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WILD THING YOU MAKE MY HEART SING

Who: Whoever!
What: Catch-all log for Animel Shenanigans
When: All week, June 28th - July whenever
Where: All over the place
Warnings: Animels

((HERE BY POPULAR DEMAND...a catch-all log for any and all body horror week shenanigans. Feel free to use this log for whatever you desire. Want to thread out your dude's transformation? This log is for you. Want to thread out your dude coping with being an entirely different species? This log is also for you. Want your dude to run around being a wild animel? You guessed it--this log is for you. Just remember to label all of your threads with location/date and TAG YOUR DUDES.))

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Aoi had found the lake--now it was time to find the pool.

There had been some getting herself situated in the interim, of course. She'd showered (oh god a real shower), unpacked, and found out that people she previously thought were dead...were not so dead.

That was incredibly hard to swallow, and when Aoi found things hard to swallow, she went for a swim. And she'd been meaning to find the athletic facilities anyway, so this was really like killing two birds with one stone.

The sports center was impressive, that was for sure, and she felt a load taken off her mind just looking at it. Here would be the perfect place to work off all the worries she'd accumulated since arriving at the school.

It would be great, and there would be no monsters at all.

None whatsoever. Uhh... except for that ~~mystical hovering sparkle~~ giant imposing mole creature standing over there blocking the entrance. He'd sensed Aoi's approach and tunneled his way through at lightning speed to pop out of the ground and fiercely guard the front doors. Aoi, of course, had been there to witness this furry brown sentinel emerge.

Mondo did not have a proper grasp of his common sense, which was a huge shame, because he would be so furious with himself if he could see what he was doing now. He could barely control his rabid and territorial impulses, or even his thirst for blood. Had he more sense about him, he would have been beside himself with Aoi's arrival and grateful to see her sunny smile again, this time in a place less dismal than Hope's Peak. But that was not the case. Mondo "Mole" could feel a pang of familiarity based on sensory input alone, but it was fleeting and felt more like a question than a solid fact, and it wasn't enough to steel him from the potential of attacking. It did, however, hold him back. Her being a girl also helped to prevent him from being outright aggressive because some traits just don't leave a man, even when he's a mole.

In the end, it didn't matter who was trespassing. After his transformation, his main priority was making sure no one set foot inside the sauna room. ~~One of the Eight Melodies was located there and it was the melodious sound of an endurance contest between two men~~

Things Aoi did not expect at the athletic center: that.

Luckily, she'd spoken to several sentient, talking animals since arriving, so her first instinct is not to scream and run for it, rather, she assumed that this giant mole guy was just another student or faculty member. Maybe she needed to show an ID to get into the athletic center?

"Um...hello!"

She tried to be cheerful in the face of a giant mole-thing with a pompadour.

A giant mole-thing with a pompadour?

"I'm looking for the pool, is that...here?"

Mondo could not communicate with Aoi, as she was neither psychic, could talk to animals, nor a fellow mole. Hearing her voice had an effect on him that was even more placating than her sudden presence. Well, placating until he realized the shit he might do to her out of this ridiculously irresistible impulse to guard sanctuaries and also tear people apart.

He did not want to tear Aoi apart.

The beast in him did. He clacked his claws together and lifted his snout, peeling his jowl away to show her jagged sharp teeth. Please don't mess with something like this, the remaining strip of his sanity pleaded. He had no idea how or when he was going to lose himself to mindless mole madness. This was not how he wanted their reunion to go!

Oookay this was

slightly uncomfortable.

But there was a pool at stake, so Aoi wasn't about to be deterred. Maybe he just didn't want to talk?

"Um, okay. I'll just...go straight through here to the pool, is that all right?"

Fuck no, that was not all right!! How in the world was she not scared of him yet?! Was she just stupid or too gutsy for her own good? He'd think a towering beastly mole with sharp claws and teeth and bloodstains on its fur would be enough to make a girl like her run away screaming! This was making things complicated...

She just kept encroaching on his space, and it was driving the base of his brain up the wall. The necessity to guard this place from intruders was on par with how badly he felt the need to guard his secret back then, only this time it was all charged with pure animalistic drives, and for a cause abysmally more meaningless to him if he had the capacity to step back and analyze. But he couldn't somehow convince himself it was meaningless when the urge overwhelmed him like this, kind of like how he couldn't shut off the need to take a piss or collapse from sleep deprivation. Last thing he wanted was Aoi Asahina to become a second Chihiro Fujisaki.

In a protective frenzy, he lunged for her. Run. Run!!

ABORT

ABORT

Even Aoi knew that when the giant monster with lots of teeth lunged at you, the conversation is over. Maybe this wasn't a student or faculty member after all--maybe it was just a monster.

Aoi let out a yelp, scrambling out of the way and trying to put some distance between herself and it.

"Wait! Don't! I'm not going to hurt you!"

But I'm going to hurt YOU! his mind screamed.

Oh god, this was really happening, he was barreling for the swimmer and she wasn't fast enough and this was it for her, he was going to have ~~pink~~ red staining his claws and a dead girl on the ground. What fueled his charge had been blinding savagery, the intent to kill burning. It guided him all the way to where he was now, having knocked her over with a headbutt, poising a claw above her to strike-

he struck, but the points did not pierce her. Instead, on each side of her neck, they pegged the ground, the rest of the claws splayed out harmlessly. The mole trembled there, unable to move.

Aoi hit the ground and was instantly winded, everything happening too fast for her to even register. She was down, and the monster was on top of her, and any second now it would strike and end her.

But the end didn't come, and she managed to open one eye to find what seemed to be a conflict of interests playing out before her very eyes. She knew that communicating with this thing was probably pointless, but trapped beneath it as she was, Aoi couldn't think of anything else to do as she tried to extricate herself.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry, I'll leave you alone, just don't--"

Even as a bloodthirsty mole, Aoi's tears ~~were magical~~ were enough to reach his human heart. Stirred by her plea for life, Mondo ripped his claws from the earth and backed off slowly. His inner hope was that she would escape quickly and never look back, before his impulses took control again.

Aoi didn't need to be told twice to book it out of there, scrambling out from underneath the monster and sprinting away as fast as she possibly could.

UNTIL NEXT TIME, CRAZY MOLE.

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WILD THING YOU MAKE MY HEART SING

we can't stop here this is mondo country

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