hadriel_logs | Event Log: A Little Touchy-Feely

Who: All characters participating in the event
What: The event log for the A Little Touchy Feely event
Where: In the city of Hadriel
When: September 20th-29th
Warnings: Cuddles? Please keep in mind our rule about potentially adult content.

In the morning of September 20th, you wake up with an itch you can't quite seem to scratch. There's a strong impulse, lingering in the back of your mind and it's difficult to figure out exactly what you need at first. You may be unhappy, unsatisfied for most of the morning, but everything clicks when you run into someone else- whether it's a casual interaction with a roommate or friend or a more intimate one with a boyfriend or girlfriend, after a brief moment of contact, suddenly everything falls into place.

You'll spend the next week or so seeking out that contact, consciously or unconsciously. It's not enough to have a handshake or a hi five, you want to be close to people: physically, emotionally, any way you can get it. The closeness makes you happy, the happiness makes you forget about how lame it is on a rocky desert island on an alien planet. Everybody wins, right?

Make sure all cuddles are consensual, and try to stave off the horrible coldness that comes from your fear of being alone, at least for a few more days!

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[He swats his tail on her collarbone as soon as she takes her hand away, poking at a long ear with one paw full of pointy claws. Still, he chitters in what can only be a giggle as Lup locks the front door, wiggling with excitement.]

You've got sixty seconds and I'm keeping count, okay. This is the hardest thing in the universe.

[But he does, woefully and dramatically, unhook himself from her neck and slide down off her hip before hitting the ground running towards Angus' bed, disregarding the other items in the room in favor of grabbing his claws into the bedspread and hoisting himself up. Lup may be able to hear his little squeaking noises of effort as he scrambles up the side and scoots to the top, pulling the top blanket back with his teeth and starting to burrow into the sheets. It smells like him and it's nice, which is a little weird, but that's just how it is when you're doing the animal thing. He's learned to embrace it.]

Hey you better get back in here soon! I don't have hands! It's kind of a hard sell to get shit set up when I have no hands!

[Just as she's promised, Lup doesn't leave her brother waiting for her long. Never again.]

Yeesh! [With a pile of sheets and comforters, and a few pillows tucked under her arms, Lup appears in Angus' bedroom, moving over to the bed so she can look down at her burrowing brother with a grin. Angus' bed is a little small, but that's just what the twins need right now, a tiny space to just curl up and hide in, just like how they spent their childhood.

It's gonna be good. It's gonna be so fuckin' good.

Without a word, Lup drops the whole pile right on top of her twin.]

Excuses, excuses. I really gotta do everything around here, don't I?

Edited 2018-12-30 06:12 (UTC)

[By the time Lup makes it in, Taako's kind of hopping around the bed, making little leaps in anticipation. He's finding it's kind of difficult to stand on the sheet with mongoose feet, and unless he wants to shred the topsheet he can't use his claws. Of course, this is negated when she dumps a whole pile of stuff right on him, leading to some squeaking until he pops his furry head right out the top.]

Uh, yeah you do. This is Taako time now, baby. I brought being totally adorable and fuzzy, where's your end of the deal?

[Ugh, it's really unfair that her own damn brother is looking up at her with such a sweet face buried in the blankets, all furry and twitchy and too dang cute.

At least Lup has the sense to not say as much outloud.]

Move over, dingus, or you're gonna get squished. [Not that Lup's ever had an issue with sitting on her twin before but now he might actually feel it.] And I thought we already established that I was bringing hands! Pretty dope if you ask me.

[Haha! The prestige! He wins!]

Oh yeah, the hands you have all the time. Meanwhile I have to make myself into a mongoose. Gods. The things I do for this family.

[But he burrows back into the sheets Lup dropped and out the bottom of the pile before starting his hop-walking up towards the front of the bed where Angus' regular pillow is.]

Well go on, use hand magic or whatever, chop chop.

[He's just gonna curl up right here and watch, thank u perfect. She can use his fuzzy little face as inspiration.]

[Fuzzy little face as inspiration! What an ego!]

Do you ever shut up? Like, honestly, real q here. What's the longest Taako Taaco has gone without adding his own damn commentary?

[But she's grinning even as she chirps back at him, adjusting their blanket spread into the perfect nest before she's diving into bed with him, wiggling to find a comfortable position and dragging the blankets just where they need to go. Lup drops her head next to her fuzzy brother and pulls her knees up to her chest, laying on her side facing Taako, a hand reaching up to affectionately drag him closer to her body.

It's time for the snuggle. Don't even try to back out of it now.]

[He snickers a high pitched noise in response, hopping in anticipation of her getting the fuck in here already.]

Absolutely never, and you know that. But now I had to tell you. See, it was an invitation.

[But yessss here she is! Here they are!! Once she settles, Taako wastes no time in curling in around her face, a wiggly little ball right under her chin.]

Y'know, I can optimize this as like any animal. Bust whatever spell slots I want, I don't care. Take your pick.

Honestly, I'm kinda attached to the fuzzy scarf.

[She doesn't need to say it aloud - and honestly never would - but it's impossible to not miss the mongoose family of their first cycle so long ago. They were the first significant connection Lup and Taako ever really made with anyone before they fell in with the Starblaster crew, the first world to really touch them. So having Taako all curled up under her chin, rough fur tickling at her neck and the familiar scent right at her nose? It feels familiar in all the best of ways.]

You can stick with it. Unless you wanna turn into like, Barry, but then we're gettin' into some weird shit.

[He giggles a bit, shaking slightly just under her chin. Just because it's only them, in a familiar and safe space, he nuzzles his head upwards into the bottom of her jaw. Mongooses don't purr, exactly, but they do make a similar rumbly noise and it's inadvertent for him when he's like this. So he stays close, stays cute.]

Uh, absolutely not, I'm your brother not your sex doll. What, I'm not good enough for you?

[But he's not moving, or leaving. Not if you forced him. And for all these fuzzy feelings, he mutters out another chirp once he's settled.]

Love you, Lup.

What, can't take a little crit? Tch, gettin' all soft on me, 'Ko.

[It's the same for Lup, naturally. They don't need the influence of the gods of this place to feel warm and safe in one another's embrace, but it certainly helps, leaves Lup melting deeper into the mattress, defenses disappearing, the only thought in her mind how right this feels.]

Love you, Taako.

[Whatever happens next, whatever awful events lay further down the road, in this very moment, none of it matters. They have one another and that's enough.]

Event Log: A Little Touchy-Feely

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