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

The harbinger found himself having to resist the urge to wince as he watched Julian work on Aslisk. It wasn't that the other was doing a bad job. No, actually, he was doing a very good job, and Vinny certainly made a mental note to later ask him if he would be a cleric at the next meeting, but the whole thing also certainly didn't look like it was pleasant. He saw the way that Aslisk nearly recoiled from his touch, forcing herself to let him soothe her burn wounds with something that was ultimately good, but probably hurt like hell to feel on such sensitive burnt areas. Redvox found himself immediately grateful that his first body – his small, feline birth body – had died, rather than survived, through the flames that had originally destroyed the Halls. After all, if he had survived that, he wasn't exactly sure that he would've wanted to stay alive. He would've had even worse burns than Aslisk, and he certainly wasn't as stubborn or hearty as Aslisk either. He probably would've crumbled under the pressure of dealing with such wounds, and would've just ended up in his current strange hybrid gat form anyways. Vinny pondered, for a moment, whether or not he should go over and help Aslisk, especially when he saw her wincing and grumbling about having to balance herself on one wing, but the harbinger also knew better. He knew that if he tried to move over and offer her some kind of assistance, he would probably just get unkind words snapped right next to his sensitive ears, or a wing flung out to whack at his face, even if it ended up with Aslisk on the ground right afterwards. She probably still would've been satisfied just with smacking him.

When Julian asked how Aslisk had gotten the burns littering her body, the harbinger couldn't help but snort, shaking his head a little bit as he remembered. He could still remember the chaos of finding Aslisk aflame, and the anger of finding out afterwards that she had done it to herself. She had explained her motivations for the event many times before, but no matter how many times she repeated herself, it never made any sense to him. Sure, maybe in whatever crazy world she came from, people made themselves fireproof by burning themselves over and over again, but here? In a world that made sense? That was ridiculous, and all it had ended in was him having to half carry and half drag Aslisk to the fortress, since she could barely walk in the aftermath. Eventually the wyvern had gotten fire elementals, which made it so that the fire that now danced on her scales didn't hurt her, but Vinny was always quick to remind her that fire elementals were a thing of this world, and that one thing hadn't caused the other. When he heard Aslisk repeating the same nonsense once again to Julian, he couldn't help but roll his eyes, a sigh leaving him as he mumbled, "Aslisk, y'still don't have any evidence that burnin' yourself caused your fire elementals. I'm actually very sure that it didn't." He doubted that Aslisk would actually even acknowledge him, since she never really cared whenever he pointed that out. He disliked it when his regent decided to completely ignore him, but he had honestly become pretty used to it.

Tearing his mind away from Aslisk for a moment, the gat seemed to finally process ehat Julian had said to him. Blinking for a moment, the male felt a blush beneath his fur at the mention of the ladies. He laughed weakly, shaking his head a bit as he shifted upon his wings, "I'm... I'm pretty confident that lavender is fine, if y'can really give me some. I don't mind th'smell, plus the ladies arent really... my thing..." He didn't often talk about his own sexuality, since it had little to do with his abilities as the leader of the Halls, but girls had never really been his thing. Even when he had been a kit, he had only ever had crushes on the older boys. Now, with his big crush on Auggie? That trend was pretty much only continuing. He found himself wondering if Auggie would like the smell of lavender.