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[tindery]

HELLO

"What do you want?"

GOODBYE

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[tindery]

[ it is so much effort for flowers but he doesn't know if there'll be real flowers around here after all... he wants to keep them for when he sees his sister again

anyway that's sappy and he won't admit to it easily so, ]

What do you like for snacks? What the hell is up with this cage.

[ HE'LL THINK OF ALTERNATIVES THAT WON'T COME TRUE WHILE HE FIGURES OUT WHAT TO FEED THIS TAMAGOTCHI ]

[voring]

[PRESERVING FLOWERS FOR HIS SISTER... NOOOOO he's so cute. i aki think this even if obikawa will probably never know]

Whatever's good! I like rice paper rolls with sweet chili sauce and carrot sticks with maple syrup and ramen and butter and beer and burgers and naan and pizza and rice with eggs and all kinds of things- [THESE AREN'T SNACKS] -but I'll try anything that looks tasty!

[tindery]

[ stop that he's just a big brother

he doesn't know what half of those things are, but it's fine. he can learn ]

... so anything, really....?

[voring]

[HE'S A CUTE BIG BROTHER!!!! au where i apped lucas and they could have bonded]

Yeah! Anything unless it's gross.

[tindery]

[ lucas and tobari have more in common than i am comfortable thinking about ]

What does a god find gross...?

[voring]

[THIS IS SUCH A CONCERNING SENTENCE GIVEN EVERYTHING. TOBARI ARE YOU IN A CULT]

I don't actually like eating humans all that much. They're pretty gross.

[He still does it, though...]

[tindery]

[ hrrmrghghggh

he frowns ]

What drives you to eat humans?

[ he'S GLAD TO HEAR THAT THEY'RE GROSS but he feels like he needs more context on this ]

[voring]

[TOBARI REALLY IS JUST IN THIS CAGE WITH FREAKS!!!!]

Drives? [A lil laugh...] It's not like that.

[tindery]

Then what is it?

[ if not a motivation? ]

[voring]

Sometimes it's the fastest way to get rid of 'em when they're being a pain.

[Like when you swat a mosquito...]

[tindery]

... you eat them instead of kill them...?

Or you eat them to kill them?

[ he at least doesn't sound immediately aghast, even though he thinks this methodology is fucking weird ]

[voring]

Yeah!

[JUST YEAH. The methodology is fucked. He's supposed to be incognito too but honestly he is still not 100% sure that the people in this cage with him are real actual other people and not just maze figments, so he just says:]

My real mouth's way bigger than this one! Bigger than this whooole body! So I just bite 'em if they bother me.

[tindery]

[ okay

alright ]

Do you get bothered often?

[voring]

Nah, not really. Even less lately!

[On account of no longer being an enormous snake and blending in with humans in this meatsack he stole.]

[tindery]

[ nods... ]

... I'll take that for now. [ there are worse cases, he guesses ]

When's the last time you got bothered?

[ now he's just curious what could push obikawa to do it ]

[voring]

By a human?

[Thinks, thinks, thinks... The passage of time is actually extremely hard to document when you are a creature.]

Uh. I dunno. Some weeks or months? That one wasn't my fault, though!

[IT WAS.]

[tindery]

What happened?

[ just spill ]

[voring]

[Squints at the other two in here with them...

Leans forward. WILL TOBARI ACTUALLY LET THIS GUY WHO JUST TALKED ABOUT EATING HUMANS GET CLOSE ENOUGH TO TALK INTO HIS EAR.]

[tindery]

[ yeah because he doesn't think that he bothered obikawa enough to get eaten

and he for some reason has taken his word on the matter ]

[voring]

[imagine i have to be like well tobari is getting eaten

But no he just whispers something into his ear.]

[tindery]

[ IMAGINE IF YOU VORED HIM ON DAY ONE OF OUR CAGE FOUND FAMILY ]

... sounds like retaliation to me.

[ but adMITTEDLY THE METHODOLOGY IS STILL WEIRD ]

Why do you eat them instead of just killing them normally if you find them gross?

[voring]

[:3c]

Sometimes I crush them instead?

[JUST BLINKING LIKE ??? DOES THIS MAKE IT BETTER. Is this less strange... Is this more comprehensible in ANY WAY.]

[tindery]

[ tobari actually does think this makes more sense ]

So why default to eating at all? Isn't that more work?

[ TO LIKE... DEAL WITH THE UNPLEASANTNESS... ]

[voring]

Is it? It's just biting.

[The way this would probably make more sense if Tobari understood that he spent most of his existence up until recently as a snake with no arms.]

[tindery]

[ he has no clue.......... ]

But they also taste bad to you...