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AUNT K-9

2024-12-24 17:35:47

[A Nocturne for All]

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 17:36:31

The rain wasn't showing signs of stopping anytime soon. She wanted to paint while waiting for Bobo to come back from playing with his friends. The slightly solemn and nervous atmosphere the citadel was now full of due to this blasted rain was colorful, after all, but when she put her brush to paint she found she had already gotten tired of it a while ago.

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 17:36:46

It was cool the first four times she used it for her work. Getting real tired now.

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 17:37:00

Then she saw Bobo walking back in the horizon.

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 17:37:09

"Did you have fun?"

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:04:46

"Oh auntie! I had a ton of fun with my new friends!"

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:05:00

"I mean uh, yeah sure whatever."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:05:12

"I'm glad to hear that Bobo! I was a bit worried you weren't gonna find anywhere to play with all the flooding lately."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:05:37

"You wanna catch up a little? It's been ages since I last saw you!"

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:05:54

"Hmmm I was trying to avoid thinking about the flooding. Do you uh....think their parents are ok?"

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:06:03

"Actually forget I asked." Bobo thinks about the distant sounds of struggle coming from out the citadel.

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:06:11

Bobo runs up to K-9. "So did you get me a gift auntie?"

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:06:29

"I wouldn't worry too much about it, personally."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:06:37

"O-oh, a gift? I-I sure did, give me a second while I look through my inventory..."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:06:52

Bobo bounces slightly as he waits.

2024-12-24 19:07:08

K-9 pulls an anomalous artifact she got as a free sample ages ago out of her inventory. You could put it on and cool flames would circle around you, apparently.

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:07:20

He didn't need to know this was free and forced on her in a super market ages ago.

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:07:29

"Woah!"

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:07:36

"This is so cool! I'm going to look awesome with this!"

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:07:41

Bobo gives a hug to his aunt. "How have you been doing Auntie. Are you ok with the others?"

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:07:50

K-9 loves her nephew.

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:08:01

"Well, you know, I've mostly just been painting back home. Old Blue Devil has been doing fine lately, I'm sure he'd love the visit."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:08:11

"I wanted to get my art out there a little so I felt like visiting the art expo wouldn't be too too bad of an idea, y'know?"

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:08:28

"I really didn't expect to come across you here at all, really! Has Averr and Cheat been treating you nicely? I hope the curfew isn't too bad. Do you have a curfew?"

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:08:37

"My dad is kind of a bummer sometimes. You know how picky he is."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:08:47

"But my teacher has been showing me how to use my powers correctly so I don't uh...."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:09:05

"Have a repeat of that one incident where I.....like...." Bobo has a hard time talking about it. "Killed those people accidently..."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:10:40

Oh right, she heard about this.

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:10:49

Being honest she's gotten a bit desensitized towards the whole concept over time but a part of her feels she'd still probably be the best one to talk to him about the whole thing in the family.

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:11:00

"You couldn't have known Bobo. I doubt they'd blame you for it, personally. They knew what they were getting into when they entered Blue Hell, it comes with the territory."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:11:08

"It's not necessarily a bad thing to feel guilty over it, but you're making the effort to not let that happen again, alright? You're getting better at it."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:11:28

"Yeah I suppose. I haven't killed anything else!"

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:11:39

"Well ok...I killed one thing by accident...I mean, other than that big reptile."

2024-12-24 19:12:19

Bobo holds out a chamilo. "Chacha!"

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:12:34

"Well the big reptile was a different matter. The other kids looked super scared of it from where I was looking, if anything you probably seemed like a hero to them, I'd bet."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:12:51

"I accidently killed my chamilo a year back, or, uh maybe it died of natural causes. But it's ok!"

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:13:01

"Oh, is that your chacha?"

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:13:10

"See I fixed it, good as new!"

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:13:19

"Dad says necromancy is wrong, and teacher won't teach me how to do it, but I've been learning all by myself."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:13:30

"Uh, don't tell Dad of course."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:18:57

OH FUCK. NECROMANCY IS WRONG BUT UNIRONICALLY.

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:19:16

DAD HAS TO KNOW.

