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[hellofashow]

[Axel is sitting at his desk in his room. He's twirling what looks like a peacock feather in his fingers, though it's fiery red, orange and gold in color as opposed to blue and purple. It's easily recognizable as one of the long pinions from his tail as a phoenix]

Everyone back to normal now? I tell ya, never take lips and opposable thumbs for

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[brutal_intent]

Certainly a unique experience but not one I'd like to see repeated. At least this world has not yet shown a bias for inflicting the same torments upon its inhabitants twice.

[audio]

[hellofashow]

Who knows. It might do it again.

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[brutal_intent]

[Obviously not thrilled with the idea.] I should hope not.

[hellofashow]

You never know with this place! S'what I told Reno.

[seasaltsunset]

.... Dare I ask why you emphasized lips the way you did?

[hellofashow]

Yes, they're quite useful for forming proper words.

[seasaltsunset]

Ah, makes sense.

Not that I had any problem. You didn't seem to either in my honest opinion.

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[memoryshell]

... What's that supposed to mean?

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[hellofashow]

He's kind of a raging psychopath, if you know what I mean.

[omg lol ikr]

[memoryshell]

...

[Well. If this was a day or so ago, Xion would've said that no, she didn't, what are you even talking about, Axel? But, well. After the incident in the shop...]

He's been really nice to me. [And it's true. He's been nothing but nice to her.]

[hellofashow]

Yeah see, that's the thing about psychopaths and sociopaths... they seem so nice. Wait... You met him in person? You didn't notice anything.... off about him? The way he "felt"? [Because Axel sure remembers the time he and Saix met with Kefka... and the feelings of pure, primal, shit-in-your-pants fear that he actually felt when they did]

I mean... man... don't tell Saix or anyone I told you this but... Saix and I met with him about something and we were both scared out of our pants by this guy. Yeah, SAIX was scared. He's bad news.

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[memory_etching]

Lips and thumbs?

What about it?

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[hellofashow]

Oh yeah. You missed it. Check back on the mognet to last week; everyone got turned into animals and it totally sucked.

There's no nice way to say this, so I'll just say it; he's a total psychopath. Like, Xemnas-level bad.

[memory_etching]

Oh. So that's one of your feathers then. Does that happen a lot here?

[Rubbing her arm with one hand, she looking away from the camera eye, and not enjoying the idea of conversing with a psychopath.] He-he was pretty polite and told me a bit about this place.

[hellofashow]

Yep! I was a bird. A phoenix, actually.

Uh huh. And when was, say, Marluxia... anything but polite and informative, for the most part? You should know better than anyone that appearances are deceiving.

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[gimmesometassel]

[Very emphatic nod from the living rug. He only got to be human for a week, and he already misses lips and opposable thumbs, though the latter are by far easier to mimic for him than the former.]

[....Yeah, not much of a reason for him to comment. But nice, friendly sort that he is, he likes being social. And it's a nice reminder to really value what you have.]

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[hellofashow]

[being a Nobody, almost 75% of his communication is with body language. He understands a good deal of it]

Yeah. You gotta deal with this crap all the time. At least everyone has a better understanding of what you deal with now.

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[gimmesometassel]

[Carpet nods again, tassels twisting into something vaguely reminiscent of hands, before gesturing with one as though wiping sweat from his brow. He turns back and forth, gesturing animatedly with his tassels as though carrying on both sides of a conversation, then lets them spread in exasperation, before he falls over backwards to crumple on the ground in a heap. Thank Allah he can make useful enough hands, but having a real conversation is just impossible, ugh

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[hellofashow]

[Axel sighs] I know, I know! [he pounds a fist into his open palm] Man, I just got a brilliant idea. It must be a pain to always pantomime stuff. I know it is. Why don't you get one of those dry erase boards? That way you can write what you want to say instead of having to flutter around all the time? [he nods] It'd be less exasperating, at least.