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Sender ID: pinksidekicking (Nimona)
To: General
Subject: Distractions, Story Time
Warnings: Vague mention to the kidnappings
[ When Nimona appears on the shellphone, she's wearing a manta ray onesie and has an extremely big manta ray plush as her pillow. ]
I know some big terrible things are happening right now, but that's kinda the point of this. I just need a distraction, because I dunno if I'm gonna get much sleep anyway.
[ She'd rather be out there searching, breaking things... ]
Let's talk about our worlds. It can be about anything. Stories, legends, stuff that's happened to you personally, whatever. I'll start.
[ The shellphone is propped up. ]
My world is weird. We've got knights and a kingdom, but we've also got crazy levels of tech compared to this place. Flying vehicles, laser weapons, those sort of hologram screens. Don't ask me how any of it really works, I only know how to use it.
We've got royalty... though the queen was recently killed. Not sure who's gonna be in charge now. I don't pay that close of attention to what the humans do. And we've got our old stories too. Mostly about a monster and the woman who defeated it a thousand years ago and became a hero.
[ Nimona points at herself. ]
It's me, I'm the "monster". Not really a monster, though, just different from everyone else in my world.
Your turn, if you wanna talk to anyone.
Sender ID: pinksidekicking (Nimona)
To: General
Subject: Distractions, Story Time
Warnings: Vague mention to the kidnappings
[ When Nimona appears on the shellphone, she's wearing a manta ray onesie and has an extremely big manta ray plush as her pillow. ]
I know some big terrible things are happening right now, but that's kinda the point of this. I just need a distraction, because I dunno if I'm gonna get much sleep anyway.
[ She'd rather be out there searching, breaking things... ]
Let's talk about our worlds. It can be about anything. Stories, legends, stuff that's happened to you personally, whatever. I'll start.
[ The shellphone is propped up. ]
My world is weird. We've got knights and a kingdom, but we've also got crazy levels of tech compared to this place. Flying vehicles, laser weapons, those sort of hologram screens. Don't ask me how any of it really works, I only know how to use it.
We've got royalty... though the queen was recently killed. Not sure who's gonna be in charge now. I don't pay that close of attention to what the humans do. And we've got our old stories too. Mostly about a monster and the woman who defeated it a thousand years ago and became a hero.
[ Nimona points at herself. ]
It's me, I'm the "monster". Not really a monster, though, just different from everyone else in my world.
Your turn, if you wanna talk to anyone.
he is nothing if not dramatic
He'll bite someone for her.Another honk of raucous laughter.] Yes! Love how you think.We should see how many it takes to max out the storage space on these phones. [He waggles his fingers at the screen of his Shellphone, and then shrugs.] At this point I'm not sure he wants to.
[He slaps his own thigh laughing at that.] Don't be snow dram-- Mo, unholy fuck, I need to write that one down. [His eyebrows make a bid for space with how high they climb off his face.] Knives are cool! I'm not as good with them, but I like ranged shit.
[His expression softens, and then his whole posture, his tail spade flopping back and forth in a slow wag.] Well, how about this-- long as I'm here, you ever know a lonely dragon, send 'em my way.
she loves being dramatic, but only fake crying
So long as she gets to watch.She looks smugly proud. ] I'm an evil genius. I even applied to be the sidekick to what I thought was a villain once.Oh man, these things are so magical I never even thought about how much storage space was on the phones. Time to put it through the test. [ Polaroid cameras are a lot better because then she can hang them everywhere. She might look into getting one. ] There might be some places where it's better to have shoes, so getting a pair could be useful someday.
[ Hehe, he liked the joke! ] I got a bunch more of those if you ever need 'em. [ A dramatic sigh. ] No one will let me play with other weapons. I wanted a catapult for our ship but nooooo, I'm not allowed to launch drunk customers into the ocean.
