09 - Accidental Video

[alternia_strength]

[The feed comes on accidentally, one of the last 'hiccups' in the network before Loki is back to full health. Equius is staring to the side in what looks like a gas station, a rumbling growl coming out of his throat. He seems to be trying to make sounds over and over again.]

Le... le... le...

Language of love indeed. It sounds like idiotic cluck-beast babble.

[He growled, shaking his head and looked up at the door, scratching at the door when it opened. There was a dingling sound from a bell above the doorway and he leaned forward, a hand on top of the bowl of free fire-hot candies he'd set out on an 'impish' whim.]

Ah, Nepeta... good. [ahem] [ahem] [AHEM]

Voulez vous avec moi se swoi...

[His small, cat-like moirail comes bouncing in, the candy-bowl getting a pointed look before her attention swerves back to Equius.]

Ooh, are you still purracticing that? Try it again!

[He nodded and grunted, handing her a candy that was not tricked to be overly spicy.]

Of course. I see no reason not to attempt to broaden my horizons, and if I am to express romantic intentions then my moirail is the most appropriate to do so with.

[ahem] Voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir?

[It is really, really, unbelievably creepy to see Equius trying this hard to offer a french leer to the words, especially with the way his lips quivered and his broken, snaggled teeth seemed to quiver. The feed crackled and cut off right about then.

No, he has no clue what he's just asked her to do.]

(OOC: This color is Equius and This is Nepeta)

Comments

[Video]

[fowlisfair]

[Artemis can't help picking up on the French and then just. Stares. Until Equius says it again and wow.]

If you're going to be asking those sorts of questions, would you please keep it to private conversation? I don't believe such activities should be broadcast for all to hear. It would be embarrassing for the both of you and simply awkward for everyone else.

[Video]

[alternia_strength]

Hmmmph. So this confounded article elected to engage itself without my expressed wishes. I shouldn't be too surprised. It's been wretched lately.

But I do not know what you are talking about. Affection and romantic gestures are meant to be expounded upon publicly. Why should I not wish people to know my attention for my moirail.

[Because he doesn't know that this wasn't that sort of romantic gesture...?]

[Video]

[fowlisfair]

It certainly hasn't been the most stable from what I've observed.

[Artemis is just going to file the word away for later questioning since the French question needs to be addressed.]

That's true, however when there are sexual connotations to it, then that's an entirely different matter outside of certain establishments.

[Video]

[bestestfurrend]

[There's a sound very much like someone strangling a cat, and Nepeta's face pops onto the screen.]

What connotations?! [She looks away, presumably at her moirail.] Equiuuuuus!

[Video]

[alternia_strength]

Exactly what do you think I am implying with my profession of affectation for my moirail? The assumption that I am behaving as if I were her matesprite is scandalous in the extreme!

Action;

[bestestfurrend]

I think you're getting better at it, oh yes!

[Not that Nepeta has any idea what it's actually supposed to sound like. The praise is probably more due to having just been handed a sweet, which promptly disappears.]

Re: Action;

[alternia_strength]

Slowly. The language is poorly crafted for use by our species. It is hard to get the l's just right. [He grunted and blinked.]

It also would appear that this was observed by others.

Action;

[bestestfurrend]

Uh huh, I don't think I'd manage to say it at all! [Of course, even that sentence was barely intelligible. Mouth full of candy, you see.]

...oh. Oh well! I suppaws it doesn't really matter, does it?

Re: Action;

[alternia_strength]

There are certainly worse things in the world than being heard. We could be in another shouting match with one of our fellows, after all.

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[getinthechariot]

Learning a new language, are you?

Video

[alternia_strength]

I believe that this particular tongue was a mistake of epic proportions. I am not inclined to continue this venture personally.

[getinthechariot]

Nonsense! As long as there are people who speak it, no language should be considered a waste of your time!

[alternia_strength]

Its way of addressing copulation is ... inappropriate at best.

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[watchher]

[ Giles is better at deciphering French when it's on paper-- but his attention is caught by the sound of something other than English, and a very teacher-like part of him snaps to attention at the shaky pronunciation. It takes him a moment to actually figure out what's being said.

Well, that's. Generally disturbing. Giles is filing this down as a scene he doesn't want to be watching, but he can't help it -- for all that he's glimpsed them on the network, Giles hasn't yet met one of the trolls, and he's too fascinated not to comment. Even if he's vaguely concerned that this might take an... even more alarmingly inappropriate turn. ]

Yes, well. That was... coming along, to be certain, though perhaps best practiced in private. But I don't recognize-- what was "moirail" meant to be?

Video

[alternia_strength]

... it was not what it apparently appeared to be. One does not do such things with one's moirail. It is unseemly.

Troll romances are more complicated than your human varieties. There are aspects that are reproductive and ones that are not. The confusion is embarrassing at points, as your species rarely makes such distinctions.

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[watchher]

Ah. I, I see. [ Instead of unnerved or disgruntled, he looks, in fact, distinctly interested. Nonhuman culture is among his favorite topics of research -- seriously, someone introduce this man to Aranea, he would be all over the tl;dr. Quadrants? As long as he can take notes. ]

This is the first I've encountered of the term-- I do apologize for misunderstanding. [ But Equius should really still learn some new phrases. ]

Video

[alternia_strength]

The apology is appreciated but unnecessary. It is something I have little experience cross-relating. My moirail is actually a bit more familiar on the subject.

I have had it explained to me that it is closest to a deep friendship, one focused on empathy, pity and mutual protection. Something of that nature.

[He grunted and looked affectionately, or at least what he considered affectionately with his fanged maw, over at Nepeta. If he ever harbored glimmers of deeper interest beyond the pale, he wasn't likely to try to see them through simply because she was too good a moirail to risk losing.]

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[bestestfurrend]

Oh, he's not going to be purracticing it again anywhere purrobably! [She chuckles. She knows her moirail very well.] I'm his meowrail! Hi!

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[watchher]

[ Meowrail?? Giles is new to the animal puns -- do not ever let him see trolltext, he would have a technophobic proper-grammar heart attack -- but he looks more interested than unnerved, which is a good start. ]

Hello. [ He smiles back, a little uncertainly, but it's really hard not to smile back at Nepeta. ] He said that you, ah, had some experience relating the concept in human terms? I'd rather like to understand it better.

video;

[bestestfurrend]

[Giles will be spared the multi-coloured headache that is trolltext. For now.]

[She beams at him though, ready to be friendly with anyone who's even remotely nice to her.] Oh, yes, yes, I am quite an expurrt, if I say so myself! Was it just moirails you wanted to learn about, or all our quadrants?

video;

[tipsygnostalgia]

[Ha ha ha haaaaaaa haha ha wow he actually did it. Roxy had forgotten about that conversation they had the other week.]

Still practicing I see? [It's hard to stop the giggling.]

Video

[alternia_strength]

[He looks a little less than amused.]

You could have been more explicit in warning me that this involved suggesting I copulate with Nepeta.

Video

[tipsygnostalgia]

I did tell you that though. Pretty sure I did.

video;

[bestestfurrend]

Roxy! What have you been teaching my moirail??

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[tipsygnostalgia]

French.