Seasons Inbox un: madlymewing (possible NSFW in threads)

[madmewmew]

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[madmewmew]

I guess?

[Not like she knows what that means!]

Right, well... I could always ask on the phone too. [Because the offer is nice, but...] I wouldn't want to impose on you, either.

[As to their surroundings, Mew Mew takes in the clothing stores and one catches her eye, and she points at it.]

That one looks good? [It's, thankfully, not a flashy store. Honestly it probably leans more skater style, most certainly not what one would think someone who looks like Mew Mew would wear.]

[lyingheart]

Right, the phone's useful for things like that too...

( She really needs to get used to that. It's nothing like home, where long distance communication was more for transmitting orders or propaganda than it was for asking after simple needs. This way is nicer, she thinks.

The store pointed out to her seems pretty decent, some of the styles of what clothing is on display curious to her. Matching it to Mew Mew's current style earns a little cant of her head, but shifting her bag up to her shoulder, she nods. )

Everything looks designed to be loose and comfortable. Did something already catch your eye?

( Asked as she heads toward it, and curious what exactly drew Mew Mew this way. Lots of bold single prints on shirts, muted colors for zip-ups, jeans in a variety of colors, some faded, some not, all avoiding the concept of a skinny jean religiously... very relaxed and easy to move in. )

[madmewmew]

Mmhmm, it so is.

[The internet and such aren't new things to Mew Mew, as it existed back in the Underground. It's just actually accessing it more often that is new to her, beyond her virtual idol start up she was doing on the Surface.

But yeah, the clothing store is very much not what one would expect her to pick considering what she's wearing.]

Not really, but I thought maybe I should wear stuff that's not so flashy?

[Clothes are such a new thing for her after all. Training dummies never needed to wear shirts and pants. As she also heads towards the store, and once in she'll start looking at some of the shirts with their prints.]

That and like, I've never actually needed to wear clothing until recently.

[lyingheart]

( Annie takes to looking through some of the shirts as well, idly curious at the patterns and designs. She's doing this one handed with her other hand still holding her bag, and looks over to Mew Mew in visible surprise at her statement. )

Why? Are Monsters usually running around without clothing?

( This is how Titans are, but she doesn't know if there's a standard for monstrous beings on any other world. )

[madmewmew]

Oh no, no, no. Monsters wear clothing, like humans do! Just... You don't really put a dress or a t-shirt on a training dummy?

[Because can you imagine it? Something used to practice fighting all dolled up? She does and it makes her laugh, before she finds a shirt with an interesting design on it... It's a very graffiti styled art of like, it might be a cat on a skateboard?

It's very up to interpretation, it seems, on a black shirt.]

[lyingheart]

I mean, you do use padding on some of them — wait.

( She blinks, actually looking a touch confused. Her hand rests on the hanger of one shirt, something forest green with a tan deer leaping across the front and a trampled wolf under its feet. )

Why were you a training dummy instead of someone being trained?

[madmewmew]

Because that's the first body I tried to become corporeal with, like my one cousin tried. They're pretty simple to find and get into too.

[She says this as if it's just, you know, something someone can do. There is a moment of quiet from her before it dawns on her...

She didn't exactly tell Annie that she's a Ghost, did she?]

Ah! I'm a Ghost Monster, and we need to possess a body to become corporeal! And it's not like we can take over one that someone is already using? So dummies, or robots, or a doll in my case now.

[Shit, shit, shit. She's pretty sure that'll weird Annie out? Even though she seemed cool about Monsters, maybe Ghosts are too much?!]

i'm wheezing i'm sorry this is probably not what she was expecting

[lyingheart]

( Annie does pale a touch, and she's already pale so that's more like watching her get pastier, but she reaches out to Mew Mew and says very seriously: )

You didn't die, did you?

( Annie has no idea how Ghost Monsters work, but the concept of "haunted" and "ghosts" back home (not one she really believes in, who the hell wants to hang around after death in that way? the Paths were weirder anyway, and that's literally where all the dead Eldians were) to most of Marley meant a lingering spirit after death.

Are you okay, Mew Mew??? She's aware of several of her dead... friends... here being alive, but this is the first time she's run into a potentially dead... friend? Who is still, technically, not alive??? Hell if she knows how Ghost Monsters work. )

oh my god, bless annie

[madmewmew]

[The somehow going paler does bother her, until Annie asks her that.

That is just... Oh that's kind of adorable? It makes Mew Mew laugh a little.]

No, no, no. Ghost Monsters are like that from birth! No need to fall down first, oh that's um. What we call "dying" back home, for Monsters. Because we're made of magic, so the majority of Monsters when they die turn to dust instead of leaving a body like humans do? Since Ghosts are intangible, they're a lot harder to kill by outside forces... I think most Ghosts tend to go out by old age? Or once they have a corporeal form it getting destroyed.

[This may not be accurate at all, but this is how Mew Mew knows of how things work.]

her concerns are very pointed!!!

[lyingheart]

( She straightens up a little at the small laugh, caught off guard rather than offended. Her hand drops away from Mew Mew's arm, because this is one more weird but not as weird as some of what she's learned. A Born Ghost is a lot better than someone who lingered because of unresolved whatevers.

This time she sighs in relief. A ghost... Ghost Monster, who apparently turns into dust or fades away from old age, and who possessed... an inanimate object. )

I think every world is a little bit crazy. ( ... ) What I mean is, that's probably not worse than the shit I know. You wanted a... you said corporeal form? Is that what possession means? You wanted to be physical in the world, you found a way.

( She pauses for a beat. )

Seems like the you now has an easier time of it than a training dummy would. But you said you're in a doll?

