--shit's supposed to record my voice? Why the fuck would I want to leave a message on this thing anyway? They should know who the fuck they're calling if they're calling me in the first place, and obviously I'm not gonna pick up if I don't like them so...
[What he does then is a little on the awkward side, but that doesn't stop him from doing it; he just...reaches out and kind of pets Naki's head a little, the result landing somewhere between a headpat and stroking his hair properly and yet managing to actually do exactly neither.
[That gets him to freeze up for about half a second before he relaxes into it and sort of... headbumps Mettaton's hand like an enthusiastic cat. He seems to realize what he's doing quickly however, because he looks sort of mortified when he pulls back.]
i mean it's just going to kind of result in reaching out again for...more...pettings? very confused pettings
...eventually he will realize that he is sitting here petting a person and that's probably a little strange but you know what that realization can wait for a while, right now there are pettings]
[HE IS NOT A DOG OH MY GOD it's not his fault ghouls are really weird!!]
Um. We're called "ghouls". And don't be a smartass and ask if we're zombies or ghosts or something 'cause we're not.
[Normally he wouldn't tell Mettaton. But Mettaton told him a secret, so it's okay for him to tell Mettaton this, right? Right. As far as Mettaton needs to know, he's the only one of his kind here, so it shouldn't be much of a problem.]
There's nothing wrong with being a ghost. But for some reason everyone seems to think "ghoul" and "ghost" mean the same thing. Or "ghoul" and "zombie". I'm definitely not a fucking zombie, that's fucking gross.
[But as for a vampire--]
What the fuck, vampires aren't real!
[...naki you're talking to a ghost possessing a robot and you eat people, is this really what you're going to focus on]
They're monsters just like everyone else, sweetheart, and our bodies are very deeply connected to our souls. Once our bodies die, our souls won't last, either.
So dead people sticking around in any form, ghost or otherwise, isn't possible for us.
[As much sense as anything in your world makes, anyway.]
My world's closer to this one, we have ghost stories and shit. But obviously we don't have Ghost-type Pokémon, so it's just... people-ghosts. And they're not real.
A ghoul. We look like humans, but we're way stronger and faster and we've got a kagune that we can use as a weapon. It's uh... a part of our body? Mine's...
[He pauses, trying to think of how to describe it.]
[Naki gets to work, taking a moment to figure out how to draw it. His art's definitely not great, but it's good enough to get the point across. He draws a basic outline of a person from the back, showing where the kagune would come from and what it would look like before moving on to a brief sketch of how it would look from the front. He also draws what his eyes would look like while he explains.]
When we use it, our eyes turn black like this. The colored part is always red, which obviously doesn't matter for me, since my eyes are always red. Oh, and everyone has a different kagune, this is just what mine looks like. It's a koukaku type, so it's supposed to be good for shielding, but I don't bother with that.
[His isn't really suited for serving as a shield anyway, it's a bit too thin for that.]
[For what it's worth, he looks absolutely fascinated by all that.]
That sounds amazing, darling! I don't think we have anything similar to that in the Underground - we all have magic, of course, and sometimes monsters' eyes will change when they use it...but we don't really have physical weapons like that.
So really, I've never seen anything like it - and it's not often that people get to hear me say something like that. So feel flattered!
I really miss it sometimes. I still try to use it when I'm not really thinking about it. But I guess that's pretty normal, it's been a part of me forever, so it'll take longer than a year to stop doing that.
[And it's...strange, really, to have actually asked that; it isn't something that he'd thought about before it left his mouth, but there's something satisfying about the idea of performing for someone who explicitly asked him to.]
I'll make it a show you won't forget, then - you deserve the best, after all!
[And he looks really damn pleased with that, so the flattery clearly worked!!]
I can at least show you the eye thing, though uh... I don't really have great control over it so I kinda accidentally do it anyway. But it looks really fucking cool!
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[What he does then is a little on the awkward side, but that doesn't stop him from doing it; he just...reaches out and kind of pets Naki's head a little, the result landing somewhere between a headpat and stroking his hair properly and yet managing to actually do exactly neither.
...It was an attempt at affection, okay.]
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Um. Yeah. Definitely!
[...that didn't just happen!!]
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i mean it's just going to kind of result in reaching out again for...more...pettings? very confused pettings
...eventually he will realize that he is sitting here petting a person and that's probably a little strange but you know what that realization can wait for a while, right now there are pettings]
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so he'll just sort of... lean into that
and headbump your hand again and just sort of... look mildly annoyed by this
but it's nice, okay...]
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although, um]
...Can I ask what you were back home? And don't say "not human", I know that.
[...THAT IS A REALLY ROUNDABOUT "DOES EVERYONE IN YOUR SPECIES DO THIS OR"
look he met a girl who is literally a dog or something earlier he's curious]
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[HE IS NOT A DOG OH MY GOD it's not his fault ghouls are really weird!!]
Um. We're called "ghouls". And don't be a smartass and ask if we're zombies or ghosts or something 'cause we're not.
[Normally he wouldn't tell Mettaton. But Mettaton told him a secret, so it's okay for him to tell Mettaton this, right? Right. As far as Mettaton needs to know, he's the only one of his kind here, so it shouldn't be much of a problem.]
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[...mettaton you ditched it for being a robot instead, you don't get to pull that- ]
...You know, I was thinking you were a vampire or something for a while.
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[But as for a vampire--]
What the fuck, vampires aren't real!
[...naki you're talking to a ghost possessing a robot and you eat people, is this really what you're going to focus on]
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[Anyway.]
But really. People like to insist that ghosts are actually dead people? When...no. No, not really. No.
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[He really shouldn't be surprised...]
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So dead people sticking around in any form, ghost or otherwise, isn't possible for us.
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[As much sense as anything in your world makes, anyway.]
My world's closer to this one, we have ghost stories and shit. But obviously we don't have Ghost-type Pokémon, so it's just... people-ghosts. And they're not real.
[Probably.]
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[...]
So what...are you, exactly, if you're not a zombie or a ghost?
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[He pauses, trying to think of how to describe it.]
Can I borrow your book? I can draw it.
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[He'll just...pass that over, then, and move to settle back next to him again.]
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When we use it, our eyes turn black like this. The colored part is always red, which obviously doesn't matter for me, since my eyes are always red. Oh, and everyone has a different kagune, this is just what mine looks like. It's a koukaku type, so it's supposed to be good for shielding, but I don't bother with that.
[His isn't really suited for serving as a shield anyway, it's a bit too thin for that.]
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That sounds amazing, darling! I don't think we have anything similar to that in the Underground - we all have magic, of course, and sometimes monsters' eyes will change when they use it...but we don't really have physical weapons like that.
So really, I've never seen anything like it - and it's not often that people get to hear me say something like that. So feel flattered!
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[And he definitely sounds it, alright.]
I really miss it sometimes. I still try to use it when I'm not really thinking about it. But I guess that's pretty normal, it's been a part of me forever, so it'll take longer than a year to stop doing that.
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I'll make it a show you won't forget, then - you deserve the best, after all!
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[And he looks really damn pleased with that, so the flattery clearly worked!!]
I can at least show you the eye thing, though uh... I don't really have great control over it so I kinda accidentally do it anyway. But it looks really fucking cool!
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And... Well, thanks for telling me about all that, Naki.
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