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[ Tidus stares at Inigo, expression frozen in what it was before he spoke. Quiet.

One second.

Two.

His gaze lifts, thinking. ]

...There's gysahl greens...?

[ does that

count? ]

[ That answer absolutely does not help Inigo. He doesn't recognize the name at all, and now he might be thinking back on that terrifying chocobo encounter he had back when they were trapped in that illusionary maze, and trying to imagine.. that.. as a fruit..?

.. But.. green..?

Inigo is starting to look more baffled by the minute. Mayday, mayday, his brain is getting fried..! ]

What's a gysahl? [ BRO, THE TRANSLATOR ISN'T WORKING. H-HELP, BRO! ]

[ What's a gysahl? Receive for that question a puzzled brow, eyes looking to the left, to the right, but there's no answers coming on this guy's face. The answer out of his mouth is just as unsure: ]

Uh... the greens are leafs? So I guess the gysahl's a plant...? [ He makes a motion, waving his hand forward. ] Chocobos eat them, so you feed them them. I dunno anything about the plant - but the gysahl has to be some kind of vegetable or something, right?

[ Right??? Or it could even be a fruit plant!! ]

You don't even know what it is?!

[ Granted, it's pretty normal for Tidus to not know. Like he said, it's not like he spent a whole lot of time in Spira, when said time might have been shorter than all the time he's spent on the train now. And he had better things to do there than to learn all about chocobos, most likely.

And yet this is Inigo, who doesn't think of those nuances, and instead just jumps straight into the overdramatic reaction. ]

I thought you loved those weird chickens! [ DUDE. ]

We just had the greens! [ Comes Tidus protest, and a very reasonable one, thank you!! ] I didn't ask what they were from! We never had 'em for that long.

[ It's not Tidus's fault he didn't know he wasn't going to get a bollocking from a prince in the future about them!! ]

Well - how about I order them! Then we can grow them and find out!

[ Yeah!! ]

[ Inigo grows silent at that last suggestion - which thankfully means that he's no longer hassling Tidus about that point.

Not for the moment, at least.

He's too busy considering this plan, and then says: ]

Alright. I guess we can. [ He's kind of curious now, anyway. Inigo has absolutely no idea what to expect. But surely growing it can't be that hard, right..? ] Even though there's no chocobos here to feed it to.

[ Thank Naga. ]

.. can people eat it too? [ Time to shove it straight into Tidus's face once it's been grown. ]

[ Can people eat leafs???????? ]

I dunno - I never tried. [ Why would he eat chocobo food...! But at least he figures- ] We can give them to the rabbits to eat.

[ Because rabbits like greens. It's totally safe to shove random plant bits at animals, nothing can go wrong. ]

[ And so Tidus accidentally caused a huge rabbit massacre on the train. ]

.. I guess that works. [ But Inigo is way too dumb to contest an idea like that. He's seen the rabbits eat just.. general green stuff, clearly that means they can eat it when it comes from other worlds too! ]

Just as long as we don't get any of those actual chickens here on the train. [ His tone takes on a quality that might be intended as serious, but instead just ends up sounding entirely overdramatic as he looks at Tidus - as usually happens with Inigo. ] Seriously. I'll scream.

[ Somehow, considering how often Inigo refers to them as such, Tidus doesn't make the connection instantly that chickens = chocobos, wondering for a second if he was worried about feeding the greens to the chickens he missed being on the train (did Jingyi finally get some??).

But no, he's being fussy about the existence of chocobos again, and his puzzled expression changes to one more sulky, exasperated, unamused. His gaze somewhere other than Inigo, until it returns to his face. ]

I'm going to buy one.

[ Is this a decided voice? A voice of spite?? Time to perish, Inigo. ]

No, you're not!

[ Maybe Inigo should know better. Because of course Tidus - of all people - would take that sort of thing as a challenge if presented just the right way. So perhaps reverse psychology would work much better, taking the fun out of all of this by not going along with it, or by pretending to not be worked up because of it..

But then again, Inigo is terrible at not responding like an impulsive idiot around Tidus, hence why the words leave his mouth before he's even really had time to consider them.

.. thankfully it seems that Inigo does know to provide a logical reason for his answer too, rather than just keeping it at a childish yes-no competition level. ]

You don't even have any space to keep one of those things around here!

Our room, [ comes his defiant answer, nevermind where logic or reason comes into that. It may not be a childish yes-no competition, but it's close to it, with Tidus thinking on his feet. ]

I'll take it for walks in the garden! And play in the sports gym! [ Hah!!

Watch as he even defiantly folds his arms. ]

I think it sounds like a great idea!

[ Tidus is putting entirely too much thought into this plan he's suddenly making up on the spot.

.. or at least, Inigo thinks he's making it up on the spot? Oh no, what if Tidus has been imagining a secret chocobo plan all this time? Terrifying. ]

Where are you going to fit it in our room? We can hardly even stand next to the bed in the first place! I don't want a face of chicken butt in the morning!

[ That's way too cruel a fate. ]

Well - it'll be a baby, so it can sleep with us! [ Ta-da! ] And we'll find some kind of...potty tray. Those're a thing, right? Right next to the door.

[ Watch him make gestures of scooting something over near to the door. Just like that! ]

I kinda like this idea. [ Y'know...! ] You'd get to see a chocobo, and we can ride it once it grows up.

[ In fifty years. ]

[ There's so much to say here. So much to complain about. And you know it's bad when Inigo starts complaining about something being added to their bed, rather than it being taken away from the bed.

But no, none of the complaints leave Inigo's mouth. Because instead he's much too distracted by something else, much like how the idea of those weird greens took up his entire brain capacity before.

