[Video+Action, post moon-warp]

[wereperrito]

Hello all!

This is Jack, from my little nook in the convoy where I make and repair clothes.

[He smiles at the camera, showing off the fluffy little fox ears he is now sporting instead of regular ears, and the white streaks in his blue-gray hair, then turns his radio device around to show the little shop. It is, frankly, less like a shop and more like a workspace, with fabric in cabinets on the walls and a pair of tables and some chairs, with more fabric strewn across them, some in good condition and some in less-good condition.]

I just wanted all of our new people to know that if the moon warp ruined your clothes, I can probably help. I have mostly figured out trousers, I think, and I am still working on proper shirts, though I can make, um, cloaks and drapes and things.

[He sets the camera down on one of the tables, and sits down to face it.]

I did want to, er, also tell everyone something else. I know we are all... changing. Into something we might call monsters, some of us. I just wanted to say I was a monster before I came here. Not a-- not a bad person, no, not a cruel person, but a werewolf. I turn into a beast once a month on the full moon, like moon warps here.

So. So I just wanted everyone to know, I have done this before. This changing, this becoming something else for a time. I don't know if it will help anyone, but if it can-- I wanted everyone to know.

[He has "come out" piecemeal to various people, here and there, and it's gone well. But now he's doing it to everyone, to people he's never talked to. It's a little scary, but he's doing it.

And now that he's done it, he hesitates, then fumbles for the radio to turn it off without further comment.

He will be available in his shop most evenings, for people to come by to get clothing repaired or measured for, or for people to ask questions, and of course he's around the convoy or in his van during the day when they're on the move.]

Comments

I liveeee

[discolouredwings]

She partitally entered the room, then paused. Staring at his...tails. Because, well, she too had multiple red-tipped fox tails drifting behind her. Only two, but that was two too many and they felt off. It would have been nice to meet someone turning into the same thing she was a few months ago.

Natsuhi was a dour woman, his smile wasn't returned. She just lowered her head in a small bow before entering. Almost seeming to hesitate.

She was just going to look around at the items that were out, unsure of what to say.

Re: I liveeee

[wereperrito]

Jack notes hers and quirks another smile, despite her lack of a returned one. "It looks like you are a little like me," he comments. "I know that it must be difficult for everyone, changing like this. Are you doing all right with it?" It's the whole reason he shared his own history, to make everyone know he was here to help, since he's much less disturbed than most of them.

Then again, he's also getting cute fox changes, not creepy undead changes, like some people.

[discolouredwings]

"It's been a challenge. Though compared to others, I can't complain." Natsuhi wouldn't consider her changes cute. She still wasn't sure if she could let her family see her like this. But considering some people were walking corpses and others were a mish-mash of parts, she'd consider herself lucky.

She stopped examining to look at him.

"You said you turned into an animal before this?"

[wereperrito]

"A couple of times, yes," Jack nods. "During the storms last month. It was inconvenient and I got rather over-excited during the change, though I was not dangerous unless you count reckless behavior. I have not changed into that during the moon warp, as I do the werewolf thing then." He heaves a little sigh. "I cannot do either of my changes on purpose, which seems rather unfair."

[discolouredwings]

She was frowning as she listened. The moon? She'd been fortunate there, she'd gotten the odd extra changes but those had vanished on their own later.

"I've turned into a fox fully a few times. I'm not sure of the cause but I've worked out how to change back when it happens."

[wereperrito]

"Oh, good. I was stuck like that until the storm passed, being able to change back on your own is much better," Jack says. "What was happening the times you did change? Maybe there is something in common between them."

He pauses, then adds, "If you do not mind sharing, that is. You certainly don't have to." They'd only just met, after all, and he knows he is more eager to talk about things than many other people here.