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[ IT GOES PINKER. reaches up and just. covers the pink part with his hand. ]

W-well, it changes to orange when I'm mad but um. Sometimes it also changes colors if I get, um, like, flustered or whatever. I-it's fine, it'll go back to normal in a bit.

Edited 2024-05-01 10:53 (UTC)

You're blushing.

I-it's not a 1:1 thing!

[ sorry kevin has no idea how to cope with people blushing in his vicinity. this is genuine curiosity. ]

Then why else does it happen?

I-it happens if I get praised too much or like well actually it happens if I get praised at all a-and it happens when people are nice or neutral about stuff that people are usually mean about b-but BLUSHING blushing can also be from embarrassment or humiliation or anger and it doesn't happen then s-so it's not 1:1.

[ oh no. this is really cute actually? dad was never this cute. ]

So it shows your mood, pretty much.

K-kinda... I know it's weird but normally it just stays blue which isn't like NOT weird but it's standard weird s-so it's not like a full mood ring thing...

But it covers the big ones. That counts.

It also gets brighter when I'm excited... and dimmer when I'm bored...

[ hm ]

So if it's dim I should probably shut up and leave, huh.

I-I don't think you're boring though.

Even demigods get boring eventually.

Maybe... b-but, it's not like my attention span is that short either...

...Guess not.

[ he gestures at the. projects?? ]

Looks like you're working on a bunch of stuff.

[ nods!! ]

We've got a bunch of stuff going... um, we're building some drones, like a horse friend for Naythan, and I'm rebuilding one of the devices I use back home and also we're building a communication array satellite to hack into the wolves' signal frequencies and spy on them.

...

Sorry, a satellite?

Yeah! It's the biggest project I've tried since getting here for sure. MAYBE the biggest project I've done in years? One time I did make Pegasus a body that could enter low orbit for a school festival but this is actually meant to stay up there longterm without direct intervention so it's a little different.

—- what’s a school festival?

It's like, an event that a school holds every year because of traditions and stuff. This one was the Star Sending festival where everyone makes a wish on a star piece and then we hang them all on a tree and do a stupid song and dance about it so they'll come true. I got randomly selected to be one of the Star Gazers this year, so Pegasus came along with me... I was gonna phone it in initially but he really wanted it to succeed, so. When the event was gonna be cancelled due to a thunderstorm I made him gear so he could take all the stats directly to space instead.

……

Your - uh - your school sounds like a lot.

It's a school for mages, this much is pretty normal.

Guess I’ve never been to one.

… New Rome also seems like a lot to me, but I don’t think they’ve ever sent a horse to space.

Well, he wasn't a horse at the time. Or named Pegasus to be clear.

… so you just sent a little guy to space instead?

Yeah, he liked it. He had fun. He can tell you about it too.