[Slow burn after being the quickest burn ever, actually. Try being the operative word.]
[Dadbrother. Brotherdad. Weird Uncle, more like. He's laughing at her, for the bucket list and the drawing, until he's abruptly grimacing and brings both his hands up.] Nnno-- no, don't. Leave his dad out of it, he's uh. They're estranged?
[The plain certainty she says that with earns her a chuckle.] Yeah, that... checks. Uh, [He waves a hand across both sides of his face.] This isn't normal, we're usually just red. Black happens in patterns, stripes or points, [His tail wanders into view, displaying the two stripes and the triangular end in black, like he dipped it in paint.] But the white isn't normal. I'll take fun annoying, though.
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Slow burn after being the quickest burn ever, actually.Try being the operative word.][Dadbrother. Brotherdad. Weird Uncle, more like. He's laughing at her, for the bucket list and the drawing, until he's abruptly grimacing and brings both his hands up.] Nnno-- no, don't. Leave his dad out of it, he's uh. They're estranged?
[The plain certainty she says that with earns her a chuckle.] Yeah, that... checks. Uh, [He waves a hand across both sides of his face.] This isn't normal, we're usually just red. Black happens in patterns, stripes or points, [His tail wanders into view, displaying the two stripes and the triangular end in black, like he dipped it in paint.] But the white isn't normal. I'll take fun annoying, though.