metalogs | [Locked to Leo]

Who: Hunter

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What: Meeting in Huvrye's Apartment
When: After the Confluence
Where: Huvrye's Apartment
Content Warnings: N/A

[Hunter likes having multiple places to hang out now. It's a strange feeling, after years of spending most of his time in the palace, typically holed up in his room whenever he wasn't on a mission, going through coven trials, or practicing. Now he has the apartment with Eda which is still a little sparse but rapidly becoming cozy.]

[Then there's Jason's. Dylan's house. He's also been welcomed to the Hurly Burly house with its friendly ghosts.]

[And now Huvrye has given him a key to his place. It's a good place to go for some peace and quiet. The Owl Lady has a bit of a rambunctious personality that Hunter sometimes needs a break from. And Eda sometimes needs her "me" time, as well. It's hard to share such a small apartment when one of them is used to a sprawling magical house that's bigger on the inside than the outside, and the other is used to a palace.]

[So sometimes he goes to Huvrye's for peace and quiet - and to let Eda get her own space.]

[So far he's mostly done it while the other teen Huvrye told him about has been at school. Partly so he could have said peace and quiet. Today, he's stayed late though, because he's watching a new (old) human TV show utterly enthralled.]

[Final Frontier. It's about humans in the future who have developed a peaceful society and go out into space on adventures exploring. In special space boats.]

[So far his favorite character is Ensign Zak Torr, someone who is secretly a cloned lackey of Captain Hunt's most hated enemy, who managed to join Spacefleet without them knowing what he is.]

[Leo will walk in to see a sci fi show on the TV with rubber face aliens. Lying on his stomach on the floor, clinging to a throw pillow, completely absorbed, is a blonde human-ish teenage boy. Only human-ish because of the pointy ears and magenta eye color.]

[His left bicep has two scars that are still a little pink from recent healing, entry and exist wounds from a bullet.]

[He is so captivated he barely spares a glance as Leo comes in. When he sees it's not Huvrye, he just assumes it's the other teenager that has a key.]

[He hisses at the screen.]

No, don't take him on the ship! You're ignoring the captain's orders about quarantine procedures!

[He pulls another pillow onto his head with both hands and half hides his face, clearly anxious about what's on the screen. It's not a bad anxiety. It's more like someone watching scary movies and enjoying it, hiding behind their friend at the movies.]

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[He at least knows what DNA is now. He's been reading a lot.]

[He looks like he clearly finds the idea upsetting, that someone who is perfectly nice, and answering all his questions, and just, like, chillin' would be dragged off to a...freak show?]

[What even is that? He makes a mental note to google it later but not now. Not mid-conversation with someone who apparently had a parent fear it.]

[He has a feeling it'll turn his stomach.]

I was going to ask why you're not accepted, for like, half a second, but I already know some humans are just like that. My friend Luz is a good person and so are a lot of the humans I've met here.

But another human that wound up in the demon realm...wasn't. He didn't like anyone that was different.

[That sure is a dark expression. It fades as Hunter looks at him with some concern.]

The humans are being nice to you, right?

[This is said in tones of "they had better be" because he would in fact go fight somebody if someone Huvrye cared about was not being treated well by them. They would have words. Especially if it was a situation where Leo didn't want Huvrye to get angry and go off on a tear himself.]

[It is fully said with solidarity. Hunter is decidedly not human and despite looking similar clearly doesn't consider himself to be one. Even if he has some biological similarities due to who he may have been modeled on, he's a magical creature at his core, and a witch culturally.]

[He notices that dark look. And he can imagine what might have happened.]

Ah yeah, one of my best friends back home is human. [Not to mention his dad. So he agrees that plenty of them are great!] Some of them are jerks, though. And in big groups they tend to be dumb.

[He keeps his voice light, because he knows that tone. But he doesn’t need Hunter stressing about it. So some of the natives say rude things or don’t want to talk to him at school unless he’s wearing his disguise? It’s not like it matters.]

But uh, yeah, the ones at school are pretty cool. I’ve never gone to school before, so it’s been… different? Not in a bad way, I guess.

You go to the meta school, right? What's it like there?

[He's curious now, especially from the perspective of someone else who's never gone.]

I've never gone to school before either. I snuck into one once and tricked them into letting me play on one of their sports teams for a match, but I never went to any classes.

