Tanner works on a computer, as he sits in the living room on the couch, early in the morning. His digigrade legs are well extended, relaxed. While his posture is slouched. His tail, long, thin, wirelike, lays besides him. His 4 finged hands, one finger of each hand being a two-jointed thumb, more rapidly. He holds keyboard, hooked up to a computer screen across the room, on a table, and yet controls it perfectly, with the keyboard, and a mouse. He was playing some RPG. His head's several golden eyes watch everything. As black feathers spread in a wide casual crown of wings, that shift slowly, to make the eyes see easer. As they track all angles. Each eye moving on there own, with a unsettling autonomy. His skin silver-grey, cold. His face peaking thru the bottom of the feather crown, with a single, slightly off mouth, and normal looking nose. Lex walks in, yawning. As several eyes on the back of tanner's head focus on him. Lex says "What you up too, feathers?" He says "Playing a video game." He is clearly better at speach then he was when he first came here. But still a lisp, with that cracked sharp voice.
Lex... pauses, and sqints at the screen across the room, and shakes his head. "Seriously, how you see is insane." Tanner is quite. "Yes. I find it hard to even imagine just two eyes now." Lex asks "Where is Tessa." Tanner says "On my head." Lex frowns, and walks over, and looks into the feather crown. As he sees the asleep little fairy girl in the crown of feathers. Lex says "I wish she would cuddle my shoulder. She used to do that all the time." He walks off to the kitchen, and pulls out a raw steak. As he asks "You want anything?" 4 eyes are focused on Lex. As Tanner says "Na", his feathers moving in a no like pattern. Lex shrugs, and begins to cook up the steak. As he says "Rachiel is out for the next few days. She left a text saying she was off break, and was called in for a emergency at the foundation. Where they needed the best phycologists they had." There is a silence.
Tanner says "She does tend to leave for weeks at a time. Im glad you still look human, and can go to a Walmart." Tanner pauses for a while, then says "I was wondering if you could buy a PS4. Ive been saving money from my novel ad pay." Lex asks "You still writing the thing that changed you?" A silence. Tanner says "Yeah... its... one thing that keeps... me stable i guess. I was a artist... and i still am. Even if... i am permenently stuck as clone from my story. At least i can make my story more realsitic then anything." Lex laugths "Yeah, you can. Try depicting how you see the world. Ya know. That will be funny." Tanner says "You should give it a read. Its a nice slice of life style, with some cute stuff." Lex sighs "Dude... i can't imagine you getting romantic with a human. Like... seriously? How do you make a slice of life with a eldritch alien?" Tanner says "With skill, Lex. With skill." Tanners eyes watch Lex, flicking with annoyance.
Tanner says "Besides that, i heard the foundation was prepairing for a Emergence-con in calafornia. Read about it on Twitter." Lex says "Seriously? Like... are they celibriating it?" Tanner feathers with eyes flick with annoyance. "no... they just... want everyone to gather, and show off how we can help. They also want it to be about fiction, as a whole, and its place in humanity. All about breaking the barriers between the transformed, and humans. Shit like that." Lex is quite. "I would go, you want too?" Tanner is quite "Kinda... i still... feel so anxious being seen." Lex sighs "Ive been saying you need to get use to the looks." Tanner is quite. Lex says "How about you come with me for groceries. You drove a car, and were homeless for a while. You need to get out more." Tanner is quite, "They run, ive made kids cry just being near." Lex sighs "But if you don't go out, thats never going to change." Tanner says "Im not human, and i don't have a readable face. There is no warming up." Lex shakes his head "Dude, i can read you ok now. It just takes time. Besides, there are plenty of transformed in public. I saw a dude with wings, and someone with fox ears, and a dude sporting around half-frog." Tanner is quite "They have two eyes, and a general human face structure, and don't look like cyprid horror monsters." Lex sighs deeply.
Lex says "Whatever... but you are my bro. My pack, so i want you to be good. Ok..." Tanner is quite. His eyes rotate on the wings, looking at lex. "I guess. But im not going outside with you. I was a introvert before this, and i am even more of one now." Lex sighs, shaking his head. "How about you come with me for my wolf out this month?" Tanner eyes look at him, feathers shifting, confused. "Why? Your instincts yell 'scary'." Lex shakes his head "Honestly... not anymore. They are use to you. They know your quite, and will not harm me. Thou if you intimidate me... i... will... uh probably pee myself, and wimper, and submit. Honestly... my insticts... kinda... want to make you the pack leader every 5 seconds. My instincts are not dumb, they care about my emotions, and logic." The eyes shift, and feathers watch him closely. Before tanner sighs "Sure... i guess... besides, i have been getting lazy... have not moved... fully in who knows how long." Lex jumps up, and looks like a happy dog almost in emotions. A full grown, very buff man, in shorts. With wild animal eyes. "Yea! I can't wait! We can do it tonight! I can change whenever i want! Just full moon its forced!" Tanner is quite, and watches Lex accusingly. "Seriously? Gezz... your like a puppy." Lex frowns "Oh shut up feathers. I have social instincts too. You have any idea what its like to be stuck with a social animals pack instincts, and no one who reciprocates! its not fun." Then a sturing from Tanner's head. As a small voice says "Your loud..." bairly waking up. Tessa.
