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Maybe I really will just strangle him…
The fish hybrid considered as he leaned his hips back against the control panel for his shipping rails. As one of the officers in over-city relations, XB’s main function was to organize, calculate, and then distribute the supplies imported from the over-city. That meant he dealt with the various businesspeople who worked between bedrock, and one of them in particular had decided to just stick to him like glue.
XB still couldn’t have told you how he ended up with his nickname. He knew he was even saved into Keralis’s phone as it.
Keralis: ~~aw~~ THANK you princess
You: that wasn’t a compliment
Keralis: WHATCHU SAY
He snorted in amusement to himself before pushing up from where he leaned against the panel and shoving his phone into the back pocket of his work-worn pale jeans. His fin-like ears tapered orange to teal, and he stretched his muscular arms over his head to pop his back before reaching for his clipboard and calculator.
How exactly he, a big burly fish hybrid, had earned the nickname ‘Princess’…well, he’d never been able to needle out of Keralis the specifics of why.
Yet it was funny enough to him that he just went with it, to the point where when he responded to Keralis shouting for ‘Princess!?’ when he arrived at the shipping depot from the over-city, some of his subordinates would do a double take. Then again, they were all mostly used to Keralis’ antics by now, as well. The man had been working with them as their biggest supplier for years at this point.
Sometimes I wonder if he makes so many trips and works so diligently just to see his ‘Shashwam’ more often…
It wasn’t exactly worth wondering, it was basically fact.
XB had been watching Keralis try and fail to ask Xisuma on a date for years at this point.
And y’know, as much as I’d like to say I’m sick of it…it’s way to entertaining to be mad about…
Nothing got a good laugh out of him quite like happening to be around when Keralis laid out his newest pick-up line only to receive a long, flat stare from the voidwalker, somehow piercing even through the visor of his helmet. Then he’d give his rating for the line, which had become a running gag at this point, and Keralis would react in overzealously heartbroken fashion.
Never failed to crack XB up.
That and the fact that he’s decided I’m the pick-up line test audience…
Xisuma thought it was him, but oh no, XB had probably been victim to hundreds of the clever puns and lilted lines via text or Keralis actually practicing them on him before turning them onto his longtime crush.
X has definitely overheard him practicing them with me before too…that probably hasn’t helped much…well that and the whole ‘Princess’ bit…if X wanted to be ‘Princess’ I’d let him!
Honestly, he should probably be more concerned about the fact that by now he responded just as quickly to that adorable little pet name as he did to his actual name, what with how often he worked with Keralis.
But that was just an aside. He let his eyes wander over the metal storage containers that were stacked near the rails that ran directly through this depot that was his domain. In a few minutes, a rumble of wheels would announce Keralis alongside his latest shipment barreling in, surely with the accompanying cry of that very same little pet name XB had just been thinking about with amusement.
A smile pressed upon his face beneath his bushy beard.
It was never a dull moment working at the labs, so considering this had become his day-to-day, he was pretty content.