lipochrome: (18)
kiriona gaia. ([personal profile] lipochrome) wrote in [community profile] deernet2022-06-22 10:56 pm

URGENT: HELP US FEED A LIZARD (NOT CLICKBAIT!!!)

[ The video opens on a close-up shot of a lizard’s face. Its eyes are unfocused and unblinking. Its jaw is slack. Sometimes, a tongue flops out, and a hand reaches out to shove it back in.

Without warning, the camera DRAMATICALLY zooms out to reveal Kaworu, holding up a large, floppy lizard. This lizard is literally the size of him. Bigger even, if you include the length of its tail]


Okay, Kaworu! [ A very loud, very enthusiastic woman’s voice. ] You’re up! Time to tell everyone about this extremely important mission! Don’t – Kaworu, come on, you have to hold him up, like we practiced.

[ This is interrupted by some unfortunately shaky camera work. ]

Shinji-kun. His name is Shinji-kun and he’s heavy. You should give me the camera instead.

We don’t know what to feed Shinji-kun. He has little interest in eating even though we’ve had him for months now. It’s odd, most creatures, especially basic ones like him, are driven by the need to eat to survive, yet we can’t find anything that he desires. So far we’ve tried… buttered noodles, rice, cereal, marshmallows, grass, leaves…

What else Gideon?


Dried fruit, protein shakes, nice words written on paper notes, my blood, Kaworu’s blood, a rat we found in the backyard one time, bones. You know, regular animal foods.

[ Gideon shrugs, and the camera moves up and down with it. Professionalism!! ]

We know there was this whole baking competition or whatever going down, so, you know, if any of you want to bake a lizard treat we’d buy you lunch or whatever in exchange. Or just tell us how to feed this lizard.

[ Please!! Help! ]

( ooc: Gideon is in red and Kaworu is in blue. Shinji the lizard is undead, but the two of them have no idea. They just love their re-animated lizard a lot and want the best for him.)
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[personal profile] floatsaway 2022-06-25 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh, good...there's no real sense of anger or sadness there. Talking about that sort of thing is, uh...never easy. Pet death is pretty painful for a lot of people, and Ochako imagines that if it were someone like her classmate Koda, who can literally talk to animals and has a pet rabbit...it'd be a million times worse.

Though, uhhh...'experience with dead stuff' gives Ochako pause a second as she tilts her head and squints her eyes. That seems rather...dubious. But then again, Paul and his housemates live somewhere that has a literal skeleton army, and Ochako feels the fully body shiver run up from her toes so doesn't mention it.]


Well, it sort of depends on the lizard. A big one like that is probably not going to be satisfied with small bugs and lettuce, so probably the bigger insect varieties like crickets and...eugh...roaches. [Ochako wrinkles her nose, making a face.] They usually eat bugs most, from what I remember my friend telling me.

[Because of course someone like Mina asked Koda about how hard/easy it would be to have a big snake as a pet, which devolved into all sort of reptile species...then ended abruptly when Kaminari joked about feeding Koda's rabbit to a large lizard (and earned the blond a jab in the gut from Jirou).]

Other things...eeeh, I don't remember too much, but...I'm pretty sure mice and small rodents, fish, and parts of a raw chicken...just take out the bones.