2024-12-10 - You can Fly?!

Once Theo gets his bearings after Esme showed off her magic in that most spectacular way and after they got judged about their float that is when Theo finally gets off the float in search of Huck. His brain going a mile a minute for all the things that he saw tonight. Esme's ice magic and Huck flying. He didn't put it together that the wing span on Huck met that he could fly.

When he spies Huck in the crowd of creators that are still loitering he makes an effort to tap his shoulder to get his attention. "Hey!" He starts out. Pointing to their float that has the star on top of the tree, "That was pretty fantastic." Making sure he's facing Huck in a way so he can read lips. "I mean I know you had things on you." Gesturing at the tail, the claws and the tuffs of fur. "But it didn't register to me that you could fly." Trying to see if he can see where Huck's wing span is. "Can you carry anything with you like another person or is it just you? How many times have you flown now?"

Huck turns to watch Theo as he speaks, nodding a little, "Yeah. Jett says I'm a flyon." He shrugs, "I can carry a little, yeah. My wingflaps aren't actually generating the lift. It's magic. You know, magic doesn't follow rules that always make sense. Generally speaking, what I can fly with is what I can carry when I'm just standing here picking something up." He grins, "So I could carry a person who wasn't really oversized, but the heavier someone is the less distance and height I can probably do."

On a related note, he gestures with a nod toward their still melting float. "Did you know she could do that?"

"A flyon?" Theo's brows come together when Huck tells him that. "What the heck is a flyon? Jett must have made that word up." Jett might be right but Theo didn't finish his college education so it sounds like a made up word to him. "I mean it isn't like you are a fairy with wings. Even if it might be fitting in this kind of setting." He murmurs that last part as he tries to visualize Huck in a fairy costume and he starts laughing. When he realizes how rude that comes across he looks embarrassed. "I am sorry. I am not making fun of you. I was just thinking of you dressed in a fairy costume and my imagination went where it should not have. But yeah, that was totally cool to watch. Guess I know who to call upon whenever I encounter a height I can't reach in a mundane way." He looks at himself and then at Huck at the mention of the heavier a person is the harder it is to fly with them. "A human helicopter of sorts. That is a pretty cool trick of magic you have." Tapping the side of his head, "This empathy thing I can't do anything of the sort." He chuckles and shakes his head.

But then Huck is asking about Esme and he is shaking his head in the negative. "Jett and I watched her practice one day on the ice and I tease her about being Ice Princess but this is the first time I have seen that kind of magic come out of her. I'll probably check in with her and make sure she is okay. That was kind of amazing to. I was shocked. To be honest you both shocked me."

Huck laughs, "Of course he made it up. It's a lion that flies." He rolls his eyes a little, "It's a flyon." He laughs but is also sighing. "I would be super fucking hot as a fairy," he notes with a smug grin.

"I dunnow," Huck counters, "I think being able to tell how someone feels about you might be the greatest power ever! You never have to worry about asking someone out only to discover they don't think of you like that. You don't have to wonder if they're staring at you because you're a freak or because they think your tail is awesome." He laughs, "Not that you have a tail. Oh, and not that my tail ISN'T awesome..."

"I asked Esme the other night if she had magic and she told me no," says Huck. "I'm not really surprised. She's been here long enough to have something. She'll figure it out, I'm sure. And if she doesn't? She can always just leave I suppose."

"A lion that flies?" Theo repeats. "Well, I mean that might be you one day. " There goes his mind again as he visualizes Huck a lion with wings. "Oh man, I need to stop. I keep thinking of you in these different set ups." Yes, he's amusing himself but he doesn't mean to do that on Huck's expense. "Yeah, you would." Agreeing with the super hot fairy that Huck just said. "Guess for Halloween next year you could dress up as one. Maybe even carry a wand or something. Oh wait, that is a fairy godmother and naw I don't know if I see you as that."

