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[MEME] Best quality: HIS WIGGLES

IT'S BULLSHIT SNAKE AU TIME!
I WANT TO PLAY THIS DUMB NAGA VERSION OF MY OC AND THAT IS WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN

SOME INFO:
He looks like this: X | X | X | X
Super cute gift art: By Luc | By Stabby

DESCRIPTION
JW is about twenty feet long from the top of his head to the tip of his tail. His skin is purple with green accent patterns. He's got a light tan underbelly. Sometimes I color his hair green and sometimes I color it blonde. I always forget which one I decided on, but it doesn't really matter. He's got yellow eyes and little lines of heat pits under them.

SETTINGS

GAME EVENT AU - Some games don't need much of a reason for shapeshifting events to occur. I've been in a few! Want to work off of established CR? Just assume some temporary bullshit is happening in a game we're already both in! JW is a snek now. Maybe your character is un-changed or maybe they're something else entirely! Up to you.

CANON AU - In his canon, JW has learned to move between worlds. What does he do with this knowledge? He steals shit and then sells it back on earth to antique dealers. Well this time he's gotten ahold of a cursed bangle in the shape of The Ouroboros. It constricted to his wrist and changed his body. Now he's freaked out and acting carelessly and somehow wound up dumping his ass into YOUR character's world.

-Will add more in the future!-

PROMPT IDEAS

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PICK A JW BELOW AND GO TO TOWN!

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"If it's just laying in a ditch somewhere covered in mud, I'm pretty sure that means nobody wants it!"

JW crept forward on his coils and extended a bony arm. The bracelet was so tight on him that it couldn't even be turned. The snake's head rested atop his wrist and almost seemed to smile.

"Is it bad?"

"Let's see."

Korra held her hands over the bracelet, feeling for the metal and going through the motions to thin and stretch it....

And nothing happened. She frowned and tried again. Still nothing.

"...that's weird."

She could project herself as a glowing blue spirit giant, but she couldn't bend a little bit of metal? That was not cool.

That's weird.

The last thing you want to hear from the doctor or the magical girl who's decided to help you.

"What's weird?"

"Uh... hang on"

Korra wasn't exactly known for giving up easily. She set her feet widely apart, squared her shoulders, bent her knees, and put everything she had into it. She strained. She grunted. Her lips curled back in a very unattractive grimace. Sweat beaded on her brow.

And in the end, she slumped back in defeat, the bracelet unchanged.

"Normally I can manipulate metal," she mumbled, giving the gleaming bit of gold a nasty look. Stupid magic spirit relic.

As Korra exerted herself, JW's eyes grew wider and wider as he started to worry that he was about to watch her pop a vein. Luckily that didn't happen. Nothing happened. The snake man sagged back against his coils in defeat when Korra gave up.

"So you're some kinda rock and metal wizard..." JW decided to distract himself from his own troubles with being curious about Korra. She hadn't killed him yet so she'd won a few brownie points in the past five minutes.

"I'm the Avatar, I think I mentioned that." Korra wiped her hair out of her eyes and sighed. So no bending. Maybe if they could find out who the bracelet belonged to originally, they could find them and get it off.

Maybe.

This was turning into a much bigger issue than she'd anticipated.

"Guess we're gonna have to to take a trip to the Spirit World after all. You aren't scared of heights, are you?"

"Right, right, the Avatar," he nodded distractedly until she brought up an inevitable road trip. To the land of the DEAD. "Woah! Woah, back up! Spirit World? No thanks, me and ghosts don't really get along!"

Korra sighed heavily.

"The Spirit World. Where the spirits live. Most of the time. They're over here a lot, too, what with the portal and the spirit quarter in republic... and I mean, I guess a couple of people there sort of count as ghosts, but...they're just people. Who live in the Spirit World. And I'm pretty sure there are people who can help there."

Or at least be of more help than she can at the moment.

JW quietly mouthed the words 'spirit republic' in a stupor. He'd gotten himself into hot water, but this was by far the hottest. He was going to be boiled snake before he got out of this.

But these inter-dimensional ghosts could help. He looked down a this hand and rubbed his scaly wrist.

"Fine...what kind of payment will they want? I'm sure you've noticed, but I don't exactly have pockets."

