89th Draw » Adventures in Bittyland

[selphie_t]

[Suddenly, the entire house was acting weird and that meant one thing to Selphie. The Malnosso were up to their usual tricks and seem to have left her unaffected by the shift. The shifts aren't surprising so much as she wasn't prepared for one so soon after she'd been returned from a Mallynapping.

The Malnosso didn't really feel like giving Selphie a break however.

The third day rolls around of the experiment and Selphie's feeling quite young. Six years young to be exact with messy brown hair and bright green eyes as she begins exploring the house in her oversized nightshirt. The little monkey just might be attempting to climb bookshelves to get that shiny object on the top shelf. There's going to be books everywhere unless someone manages to stop her in time.

For the rest of the shift, people will find a child version of Selphie running loose through the village being loud, cheerful and generally... a little kid. Eventually, someone is kind enough to give her some overalls and a yellow t-shirt. Another gives her a pair of sandals. She smiles a toothy grin at the kind people before running along on her merry way.

She's on the lookout for her Uncles, Mama, Papas and Big Brother but she still stops to play all over the place. The playground, the school yard, the fountain, the plaza. She'll run as fast as her little legs can carry her and anybody will be able to hear her from a mile away.

Luceti, the pint sized terror known as Selphie Tilmitt is on the loose and in dire need of a responsible adult. Whatever are you going to do with yourselves?]

[ooc: Selphie's shift effects are that she's going to bittified and AU'd back into the Luceti Valley AU. She'll be like this for the duration of the event. Have fun with her! But please, please be gentle. :)]

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[selphie_t]

[She giggles at the headpat. Papa always did the same thing.]

'Kaaay!

[no_compromise]

[She was smiling now. Maybe it was a good time to just nod and inch...away...]

[selphie_t]

[And then she feels something bump her feet. Looking down, Selphie has spotted a piece of fruit. She picks it up and holds it out to Viral happily.]

Here!

[no_compromise]

[mistake.

Viral stares for a second at the girl holding the fruit--one of a few that he picked up for the residents of House 44 for allowing him a room to hold his belongings--before nodding quietly at her. Her smile was worse than her tears in some ways. How do you interact with a child like that?

He accepts the piece gently, careful with his claws on her small hands.]

Thank you...little one. [Because he didn't know her name, and didn't know what to call her.]

[selphie_t]

Selphie!

[Her name, Viral. Just for you. This kid clearly doesn't grasp the concepts of stranger danger.]

You're welcome.

[no_compromise]

Selphie, then.

[Viral notices her unbiased trust, and subtly shakes his head.] You should be with your parents.

[selphie_t]

Mama said it was fine as long as I stayed in the village and came home for supper.

[no_compromise]

Then maybe you should find some kids your age to play with...?

[selphie_t]

They cheat.

[no_compromise]

...what would they cheat at?

[selphie_t]

The games we play.

[no_compromise]

And what kind of games are those?

[selphie_t]

Tag and stuff like that.

[no_compromise]

[Viral's brows furrow in confusion at this. He understood the concept, but--]

How can they cheat at those games?

[selphie_t]

You tag 'em and they say you didn't. It's dumb.

[She kicked the last person who cheated.]

[no_compromise]

...that is dumb. [It was also another point that left Viral confused about humans as a whole. The same kind of thing happens among the adults.]

...

Did you at least knock them over?

[selphie_t]

I kicked 'em good.

I got in twubble when I got home though.

[no_compromise]

[Viral huffs, irritable at this information. Humans and their 'wisdom.' They made no sense to him.]

Did you explain that the kid was a jerk and deserved it?

[selphie_t]

I tried.

[no_compromise]

[Okay, yeah. He didn't understand that at all.]

Tch. Fools.

[selphie_t]

[Huh? Viral, you did not just insult her parents.]

Nuh-uh!

[no_compromise]

Then why did you get in trouble and not the other one?

[selphie_t]

'Cuz I'm not s'posed to kick people when they're being meaniebutts.

[no_compromise]

Then how are you supposed to teach them not to be...'meaniebutts'?

[selphie_t]

Punch 'em in da mouth!

[Nope. Wrong answer.]