[voice/private to Kodachi/backdated to before the mist]

[buttwarmed]

[After careful consideration, he's decided that Kodachi can basically be trusted not to want to eat him, despite her outward similarity to Benten. Her way with the dinosaurs helped cinch it.]

So, d'you still want to meet a tanuki?

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voice;

[cherrybombpie]

Oh! Yes, of course! Have you found one here?

[buttwarmed]

Yep. Come up to the deck at midnight and I'll show you.

[Action]

[He's waiting up on the deck in his natural form, perched on the railing.]

[cherrybombpie]

[Kodachi emerged from the cabins, peering out into the deck. It was easy to spot the fuzzy creature, and she quickly darted toward it, curiosity overtaking her.]

A tanuki!

[She clapped her hands together eagerly.]

How did you get here? Did Motochika-san or Yasaburo-san find you?

[buttwarmed]

[A puff of smoke and he was back to the Yasaburo she knew]

Sorry to deceive you all this time. We have to be careful around humans.

[cherrybombpie]

[A gasp. And then - ]

Yasaburo-san? Where's the tanuki?

[She looked around. Yes, she'd seen him transform back into a human form. But seriously, that wasn't possible. Girls couldn't turn into guys, guys couldn't turn into pigs, tanuki couldn't turn into humans. Right? Right?]

[buttwarmed]

[He just broke her worldview and spoiled the central conceit of her canon. Alas.]

...I'm the tanuki. What you just saw is my real form.

[cherrybombpie]

[This would definitely be the start of an existential crisis for most.]

That's funny, Yasaburo-san! That's a good Halloween costume! Ohohohohoho! Very cute. ♥

This is going to go on for the equivalent of 100 episodes, isn't it?

[buttwarmed]

...Yeah, I thought you'd want to see it. Actually, you should tell me which one you like best. For instance...[Another poof and he's what he imagines 'Dog' to look like: a regular dog with a skeleton head and a pirate hat]

yep, and then at the end no one gets married and we go back to where we started.

[cherrybombpie]

[Kodachi clapped her hands together. His costume technique was superb!]

Very adorable!

[And she reached over and gave the "dog" a hug.]

[buttwarmed]

[Yasaburo barked happily and the cheekbones of the skull turned red] You might find this one familiar...[Another poof and he was a Deinonychus]

the link shows a frog that got pissed off hahahaha!

[cherrybombpie]

[Kodachi was in even more raptures to be hugging a frightening dinosaur.]

Too cute!

Oh, I like everything, but I like the tanuki one the best. It seemed to suit you most.

Oop! Although that's relevant to his canon too, since his bro spends most of the series as a frog

[buttwarmed]

[And he poofed back to his natural form, guiltily contented with being hugged. Well, he hadn't expected to not be believed, but maybe he could get some ear scritches out of this, at least.]

Tanuki it is then.

and I thought Ryoga had it bad . . .

[cherrybombpie]

[The realism of his outfit was amazing! It was just like magic!]

You make a cute tanuki, like a teddy bear that talks.

[All the ear scritches. Scritch scritch.]

Ryoga just gets pigged from being a derp. Yajirou's that way out of guilt.

[buttwarmed]

[Yasaburo just melts into a happy, furry puddle. Noone has scratched his ears since he came here.]

Kodachi-san, do you have any pets back home?

poor fellow. he must feel bad about something grave to willingly be a frog.

[cherrybombpie]

I do, in fact. I miss him so badly. His name is Mr. Green Turtle.

[She gave Yasaburo a squeeze to indicate how much she missed her feral beast.]

I wish he was here, but then again, I don't think he would be happy - the ship is too small for a pool to be built for him. He's about ten feet long, you see. And he's not meant to swim in the sea, so he can't follow us.

Yep. And now he's Advice/Confession Frog.

[buttwarmed]

You seem to have a way with animals.

[This was disturbingly comfortable. Was he, he wondered, susceptible to that most embarrassing of tanuki ills: domestication?]

So he's a...snapping turtle?

interesting. if only Kodachi could ask him for advice on heart matters rofl

[cherrybombpie]

I take that as a compliment.

[Kodachi all but beamed. As for domestication, well, she believed that the animal fellows had a choice to stay with her or not - she could certainly subjugate them to her will, but whether or not they liked her company was another thing altogether! Mr. Green Turtle seemed to want to stay, but the dinosaur she met in Monsuta ran away from her as soon as he could.]

Oh, heavens, no. He's an alligator! Ohohohohoho!

The cast of Ranma 1/2 asking him for romantic advice would convince him to *stop* being a frog

[buttwarmed]

Wait but you said...nevermind.

[Kodachi puzzled him. She had the mannerisms of a rich girl from an old family but she knew a lot about things she shouldn't. He contemplated this as he began to drift off.]

An alligator...do you feed your enemies to him?

[He has a terrible feeling he knows the answer to that.]

it's a good remedy then, ahaha

[cherrybombpie]

[She began to stroke his back, admiring the swatches of color in his fur. His costume was very realistic.]

My enemies don't come to the estate. They shouldn't if they know better.

[An innocent smile.]

However, I dangle my brother over him sometimes when my brother is being annoying.

[Did that count?]

[buttwarmed]

[Well that made him open his eyes a bit, despite how sleepy that stroking made him feel.]

...The most I've ever given any of my brothers is a clout on the head.

[cherrybombpie]

When can I say? Brothers certainly are nuisances at times.

[No remorse from her, whoops.]

[buttwarmed]

...Yes. Still, I love mine.

[No remorse about being a complete sap about his family either]

Even though the oldest is very uptight and the second oldest is a frog right now. No complaints about the youngest, he's a good kid.

[cherrybombpie]

Oh, I do too. When I first arrived here, my brother was the person I searched for. He isn't here, though.

[A sigh. She didn't miss Nerima too much because she didn't have any friends to go back to, but she did miss her brother.]

A frog? Did someone cast a spell on him?

He probably needs a princess to kiss him so that he can be sorted out.

[buttwarmed]

[The image of Benten, the most princess-like person he knew (besides himself, in his Sweet Lolita disguise) kissing frog!Yajirou made him both giggly and a little jealous.]

No...hehehe...he's just...not feeling so good. I bet if you kissed him though...well, he might not turn back but he'd be less mopey.

[cherrybombpie]

I'm not a princess.

[Kodachi believed that the components of the fairy tale had to be completely true for the "spell" to lift.]

[buttwarmed]

No? Well something about you seems like you come from nobility, at least.

[He's not gonna mention that it's mostly the laugh and secondarily the haughty demeanor.]

[cherrybombpie]

I descended from a family of nobility, but I'm not a princess, as fun as that may be.

I'm flattered that you would think so, though!

[Have a scritch behind the ears as a reward.]

[buttwarmed]

[He makes a contented noise]

Yeah? My family's pretty old too. Big in local politics.

[cherrybombpie]

[She returned to stroking his back. His fur was quite nice and fluffy.]

Is that so? Where do they hold office?

[buttwarmed]

Kyoto...

[He was beginning to nod off]

[cherrybombpie]

I see.

[Kodachi noticed and just let him. He was such a cute and fuzzy thing. She was just quite content to pet him as well.]

[buttwarmed]

[And out he went. You have one (1) sleeping tanuki. What do?]

[cherrybombpie]

[Cuddle. Cuddle is definitely the correct option here.]