08-20-2019, 10:03 PM
[glow=#000,1,400]MY MAMA SAID THAT I'M NOT LIVING RIGHT. YOU RAISED A LION, MAMA, I AIN'T LYING, MAMA — ｡+ﾟ.[/glow]
Honestly, when Roy had first arrived, Worm had felt a huge variety of different conflicting emotions. His first emotion was worry, over how the boy seemed to be blazing endlessly, and how he didn't seem entirely able to control himself, and the way that he was barely able to speak fully. In addition to that, Worm had also been reminded than none other than Draekon, the tiger who was the sweet love of his life and also wasn't too great at speaking and holding himself together. Because of all of these emotions, Wormwood had immediately felt a strong need to protect Roy when he had first arrived and joined the group. These feelings had only been expanded upon more when Roy had been stargazing, and Worm had found it pretty damn adorable. Honestly, Roy seemed like a surprisingly innocent and sweet teen wrapped in a scary flaming tiger package, and he didn't quite understand everything that went on, but he tried his best, and that's all that Worm really cared about in the grand scheme of things. If Worm was being extremely honest with himself – which he often wasn't, to be honest – Roy sort of reminded him of what one of his children might have been like if he and Draekon had ever had them together, and that was part of what made Worm so protective of him.
When he had figured out how Roy seemed to care so much about the stars twinkling up in the sky, Worm had decided to search around until he could find the male a star chart that would be interesting and simple enough that Roy could appreciate it even if he couldn't read the words or the labels of the star formations. He had eventually found one and left it with the tiger so that he could read it and appreciate it as he saw fit even when the stars weren't in the sky for him to marvel at, and then he had returned to his home for the day to get some rest, exhausted from picking out gifts for everyone in the group that he knew fairly well or cared about. When he had woken up from his rest, he hadn't really been thinking about what he had done before he had dozed off, so he had been surprised when he had walked out of his home and saw Roy right on the edge of the camp, still mostly secluded in the swamp so that he wouldn't set anything ablaze as he gazed down at the star chart in both amazement and confusion. The tiger's head seemed to snap up to directly look at him when he emerged onto his deck, and Wormwood made a soft startled noise before padding over to where Roy was.
Eying the star chart for a moment, Worm then looked up at Roy and gave him a soft and comfortable smile despite the flames that lit up the area around them and licked lightly at the muddy ground Roy was sitting on. He then said with a flick of his ear, tilting his head to one side as he rumbled in a calm and pleased voice, [glow=#165042,1,400]"Are you enjoying your gift? I wasn't sure if you would be able to read any of it, but I was pretty sure you'd enjoy the pictures and diagrams and stuff, since you seemed as though you were enjoying just looking up at the stars the other day."[/glow] He was rambling a bit, and he wasn't even sure that Roy would respond to him in any way, let alone any sort of substantial way, but he still just liked talking to Roy, and making him feel like he had a friend in the group, since he had seemed pretty alone when he had first arrived.
When he had figured out how Roy seemed to care so much about the stars twinkling up in the sky, Worm had decided to search around until he could find the male a star chart that would be interesting and simple enough that Roy could appreciate it even if he couldn't read the words or the labels of the star formations. He had eventually found one and left it with the tiger so that he could read it and appreciate it as he saw fit even when the stars weren't in the sky for him to marvel at, and then he had returned to his home for the day to get some rest, exhausted from picking out gifts for everyone in the group that he knew fairly well or cared about. When he had woken up from his rest, he hadn't really been thinking about what he had done before he had dozed off, so he had been surprised when he had walked out of his home and saw Roy right on the edge of the camp, still mostly secluded in the swamp so that he wouldn't set anything ablaze as he gazed down at the star chart in both amazement and confusion. The tiger's head seemed to snap up to directly look at him when he emerged onto his deck, and Wormwood made a soft startled noise before padding over to where Roy was.
Eying the star chart for a moment, Worm then looked up at Roy and gave him a soft and comfortable smile despite the flames that lit up the area around them and licked lightly at the muddy ground Roy was sitting on. He then said with a flick of his ear, tilting his head to one side as he rumbled in a calm and pleased voice, [glow=#165042,1,400]"Are you enjoying your gift? I wasn't sure if you would be able to read any of it, but I was pretty sure you'd enjoy the pictures and diagrams and stuff, since you seemed as though you were enjoying just looking up at the stars the other day."[/glow] He was rambling a bit, and he wasn't even sure that Roy would respond to him in any way, let alone any sort of substantial way, but he still just liked talking to Roy, and making him feel like he had a friend in the group, since he had seemed pretty alone when he had first arrived.
— Reggan