It's why he just stares at Tidus as he slowly says: ]

They.. use a toilet..?

[ BRO, HE DIDN'T USE A TOILET BEFORE!

AND HE'S A HUMAN BEING. ]

[ Tidus sputters. ]

He's going to learn to use a toilet tray! You want something pooping around our room? On the bed? [ Which is basically what the room is?? ] It's going to do it in its toilet tray! That's what you do with pets!

[ Granted, he's not quite comprehending the baffled response comes from the idea given that chocobos are usually potty-trained. But as if Tidus knows what people do with chocobos!

But who says you can't teach a chocobo to use a prepared toilet space!! ]

No, I don't want something pooping around our room! That's why I don't want an oversized chicken in there! [ P-Please, bro, is that so hard to understand? What's even the appeal if you have to train it to pee in a certain spot?

Inigo can't even imagine Tidus potty training a chocobo. His brain can't even conjure forth the image.

It's impossible. ]

Wouldn't our whole room smell like pee?! All the time?!

[ Look at these genuine concerns. ]

[ Would there be this much fight back if it was any other animal!? Not that Tidus is really that invested about having one, but those genuine concerns now does inspire a genuine question in return - if exasperatedly presented: ]

Well how does everyone else do it?! There's rabbits on board, sheep, big fluffy round ball things - you don't hear anyone else complaining about the smell in their rooms!

[ Why is a pee smell going to be a problem now?! ]

[ Oh no, Tidus, please. Inigo never considered these things before, and it's not like he wants to start now! This is clearly why the higgledies are absolutely ideal - at least they don't pee and poop all over the place. Why doesn't everyone just get their own higgledy.. ]

I don't know! Maybe they just let theirs run around and poo everywhere!

[ .. though he does have to admit that it's not often that he just comes across a pile of poo on the train, so.. maybe not..? ]

What are you even going to do with that thing when we go on a mission?! [ Sure, other people leave theirs behind, but Inigo refuses to believe that chicken isn't going to wreck the place. Those things are evil. ]

[ Tidus just stares at Inigo incredulously than to voice it, at the explanation given. He doesn't know if Inigo's simply letting his mouth go wild, or does he think Tidus is really going to believe there's suddenly pee and poop everywhere!!!

But here comes the new apparent obstacle, which brings his brows back down low, incredulous turning into disbelief. ]

Leave them on the train? [ Like other people do with pets? ] --what's your real problem?

[ C'mon, c'mon. ] Would you be saying all this if it was about a dog? What's so bad about chocobos in your brain? You've never been around one!

I have!

[ And somehow that sounds so insistent that it sounds like he's telling the truth, rather than just automatically saying that because it goes against what Tidus is saying here..

(Because he totally would have done the latter if what he was saying right now wasn't so true.) ]

Back in Kamakan! [ Sure, it was an illusion chocobo, but that counts! All the other illusions seemed very real too! ] I was standing right next to it! Those were the worst moments of my entire life!

[ Okay, that last part might be a little overdramatic after all. ]

[ Inigo has? For a moment, it's enough to make Tidus confused, wondering back when Inigo ever said he's met a chocobo. In a photo? Is he talking about Prompto's photos? That's what Tidus is sure started this weird crusade against all chocobo kind for the guy, but that isn't really what he means--

Back in Kamakan--

--worst moments of my entire life! ]

[ This guy. ]

I'm getting the fattest chocobo and letting it sleep in our bed. [ No buts, no nothing. Tidus makes appears from his arms a snack in waiting and bites into it - a cookie, most likely. He's now lost all interest in paying attention to Inigo as he looks around for the multiple higgledy, and their messing around with the plants.

This conversation is over. Their bedroom fate has been set. ]

Wha--

[ It's not like Tidus's reaction is entirely out of line with what the other guy has been saying this entire time.. and yet it seems to startle Inigo all over again all the same, making him let out that surprised sound as he blinks at the other with wide eyes.

Maybe it's just since Inigo is easily startled and overdramatic - which is true - but maybe it's also since he didn't quite expect Tidus to keep pushing this hard.

Especially with this tone. Because.. ]

What? Why do you want this so bad? You don't even sound like you're trying to harass me! [ See, that's the main reason for him being so startled. He could understand if this was still a joke - though Inigo may be notoriously bad at telling when Tidus is joking or not - but the other sounds so grumpy about it?! ]

Seriously, what's with those things? [ At least he doesn't sound like he's making fun of Tidus, more just like he's.. baffled.. and his facial expression only seems to confirm as much. ] Do you have some special love for them? Like Prompto?

No? [ There's a questioning edge to the reply, when he thinks about Prompto's love for chocobos and then thinking about his own like for them, and - yeah, there's definitely a difference there. Cookie by his mouth, but he waits to finish talking first before taking another bird. ] I am nagging you, but it's 'cause I still don't get why you're so - this about them!

[ But should he be kinder to Inigo? Probably, and he'll relent and admit: ] I'm not really gonna buy one. But would you be like this if I wanted any other pet?

[ That's what he can't get. Would he be as thoughtful and rational about how a pet would fit in their room with any other animal? This doesn't sound like something either of them!! ]

...

I mean, if you really wanted a different animal, and it'd make you happy, I'd let you do it.. [ Even if it would be pretty inconvenient, as evidenced by Inigo's chocobo-induced thought spiral just now. ] .. Even if it was a chocobo, I guess..

[ Inigo isn't cruel enough to deny Tidus his dreams when it comes down to it, okay, despite the baby fit he was throwing here.

.. though he's still mumbling that part. ]

I just think the way they look is freaky.

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