Lex says "Ah, your awake. Tanner is coming with me tonight for my wolf out! Its going to be fun!" Tessa looks at Lex annoyed. As she flutters, and buzzes into the air, before landing on his hand. "You are loud... i was sleeping. But sense im awake, can i get some suger water." Lex nods, walking with Tessa sitting in his hand, careful. As he puts her on the counter, and gets it ready. Lex says "Rachiel is out for the next few days Tessa." Tessa nods. "I will just play on the phone while you two are out. Not like i can follow easly." Lex frowns, and sighs. As he hands over the bottle cap with humming-bird suger water. As tessa drinks it, after her proboscis emerges. After she finishes. She says quitely. "I wish i was strong." Lex says "You are, you got crazy fay magic." Tessa is silent. As lex sighs, and moves his finger close to her, as she floats up, and rubs her body agenst it. She is wearing Foundation custom-made clothes for her size. They spent the money on them a bit ago. Its a nice looking little dress, for the big-black eyed woman. With golden hair, that sparkles like glitter, with 4 thin, transparent wings on her back.
Eventually, Lex leaves the house with a smile. He gets in a car, and drives to a gym. He is shirtless, and with casual pants, and sandles. He would walk barefoot if he could without standing out more. But he arrives at a gym. Some gym bros approtch, they don't even know he is a transformed. As he dead-lifts 300, and they shrug, watching, confused that someone without monstrous hypertrophy is outpacing them. But they let it go. They assume he's just one of those guys. The kind with "good form," or "crazy core strength." They don't question deeper. Lex prefers it that way. Just enjoy the burn. Thou in reality, Lex holds back. As he could lift 800, and all he is doing here, is the equal to a casual run just to relax. Meanwhile, Tanner continues to play that game for a while. Enjoying the fact that he is so good at games, that other players get angry. He remembers watching a video talking about how many online compoitions, call of duity, and such are ruined by transformed that are superhuman, and where the internet is there only space to look human. Its common to see them on various leaderboards, hidden behind aliases, and no one knowing they are transformed, except thru a level of reaction time that is utterly superhuman. Tanner chuckles in his mind, remembering how the speedrunner scean is in a uproar about the fact transformed are better, and can pull off things humans can not. There is cayous online after the emergence began, but its one of the few places you can be hidden, and treated like human. So many get there social interaction needs met online, because its easier then in real life.
Tanner also tends to spend some time creating, in either creative games, like minecraft, or even just working on his drawing skills, and drawing his webcomic. Responding to comments, and more. Pepole are saying the comic has changed tone... it has... because he now perfectly understands what the charictor senses, and how they live. So its more realistic, but still soft, and artsy when he wants it to be. Because it makes him smile. Meanwhile, Tessa is smaller, she sits on a fluffy cloth, as she uses a normal phone like a massive touchscreen, and watches videos. Eventually, she buzzes up, and flies, as she moves thru a barby toy, and works on making a space that feels human to her. Its been her little project. Buy clothes, and fabrics, and improve he microhouse. But... its never perfect, so sometimes. When board... because there is only so much she can do now. She just flies over to Tanner, and hangs in his hair. Or even atempts to train her fay magic, here and there in the backyard. Thou Tanner, and Lex or someone stays nearby, as they worry about some bird mistaking her for something to eat. She hates how dependent she is on them. She feels like a pet sometimes, with how they ignore her. Not intentionally, because her voice only reaches one person at a time, unless she uses a that devices.
Lex however, also loves to watch football, or even watch youtube. He was a lover of D&D, but he played a werewolf for a reason. He was a nerd-jock. Somewhere between, before this.. He watches hunting videos sometimes, or natrue videos, just because they make his instincts go off, and he does not haft to deal with the fact he can kill a deer. He, in general, avoids killing animals, simply becuase he does not need too. Even when its the full moon, he avoids it. Because his varient of werewolf... instincts are just a part of him, something that will respect, and care about his logic, and emotions. Not just respect... they are a part of him.