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the head | the hand ([personal profile] headandhand) wrote in [community profile] dualislogs2019-08-10 03:47 pm

kitty at my foot and i wanna touch it.

WHO: Open to all residents
WHAT: Your regularly scheduled NAPs event for the month
WHERE: The RoCocoa Cat Cafe
WHEN: Aug. 10-14
WARNINGS: Please use these if applicable!


Look at all of these bright, shining new faces! There’s even a few less bright, less shining faces, but hey, this city welcomes all types. Chances are, if you’ve just arrived, you're seeing some pretty crazy things, unless you're used to an eye-blinding amount of neon, robots, weird-ass technology, magic, and an omnipresent police force...and hey, if you are, congrats, you're gonna settle in juuuuust fine. But for the rest of you, the Head knows this has gotta be pretty overwhelming, right?

Well, since your quaint individual processing units are probably having a hard time, why not link up with another one? By which the Head means...

Hello, new citizens of Dualis,
and welcome to your monthly Network Adjacency Protocol~!


NAPs are a monthly community networking event similar to the Earth concept of speed dating! Two citizens (new arrivals and old hands alike) are placed at a table together with a handy cue card of queries to help break the proverbial ice. Ask queries and receive results, or ignore the card and yeet yourself straight into a brand new friendship! But don't be too shy, you've only got ten minutes together, and if you just sit in silence for the whole ten, the Network Admins are likely to come supervise and try to repair the uplink through a mild shock to the ol' central nervous system. You might find yourself saying all sorts of unintended facts about yourself if that happens...probably better to just make friends, right? Who doesn’t like friends?!

This month’s event is held at the brand new RoCocoa Cat Cafe, a sparkly new establishment that caters to children and the young at heart with iced and hot cocoa drinks of all kinds, delicious pastries, age-appropriate live music, and of course many friendly kitties who love to lounge in laps. The cats are of all shapes, sizes, and colors, including some who may look a little different from what you expect, or may look like an ordinary cat but are actually anything but ordinary underneath that adorable fur coat. All cats in the cafe are adoptable, too, if you meet a new furry friend and just can’t bear to go home without them!

So pull up a chair, get to know your new neighbors, and enjoy a sugary treat or two with the resident furbabies. You might just meet your new two- or four-legged best friend!
notalive: (tonight i'm gonna bury that horse)

[personal profile] notalive 2019-08-12 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
OK, this is easy to talk about. He's totally fine with passing judgement on Hank's social issues.

"Actually, I think he's better than he used to be. The first time we met, he refused to talk to me about our actual case until I bought him a drink."
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[personal profile] merged 2019-08-12 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"Shit!" Heather hisses out when Rinoa bumps into her, stumbling to narrowly avoid stepping on the tail of a cat with a few too many eyes. It takes effort for her to not shoot a glare at the other out of pure instinct, aware that it likely wasn't entirely her fault. Heather had been too busy dodging cats to remember she needed to pay more attention to the people, too.

"Fuck, it's... It's fine," She manages, shaking her head at Rinoa's apology, a deep sigh bundled away in her chest,"I don't think you spilled anything, anyway."

"Not that it'd make this experience much worse for me." She adds with a huff, running one hand down the dark, cat-fur covered sleeve on her other arm. She winces at the amount of fur that comes away. She's going to need to buy a lint-roller after this.
skyward_eyes: Harry Shum Jr as Magnus Bane (Laughing With You Not At (Laughing))

[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-08-12 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, now that's interesting. Nida actually laughs and shakes his head at this news.

"I met him after a bomb went off. He was keeping people back. I pretty much said 'fuck that' to the line because, well, I was worried. There are kids here, and in a dangerous situation, kids don't run AWAY like adults do. Had to convince him to help me."
notalive: (it's ok to say you got a weak spot)

[personal profile] notalive 2019-08-12 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"A bomb went off?"

He's not surprised to hear Hank was there or that Hank would be convinced to abandon his job to directly help people who were in danger. But it's interesting to know that Nida's that kind of person too.

