Aya AU

[sliceitwithwind]

The bar brawl was magnificent. It spread from the original bar (Dilan isn't sure which one that was) to three or four others, going in and out of them into something not quite a riot but not exactly not. Dilan got involved in the second bar on the trip, but managed to hold his own until the cops got there.

And he very politely sat down with his hands behind his head waiting for them to get around to him. Someone with that much facial metal (eyebrow, lip, nose), that hair, and that size tends to ping the combatant radar of everyone. Ever.

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Re: Wednesday in the park

[sliceitwithwind]

"She's a cat." Dilan insists, "She's just my Cat. We get along well, she and I. I've had her since she was weaned, practically. She's already lost her eye, the shelter people didn't know how, and I just kind of fell in love."

Re: Wednesday in the park

[mitochondriaaya]

"Well, you're the biologist, you'd know." she admitted with a grin "I just had to make sure."

"She sounds adorable. And since she has you wrapped around her paws she's well worth meeting." knowing Aya, she'd probably get lost in the 'It's a Kitty!' reaction, but hey, nothing wrong with that.

Re: Wednesday in the park

[sliceitwithwind]

"She is." Dilan says firmly, "I'll bring her next time, I promise. She's got a nice little cat-tree in my office anyway."

Re: Wednesday in the park

[mitochondriaaya]

"Hmmm, no roller skates next time then." she noted. She couldn't see making a cat keep up with skaters?

"What kind of things do you do with a cat?"

Re: Wednesday in the park

[sliceitwithwind]

"I pet her, and I carry her on my shoulders, and I feed her." Dilan explains, "Sometimes we play with feather toys. Often she chews on my dreads."

Re: Wednesday in the park

[mitochondriaaya]

"...I meant out in the wider world." she laughed. But, still, good to know. "You make a hell of a mobile cat toy, obviously." she chuckled, reaching up to flick one of his dreadlocks.

Re: Wednesday in the park

[sliceitwithwind]

"Carry her on my shoulders and let her eat my hair." Xaldin says with a grin, "And often use her to drive away reporters. They tend to assume she'll eat their faces."

Re: Wednesday in the park

[mitochondriaaya]

"Oh, she looks that fierce nestled in your hair?" yeah, she couldn't picture it. The idea of adding a feline to a Dilan just kind of ended in adorable for her. She blamed the baby pictures?

"That's a plus I guess. And cuter than Danny as a deterrent."

Re: Wednesday in the park

[sliceitwithwind]

"Well, she's missing an eye." Dilan points out, "And she's got a lot of scars."

Re: Wednesday in the park

[mitochondriaaya]

"...yeah, I've never seen that as potential for face eating." she admitted. "You really want to be afraid of the ones that look perfect." anyone. Cats. People.

"Then again, we are talking about the collective IQ of reporters, so..."

Re: Wednesday in the park

[sliceitwithwind]

"Yeah. On the bright side, the Humane Society loves me." Dilan says with good cheer.

Re: Wednesday in the park

[mitochondriaaya]

"Always a plus." she admitted easily. "I'm noticing a trend. There doesn't seem to be much middle ground when it comes to people's opinions of you..." she teased.

Re: Wednesday in the park

[sliceitwithwind]

"Pretty much, nope." Dilan agrees, "I'm not really a middle-ground kind of guy."

Re: Wednesday in the park

[mitochondriaaya]

"Eh, makes for an interesting life I bet." she admitted with a grin. In a way it was refreshing. There were way to many people out there who were...indecisive? Willing to compromise? She'd figure that one out later.

"...hill!"

Re: Wednesday in the park

[sliceitwithwind]

"Woah!" Dilan grins and shifts into a crouch to maximize his speed and emits a high-pitched noise.

It's pretty disturbing, and manages to get everyone's attention long enough for them to get out of the way.

Re: Wednesday in the park

[mitochondriaaya]

Aya didn't crouch. She was doing her damnedest to just stay on her feet as gravity kicked it. At least she had enough natural balance to pull off the 'I meant to do that' look?

"Jesus Christ did you swallow a kazoo as a child?!" she laughed at the bottom. For the record? Dilan made a handy balancing point once she got herself stopped.

Re: Wednesday in the park

[sliceitwithwind]

Dilan grins at her, "Nah. I just spent a lot of time realizing that singing? Not happening. High-pitched annoying noises, on the other hand, got me out of lots of attempts at trying to teach me."

Re: Wednesday in the park

[mitochondriaaya]

"And we're so grateful for the skills life forced you pick up." she teased wryly. "Couldn't you get a waiver for skipping out on lessons? Developing a squawking repertoire seems kind of...elaborate."

Re: Wednesday in the park

[sliceitwithwind]

"Aya - I graduated high school at fourteen." Dilan says, blinking down at her, "As a pre-teen trying to get out of band and choir making annoying noises made perfect sense. I was a boy."

Re: Wednesday in the park

[mitochondriaaya]

"You know, I'm kind of glad I missed most social activities for that age group." she noted after a moment to trying to understand how it made sense "I'd have driven myself nuts trying to figure the the guys out."

At least adult men made a little more sense? Kinda any way.

Re: Wednesday in the park

[sliceitwithwind]

"Aya?" Dilan says after a minute, "I - didn't think I'd ever need to point this out, but you're a girl. At that age you wouldn't have been spending time with kids like me anyway."

Re: Wednesday in the park

[mitochondriaaya]

She eyed him as if that concept was as utterly alien as the previous. "You're joking, right?"...he's not.

Damn it.

"Okay, I was weird at fourteen?"

Re: Wednesday in the park

[sliceitwithwind]

"By fourteen it would have been fine. But I was trying to get out of middle-school choir at eight to ten." Dilan explains with another laugh.

Re: Wednesday in the park

[mitochondriaaya]

"Still weird at eight to ten." she noted after a moment. "Though I was even less social during those particular years so I'll have to take your word on it." she mused.

"I really, really thought people were joking when they talked about cooties and such." as a mass behavior not as an actual disease!

Re: Wednesday in the park

[sliceitwithwind]

"I always assumed cooties was a human thing." Dilan says with a shrug, "But there was just - a divide. I don't know, I'm a biologist, not a sociologist."