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[purrsuit]

Who: Nessa Llewellyn and YOU
Where: Trailblazers gym, downtown LA and the outskirts of the city.
When: A few days after the sinkhole.
What: A day in the life of Nessa. With no immediate threats and nothing happening with the sinkhole, Nessa tries to busy herself as usual.
Warnings: Potential gore for the last one.

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[hugling]

Teddy jerks back, but Nessa is holding onto his hand and he doesn't get very far.

"Whoa, what the hell?" It's dark out here, but it's clearly Wildcat. Teddy's seen her in Trailblazers photos and at big disasters enough times to recognize her, even in the dark.

"How can you make yourself that small? And what are you doing out here?"

It's not often Teddy gets to meet other shapeshifters. Important questions first.

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She flips his hand over in hers and scrutinises it with a frown, somewhat disappointed that the fur has disappeared.

She lets him go only to peer up at him with her wide eyes, hands falling to the ground in a very catlike manner. If she had a tail, she'd be curling it in curiosity.

"What? I can do all sorts of sizes!" She pauses, eying him. "As long as its a cat."

[hugling]

But where does all her mass go? At least Teddy felt like there was usually around the same amount of him, whatever form he happened to be wearing.

"Huh. I've never tried to be something as small as a cat. Did you have to study cats a whole bunch, or does it just come naturally?"

Teddy stays where he is for now, kneeling on the dry ground with his hands on his knees. "Wait, can you be a lion?"

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She wouldn't be able to tell Teddy if he asked. She's never really thought about where her mass goes, and thinking about it she probably doesn't want to know.

She blinks owlishly at him and tilts her head. "Huh? Um, I don't think so. I think I could do this when I was a baby," she muses before brightening when he asks her more questions. She obliges, and Teddy now has a face full of lioness, still with the domino mask. She gives a grumbling bellow and looks at him like she's daring him to name big cats now.

[hugling]

"Really? I could be other people when I was a kid, but-- woah." There's definitely a lioness right in his face.

"Okay. Can you be..." He tries to think of an obscure cat. "...An ocelot?" It always stumped his 20 questions toy, anyway.

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She rolls her cat eyes like is an ocelot even hard, and her skin shifts and tightens, shrinking around the frame and suddenly becoming speckled. If Teddy watches carefully, he can actually see the skin ripple as she changes, and in a few seconds it's all over, and he has an Ocelot balanced on one of his knees.

She sits, wobbling only slightly, puffing her chest out and gives him a chirp, looking very proud of herself.

[hugling]

Teddy knows she's not a real cat, but he still can't resist petting her. I mean, he's petting an ocelot. It's awesome.

"That's so cool. So you're a metahuman, right? Not like a Skrull or anything. I wish I knew how to be a cat."

Maybe with a whole bunch of practice he could be a lion, or something.

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She knows she's not a cat too, but she can't help but arch up into his hand and give him a few small purrs. When he speaks again, she tilts her head before standing, and jumping off of Teddy's leg, shifting back into her human form as she hits the ground. She swivels to face him.

"Yup, I'm human! Are you a skrull?" she says eying him for chin stripes. "Or are you a shapeshifter too? You can't shift cats? That's pawful!"

[hugling]

He can't help but be impressed at how smooth and quick her shifting is. She's definitely highly skilled.

"Uh, I'm a shapeshifter. I've never tried to be a cat, but I don't think I could do it without studying cats a whole ton fist. And I think I could only be a pretty big cat, I've never tried to be something that small before."

But Teddy feels a little outdone here, and that can't happen. He concentrates for a second, and his ears are replaced with kitty ears, which perk up and swivel even though he can't actually hear any better than before. They're covered in short green fur.

"I can do these, though!"

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To be fair, Teddy, she's had a lot of practise. Don't get her started about how often she used to get stuck in forms.

"I never really think about it...," she says, trailing off. "I mean, I've been shifting since I was a kitten so!"

She gives him a small nod and then her eyes widen as he produces kitty ears and she squeals loudly leaning forward to rub and touch them.

"Are you kitten me? I can't do parts!" she beams, looking totally enchanted by the ears. "These are so cute!"

[hugling]

Since she was a kitten. That's so cute, and Teddy kind of has to resist the impulse to pet her again, even though she's human shaped now. He lets Nessa touch his ears, and even makes a pretty decent attempt at purring.

"Yeah, I'm pretty much all parts. I could probably do a tail too, but there's no hole in my uniform for it to come out, so it'd be kinda weird right now."

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Nessa wouldn't mind Teddy. She loves the attention.

She grins as he purrs and continues rubbing the soft velvet inside the ears before pulling back with a short laugh as he mentions the tail.

"Yeah, that would be clawfully uncomfurtable!" she says with a shrug. "I shift with my clothes I think..."

[hugling]

"Just any clothes you're wearing? I can make my skin look like I'm wearing clothes, but regular clothes stay the same when I change. My suit is made of special unstable molecules, so it grows and shrinks with me."

He's kind of itching to find out exactly how Wildcat's powers actually work, although it seems like she doesn't really know either, and it's kind of weird to grill people about whether they can feel their organs.

"...So you really like cat puns, huh?"

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She peers at the suit he's wearing with wide eyes, and leans in to give it an exprimental sniff, running one of her fingertips along the front of the material. She seems totally fascinated by it. She never really gave much thought to wear her clothes went, or why she didn't shift her mask. But now that she was it was sort of perplexing her.

When he speaks again, she blinks owlishly and looks up at him, giving him a small smile.

"It's kinda my thing. I can only do cats, and my codename is Wildcat. You gotta have puns! That's the best part."

[hugling]

Teddy laughs a little, and his cat ears disappear back into his hair.

"I don't think I have much of a theme to do puns around, though. Like, just generally being a shapeshifter isn't that pun-worthy, and being green just sets me up for a lot of Kermit jokes."

Like a lot of Kermit jokes.

[purrsuit]

She giggles and sits back on her haunches, looking him up and down.

"Well, it's not easy bein' green," she beams.

[hugling]

Teddy is so, so unamused.

"I'm not above punching you a little bit, okay?"

[purrsuit]

Nessa is beaming like a cheshire cat.

"If you can hit me," she purrs, shifting her weight to brace herself if he does decide to spar.

"I'm not above biting."

[hugling]

Teddy laughs, rocking back on his heels a little.

"Okay, okay. I've never been mauled by a tiger and I don't really want to start today, so I'll take your word for it."

He's definitely going to try to figure out how to be a cat when he gets home, though.

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She sort of deflates, looking a little disappointed. She's never had a chance to actually fight another shifter, and it would have made of an excellent learning experience.

"Your loss," she smiles at him, before jumping up to her feet and extending a gloved hand to help him up. She sure is pretty tiny.

"So what're you doing out here in coyote territory in the middle of the night?"