"What happened?"
skyward_eyes: Harry Shum Jr as Magnus Bane (Are You Interrupting Coffee? (Glower))

[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-08-12 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"There was some sort of festival party thing. Someone bombed the platform where the mayor and her people were, before the parade could start. I think Hank had just general duty that day."

He definitely tried to stop Nida from his checking in and under floats. Nida hadn't bothered to let himself be stopped.

"But he's a good man, your partner. I very much respected his behavior. Even if I did run out of candy."

Which had nothing to do with anything, but it had been nice to see the man give a ruffian a pass just because he knew how bad things would be for anyone caught doing anything shifty in the face of the explosion. Hell, Nida's own brother had been arrested.
11calls: yeah this won't come back to bite us in our ass (Wait play that again)

Alex Reagan | The Black Tapes Podcast

[personal profile] 11calls 2019-08-12 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Alex Reagan is definitely more of a dog person than a cat person, that's for sure. It's kind of a thing that when her life settles down (and of course if she survives said settling down) she's going to follow through on. Which is why she started by considering not coming to the meeting at this cafe but in the end decided that she does need to meet people, and if they're having an event just for that, then it's something that she should do. So when she walks in, Alex doesn't expect that any of the cats are going to care for her at all. Imagine her surprise when she takes a seat at one of the tables and a cat jumps into her lap and starts rubbing itself on her and purring.

Well, 'cat' may be the wrong word. The orange thing in Alex's lap demanding pets is definitely a Flerken, but she doesn't know it. Instead, Alex feels a bit like a super-villain there holding a cat, like this and when someone approaches her table for the speed friending thing, she just gives them a quick grin before saying in her cool, ready for radio Canadian voice: "I promise I'm definitely not a super villain or anything like that. He just doesn't seem to want to go away." Which means she's probably gonna end up taking him home. Oops.
etherealsage: (pleased - akin to enticing)

[personal profile] etherealsage 2019-08-12 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Rinoa takes a moment or two to simply stare at Nida and then she starts laughing. She wants to say he's kidding and maybe he is, but... What if he's not?

"I have nothing against alien cats, but I'm not dancing with them," she chortles.

Taking a moment to look around, she turns her gaze back onto Nida. "Do you want some cocoa? I can get you some, or you can have mine. I'm not so attached to it that I wouldn't give it to a friend."
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[personal profile] etherealsage 2019-08-12 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Rinoa's not really sure what she's more surprised by—the intense reaction from Heather or the fact that she quite possibly just spilled really hot liquid on someone. She seriously hasn't been here long enough to start that kind of nonsense, really. The least she could do is wait a few more weeks, right?

But the reaction that comes after does make Rinoa's own concern eventually fade away. If not face, then at least it's put on a proverbial back burner for the time being. Protectively hugging her cup of cocoa to herself, she can't help but be amused by Heather's attempt to free herself of the fur that's become... rather attached. "Not an animal person?" Rinoa asks, lips curling into a sheepish, if not still genuine, smile.

"Seems like I'm seeing a lot of that today. I guess this probably isn't the best place to have a meet-and-greet, after all." Rinoa is a little biased, though. Considering this is her new workplace, she's had some time to get accustomed to the awkward felines who... may not actually be felines at all. For her, there's a sense of familiarity, which is better than nothing.
skyward_eyes: Harry Shum Jr as Magnus Bane (Had It To Here With Dogs (Exasperated))

[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-08-12 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'll pass on cocoa. I made my caffeine addiction worse after eight months in Deling City, and having the chance at it again has only made it worse," Nida smiles, but he is grateful of the offer. And he smiles warmly at Rinoa as he gently nudges a cat away form her feet with a foot. Means that the thing is now playing with the laces of his combat boots, but he doesn't care.

"So... About your new roommate."
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Ventus | Kingdom Hearts

[personal profile] salvagedlight 2019-08-13 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Unlike some people, Ven didn't have to be talked into coming to this get-together, or think of it in any way other than what it was presented as. Oh, sure, he's not dumb; he's sure there's something going on here, even if he has next to zero skills in deception or detection or anything like that. He's been subject of or adjacent to too many "plans" for him to think of anything like this as completely innocent. But there's absolutely no reason to not use it as the jumping off point for meeting more people, right? Right.

