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Zoo Meme

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Pick a Prompt and Tag! (OR pick a prompt in your top level! Drop your character’s favorite animal maybe!)

Thread your shenanigans!

Aquarium - You think any of those fish ever eat eachother?

General Exhibits - Lions and tigers and bears...and birds and snakes and…

Petting Zoo - They’re cute until you get bitten on the ass.

Safari Park - The drive through and up close experience.

Gift Shop - Get a t-shirt with a hippo on it! Or a pen case with a hippo on it!

Wildcard - Something else! Something stupid? ~~Please don’t climb in the enclosures~~

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[He's standing in front of one of the exhibits featuring a large predator like a wolf or a lion. He's staying very still and it appears the creature is interested in him, creeping closer as they keep their eyes on him. It's quite the meeting of minds going on right here.]

[Pauline is excitably looking around a reptile exhibit. Smiling broadly, she crouches down to look at a large snake as she tilts this way and that while snapping multiple photos.]

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Edited 2026-01-22 08:05 (UTC)

[soundy is here for the elephants]

[Legally obligated to hit this up. He'll have been watching pandas for over an hour now.]

Edited 2026-01-22 07:55 (UTC)

[Also here with him, because that's what besties DO.]

[Although Lucifer's demons instincts are lowkey screaming at him to set everything free to watch the rampage, but no... no... most of these animals wouldn't do better with that anyway.]

They also have peacocks. Have you ever seen one before?

[He's spent the last ten minutes glancing from the pandas. To Lucifer. Glances back at the pandas if he catches him looking. Generally looks a little nervous, like he's building up to something.]

They are beautiful creatures... Though between them and the shoebill, I usually only visit the aviary for a short while.

[Peacocks screaming while the shoebill clacks and it sounds like a massacre if they're in a mood.]

[But! Be brave. Just say it! He won't feel right moving on if he doesn't say it. Lucifer deserves to be told good things about him! He's undervalued, and his value needs to be plainly shown to him.]

That panda looks like you. [He points at the one he means. It's been kicking a younger panda off its little podium on and off for the last half hour. Younger panda seems to delight in this reaction and keeps coming back for more chaos after it rolls away. Lucifer-panda is so obviously sick of this and wants to enjoy his apple treat.]

[He laughs, he's been fond of the shoebill since the dinosaur days, it's seriously leftover, but yeah the noise is more than something the General gets enough of at work.]

[alsk;djalkdsjalksjdalsdkj]

[He's stunned, in that same kind of way when Diavolo compliments him, but he likes this one better. ~~No one tell the prince!!!!~~ Because that panda is SO FED UP, and the other panda is just like his brothers, does not stop.]

[So he can't stop laughing now.] It is.

I don't think anyone's ever compared me to a panda before. [DEFINITELY NOT. Usually peacock, bats, T-Rexes, wolves, etc.]

Ah, we have to find one like you now!

...

[He considers it, and as much as he loves watching the pandas, he has kept Lucifer here for a while. He watches Lucifer panda petulantly put his paw on the little panda's head to keep him from getting back up beside him, one last little display, before.]

Actually, let's go to the aviary. I doubt I share many characteristics with peacocks [as he exists in grayscale in any mode] but surely there's a bird in there that'll remind you of me.

I will show the shoebill some grace for being good with his keepers. [He bows like a gentleman! Even if he sounds like a machine gun.]

[Grins.] Only for a second, I have a better idea.

[The aquarium! PENGUINS!]

[Also black and white!]

[And Lucifer even pulls a bunch of videos up and links them.] A couple years back, Father sent a plague to Earth to try to fix some stuff. I know. How does a plague fix things? Don't ask, he's always like that.

But look! The penguins get full reign! [And he's enthusiastic heading over to the penguin area to try to find the kind of the penguins that all the others clearly respect even if in their own WEIRD ways.]

That one. [The biggest, and first to the snacks and vitamins, polite, yet completely willing to shove the annoying ones into the water.]

[Oh yeah, Lucifer's proud of himself.] Oh look, his favorite treat is ice cream.

[His eyes widen even as he's looking at the first video. He's not wrong! He is a penguin. Especially with the beak to match his big nose, its adequately fierce little face very much in line with his. And it's so elegant in the water, the surface version a pale comparison to its true self!]

[He looks up from the second video to follow Lucifer over towards the penguins. What a good friend he is to compare him to a penguin! Best friend!]

[Wait....]

I know people who recommend plagues but my main argument about it is the consequences are always messy. The process of rebuilding is so much harder. Though personally, I couldn't stomach the idea of people just having to sit around sick and alone.

[He won't be satisfied in killing off humanity unless he can make it quick and painless and even then he needs everyone to be ready to immediately pick up the pieces- While it is sort of an overwhelming leadership role, he should try to just take them over. He'd carry that responsibility rather than having to kill them off. Doesn't he have a big, generous heart?]

[A person passing by blinks at them but keeps going because what the hell conversation did they just pass by?]

Again. Seeing plagues as a solution to a problem says a lot about what your father put into humanity.

[While he's distracted by the pandas, a certain blue-haired teenager meanders over to watch them with him. She recognizes his disguise from the hospital.]

[He's practically in a fugue state of delight as the creatures topple and tumble over each other, or laze elegantly in the sun. What stark little fluffy wonders they are! Powerfully crushing jaws just indulging in their bamboo treats.]

[He sees blue out of the corner of his eye and startles so hard his hair bounces a little.]

Oh. Hello.

Did you get the day off?

[He sounds a little hopeful on that, the word 'ceasefire!' waiting in the chamber to deploy as needed.]

Not just the day. I'm taking a leave of absence from my work as a magical girl. Time to recover and look for a team to join so I'm not fighting alone.

[She sounds guilty about needing a break.]