( She lifts her eyebrows. )

Biggest doll I've ever seen.

they're adorbale concerns!

[madmewmew]

[Oh Annie, at least Mew Mew's own worries are being eased with how Annie is reacting. As to all the questions being asked of her, she'll do her best to answer.]

Yeah, you've got it. Ghosts can't be corporeal without some help, but also not every Ghost wants to be corporeal either. I have a cousin and they're just fine being themselves.

[Mentioning Napstablook does make her feel a twinge of sadness, though. She won't admit it, but she does kind of miss her family.]

Yeah, I found it in a science-y place. And I have no idea why they had a life-sized girl doll.

[Although Mew Mew calls her body a doll, it's more like an animatronic then a doll. But she also doesn't know what an animatronic is!]

one of the few who finds them so!!!

[lyingheart]

( Sounds like a hard life for a Ghost if they want to be Perceived, but also, sounds like a personal decision. )

Huh. Whatever the reason, it's your gain. Plus you get the ears and a tail. More expressive if you want to be than most humans.

( Annie, who also hasn't heard of or met an animatronic that she knows of, simply shrugs. Then she finally shifts her attention to the shirt that Mew Mew had been looking at earlier. )

Is that a cat?

( It looks like a cat to her. )

[madmewmew]

Well that and when I found this body I just, knew it was "me". Even more than the training dummy was.

[She's still holding onto the shirt this whole time, so when Annie asks about it, she holds it up to look at better.]

I think it's supposed to be? I don't really get art though.

[lyingheart]

( She really can't say she understands the feeling of knowing something encountered is "her," but given the context of needing a form to possess to be physically present... it doesn't not make sense either. Training dummy, though... those are so stuck in place in her experience. Sounded pretty boring. )

Are we supposed to? People keep saying art is art, like that's supposed to mean anything. If we think it's a cat, it's a cat. If it's not, it's still a cat.

( She breathes out in a sort of amused way. )

Do we have to 'get' it to like it?

( That said, Annie pulls out one of the shirts from the next rack, which are way too large for her. It was random choice, but three howling wolf heads and a giant moon are present on the shirt she displays to Mew Mew, before she also glances at it and says: )

Or to not know what the hell the artist was even going for?

[madmewmew]

[Honestly speaking, even if she could explain it? It probably wouldn't make sense to anyone but her anyway. So probably a good thing that Annie doesn't ask.]

I mean I think s-- [That is when Annie pulls out the three wolf moon shirt, and Mew Mew just stops mid-sentence.]

I... Uh, I think that one is just an outlier?

[lyingheart]

( Annie just stares at it for a moment. Then she snorts. )

I did need something else to sleep in... think this will go with shorts?

( At that, she offers a small, almost sardonic smile. Three wolf moon shirt is a whole other level of why, but she likewise can wonder: why not? She wasn't joking about the sleeping shirt! )

[madmewmew]

I think it will go with whatever you want?

[Although a sleep shirt sounds good, because Mew Mew cannot imagine someone like Annie would wear that in public. At least from what little she knows of the other woman.]

[lyingheart]

( She laughs a little at that, sudden and sharp, shaking her head. )

Or whatever I don't want? Now I'm wondering if they have something more useful, like hoodies...

( Three Wolf Moon gets tossed over her shoulder as she casts another glance around the store... sure, there's hoodies. But where's a good cream-white one when a girl has an unreasonably long time collection of them? )

[madmewmew]

[Her expression shifts slightly at her saying whatever she doesn't want, Mew Mew's mind going places. So she is going to just, look away now as her cheeks pinkens.]

Ah, yeah hoodies! Let's look at them! [And she's putting the cat skateboarder shirt over her own shoulder as she scurries off towards the hoodies. Not even waiting for Annie to follow.]

[lyingheart]

( Annie, missing that particular entendre despite being the one who said the words, lifts an eyebrow. Huh. She guesses Mew Mew also likes hoodies? Maybe more than Annie does. She might not have the urge to use the hood to block out the world anymore (she's been alone for four years, she doesn't want to be alone for longer), but they're still comfortable.

She follows along at a more sedate pace, finding a pack of socks that look around her size. Nice. Before arriving at the hoodies as well. )

Finding any you like?

( Annie looks to see if any are in her preferred lack of color, what with all the washing they demand... at some point. She's got to go for more than white.

Maybe tomorrow? )

[madmewmew]

[Just looking at hoodies, not thinking thoughts she shouldn't be thinking! She pulls out a hoodie, in black. In fact it seems that the rack she's at is mostly muted colors in comparison to the rest of the store.]

This one looks good?!

[It's also in a size that is way too big for her.]

[lyingheart]

If you want to curl up and sleep in it?

( Annie says, raising her eyebrows again. )

Which sure, if you want to.

[madmewmew]

I guess it would be good for that, if it's cold out?

[Ffffft, but she's putting it back and looking for maybe one that would suit Annie better? But nothing in white here, or even off-white. There are some greys, though.]

[lyingheart]

( Greys aren't bad! Annie ends up turning to look at the adjacent rack, which has some of the sizes closer to what she thinks might be Mew Mew's... and eventually pulls an olive colored hoodie off, holding it out toward her. )

Something like this? Seems like it'd go with your hair.

( ... Complimentary colors, though it's still muted compared to Bright Pink. A different kind of contrast? )

[madmewmew]

[Yeah Mew Mew is quickly realizing this rack has the bigger sizes, so when Annie speaks up she turns her attention that way.]

Ah, yeah or at least my eyes?

[Although even those are also a bright shade of green, so maybe not. But she is going to look over the hoodie, reaching out to touch it to see if the fabric is nice.]