[He demonstrates, placing his comm down on a building block and wrapping his hair around himself. It changes color and a tiny bit in texture then looks like a rock. The shading even gives off the impression of more texture.]
[As weird as the hair is, it makes a little sense as something adaptive. They can swing away from danger. They can use it to hide themselves. Fighting is mostly out of the question at their size, so running and hiding is all they've got.]
[He then withdraws it and it goes back to the normal floof on the top of his head and changes back to black with some blue undertones. He picks up his comm again.]
That's what we do. We hide. For a long time, I extra hid.
When the Bergens took some of our people, Poppy had to practically drag me kicking and screaming into doing the right thing and trying to get them back.
[What's not said: he still went. He still helped. He still did the right thing when he could have walked away. Just like he could've hidden in places in the theater and not run out to try to trip bad guys.]
It's just...weird.
Now that we're here, I don't even know how I'm supposed to help anyone do anything to protect anyone at my size.
[Puss, though, is also small. Maybe not as small as him, but smaller than the humans. But he doesn't seem to be bothered at all about the expectations they're facing or about being expected to face them while smaller than them. He could just chalk it up to raging ego but he does think there's something else.]
Is everyone a walking cat where you're from?
[He curious about whether he's at a size disadvantage at home, too.]
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[He demonstrates, placing his comm down on a building block and wrapping his hair around himself. It changes color and a tiny bit in texture then looks like a rock. The shading even gives off the impression of more texture.]
[As weird as the hair is, it makes a little sense as something adaptive. They can swing away from danger. They can use it to hide themselves. Fighting is mostly out of the question at their size, so running and hiding is all they've got.]
[He then withdraws it and it goes back to the normal floof on the top of his head and changes back to black with some blue undertones. He picks up his comm again.]
That's what we do. We hide. For a long time, I extra hid.
When the Bergens took some of our people, Poppy had to practically drag me kicking and screaming into doing the right thing and trying to get them back.
[What's not said: he still went. He still helped. He still did the right thing when he could have walked away. Just like he could've hidden in places in the theater and not run out to try to trip bad guys.]
It's just...weird.
Now that we're here, I don't even know how I'm supposed to help anyone do anything to protect anyone at my size.
[Puss, though, is also small. Maybe not as small as him, but smaller than the humans. But he doesn't seem to be bothered at all about the expectations they're facing or about being expected to face them while smaller than them. He could just chalk it up to raging ego but he does think there's something else.]
Is everyone a walking cat where you're from?
[He curious about whether he's at a size disadvantage at home, too.]