"I try to not abuse that. I mean I've already been accused of reading minds and that is different. It isn't like I could talk to another just by looking at them. I guess there are certain advantages of it yeah. But sometimes, I find I carry whatever emotion the other is feeling and that, that gets draining. So sometimes, I just go back to my room and go back to sleep." Theo shrugs as he says that. Grinning as he processes what Huck is telling him in the asking out part. "I am not very good at that. It has to be really really really obvious for me to pick up on that, that a person might be interested in me. I mean I know who I like but I still don't step up because rejection is a real hard thing to deal with. I of course think your tail is awesome. Just like your flying. It looks like at least those two things of you makes life easier? I don't know because I don't have those things on me and I don't think I ever will unless this island has more surprises for me."

"Yeah, Esme is a recent hire. Maybe that is why she said no about magic when you spoke to her. The first time mine visited was the first time I got on stage. It was actually at the Bard's Balcony and I was goofing off, singing and bam got all sorts of emotions hitting me all at once. I am pretty certain I looked like I suddenly got drunk or something." Theo shakes his head and smiles. Now he can find humor in that memory. At the time, it made him afraid.

"Yeah, for some reason Jett really kind of wants me to grow lion ears," Huck notes dryly, giving a little chuckle at the idea though he clearly isn't looking for that to happen at all. "Does it go both ways?" he asks then. "You said it's not like you can talk to another with it. Can you make someone feel differently than they do? Like, if I was all sad, can you shoot me with supernormal mental happiness powers?"

"The best thing about flying is I never struggle to reach shit on the top shelf," agrees Huck.

A roll of eyes when Theo hears about lion ears but he just said he could imagine Huck as a lion with wings.

"Sort of? The only two emotions that I can incite is fear and calm. I have more practice with calm. If I know someone is scared of their emotions I try to blanket it so they can breathe through whatever is troubling them." He attempts to explain. "For example if you did not want to feel sad I would try to tamper down that feeling for you but I couldn't give you happiness I don't think unless someone nearby was showing happiness and then I think I could. I am still learning and at times it still confuses me."

He finger guns at Huck, "Yeah, that is what I mean by my earlier comment, if I can't reach for something on a top shelf I'm going to text you. You do have a phone right?"

Huck nods, "I have a phone, but if you text me, you have to promise to not judge my spelling." He waggles his claws at Theo, "These claws don't let me type easily on the little screen, so I have to voice to text and that's not always very accurate. And remember I have to use an app if you call me that transcribes what you're saying, so there can be a little weird delay between when you finish talking and when I answer."

"Dude, if I could give happiness with my brain I'd make everyone take it!" declares Huck with a laugh.

A hand comes out and Theo places it on his heart, "I swear on everything good that I will not judge your spelling." He grins and then looks at the claws. "I wonder if that is similar to those ladies who have really long finger nails. I try to not stare when I see them out in public but it has made me wonder how they get things done. Do the claws affect you negatively?" There's an eww face when told what happens if Theo ends up calling Huck as he puts his hand back to his side. "Oh hell no. I hate talking to anyone on the phone. Texting is my thing. Thank you, very much. I'd rather text or see the person in person. Being on hold and having to talk on a phone? Nuh uh."

"I think it really depends on the situation. But yeah, I try to make things easier on a body when I am aware of where their emotions are going." Theo smiles.

“ For the most part, I don’t have any especially hard troubles with them,” responds Huck. “ I think the most annoying thing is that when I use them to slice apart, my enemies, I get little pieces of dried blood and flesh stuck underneath them sometimes.”

He gives a long slow pause, keeping a very straight face until he can’t any longer, and he just starts to laugh

There's a look given to Huck as it takes Theo a few minutes to catch up. He also starts to laugh and if allowed pushes Huck's shoulder playfully, "You goober! You had me going there for a minute."

He settles and puts his hand back down as he asks, "When was the first time your magic started appearing? When you first got here? Was it your tail?"

"Don't believe everything you hear, eh" Huck teases, tapping his own ears. "I certainly don't."

He makes a little face when asked about his first magic, it's a little indicative of the idea he maybe doesn't want to share, though he also doesn't seem offended by the question at all. "I was here about six months when things started changing," he decides to say. "Claws first." He scratches at the air, "Rawr."

And then the subject turn.

"What was the first feeling you accidentally nabbed from someone?"

A roll of eyes is now aimed in Huck's direction when he reminds Theo to not believe everything he hears. Maybe Theo is gullible at times. He sometimes takes things at face value. It takes him a few minutes to catch up on occasion.

