[ Waddles is pet! He makes cute little pig noises of satisfaction. If Tsuyukusa tries to retreat his hand from the pats, Waddles will sniff after it, looking for more. ]
Oh, it's like...this big party a town throws once a year! There's usually carnival games and food and sometimes outdoorsy stuff like corn mazes or something. There was a farmer this summer who'd let you pick a pig to keep for yourself if you guessed how much it weighed.
Normally, yes. If we were back home, that would be true. But I've looked all over and my tree isn't here. So there's some sort of magic at play that's keeping me rooted here, I guess.
Wh- I didn't turn into a boy. All tree spirits have a main body, their tree, and an independent body that can assume a roughly humanoid form. Two parts of one whole.
[Wow it's not complicated, he has two bodies and one of them is a tree!]
Not really? Byakuroku said I look a little bit like my ancestor did when he was younger. This just isn't what I would look like if I were using my full power.
No, I guess I'm sort of like... like a huge bird but with tree branches like antlers coming out where eyes would be? And with hooves like Waddles. [Patting him, because I remembered he is here. Anyway Tsuyukusa what the fuck.]
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Yeah. I won him at a fair this past summer.
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What's a fair?
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It sounds noisy, but I guess that's the sort of thing humans do for fun, right? All crowd around the same place and do activities and eat food.
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Yeah, they're pretty great.
What do you mean, 'humans', though? You look pretty human to me.
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I guess, but this isn't my real form. I'm a tree spirit. That's probably why Manwol thought I might speak squirrel.
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Whoaaa, a tree spirit? So does that mean one of the trees on campus somewhere is your real form?
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Normally, yes. If we were back home, that would be true. But I've looked all over and my tree isn't here. So there's some sort of magic at play that's keeping me rooted here, I guess.
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'Rooted.' Good one!
Soooo...what kind of tree are you, then?
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A gingko, the same as my ancestor!
[He's proud of this for some reason.]
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So then what made you turn into a boy? And why a boy who looks like... [ gestures to his body. ]
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So does that mean you get to pick how you look like?
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Not really? Byakuroku said I look a little bit like my ancestor did when he was younger. This just isn't what I would look like if I were using my full power.
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No, I guess I'm sort of like... like a huge bird but with tree branches like antlers coming out where eyes would be? And with hooves like Waddles.
[Patting him, because I remembered he is here. Anyway Tsuyukusa what the fuck.]
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I don't have access to any of my powers here, so I'm stuck like this.
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...then you're a human!
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Wh- Of course not!? I still don't need to eat and besides my teeth are different than yours??
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.... I don't know, I guess so I can bite people?
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Mabel laughs ]
What, like a tree zombie?
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What?? No, just like, just like any animal with sharp teeth would use them to defend themselves?
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