Good. We informed the city we'd also be fighting the monsters as we came across them. [Well... Rooney did. In a very, 'We're doing it because we don't want to find dead children on our turf' kind of way.]

[So there's still monsters dying, and she helped indirectly.]

...Do you want a crepe? [Because he's going to go get a crepe. She can come if she wants and he'll get her one.]

[OTA gen, anything more serious 20+ OTA. Castmates (especially JINUS and her girls), crosscanon, crossmedium, assumed CR, AUs, OCs etc all always welcome. Won't be going to anywhere with snakes or spiders in there since the player can't/won't do that.]

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[Take him to the zoo. He will try to pet all the animals.]

[He has to see the peacocks. And slap his own hands to resist the urge for chaos. Demon temptations. It's a thing.]

Ehhhh chimeras?

No wait, that's a regular lion.

[He has also has to get like 8 or 9 gift shop souvenirs.... It's a thing. Not all of his brothers deserve it, but still, generally.]

[Usually found watching the animals quietly or covered in tiny animals in the petting zoo.]

[How about an AU where your character realizes one of the wolves in the exhibit isn't exactly a normal wolf? Wanna jailbreak a werewolf in an awkward situation?]

...

[something...something's not right, is it? or is Joey just imagining things. it's not like he's an animal expert or anything, but...

hm.

HM!!!

he folds his arms on the railing of the viewing area, leaning forward a bit as lanky teens are apt to do, squinting, watching the wolf exhibit. maybe he just misinterpreted it?]

[The other wolves in this exhibit know that this one doesn't belong; it's clear from the nipping and growling that he's on the outs. But there's also something in how he looks at the visitors to the zoo, tail tucked, like he's embarrassed by being watched, far more aware, more cognizant of being on display than all the others.]

[Oh, no...the poor guy! Girl? How do you tell what a wolf is? oh, well.

Joey watches, wincing a little at some of the biting that definitely isn't play fighting. briefly, he looks around to see if anyone else is picking up these vibes, but aside from busy chaperones trying to herd gradeschoolers along to stay on schedule, no one's really paying much heed.

he chews on his lip, looking back at the animals, worrying on what he can do. maybe call a keeper...?

next time he sees one of the other wolves gearing up to lunge, he bites down on his lip and lets out a shrill whistle to startle them out of stance.]

[The wolf that's the target of these attacks uses that startle as a distraction to allow himself a chance to slip away from the rest, trying to buy space, to find peace. But there's a clear look directly at Joey, giving him a nod of thanks.

...that's not wolflike at all.]

[No way!!

there was no missing it, even when Joey had to wave and smile apologetically at a chaperone for startling some of the kids as they're being ferried away, he still has time to look back and see it.

for a second, he's almost convinced it's Beast Boy, just...not green.

but what other answer could it be? a magician?

now that there's fewer people around, Joey crouches down, propping his arms on his knees to obscure his gestures as he takes a stab at communicating. if it doesn't work out, then it's just...a teen making hand signs at animals for no reason! normal. normal normal.]

Can you understand me?

[Unfortunately, Van never learned sign language. But he recognizes an attempt to communicate, watching closely, his ears perked up attentively.]

[it's...not concrete proof, not entirely. but what wild animal is going to have such rapt attention on a stranger like this? a foodless stranger!

This is weird...

Oh! Wait! Duh!

he could slap himself, but...but instead, he digs into his backpack and pulls out his sketchbook (he did come here to draw animals, after all!), flipping to a clean page and penciling out the same question, holding it out:]

Can you read this?

[This, he can understand clearly, and he nods with ears and tail perking. Yes, he can read it; yes, he can understand it. It's scary and exciting both, having someone recognize him as a person for the first time in forever.]

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!!

[a wolf nodding is so uncanny, but it's very clear. Joey's eyes can't get any bigger, blinking a few times just to be sure.

after a stunned beat, he licks his lips, turning the paper back to himself to scratch out that line and add a new one:]

Are you like Beast Boy?

[Oh, that's a complicated question, isn't it? He shifts forms, like the superhero, but he is much more limited in scope. And he's no hero, not like one of the Teen Titans. Van shakes his head, eventually.]

[Hmm...

Joey considers that, drumming his pencil on the binding of the sketchbook. so many questions! was he an alien? a sorcerer? a scientist whose experiment went wrong?!?!

...

maybe not as important as being in an exhibit with a bunch of animals that are clearly snubbing him.

and what kind of hero would Joey -- sorry, Jericho -- be if he didn't lend a hand?]

Do you need help?

[Have you ever seen a wolf, a full grown wolf, do puppy dog eyes like a beagle begging for a bite of your hamburger? Because that is totally the response that that question gets.]

!!

[Joey perks up, galvanized. time for action!

...

but!

what...do!

he is struck idle as he goes through a bunch of thoughts. This'd be so much easier if we could both communicate! But--]

...

[...

I...I could...I mean, there is...

he hesitates, looking wary suddenly, and takes a bit longer to write out a reply than before. it's wordy:]

If you let me I can talk with you But it'd have to be in your head I'd have to be there too Is that OK?

[ Former goat demon is, unsurprisingly, at the petting zoo, stoically feeding lettuce and apple slices to goats. ]

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Zoo Meme

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Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter | MCU

Pauline Bonheur | OC | OTA

soundwave | transformers idw | ota

The General / Mr. Villain's Day Off

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Rumi | KPop Demon Hunters | OTA

The Creature | Del Toro's Frankenstein | OTA20+

Lucifer Morningstar | Obey Me | OTA

Duster | Mother 3 | OTA

Cervantes 'Van' Grayson - Werewolf OC - OTA

insanely good username btw

why, thank you!

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My limited wolf icons are killing me, lol.

all g i have like 6 icons...we use our imaginations 💪

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