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:19:25

"Y-your secret's safe with me Bobo."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:19:34

"Thank you! I just don't want things to die because of me."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:19:44

"That's a fine thing to feel, in my opinion, it's just..."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:19:55

"I wouldn't trust it too much, y'know? I spent a lot of years of my life chasing after someone far gone and it was by and far the most miserable I've ever felt."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:20:06

"Personally, I think I'd feel even worse if I had tried and it had come out wrong than if I had just, let it be."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:20:20

"It's ok! I won't spend years of my life chasing anything, cause I have all the powers in the universe! I'll just zap them back alive the moment I see them dead."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:20:45

FUCK, SHE DOESN'T ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT TO SAY IN RESPONSE TO THAT, HE HAS ALL THE POWERS IN THE UNIVERSE.

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:20:57

"But I do worry about what the Blue Devil wants with me. I like him a lot, but I think it's weird Dad says we have to keep the fact that I still talk with the Blue Devil a secret."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:21:11

"I've never really thought of him as a bad person or what have you, I'm definitely a bit biased but he's helped me out quite a bit."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:21:18

"Granted, you're your own person, you know?"

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:21:26

"You don't have to say yes to something you don't want to do, even if it's family asking."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:21:33

"A part of me feels that's really just not what family's about."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:21:46

"I get that but it's my destiny to uh, destroy the notails or something."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:21:58

"Honestly I don't know why he's so obsessed with notails. They're not that interesting."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:22:10

"I was born to do this, you know?"

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:22:22

HONESTLY NOT THE WORST THING EVER, THEY SORT OF DESERVE IT.

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:22:29

"I'm not completely in the know, really, but he's got history with them."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:22:37

"If I remember correctly he was trying to make up for a mistake he made? Or something? I couldn't tell you, sorry."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:22:48

"But, for what it's worth."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:22:54

"I was literally born to be an accountant."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:23:01

"Grim, huh?"

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:23:08

"I definitely didn't want that, though, so I just went on to do what I felt aligned more with what I had in mind."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:23:17

"Turns out making that decision led to me becoming the happiest I've ever been."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:23:29

"Yeah I get that but like....."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:23:38

"I kind of have a cool destiny, Auntie."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:23:51

"Yeah it's definitely leagues better than sifting through paperwork until your untimely death, that's for sure."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:24:02

"I guess if I was going to be an accountant I'd leave too. But I'm going to be like a cool hero or something I think."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:25:24

"I wouldn't feel too pressured to make a decision right now, Bobo. You're still young."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:25:33

"What if I deny my destiny and then I end up working in an office?"

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:25:47

K-9 scrambles to think of that one phrase everyone always told their kids. It was alien to her, someone born to be a cog in a corporation, so she had to dig a bit deep for it.

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:25:53

"Have you ever been told that kids have the potential to be anything they want to be?"

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:25:59

"I'd be lying if I told you it applied to everyone."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:26:07

"There have definitely been people meant to become artists that ended up working in offices for the rest of their lives."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:26:16

"But you said it yourself."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:26:22

"You have all the powers in the universe, right?"

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:26:33

"All of them!"

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:26:47

"That's the spirit. You've got time before you really have to commit to any option either way, Bobo. If you ever get worried you can just ask for help."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:26:53

"From me!"

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:26:59

"Or from your dads."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:27:12

"Plus, I really doubt anyone would just, throw you away just because you decided your destiny wasn't what what you wanted for yourself anyways."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:27:21

"*Dad. Singular."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:27:31

"I haven't found the other one yet, remember?"

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:27:46

"Right. Good luck with that, by the way. I tend to find the answer to those kinds of things are closer than you'd think."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:27:59

"For what it's worth though, I do think it's a cool destiny. Don't think I feel either way is better than the other."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:28:08

("Why does everyone keep acting like my dad is right around the corner? Geez.")

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:28:17

"I guess you're right, I don't have to do it. I mean, what can they do to me?"

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:28:25

"I have every power, nothing is going to kill me."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:28:35

"You know, names are like destinies. I think if my destiny was a "Bobo Hotwheels" I wouldn't be as happy about it."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:28:46

"...Do you not like your name that much?"

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:28:56

"Everyone makes fun of me....."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:29:04

"No one is scared of someone called "Bobo Hotwheels.""

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:29:15

"If someone saved your planet from danger and their name was Bobo Hotwheels, I think you wouldn't stop thinking about how.......goofy it is."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:29:24

"I know the devil named me, and he always names everyone like that, but I wish I got a cooler name. Bet you my real dad would have given me a cool name."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:30:05

"...Can I tell you a secret Bobo? Since you told me the one about your chamilo? And we'll promise not to tell anyone about either thing?"

