action & gemini network | un: lillium

[ornamentals]

WHO: Kni & You
WHERE: Action part takes place at the Cottage & Network is on Gemini
WHEN: 7/31
WHAT: Congratulations, your Butter Knife has evolved into a Steak Knife! (Kni canon updated and just woke up from a three day sleep)
WARNINGS: Spoilers for Episode 9 of Tristamp, possible talk of bodily injuries (past). I'll update and tag any threads that may need a warning.

[ action - locked to cottage crew ]

[waking up to that birthday-visiting skeleton as the last five years back on that sandpit of a planet slip through his mind like some vividly intense dream isn't exactly what he would have preferred, but it is what it is. the uninvited guest slips away in the moments between kni looking down at the gun he remembers giving to vash before--

ah, his head is pounding.

for now, the gun is tucked away into the back of his dresser as something to conteplate later. the sensation of waking up after so much happening, back in his bed in his room in this world is a jarring experience. he only notices after standing up that his clothes have shrunk - or that he's grown. of course, after five years...

he needs to go outside, feel something more tangible than wooden floors under his feet and maybe, if he's lucky, some rain.]

[ network - gemini | un: lillium ]

[network users are treated to video feed of three very plump chickens (blue, white, and black respectively) running up to kni as he walks towards the chicken coop outside.]

Did you miss me? It's only been a few days.

[kni's voice is different, definitely a bit older now.]

Mary, you look bigger... I bet Vash overfed everyone, didn't he? [mary, in all of her fluffy black plummage, clucks merrily with her sisters as kni crouches down to crumble up a cracker over the grass for the girls to scratch at. he sighs behind the screen.] I suppose it can't be helped.

Comments

[ornamentals]

Not yet, no.

[simply stating a fact! definitely not sassy.]

Hard to trust when I've seen very little of your skills.

[please teach him or else he'll learn through youtube videos.]

[jackdawvision]

If your guardians will allow it, I’m more than willing to teach you some.

[It’s one thing to offer to people like Ratio and his interns, but they’re all adults. Kni’s young, looking only a little older than Jenny—Edward’s not about to bring Vash, Dante and Wolfwood’s combined fury onto himself.]

[ornamentals]

[there's no way he's asking for permission--]

I never asked you to teach me. I can learn how to parkour on my own perfectly well.

[jackdawvision]

You could. But you could also break an arm or worse. And even if you don’t break a bone, you may well end up shattering a window with sheer momentum.

I know how to cushion a fall, how to clamber up a building quickly and quietly. You might be able to teleport—but that might not always work. [He remembers Kni popping into existence in the Vogue’s rafters backstage. He’d rather not have a repeat of that thanks.]

[ornamentals]

How old were you when you began learning these techniques?

[but edward isn't wrong... he knows he doesn't have the same durability as he did back home, lacking access to his gate meant being cut off from his powers.]

Does it matter which guardian? [he's going to ask dante first.]

[jackdawvision]

Hm. I’d started work as a privateer by then, so…nineteen or twenty, thereabouts. I was a man fully-grown by then, and it still took a while.

[He just will not mention that before then he’d been climbing trees like a terrible little gremlin child since he was a young boy.]

Any guardian will do.