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🧙 WHO: Minako Aino and you!
⚔️️ WHAT: Minako is new to town, so it's time to explore.
🕒 WHEN: Mid-July
🗺️ WHERE: Camelot
⚠️ WARNINGS: Should be none, will edit if that changes!

(a. at the senshi (and friends!) house)

[ Minako's arrival hadn't exactly been.. pleasant. Somewhere between everything being so chaotic back home right before she showed up here instead, then suddenly being dropped into the water out of nowhere, and then getting covered in gross jelly stuff didn't exactly make it the most fun course of events.

But at least Makoto helped her over to the house, and now Minako has been able to bathe and get all that junk out of her hair, things are starting to look up a little more. Or at least, Minako thinks she looks presentable enough to be seen by others.

Which means she starts wandering the house, peeking her head into all the rooms so she can greet people with a: ]

Hi! [ You know, casual. Just showed up here. No biggie. ]

(b. on the streets of camelot)

[ If you just happen to be calmly walking along the city streets, your moment of relative peace and quiet gets interrupted really, really quickly.

Because you might suddenly feel something jumping on you. It happens so fast that you can't even see what it is, other than that there's a sudden pressure on your head, like something is clinging on for dear life up there. If you try to remove it - which is possible if you put some effort into it - you'll find it's a cat. A kind of.. odd-looking cat, since it's a little too big for your usual cat, but it's still definitely a cat.

Or even if you don't manage to remove it, there's suddenly a blonde girl outright charging at you, yelling out-- ]

Wait!

[ What do you do. Do you run. Do you stay. Do you ponder why your life suddenly turned out like this? ]

(c. outside a bakery)

[ After having managed to recover her familiar, Minako is making sure to tightly hold it to her chest, not wantin to start an entire chase scene all over again.

Which means things are a little bit calmer right now. Instead you might find the blonde girl standing outside a bakery, staring at the delicious goods inside, looking like she's about to drool right over them. ]

Ahh, it looks so good, right? [ She squeezes the cat-like creature a little. ] Maybe you were just hungry too.. Rough is the fate of those who don't have money.. [ Please, Minako. You literally have a house full of friends you're staying with. Cut down on the melodramatics.

Still, her stomach growls. Loudly. That chase must have taken some energy. Do you help out this poor blonde girl. ]

(d. on the streets of camelot, less chaos edition)

[ Or maybe you, very simply, just find the girl walking up to you on the middle of the streets. Do you know her? Probably not! And yet she talks to you so casually, as if you're not total strangers. Welcome to the power of an extreme extrovert. ]

Hey! Sooo.. if someone wanted to practice these new powers everyone's talking about, where do they do that? Won't you help a cute girl out?

[ Look at her batting those doe eyes at you! You're locked into this fate now. It's inescapable. ]

(ooc: as a note for those who have threaded with me on the tdm, i am more than willing to carry those over as in-game canon, so feel free to assume those interactions happened! c: )

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[ Thank you, Soundwave, for protecting this poor girl from herself. Or, technically, from bumping into a huge mountain of metal that certainly would give her a headache for the rest of the week if she ran straight into it.

Which means that she runs right past him instead, colliding with a trash can that noisily falls over instead.

The girl, however, quickly pulls herself back up to her feet to stare at Soundwave and the duo of cats, panting as she still has to catch her breath. ]

Y.. You caught him!

[ She will address the fact that the person who caught him is some sort of huge metal robot person later.

This comes first, especially when she doesn't have a whole lot of breath to speak with. ]

[Oof. That looks like it hurts crashing into that. Still probably way better than crashing into him, anyway. Vents huffing air, Soundwave then approaches the girl as she gets on her own two feet, with the large cat still on top of his helm. His little familiar follows after near his feet, still gazing at the bigger cat with its glowing blue slit eyes.]

Breathe in first, miss. [Politely reminding.] I assume this cat is your familiar...

