video | un: gokuu

[glutton_monkey]

[Having only just learned how to use video on the omni, Goku's feed is a bit shaken and choppy. He's really only half visible for most of it, kind of stepping out of frame every so often because he's clearly walking. You might see some of the rolls of bread he's carrying.]

Hi ev'rybody! My name's Goku, an' my friends said that I should talk to th' network if I need help with stuff, soooo... Do we have any healers around here?? 'Cause my friend's ankle is broken but he can't heal himself 'cause it don't work like that or somethin', so I was hopin' somebody else could help him??

Oh yeah, m'also goin' around deliverin' bread for him! So if Hakkai toldja that bread's on th' way over, that's me! Goku!

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[fusrodaaaah]

I - I - I!!

[He can't get past that word. That one word. He even ducks down, curling up. Even dropping his device. That is too much yelling.]

[So here comes Melius' Omen. Settling down to peer into the camera with a dragon-y scowl.]

Mey zul! Joor, nahlot! [And then in the midst of her scolding dragon speech -] Fucker!

[glutton_monkey]

[Goku may not have any idea what this new dragon creature is yelling at him, but he knows that scolding tone well enough to react entirely on instinct. He suddenly braces himself as if he's going to be smacked silly by a fan, verbally scrambling for a response.]

M'sorry, m'sorry!!! I was just askin'!!

[fusrodaaaah]

[The omen clacks her jaws. She growls and chatters more. Snaking her head back and forth. There are definitely more curses in there.]

[Finally, Melius' head peeks back into view.]

S-sorry. Um. She - she likes. Swears. A lot.

[glutton_monkey]

[When it finally occurs to him that he isn't actually being hit, Goku just kind of- flails one panicked hand in front of the omni instead. He looks properly chagrined, if that makes the littler dragon feel any better.]

I- I'm sorry, okay?!? I never seen a big talkin' dragon before! Or are you a youkai??

[fusrodaaaah]

D-Dragon?

[He looks down, to his omen. Then back to Goku.] N-No I'm... I'm not. A dragon.

I'm. I'm Argonian.

[glutton_monkey]

[Goku blinks. Eyes big.]

Ar...gonian???

Wassat?

[fusrodaaaah]

M-me.

I am. We um. We are... there are people like me. At home?

[NAILED IT.]

[glutton_monkey]

[For a second there's just... this face.

And then, eventually-]

Oh.


You kinda look like a dragon, though! Didja know that? But I guess I don't really know a whole lot o' dragons, either...

[fusrodaaaah]

[Melius just kind of... sinks down. A little.]

Um. I... I know that...

I'm sorry.

[glutton_monkey]

Uweh?? [His head tilts to one side, curious now.]

Why're you sayin' sorry? It's kinda cool, isn't it???

[fusrodaaaah]

I... is it?

I um. I didn't - think people liked dragons.

[Because they murder people and destroy cities.]

[glutton_monkey]

[And here Goku just blinks owlishly, eyes still big and curious.]

Really?? Why not?? They can fly an' they look super cool. What's wrong with that??

[fusrodaaaah]

... they kill people.

L-lots of people. And... and they want to rule the world... or eat it.

[Alduin did anyways. Did all the dragons want to eat the world? Or was that just his deal?]

[Questions Melius will never have answered.]

[glutton_monkey]

[Another blink. Goku's never seen dragons kill people. Sure, Jeep can be a force to be reckoned with when he wants to, but he's so small it's hard for him to imagine him going on a murderous rampage.]

All of 'em?? Aren't they kinda little for that stuff??

[fusrodaaaah]

Little?

[Excuse the squeak in his voice. He looks over at his Omen - she's pretty small. The size of a housecat, really. And then shakes his head.]

N-no. No they're ... they're huge. Aakhahnu is just - an omen.

[So she's tiny. For a dragon.]

[glutton_monkey]

Huge?? Like- Like a house kinda huge??

[Goku tries to imagine Jeep being that size. It probably should be at least a little scary, but to him Jeep will always be cute.]

I didn't know dragons could get that big!

[fusrodaaaah]

Y-yes. They. They can. They are. That big.

[Big enough to destroy a whole town!]

And mean. So... people. People don't... like them.

[glutton_monkey]

[This is all News to Goku. Dragons are pretty rare in his world, and obviously a lot smaller than houses, so this is just... beyond him.]

Oh... So issat why you didn't like it when I said you look like a dragon??

[fusrodaaaah]

Y-yes.

Yes. That. Is why.

[No it's not. Not all the way anyway. Because, technically, he is a dragon... it's complicated.]

I'm sorry.

[glutton_monkey]

[Goku smiles and shakes his head.]

No no, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make you an' your omen buddy upset, but I still think you look super cool. I never seen anybody like you before!

[fusrodaaaah]

Fucker.

It - Oh!

[He clamps his hand on his omen's face. Which spurs more sputtering curses. All of them worse than the last, but you can't really hear them.]

N-no. She um. She's. She's always like this.

[glutton_monkey]

[The swearing just makes Goku grin, completely unfazed. He's heard much worse on a daily basis for... really for as long as he can remember. With no additional insults tacked onto it, he hardly even registers that it's meant to be mean.]

That's okay! I've got friends that're always mad, too.

[fusrodaaaah]

... You do?

Why?

[glutton_monkey]

[That... makes him pause for a second.

Why, indeed?]

Uhh... I dunno, actually. Most people piss him off pretty easy, I guess? An' Gojyo's good at makin' him mad, too. ...He gets mad at me a lot, too.

[SHRUG.] But that's kinda just how he is!

[fusrodaaaah]

[Melius: accidentally asking the Big Questions here.]

Oh. I um. That would - that sounds scary. To me.