And there are animals.

Eraqus had been a strict man and hadn't allowed pets in the castle, no matter how much his apprentices had begged or given him their own puppy eyes, and so after asking once if he could keep a bird he'd found when he was thirteen and receiving a firm no, Ven hadn't asked again. Eraqus was the master, and you didn't fight with your master. But getting out in the worlds had shown Ven how much he enjoyed seeing other places, other faces, and other living things (that weren't trying to kill him, at least), and that idea of getting a pet one day was not exactly gone.

His face when he comes into the building slowly spreads into a smile verging on a grin, and after stepping out of the way of traffic, Ven plops down cross-legged in a corner and waits for one of the cats to come to him. None of them look weird to him, but then again, one of his friends is a six-limbed short blue alien with giant ears and eyes. And when the first one to come over is definitely cat-shaped but looks entirely too prickly to be handled, he still doesn't hesitate. Or at least he only hesitates long enough to figure out which way the thorns go so he can pet along the grain, not against the grain, so he doesn't end up with his hand all stabbed and bloody. The creature seems to like this and "purrs," a noise which sounds an awful lot like a bunch of branches rattling together as in a high wind, and places both paws on his knee to reach closer to his hand and lean into the strokes.

Ven grins, watching his new friend. "You like that, do you? You got anything else you like?"
skyward_eyes: Harry Shum Jr as Magnus Bane (Older Wiser Better Than I Was (Standard))

Re: Alex Reagan | The Black Tapes Podcast

[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-08-13 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
"Super villain?" Nida asks as he sits down, sipping at his latest latte. Really, he doesn't have a concept of the overall trope to really understand what she's getting at. "Uh, cats just go where they please. At least, that's what I've noticed."

Which doesn't mean it's one hundred percent true. He does smile and offer his hand across the table to her, though.

"Nida Nomura. Pleasure to meet you."
skyward_eyes: Harry Shum Jr as Magnus Bane (All Sunshine And Roses (Happy))

[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-08-13 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
"That guy looks painful," Nida observes as he sits down and puts an extra cup of cocoa down in front of the guy. But the thing looks interesting. Something like what he'd seen at the village. Of course, so was the blue and green thing on his shoulder, a kitten with iridescent fur and feathers down its back instead of fur.

Who would have thought he'd find a peacat here? Right down to the euphoria provoking powers of the oils on its feathers. Feels good, and leaves him smiling widely as he sits down.
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pretendtoneedme: (adopted daughter)

Cats because lol

[personal profile] pretendtoneedme 2019-08-13 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
He'd gotten there a little late compared to others, more or less being physically dragged by Cissie - the much smaller girl didn't have his hand in hers and was pulling him along, but it was pretty clear that if she hadn't been leading the way, Clint wouldn't have been following. He had a million reasons for and against attending this thing, and honestly the "against" had vastly outweighed the "for," but Cissie had convinced him that even if they couldn't learn what they wanted to know they could at least get a headcount on other potential allies - or enemies. You never knew.

It's not that he dislikes cats; he's fine with them, he's just more of a dog person. Nat's the cat-crazed one of his friend and family group, along with (surprisingly) Fury (or maybe not so surprisingly). But about half the cats in this place aren't... cats, and for a moment he pauses in the door to the shop as he takes in all the various appearances. Feline-shaped, sure, and more or less the right size and usually the right number of limbs, but it's very clear that those general guidelines are all that it takes to be called a "cat" in this place. There's an amazing amount of variety going on, and Clint has to take a moment to remind himself that he knows aliens and that this is all of a type with this very strange city.

But then he spots something else - someone else. Someone he hasn't seen in just over a year, when the team had been able to sneak in a visit under the radar so the Bartons could feed them with actual proper food and give them a safe place to crash. They'd talked since then, but rarely, for the same reason that the visit had been extremely hush-hush - wanted people really shouldn't be visiting a friend under house arrest.

"Wanda!" Those cats she has are not going to be best pleased, since Clint is heading right for his not-kid (not at a run because crowded shop, but he's obviously not letting anything get in his way). Animals on her be damned, she's the first person here he knows, and it's been too damn long since he's spoken to her as it is and even longer since he's actually seen her, so he's pulling her up for a hug as soon as he gets into reach.
minus1twin: (Not laughing... yet.)

