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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[voiceofserenity.livejournal.com]

Kaylee shakes her head, but the crying doesn't stop, and her hands don't come down. "L-like in s-story books?"

[governorkang]

Kang's head tilts to one side slightly. "Story books?"

[voiceofserenity.livejournal.com]

A miserable nod. "Like the ones who work in Santa's workshop."

[governorkang]

"Who is Santa? Is Santa another god?" Curious draconian is curious.

[voiceofserenity.livejournal.com]

"N-no..." She doesn't think he is, anyways. "He brings p-presents to all the k-kids..."

[governorkang]

Kang starts trying to finish fixing the giraffe. Maybe that will make her stop being sad? "Why?"

[voiceofserenity.livejournal.com]

Kaylee peeks out from behind her hands. "Because the k-kids were g-good all year, so h-he brought them p-presents for it."

[governorkang]

"Santa gives me presents if I'm good, then? Like when humans give me more food for being strong?" Huh. This sticky stuff doesn't seem to want to work. Kang plops himself down on the ground and looks more closely at the fabric, trying to figure out how to make it work.

[voiceofserenity.livejournal.com]

"O-only when you're n-nice to people." She scoots forward a bit. "No, like this," she says, and wraps another loop of tape around the giraffe's neck.

[governorkang]

Oh, it's working! She's not crying as much anymore! "Humans say it's good when I'm strong, though." Kang watches, the tip of his tail twitching, and a realization hits him. "Sticky cloth won't stay. It needs string."

[voiceofserenity.livejournal.com]

"Strong's okay," she replies, more concentrated on the poor stuffed animal now, "but not to hurt people. To protect 'em, maybe, or help 'em build stuff..."

She holds her hand out for string. That was how her daddy always got tools, right? Just held out his hand.

[governorkang]

"I protect Takhisis and people that follow her," Kang says simply. "We build empire." Carefully, snout wrinkling slightly in concentration, he pulls some string out from one of the many pieces of destroyed stuffed toy in the pile of fluff and hands it to Kaylee.

Wait. He'd never gotten her name. Names were important, weren't they?

"I am Kang."

[voiceofserenity.livejournal.com]

"You can't just let everybody stay where they are and not build th'empire?" The toy's looking much better now.

Oh, but he's introducing himself. Kaylee stands up and sticks her hand out to shake, just like her daddy taught her. "'M Kaywinnit."

[governorkang]

Kang shakes his head, "They don't follow Takhisis. They should. Takhisis is strong, stronger than their god."

Oh, he's seen some of the humans do this before. Taking her hand in his, he shakes it hard three times, grinning. Sorry, he doesn't quite know his own strength yet.

[voiceofserenity.livejournal.com]

"But shouldn't everybody have their say? How'd you like it if somebody forced you to believe somethin' different?"

She's tough as nails. Alright, maybe not that tough. She smiles, though it's a bit pained. "Most folks call me Kaylee, though."

[governorkang]

"But it's truth," Kang points out, confused. He doesn't catch the pain in Kaylee's expression, and simply sits himself back down, picking up the giraffe and working on it more. "What animal is this, Kaylee? Never seen one with a neck this long."

[voiceofserenity.livejournal.com]

She looks at the giraffe thoughtfully for a minute. "I think it's a giraffe, 's what it's called. Seen 'em in books."

[governorkang]

"Giraffe," Kang repeats. "Is it like a cow? Food?"

[voiceofserenity.livejournal.com]

"Food?" Still looking the giraffe over. What do people eat? Cow, chicken, some people even eat dog... "Don't think I've ever met a person who's said anythin' 'bout eatin' a giraffe." Not that they have giraffes to make the comparison, really.

[governorkang]

Kang stuffs a bit more fluff into the toy and closes up the hole with a loop of tape and some string. "Like deer? Deer is good, too." The giraffe is about as fixed as it can be without actually sewing it back together, and he holds it out to Kaylee, smiling. "Fixed?"

[voiceofserenity.livejournal.com]

"Never had deer." She checks the giraffe over carefully, and nods her approval. "Fixed."

[governorkang]

"No deer?" Kang blinks, looking at Kaylee. He can't imagine someone never having had deer before. It's the best food ever.

[voiceofserenity.livejournal.com]

"No deer. Lots of beef, though!" Girl loves her steak.

[governorkang]

Beef... oh, right. Cow. "Cow good too. So is pig. I like deer and cow most, though."

He looks down at the pile of fluff and fabric, "Can't fix. Too broke." He doesn't sound sad about it, though, just matter-of-fact.

[voiceofserenity.livejournal.com]

"And lamb." Lamb's good too, on occasion.

She shrugs at the extra stuffing. "Make somethin' new out of it?"