hopembodied:
“Huh?” She’s a little startled at first, but she is quick to understand what’s really happened. Which might be considered a little bit of an odd sight, but for someone like her, she just presumes this is normal. Even if it maybe ruins the illusion a little bit, but hey, she’d been silly to think the solution would’ve been something like…sleeping upside down, you know, like a bat. That’d be like Ahiru saying she’d filled up a tub with water to sleep in. That’s silly! She’s never done that. Not even once! ( Okay, maybe at least once. Anyways ). “That’s a pretty handy solution. That must make things much easier, like turnin’ things on and off, right?” …That’s not a rude way of putting it, is it?
“M-Mhm, that’s my name!” Admittedly, she’s not entirely sure where that knowledge came from, but child is at least aware of how on the nose her name is ( not one that she chose for herself, but she’d probably never be able to decide what she’d want to call herself if things had been any different, so she can’t say she exactly has complaints ). “I think, uhm, my parents thought t’was cute name…? I dunno if they knew what it meant.” Lie does not slip from your tongue so easily, but it’s much more easy to fabricate a story than actually explain the truth. Besides, she has enough of a grasp on German to know that at least for nicknames, animal names weren’t unusual, so it’s not like her story has no basis! …Just a lack of actual parents. She doesn’t linger on that for too long, lips quirk upwards in a good natured grin. “Really? I mean, I thought your name seemed real pretty, but that’s kinda cool though…think it’s fun we’ve got that in common.”
▖ ❝ Yup, it does make sleeping way easier. I tried sleeping upside down once but surprisingly I woke up all dizzy. ❞ Perhaps lack of habit but her body although weird didn’t seem initially designed to do that. Pretty weird. Maybe although she could transform into a bat she didn’t share instincts and all that stuff? Well, she was human at the end of the day.
❝ It is a cute name... Can you turn into a duck? That could be a reason. ❞ A rather innocent question and, honestly, not that crazy for her standards. I mean, literally every single person she could meet while walking downtown back home had some kind of superpower, it was normal to expect. ❝ ... Or perhaps you have bright yellow hair, like a duck’s feathers... That’s a pretty weird thing to say, sorry. What color is your hair? ❞ The hair reasoning seemed more likely and, honestly, she would have loved to confirm that herself but, well... you can’t sense colors through echolocation, no sound involved in colors.
❝ Thanks, by the way. I love my name despite its simplicity. ❞
