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Post by Kadin on Sept 25, 2020 14:15:49 GMT -6
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Post by Kadin on Sept 26, 2020 17:29:29 GMT -6
In yet another kennel deep dive, Kadin came across these small... cute... things. He wasn't really sure what they were, but they sort of reminded him of pachee. Like some pachee had pollen, some of these creatures had orbs on the ends of their tails. One day, when he had nothing better to do, Kadin looked them up and found out that they were called "orbaru." And, no, that was apparently not a joke. The small creatures where some had orbs on their tails were called ORBaru. Heh.
In his research, he found out they could be bred. Similarly to the pachee, you had to bring them into the breeding center and let them do their business. So, that's why he was here today. In the breeding center with two of the orbaru. He brought one with an orb and one without, like he was supposed it. It was sort of interesting to him how the ones without orbs had faded colors while the ones with orbs seemed to be brighter and more vibrant. It begged the question of whether that was just a sexual dimorphism thing or if the orbs had something to do with it. It was probably just the orbs.
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Post by Kadin on Sept 26, 2020 17:33:14 GMT -6
Knowing this place? Everything was probably tied in with the 'orbs' for the ORBaru.
Kadin went up to the counter, the orbaru in his arms, and filled out the forms he needed to fill out. The creatures were soft and lightly furred. It was easy to forget he was carrying them, too, they were so small and docile. Once the form was filled and handed off, he was lead back to a new room, one probably designed for the orbaru. It was very familiar, similar to the one he'd been in with pachee. There were soft toys and bouncy balls, blankets to cuddle and play in and chairs or bean bags for the humans. The one main difference was that there were less vertical places for them to climb. They probably did less climbing than pachee did, what with the pachee's little paws just meant to grab and moved around. The orbaru seemed like they'd work better hopping from one place to another, running around the ground and snuggling on the toys. Curious what they'd do in a room like this, Kadin let them down and went over to sit in a bean bag chair. He might get a quick nap in while he was here.
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Post by Kadin on Sept 26, 2020 17:36:43 GMT -6
It's not like the orbaru needed his help. In fact, he was only here to supervise and make sure they didn't hurt themselves. He didn't actually want to watch what they got up to, if they got up to what they were supposed to get up to. anyway.
The red one with the orb on its tail made a beeline straight for the toys. It seemed fascinated with them, jumping into the piled with a delighted squeak and rolling from the toys onto a soft blanket nearby. It grabbed what was probably the biggest teddy bear it could find and tried to stand it up with, squeaking away in what sounded like delight but might also be frustration.
The other one, the green and purple, toddled over to where Kadin had sat down. This one didn't have an orb and, if what he read was true, that meant it was a female. She put her tiny paws onto the bean bag chair and pulled herself up, slowly. They really weren't built much for climbing, but Kadin didn't want to just help her when she seemed so determined to do it herself, legs kicking out behind her as she struggled to bring herself up into the chair.
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Post by Kadin on Sept 26, 2020 17:39:31 GMT -6
After some struggle and a near fall that Kadin subtly helped her with, trying not to make it seem like he was helping her, she managed to pull herself up and crawl into his lap. She snuggled up, curled up, and cheeped happily at him as she closed her eyes, looking for all the world that she was going to take a nap. Now, that had been Kadin's idea. But the whole idea was that he napped why the orbaru got to know each other. That wouldn't work out too well of one of them was napping with him the whole time.
So, with a sigh, Kadin started to pet the orbaru. She trilled and purred under his hand. He made as if to pick her up to get her off, but at the last minute he just couldn't do it. She seemed so comfortable curled up there and he didn't want to disturb her. Instead, he figured he might be able to tempt the male over and maybe they could at least nap together. That would count towards them bonding, right? He waved at the red orbaru, trying to get his attention where it was all the way across the room.
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Post by Kadin on Sept 26, 2020 18:18:14 GMT -6
Of course, the other orbaru was pretty wrapped up in what he was doing. He was still trying to pick up that damn teddy bear, but the toy was slightly bigger than he was so he was having one hell of a time with it. Kadin watched as he sort of hugged it to its chest, struggled to its feet, then fell over. Then it just struggled back up, took another step, and fell over again. At least he was trying to come in their direction. It was almost as if this was his plan all along, to bring the giant teddy bear over so they could all have a group nap.
