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Sheriff Woody ([personal profile] rootinest) wrote in [community profile] piper902020-06-22 06:18 pm

strange things | text

[It's taken some time for him to sit down and actually try this because every instinct he has is screaming at him that it's not allowed. The rules toys follow aren't just something they choose to follow, they're instinct. Instinct they can fight, certainly - like when he and Sid's toys had scared Sid - but instinct nevertheless.]

[But this is a special circumstance and maybe Buzz has the right idea. One of the big people had been nice to him, sabotaging his back switch so it didn't actually change anything when switched to demo mode.]

[This situation is so much bigger than them, bigger than any other chaotic situation they've ever faced, bigger even than their little prison break at Sunnyside. What's an escape from a daycare compared to an otherdimensional...whatever? A place where magical shock devices have been put inside them and now they're being expected to, what, go on missions? His only job is being huggable and good for playing pretend. How that's supposed to translate to "missions" is beyond him.]

[In any case, it's so big that maybe he and Buzz need a little help from the big people. Or at least for them to know the two toys hanging around are actually alive.]

[But that doesn't mean it's easy to talk to them. He decides to do it first over text. And decides to maybe test the waters a little instead of launching right into "Hi I'm woody, I'm a talking rag doll."]

[The comm is almost as big as he is, so he has to rely on the voice-to-text to type anything because it's so much work hitting all the buttons.]

Hi. Hello. So.

How nonhuman would someone have to be for you all to think they were too weird for you to want to deal with? Asking for a friend.
gempathizing: (yeah you have shitty timing)

[personal profile] gempathizing 2020-06-28 10:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ He likes to think that maybe, somewhere in DJ Bear-Bear's fluffy heart back home, the cuteness sentiment is the same. ]

Oh, yeah! I was talking about the Gems. They're, uh. [ Hm. ] "Alive in a way that's hard to explain" is a good way to explain it. Non-organic. Kinda mass-produced. Their bodies are hard light projections.

[ Or. Something. For all the "Era 3 and Me" pamphlet info he has down, the exact stuff Pearl always said about how physical forms work had a way of going over his head growing up. Partly because he's always rolled pretty organically, partly because back in the old days, he'd get distracted and stop paying attention. ]
gempathizing: (what do u mean)

[personal profile] gempathizing 2020-06-28 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Aliens! Some of them were made on Earth, but not by humans. Humans were just kind of. You know, around.

[ Steven gets "only Gem made with the human assist" status, but it's a process he tries not to think about. ]
Edited 2020-06-28 20:09 (UTC)