CAN'T MOVE ALLA THIS HERE ☆ christmas cards, o

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REDVOX "VINNY" ABRAMO - cis male - goat-bat hybrid - harbinger

Vinny had never considered those that loved their families to be weak. Despite what Aslisk might have thought to herself, Vin had always thought that people who had families to love were some of the luckiest and strongest people out there, mainly because it meant that they had something they were fighting for. Hadley, his beloved but flawed mentor, had been such an amazing fighter and mentor to him because she had considered him family, along with the fact that she was working hard in order to make sure that her father would be proud of her, even if he was gone. Vox had always admired that, and had dreamed that one day he would have a family. A husband, maybe a few kids – although honestly he wasn't sure if he could really have kids in this body, considering the weird hybrid of animals he was, but still, there was always adoption. Family had always been something that had lingered on the distance for him as a child, just as being harbinger had once done. However, now he was harbinger, and he didn't really feel particularly close to having a family in any capacity, despite the overall family that the Halls represented. Perhaps that was why he was so curious about what Aslisk had written on the card. Either way, his intention hadn't been to belittle her or make fun of her or any other horrible possibility she had stored in her mind. Instead, he just wanted to be able to reassure her that one day she would see her family again, and he was sure that they missed her just as much as she missed them. He really should've known she'd respond with anger, and would probably just call him softhearted for saying such things out loud, but... he was softhearted. He liked being kind, and hopeful, and caring about family, even ones besides his own. It was really no surprise when Aslisk responded in her usual way, with words kept close to her chest and sharp phrases directed in his direction, but he still didn't find that he was particularly annoyed by her mouthing off. After all, he couldn't even begin to imagine how she must've been feeling, considering she had been ripped away from all she had and was now spending probably one of the oddest christmases away from her family. Hell, he didn't even know what she was or was like back when she was with her family, so everything could seem so painfully different now.

This was why, when Aslisk tensed and responded by snapping at him at first, Vin didn't snap back or frown or anything, he just tilted his head to one side, listening curiously to what the wyvern had to say. She was right in her assumption that Vox couldn't understand or read any of the language she had written on the card. Hell, he was fairly sure that even if he could, he wouldn't have been able to read it because of the sloppiness of the with g overall. He made sure to keep his mouth shut about that, however, not wanting Aslisk to become too pissed off with him. So, once she was done going off on her little tirade, the harbinger just explained patiently, offering her a toothy little crooked smile, "Aslisk... I was just askin' cause I was curious. I'm not gonna yell at ya or demand ya tell me what'cha wrote. I'm just glad ta see that you're in th'season, and that you're still thinkin' of your family 'n' everythin'. I don't know 'em, but I'm sure they miss ya a hell of a lot." Honestly, if Aslisk's family just swooped in and swept her off her talons back to wherever she had come from, Vox probably wouldn't have been all too upset. Not because he disliked Aslisk's company – he had actually somewhat grown used to her abrasive nature and mean spirited sense of humor – and not even because he particularly wanted her to go, especially given her recent promotion to regent. Really, the only reason Vox would've been perfectly happy with such a thing was because it was obvious how much Aslisk loved her family, and how much she missed being with them, and he didn't really think it was fair that she had just been pulled away from all of that, even if there wasn't really anyone in particular to blame for such a thing happening. After all, Vox had no idea where Aslisk had come from before the Pitt, and he also had no idea how she had ended up here, so how were they supposed to blame anyone, really?