Heart symbol for peaches too!! @schediophillia
Send me “ ❥ “ for my muse’s reaction to yours gently stroking their hair.
If you think Oxy did not remember Dirk calling her dirty, you would be very, very wrong. In fact, she’s committed it to memory, grumbling about it in one of her three daily-- Nightly rather, baths. She was very clean, thank you very much!
Despite the teasing and mockery between them, all the things that perhaps should’ve made her less inclined to invite him over, Oxy had indeed decided to show Dirk her lab at the very least. The lab and all of it’s attractions, such as: Mysterious sentient goo!, proto-vampires, proto-minotaurs, and other creatures she’s managed to crudely stitch together through the mundane DNA of ordinary creatures.
She’s just showing off, of course. If she REALLY wanted to show him the interesting things she would make another blood bomb or two.
They’re observing the griffins she’s made with the DNA of a beloved friend through a window when he rests an elbow on her shoulder. Her rather short stature making it easy on him, she takes it for teasing and gently jabs his ribs in return.
She starts talking about the griffins, glossing over the procedure of making them (She refuses to offer how she’s done it to anyone) and discusses the different kinds of birds and cats she’s mixed together. Beaming brightly when she points out the biggest one, Vulture and Leopard. She talks of her further plans, of making more traditional griffins and seeing what else she can do with them. Along with how-- considering the original ‘griffin’ was human-- well they’d be able to understand human languages. Their intelligence could be greater than she’d imagine.
While she gets lost in her rambling about DNA and the science behind it all, her theories, she doesn’t notice as Dirk’s hand comes down and runs over her hair down the back of her head. Rhythmic as she keeps talking. Cat instinct this, bird instinct this, griffin cub looks janky this, et cetera.
She notices eventually, of course. His hand ceasing the process when she bumps her hip against his with some offhand joke about him and her hair. His fingers going through the red, pink, orange strands one more time before flicking her in the face with her own hair.
She bumps him again to send him stumbling but leads him on to the next creature she has made regardless.
“I thought I was dirty, Mr Anti-Vore.”