Bullet 8 [Sans Beard?] (age event)

[hadalotofsugar]

You know, I'd almost forgotten what I looked like under all this hair.

[That's right, King woke up yesterday to find that he was physically 22 again. This includes shorter hair, the lack of a full beard, and the fact that he's significantly less muscled, scarred and tattooed.]

At least I still remember who I am. I was pretty damn douchey at this age

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[chopshopgoddess]

You too, huh?

[hadalotofsugar]

Yeah. Not super-young, but I forgot how much I'd changed between this age and my normal one.

I've only got this dumb little soul patch right now, for one thing.

[chopshopgoddess]

What's your normal age?

[She chokes on the drink she's holding.]

Well, better than nothing, I guess?

[hadalotofsugar]

28, normally. I'm in my early twenties now, if I remember when I had this dinky little thing right. [And the lack of fangs means its not during that five-year period of HELL.]

Yeah; if I wanted to get rid of it this is much easier to shave off than a full beard.

[heavyweaponsbot]

... What's hair?

[This is not the voice of usual.]

[hadalotofsugar]

[...King swears that must be Ironhide, but just answers the question for now.]

...It's hair? Dead strand of whatever that grows out of a follicle, all over mammals? On humans head and faces, in my case?

[heavyweaponsbot]

... Mammals? What's a mammal?

[THESE WORDS. THEY MAKE NO SENSE.]

[hadalotofsugar]

Warm-blooded flesh creature?

[He's trying to think of a way to describe this to a robot.]

An organic?

[diverged_fate]

'New youth?'

[hadalotofsugar]

I'm usually a few years older than this, and so are quite a few others.

[He and Keats haven't talked much, so he doesn't really recognize the voice.]

[diverged_fate]

[Even if he did have the same voice, his speech patterns are different and a lot colder in general.]

... This can't be a real place. Every time I hear something on this device, I believe it less.

[hadalotofsugar]

[King sounds.. pretty much the same.]

Well, you're either new, or you just forgot that you were on here. But that reaction is pretty much standard for the boat anyway.

Welcome to hellboat, you are fucked.

[farfairersoul]

At least I'm not the only one who went down in age and still has their brain.

[Razer is so sick of all these brats overrunning the Mardamned ship. He's also really wearing himself out following Errol around and making sure he doesn't SNAP and BREAK someone, not that he'd complain about that.]

[hadalotofsugar]

[Oh, its Razer. How ya doin' Razer?]

You're assuming I had much of a brain to begin with, sweetness.

[King's still kinda 'meh' about Razer, honestly. He doesn't know the guy, and his gut (and Batou) doesn't really trust him, but King also has no reason not to (except for Batou's word). He saw the video, after all.]

[farfairersoul]

[Razer chuckles a little.]

You pose a valid point, but any brain is better than none at all.

late tag? What late tag?

[hadalotofsugar]

[King's voice is very dry.]

People'll talk to cats and dogs when they've got nothing else, I suppose.

[brynkitten]

Still jailbait. Gotta say I'm not minding having some of the lushness back to my figure...lack of scars...though it's a trip feeling a bit off in my own body.

[hadalotofsugar]

I'm not used to being quite this slender. Kinda interesting not having my beard anymore, too.

It's a little weird - like wearing a new skin, but I'm used to it at the same time.

[brynkitten]

Yeah, I get exactly what you mean. I think I stood in front of the mirror naked for an hour, checking out the differences. So crazy.

Also figured out some...other differences.

[hadalotofsugar]

You just described my daily shower routine, babe. [King sounds amused.]

What other differences?