[OPEN] Batman smells, Robin... came from an egg

[godsandbats]

WHO: Kirk and anyone else
WHEN: In the days after the Winter Solstice eggs have hatched.
WHERE: All over Etraya
WHAT: A Batman and a robin come a-knocking
NOTES\WARNINGS: Please see here for general warnings about Kirk and see here for what your character may notice about him.

Egg-cellent Acting:
The Winter Solstice eggs hatched and Etraya is probably a bit more livelier from that. For one egg recipient, his gift(?) is becoming quite the explorer.

No matter where you are or what time of the day or night it is, you may notice an adorable American robin happily singing near you. Look at him go! He’s hopping around and flying from one perch to another. He’ll even sing to you. However, if you look at him long enough, he then begins to seemingly stumble around, makes a weak tweet or two, and then keels over. Just boom. He’s on his back, his mouth is open, and his legs are sticking up. Oh nooooo. Won’t someone save him?

Not far behind is Kirk in his Batman suit. He had been flying and apparently following after the bird.

If your character reaches the robin before Kirk does, the robin will then miraculously come back to life and act like nothing happened as Kirk comes closer. The robin tweets a greeting to him.

If Kirk reaches the robin before your character does, the robin will spring back to life in his hands. With his cowl and red goggles on, Kirk appears stoic by the robin’s stunt while the robin just happily sings at him.

Either way, what an adorable sidekick this robin is.

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Comments

Egg-cellent Acting

[bigpoofymammoth]

[Just as the robin "dies", he’s approached by another creature. A juvenile Dwarf Sicilian Elephant rushes over to inspect the "corpse" laying down on the ground. As soon as he got close, the robin miraculously sprung back to life, spooking the tiny pachyderm for a brief moment.

Nearby, Manny watches as his smaller companion recovered from the shock and begun to chase after the bird, with little to no success. Out of all things he'd expected to hatch out from the eggs, the mammoth certainly wasn’t expecting a baby dwarf elephant to hatch out from it. But what’s more surprising to him was how quickly he grew over the past couple of days. While the elephant has yet to reach his full size, he’s almost as big as his daughter, Peaches, back home.

Of course, Manny took notice of Kirk's presence as the latter came closer towards the bird. And given the robin's reaction to the man himself, that could only mean one thing.]

I take it you’re the owner of that bird, right?

[godsandbats]

[The robin clearly is having fun playing with the dwarf elephant. He chirps happily at Kirk before attempting to land on the dwarf elephant next]

Yes. It seems he enjoys exploring.

[bigpoofymammoth]

[As the robin lands on the dwarf elephant's back, the latter turns around in circles as he tries to reach out for him with his trunk.]

I can tell. He also seems to like playing around with other creatures.

[godsandbats]

[The robin tweets and flies just out of reach before landing right on the trunk next]

An unusual lack of fear for someone of his species.

[And quite a surprise since the egg he came from wasn't the notable light blue shell robin eggs are known for]

Does your friend mind?

[bigpoofymammoth]

[The dwarf elephant quickly stops as the robin lands on his trunk.]

I’m sure he doesn’t mind. If anything, he seems to enjoy the company.

[godsandbats]

[The robin tweets at the dwarf elephant like it wants to do a friendly chat. Meanwhile, Kirk is mentally noting the animals' behaviors. It's quite unusual]

He's been here long?

[bigpoofymammoth]

[Manny shook his head.]

Not really. He only just hatched from one of those eggs a couple of days ago.

[godsandbats]

[Okay, this place really is screwing around with science. Elephants from eggs?]

At that size?

[bigpoofymammoth]

A lot smaller actually. Seems to grow rather quickly over the past few days.

[godsandbats]

[Interesting. Meanwhile his robin was fully grown within a day or two]

He seems almost full size already.

[bigpoofymammoth]

Yeah, that’s the one thing that surprises me, outside of the fact I got a dwarf elephant from those eggs.

[godsandbats]

What the eggs have seem almost random.

[He has no idea why he would get a robin with such a bizarre behavior]

[bigpoofymammoth]

Yeah, I’m not really surprised if that’s the case. Who knows what the others might have.

[godsandbats]

[The robin plays dead again and this time tries to roll down the trunk]

What is yours like?

[bigpoofymammoth]

[The dwarf elephant seems to be content with letting the robin roll down his trunk.]

He's naturally curious about other creatures and likes to play with them if possible. But at the same time, he can also be rather cautious of anything he perceives to be a threat. As long as you don’t threaten him or anything like that, you should be fine.

[godsandbats]

Hence why he's so comfortable right now.

[The robin chirps a thanks to the dwarf elephant before flying back up on top of his head]