recolle | OPEN POST ♞ THE BIRD IN THE BASKET

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OPEN POST ♞ THE BIRD IN THE BASKET

WHO: Makoto Naegi and anyone else!
WHERE: Literally everywhere in Recolle
WHEN: 03/06
WHAT: There's a crane. There's a crane in the mailbox. There's a crane on university grounds. Help. This is the accompanying network post.
WARNINGS:

ONE

After getting that murder weapon from Retrospec, Naegi thought he wouldn't get anything as bad as that. He means, that's the worst of the worst, right? Nothing can really top that. But this? This... this is definitely bad. Not murder weapon bad but still pretty awful.

It's a giant red-crown crane. It's a giant red-crown crane and it's stuck in the mailbox. It's stuck in the mailbox and Naegi, being the good kid that he is, is left with the terrible duty of getting a wild animal out of it. He honestly doesn't even know where to start and when he tries to move closer to try and help, he just gets pecked twice on the forehead instead.

Pecked really hard.

He stumbles back and just holds his forehead in his hands while the bird still trashes in the mailbox.

He's... he's already done.

TWO

Well, after a minute of dealing with the searing pain of an angry bird pecking you despite you wanting to help, Naegi still tries to figure out a way to get this poor crane out of the mailbox. He takes a deep breath and gets right in there, willing to withstand the Pecks of the North Star to try and shimmy the bird out. However, it would be a lot easier if the bird didn't act like he was trying to take it out so he could eat it or something and trash around like a headless chicken.

"H-Hey, i-it's all right! I'm just trying to help you!"

He says as if the crane can understand and can suddenly realize that this human is, in fact, helping and not trying to kill it. It's going to be a long and difficult fight, resulting in someone losing an eye if this keeps up.

Please help.

THREE

Probably an hour after Naegi gets the bird free, he now doesn't really know what to do with it. There's no way he can take it home because he's pretty sure you can't keep cranes as pets (and he doesn't really want to) but the thing is...

It won't stop following him now.

For a bird that put up such a fight when it was in the mailbox, it now seems to have no problems with Naegi. The thought process is probably like this: "yes, this is a good human. This human saved its life. Gotta follow this human to be safe. Maybe it will be fed. Good human." Something like that. Anyway, Naegi is exasperated by this turn of events and he keeps looking back at it as he walks.

"I'm telling you... You really can't follow me home..."

He sounds so defeated though and that's probably because he knows that he's not going to win this fight. The crane is determined and that's that.

FOUR

Wanna know how determined this crane is to following him, though?

Well, Naegi is at Recolle University, trying to attend class, pick up some supplies from the mentoring office, actually be in the mentoring office to help his mentees, and do some studying at school and this goddamn crane is following him. Throughout the entire school... Naegi is just pretty much trying to ignore it and going through his day like it's completely normal.

Feel free to meet him anywhere on campus grounds because this crane isn't going to leave him alone...

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[ naegi just stays seated in his chair, staying silent as he watches whatever she's doing and for the crane's reaction. the bird doesn't seem to be really provoked as natalia is keeping her distance and doesn't seem to be posing a threat. it does stare at her for another few seconds before it actually(?!) moves away from naegi and starts moving towards her. it takes one step towards her, pauses for a few seconds, then takes yet another step. it's still cautious and it waits to see if she will do anything before it takes its third step ]

[ It's notable Natalia is avoiding direct eye contact with the crane, despite looking at it. She's known from googling bird behavior and proper interaction with them (she considered owning one once) that some birds instinctually see that as more predatory. So instead she's just smiling, and the makes to gently and slowly reach out her left (prosthetic) hand because she knows that's the stranger one. Don't startle the thing, allow it to make its own choices. ]

Oh, you're a real handsome one, aren't you...?

[ she's doing a good job so far because the crane does start walking towards her again. she's doing a hell of a lot better than naegi (it wouldn't stop attacking him) and eventually, the bird just stands a single step away from her. it cranes (haha) its neck over as if getting a closer look at her before it raises its head... ]

[ ... and then comes swinging down to peck her hard on the top of her head ]

[ Well, that hand (her left) is prosthetic! So.. it's pecking at something made of metal and silicone and such so...

She smiles a little, grinning as she brings up her other hand, the right, as if gently going over to brush at the thing's back. If it seems like she'll be allowed. ]

Sorry, that's a little strange, right?

[ now that it got its pecking out of the way, it will accept her pets and allow her to do her thing. it may occasionally (gently) her head and hand and just generally anywhere but at least it's not out to try and peck out her eye or something like it did with naegi ]

Wow, you're... really good with it.

[ is she the crane whisperer ]

He's a pretty socialized bird, honestly!

[ To be allowing her to do this, that is. She keeps up her respect for the bird, gently petting it a few more times while very much being aware of the potential for it to peck her more violently. But now that it's been confirmed that it'll cooperate, she looks up at Naegi, making (red) eye contact with him, grinning. ]

Thank you, though! I thought about owning a cockatiel at one point...