[ Oh, that's an offer she wasn't expecting right off the bat, even if they've been getting along like a house on fire. ] If I ever come across a lonely dragon, I will.
at least most of his dad crying is silly and not Serious Actual Tears,
Please bring popcorn.As she should. Blitzø lounges a little, kicking his feet up and watching the screen with a lazy smile.] Not afraid to get your hands dirty for a good time-- I like that attitude.I'm shit at magic stuff, to be honest, so I'll leave the photo-taking to you, I might break something. [He would love that, but also his penchant for fucking up pictures is sort of a danger to physical photos.]
[He slips his gun back into his pocket and shrugs.] I haven't got much here, but if you wanna learn firearms, I gotcha. Better for someone who knows how to use them to teach you than to have you learning on your own.
[His smile is frankly disgustingly fond. Yeah, Nimona, you've been quite thoroughly adopted.] Good.
just the way she likes it
She absolutely will.Plopping her chin on her giant plushie. ] Nope! I broke him out of a jail and things exploded! It was metal.Eh, shapeshifting's all I got. And harassing my tech friends into making things for me. I'll load up my phone so full with pictures and we'll find out if there's a limit. [ She will find a way to make copies and put them somewhere safe.
Her eyes are sparkling and she lifts a hand high in the air like she's in a classroom. ] I want to learn how to shoot guns! Teach me your ways.
[ It's a warm feeling in her chest, to have another new family member after going so long without. A hope that she won't have to be alone someday.
Will Stolas someday become dad number 3? Time to find out.] Good. Where do you live, if I were to send a dragon your way?listen he doesn't want anyone to see the Serious Actual Tears, okay
[A chuckle.] "All", she says. Bitch you can shapeshift, don't sell yourself short! [If they're digital he doesn't mess with them, it's just the physical ones-- probably just the ones he actually hangs on walls and shit, honestly. Thanks, trauma!]
[His eyes crease nearly shut with how hard he smiles.] You got it.
[He's a touch apprehensive, if he's honest-- he's been here long enough that he's definitely missing his family at home, but the impermanence of it all has him keeping distance from most people. It stung like Hell, no pun intended, when Angel disappeared, but... Nimona's just a bit too magnetic for him to keep at arm's length.
Stolas doesn't get a choice in this, he's got another daughter.He reaches out and taps around on the shellphone to send her the address-- it's Paladin, despite him being a Corsair, but he's been living on Stolas' couch.] It's birdie's place, technically, but I live here too. Dragons welcome anytime.she goes tiny tot when sad and vulnerable... it has happened too many times for her liking
I am short! Short and awesome. And okay, I can breathe fire... and cereal. [
Don't ask about the last one... or do.And possible being immortal with the ability to be reborn from the ashes. They can both take markers to physical ones, make improvements. ]There's something I gotta do - another jailbreak and people to at least maim if not murder, but when I'm free, I'm gonna find you for lessons. [ That sounds like a threatening promise - a fond one.
For a year she held on to a lot of her own apprehensions, waiting for the betrayal that just kept happening to her. Being afraid of losing the people she cared about most. So she gets that.
Daughter number three should at least talk to new dad.She checks the address, noting it's a Paladin place but hardly blinks when he explains. ] Got it. If you ever need a drink, come by the Seventh Heaven - our ship's also a bar and tavern.LOL MY HTML don't tag when tired, kids-- he will put her in his fucking pocket okay
[Another toothy grin.] You 'n me both. Fuckin' hilarious to watch me and Stolas in the damn apartment, he's too tall for everything and I'm too short for everything, stupid as hell. [A beat, and he frowns so hard the mark on his forehead creases.] Did you just say you can breathe cereal?
[He levels her with a Look-- fatherly, concerned, but not in a "you're in trouble" sort of way.] You've got my call sign if you need any help with the maimery, y'got it?
[She really is like Loona. And Blitzø himself, for that matter.