Kadin smiled and shook his head at the idea. He was still pretty damn sure that was NOT what this room was for, but it was up to the orbaru to decide how they used it. He was just here to be the adult supervision to their shenanigans. Eventually, the male did manage to make it over. He dropped the teddy bear by Kadin's feet and looked up with big, wide eyes. Apparently he had just realized that he'd have to somehow get the teddy bear up onto the chair.
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Post by Kadin on Sept 30, 2020 11:18:01 GMT -6
The male orbaru looked up and up and up, unsure how it was going to get all the way up onto the human's lap. Especially when it was trying to carry a toy as big as it was! Hmmm. It held the toy tightly in this paws and tried bounding on its hind feet a few times, falling into the human's leg with a soft huff. That didn't work! It would have to try something else. Considering for a moment, it tried to push the toy up and up and up onto the human's lap! But its arms were so short! It couldn't get the toy onto the human's lap with such short arms! It just kept falling down and it squeaking in distress, not knowing what to do next.
Kadin, meanwhile, was sitting there with the female orbaru in his lap and just watching, curious what the male might try next. He seemed really determined to get the toy up there. He wasn't sure if he should help it or if it just needed to do this itself, so instead of helping he just watched for now. It was fascinating how a creature so simply could be so determined to to something so pointless?
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Post by Kadin on Sept 30, 2020 11:20:48 GMT -6
The female was still dozing peacefully. She stirred now and then, yawning cutely, before curling up again and snuggling against the human. He was so big and warm! It was easy to take a nap when there was so much space to do it! And it didn't even matter that she didn't know him that well, she trusted him! He was nice, she could tell. That's why she trusted him so much to take a nap with him! Although he wasn't sleeping... that disturbed her own sleep a bit, to be honest. So did all the commotion going on over there!
The male tried to get the toy onto Kadin's lap again. It reached up and up and up as high as its little arms could go! But the toy just fell back down. Again. With a distressed squeak, the orbaru bounced around in a circle, thumping its feet on the ground and pouting. The human seemed to be rolling his eyes at it which made it even more upset! But it wasn't as bad when the human held out a hand and made a grabbing motion. Oh! Was it going to help? That was nice of it! Maybe this would work!
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Post by Kadin on Sept 30, 2020 11:23:33 GMT -6
The orbaru quickly picked up the toy and pushed it towards the human, holding it up as far as it possibly could without dropping it! It was sure to work this time!
Kadin tried not to roll his eyes at the orbaru's enthusiasm. It was such a simply creature, but at least it was happy about whatever the fuck it was doing. He picked up the toy from where it was holding it out, his other arm still wrapped around the dozing female, and he placed the toy next to him in the chair. They'd need the space if the orbaru wanted to get up here, too. There wouldn't be space for it to climb up if the toy was on his lap.
The female stirred and blinked open her eyes, disturbed by all the motion around her. She let out an inquisitive squeak and looked around. Oh! There was the red one down there on the floor. And oh! There was a toy up here now! She squeaked again, in delight this time, and picked up her head and arms to make grabby motions at the toy. She wanted it! She wanted it right now! It was for her, wasn't it?
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Post by Kadin on Sept 30, 2020 11:28:09 GMT -6
That's why it was up there! But no matter how many grabby motions she made it seemed like everyone was ignoring her! She squeaked again in distress, wanting the toy so bad! It was so close yet so far away!
Meanwhile, the male wagged his tail back and forth happily once the toy was on its proper place. Next, he needed to get up there, too! He wanted group snuggles! He placed his paws on Kadin's knees and tried to pull himself but, but he couldn't! He kicked and kicked with his back legs to try and propel himself up, but he still couldn't do it! He looked up at the human with big, big eyes and made soft, pitiful noises of distress. He needed help! It was hard to get all the way up there on his own! He couldn't get the toy up, surely the human saw that he needed help getting up, too?
Kadin was strongly resisting the urge to roll his eyes. Again. He had an orbaru on one side pouting because he didn't give it a toy right away. He had an orbaru on the other side pouting because he wasn't picking it up fast enough.