[ naegi has turned in his seat now, facing away from the desk and towards her. it would be more polite to get up and be closer to talk to her but he doesn't know if he should risk getting up from his chair and walking towards the crane. it might spook it or start attacking him again ]

Cockatiels and cranes are pretty different birds, but I guess approaching them is similar?

[ naegi knows nothing about birds ]

How do you get it not to peck you? It's only been attacking me whenever I try to approach it.

Oh very different. I don't know much about the spirits of cranes... but birds in general have a unique set of body language relative to most mammals. One of the big things to bare in mind that is birds operate at their own pace, so you need to be pretty deliberate with your actions and see if they'll allow it to happen.

[ Allow them to be curious, basically. ]

Or that's my experience! I'm glad it worked, this time.

[ hmm, maybe he should learn on how to handle this bird if he's forced it keep it for who knows how long ]

So how should I approach it? Or should I just wait for it to approach me instead?

The latter, actually. But make your intention known... ah, and a lot of birds don't actually like eye contact. It makes them think of predatory moments.

[ Or so the internet says. ]

That makes a lot of sense... I've always approached it like it was another human being or a dog.

[ a dog is pretty much the only other animal that he's interacted with, asides from daisuke's magical pet rabbit, so he has no idea how to handle birds at all ]

I think Retrospec would have been better off giving you the bird and not me.

Oh, you got it that way?! I'd have definitely loved a bird like that... though I don't know if they would have gotten along perfectly with Porsche or not?

[ It's something to consider. That said, with one more soft pet of the crane, she smiles and tilts her head, as if offering Naegi to offer to come in and... well, try to go for it? ]

Porsche?

[ he's assuming she's talking about a pet rather than the car but ahh, okay, let him... try to interact with the crane. he gets off his chair, standing up from it before he crouches down like she did. it's better for the bird to approach him so he tries clicking his tongue a few times to catch its attention. ]

My dog! She's really, really cute. One of the best companions you could ever ask for.

[ She giggles a little, watching this whole interaction with Naegi! In fact, to help it along, she does pull her hands back so as to alow the crane to naturally notice him. ... she hopes this works and it's not just something like his past life was a jerk to the crane or something. He did say it came out of a mailbox. ]

Haha, they do say that dog is man's best friend. I've always wanted one but I can never afford to care for it...

[ so retrospec gave him a bird instead to take care of. this was a mistake but anyway, the crane does take notice of naegi after she moves away her hands, looking towards the source of the clicking. once the crane looks at him, he mimics what she did, not directly looking at it and opening his arms. it's going to be a very slow process because the crane only thinks "man fuck that guy" ]

We didn't have one growing up, but I'd allllways wanted one! So when I got a steady job she was one of my first purchases. Well, she was a shelter adoption, but all the related expenses and the like, I mean.

[ You go, Naegi. ]

What kind of breed is she? Do you have any photos?

[ naegi loves dogs so he wants to see! but also the crane will start moving over to him real slowly. he can probably check his phone if she texts him pictures of dogs because who longs how long this'll take ]

I'd be a bad companion if I didn't!

[ But yes, she's going to pull out her own phone and hold the picture up over the side of the crane. She could text it or pass the phone over, but this is her first thought. But incoming picture of Porsche ]

She's a pug-terrier mix, though obviously I don't know all the details.

[ naegi moves his head so he can just barely see her phone. with the distance between the two of them, he can't really see the details but he can definitely at least see enough to see

Wow, she's really cute!

[ the crane stops halfway when he kind of yells (also he's in a library whoops) so he then just speaks in a softer and quieter voice ]

She's really tiny looking as well.

She's not very big at all, no.

[ Comes with the territory of being pug-terrier, honestly. ] She's reeeeallly cute though, yeah!

[ he nods in agreement because all dogs are cute. he will want to see more pictures later but in the meanwhile, the crane is back to making its way over to naegi and it's gotten pretty close now. it's definitely close enough to peck him if it wants but it's actually not doing anything at all ]

Hey, I think it's working. It's not attacking me so far.

So this was your pet, in another world...?

[ Just to like... check or something... ]

I don't think so. I was just an average person in my other life so I don't think I could ever own a pet this exotic or endangered...

[ "an average kid" who took part of two murder games ]

I do remember handling one when I was in middle school, though? It came on school grounds so I had to remove it.

... If that got counted because of that, they really have a loose definition of what's "ours," I guess.

[ That said, wow, rude to the bird... wait though, to have this bird on his school grounds...? ]

Where was your school?

Yeah, I don't know if Retrospec made a mistake or if they're really starting to give us things based on us interacting with it at some point.

[ he hopes it's a mistake but he knows it's not. will smith pose to the murder weapons he's getting ]

It was somewhere in Japan. I don't really remember where exactly, though.

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