I've already told Stolas-mun B is probably bringing home a dragonchild sometime lolll.He winks, shooting fingerguns at her.] You got it. You sure a place called Seventh Heaven isn't gonna catch on fire when a literal demon walks in? [He's mostly kidding, but-- can't hurt to be safe.]always tags when tired... she will live there happily
Do you make him get everything on the top shelf? I do that with the tall people on the crew to be a menace. [ Because she could shapeshift into a taller form, but it's more fun to pester the taller folk. Nimona opens her mouth and then closes it. ] Yeeeeeees? Pink puffy balls of cereal. They make good weapons if you just wanna see someone struggle in a ball pit.
[ Not a Look. Her nose scrunches up, because she does recognize that look. ] Yep, I do. Gotta figure out where this jail in the first place though.
[ Three peas in a pod.
Excellent, she will crash on the floor or turn into a cat and sleep on the couch with Blitz.A laugh at his question. ] Nah, we're definitely not some holy place. The name used to belong to bar in some city slums.true that
Oh, fuck no-- I just climb shit. He'll see what I'm going for and hand it to me sometimes, but I ain't askin'. [He's aggressively self-sufficient. And also cracking up laughing at cereal as a weapon.] That's-- that's fuckin' hilarious, oh my God. Has anybody ever eaten their way out?? Or tried? I would try.
[His head cants just slightly to the left.] Need help?
[A whole service bar of funny little people.
Stolas has absolutely had to pick him up off the floor because he can and will sleep absolutely anywhere like a fucking cat, so that's perfectly acceptable.He huffs out a relieved breath.] Had me worried there for a second!no subject
Just be annoying about it. Like "gimme that" and poke him in the belly until he does. [ Though shoes or bare feet on the counter also count as annoying so... A grin. ] They're so stupid when I pelt them in the head. Uh... not that I know of. I don't know what they did with them afterwords though. So maybe! That's gross and I'd record it!
[ She puffs out an annoyed, frustrated breath - with fire. ] We've checked all over Paladin, Corsair, and the neutral leviathans and haven't found anything yet. If you wanna help, I won't say no but I'm starting to think they're being held somewhere else.
[ The most eclectic family.
When you're used to having not much of anything, you learn to take everything you can get.A shake of her head. ] Nah, pretty sure the owners only have one afterlife in their world. So everyone goes to the same place when they die.[ No Heaven or Hell. ]
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[He wrinkles his snout, shaking his head.] Nah. Not an "asking for help" kinda guy, even when it's for shit on the top shelf. I'm perfectly fine at climbing and gettin' it m'self. [Luckily the cereal deviation has him laughing again before he can get too fussed about admitting to how fucking stubborn he is about asking for literally anything.] How big are we talking, here? I can put away a lot of food for being like, four feet tall.
[He considers that, mulling it over.] 's related to all the mass kidnappings lately? [Oops, plot mentioned.]
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Blitzø has, as self-proclaimed, an eye for potential, even if that potential is mostly somebody he sees enough of himself in to reach out.He wrinkles his snout again.] Boring! Hell gets so overpopulated with Sinners they do a fuckin' extermination on the regular, which-- sick shit, actually, but. Can't imagine what it's like if they all went one place.no subject
Hmmm! ] How will I know you need help with dragons then? Do we get a secret code? Hand signals? Drawings? Emojis? [ They can find a workaround for asking for help in a legitimate life or death kind of situation, at least.] Somewhere between softball and dodgeball sized? Depends on how big of a dragon I am at the time.
[ A half-frown. ] Yeah. Some of my family got taken. [ She just got that family!
It's honestly like looking in a mirror, and he missed her self-destructive moment here.Extermination because of overpopulation. ] If they all went to the same place, all the Goodie-type people would have to interact with all the Sinner-type people. Just kinda sounds like more of the same of a regular life to me. When I died temporarily, I turned into pink sparkly dust and went nowhere until I mysteriously reappeared~no subject
[He flinches, realizing what she's doing a bit too late to deflect it.] ...if I actually needed it, I'd ask. [Which-- isn't a lie. He's just absolute Hellhound shit at allowing himself help when it's not a very solid requirement that he can't really argue. He holds his hands at the rough sizes of a softball and a dodgeball, then blinks owlishly at Nimona.] Damn, you've got range.
