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ℜelationships
Hototo: A sense of comfort, a friend. Met one rainy evening, spent tie playing with him, the stag then kept him dry. Looking forward to seeing more of Hototo.
Woden: Playmate. Curious. a sense of entertainment. Eager to spend time with.
Greitai: A good friend, protective of in his own childish way. A dear playmate.
Sabastian: Protected him from an odd doe. Sees Sabastian as a protector and friend.
Alexis: Acquaintance
Way: Acquaintance
The Candlehound: Adored companion A dear friend. Wants nothing more than to see the creature happy. Very much enjoys the company, always happy to spend time with.
Jergens: Mei announced himself as Jergens' friend before the stag even had a choice in the matter. He's out to prove that everyone just needs a little love and the world would be better. Self proclaimed teacher. Has made it his mission to teach Jergens to read.
Peanut: Silent cuddling partner.
SobekNofru: Dance partner, playtime buddy.
Flyleaf: Playtime buddy, fun to be around
Jergens halted in surprise,
It was just like with Thomas. Talking to the old war veteran was always a pain simply because they both came from two different time periods. Mei seemed to be no different (and the question about what cars were only added to his theory).
"Where were ya born, anyway?" he asked curiously, even more intiruged by Mei's backround. "And the British whatnow? Nahhh... But America is kinda like that I guess... I mean, we came from em'..." he fumbled, not really remembering much in terms of world history. After all, he only had a basic elementary education.
"And a car is a thing you use to get to places faster." he explained simply, not really bothering himself with describing it.
"I am from the Ming Dynasty,
"oh! I get it, it's a Carriage, Car, Carriage. That makes sense" he smiled, proud of himself for seemingly catching on, tail wriggling as if it had a life of its own.
You know someone is from a
"Here, lemme draw ya a map." he motioned Mei over, grabbing a small stick from the ground to draw a shoddy looking blob to the far right corner of his makeshift canvas. "Okay... picture that as China." he mumbled, his voice muffled from the small twig in his mouth. Carefully, he traced out a longish, narrow blob next to the larger blob. "That's Great Britain."
Finally, he moved over to the far left of the small plot of earth, carefully drawing out a curious likeness to the United States. For an added touch, he placed a small dot roughly where New York was located. Pleased with himself, he flung his stick over to the side.
"Alright, Britain used to own us a long time ago. Then we separated, right? And formed our own country. I dunno what China was doin' around that time, but whatever. Anyway, I was born... uhm...." he paused, pondering for a moment. Friend had told him what yaer he was born in before...
"1958. Eisenhower was the presisdent then... uh... that's kinda like our 'emporer' I guess..." he fumbled, not really knowing much of what he was talking about. Whatever.
"That dot is where I lived, okay?" he chuckled. "And fer the record, cars aren't carriages... they're like screaming metal death traps that go really fast... y'know?"
He blinked down at the map,
His art was surprisingly, well, amazing.
North and South America seemed to be missing however.
"I will put a star where China owned land...and, a circle can be for britain" after a bit he finished.
"and this was the trade route we used..." he mumbled, squiggling lines places.
"...that does not sound very pleasant, why would you ever get on one of those?" he resumed drawing other things now, a person, a horse, Chinese characters for various things.
"Can you read Chinese?" he asked curiously.
Jergens watched, jaw unhinged
"Yer missin' North and South America, but... damn... Yer good." he breathed, unusually impressed. "Heh... I make em' sound bad because I was killed by one. They're okay..." he half-heartedly explained, watching as Mei drew little scribbles.
His question made him hesitate a bit before answering. "I never learned how to read anythin'..." he mumbled, obviously embarassed.
"I dunno where that is" he
"that's okay, basic Chinese letters look like what they are, like little pictures, maybe you could write them" he retrieved Jergens' stick for him, plopping down with his own again.
"Tree...Bird...Deer" he wrote slowly, little shapes in the earth.
