Prompted: Monster characters
#3 of WIPs
Friday or Saturday night I was goofing off on Tumblr and saw a link to this character generator thing and wrote down a few that caught my eye and tried to make a coherent little story out of them just for shiggles, just something you can read in ten minutes. Adult for the dirty joke Bennu makes, although that's more PG-13 than R rated.
Extremely short story prompted by these monster character generator suggestions:
"Affectionate cat boy who wears leather pants and needs Sunday" "Square satyr girl who wears argyle sweaters and thinks about Home" "Merciful succubus boy who wears a Japanese school girl uniform and loves Insurance" "Touchy hydra girl who wears cowboy boots and likes Monkey" "Determined crocodile girl who wears converse and loves Harp" "Hyperactive robot boy who wears a feather boa and likes Priest"
It was a mild August day for Texas, hot but not oppressive, and since it was Saturday Yata was off work, so Bennu took her down to the ice cream shop for their weekend 'date'. "What do you want love?" asks Yata, "I'm feeling experimental." "A sundae since obviously a monkey can't resist a banana based treat." replies Bennu. "Maybe I'll be fancy and ask for all the toppings." After a minute Bennu realizes nobody has come to take their order, and leaving Yata to think, he peers around a corner and sees... A cat boy, twentyish, and a satyr girl, not much older, are having a loudly whispered argument. The boy is hugging and nuzzling the blushing and steadily more irate satyr, begging her to let him have Sunday off. "I told you I'm not physical! Get off me before a customer sees this!" she spits at him, and he backs off. Bennu notices that for some odd reason the cat wore leather pants to work! 'What a lax dress code!' he thinks, 'Although I don't know how what kind of pants you have can affect the ice cream.' He also notices the satyr is wearing an argyle sweater... in August! 'I know it might be chilly in here but it is she really in the freezer all day?'
Slipping back away, Bennu quickly mentions the delay, and they pretend not to notice as the two employees come out to tend to them. The cat boy smiles and cheerfully greets them, while the satyr shyly listens. They give their orders, and the satyr starts scooping and preparing, and the cat boy rambles on cheerfully- "She's just a gloomy square because she's home sick, she ran away from the forest because they're all lecherous drunks, typical satyrs, but she's like a nerdy intellectual..." "Hush! Customers don't need to know personal things! Are you trying to get fired? If you need Sunday off that bad, I can't! There's nobody else to cover, and your drug addled orgy isn't more important than your job!" Taking their treats, Bennu and Yata disappear into a booth away from the muttered argument. In spite of the peculiar service, the ice cream is quite good, and once they're done eating they lean back. Bennu says "Let's just sit here a while, they've stopped talking now." Yata agrees and pulls out her smartphone. "Hey check out this video on YouTube someone linked me."
Scene: a busy street, apparently Japanese. A teen-ish succubus girl is walking down it in the stereotypical schoolgirl outfit... "Wait, that's a boy!" Bennu blurts, "My gender-dar kicked in." "You mean 'gen-dar'?"
The 'girl' walks along happily for a second as the camera zooms in, then suddenly looks down and gasps. Camera shifts to the sidewalk where a large beetle is dodging the feet of swiftly walking pedestrians. 'She' says something in Japanese, and a subtitle pops up- "I'll help you little friend!" Camera follows the succubus 'schoolgirl' to a park, where he sets the beetle free in tall green grass, and a blurb for an insurance company pops up.
Bennu shrugs "Well, it's suitable to my interests. Not the weirdest Japanese commercial though."
Then the bell on the door rings, and in walks a spider monkey and a hydra girl. The monkey appears to be male, and the girl is wearing cowboy boots and clothes. Yata's eyes get big seeing the multi-headed reptile, but Bennu says "Oh, I've seen her before- not many hydras around. She like lives on a farm so is insecure about being too country, not to mention the hydra thing. Don't mention it, she gets real touchy." They watch as the pair makes their order, one of the hydra's heads wistfully gazing at the monkey the entire time while the others frown watching the order being prepared, apparently ready to complain about any perceived problems. Yata peers at them with feminine intuition- "I get the vibe that he's just in it for the sex." "He must really like blow jobs, hmm?" She tries not to laugh, snorting and trying to make it look like a sneeze, and says "We've been in this crazy place long enough, let's go to the game store and visit with Sinaris."
They drive over to the game store where their friend works and park. When they get out they hear music, and look over at the snobby 'boutique' nearby. A crocodile girl with a determined look on her face is playing a harp out front for the little dining area, although nobody is eating there. Despite the 'upscale' theme, she is wearing Converse sneakers that poke out from under her dress. "Oh, she seems cool, we should go chat later." Bennu smiles, and Yata elbows him "Cool as in chat, or flirt?" "What, you think if you weren't here I'd be in some implausible porn scenario, like fortuitously discover we share some kink and then recklessly indulge in it with her?" "Yeah, I know, that's just silly... it's not like you've ever done that..." she says with a sarcastic grin. He hugs her around her waist and smooches her cheek. "We're married now, dear, I don't do anything without your permission." "Except fart." "Hey you know that just happens."
A car with Judas Priest blaring from the open windows rolls into the parking lot, and the driver, a robot boy wearing a feather boa, headbangs enthusiastically. The croc stops playing and glares over until it stops and the robot jumps out, practically dancing his way to the door of the game store. They watch silently as he goes in, then Bennu says "Man I feel sorry for Sinaris sometimes... she gets the weirdest customers!"