That's how I met some of my friends back home.

[You know. When he kidnapped them.]

You snuck in and they let you play? [Leo's eyes are sparkling over this information.] Wow man, respect.

[He's snuck into April's school a few times, but he never actually engaged with the people or their activities - he just watched from afar. Actually making it all the way to playing sports is pretty slick, in his opinion.]

As for school, it's... well, TV sure didn't prepare me for it. [In some ways, the cliques and the social nuances and the hierarchies are about what he expected, in other ways it's all a lot less dramatic than he was led to believe, and it general there's a lot more monotony.]

Class is boring. [Though he still likes when he does a good job in it, but he's not going to admit that because that's Nerd Behavior.] And I thought there'd be more... drama. But it's kind of cool to be around a bunch of other people my age. I... never really had that, outside my brothers.

[The opportunity to make friends is something, if he gets nothing else out of it. Though the fact that the native humans can be dicks puts a damper on it.]

[It actually had been impressive. His flying had been so good that Willow had wrapped him in vines and dragged him over to ask him to join the flyer derby team.]

That sounds nice. I wasn't around many kids my age growing up. Well, more like none. Of them.

[Not a single one.]

And right now, my...I guess she's my guardian? And I? Don't really trust the guild system. It's too much like the coven system back home, which was used to control people.

So I'm doing my studies at home.

But I'm hoping that maybe back in my world I can go to Hexside after we fix some things. That's where I snuck in. It's one of the schools for Magic and Demons.

[He doesn't have magic but Luz doesn't either and they let her in. He has the magic from Flapjack and he's been figuring out glyph magic.]

Hexside? Yeah, that sounds like a magic school.

[Leo wonders if a yokai school would be like that. Probably. If he ever gets home, maybe he should sneak into one, just out of curiosity.

A thought for another day! First he has to find out if he can even get home.]

I don't blame you for wanting to stay out of the guilds, though. [Leo shrugs.] I was gonna rough it, myself, but... uh, rooting through dumpsters didn't sound super appealing and when Huvrye invited me to stay with him, well, I wasn't gonna make him pay for everything himself, so...

[So he didn't have a lot of options. What was he going to do, get a real job?]

Yeah, it's not appealing. Trust me.

[Luckily, he was more prepared this time when trying to survive alone. He'd used his guild card to buy and cache supplies around the city.]

[But the first time, when he ran away from Belos and was hiding at Hexside, he was picking food out of the trash.]

You probably made the right choice. If the guilds do eventually do something bad, Huvrye won't let them do anything to you.

And it's not easy living on the street. Before one of the adults from back home, Eda, showed up here and I went to live with her, I tried and it blew up in my face.

I would've gone with Huvrye after that, but I didn't know him as well then, and I didn't want to live with someone that needed to be involved with the guilds to get by.

[Since he'd struggle to hide his wings.]

It all worked out anyway. Eda is good at hiding from the eyes of the law because she used to be the most wanted criminal on the Boiling Isles.

[Now that Hunter is not basically a cop, he can appreciate that about her. Enough to enthuse about her a little bit, because it is kind of cool getting to live with a criminal. Even if she's a lot less impressive when you see her shuffling around in her slippers.]

No one was able to catch her, even though we all looked for her.

[The whole "being obviously inhuman" thing is another factor. It's not like Leo hasn't already been dealing with that his whole life, but it was easier when he had a whole group, a dad who had managed to keep them safe and relatively well-fed, a brother who started figuring out how to leech off power grids and build water purifiers by the time he was walking. Leo doesn't know how to do those things, so trying to make it in the sewers by himself would have been rough. It would have been a lot of scrounging and a lot of stealing.

It would have been lonely.

So he thinks he made the practical choice. Even if it makes him feel slimy.

Though he likes to think he can protect Huvrye just as much as he can protect Leo, thank you very much!]

Hah, so you're living with some kind of epic criminal mastermind? That's pretty cool, actually.

[Assuming she's not the "destroy humanity" kind of criminal. And okay, Leo knows that if Raph were here he'd frown on Leo endorsing other, more mundane kinds of criminal behavior, but he can't help if television has made it look glamorous.]

Pretty lucky that someone like that showed up. Especially if you're trying to dodge the guilds.

[Locked to Leo]

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