oh good, another hedgehog

[spinsandneedles]

Type: Video
Sender ID: spinsandneedles (Sonic)
To: General Public
Subject: new phone who dis
Warnings: furries

[Sup buckaroos, this strange looking blue creature pops into focus after fiddling with his shellphone (a pun that he absolutely appreciates, good job whoever invented these). Despite the fact that he's stuck here on this weirdo wet planet with all this damn water, he seems to be pretty cheerful!]

There we go, I think... I'm just gonna assume this is recording-- Aaaand, hi everybody! My name's Sonic, I'm new here, and I'm pretty eager to dig into whatever's going on here and help out however I can! If you need something done fast, I'm your guy. Pssst, this is how you make an introduction other hedgehog, take notes.

Anyway, nice to meet everyone! And I do mean everyone. I get around real quick and I have no chill, you can't avoid me forever! That'ssss about all I've got for now-- Oh! So, asking for a friend, does anyone happen to have any spare like, pool noodles or y'know, floaty things. That float in water? I-- that is, my real friend that I have that I'm asking for kinda swims like a boulder. And this planet is like, really wet? Sooooo.

Yeah! I'll catch you all later.

Comments

[spinsandneedles]

[its cool bro, Sonic doesn't take any offense. He does, however, look as though the most obvious thong in the world is slowly dawning on him, and now he feels like the world's biggest idiot.

He reaches up to pluck a quill from the back of his head and snaps in in too. He is indeed packing hollow quills. Well then.]

...well. I wouldn't say that every hedgehog is naturally adept...

[but the floating thing, it appears, he could totally do. He just has to learn how to not flail stupidly any time he's submerged.]

[latentpower]

O-oh, right, of course! I didn't mean to imply your friend should be capable of it...[He feels a little awkward now.] Maybe he just needs some good practice, and it'll come right to him naturally?

[Luckily for you, Sonic, Gohan will definitely never figure that Sonic's totally real friend isn't real at all, so his secret is safe.]

[spinsandneedles]

[Eh it's fine, he's not all that committed to the bit]

Yeah, nah, it's just me, heh. Now, normally I'd say the best way to learn is to just dive in, but so far that hasn't really been a solid strategy. I usually get around it by just running across the surface of the water, but there's a lot of water here.

[Plus his stamina's taken a hit since he got here and he won't be able to keep up that kind of momentum for long, but HE doesn't know that yet ha haaaa]

[latentpower]

[Wait, so there wasn't a totally real friend at all?!]

Maybe... you could learn the magic of this world? I don't know much about it, but it's magic, so surely there's gotta be a Waterproof spell you could learn!

[spinsandneedles]

[Everything you know is a LIE]

The thing with the tattoos, right? Or is there some other way to learn magic?

[latentpower]

[Story of Gohan's life right there.]

Yeah, those are the ones.

[spinsandneedles]

Yyyeeaaaaah, I'm not sure how eager I am to let someone stab me repeatedly with ink needles, even if I would get some kinda cool power from it.

[latentpower]

[...]

When you put it like that, I don't think I'd want to get one either, and I'm not even afraid of needles.

[He can practically hear his father screaming already, though.]

[spinsandneedles]

Oh yeah, no fear. Just big, big aversion. If there was no other choice I could suck it up and get it done, but for now I think I'm gonna be looking into other things.

[latentpower]

No magic, huh... Maybe you could learn to fly?

[He says, as if that's somehow easier to learn. Except to him, it is.]

[spinsandneedles]

I could, I've done that before. Maybe it would be easier.

[He's flown before ever learning how to swim, it's not even weird bro]

[latentpower]

It can't be any harder than running on the surface of the water, right?

[He's a little hung up on that, because that sounds like an impressive feat to his scientific brain.]