Cats because lol

[personal profile] minus1twin 2019-08-13 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Wanda spotted Clint and Cissie as soon as they walked but she wasn't able to easily dislodge herself from the cats that had taken up residence... on her. She met Clint's gaze and smiled softly as he hurriedly made his way across the crowded cafe. Wanda at least had the forethought to lift the cat on her lap and place it on the chair behind her just as Clint's arms wrapped around her slender lethal frame.

The cat on the top of her head hissed, digging it's claws into Wanda's hair before teleporting to Wanda's shoulder where it could continue hissing at Clint who had disrupted its sitting place.

Wanda ignored it and returned Clint's hug with just as much enthusiasm, burying her face against his shoulder. She didn't know if this was the same Clint that she had spent over two years with in the village but it didn't matter. Clint was Clint and she was so fucking happy to see him. After everything that had happened, she needed him. He was the only family she had left on Earth.

"It's good to see you too." She half laughed as the kitten on her shoulder tried to swipe at Clint. Wanda lifted a hand and red mist danced at her finger tips, surrounding the kitten and floating him back to the ground. It was only when Wanda released the red mist that it could teleport again and while it instantly returned to her head, it was clearly done hissing and just curling up to nap there.

"Before anything else." Wanda didn't stop hugging him as she spoke. "Do you remember the village?"
minus1twin: (I don't know)

[personal profile] minus1twin 2019-08-13 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Her eyebrows furrowed at their center as her expression fell. "It's been that long?" She hadn't had a choice in the matter but she felt awful for leaving them. They might not be from her world but they would always be her sons.

"It's been... three or seven years for me. Depending how you look at it." Wanda ran her fingers through her hair and glanced around as if she was looking for her sons before turning back to Nida. "It's complicated. It's always so complicated." She hated it but that was in the past, all that mattered now was that her sons were here. She had to find them.

Wanda turned to Nida when he talked about stealing her and nodded her head. "Alright." She listened and felt herself smiling when she heard him talking about Tommy and Billy. "I'm happy that you were here for them. I wish I could have been." She closed her eyes and felt the lose of so many people crash against her. "What could I say to them now?" Wanda fought back the sudden urge to cry and steadied her nerves.

"Seven months, and I wasn't there for them."
minus1twin: (I care about you)

speed (is his name and also his game) friending.

[personal profile] minus1twin 2019-08-13 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Wanda felt her heart stop when Tommy came to sit across from her. Nida had told her that he and Billy were both here but seeing them was something completely different. So much has happened since she'd seen him last. She'd fallen in love and had killed Vision and then disappeared for five years only to fight and lose the people she cared about.

She was tired of losing people.

Fuck the questions. Wanda rose from her side of the table, walked around it towards Tommy and pulled him into a hug. When she spoke her voice was soft and she sounded like she was near tears. "I've missed you so much. I was so scared that I'd never get to see you or Billy again."

She didn't care if this world ended up sucking as much as the others. She had her boys back and Wanda wasn't willing to lose any more of her family.
minus1twin: (I am listening)

Cats Because Cats <3

[personal profile] minus1twin 2019-08-13 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Wanda glanced over at David but she didn't turn her head for fear of dislodging the furry creature or feeling its claws sink into her scalp in an attempt to hold on. She'd had some experience with cats and a lot of experience with animals during her time in that secluded village so at least she knew how to remain calm.

"You could call it cozy." Her accent was lighter after the years away from Sokovia but there was a hint of something foreign as her words were pulled and rounded. "Or you could call it stuck."

She glanced down at the purring cat in her lap and smiled.

"I don't really mind." They were cute and it wasn't like she didn't have the time.
skyward_eyes: Harry Shum Jr as Magnus Bane (Had It To Here With Dogs (Exasperated))

[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-08-13 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
Three or seven years? Nida doesn't even ask about how it's complicated, because it's not like it's simple for him either. His time has been weird. He's loved, he's lost, he's gained, he's chosen to live. But he's happy to see the force of her feelings, even if he doesn't smile.

