Video! You are spared the trolltext.

[peanutblooder]

[Hello Tranquility, have a grey-skinned, bull-horned kid with a stutter. He's tinged with a slight orangey-brown blush, because addressing an entire ship is kind of a big deal!]

Hi, everyone! Uh. I'm Tavros and as you can, I guess, probably see, I'm a troll. Or, if you can't see, please know that I am that. I do not want to exclude anyone, based on their preferred mode of sensory input.

So, I want to offer to anyone who is experiencing difficulty with an animal, because there are some on the ship apparently, my skills of communing with them, to better understand and change their behavior, and thus end any difficulties experienced. I, uh, definitely want everyone to know that I am here to be helpful in whatever way I can, basically!

[This is important! You don't get to be in the fleet if you're dead weight.]

On that note, the being-helpful one, uh, I guess since there are a lot of trolls now, and the ship has a lot of humans, or other species that now look human, if you have questions about how troll society works, I will try to answer them. Uh, our culture is pretty different, and misunderstandings may occur. Possibly someone has done this already, but I thought I would offer also. I am, uh, generally pretty open to cultural exchange, and that sort of thing, and it would, I guess, be good to work together while we're all stuck here.

Um. That's all. Bye.

[Okay, kid, good job, you did it. Now spend a willpower point to not throw the comm out the door and cower in your blanketpile.]

Comments

[zoosmell]

oh!
tavros...
you are certainly more lively than i heard you would be!
no, that was a bad joke because this is really weird.

SO I TOTALLY LOST AN ENTIRE SENTENCE THERE, HI.

[peanutblooder]

oH!
yOU ARE THE jOHN HUMAN!
hELLO, i HAVE NOT TALKED TO YOU BEFORE,
bUT WE HAVE SOME THINGS IN COMMON,
iN, a HEROIC WAY!
tHINGS THAT WE HAVE IN COMMON, uH,
uNFORTUNATELY DO NOT INCLUDE UNDERSTANDING WHAT YOU MEAN, tHOUGH,
}:?
i'M, kIND OF, sURPRISED YOU KNOW WHO i AM, aCTUALLY,
i DON'T MIND, tHOUGH,

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[lovesfaygo]

[ Gamzee's way too lazy to type. That, and he's directly across the room from Tavros. He looks up from his bottle of Faygo, eyes glazed over. ]

Look at you, trying to be all motherfucking helpful. Warms my heart, brother.

[permaction!]

[peanutblooder]

[Tavros was used to Gamzee being kind of spacey and weird from all the times they'd pestered each other back on Alternia, but it was kind of different when he had his head in a pie right in front of Tavros. Gamzee seemed really happy, at least, and Tavros knew that the other troll paid more attention and was sharper than a lot of the others gave him credit for, but he couldn't help but wonder what it would be like to talk to Gamzee without that haze behind his eyes.]

It just seems like a good idea. I'm pretty lucky to be here at all, probably, so I want to do everything I can, in order to stay.

[scratched]

yeah im having some animal control problems

[peanutblooder]

hI, dAVE!
uH, rEALLY?
wELL, i AM HERE TO HELP WITH THOSE,
aS STATED!
wHAT IS THE NATURE OF YOUR COMPLAINT?

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[1stguardian]

You can talk to animals?

permavid

[peanutblooder]

Yes! It is a skill at which I am very good, in fact!

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[coffeeking]

You're quite a bit more amiable than Eridan, aren't you?

Permavid! (HELLO)

[peanutblooder]

Oh.

Uh.

Yes?

[Nowhere near as eloquent, though...]

[ponyfabulous]

Oh, I have a dear friend who I think you would have a lot in common with! A shame she isn't here. [Wait...] Then again, it truly is for the best that she's safe at home instead of here. I don't imagine she'd adjust very well.

[BLAH BLAH BLAH.]

Are you any good with cats? I've been trying so hard to give mine a bath but she just hasn't been very friendly since we got here. [Not that she's ever friendly, but now she's even worse.]

[peanutblooder]

Oh? Really? Well, uh, I am glad that she is safe, even though I am now curious about what you mean! And...yes I, uh, I can commune with cats.

