The Park, Friday Afternoon

[uncertain_dume]

Last night, a very large wolf had gone to sleep behind some machinery in the scrapyard.

This morning, a very naked Jedi had made a bolt for the Ghost in the wee hours of the day, snarking back at the orange astromech who was blatting his amusement at him and making him open the door his own damn self.

... By the early afternoon, Kanan was clothed and had managed to salvage whatever scrap of dignity he had left, and so he'd made his way to the park with a spotty dog in a swimming vest who just couldn't resist occasionally making his way back to his person to have a sniff, because Stance was sure he smelled a whole lot of wolf, there.

Kanan wasn't training, not just yet. Kanan was enjoying having thumbs back and throwing a ball for Stance to chase all over the place, at least until someone showed up.

Hey, some Fridays were more laid back than others. It happened.

[OOC: I am... mostly back! But replies will probably be scarce until early evening, this week, and hopefully I can start pulling the rest of my pups out of their animal shapes soon.]

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[thatwaslucky]

"Stance is clearly having a terrible time," Rey smiled when she got there.

[uncertain_dume]

"It's probably a pretty difficult life, being adored and played with all the time," Kanan agreed, grinning as Stance made his way back with the ball for another round. "Afternoon, Rey. How'd the week treat you?"

[thatwaslucky]

"Actually pretty good," Rey said, sounding a little surprised by that. "How was yours?"

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan paused to consider for a moment.

"... Well, I think one of Hera's scrapyard staff fed me a dog treat at some point, but other than that, not bad?"

Wolves were pretty laid back. Particularly when they were taller than nearly every other living creature on the island.

[thatwaslucky]

Rey tilted her head at him. "At least you were fed?"

[uncertain_dume]

"Well. Sort of," Kanan replied, smiling faintly. "Loth wolves prefer to do their own hunting."

It had been an interesting week.

The island was down several rabbits.

[thatwaslucky]

"You did used to be a cat, right?" asked Tey, who was going to end up something else next time herself.

[uncertain_dume]

"Generally, yes," Kanan agreed. "From the same planet, though."

Which was... something. Lothal kept popping up in his life. He was trying not to think too hard about that.

"I think I prefer the wolf."

[thatwaslucky]

"Then I hope you get to keep it," Rey said, and added, "if you have to turn into anything."



[Whee, comment weirdness!]

[biotic_psychotic]

"Turning into a damn wolf for a week is a hell of a way to get out of watching Cirque videos with me," Jack drawled, walking right past Kanan to greet Stance with all sorts of gooey baby talk and pats. Because he was a good boy. Yes he was.

[uncertain_dume]

"Yeah, I do these things just to thwart you," Kanan replied, smirking as Stance wiggled right up to Jack for attention. "I'm a pain in the ass that way."

He'd missed having thumbs, though.

[biotic_psychotic]

"I wouldn't put it past you," Jack smirked, "Because you can be a pain in the ass. Nah, it's good. You okay now? No lingering urge to sniff butts or anything?"

Jack, ew.

[uncertain_dume]

"No lingering urge to sniff butts," Kanan agreed. "But I have apparently acquired a taste for rabbit."

They weren't bad, okay?

[biotic_psychotic]

"Good call, rabbit's tasty," Jack bobbed her head in a nod, "Way tastier than skunk. 'Swhy it's one of the game animals commonly thrown on a planet during terraforming if a meat-eating species is gonna be on it, back home. Provided the habitat can handle the breed rate of the little fuzzy bastards. The meat's better when it's cooked." Beat. "Just trust me on that one."

[uncertain_dume]

"I'll have to try it that way sometime," Kanan replied. "Raw suited wolf-me just fine, but I wasn't exactly building campfires."

And really couldn't fit in a kitchen.

[biotic_psychotic]

"Yeah, human-you would have to worry about liver flukes and all sorts of other fun pests," Jack said easily. Then blinked, "Wait, so.. wolf-you didn't have like, Force shit? No thumbs and no Force abilities? Just how balls was your weekend?"

[uncertain_dume]

There was a pause, then. And Kanan blinked.

"... You know, I never noticed."

Because Loth-wolves were very much tied in to the Light side of the Force.

"Never really thought about it."

Because he had been a wolf.

[sake_shinigami]

The overcast day made it seem like an excellent sort of day for a nap in the park, especially since Shunsui had not been getting anywhere near his usual quota of naps in the park lately.

