I'm from Georgia. Texas is a ways away from Sparks, anyhow." Hunter says, shaking his head as he sneaks a look at the next page in the textbook.

[notlewis]

Oh, well he sounded like he was from Texas anyway. Luis had been to the cinema enough to count on one hand but he could hear an American accent easily.

"Have you read this book before?"

[notastaffchick.livejournal.com]

"Not this one." Hunter says. "My gramma got me an anatomy book for Christmas, but it was a kiddie picture-book one, and..." Hunter's face makes it very clear that he is well past kiddie picture-books, especially ones about anatomy.

[notlewis]

Oh man, Luis could sympathize. "Eww. The ones for little kids are no good, they don't even have all the right systems and organs in them!"

Tiny bot alert? IDK he was pretty tiny to start with.

[emotionl4arobot.livejournal.com]

Brainy glances at the title. "Oh, I've read that," he says dismissively. There's a beat before he adds in smug overtones; "It's outdated."

It begins.

[notlewis]

Luis looks up at the other kid, eyes him suspiciously for a moment, and then goes back to reading. "I borrowed it from Señor Mendez. Abuelo said I can have a new one for my birthday."

Whatever are you talking about? They'll totally be BFFs.

[emotionl4arobot.livejournal.com]

"I suppose you have to start somewhere," he says. "Even if it's with outdated texts. It's even in a book format, after all."

He frowns a little and eventually asks; "Birthday?"

Bitterly Feuding Foes?

[notlewis]

He may be eight years old, but Luis knows a kid trying to one-up him when he hears it and he just rolls his eyes at the comment.

"Do they not have books or birthdays where you come from?"

Could it mean anything but?

[emotionl4arobot.livejournal.com]

Brainy hasn't had enough experience to pick up on what's probably either a rhetorical question or sarcasm, so he answers in all honesty. "No. Neither is really familiar to me. Books became outdated centuries ago and I'm not really familiar with the term 'birthday'. I can imagine the context, but I don't see why it's relevant."

Re: Could it mean anything but?

[notlewis]

Oh. Well. Clearly this kid was underprivileged or something. Luis remembered this conversation with Abuelo-- they lived in a very small town, while some children lived in big cities and some children lived in even smaller towns, and he must always think of where people come from while he talked to them.

He took a deep breath and turned up from his book, explaining very patiently. "You get presents on your birthday," he said. "Abuelo always gets me books, and he goes all the way to the city to get them."

[emotionl4arobot.livejournal.com]

He feels like he's missing something vital here. "But you've already been born, wouldn't you have gotten them already?"

[notlewis]

Yeah, no kidding. "Wouldn't you have gotten what now?"

[emotionl4arobot.livejournal.com]

"Your gifts," he says like it's something obvious. "If you receive them on the day of your birth and you've already been born, why are you looking forward to them in the future?"

Clearly birthdays don't happen on Colu.

[notlewis]

Jeez, this kid did need help. "No no, you get presents every year on your birthday. You are not born all over again every year, obviously, so you get presents on the same day. Like my birthday is the sixteenth of September."

Re: TINY PLAYBOY AL- wait what

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

Sofia bounced over to Luis. "What are you reading?"

[notlewis]

"The Physician's Reference Guide to the Human Anatomy," he replied, glancing up at his guest. A girl.

Ew.

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

"...And what is that?" Sofia asked brightly.

[notlewis]

"It has pictures and diagrams and information about all the systems in the human body," Luis explained. "You see?"

The page he showed he was about the parts of the skin.