[Wow, he doesn't sound very happy about that.]

[peanutblooder]

Um, hi again! Sorry if, before, I was kind of not entirely happy. I'm just kind of really allergic to cats, even though I do like them, in theory! I would still be happy to commune with your friend, and also, one of my friends really likes cats, and is very good with them too, so if I cannot help, due to, maybe, no longer being able to breathe, she could possibly also help.

Her name is Nepeta, I don't know if you have met her yet.

private; 100% also hi kind of a placeholder given the log and first thread

[vestalvogue]

Um. Speaking of misunderstandings that have already occurred.

np np!

[peanutblooder]

Uh, hi, Kanaya. What's wrong?

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[herocomplex]

_{[ BOOM HAVE AN AMERICA to make things more awkward for you, Tavros.
SUPER CONFIDENCE MEETS NOT SO MUCH... ]}

You guys are so fucking cute, dude.
I have a shit ton of questions! And since you're being all kick ass awesome and being like, "I'll explain everything to you, yo!" I'm gonna start with you!

Sound like a killer plan, my man?

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[peanutblooder]

Uhhhhhh.

Okay?

[So he's more like a little tiny bull caught in the headlights of America's...America-ness, but the metaphor stands.]

[purrfectlycute]

:33 < awwww thats nice of you tavros!
:33 < im sure everyone would be happy to have you talk to their lususes

[peanutblooder]

tHANKS, nEPETA!
}:)
pEOPLE AROUND HERE SURE DO SEEM TO HAVE, uH,
wEIRD IDEAS ABOUT US!
bUT, uH, tHERE DON'T SEEM TO BE MANY LUSUSES,
aLTHOUGH, i SPOKE TO SOMEONE EARLIER,
wHO HAS A CAT!
i THOUGHT YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THAT,
sINCE YOU LIKE THEM SO MUCH!

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[sermonize]

Perhaps you could do a better job than Eridan?

[peanutblooder]

Maybe? It is, uh, kind of hard at the moment, telling whether or not this has been successful.

You sound, uh, sort of familiar, kind of. Have I met you?

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[za_rodina]

[Well, he wasn't expecting to see a troll when he turned on the comm but it's interesting none the less. Russia peers at him curiously, head tilted.]

How do you speak to animals?

[peanutblooder]

I use a power that I have, and I guess, touch my consciousness to theirs! It isn't really talking, I should clarify, and I'm sorry for the confusion. Animals don't really have words, so communing really is, the more correct term.

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[fractured_warrior]

YOU.

[No, no identifiers. Meta's just acknowledging his existance.]

Staying video

[peanutblooder]

Hi, Meta. Uh...how are you?

[Okay, awkward, but crazy human warrior guy is kind of crazy!]

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[odinsons]

[ oh boy. more trolls. this is so fascinating. honestly. tavros is the second one he's come across that seems utter light years different than eridan. but that's not a real big surprise is it? anyhow— ]

In light of certain knowledge attained recently, I believe it would be beneficial to take you up on your offer of a cultural exchange. I do have a few lingering questions.

permavid

[peanutblooder]

Oh! Okay, I am prepared to do exchanges of all kinds, up to and including diagrams of an extremely helpful and visual nature! So, uh, consider me prepared, for questions, although if they could perhaps not involve things of a concupiscent nature, that would be nice, and also appreciated.

[straightforward]

hi tavros! :)
i was wondering what happened to you
the last time i tried to message you, you never answered!!

[peanutblooder]

jADE!
}:D!!!
yOU CANNOT SEE IT, bUT THAT IS ACTUALLY THE FACE i AM MAKING,
aLONG WITH, tHE EXCLAMATORY POLES!
i'M SORRY i NEVER ANSWERED,
i, uH, dIDN'T ACTUALLY THINK YOU WOULD WANT TO MESSAGE ME,
bASICALLY EVER AGAIN, aFTER OUR LAST CONVERSATION,
sO i WENT AWAY FROM MY HUSKTOP,
tHERE WAS, uH, a THING, tHAT i NEEDED TO DO,
tHAT WAS VERY IMPORTANT,
i WOULD DEFINITELY NOT HAVE LEFT YOU HANGING OTHERWISE!