KY321B | voice | day 012

[backsassin]

Just want to clarify something I said when I first got here:

Whatever brought me to this place didn’t just get me stuck in human form. It actually made me human.

Case in point: sweat glands. Clawdites don’t have them. Humans do.

On a related note: how do you all deal with being so wet all the time? I know it’s how you thermoregulate, but it feels so gross. I feel like I need to be carrying around a towel…

[ It’s one of many, many complaints Zam has about her new human physiology, but in the interest of not offending her majority-human fellow islanders, she’ll keep them to herself. For now. ]

Anyone else get their species swapped upon waking up here? And more importantly: what are the chances we'll be able to be turned back?

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voice | KD201D (little threadjack if that's okay)

[obeir]

[ K's tone is wry; he's teasing Martin. ] Speaking as one of the other resident non-humans, I think I'd rather be likened to an animal than a human.

[ Look, he has complicated feelings about the species responsible for enslaving and abusing him and his kind. ]

[lonelynotforsaken]

I- um. [How do you even respond to that? He can tell K is joking, but he doesn't know the man well enough to gauge where lines might be on humor. Is a human joking about that okay, or only other non-humans? Probably best to just... slide past it.] I'll just... try to avoid comparing anyone who's a person to an animal. That-that seems like a better idea. Nicer, certainly.

[obeir]

[ Oh no, his humour clearly missed the mark. If anything Martin seems even more awkward now. Sounding a bit deflated and apologetic, K agrees: ] You're probably right. Sorry, shouldn't have interrupted.

[lonelynotforsaken]

No, no! It's okay. I just don't want to cause any offense. I'm, um... w-we don't have anybody who's not human where I'm from. Not people, I mean.

[He shouldn't have made that clarification.]

It's just good to be mindful.

[obeir]

[ Unfortunately for Martin it's exactly what K zeroes in on. ]

Not people...?

[lonelynotforsaken]

W-well, we have... animals! And spiders and things. [He's going to try hard to save this.] They're there, they're just not- I mean, I think some animals can be sort of like people. Like a really good dog? Or a cat? When they've got a lot of personality. B-but it's not the same.