"England thinks it's so great with all its fancy letters." he could read and write English too, but even still...
Tossing the America subject
"They look the same as all the other letters I've seen..." he mumbled, a little flame of frustration lighting inside him. Determined, he picked up his stick and tried to mimic the symbols, though only succeeded in writing the first one over and over again... The process was painfully slow, and it was only until his ran out of space that he stopped to look over his handiwork.
He had started off strong, but the last line of the same characters that he wrote were just a bunch of childish lines that had no real meaning. Jergens didn't seem to notice this, however.
"Uh... how's that?" he asked, grinning sheepishly.
"Those first ones are good!
"This is deer, that's us. Try this one"
His ears flattened against
"Nah... I'm just stupid." he smiled, shaking his head, watching as the smaller buck stamped cleared off a new blank slate to work on. Still, he stared at the single character, embedding it in his head as he took up his stick, copying it down once this time.
He'd humor the buck, but by no means would he really try unless he could see some progress.
"that's not true, you're very
He wasn't meaning to treat Jergens like a child, he treated everyone like that really.
"so now you know Tree, and Deer." he sat back on his haunches. "just remember, they aren't any different from your picture. see, these lines kind of look like the antlers on a deer, so you know it's deer. and this one, this one kinda looks like a tree, so it's tree." he nodded. "You're very bright Jergens, don't let anyone else make you think otherwise, including yourself" he looked up, smiling wide, ears tucked back. "I believe in you"
Jergens couldn't help but
He had already forgotten what the character for tree was anyway.
"Yeah... I kinda am." he insisted, carrying a sort of sad smile for the whole thing.
Really, in many ways he almost exceeded in certain subjects, but that didn't change the fact that he never finished fifth grade. A sad fate indeed.
Still... hearing that silly accent and seeing that cute expression pretty much snuffed out all the bad feelings that Jergens felt. Having a writing lesson always seemed to leave a bad taste in his mouth.
"Eh... sure... whatever..." he mumbled, lips twitching into a little smile.
"There's no such thing as a
"...you any good with numbers?" he asked curiously, an idea coming to mind. ears ticking hopefully.
((Hello, again. 8D The buck
But, sorry he left so early, I'm helping getting a set for a friend. He will definitely be back to Mei, espically when he is down like he is. <3))
haha I knew it, Peanut is
not a problem~
Super modest smart people...
The term was so moronic yet so undoubtedly clever that it almost urged Jergens to go under another laughing spell. Instead, he freely chuckled, niether denying nor agreeing with the statement.
Mei's next question intrigued him though. Yes... he had always been pretty good with math... but only when Pert would read out the problems to him. While other students would write out their work, Jergens would do it all in his head... as he had no other means to do so.
"Maybe... haven't really done much math in years though..." he thought, turning to Mei with a curious glint in his eyes.
"I've got it, I'm going to
"the alphabet has twenty six letters. so I'm going to teach you to associate certain numbers with certain shapes, so you can spell with numbers!"
He jotted down the letter 'A'
"This is number one. when you see these kinds of lines, think One, don't think of it as a letter, think of it as a picture to go with the number one!"
Thank you, though, I have to
Jergens had to admit this kid
"One... okay... But that's not a one, right? That's... uhm..." he fumbled, trying to think of it. People had tried to drill the alphabet into him more than once.
"Look, can't ya just give me a math problem or something? Then we can call it day and never go back to all these stupid letters and crap. How bout' that?" he reasoned, doing everything he could possible do to weasel out of all this.
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they can combine cute and implode the planet.
Ginger;
"nope" he shook his head.
"we'll finish this one, then we can stop" he nodded.
"sing with me, A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y and Z. One Two three for five six seven~ eight nine ten and eleven~ twelve and thirteen, fourteen fifteen sixteen~ seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty~ twenty one and twenty two, twenty three then twenty for twenty five and six, spelling will be easy if you sing like this" it was funny in his little accent and voice.