Well-- that sure as fuck won't do.
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His are unfortunately constant on a smaller scale, but he's maybe getting better about it?? Maybe.] Mmn, maybe so. This is why I don't make the fuckin' rules down here, or anything close to it. You..., died temporarily?no subject
HMMMMM, don't deflect new dad. Nimona is trying to make it a little easier. ] You could send me a dragon emoji! 🐉 [ He could use it for just about anything, even things that aren't dragon-related. Nimona would just show up and be there. It's a tiny step beyond that very solid requirement. ] Normally I can be whatever size I want, but this world has rules and limits. Blech. So my dragon and phoenix are only like ten feet tall.
I know! I'm so mad that I wanna destroy stuff! But I'm saving it for the main event. [ Don't want to give away that she's probably trespassing into places she probably shouldn't.
Nimona's are huge and very dramatic, can't miss 'em. Literally.] Sometimes rules are meant to be broken anyway. Or at least very very bent.[ It's story time! ] Oh yeah! So there was this crazy lady who hated me soooooo much. Blah blah, "Monsters must be destroyed", whatever, right? I guess to be fair, I did kind of rampaged through the kingdom a little. She aimed this laser cannon into the center the kingdom and intended to fire it at me even though I'd stopped rampaging. It would have killed a toooooon of people. I said "screw that" and turned into a phoenix and barrel straight into that cannon. [ Her hand sails through the sky and smacks into the other one before blowing up. ] BOOM! We both died in the explosion, except I got to come back to life a while later.
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[He frowns-- Nimona's like. Thousands of years old, and yet he's designated himself as The Adult, so it feels wrong to permit himself to utilize anything even slightly resembling the lonely dragon mention. His posture pulls kind of squiggly, like he's uncomfortable in his own skin, and he shrugs.] Dragon emoji's better than trying to make you decipher my texting. [A snort.] Only ten feet, she says. Stolas won't be shit to you in height, then, except if you turn him sideways he disappears. Skinny dude.
Good deal, save your energy. The more of it you store to beat ass the better the beating will be.
[He just grunts, because yeah, doesn't he fuckin' know it.]
[He processes that and whistles, softly.] Full-on "rise like a Phoenix" bit, aren't'cha.
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She is a child in heart and soul, having had no parental figures at all "growing up". That's the kind of thing she soaks up, getting parental affection of all sorts. Really, she's trying to not let this get too heavy. ] I suck at reading so that works out! [ They are really two peas in a pod. ] One of my dragon forms is maybe fifty feet tall. And my phoenix isn't too much smaller than that. I don't use them much. Waaait, I thought Stolas was a million foot tall?! Gasp! Wa-was that a lie? [ Cue the absolutely fake dramatics, she even puts a hand to her forehead and pretends to faint. ]
I'm gonna bite people, and squash 'em under my tail, and make them pee themselves! Then I'll murder 'em. [ Definitely going to be on a vengeance streak when she finds where her family's been taken. ]
Yep, that's me! I'm hard to get rid of.
1/2 for icons lol
[Two peas in a pod, indeed. Blitzø can't seem to act his age most days, anyway-- with the exception of Playing Dad. And, honestly, the way he can't seem to help taking care of literally everyone around him. There's a lesson to be learned, here. He chuckles again.] Good, 'cause I can't spell for shit. [Another whistle, fairly immediately cut off by an exaggerated buzzer sound.] I said a million before you said you could be like fifty!! He's like-- I'unno, nine or ten? I'm right level with his birdp-- [He cuts himself off, makes a cross-eyed face, and clears his throat. Not going there.] Hips. Like, ahm, [He stands up and waves a hand over the slope of his horns, and then cuts the arm down and taps the side of his hip, just about where his leg meets his pelvis.] There? But then he's only another couple feet, he's mostly leg. [Mostly ankle, actually, by bird anatomy, but Blitzø doesn't know that.]
2/2
Well, good-- 'Cause you've sufficiently annoyed me into likin' ya.
