audience: Danny Fenton

[becomemod]

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[foreverphantom]

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he doesn't laugh.

danny doesn't fucking laugh. he is cool and collected and not swallowing laughter at the idea of getting catnip for his boss. ]

Sure thing.

[ he leaves...and when he returns a few minutes later, he's got a bag full of goodies! herbal goodies. what is the human to tiger ratio looking like now ]

[becomemod]

[He hasn't transformed further, but he's sitting on the floor looking grumpy and exhausted.]

How much catnip did you bring???

[foreverphantom]

Oh, just a bit. This is mostly weed.

[ pulls a blunt out of the bag and offers it to tiger. wait, can they hold a blunt in their paws? ]

[becomemod]

How did you even get weed, you look 15.

[But he can carefully grab it between two paws maybe? He has no fingers now so this is difficult.]

[foreverphantom]

[ the real answer is that i forgot about age regulations. the ic answer is, ]

Intangibility renders most rules moot for me.

[ what if danny takes it and kinda. shoves it between two of his paw fingies. like a tiger smoking a cigarette. ]

[becomemod]

[This probably looks so ridiculous.

But okay, Tiger will take it and smoke from it. He seems to know how to smoke without coughing at least? This is fine, probably.]

...thanks.

[foreverphantom]

[ bro i didn't even light it yet

jk i'll pretend somewhere between tags danny lit the blunt for him ]

Thank me when it works. Until then, it's just blackmail material.

[ takes a photo of this insane scene ]

[becomemod]

[OPE okay it's lit now.]

Unlike you, I don't look too young for this.

[foreverphantom]

Oh, it's not about the illicitness.

It's about watching you try to hold a blunt in your paws so you can calm down.

...is it working yet?

[becomemod]

[This is the most disapproving look he can manage while holding a blunt in his tiger paws.]

Not yet. Give it a few minutes. It's not as immediate as catnip.

[foreverphantom]

Alright, alright.

[ pulls out another blunt for himself and lights it, because just sitting here waiting for your boss to get high in complete silence is weird. might as well get high with him. ]

[becomemod]

[This is fine, they can be two teenage-presenting adults getting high.

Within a few minutes it does seem to make a difference though, Tiger's hands go back to being human hands and he can hold the blunt just fine.]

Have you decided what you're doing when you go home?

[foreverphantom]

[ hits that mf blunt. he nods lightly when he sees tiger's hands go back to normal, at least. good to know that weed solves all transformation problems. ]

...no. I don't particularly want to go back. There's not much there for me.

Nico offered to let me go to his world, if we can make that happen when this is all over. But I doubt that offer will still be there once he finds out what I did.

[becomemod]

We'll see. You never know what can happen in two weeks. Maybe the offer would still stand.

[He's going to take another hit off of his. This is the most relaxed he's been in weeks.]

I'm going home. There's things I'm responsible for there, and I can't let them languish without my presence.

[foreverphantom]

Mmmm. [ flat, skeptical.

also i can't believe we just had to give tiger weed this whole time ]

Things like what?

[becomemod]

I'm not supposed to tell anyone the exact mechanics of it.

[But he is high now, so.]

But basically, I was trusted with keeping my world's timeline on track. I make sure the timeline doesn't get altered.

Funny, isn't it? That I ended up in a nightmare scenario where that very thing was done anyway.

[foreverphantom]

[ well danny is also now high so he just starts laughing hysterically ]

Oh my--oh god, you're your world's version of Clockwork! Oh, you'd hate me if I were there.

[becomemod]

Maybe. But you don't know how I keep the timeline safe, so it would be fine. It's not like you could do anything about it.

[foreverphantom]

Oh trust me, I know. Time powers are bullshit.

[becomemod]

[He laughs a little.]

They are, aren't they?

...truth be told, I didn't want this job. Dazai-san forced it on me.

[foreverphantom]

Your boss?

[ hopefully not the one who gave him that collar ]

[becomemod]

That's the one. He rescued me as a preteen, and he raised me up to be an efficient killer for the mafia. And then he told me to protect our world and went and died on me.

[His gaze is a bit distant. He's too high to be truly upset, but it's always bothered him.]

...it was never for my sake. Everything he did was for one man. And all I have are his last words: "this is the only world where he lives and writes his stories."

[foreverphantom]

[ snorts ] Sounds like he'd love our moonlit overlord.

[becomemod]

That, or he would hate him for changing the world. He seemed pretty set on preserving the world exactly as it is.

[foreverphantom]

Ugh. Megalomaniacs, all of them. [ "you can't say that--" takes one to know one ]

The guy in charge of all the timeline stuff in my world? He left me to suffer and languish because "oooh I can't interfere with the flow of time," but he does anything for a version of Danny Fenton from another timeline. Including shove me in a thermos prison for over a year.

What makes his timeline so special? [ huffs--both as in the conversational noise as well as what he does on this blunt ] Nothing. It's all arbitrary. At the end of the day, if you've got that kind of power, you get to call all the shots.