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Silly afternoons

🧙 WHO: Jean Kirstein & You
⚔️️ WHAT: April Catch-All
🕒 WHEN: April
🗺️ WHERE: Around Camelot
⚠️ WARNINGS: Mostly a light-hearted one, this one, with more silly prompts.

A: Blacksmith apprentice things

At one of the blacksmith forges, Jean is working as per usual. After successfully making his own weapon, he has been granted permission to work on client weapons as long as they weren't anything too complicated. So he's mostly doing swords and daggers at this point. Whenever he isn't working on weapons he's being a courier for delivering products or getting necessary things for the forge.

That or he's taking a break and eating lunch if you catch him around during midday.

B: Cat in a box

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There is a box sitting at a corner of the street. A very normal looking, not at all suspicious box. Quite a big box to be there, but someone had just thrown it out and it hasn't been moved since. Big enough to fit a lion, in fact.

Which... which is exactly what the box has. Jean had found a place for himself to hide away from curious children who wanted to ride him and ended up taking a nap there.

Cats and their boxes, right?

II

On another occasion, in a box much smaller, Jean naps as a tabby cat. It wasn't so much as hiding this time. He had been practicing climbing and jumping places and felt the urge to get into a box. No matter if he's small or big, boxes.

Maybe he should start focusing on dogs after all.

C: Alchemy at its finest

Jean's secondary magic was still giving him quite a bit of trouble. He knew what it did and what he needed to do in order for it to work, but it was still nothing that came easily. So he's occupied a nice corner of the training grounds for experimenting.

There are several weird looking items there. Something that was supposed to be a jar turned is more like a pillar made of jar pieces. A few pieces of metal he got from the forge he had tried making into utensils but ended up with a knife... with a spoon on the other end.

It's really kind of frustrating.

D: Wildcard

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Olivia had seen many things in her time here, from giant friendly talking spiders, to duck people, so the sight of a lion in a box sitting on the corner of a street shouldn't be that strange... but it still was pretty strange to her. Was this one of the residents? Was it one of the resident's familiars? She'd seen some talking animals here, so it could be that... but then why was it sitting there in a box? Was it homeless?

What if it really was a 'normal' lion and it attacked somebody?! As much as she wanted to pretend she didn't see it and hope it didn't pounce her or anything, Olivia could bear the thought of some innocent bystander with less combat experience getting mauled by a lion. So she's just going to cautiously approach the lion in the box, clear her throat, and do her best!

"H-Hello mister lion?" Clearly a good start.

The lion seems like he just woke up from nap, upon closer look. He looks at the girl with a tilt of his head.

"Hello. I'm not really a lion... just some guy with animal magic stuck in lion form."

Aaaand cue a massive sigh of relief when the lion proclaims that it's just somebody trapped in lion form. She'd really been worrying over nothing, but better to worry over nothing than to not worry about something? Wait...

"I'm glad to hear that! I don't know what I would have done if you were an ordinary lion that just happened to have shown up here. If I may ask, just what are you doing in a box on the corner of the street?" She's fairly certain that's not typical human behavior, but she's never been a human that transformed into a lion so perhaps that's the key difference.

"Oh, this?" He looks at the box. "I came here to hide from local kids. They wanted to ride a lion."

The local kids truly have no fear. Then again, Jean wasn't even trying to appear scary or angry so the fault lies in him, really.

"I ended up falling asleep in the box as a result."

"... The local children tried to ride you? And no adults tried to stop them?" She really worried about the state of domestic affairs in this world if parenting had degraded to this degree! Maybe they were orphans, or had gone out to play with their friends, but shouldn't there be some sort of adult supervision, or neighborhood watch?! This wasn't exactly the safest world for children!

"I'm definitely feeling a bit concerned by just how reckless the inhabitants here can be." Sleeping lion in a box not withstanding.

"I didn't see any adults, but then again I didn't stick around to see." Instead he had run off and scared a few other people by running past them but at least he managed to hide himself rather well. Thank Merlin (not literally) for a box big enough.

"I suppose it's more likely a lion is an animal mage than an actual lion, but yeah, I agree on that."

"Huh...hey, good kitty," The fashion show had actually been a success, much to Mukuro's amazement! It had all left her somewhat drained, though, so for the few days after she just wandered around in something of a daze.

...She couldn't help but be a little jealous of the cat just relaxing there, though. It looked so comfy. And so, she found herself crouching down by the box to stop for a moment.

Jean is effectively half asleep and his ears twitch when he hears a voice... and then yawns.

"Oh, hey Mukuro", he greets her. It's not loud so there's no risk at all on someone hearing and the voice is clearly Jean.

"H-huh? Jean?" That was- oh, he must have shape-shifted, right? It wasn't something she'd used all too often, but it was at least semi-reliable now.

...It would be weird to pet him, wouldn't it?

"Yeah... apparently boxes are too big of an temptation when you're a cat." He doesn't sound too impressed, even if he's also not the most upset sounding. Kind of complicated. "And then I fell asleep..."

"I guess it would be...not gonna lie, it actually looks comfortable in there."

Comfy cozy box. And it didn't look like Jean was planning to move anytime soon, either.

"Why don't you practice your magic... it's really nice", can you hear him purring as he says that.

"Hehe," he was actually purring? That was cute.

"Yeah, you know what...I could use a break. Give me a minute."

Taking a deep breath, she closed her eyes and started to focus, willing her magic to shift her form. She didn't use it much- but she was starting to get better.

And a few moments later, there was a cute black and white rabbit wriggling into the nice comfy box too.

Jean moves a little to give her space to get comfortable, continuing to purr a little bit.

"Welcome. Nice choice of a transformation."

"Thanks- It takes a little getting used to, huh?"

Don't mind her just settling in- nice and warm. At this rate, she'd probably end up taking a nap, herself.

"A little... but not too much", Jean comments with a chuckle. It is nice and comfy, especially with a fluffy companion. A purrfect nap.

Gokudera had just been taking a walk, trying to clear his mind and missing the worlds he'd been to before this. He's pulling out a cigarette, drops it, and stoops to pick it up when he notices a large box. Curious, he moves over to it and finds of all things, a large cat in it. Clearly a lion, but he's stopped and staring.

He misses his Storm Leopard, Uri. The giant cat wasn't normal, but it protected him when he was on his own in Tanagura. Gokudera wonders what a Lion would be doing out in the open like this, and decides he'll risk his hand. He reaches down and gently slides a hand along its back, curling his fingers and glides them through fur, then around and up against the back of ears, circling his thumb into the large cat's neck and giving a relaxed sigh.

"You alright, big guy?" Gokudera asks gently, petting steady and calm, something nostalgic in his expression.

Jean is half asleep and having someone gently pet him does wake him up a bit more, but... it feels nice so he just relaxes back down and lets the guy do his thing. He recognizes him as the dog guy from few months back... but he's too lazy and tired to actually so anything so he gives a low, lazy rumble instead to answer his question.

Gokudera gives an amused, soft little chuckle, petting all the while and seeming to drift off comfortably until he flinches and put a hand to the leather about his neck. He stops petting the lion and mumbles a gentle apology while struggling to make a thin light shield against his own skin, to stop the malfunctioning collar about his neck from burning him any more than it does regularly.

Jean looks up at Gokudera with a confused / concerned look. He's actually not sure how the guy would react if he knew he was petting a person turned into a lion instead of an actual lion... considering their previous encounter, especially. So he'd rather just continue saving his strength and let him relax if he needs it.

Thankfully, he's tired enough to not feel too awkward about it until later. He will likely have difficulties looking at Gokudera in the future.

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