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scoriarose · 26 days ago

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When it is their idea to be cute together

Meet me halfway, friend!

They wanted to spend time with me too. C:

We are a happy little family, and I am glad they accept me even though I lack the serpentine features they share. It took Sakura a while to not see me as just a scary creature, and now a fun but sometimes startling friend. With time I think she'll trust more. Especially now I've realized she recognizes a hand signal as "the hognoses twitch" and learned how to tell her in her language I am friendly.

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#I am not sure if other hognoses would recognize this hand gesture as “a Hognose twitch” too #but when I do it she has a look like she understands #and will usually relax a bit #and often come closer #not every time but more often than not #perhaps my prior communication encouragement has helped #she might be more actively trying to understand my communication attempts as well #but it would be interesting to see how other hognoses reacted #Scoria has absolutely no reaction because she already trusts everyone #she has lived a life without any reason to distrust and is by nature the truest soul in existence #I think she thinks she might be human too? At least she sometimes does things to mirror me and doesn't do snake things.#I can't remember if she has ever done the hognose twitch #she just watches her sister do it every time she greets her and is like “Well okay that is a you things but I love & accept you regardless”#Sakura doesn't accept one twitch and we're friends #every time she and her sister are apart for more than a few moments she does it again #and every time she hasn't seen me for more than a few moments she requires the hand gesture to communicate my intentions #before any sort of interaction #I wonder if I am learning snake etiquette #it sure feels like it lol #Sakura is doing the proper serpentine greetings #(perhaps even doing them more than most as I have little basis of comparison)#and she sees the rest of us as heathens #not communicating properly #she just sighs and accepts this is her family and repeatedly tries to teach us proper manners and formalities

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