"How, how, HOW do you eat without a mouth?" [open]

[mynameisax.livejournal.com]

Squish. Squelch, squish.

The lack of movement was beginning to get to him. Ax sighed and shifted his weight, causing his serving of the mess hall's food to ooze unpleasantly under his hooves. It was too much like being sick, too much like eating those liquid grass rations kept aboard Andalite ships for those too sick or injured to stand up and graze properly.

There was the grass around the Garibah tree of course, but he wanted to read up more about the tending of that tree and its grass before he even tried that. The last thing he wanted to do was damage the tree. Fortunately (or unfortunately), Stacy had Andalite literature in the Media Center, and Ax had some free time after he finished eating. He hoped that they'd be able to figure a way off of Stacy sooner rather than later, but in the mean time, the Garibah needed care-taking.

Squish.

Ugh.

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[compromise-wolf.livejournal.com]

One-Leaf-Ear trots into the cafeteria, not looking particularly thrilled-she's figured out how to get food, but that doesn't mean she particularly likes it. What she's craving is a carcass, or even mice and voles, not...slop.

All thoughts of food, however, go out the window as soon as she sees Ax. Immediately, she shifts to crinos, bristling as she stands up in preperation for a fight. "Fomor!" she howls, then snarls at Ax, laying her ears back.

[mynameisax.livejournal.com]

Ax immediately tensed, tail arching high over his head in defense.

< I do not know what that means, > he said, watching the...he wasn't entirely sure what it was, but it looked like a cross between a wolf and a Hork-Bajir. < I do not want to fight you. >

He should have modified another Dracon beam and kept it with him, set to 'stun', but he'd gotten used to simply not having that option.

[compromise-wolf.livejournal.com]

The Garou just snarled at him, dropping to all fours so she could pace. "You are a fomor. You are not natural, Wyrmspawn!"

She doesn't take her eyes off Ax, but her ears do twitch, alert for an impending attack from someone else. After all, the apes stopped her when she and Bella tried to kill the leech-would they interfere again?

[pie-bitches.livejournal.com]

So Dean's here to look at him funny, of course. The guy had no mouth, sure, now that Dean thought about it, but. You'd think a dude with a tail like that would eat in a more dignified way.

"Uh, so this is either really weird, really awkward, or both." Dean says, examining the ground and wondering if it's worth it to try and get past.

[mynameisax.livejournal.com]

More dignified? How was eating through his hooves not dignified?

< It is? > Ax asked politely. He'd carried his tray over away from the door and the food spigot before putting it down on the floor so he could eat from it. It shouldn't have been too much of a problem for the others.

[pie-bitches.livejournal.com]

Well, for starters, he's eating with his feet. Don't mind Dean, he was brought up to be rude.

"Yeah. It is." Dean answers, watching the process. "I'm gonna go with really weird, though, because I never thought I'd see a blue horse standing around with his feet in a tray of slop, talking to me with his brain."

It sounds pretty weird when Dean says it like that.

[sniff-my-dust.livejournal.com]

"Okay, I've seen weird things at the X-Mansion. Really weird things. Furry mutants. Mutant skeletons in viscous, jelly bodies. Emma Frost. But this? This takes the cake." Pixie blinks. "And stands in it."

[mynameisax.livejournal.com]

< There is no cake here, > Ax said. < Unfortunately. > He tilted his head to the side. < If I may ask, how did you develop those wings? >

She looked as if she had simply grown a dragonfly's wings and then stopped the morph. It was rather odd.

Yes, Pixie, the blue centaur with no mouth, four eyes, and a tail with a scythe blade on it thinks that you're the strange one.

[sniff-my-dust.livejournal.com]

She really didn't like that look in her eyes. Pixie's wings fluttered and she crossed her arms. "I know," she says. "I miss cake too." She flits a little closer to Ax. "Mutation. I'm a mutant. It's this whole gene structure thing." She smiles softly at Ax. Technically, almost everyone here is strange in one way or another. "I'm Pixie."

[el-escarabajo.livejournal.com]

"I was wondering how your species eats without a mouth."

Here's your favorite human + symbiote, Ax! And one that's kinda pissed at you a little, but he tends to let that go, easily.

