2nd Floor Common Room, Monday Afternoon

[apocalypsehow]

Well, Five had survived a 'family dinner' yesterday. Which was possibly the most shocking part of the whole weekend.

Oh, and Tim was still here.

Five sat in one of the chairs, staring at where the child-shaped mannequin was sitting across from him. "I can see your mother in you," he decided.

Tim continued on being a mannequin in response to that.

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[grayskollar]

Over the past day or so, Adora had gotten over the existential crisis that was Kit, and moved into crippling anxiety over her lack of self-preservation.

Luckily, She-Ra proved a fairly reliable distraction, which was why an eight-foot woman carrying a six year old catgirl high enough that she could touch the ceiling ran into the common room.

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Five sort of just... cocked his head to the side and stared for a moment. "That's a new one."

[floofandtrauma]

Kit jumped down and bounded over while Adora went to ransack the cupboards. "Hi!"

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"Hello?" Five said, looking about as concerned as he would if an actual cat did that to him. Which was a lot concerned.

[floofandtrauma]

"I'm Kit," she announced. "Who're you? Did you make him?"

Tim looked like something Entrapa might have made.

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"In a way, sure." At least. He thought so? DON'T THINK ABOUT IT TOO HARD, KIT. "Five. That's Tim."

[floofandtrauma]

There were plenty of ways of making a kid in Etheria. Of course, Kit was blissfully unaware that none were was horrifying as Tim.

"Hi, Tim!"

[betterthanacube]

Kit was happy in her ignorance, yes.

Tim continued on being a mannequin. And only lifted that creepy, creepy arm once she looked away for the barest fraction of a second.

[grayskollar]

Kit might have been happy to eat ration bars, but Adora wasn't happy to keep feeding them to her when she had other options.

"I found cereal," she announced, perhaps a bit louder than needed, given Kit's proximity to the creepy child. The boy one.

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The living boy one or the mannequin boy one? Because. Well...

"Oh, good. More food to watch disappear around him," Five said dryly.

[floofandtrauma]

The one who was likely to provide Five with terrifying muppety grandchildren.

"Don't worry, I'll catch it before it gets away," Kit said, stalking towards Adora on all fours, tail flicking from side to side.

Someone had very indulgent moms.

[apocalypsehow]

You know what? That was basically how the Hargreeves line had always been meant to end. With eldritch horror.

"So, you have a cat child." Bond with him over weird kids with canon love interests.

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Everyone else was just collateral damage.

"Catra was pretty much the same at her age." Adora said as Kit pounced on her shins and made grabby hands at the box of cereal, which she obligingly lowered to its grisly fate. Give or take the horrifically abusive childhood. "Though that kind of hit would've knocked me over at the time."

Kit looked up from her sugary carnage. "I take after Mom." Clearly it was obvious which mom she meant there.

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Obvious to who??

Somehow Tim now also had a bowl of cereal and it was safest to just never really think too hard on it.

"He seems to take after me."

What with being a creepy little shit. Dolores, meanwhile, was a saint.

[floofandtrauma]

To Kit, mostly. It helped that everyone she knew also knew both her moms.

Kit shoved a handful of cereal in her mouth. "You look more like a person than he does," she said. "Even though you're both people too."

[meepmeepohgod]

"Hi!" Vatalija said, giving the pair her creepy, never changing smile.

[floofandtrauma]

"Hi!" Kit shouted with all the fearlessness of a child who only theoretically understood that people could be bad and besides her mom could beat anyone up.

Said Mom was currently very glad she could summon her magic sword if she needed too.

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"I'm Vatalija, who are you?" Vatalija asked.

[floofandtrauma]

"Kit! Let's be friends."

Kit, no. Even Shadow Weaver would find this child creepy.

[meepmeepohgod]

"I've never really had a friend!" Vatalija said excitedly.

Well, other than Tim over there, but he was the strong, silent type.

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"We can all be friends!" Kit was just as excited. "And my friends back home will be your friends too."

Kit, you could not take the results of the unholy union of man and muppet home with you.

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Vatalija clapped her felted hands together. "After we're done here?"

Sorry about accidentally blowing up your universe, Adora.

[floofandtrauma]

Adora had managed to save the universe with the power of girlkissy before, she probably could again.

"Can we, Mom?"

"...maybe later."

[meepmeepohgod]

"That means no," she said.