#belphie: i am still wracked with grief and guilt years after a tragedy and it's so destructive i might commit murder because of it

[journey-to-the-attic]

Luke unknowingly cussing at Ik is absolutely hilarious. Poor boy has no idea what he said but he can probably tell from IK's reaction that it wasn't good.

Also, two fun facts that I think could cause interesting interactions between IK and the others.

There's a creature in the game known as the Leviathan which is, as that one high-quality Rain World review I watched a while back stated, a "sentient, aquatic, hydraulic press, with enough crush force to liquidize the local avian wildlife." Which are much larger than, but still fully capable of eating, the slugcat.

Slugcats are able to store non-food/non-digestible items in their stomach as long as it isn't too big compared to them, and they can easily spit it back up later when it's needed.

now that i think of it, would ik understand the others?? maybe she somehow only understands the ones that can understand her, even though everyone else speaks the same language. it makes satan so upset that HE can't communicate with her, he HAS to ask belphie, and even then belphie will do it incorrectly just to mess with him

diavolo is on the 'can understand' list though, so when he introduces the brothers to the little slugcat and gets to levi, ik responds by flattening herself on the ground and yelling at him for putting her in the same room as a predator (all levi hears a very long very angry very cute 'waaaaaaaaa')

lucifer brings home some cursed artifact that diavolo wanted him to investigate and leaves it in the common room for a moment. when he gets back the artifact is gone and ik is very suspiciously sitting right where it used to be. he has a dog-ate-something-it-shouldn't moment and he just seizes her like "WHAT DID YOU DO SPIT IT OUT SPIT IT OUT RIGHT NOW"

they'd all be very curious about how exactly this creature works, so for a while they have a scheduled 'creature time' where they all gather at the house of lamentation to just Observe ik as she goes about her very important slugcat business. it's actually very therapeutic (even if she spends a concerning amount of time hitting things with her knife)