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[realists]

Who: Jyn & Elsa & you lot
Where: 4106, Casa de Disney (not actual) Princess
When: June 10-12
What: Jyn & Elsa's backyard has become a refuge for wildlife and thus an impromptu petting zoo
Warnings: There's innocent smooching, it's gross.

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Jyn and Elsa's house is on the very edge of the residential district -- a nice concession from whatever set up this whole place to give Jyn only one neighbor. This means, though, that when the creeping doom of the wall surrounding the woods makes the predators a little more bold, Jyn and Elsa find themselves with a small collection of woodland creatures seeking refuge in the backyard.

The first day, Elsa is still recovering from the camping trip from hell which Jyn completely understands, so she says nothing, going out to the bookstore to grab an armful of books about the native wildlife (birds, trees, small forest animals). When Elsa is feeling better, Jyn shows her the flock of deer that have taken up residence in the backyard along with a family of rabbits making a warren of their back deck and a family of groundhogs ruining the begonias lining the edge of the yard.

That's happening.

Jyn has always been something of a naturalist, thanks to her mother, but a lifetime of fighting and running from the Empire had left her little time to actually study the nature around her and no one to encourage her to do so after her mother died. Now she has more time than she knows what to do with, which is almost stifling, and the town she's found herself in seems determined to remind her of her mother's roots, shoving a petting zoo full of animals into her backyard. Well, okay, she gets the point. No need to hit her over the head with it.

Whether it's feeding fruit to the deer or scooping up wayward baby bunnies who have gotten caught in the lattice work under the deck, Jyn finds herself spending the majority of her time outside again, sun turning her shoulders and cheeks pink. More than once she can be found in the front yard with her hands on her hips, having a staring contest with a deer that thinks it can eat the flowers by the front door.

Usually however, she has her head in one of her books, trying to figure out how to deal with these animals making themselves at home in their backyard. The upside is that the deer are eating the grass so no one needs to mow the lawn.


( find elsa in a top level below )

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feel free to stop him from getting his meal tbh

[bird_thing]

Some of the wood's predators are more bold than others. Or, in Tobias' case, it's a rather calculated combination of the fact that with the forest in a disarray the rest of the predator bird population has gotten mean and desperate enough that he'd honestly rather avoid them if he can, as well as that there were a rather unfortunate number of people in this unfamiliar town that he'd gotten to know in his last two weeks here well enough to be at least mildly concerned about their well-being after everything that's been happening.

What that means here and now though is that Tobias is being forced to hunt for food in town now, as opposed to his natural habitat, something he's not terribly thrilled with for a number of reasons.

First and foremost being? The type of animals he eats are the type of animal people are usually the quickest to protect, and if he's forced to hunt in town people are far more likely to catch him in the act and take offense to it. But you know, he's gotta eat. He woke up this morning with the mortifying memory of Rachel catching him eating roadkill once and it's not a memory he's keen to revisit.

So when he sees a whole line of baby rabbits toddling slowly after their mother in the yard of one of the houses in town? He doesn't spare much time for second thoughts, just falls into a dive for the littlest one at the back of the line.

[realists]

Jyn loves the bunnies. They're so cute and fluffy and she likes the way their little noses wriggle around and they remind her of the bulbas on Skuhl, tiny and fragile and light. But Jyn is, beyond anything else, the daughter of a woman who loved and revered nature.

When the beautiful hawk swoops down and dives for the tiniest bunny, Jyn doesn't move a muscle from her spot sitting in the grass, leaning back against the deck stairs as she eats half a bagel.

She does, however, grade the bird, in a fashion. "Oh well done!"

What? It was a good dive, nice form, aimed for the weak one. She is self-aware enough to know that she is often considered the weak one so she has a little judgment that he couldn't aim for better prey but also, easy target. You go birdie, get your dinner, be your best self.