"A one B two C three~"
♥YES.
Noo...we can't have that much
If there was ever a single
"Hah. Yeah. No. I'm not singin' that. No way in Hell." he bit his lower lip to restrain a small chuckle that might have been taken in the wrong way, all the while shaking his head.
"A one B two C three..." he repeated flatly, taking it all in.
"Can we stop now?" he asked, unable to think of the next letters that had just been sung to him.
"Yes, now you need to repeat
It was never good to overwork a student.
"all done!" he nodded, dropping his stick, prancing over to Jergens again, setting about grooming the large red stag.
"Sure..." he mumbled, lying
"Heh, finally." he grinned, eyes half-closing in contentment as he felt his curled pelt being neatened and cleaned. How weird... he felt totally at ease with this littler buck. It was rare that he could trust someone so easily.
"Not like I'm gonna have any use with readin' here anyway." he scoffed, tilting his head up to look skywards.
"you never know, what if
"you have nice fur" he noted.
"Then I get someone to read
"Thanks. he sighed, falling into a state of total relaxation. He had never been so spoiled in the forest before... not that he didn't mind or anything.
"It's kinda annoyin' sometimes though... too bad it runs in the family." he chortled, rolling to his side, the heavily scarred underside of his belly facing Mei. "My daughter has it too, cept it's kinda longer..." he rambled on, not really thinking before he spoke.
"You have a child?" Mei
"What is she like?" he asked then, trying to give the stag more to talk about, large ears twitching.
"Mm. Her name's Peony...
He paused, his tail lazily thumping against the ground as he muddled some thoughts together, feeling the small prickles of the buck cleaning his nearly furless belly. "She's a little shy... kinda like her dad, just not so extreme... she's stubborn too... and that's only gotten worse since she's grown up..." he mumbled, on and on.
It was the first time he had ever talked about his family without even feeling a small hint of sadness.
"She sounds lovely, and what
"And what of her other father?" he didn't seem to even bat an eye at the idea of her having two fathers. Clearly as open minded as anyone could be.
ooc;
What the hell, it changed my account.
Whatever /logs into the other one
Tracking.
"She's usually all over the
"He..." he thought for a long time, picking through various thoughts. "His name was Rosine... I met a long time ago before I died... Then I guess he went too. I dunno. He was beautiful... and I mean that in the most manly way too, y'know?"
He didn't bother explaining the rest. It pretty much spoke for itself, to him anyway.
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"I see" Mei nodded. Not
"all clean!" he nodded, curling up beside Jergens, eyes half closed. "I don't remember my mom, I was taken when I was still an infant to work in the palace" he explained. "so I don't know what family I have really"
Kaitlyn;
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Ryff;
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"Mm, thanks..." he mumbled,
"Friends are kinda like family. The only thing about em' is that yew choose em'. Ya ain't born with em'." he lazily replied, wanting to reach over and likewaise clean the buck's fur in return, but he could find no energy to do so.
"Still... I'm sure yer mom still remembers yew. Maybe yew can find her one day... I dunno." he lamely assured Mei, practically slurring over his words.
"you're sleepy" he noted
"me too...nigh'~" he stated simply, draped over the red stag, breathing quietly as he slept, limp little ragdoll.
Jergens said nothing,
It only made him all the more drowsy.
Curling himself inward, he dozed off quickly as well.
baw they're so cute
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I believe he's dancing with
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ayup, that'd be me ='D nice
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You're welcome~
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Hey, you're dancing with
♥ I looked them up
I looked them up hoping for a biography, they had a few posts but no blogs though haha~
Yes, we are dancing here in
aha there you are
Glad to meet you 8D
This was fun and Flyleaf came
And now we can sleep togheter!
I must agree~ We'll have to
We'll have to play again sometime ♥
Hey , Hey !! So fun dancing
Nice to meet you too~!
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