There is an ah sound that emits from Theo as he realizes some magic revealing is sensitive and he can respect that.

Cheeks flushed when Huck asks that question. That alone should be a sign of the emotion that Theo had nabbed accidentally. "You tell me."

"Oh, damn!" exclaims Huck, but it comes out more like, dayum as he laughs. "Is this like a you show me yours I'll show you mine kind of thing? Okay, fine, I'll bite, but you're first." He chews his lip for a moment, crossing his arms and studying Theo a moment, his little fang sticking out over his lip in thought as he does.

"Well," he finally decides, "I think it was probably something strong, and so, when I think strong emotions, I think hate. Love. Sadness." Then his brow lifts, "Ooh!" He points at Theo, "Lust!"

A point to Theo's nose and he points in the other's direction. "Yeah, walking on the way to the ferry to take it to Castle Island and I happen to pass a couple tourists. I mean they were just holding hands....."

And then he just stops talking and gesturing. Those cheeks of his still pink. "Yeah, they were thinking of how they couldn't wait to go find a room and you know...."

He sighs and hangs his head down. Speaking to the ground, "I am aware it is a normal human emotion but still." Nope. Not going to LOOK at Huck at ALL.

Huck laughs heartily and he claps his hands, "Incredible!" When he notices how Theo reacts, he tilts his head a bit, "Why is that so embarrassing for you bro?" He slowly smiles a little, "You do have, like, experience and stuff, right?" he then asks. Something in the way he says 'experience' might indicate he means with sexy times, but at least he's not trying to break out the 'v' word. "I mean, it's okay if you don't, I just would be really surprised, what with, you know," and he gestures at all of Theo.

There's a glance up and Theo tries to make himself look taller then he already is. "I have uhhh...." He brings out his hand and does a pinching motion. "Not much experience no." But yes, he's had experience and he knows exactly what Huck is talking about once he gets his composure.

"Why does that surprise you? Is it unusual?" It really is a curious question.

"I imagine the same for you. You most definitely had experience......right....?" He's trying really hard to not assume. This is the whole getting to know a person better kind of thing.

Huck shrugs, "It's not a bad thing at all," he reassures Theo. "I just was surprised because, you know..." He shrugs, "You kind of have this sexy waif model thing going is all. I just figured with your looks you wouldn't have had any trouble connecting with people is all." He gives a quick smile and nod to put Theo at ease about it all. "It's a compliment. Honest."

With a bit of a laugh, Huck nods, but it's a little bashful but not embarrassed. "Yeah..." He sighs, rolling his eyes at himself, "Judger no judgy," he begins, mocking the Dora the Explorer quite about Swiper. "I wasn't easy to wrangle as a teenager. I was in trouble a lot for fighting, usually kids being dicks about my Deaf Gain. I looked for approval, and to be frank, I found a lot of it by kind of going through a quick to please phase." His last few words there are said with a bit of trepidation, clearly judging himself a little over that as well. "We all do things we aren't proud of when we're kids," he concludes with a shrug, as if he's an old man.

Theo looks down at himself as he weighs in Huck's words. Back up to Huck. "I do? I uhhh...." He laughs. "Thank you. Never saw myself that way. Just figured I was way too skinny for my own good and that no one would be attracted to that. I believe you. I accept the compliment."

It is now Theo's turn to take a look at Huck as he sees the bashfulness. "I would never judge you. I think you are cool. Good looking too. Life is hard and sometimes you have to figure out how to survive it and there is nothing wrong in trying to find it in someone's arms or what not." Even if he's not as experienced as other peers his age he's either been studying them, reading up about it or this empathy lets him know what is up. If allowed there's a reach for a clawed hand and a squeeze mindful of the claw, "We sure do." Once the squeeze is done he lets go. "I guess we are suppose to learn and move on? I don't know. What if you like it? I mean thats how lusty thoughts happen right? Because it's pleasurable?"

"You should," accept the compliment Huck means. "You are too skinny, but you make it work." The last gets a little wink at Theo.

