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[cosmetological]

Echo echo echo echo echo echo echo echo.

Is this thing for real?

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[cosmetological]

[ooc: not a problem ^_^ ]

That is... awesome. No sarcasm. I like bread, you make bread, hence I'm a fan.

Hairdresser by trade, myself.

[devoutish]

Bit of a shock this must be then, for a simple man such as yourself.

[cosmetological]

I could say the same.

Or is bread super complicated and I just don't hear about it because I'm a layman?

[devoutish]

Bread is bread. There are admittedly things other than bread going on in my bakery.

It's still a shock for me, all of this.

[cosmetological]

Good shock, though. I mean, I happen to think it's pretty cool.

And do you mean, like, 'I do muffins too' or 'I host clandestine meetings between spies from opposing countries and feed them bread'?

[devoutish]

Let's leave it at 'other things' for now.

[All of London already knows what he does - but all of London is not a completely unknown entity, possibly with superpowers, with potential access to his world. He's not sure if the transport option actually would allow somebody to come for an uninvited visit, but until he finds out he'll tread a little carefully.]

Good shock, yeah. Try the picture function yet?

[cosmetological]

Not yet. Did see it had one. What about you?

[devoutish]

A bit. You show yours and I'll show mine.

[cosmetological]

If you insist.

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[devoutish]

No moving pictures?


[He turns on the video for himself, but just briefly. His clothes are old-fashioned, and the room behind him looks to be, too.]

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[cosmetological]

[ The room around him is Very Very White and decorated in a more modern style; spotless and largely impersonal. He's flopped on a couch. His voice says quite clearly that he's American. ]

You want moving? I give you moving and sound.

[ Cue a fluttery wave. ]

Though you're rocking some interesting duds, friend. Should I ask what year or just which cosplay group?

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[devoutish]

[He switches to video permanently too, peering closely at the screen.]

Better, yeah. Can't believe the quality on these - and sound, too.

1922. What's a cosplay group?

[capwolf]

Steve dropped his voice, too, just because he wasn't quite the idiot he might look like. White Court didn't tell him, anything, but he was able to put two and two together well enough. "And you feed on sex and beer cheese."

No, wait, sorry. He needed a grip. Except he pretty much had as much of one as he was going to get, overall. So. "How do you... get created?"

[futureprotector]

If I could reach through and hit you, you really would be hallucinating.

I didn't think it was real either, but it's been a few days now. Seems like it would be more obvious if something was up.

[ Maybe. Maybe not. It's not like she's got any previous experiences with alternate universes or anything. ]

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[cosmetological]

1922. Huh. If I liked myself less, I'd ask if you knew my sister.

[ He dismisses that, though. ]

Cosplay: people who dress up as things they're not, usually historical stuff or characters from stories. Your look happens to be in for some of them.

[cosmetological]

And yet, it could be a rather elaborate prank. I've seen crazier.

Of course, it could all be real and be a giant scam. Or a trap.

...I didn't used to be paranoid. At least, I don't think. ^_^

[cosmetological]

"Correction, Fuzzy," he said with a glance up, "I feed on beer cheese and life energy. Sex is just how I accomplish it."

He looked back down at the menu.

"And technically, we're born like this. Our Hunger doesn't come out until our first time. Yes, that kind of first time. If it's love, we never turn and stay human. If it's just sex, you end up like me."

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[devoutish]

It's a big world, mate. We don't all know each other in 1922.

[capwolf]

That's all very interesting - and Steve does take it onboard and file it away. He probably has another couple of dozen questions, personal ones that he probably shouldn't ask and some that are safer to talk about.

What he actually replies to, though, what takes priority and comes first is way at the start. "...Did you just call me Fuzzy?"

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[cosmetological]

[ That gets a laugh. ]

I didn't actually think so. If I did, I sure as heck wouldn't make any cracks about her age to you. She's bizarrely sensitive about it.

[cosmetological]

He gestured around his own mouth with a tip of his chin towards Steve's beard and mustache.

"'Fuzzy.'"

Then he tipped his head to one side absently.

"And you feel like some kind of were to me. So 'Fuzzy'."

[capwolf]

"I am overdue for a shave." He was perpetually overdue for a shave these days, actually, but at the moment a little more than usual.

"Weres aren't a thing where I'm from."

And yet.

[cosmetological]

"Scruffy works for you," he observed with a crooked little half-smile.

"And obviously they are, considering you. Unless I'm wrong. And you totally changed your tone when I mentioned it for no reason."

[capwolf]

That crooked little smile went straight to his gut, even while he was kind of perplexed as to what the hell it meant.

"I didn't drag you here to deny that I'm something." Thomas had disclosed, but. "But what it is, and werewolf might be pretty close as words go, it's not supernatural."

[cosmetological]

He snorted at that and shook his head.

"Of course it is."

He reached a hand over and took the water off of the table to take a sip.

"I mean, how would you even science a werewolf?"