And, it so appeared, he would not likely be getting much closer today, as he eventually made his way over to the park and noticed there was a bit more going on than the ducks and the flamingos in the pond. Not htat he ever let anything like that stop him from napping before, but he could easily find himself being more sociable than sleepy at times.

With the expected flutter of his haori, he settled...claimed, really, or perhaps invaded...one of the park benches (he did like to sprawl), pouring himself a little bit of sake and taking particular note of the colorful dog with the jaunty vesty vest vest and wondering if it would turn out to be rather wise on the ducks' part that it seemed they were giving the pup a wide, wide berth.

[uncertain_dume]

The ducks were truly wise, it was true! Stance just wanted to be friends! With everybody! Which was why he was rounding about with his ball and running up to the new guy on the bench, next. Because play! PLAY.

Kanan chuckled and shook his head, trailing along not far after.

[sake_shinigami]

And Shunsui, being deprived of his schedule park nap (though not being too terribly disturbed by this omission), couldn't help feeling tired just watching this energetic little guy, and couldn't help feeling glad that if one of them was going ot have energy, he was glad it was him. He set aside his sake bowl as the dog came near, so he could lean forward and put out a hand as he smiled at him.

"Now what's that you have there ♥?" he asked the dog. "Do you come bearing gifts ♥?"

[uncertain_dume]

Stance was all too happy to drop the ball into the outstretched hand. Play! The new person wanted to play!? This made this new person Stance's most favorite best new friend ever!

[sake_shinigami]

"Ahhhhh," said Shunsui, taking a moment to examine the ball dropped in his hand (and maybe wincing, just slightly, at the fact that it was covered in drool, but, again, it was a dog, so he should have prehaps been a little more prepared for it, but there weren't a whole lot of dogs running around Soul Society), "now this..." He held the ball up a little and winked at the dog, "this is an excellent gift, arigato ♥. But what shall I do with a gift like this, hmm? What do you think, my brightly-spotted furry friend ♥? Should I....toss it?"

He tossed it in the air; he was going to toss it to his other hand, but no point in getting both slobbery, so he just caught it with the same one.

"Or should I...just...simply put it away in my pocket ♥?"

And he moved his hand slowly toward the inside of his robe to see what reaction it might get out of the pup if he thought the ball were to go away, with no intention at all, of course, of putting it anywhere near his pocket.

"For safe keeping ♥?"

[uncertain_dume]

Stance watched that ball go up! Up! And then it came back down! But it didn't go away, which was puzzling. Usually if the ball went up and came back down, it got thrown, and he even started for a few steps in the direction it would normally go before doubling back to see why it hadn't. He tilted his head a little, ears perking forward as well as a pair of floppy ears possibly could, and gave a little questioning whine and a hopeful wag of his tail.

Kanan, meanwhile, was standing back a few paces and watching with a little smirk. The man certainly didn't seem to mean any harm, at the very least. Even if there was something... much about him, something strong, that made him pull a double-take.

Not the first exceptionally strong individual on the island, he mused.

Still... intriguing.

[sake_shinigami]

That little whine inspired a faint chuckle out of Shunsui, who then put on a pouting face, to show that he had no intention of being cruel to the little guy. "So no safe keeping, then ♥" he promised, giving his wrist a little unnecessary flourish as he turned his hand back over and showed the dog that the ball was perfectly safe in his palm and not in his pocket. He held it still as if testing the very limits of the dog's ability to wait, which he didn't suspect was for too long, so he didn't drag it out, chuckling again as he then gave the ball another quick toss up in the air and, the moment it landed, turned it again so he could give it a good throw for the dog to chase after.

And as the dog went presumably tearing off after his prize, he turned his amused smile toward the man he'd notice following after the dog. "Yours, I assume?"

[uncertain_dume]

Probably not surprisingly, Stance took off after that ball like somebody had lit his tail on fire, barking merrily as he went. Kanan watched him go with that faint smile of his, and then turned his attention back to the man.

"We belong to one another, yeah," he agreed. "Some days it's hard to tell who actually calls the shots between us."

Though, for the record, Kanan had absolutely been alpha wolf all week. Mostly because Stance was far too friendly to try to claim that particular position, really.

"Kanan Jarrus," he added, offering the man a handshake. "And the little guy is Stance."