Huck doesn't object to the hand squeeze, and he nods as it happens. He laughs, "Well, of course I like it!" He seems really tickled by Theo's analytical take on his youthful randiness. "You just can't spend the rest of your life blowing jocks to keep them from being bullies," he says matter-of-factly. "It's all wild but it's better when it means something. Anything." He shrugs, "I don't think it's really something to regret, but I do think growing up is healthy. And honestly, safer, too."

There's a laugh that erupts from Theo when Huck confirms that he is too skinny. "Thanks a lot, pal....." Drawling his words out. Too bad Huck can only read his words because his twang is coming out when he says those words.

"So that matters to you?" Theo asks slowly as he processes Huck's words. "It's better to have a connection with a person and just not let it be a one night stand or something?" Hands go up as he realizes he might be invading in to personal business. "I am sorry if I am asking the wrong kind of questions. I am just curious and well....." He just finishes off lamely. "Yeah, gotta be safe. I agree with that."

Huck nods, "Well, sure it matters. Wouldn't you rather be making love to someone than fucking them?" It's a little crass, but he's trying to make the point more clear. "Look, I'm not above the connection of a one night stand. There can be a lot of fun in that, and it is still a connection. I'm just not doin' everything that moves and breathes or doing trade." He shrugs, but tilts his head a little to the side as he watches Theo. "You know this is a little weird, right? Like, why are you asking me all this?" He doesn't seem agitated, it's more curiosity.

Oh. Whoops. Uh oh. Theo doesn't realize how weird he sounds until Huck brings that up and he doesn't even know how to answer Huck. "Umm...." Biting his lower lip as he tries to slow his brain and figure out how to answer Huck.

"First to answer your question, yeah I think I would rather be making love to someone then fucking them. It is two different emotions. I get that. I'm trying to figure out my own feelings in all of this. Maybe this was better to just write my thoughts out." He laughs at himself but the way he says his words it is true. He's trying to figure things out of this nature.

Why is he asking Huck this? Clearing his throat. "I don't know what it is about you....." Speaking slowly to make sure he is satisfied with his words. "But, I think I am comfortable with you and I feel like you won't make me feel uncomfortable when I ask things. But I can drop this. I don't mean to make you uncomfortable."

When Theo seems to be a little awkward, Huck's tail swings up to lay on Theo's cheek, if he allows it. It's a comforting act. "Hey, it's okay. Relax. It's just sex." It seems awful forthright when he says it, but his tone is so casual about it that it really does seem to be honest – it's just this thing people do.

He nods about Theo trying to figure things out. "Sex isn't a big deal, but it is a big thing we do, if that makes sense. There's all the hot sweaty good stuff, the smells, the tastes... But, it's also really vulnerable and expressive, even if it's just a casual quickie. Figuring it out can be hard, but it's also REALLY important. Don't ever let anyone make you feel silly about that." He offers a warm smile as his tail slips down to swing behind him again.

With a little laugh, Huck nods some, "I don't know what it is about me either, but thanks? I think that's a nice thing." There's that wide, dimply smile again, his fangs sharp and visible. "Look, if you want to ask," he spreads his hands out in an open gesture, and his tail does too. "Ask away. I'd rather you ask me then have someone make you feel stupid or like shit about stuff. Maybe you might want to not ask too much out here in the warehouse, though?"

Theo does not mind when Huck's tail comes to touch his cheek and he smiles for it. "Thank you, Huck." His voice goes lower but he makes every effort to make sure his face is turned so Huck can lip read.

Embarrassment runs its course when Theo remembers where they are and he sighs. "Yeah, you are probably right. Want to come back to my apartment and uhhh talk or....." He just laughs what else can he do? He put himself in this situation. "I enjoy your company, Huck, I think I have a crush on you and it made me totally forget where we are at. I get it if you need to be somewhere else but the invite is there. Up to you."

"Yes," Huck says. It's a little too quick to be anything but bad, and his tail swings back and forth behind him.

There's a glance for those left here. Looking back at Huck, "Not sure where Jett went but yeah we live over at Fox....Run...." Trying to remember the name of the apartments they are at. "I keep wanting to call it Trot." He gives a half smile when he says that and he begins to make his way out of the garage. Trying to get his bearings and figure out where the apartments are from here.