[It's a big cat, but he hasn't seen a cat like this one anywhere in Avalon before - at least not the local kind. Regardless, Soundwave finally grabs the large cat and holds him in his arm, gentle and mindful to not accidentally hurt the creature.]

.. yes. [ Wheeze, pant. ] He is.

[ Even though she only found out about that-- well, a little bit before said chase started, really. Minako is new enough to still be getting used to this whole idea of familiars. ]

But when I thought I'd explore town together with him, he suddenly ran away from me!

[ Speaking of which - said familiar? The slight odd looking cat, just a bit bigger than most? It's looking so innocent in Soundwave's hold. Just look at those eyes. How could it ever have done anything wrong. ]

[Huh. Soundwave glances down at the cat and does indeed sees the big ol' innocent eyes the cat's doing. Soundwave likes cats. Always prefer their company. Those eyes that hold such innocence in them... That they wouldn't do any wrongs... Too bad for the cat, Soundwave isn't the type to fall for that trick easily.

Even with the faceplate covering his expression, there's at least a sense that he's linefacing hard at the cat.]

That's the first I've heard a familiar ran away from their bonded one. [Maybe they were trust issues involved? He obviously doesn't have the full picture here, so he's not accusing either Minako or the cat of any wrongdoing yet.

He got one side of the story- Minako's story -and now he will address the cat for his. If the cat would be willing to talk at all.]

Is there a reason why you ran away from her?

[ For a moment it seems like the cat isn't going to talk. Like it's just going to try and look as cute as it can. Just a cute chubby cat over here, what could possibly be wrong with that!

But when the cat seems to realise that things aren't quite working out the way it intended, it does finally speak up. ]

.. I was hungry. [ Its voice is deeper, lazier. A complete contrast with its cute exterior.

And it says it so plainly too, like this is just normal. All casual. ]

H-How could you abandon me for food?! [ Minako in the meanwhile whines, waving her arms around in upset indignation. ]

[... Hidden behind his faceplate is Soundwave slightly flabbergasted at the cat's response, before turning to Minako when she whined. Now he ponders how his life suddenly got to this point.]

Settle down, miss.

[Thanks Primus he no longer has his super hearings here, otherwise the whining might actually hurt his audial receptors. What a thing to abandon its master, though. He would've reacted the same way (with less whining) as the girl if his own familiar had done the same thing. Thankfully Spinel is just... mischievous.]

Was that truly it? Couldn't you have told her you were hungry instead of having her chase you around town... Unless she refused you food or have mistreated you in some way. [Not that he's saying that she's done that.]

What?!

[ Uh-oh. He may just have said the wrong thing here, because now the whining is starting all over, as if it's instinctively activated at those words. He can probably tune it out though.. If he tries.. ]

I would never do something like that! You know, I have a cat back home too, and I treated him super well, even though he totally kept on peeking at me in the shower! And I'll have you know something else--

[ In the meantime, the familiar itself remains quiet. But it just looks really, really amused at this whole scenario. That definitely is not an abused cat in the slightest.

Just one that loves causing chaos, as such. ]

[And just like that, immediate regret. He should've not added that... Soundwave can certainly try to tune her out since his hearings aren't as sensitive anymore, but he'd much rather if she just ceases her whining altogether. With all this whining he would want to stay away from her, too. But he knows better than to say that out loud.

He does actually feel bad, though.

He looks back down at the cat and - oh, now he knows exactly what kind of cat you are. You might be adorable, but that's definitely a look he doesn't like. A sigh from his vents, then he tries to sound apologetic as best he can with his monotonous voice.]

I apologize for my words. I did not mean to suggest you've done something like that. So... please stop.

[ For what it's worth - and for the sake of poor Soundwave's hearing - the moment he tells her to stop..

.. she does. Maybe it's since it came along with an apology, or maybe it just drew her attention, but Minako immediately grows quiet.

