commandertoolbelt | seasonality ✦ tsuyukusa

Yeah. My dad is Hephaestus, the god of fire and blacksmiths. But Kon said you guys have a different pantheon, so you probably don't know the Greek gods, right?

[AH RIGHT, THAT BITCH...]

I don't, but that's... cool I guess. [This does not change his assumption that Leo's a regular boy because you don't have to be related to your dad by blood??]

What else did he tell you?

[ that's about the reaction he's used to yea, just the ugly blacksmith god it's nbd ]

Not a whole lot about where you guys are from? Mostly just about some of the monsters. Apparently there's a lot of overlap between yours and ours?

[Oh... he simmers down then.]

Yeah, like the dryads you mentioned.
[They sound cool!!]

So what was with that tapping?

Yeah, exactly. And chimeras? But it sounds like they're a little different from the ones I know.

[ ...ah, that. why is everyone so interested in it, anyway? ]

It's called Morse code. Call it a nervous habit? I didn't realize anyone else would know it.

[Ah. A preexisting thing.]

Yeah I guess he's some sort of big weirdo who knows a lot of stuff?
[He has only a vague understanding of it.]

It's not like he's my friend or anything. We're just both Toki's friends.

[ is that so. hm. ]

He does know a lot of random stuff, huh? Gotta wonder where he fits it all.

So... what? Did you want to learn how to use it yourself or something?

[He didn't but then he thinks abotu how Kon would probably say he doesn't need to. Or maybe he thinks Tsuyukusa isn't smart enough to learn it!!!]

Sure. Something like that can't be that hard to learn!

It's not, really. You just have to know what to listen for.

[Nods!!]

So how do I learn?

Well... Here, let me write it down for you first, and then we can go through the sounds. Might be easier to have the visual.

[ he'll just keep talking as he pulls out a pen and notebook and starts writing the alphabet. besidw each letter is a series of dots or dashes. you know how morse works I don't need to explain it ]

Morse code is all long or short sounds, and each letter has a set that belongs to it. See?

[Tsuyukusa watches him intently! He's actually very attentive when he's not flipping out about any little inconvenience or verbal slight.

Also me trying not to think about how the universal translator handles this.]

So if it's just a series of taps how do you know when one letter ends and the next begins?

[ we don't think about the language barrier they would encounter here it's fine ]

To do that, you just leave a longer gap when the letter ends. So, kind of like this.

[ he writes his name in morse code! three letters are easy enough to take in, and sure enough - there is a slightly longer gap between where each letter should end. ]

It's a little hard to portray on paper, but yeah. That's why I said you have to know what to listen for.

[Nodding.]

Sometimes people trust their eyes too much. In the woods, a lot of times you'll hear things before you can see them. So you learn to listen carefully.

...Huh. You know, I never would have thought about it that way, but yeah, you're right. It's the same when you're on the run. So you'll probably be pretty good at it, actually.

[Oh.... praise!!! He looks away, because he is a tsundere.]

Obviously.
[Wait hold on a second.]

On the run?

[ probably a good thing that leo isn't in the mood to call him out on that ]

I ran away from foster homes six times when I was a kid and the government hated me for it. Now I'm a demigod with a goddess who wants me and my friends dead, so - yeah. On the run.

[Honestly the demigod stuff is like. Oh huh wild but. Not really worth commenting on. Everyones got god battles.]

... Oh. Well if some random people tried to put me in someones house and pretend they were my parents I'd run away too.

[ throws his hands in the air ]

Thank you! Everyone always expects you to just go along with it like it's no big deal, but it's never that simple. And some foster parents shouldn't be parents at all, if you ask me.

[NODDING. YEAH!!!]

My father was my father because he chose to be. I think that's important.

[ oh... hm. leo's not a little jealous or anything. he's looking sullen for just a second, but brushes it off easily. ]

Yeah. Yeah, that - makes sense. Blood only means so much when they want nothing to do with you, so why not find your own? That's a popular genre in TV shows and stuff for a reason.

[Well he's talking about him in the past tense so like. At least he has "my dad is alive" over on Tsuyukusa.]

... I don't know what TV is, but sure. Tree spirits don't have like, birth parents the way humans do. So there wasn't really any other option.

[ does "alive" really count for much when he's only spoken to the guy once though ]

Stick around here long enough, and you'll figure that one out in no time.

Anyway... You can take this, if you want. [ the reference sheet. he carefully tears out the page to offer to tsuyukusa. ] And if you want to practice with someone, hit me up.

[Listen don't worry about it.]

Ok... Let me try it right now so I can be sure I'm doing it right.
[He studies the paper and then taps out FUCK in morse code because of course he does.]

[ gods, he just starts laughing ]

Putting it to good use already!

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