[mynameisax.livejournal.com]

No, Ax's favorite human-and-symbiote was Pat and Toxin. At least Pat understood that having something living on/in your body was supposed to be weird.

< That is a question that seems to spring to mind when I encounter humans, > he said shrug. He was actually rather surprised that Jaime was even speaking to him. He'd made his opinion of Ax perfectly clear when he'd walked away from Prince Cybil.

Ax supposed it was one of those "actions change when the situation changes" things that humans did.

[el-escarabajo.livejournal.com]

No, it was that Ax didn't kill the Yeerk himself. Cybil did. She told him so.

But then it'd been what she wanted. The Yeerk. He can't be that mad at Ax for wanting to give her what she wanted.

Jaime just tilted his head and looked at him.

"So, this is the real you, huh?" he says. "It makes sense now why you were freaking over Khaji (http://community.livejournal.com/trans_9/9903.html?thread=775855#t775855) when we first met."

[twelvevoltman.livejournal.com]

"'Sup, Phillip? Ax," Allen corrects himself. "Pardon me for prying, but are you a natural blue?"

[mynameisax.livejournal.com]

< You recognize me as Phillip? > Ax asked, startled. Had Allen been talking to Dox or something? < Yes, this is my natural form. I am not a demon, I'm an alien. My species is called Andalites. >

[twelvevoltman.livejournal.com]

"Well you introduced yourself to the group, I was around for that. Maybe you just didn't notice me."

OR MAYBE THERE ARE YOUNG ADULT SCIFI BOOKS WRITTEN ABOUT YOUR EXPLOITS, AX. MAYBE.

"Awesome. I've never met an alien that I knew was an alien before, unless you could people from alternate universes. Which you might still be, come to think of it. Why are you standing in food?"

[psi-flames.livejournal.com]

Y'know. Gotta admit this stuff makes me glad I ain't gotta eat no more. Oh yes. Jono's gotten the question about eating more than a few times himself.

He looks at the slop, then back up at Ax. Though 'at's a new one on me. Eating through his feet. Strange.

[mynameisax.livejournal.com]

Ax remembered seeing Jono during the battle against the Yeerks with his face on fire. Apparently, that was not unusual for the...human?

< How do you replace energy without eating? > he asked curiously. < If it's not impolite of me to ask. >

[psi-flames.livejournal.com]

Jono shrugged, hands in the pockets of his plantsuit. Don' roightly know, he replied, obviously not too bothered by the question. What he would have been bothered by at sixteen was different than now, mostly. One of me teachers back home reckoned I might replace energy through telepathic contact or summat.

[nothawkingbird.livejournal.com]

The sight of Ax's real form was only sort of strange to Kate. She was used to some odd sights back home too.

But what he was doing at the moment....

"Do I want to know why you're stepping on it like that?" The slop was bad enough but that just looked weird.

[mynameisax.livejournal.com]

< I'm grazing, > Ax said. < My species absorbs nutrients by crushing grass beneath our hooves as we run. It isn't an option here. >

He tilted his head to the side, although his stalk eyes stayed still. Wasn't she one of the ones who had been infested?

[nothawkingbird.livejournal.com]

She was, but was trying not to think of that time as much as she could.

"Bon appetit?" She deadpanned warily.

[potentialmonkey.livejournal.com]

"....What the heck are you doing?"

[mynameisax.livejournal.com]

< Eating, > Ax answered. Perhaps he needed a sign. < Normally, I would be running, but there isn't enough space to graze properly on this ship. >

[tobiasf.livejournal.com]

< I so feel you there > Ax hadn't spoke, but Tobias could read his expression. < I use up all the energy I get from the food just eating more. > he complained. < I'd love to find out this ship had mice around somewhere. > The others were talking to Ax, curious about his form, probably never having seen an Andalite before.

< I wonder if there's a way I could get a cage and raise some for myself. Like a farmer raising livestock. > he wondered.

[mynameisax.livejournal.com]

< Considering what this ship has produced thus far, the mice would probably be elephant sized and poisonous, > Ax said sympathetically. < At least we'll be able to eat without having to worry about the Yeerks. >

He looked up at his shorm. < Have you seen anything unusual. > A pause and Ax smiled with his eyes. < More unusual than the current set of circumstances. >