But it has the unfortunate - or maybe fortunate, considering the lack of whining? - that she doesn't speak up again either. Instead she stares up at Soundwave, her eyes wide, like she's ready to listen. ]

[He really can't tell if her suddenly being this quiet is a good thing or not, as his glowing red visor stares down at her. Certainly the lack of whining is preferable, his hearing is at peace, but it isn't as if he told her to never speak up again, either. This is slowly growing awkward for him, and he's never dealt a situation like this before.

Regardless, thinking about it is going to confuse him further and so he'll just hold her cat familiar towards her to be done with it all.]

... Here, take your familiar back.

Thanks.

[ She takes it from him, making sure to hold the odd cat tightly in his arms this time - as if she wants to prevent a second circus scenario like the previous one.

But it seems like she isn't done with just that. Sure, there's no more whining, but she still stares up at him. And after a moment she just can't help but ask: ]

.. does everyone look like you where you come from?

[That's that. She's taken back her familiar and Soundwave can go about on his business again.

Or so he thought, stopping when Minako asked the question. His head tilts slightly to the side at the curious question. Ah, well... He can't actually be surprised by her curiosity. Nobody here is as mechanical as he is. And it's a benign topic, so he doesn't mind answering.]

If they look specifically like me, then no. [As far as he knows anyway. Not a single bot came to mind sharing a similar frame with his.] If you mean that the people on my home planet is mechanical like I am, then the answer is yes.

We are a sapient mechanical species called Cybertronians. We're not robots, if you happened to be thinking that.

[The assumption is more common here than he liked, here especially hence why he brought it up on his own. While Minako isn't alluding anything to that yet, he wants to immediately get that part out of the way.]

[ It's a pretty good thing she didn't quite speak up yet then, huh. Because 'robot' sure was the direction Minako was thinking in.. Though she smiles all the same as the other explains. ]

Cybertronians, huh.. I've never heard of them! Then again, there's also talking duck people in this place, so I'm keeping all possibilities wide open! [ Hence why she seems generally unfazed, even in the light of her standing here and casually talking to something like this.

Sure, there were aliens where Minako comes from, but most of them also tended to look human. All these non-human beings are mostly a new thing here. ]

It really seems like this place is pulling in all sorts of people.

It does seem so. But at the same time, it seems like it's mostly humans who are pulled here.

[Nonhuman still feels kinda uncommon in his view. There are a couple of mechs, although most are human looking aside from him, and there are the aforementioned talking duck people he's seen around. Fortunately for everyone here, Soundwave doesn't mind humans much anymore and certainly doesn't have a problem being in a place where it's mostly filled with humans.

It's still lonely without his own kind, but he's gotten used to it by this point. At least he has a couple of human friends to keep him from being totally alone.]

I take it that you are newly arrived? [He's getting the sense that she is. While Soundwave can't claim to know every single people who aren't from here, he hasn't seen her before now.]

[ Minako nods, saluting him with one hand. ]

Totally fresh, got dropped straight into that--

--dirty jellyfish-infested lake--

--only yesterday! [ Somehow she manages to both start and end that sentence in the most chipper way, even though it drops into a much more complain-y tone halfway through. But it vanishes like snow under the burning sun before the sentence is over. ]

So I guess you could say I'm still kind of trying to find my bearings. Learning to deal with my familiar, exploring the place, meeting new people!

[Well, that's a rather abrupt transition between chipper to complain back to chipper again. His brief pause before he speaks might suggest that]

Ah, I remember that I saw jellyfish back on the shore yesterday. How unfortunate... When I first arrived, there were turtles lifting people back to shore instead.

[The turtles didn't help him per se. But unless there were like millions of turtles, it'll be impossible for them to support his weight anyway. He swam back to the surface all on his own.]

Still, hopefully you will find a more pleasant time in this world. [As pleasant as can be with the calamity situation.]

.. well, I guess it's already a little better now than it was then.

[ Because, for one, she is no longer getting covered in all kinds of gross stuff that she quickly wants to wash off. Thanks, but no thanks, jellyfish.

Although Minako guesses that's not the only reason. ]

And.. people here are pretty nice too. [ Even if some of them are huge robots. ] Thanks for helping me out with my troublemaker cat.

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