#youthfulvigilante

[revunant]

🐛 for the wyrmlings!~

𝐰𝐞'𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐠𝐬

all three of them are spicebush swallowtail caterpillars.

but wait! there's more!

roly poly koth! cute and small and a little shy. i was gonna put a spotted lanternfly (nymph) because i think they're so silly and cute but i know how americans tend to feel about them, godspeed u guys

imperial moth sal! cant elaborate, my brain was telling me theyre some kind of hummingbird moth but i ended up with these guys instead

and velvet ant xico. little fuzzy baby WILL KICK YOUR ASS

[d-d-disgusting]

Koth comes running up to Vincent with such intention! Giving them a little head bunting on the side before just... Letting out a trilly lil screech, and running off right after!

A! On seeing him approach, they're fully prepared for Koth to stop and spout something he's learned, or maybe to show them something. They keep their body language welcoming and ready to take in whatever he has to bring-- but instead, he bops his head into them with an affectionate rub, trills, and absconds! They're left shocked for a moment, staring off after him before they pull themself down into a crouch, call out with a much louder chattering of their own, and sprint off after him. WATCH OUT.

[revunant]

Xico is merping up a storm!! Words? Don't need them right now, the thrill of finding a cool doodad is taking up the mind space! Once she finds Acid-dad the little spitfire finally let loose those words! "ACID-DAD! I found this cool thing on the way home from Jabberwock forest and it looked really wicked like one of your robot stuff and!" unceremoniously unmagiced her poncho-O-holding to drop some spaceship debris, seems to be a small-sized battery! old though!

Jean is startled by the onslaught, even once he sees it’s Xico rushing up to him - is she hurt? Is someone else hurt? Is there someone he has to fight? - and he’s hardly reassured once it comes to light what she’s actually so excited about. Jabberwock forest, he’s sure, is just full of dangerous things that probably shouldn’t be interacted with, much less brought home.

“Hw- whoa, slow down-”

Clunk. There’s an unidentified device on the kitchen floor. Jean looks at it, stunned - until it occurs to him that it’s likely a battery, an old battery, that has just been jostled around and then dropped from a height. What if it's leaking? What if it explodes? ...Xico is right, though. It does look wicked.

Careful not to jar the thing any further, he smiles at the wyrmling, the corners of his eyes creasing warmly. Thanks first, fretting later. “It is pretty cool, huh. Here, let me make sure it's not hazardous, and I'll find somewhere to put it on display.” He'd hug her, if it didn't mean stepping over the thing. “Thanks, Xico.”

[revunant]

WOUH-OH!!~ Koth got the zoomies running too and frow, in and out of the house! STUMP STUMP STUMP STUMP!~ Cackling and having fun with his burst of energy! He found Acid-dad in one of the rooms and skitted to a halt!! The red wyrmling took a deeeep breath and lets out a big: "BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!"

Raising baby wyverns has had a lot of learning curves, and this is no exception. Jean just doesn't know how to respond to being so aggressively trilled at. (Was that a trill? Is Koth imitating a laser beam? He doesn't know what to believe anymore.)

He meets his darling son with startled silence, and slowly lowers his notebook.

"Are you hungry? Is that what that means?"

What does it mean, Koth!!!

[revunant]

& sal @ jean!~

Jean has to stop himself from assuming they're trying to distract him so they can get out of doing their science homework. Even if it is, it's not going to work for long - nobody likes doing circuit diagrams, but Jean's not going to let them leave until they've at least done one of them.

He taps his finger on the worksheet next to the first question and tries to come up with a story on the spot - one that will satiate their appetite for hearing about cool things their dad did without affecting their developing brain.

Or affecting their opinion of him.

First, though, he's tucking his shirt in so Sal doesn't have anything else to distract him with, at least not in the form of making him tell them how he got his scars. Second, he's telling them what they want to hear without offering resistance, even if it's a lie, because his own shame takes a back seat to not wanting his child to be ashamed of anything, ever.

" Got it in a sword fight. Other guy just ran me through, like butter. The fucked up part is - I didn't even lose. "

He loves his wyrmlings. He loves them too much to tell them how their father stabbed himself in the gut to avoid being arrested. He loves them far too much to ever let them find out what he would have been arrested for.

" That switch should be open, not closed. Yeah, that works. Nice one, bud. "