"I... There were more there for me," Nida admits after a while. "Things happened, and I don't know that I would have made it through without them. Especially Billy. He's..."

Oh no, he can't help the smitten little smile. No, that isn't important. The important thing is helping her.

"Be there for them now. You couldn't control being taken away. None of us could. You can say you missed them, that you love them. And you could be there for your boys. Family matters."

So much. Nida's come to respect that even more.
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[personal profile] pretendtoneedme 2019-08-13 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
You know, at this point, he's not even going to blink at a teleporting cat in those colors. Normally that would get him to do a small double-take, but fuck it, right now he's got Wanda again and that's the best news he's had in close to a month. The one great thing about house arrest was being able to be with his family for two solid years, but it had come with a separation from his friends and other parts of his family, namely Nat and Wanda. Not having any of them here now... well, in short, that really sucked.

But now there's someone and Clint sighs heavily in relief as he hugs her, ignoring the kitten hissing at him (he's had too many animals get pissed off at him invading their space during missions to care at this point). The hug is tight and obviously means a lot to him, and she'd know why, but eventually they had to pull back and say actual words.

"Did you just get here? I haven't seen you in the dorms or on the network." And he's pretty sure he would've caught wind of her one way or another if she'd been around for any length of time. Still. At her own question, though, a look of mild confusion spreads over his face, meeting her eyes and clearly not hiding anything from her. "What village?"
helpdesk_hero: David Alleyne  / Prodigy - From Young Avengers (Default)

Re: Cats Because Cats <3

[personal profile] helpdesk_hero 2019-08-13 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
"Zen mood," David observes, moving his hand to gently push a cat seemingly made out of thorns away from his paper. "Do you want some help, ma'am?"

Ma'am seems appropriate, when he doesn't know her name.
mrsarcastic003: (Red Robin Happy)

[personal profile] mrsarcastic003 2019-08-13 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
More coffee is never stupid. Tim runs on coffee. He is on his third, with absolutely no plans to stop anytime soon.

He laughs and makes a dismissive gesture. "Please. Who hasn't spent time living in a mansion with a training center underneath it?" He grins at David. He's probably joking, right? How many places could there be like that?
scathefires: (it broke your skin and shook through)

one red hoodlum } for aleifr + clint + 2 more max (new cr pls)

[personal profile] scathefires 2019-08-13 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
This is decidedly not Jason's idea of a good time. If it were up to him, he'd never set foot within the same city block as one of these damn forced social interaction things. Just thinking about it makes his skin crawl, but his job at the library scheduled him to attend, no calling out, no exceptions whatsoever, so. Here he sits, at a table with a sullen scowl on his face and one tiny white ball of fluff burrowing into the hood of his sweatshirt, licking the back of his neck, and purring at a volume more loud than a kitten this size should be able to make.

"If Selina's somehow behind this," he grumbles to himself, inattentive to the person who slides into the chair opposite, "we're gonna have words."
helpdesk_hero: David Alleyne  / Prodigy - From Young Avengers (Default)

[personal profile] helpdesk_hero 2019-08-13 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
"So far as I know, my roommate hasn't," David offers and he settles in comfortably. "But I'm pretty sure he was military, so he had his own things. You were in a mansion with a training center? I'm definitely intrigued. Was it a school? Mine was."

So yeah, not quite the same as Tim.
mrsarcastic003: (Looking Down and Smiling)

[personal profile] mrsarcastic003 2019-08-13 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
"You know, that's exactly what you would say if you were a supervillain." Tim grins as he sits down in the seat opposite her. He's being trailed by his own new cat-friend, who hasn't left him alone since he'd walked in the door, and it jumps into his lap as soon as he's seated. He sighs a little--he's given up trying to discourage it at this point--and strokes its back.
mrsarcastic003: (Family)

[personal profile] mrsarcastic003 2019-08-13 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
Tim laughs at the question. "I was mostly messing around--unless you count the gym my brother had our dad install. First floor, so not technically basement, but he used to be in the circus, so he wanted an aerialist rig, which makes it a little more intense than most home gyms."

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