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Time to stalk.There will be no plotting whatsoever in helping them get there. Nope.Other people can be responsible adults, they can just be family. ] I just use the speech-to-text thing most of the time. [ An exaggerated pout. ] Awww, I wanted to see a million foot birdperson. [ She totally knows what he was gonna say, thanks for sparing her from that. ] I'm gonna have to look way up at him in my human form. Or stare at his belly. [ Not gonna stare at his birdp- or hips.
A sage nod of her head. ] Can't let them get off too easy by just killing them. They should suffer a little first.
[ Aw, another person she's annoyed into liking her. ] It was only a matter of time. My powers of adorable annoyance are too strong.
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For the first time since they met again as adults, they're not doing shit real fast.He will not know what to do with that even remotely, actually.][He works better as an obnoxious clown of an older brother, anyway. He clicks his teeth and shoots her fingerguns again.] Atta girl. Honestly, wouldn't surprise me if there was one, somewhere. Ice bitch I mentioned earlier is a little taller than Stolas, still, 'n I was like... five when I saw him but Stols' dad might very well be a million feet tall.
[Another crooked grin and he drops back to sitting.] A quality we share, except I'm just flat annoying, I don't reach for the cute factor too often, lookin' like I do.
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That's why it's the good stuff.Try to enjoy her devious plans?There's nothing stopping him from being both! A fun older brother, with a dash of a dad who cares about her. ] I'm gonna make it a goal for my bucket list, finding a million foot birdperson. Hang on! [ Nimona grabs a piece of paper and colored pencils, scratching something on it out of view. What she holds up is a drawing of herself (pink) and Blitz (red), and next to them is really... just a pair of bird legs that stretch to the top of the page and beyond. One of the talons is the same size as the two of them. ] There, added! I'm gonna ask him how tall his dad is when I see him.
[ A tilt of her head. ] I don't see a problem with the way you look. And nah, you're fun annoying!
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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.
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They went through a lot, they deserve a slow burn.She'd totally set them up on dates.Dadbrotheruncle. No need to limit themselves, so long as it's family. First he's laughing, then he's not. ] Oooo, that sucks. Anything else I should avoid? There's harassing and pestering someone and there's harassing and pestering them, you know? [ One's in good fun and the other's poking at wounds and issues - even on accident.
The look Nimona gives him is so flat for a moment as he explains it. She spent her whole life being called a monster for not being normal. ] I still don't see a problem. And I've decided not to care what "normal" means anymore. I'm awesome, you're awesome and I'll bite anyone who says different.
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Set themselves on fire and then burnt the ashes, too, really.Lord please help Blitzø with dates he's not bad at them he just overthinks it to A Degree.][Dabruncle. His expression pinches and he thinks it over, squirming in place. He doesn't like lowkey airing Stolas' grievances, but it's probably safer to tell her things that'll upset him, for everyone involved since she's absolutely the type to follow through on claims to heckle someone.] Uhh..., magic is a bit of a sore spot for him, and probably avoid talk of kids. He's... been forcibly removed from his daughter, just recently.
[He stares at his hands for a long moment, because she's right, but he's not really had someone spell it out quite that plainly to him before. A small, almost shy little smile pulls at his mouth.] Yeah, me too. My teeth are bigger, but I'm pretty sure yours can get a lot bigger, so we'll take turns.
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Now it can rise like a phoenix from the ashes! Start anew.Time to start planning surprise dates so he can't overthink it then! She'll be a little tricky in getting them to the date the first time, and they'll both wise up fast.Dabruncle - the new best family member term. Nimona doesn't usually ask for other people's personal issues either, not through another person - but this birdperson seems close to Blitzo and she doesn't want to mess that up. So she'll give a salute. ] Got it! [ And move on.
It took her a bit to get to this point, a thousand years and a whole new world where people accepted her so easily. Even another year to work through the lingering doubts and uneasiness. She's not an expert, but they can try to work on it together. ] It's a deal. You can have first dibs, because I'm gonna get my biting in real soon.
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