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Post by Kadin on Sept 30, 2020 11:30:51 GMT -6
Seriously, did these guys need help with absolutely anything? It seemed like they couldn't do anything for themselves. All they were good at was standing around and looking cute. Kadin wasn't sure if they were quite his style... But, then again, they WERE very cute. It never hurt to have cute things around. Maybe one day he'd find someone who wanted to buy them all just because they were so cute.... Ah, but right. He needed to help these helpless lumps before they pitched even worse fits. First, he reached down to pick the male up. The orbaru scrambled against his legs and arm until he was happily sitting in his lap, chirping and cooing happily. Next, he grabbed the toy and set it between the two orbaru. He was pretty sure that the both of them would want it, if only to cuddle with it, and placing it closer to one than the other would only be a recipe for disaster. All that done, he watched the orbaru to see what they would do next. And also to see if his predictions would be right. He really hoped they didn't decide they wanted to spend all the rest of their time here just sitting on him.
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Post by Kadin on Oct 8, 2020 7:50:26 GMT -6
The female did NOT want the male up here instead of the toy! She chirped in distress, cuddling closer against Kadin's body to get further away from the male. She wanted the toy and she didn't want to share it! She wanted to be up here with Kadin and she didn't want to share him, either! This was unfair! She continued chirping unhappily to herself, displeased with what was happening, until the human picked up the toy and place it between the two of them. Oh! Well, this was acceptable! Now chirping happily, she cuddled up to the toy, wrapping her arms around it as best she possibly could. Yes! This was exactly what she had wanted! Oh she was so pleased to have it!
The male, meanwhile, had settled in comfortably next to Kadin. He was happily chirping away, apparently not even noticing the female's distress. He was too caught up in being excited! He was finally up here, with his toy and everything! It was looking up! This was exactly what he'd wanted to happen! He cuddled into Kadin, cheeping and chirping happily about everything that was happening, pleased that he'd made the decision to bring the toy all the way over here.
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Post by Kadin on Oct 8, 2020 7:53:54 GMT -6
Even though it was hard! He'd still done it and it had paid off! Because now Kadin was picking up his toy, his prize, everything he had worked for, and putting it down between the two of them! He chirped happily, even more pleased when he saw the female curling up with it. It WAS a good toy. It was the BEST toy. And he had found it! It was all thanks to him! He also curled up with it, pleased with himself and everyone's reactions, even though he seemed absolutely awful at reading them.
Kadin stared down at his lap, resigned. This was exactly what he hadn't wanted to happy. But. Apparently. It was happening. Both orbaru seemed comfortable and content, curled up on his lap without a care in the world. He leaned back in his chair, resigned to being stuck sitting here for however much longer he had to be here. The orbaru were both cuddled up around the toy and showed no sign or inclination of wanting to move any time soon. Kadin figured that he best settle himself in for the long haul because that was it was looking like so far. At least they were happy?
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Post by Kadin on Oct 8, 2020 7:56:55 GMT -6
The female looked up, puzzled when there was a shifting and a slight tugging to her toy. She cheeped in distress when she noticed that the male was curled up on the other side of it! This wasn't what she'd wanted! This toy was HER'S now! The human had picked it up and now it was her's! And only she and the human should get to cuddle with it, not random males that she didn't even want to play with! She growled (cutely) at the male, tugging at the toy and trying to bring it closer to her side. This was HER'S and she didn't want to share it!
The male looked up, puzzled, when the toy shifted away from him. He was still holding onto it so he was dragged a little, too, which was what really caught his attention. Imagine his surprised when he noticed that the female was GROWLING at him. What? What was happening? He cheeped at her in confusing, still holding onto the toy. He had brought it here, after all! It was his, basically. He didn't have to share it with her! But now she was growling at him over it? Well. That was strange.
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Post by Kadin on Oct 8, 2020 8:00:03 GMT -6
He was glad that she liked it so much but didn't she realize that it wouldn't be here to begin with if he hadn't brought it over? He chirped his distress, holding onto the toy tightly, and directed big eyes towards the female. He was a little scared!
Kadin watched all of this with resignation. So. Now, not only were there two orbaru in his lap, but there were two fighting orbaru in his lap. He'd put the toy between them in the hopes that this wouldn't happen, but it seemed like it was happening anyway. They both wanted the toy. The female, especially, did not want to share the toy. The male took offense to that. Kadin wondered if there was a way to gently dump them off his lap before this escalated even further. He did NOT want them there if they started really going at it.
The female growled again (even more cutely) at the male. She did NOT want to share! Why couldn't he understand that? She tugged harder on the toy, pulling it closer to her side. She was practically on top of it at this point, as if she could block the male from getting to the toy with her body.
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