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:30:17

"Sure, your secret is safe with me!"

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:30:26

"Unless you committed a murder or ran a red light. Dad says I have to report those."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:30:38

Thank fuck he didn't mention cannibalism. She's done that one before.

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:30:46

"Well uh, I wasn't always named Shadow Wolf K-9."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:30:52

"...My name used to be Margaret."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:30:56

"I hated it. A lot. Horrible name."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:31:05

"It's not that bad....."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:31:12

("I guess it's kind of boring. But it's a real "aunt" name.")

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:31:38

"Well, I definitely had it better than some of my brothers. You physically can't shorten Eustace into a cute nickname. Trust me, we tried."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:31:55

"I feel like people shouldn't be born with Margaret as a name. It's like, totally a name you get when you have no kids but your siblings have at least 3. Then you get renamed to Margaret."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:32:14

"Yeah. Exactly that. I got named by someone who thought of the whole process as a meaningless distraction from things that actually mattered. She'd pull out a booklet full of names as thick as a dictionary and probably older than she was and she'd just, turn to a random page."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:32:20

"Being honest, the name itself didn't really matter at all to anyone."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:32:27

"Just, the uncaringness of it. It never felt like a name it always felt like a cold nametag."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:32:34

"So when I got this new name, well."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:32:41

"I thought of it as a bit silly. I'm not gonna lie."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:32:47

"But it had warmth behind it, in a sense."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:32:52

"I love my new name."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:32:59

"In the end though, if you don't like your name there's nothing saying you have to keep it, y'know?"

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:33:04

"Most of my life I used a nickname."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:33:17

"Yeah I guess that's why I feel bad about not liking it too much. Cause I like...I don't hate it! I just hate that other people think it's a silly name."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:33:30

"I know my dad, and my siblings, and no one close to me minds, but everyone else is going to laugh if they hear "Bobo Hotwheels.""

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:33:36

"Maybe a nickname would help."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:33:51

"I imagine this isn't particularly super helpful at the moment, but people do still laugh at my name, you know? It's just, they suddenly find it hard to laugh when they're face to face with the big clockwork twice their size. I think a part of me revels in that."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:34:00

"In the future, you could always consider just, taking it in stride, you know? They laugh at the name Bobo, but then this big cool robot with a sword shows up through the canteen swinging doors and everyone stops what they're doing to look."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:34:06

"Speechless."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:35:15

"That being said, I do think nicknames are a good idea."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:35:21

"I've always thought of them as quaint."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:35:27

"If you want, I can help you think of one. I used to do this all the time before."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:35:41

"You know what, Auntie?"

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:35:48

"I think you're right! I'll let them laugh all they want, but then I'll show up all cool and stuff with a giant sword and they won't be laughing anymore!"

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:35:56

"They'll be like, Bobo Hotwheels is here to save the day! Or fight the notails or whatever!"

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:36:02

"It's kind of annoying I'm too small to be scary right now, but later I'll be able to show them."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:36:15

"They'll be like, Bobo Hotwheels is finally here to rescue us from those criminals! He'll beat them all up with just his left pinkie!"

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:36:22

"I'm rooting for you. Bet you it won't be long before the name becomes a point of pride."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:36:43

"Actually, would you rather use your sword on the criminals? A part of me felt like you'd think them beneath you."

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:36:48

"A bit hard to say."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:37:00

"Yeah they won't even be worth my totally amazing +1000000 sword attack. Maybe I'll just hit them with a +10 to really insult them!"

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:37:07

"They'll never even know what hit 'em."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:37:18

"Thanks for the pep talk Auntie! I like..."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:37:28

"It's kind of hard talking to Dad about things cause he worries too much! He's always thinking about my safety but it's hard to tell him any issues cause he wants to try and solve them right away so nothing bad happens."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:37:38

"Talking to someone who isn't my dad, or my teacher helps. My teacher is super cool but sometimes he says something dweebish and I'm like "Eww gross, what a loser.""

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:37:47

"Anytime. I love catching up with family."

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:37:59

Bobo gives K-9 a hug. "It was nice seeing you too Auntie. You stay safe, and if you ever need help, just call me!"

Bobo Hotwheels

2024-12-24 19:38:06

"One day I'm going to be a really big hero you know?"

Shadow Wolf K-9

2024-12-24 19:38:24

K-9 loves her cute nephew a ton, you have no clue.

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