trans_9 | Slightly Less Animated Than Usual [Open]

Who: Starfire and anyone who wants to join her!
Where: Media Library
Summary: Starfire's received news that her love has returned to stasis in the pod caverns. Her escape is the bright and colorful world of cartoons.
Warnings: Nothing too serious here! Some potential sadness if that line of conversation is followed, but a little fun can be had here.

Visitors to the Media Library today will find a rather distressing sound coming from one of the watching pods. It's a croakish, scratchy sound that might be called a laugh...if the listener were underwater, inebriated, and otherwise less able than usual to discern the sound. The sound contains the basic elements of a laugh, anyway. It's loud, sudden, and presumably in response to funny events on the screen!

In this case, a bacon-eared and sausage-lipped breakfast monster is in hot pursuit of a banana boat. Colorful cherry-men are yelling in musical-sounding gibberish, directing themselves down a river of orange juice in their attempt to avoid the meat monster. There's a dip in the river, and the little banana boat flies---only to slip on the air (how does that work?) and do a flip into the monster's mouth.

Thus ends one segment of this bizarre cartoon. Starfire is clutching a small pillow from her room and laughing at the screen. Or trying to, anyway.

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Starfire came out of her trance-like state in a transition in the action. She thought she'd felt something on her head...

She reached up, plucking the little green ball of fuzz from her head and planting it in her lap, scratching between the kitten's ears. It was comforting. Her smile was back, if smaller.

The purring came automatically. It was something Beastboy had little control of especially when being scratched behind the ears like that. He nuzzled and purred and tried to comfort her in the familiar sort of way that only pets and close friends could. He knew the pain of losing someone you cared about all too well and those vibes were positively pulsing off his usually cheerful friend.

Starfire ran her fingers through her friend's fur for a good long while, until she was calm enough to speak again.

"I am glad that you are here, Beastboy. I would be most upset to lose you as well."

He slid out of her lap and shifted back to human form so they could talk.

"Ditto. With how busy things are around here every time we hang out it makes me feel...well...great." He gave her a familiar hug, a lingering hold to make sure she got as much hug as she wanted out of him.

Starfire hugged him fiercely, but...fiercely for human standards. The mood kept her from using her full strength, luckily for him.

"And it will only get busier. We must resolve things now before the situation changes for the worse again."

"It'll be alright." He promised without any sort of proof. "As busy as it is, we have each other." He felt his cheeks burn sheepishly as it came out sounding more intimate then he had intended.

"As always," she whispered back, entirely oblivious to any potential awkwardness.

She pulled back after some time. "I have sampled your cartoons. They have resulted in an increase in hunger. Is this usual?"

"Uh...I don't think that's the cartoons, I think you've probably just been hanging out here longer then you thought." And seemingly from no where he produced a bag of green chips with a tentacle on the front. "I'm not sure what these things are...I'm pretty sure they don't have any meat in them, but they taste great." He offered.

Food! Starfire looked delighted. She reached for it eagerly, sampling the chips. For once, their tastes agreed.

"I do! They are wonderful. Similar to the insect shells sometimes consumed as a delicacy on my planet."

Beastboy turned a slightly paler shade of green at the comparison but managed to choke it down. After all who REALLY knew what most junk food was filled with?

"We only get so many stops to planets that aren't mission based, so I usually try to stock up on as much candy and stuff that tastes good as I can." He explained with a wink "Priorities."

Starfire agreed, laughing with a little nod. She hugged him close, a little apology for the insect shells. "I should do the same with the condiments. Mustard is rarer than I had thought," she admitted.

"...what has brought you here?" she finally remembered to ask. "It is late."

"Is it?" He chuckled crunching thoughtfully on the tasty treat. "I lose track of time around here sometimes." He stretched and relaxed into her hugs and the seat.

"You know how it is. There's so much time around here to do whatever we feel like. Sometimes it's hard to sleep because I sleep so much."

"Glad I found you though."

Starfire giggled, remembering that well. "There is not very much to interest us," she agreed, "but I will not spend that time sleeping. There are too many others to meet, especially in the present."

Guess who stayed up partying all night!

Beastboy boggled a bit, "But you do sleep right? Like...eventually?" After all you couldn't do everything all the time even as a Tameranian.

That got a slightly-watered-down giggle out of Starfire. She covered her mouth with a fist before looking at him again. "Yes, of course! I must not exhaust myself if a battle is to come. I prefer to avoid oversleeping."

She did like to sleep, but the day mustn't be wasted! Though...this particular day was almost over for her. She slumped back in the little meat chair, eyelids drooping.

Beastboy smirked knowingly. "Don't worry. It'll all be here when you wake up you know."

And then it was back into cat form. That low rumbling purr almost tailor made to sooth the stressed out and tense.

Starfire's only response to that was a sleepy smile. Soon enough, she was sprawled out on the little couch, with plenty of space for Beastboy.

Her hand curled around him until she drifted off. Thank you.

He smiled a cute kitten smile, the purr genuine and easily held. He would stay with her now, maybe even catch a nap himself. But Starfire was the last tie he had to his world. He may not be as strong as her, but he'd do all he could to protect her heart.

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