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Who: Akko + You!
When: August
Where: Aefenglom
What: Akko turns into a rabbit. Send help?? She's also digging more holes than Stanley Yelnats and experimenting with alchemy!
Warnings: None!

i. silly rabbit

[Although still not quite up to her previous ability with transformation magic, Akko's gotten a much better handle on things. Or so she thought until this happened. Because as it turns out, Akko has a bit of a problem on her hands. (Or, well, paws.) She has no idea how exactly she ended up like this and she doesn't know how to make herself go back. She just seems... stuck for the moment. And she doesn't really have the time to think it through because nobody walking the street is necessarily thinking to look down for potentially small creatures hanging out on the sidewalk.]

[Thankfully, she hasn't panicked yet. She's very intentionally tried to keep herself very calm because she knows if she lets instinct take over and she ends up freezing? She needs to just focus on getting off the street and worry about being like this later. Get off the street, get off the street, get off the street... Don't get stepped on.]

[It's not particularly easy because this, of course, had to happen to her on one of the busier streets in the city. Those nearby when it happened seem to assume she intended to do it as they merely step around her without so much as a passing glance. After that, it's anyone's guess as to whether or not they're aware of her. Akko ends up staring down what she feels to be certain squashing beneath heavy boots several times as she cuts and weaves through small groupings of foot traffic until she can find a patch of grass or somewhere underneath a bench or the like to duck under and catch her breath. Looking around... The city suddenly seems much bigger when you're so much smaller. But she... She cannot focus on being stuck like this right now. She should get home. The safest place for her to be is home. She can worry about it then.]

[Of course, that begs the question of where is home? No, Akko has not forgotten where she lives. She knows exactly which building it is and how to get there from this street. But instincts pull at her and she feels compelled to begin digging into the ground. It's only a moment or two of that stray thought, that urge, before she starts digging into the earth and trying to create her own little space to hide in until whatever this is passes. Or maybe it won't'? No, cannot think like that. Must dig. Dig. Dig. Dig.]

[Eventually, she'll snap out of that compulsion on her own and manages to make the dangerous trek back to her apartment. It just doesn't occur to her literally until she's on her own doorstep that she has no idea how exactly she's going to get inside like this. As it turns out, she doesn't have opposable thumbs and the doorknob is a good several feet taller than her. But that isn't going to stop Akko from launching herself at her own door. Over and over, trying to get a handle on the doorknob to give it a twist and hopefully gravity will pull the door open.]

ii. mud on your face

[For the most part, Akko's gotten a pretty good handle on her Puca instincts. Most of them, anyway. The binkying thing seems to sometimes catch her off-guard if she's not too careful or in another form, but that's minor. It just seems that this full moon has brought about an entirely different sort of instinct.]

[Which is precisely how you end up with dirt flung in your face. Or close to it if you were paying close enough attention to get out of the way. Akko is, at this point, managed to dig a hole deep enough that the very tips of her ears are able to peek out over the edge if she were to stand upright. She just doesn't happen to be because she is digging furiously right now with bare hands and extended claws.]

[Of course, that's probably the nicer way to come across one of Akko's attempts at a burrow. The arguably worse way to do that is falling straight into one. Which could happen if you're not watching where you're going or you're a bit clumsy. In which case, maybe Akko will break your fall. Or she might peer sheepishly down at you from above. Either way, she wants to know:]

I'm so sorry! Are you okay?

iii. drinks on me

[Although other areas of magic that don't pertain to her Puca abilities are generally still hopeless (mind you, Akko still refuses to give up!), she has been working quite hard at alchemy. Or as hard as she can stand to work before she gets distracted or bored. She not the most attentive when it comes to classes and reading books is a fast track to a nap. But despite this, this hasn't stopped Akko from trying outside of class at all!]

[Which means it could be your lucky day to be her guinea pig! Er, assistant? Whatever! Point is, she isn't shy about stopping someone while they're walking past her where she's been totally not experimenting and absolutely following recipes perfectly (scout's honor) out in the courtyard where Witches are busy practicing other spells. She holds out her vial of mysterious liquid.]

Hey, would you mind trying this?

((ooc: it's entirely up to you if the potion works or not. but if you choose for it to work, it should have a positive, desirable effect. you know like making you real strong, giving you a cool temporary power, immunity to something, the ability to remember 60+ digits of pi, remembering where you put your keys, or otherwise just something real helpful! if not, a goofy/relatively harmless side effect is more the name of the game here. so it could be anything from excessive sneezing to the urge to try to make friends with everyone, to growing a sick mustache to making hair color into a temporary mood ring. or idk maybe you wanna be a vampire that sparkles in the moonlight. you get the gist!))

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[As it turns out, turning into a rabbit against your will makes it a little harder to figure out how to talk than when you willingly transform into something. (Just when Akko thought she had a good handle on Puca magic...) And so when she attempts to tell him off, it only comes out in angry squeaks and growling with her ears pinned straight back against her body.]

[It's... not likely that intimidating, but honestly whatever she would have said in words probably wouldn't have been much more intimidating.]

[He's. Getting scolded by a tiny rabbit.

Lavi just crouches down in front of her.]

Sorry, sorry. But it's not safe for you to be around in that form. Someone might accidentally step on you.

[Smile?]

[Akko darts out at him abruptly like she's about to kick him, stopping short and landing with a harsh thump on the ground. And that seems to be that as far as her scolding is concerned. She doesn't dart back under the shrubbery and merely looks up at him as though waiting for...something. Although what that something is might be a little hard for him to intuit. She would like to go on with her day and get back to trying to get home though, so whatever else he might need or want to say to her, she'd like to get it over with.]

[...They have perhaps gotten off on the wrong foot.]

[Hey, he only came because he thought she needed help.

He just holds up his hands in that familiar fashion of meaning no harm.]

Maybe I can just help ya get home?

[She's...a tiny rabbit. His own instincts makes him want to help her out and stick close to her.]

[She looks at him warily. Or as warily as a rabbit can emote, in any case. It's probably a bit easier for him to read that body language as a Puca than a non-Puca might be able to as her ears alternate a bit from being pinned back to sitting up straight and alert. She keeps herself a little flatter to the ground, too, for a moment.]

[She hops closer to him at least to give him a sniff.]

Here.

[He holds out his hand for her to sniff.

See? He's not dangerous. He just looks like a suspicious guy--]

[Well, congratulations, Lavi! You pass the sniff test. There's no scent on him that Akko immediately recognizes as a threat. He's not some predator pretending to be a Puca to lure her in close and turn her into a snack. It seems like he was for real when he said he wasn't trying to scare or upset her.]

[She puts a paw in his hand. Is she trying to shake it? Climb into it? Who knows?]

Nice to meet you.

[He shakes her paw before carefully moving to pick her up into his arms if she lets him.]

How about we get you home now, yeah?

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