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[bonding_moment]

[The video starts off centered on a dark-haired teen boy, but the real star of the show can just be seen in the bottom left of the screen. The white forepaw of a robotic lion—lion sized rather than a giant spaceship sized behemoth—is pawing at his sleeve for attention.

Keith is trying valiantly to ignore it while it picks threads loose from his shirt.]

Hello, I'm— [Whatever he might have had to say is cut short when a second robotic lion, this one blue and white, pulls itself up on the back of his chair and drops its chin right on top of his head. Maybe it's looking at the screen? Still, Keith is determined to finish this.]

I'm...Keith Kogane. I wanted to ask if it's normal for—[The first lion, red and white, stubbornly pushes its head under Keith's hand. Someone off screen laughs and makes a muffled comment, and Keith shoots a sharp look at whoever it is.] To ask if it's normal for things that came with you from home to change in size. Or other ways. Thank you.

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[thepalinpaladin]

[Absolutely NOT communicating via video. Instead he's hovering the the background and laughing like an asshole. He COULD move his lion but. Why do that. And touching Keith's lion? Nope. That ain't happening.

He will give the blue lion an affectionate pat on the head though. Good job annoying Keith!]

Whatever the case I'm both appalled and delighted.

[bonding_moment]

[This is why we can never be friends!!!]

Can you make Blue get off of me now?

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[dendarii]

Oh, yes. I used to be six feet tall. Not any more.

[bonding_moment]

Wait—really?

[thepalinpaladin]

The quiznak? But you're so. Mmm.

I'm sorry for your loss?

[....starts looking himself up and down I'M THE RIGHT SIZE RIGHT? RIGHT??]

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[rassera]

That's a little personal, isn't it?

[Sorry Keith. You get a shithead from day 1]

[bonding_moment]

[Unfortunately Keith is far too dense to catch jokes that aren't laid out with diagrams. Lance will have to pick up his slack here.]

Is it...?

[thepalinpaladin]

Yeaaaah. He had no idea how that sounded at all.

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[deadtective]

Nah, it's just things that are cat-shaped.

[speaking of shitheads from day one...]

[bonding_moment]

Why wouflfdddddddddddd

sorry cat

Why just cat things??

[thepalinpaladin]

Oddly specific.

I hope this means somewhere out there someone has a twenty foot long housecat.

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[bindsthedead]

Well, not to my knowledge? Although some people find their powers altered, instead of just getting new ones or keeping what they had.

[bonding_moment]

I guess that's kind of like robots changing size...

[thepalinpaladin]

Did that happen to you? A power altered?

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[heroforhobby]

Nothing like that happened to me. Why? You're clothes feeling tight or something?

[Sure, he sees mecha lions, but why would he be led to think they were of different size.]

[bonding_moment]

If it was just clothes we'd get new ones.

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[burnmetwice]

Uuuuh just out of curiosity how big were your ROBOTIC LIONS before?

[bonding_moment]

A couple of stories tall.

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[hooffaceturn]

[SHE'S NO FLUTTERSHY BUT STILL strange creatures are going to ping her because they seem to be magical.

for some reason they remind her vaguely of timberwolves.]

Are those...lions?

[thepalinpaladin]

Well they're not kittens.

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[overanalytically]

I believe "other ways" may be a more appropriate distinction than only being limited to an alteration in size, though I have not personally experienced such phenomenon.

[thepalinpaladin]

Huh.

[Distracted by those ears.]

You're not an Altean, are you? You don't have the.

[Gestures at face briefly.]

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[sentielemental]

I don't know about anything shrinking just coming here, but I can't say I've had much with me when I did to know. [But that's not the more important part here.] Is that...a robot cat? Like those robo-pets people buy their kids instead of real ones?

[He's only read a little about them since they were out-dated pop culture by the time he was catching up.]

[thepalinpaladin]

Lions. They're robotic lions and they're what shrank. We use to PILOT these.

Now they're like spoiled housecats.

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[protects_the_small]

No, he's still quite the same. Some people get all the luck.

[thepalinpaladin]

Who are you imagining fitting into your pocket?

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[fuckinstoplights]

... What is that?

[thepalinpaladin]

............................uh

Uh.

UH

What. Do you mean.

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[penthesileia]

...are your cats supposed to be robots?

[bonding_moment]

Yes. Them being robots isn't what's strange; it's the fact that they're a few hundred times smaller than what they should be.

[heart_wrenching]

Robot lion. Robot lions!!

[bonding_moment]

Um. Yes.

They're supposed to be a lot bigger.

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[alreadywon]

[Is that a robot lion. Is that a robot lion.]

What size did it used to be?

[thepalinpaladin]

When it's at its full size I'm about the height of one if its teeth? Give or take a foot.