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[ 'Rok Soo' makes himself comfortable on Lex's lap, swishing his tail absentmindedly and resuming his purring. No biscuit making in this position though, as promised. ]

You saw my Pandora post. [ Despite a fox and fox-features being his 'default' Familiar form, Cale's favoured form is a cat. ] This form is good for napping, but vulnerable.

[ His ancient powers' voices are significantly quieter when he transforms, and the powers themselves are sealed. Despite being average-size (disregarding his weight) for a cat, 'Rok Soo' is still very frail, and lacks any real defenses.

Which implies that the only reason he's comfortably transformed now is because he trusts Lex won't let something happen to him. ]

Ah yeah, I did, I did.

[ Vulnerable... huh. He can't really question the level of danger in this world, not really. Not after the last two months? After all, before then there had been threats, but most of them were things he heard about in the past. Or those you volunteered for by going to certain regions. Day to day there isn't any real issue.

If anything, it's made him all the more wary.

Lex tilts his head, and pulled his hand back from the other. He couldn't help it, he sniffs it on the tail end and - yeah, that's sure a cat scent, isn't it? Ah well, ]

If the whole cat form has a specific name, and you don't want more questions, isn't openly bringing up Korea or cats on there an issue in and of itself?

[ He continues with his purring, though it's quieter now. He hadn't realized before that purring didn't just make the target feel relaxed but the one doing the purring as well.

It's cozy, and warm, and... it makes him happy to know he helped provide his kids with this feeling. ]

It wouldn't let me lie, so I shared the minimum amount I could get away with.

Huh. I suppose that would explain a thing or three.

[ He just said his usual bullshit, the only things which were perhaps coerced was his name being there, but... he thinks back on his own profile. No, nothing comes to mind. Couldn't this guy have just censored the Korea thing to like "the days of my youth" or something? It's a counterfactual though, no point arguing over it. ]

Yeah. It was better to have control over what was listed than let the Fox have full control.

[ Everything he listed was something he had an excuse for — even Korea, thanks to the God of Despair's test. ]

What do you think of all this Familiar bond stuff?

[ He leans back a little in the chair - Lex hooks his feet around the lower part of the table and pushes the chair back on two of the legs rather than four. It's dangerous and bad for the chair, but sue him. He wanted to look more clearly up at the ceiling as his eyes shifted to blue. ]

I don't know. Mostly because I just don't understand the full mechanics of the thing, even if I can see the obvious benefits of the thing. It gives sensory info and telepathic connection or something, yeah? So that's helpful.

[ And familiar. ]

If you tip us over my claws are coming out.

[ He warns, but doesn't do anything other than shift to make himself more comfortable in this new position. ]

As long as the connection can be controlled by will it would be something useful. The problem is the variations in bonds and lack of comprehensive information.

For real. Or even if it's limited to one person or not. That's a whole other thing, in my mind.

[ He laughs it off, the idea that they might tip over. There's no reason to be concerned! He's got great spacial awareness and sense of balance! ]

It's not limited.

As a Familiar I can bond with both a Legend and a Myth simultaneously. Presumably the limit is just one's mental strength to tolerate all of the information coming from a bond.

[ In theory Cale would be suited to having a large number of bonds, thanks to Record. There is no human better able to absorb and store data than him. ]

[ ... Interesting. ]

One and one, or as many as you want of both? What of the two other groups?

[ He didn't know any of this, but to be fair he'd never really ... looked too closely at it. ]

I don't know? It's not like I've bonded with anyone before to try it.

Legends can't bond with other Legends. Same for Myths with Myths. The bonds seem to be about balanced support?

Then how do you know it's one and one? You hear that somewhere or is it an intuitive knowledge? Because who knows, maybe I've got an attractive Familiar woman in mind to share thoughts with!

[ He's joking, of course he's joking. Even if he does float his mind towards Betsy in a way he wonders if she can remotely sense. ... Probably only if she was focusing on him, but that would be. Silly. Unlikely. ]

...I don't? I never said it was. You can probably have as many Familiars or Myths bonded to you as you can mentally handle?

