Video - Lilo Has a New Toy

[andstitch]

"Whoa! This is so cool!"

[The kid has the screen right up to her eye then pulls it back to a more normal distance.]

"I could film all sorts of cool things with this! Like space mummy vampires from Mars! But first I'm gonna need some actors. Oh! I wonder if this thing can call Jumba! Then he can make me all sorts of new actors!"

[Someone was bouncing like she'd had too much sugar.]

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[3wingedangel]

"Hm. I see. Yes, I suppose most dogs don't enjoy that." Deadpanning.

[andstitch]

"And all the adults are always too busy."

[3wingedangel]

"That is a problem," he admits.

[andstitch]

"So I hafta play with my friends!" So there.

[3wingedangel]

"But are they even your friends if they don't want to play with you?"

[andstitch]

She... didn't like where this was going.

"Sure they are, they just don't know it yet."

[3wingedangel]

While he can't relate as much as his counterpart likely could, this still seems quite sad.

"How long have you known them?"

[andstitch]

She shrugged. "Forever."

[3wingedangel]

"And in all that time, they have never cared to be with you?" he frowned. That was similar to how it had been for him with the local children, but he hadn't been sadly desperate enough for friends to think of them as such.

[andstitch]

She glared, getting angry. "They're my friends!" They were! They were!

[3wingedangel]

He sighed. "Very well then." Obviously pursuing that line of questioning was useless. But it bothered him thinking of how badly she must be being hurt by these "friends."

[andstitch]

"Besides! It's not like you are offering to play dolls with me!" Adults never did.

[3wingedangel]

"There are other ways to spend time with people. I brought you to this ice cream shop," Sephiroth pointed out.

[andstitch]

She shrugged. "For now... but you're an adult. You're gonna say you hafta go to work and tell me to go play or give me to someone else to watch. You're not gonna play dolls or come on adventures or look for 'speriments. I'm just a kid to adults. Not someone to wanna play with." She looked down.

Her mom used to play with her. And Nani used to, before she had to be a mom. She fought a tear. She didn't wanna cry.

[3wingedangel]

"It's true adults need to work," Sephiroth said. "I admit, I don't play anymore. At least, not the way you're probably thinking of it." Although he was never very traditional in what he did play. "I suppose, however, that things such as practicing flying could be considered play." He didn't think of it that way, but it was playful and fun. "If you would like, perhaps I could take you flying sometime."

[andstitch]

"Like me and Stitch having rocket packs! COOL!"

[3wingedangel]

He looked amused at that. "Well, I can't fly quite that fast. But you can imagine that, if you would like."

[andstitch]

"Why imagine? I want an actual rocket pack!"

[3wingedangel]

"Heh. That, I'm afraid I can't provide. I don't even know if they have them here."

[andstitch]

"Then how is that playing and not just an adult carrying me where he wants me to be?"

[3wingedangel]

"I don't typically have a destination in mind if I'm just flying for fun," he replied.

[andstitch]

"How is that fun then? If there is no one to chase?"

[3wingedangel]

"You don't feel just the very act of flying would be fun?"

[andstitch]

"Not if I can't steer! Then it's just like riding in the spaceship."

[3wingedangel]

“Heh. You’ve ridden so many times it’s that unexciting to you? I would think most would envy you having such a vehicle.”