I can’t believe that I never posted this sweetheart that both Nerdy and I made ;; Meet Calliope, former Aether lab experiment and adoptive daughter to Marie! She’s very shy and does not like to battle, but she has a few hobbies which include gardening and cooking! Although she was specifically created to fight against Ultra Beasts, she uses her abilities (especially her cool arms) to help her with growing beautiful flowers and making delicious dishes for her mom and grandfathers!
Kris Moth: omg i still haven't see the new episodes yet (bad me!) but I saw someone on tumblr be all "omg raph loves this female character in leo's new show because princess leading a planet" and just
Kris Moth: I wanna draw him watching precure now
Angie: do it
Kris Moth: just being all "Q_Q That's right, Ako!"
Angie: Because that person isn't lying
Kris Moth: "Save your father and Majorland!"
Angie: They took off Space Heroes and did a new show parody
Kris Moth: (but oh god I am so drawing raph as a precure fan now. Watching on the laptop)
Angie: Donnie goes "What the heck is this in my history"
Kris Moth: (Laptop Audio: 'I want my father back! *punch*
Raph: Q__Q "Go, Cure Muse!")
Kris Moth: Raph covers the screen and is like IT HAPPENED ON ITS OWN
Kris Moth: CURSER'S STUCK
Kris Moth: or tries to pin it on leo
Kris Moth: like "I dunno, he watches that kinda stuff. *shifty eyes*"
Kris Moth: mikey watches over his shoulder one day. "Who's the pink one?"
I told Carli that if she wrote that drabble, I'd make one too...
Shabam.
There was a lot Ochacha didn't know.
She didn't know why she had to spend most of her days alone. Surely if her step-mother couldn't stay in the tower all day, she could at least take Ochacha with her. The world couldn't “corrupt” her as long as Step-Mother was there, right? And the monsters she always talked about; she could surely keep them away.
That was another thing. She didn't know why there were so many monsters around, and only herself and Step-Mother in this kingdom. Step-Mother told her that in this kingdom, there was nothing but horrible monsters, large shadowy things with glowing eyes and sharp teeth that would eat a girl like her, and that the two of them were the only normal people in the kingdom. That was why Ochacha had to live in a high tower, away from them. She never told her why she was allowed to leave, though.
Another thing she didn't know.
And she also didn't know why there was a noise outside her tower, a noise growing steadily louder and louder.
Her first thought was that it was one of the monsters. One of them had found her tower, had smelled human girl inside, and was climbing up right now! Ochacha quickly rose from her spot on the floor, accidentally tipping over the (mercifully-empty) teacup in her haste to get to the wardrobe and shut herself inside. It took a little while for her to drag her long hair in after herself (this was something she did know: why she had long hair. Step-Mother needed a way to get inside, after all!) but she managed, and hastily but quietly shut the wardrobe door just as something peered over the window.
“Phew!”
Wait. That didn't sound anything like what she imagined the monsters sounded like...She always thought they had gravelly, scary voices. Low voices that sounded like thunder and rocks rubbing together at once. Inhuman.
This voice sounded...well, not like her or Step-Mother, it was too deep for that, but it talked like them! Ochacha swallowed, steeled herself, and slowly opened the door just a crack, peered through the tiny opening.
...it even looked like them. Well, not exactly, of course not, they weren't curved so much as they were 'straight lines' and skinny, but it looked like them!
But...but Step-Mother said there weren't any others like them in this kingdom. That they were all in another one...
Whoever it was turned away from the window, froze up and stared at the teaset. Then, as if he could feel her presence, he looked right at the wardrobe. “Someone here?”
He wasn't a monster. It would be fine...
The doors slowly opened.
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His name was Hatoto, he'd told her, after finally convincing her to actually step out of the wardrobe. And that had been really all he'd wanted to tell her about himself. He was, however, willing to tell her about the kingdom just outside the forest her tower was in.
“Monsters? There're no monsters out there,” he'd said, frowning and scratching his head a little, messing up his already kind of messy hair. “There's a bunch of guards and soldiers that have the endurance of monsters, and a few bears and wolves, but no monsters.”
“Really?” Ochacha's shoulders slumped in relief. Yes, of course she believed this total stranger. He'd come from the outside, and why would he need to lie about this? “Thank goodness...” But wait. She frowned a little as the thought came to her. If that was true, then why was here to begin with? Why did Step-Mother lie?
Hatoto completely misunderstood her reaction, however. “If you want, I can show you. I can show you there's nothing to be afraid of.”
“Eh?” Ochacha straightened, mentally kicked herself, Pure, proper and elegant ladies didn't say that!
But he just smiled, pointed towards the window. “I can show you. Come on, we'll go for just a small walk--” and here he decided to avoid the main path, where the wanted posters were, “--and you can see for yourself. I'm sure you'd love it out there; it's really pretty outside.” And she could probably use some color to her face too, he thought.
“Well...” Ochacha bit her lip and looked towards the window. Well...
“Just twenty feet away from the tower and back.” Hatoto stood over her, hand outstretched, a little smile on his face. “I know a way you can get back inside once we're out, you said yourself your step-mother won't be back for a few hours.
“Just trust me.”
There was a long silence as Ochacha's eyes kept moving between the window and Hatoto. She didn't want to upset her step-mother...but at the same time, the way he'd described the kingdoms outside, the forest, the reassurance there weren't any monsters out there...She did want to see it.