[ Or so he assumes. ]

The local spirits have some information, but none of them have had roles before so it's obviously limited.

-- Ah, yeah, my bad. Sorry.

[ Huh... he hums a little, rocking the chair a little on the spot. ]

... If we're going to be cards on the table about apocalypses and reincarnations and what not, there's some part of me which thinks someone important to me would scold me for cheating.

[ That confused tilt of his head definitely looks a million times cuter when he does it as a cat. ]

Cheating? What cheating? You're just my fr— [ oh. wait, no. that's. embarrassing.

His ears airplane sideways and he looks away, purring loudly as a distraction. ]

My mercenary knight. Until my swordsmaster or hyung-nim shows up.

I am in no way qualified for knighthood, my man.

[ He says this with a little laugh before pulling his legs on the table, tipping the chair forward, and after grounding the chair he reaches to pick up Cale bodily in his hands. ... He doesn't know how to hold a cat, it might not be perfect.

heheh, cheating.

... He should probably explain. ]

If I say you're a knight you're a knight.

[ Benefits of being the sworn brother to the crown prince, and friends with a member of almost every royal family/ruling body or major organization across multiple worlds.

If he says someone is a knight or a hero, then they are a knight or a hero.

It's the least he deserves for all the effort he's put into achieving his slacker life. ]

Unless you don't want to be one. It's your choice — you can be whatever you want.

... Sheesh, and who just was saying the other week that a noble without rank doesn't have power? you're just going on clout now.

[ EH's being playful in the argument... and definitely lifting Cale cat up bodily unless it's resisted. He's doing the totally not great for cats under the armpit thing though oops ]

My hyung-nim is the crown prince of the Rowoon Kingdom. [ And, okay, yes, there is absolutely no hiding the pride he has in his sworn brother's status and achievements. ] So if I say you're a knight of our kingdom then you can be a knight of our kingdom.

Or you can say you're a Henituse knight. My father wouldn't say no to that, either. [ In fact, Duke Deruth would be more likely to agree and offer Lex all the financial and material support he needed just as thanks for being a friend to Cale. ]

...

[ He doesn't struggle or resist in any way. He just allows Lex to manhandle him as he stares at him with unimpressed silence... though eventually does add: ]

Hey. Don't ever pick up another cat under the arms.

... Okay, forgive me stereotyping, but is Hyung-nim a man from Korea or wherever you ended up?

[ Because by context that sounds like a guy from the fantasy world, but that name(?) sounds like it doesn't mesh with "Cale" and the rest of the names he's heard from the guy.

His eyes shift to green and- uh ]

Oh, this isn't a secure position?

[ Uh.

He'll set him on the table, then. ]

He's from Nameless 1.

Some of the honorifics and familial titles from Korea translate into the languages there. There was a Korean transmigrator in their world around ten thousand years ago, so Korean is technically an ancient, dead language there.

[ And since Earth 3 is a mixture of Nameless 1 and Earth 1, Cale can only assume that has something to do with the language thing? Maybe? ]

'Hyung' is Korean for 'older brother' when spoken by males, and '-nim' is a respectful suffix.

[ He swishes his tail. ]

It's painful to be held like that, and can cause severe injuries. You need to support the legs.

[ Since the Vitality of the Heart is mostly sealed right now he just has to deal with the lingering discomfort in his muscles, but it isn't a big deal. Lex wasn't familiar with cats so he wouldn't have known, and now he does.

'Rok Soo' casually washes his face like a proper cat. ]

Pat my head and scratch behind my ears.

Demanding much?

[ But he sighs and rolls his eyes before reaching out and going to follow the demand to scratch behind the ears. Honestly, this strikes him as a little weird still but he will perform the duty. Why not? Thus... he performs the action.

That said, ]

... Nameless 1 is quite the name.

[ Oh.

Cale definitely can understand why his kids are so eager to demand headpats and ear scritches from him now. He starts purring again without even noticing. ]

Right?

Why is that the name?

[ Like... who the hell names a realm? world? Nameless... ]

Why would I know? It just is. And it's not like I was going to ask that bastard God of Death about it.

tired of my 2 relevant cat icons rn lol

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