"I'm the living embodiment of human and spirit unification and I've saved the universe like three times, I don't think you need to worry about a bill."

Tempting as it was to draw one up. What with her travel, time taken from border mapping, mental stress...

Airship fuel didn't grow on trees.

JW's brow ridges rose higher and higher until they'd disappeared under his bangs.

Holy cow this chick was important. And if people saw him hanging out with her...

Suddenly, the thin man's fanged grin grew wide. A little too wide. It was time to be Nice. "Lead the way, ma'am!"

...Right. Like that sudden shift in expression and body language wasn't suspicious. But whatever, he was cooperating. More or less.

"Come on." She turned and gestured for Sneaky Snake to go on ahead. Naga could lead. Korra would take up the rear. Just in case. She trusted this guy about....

No, that wasn't right. She could probably throw him further than she trusted him.

"We'll take my airship." The portal in Republic was probably the easiest way to take him to the Spirit World. Which could prove to be a terrible idea, but... she was pretty sure she could handle him. He couldn't even bend.

"Airship..." JW just resigned himself to being half parrot along side half snake because Korra kept throwing words at him that he either didn't understand or didn't expect and they all bared repeating. His smile faded only long enough for him to give Naga a mistrustful frown before slowly slithering back down the track Korra had made.

He never took his eyes off Naga either as they walked. It wasn't as excruciating a trip as it could have been though because with JW's previous escape attempt, his instincts never quite faded so moving around on his not-legs was getting easier. He couldn't help but feel like he looked stupid wiggling along like some kind of gaudy purple garden hose.

"So what were you doing out here in the middle of nowhere? Takin' a walk?"

Korra snorted lightly at the question.

"I was looking for you."

Since he was clearly the source of the energy that had gotten every Air Nomad in the area all worked up. Or maybe it was the bracelet he was wearing. Either way.

Luckily, the airship wasn't too far. Just beyond the forested area, at the base of the mountains.

JW's face blanched just a little under his scales.

"Oh."

He looked back the way they came, hoping that he could remember what the area looked like. Surely the new formation in the earth that Korra had made would remain. The tree gate had to be near by.

"Pretty...tight on security in this world, huh?"

"Something like that."

Korra wasn't sure where he'd come from, but she wasn't about to start talking about the details of who was aware of his presence or the rest. He could know what he needed to know, which at the moment was just that she was Important and In Charge.

"So...do you need anything special, for sleeping or eating or anything?"

This was the first snake man she'd ever met. For all she knew, he needed to sleep in dirt and only ate giant bugs or something.

JW's face slowly became a kaleidoscope of annoyance, realization, and worry.

"Ah...you know what, we'll figure that out later."

What do I eat? Oh, God, do I have to eat whole dogs or shit like that? Fuck this! Fuck this!

He couldn't keep the growing horror off of his face.

"....okay...."

Korra raised an eyebrow but didn't push it. Didn't he....know?

When the trees broke, the airship sat just a handful of yards from the forest line. There was little activity around it, just a few crewmen milling about waiting for the Avatar's return. Which was probably sooner than expected.

"There's our ride."

JW's horror was soon exchanged for probably the first honest wonder he'd felt in ages. That was an airship. It was just going to...go up into the air and take them to a place. He'd never been on an airplane or a blimp or even a hot air balloon.

"It's...nice."

If he weren't so exhausted from being angry earlier, he would have looked excited.

"It's one of the best!"

Asami had designed it, after all. "State of the art everything, fuel efficient....all kinds of other impressive technical things I don't remember right now...." The tech wasn't her strong point.

They'd been noticed by the crew as they approached. It was hard to miss a giant polar bear dog and a snake man coming up on the airship. Korra made sure to step off to the side, clearly visible, and lift a hand in greeting.

JW was fine over level ground, but getting up onto the ship itself was An Adventure. At least on an airship there were things to hang onto so that he didn't face-plant in front of strangers. He made sure to spit a hiss at the first person to give him a weird look.

Korra waited patiently while Mr. Snake made his way up the ramp. She took the time to have a chat with the captain and deck crew, explaining their new passenger and that they were heading back to Republic.

This was definitely the weirdest stray she'd ever brought onto an airship.

At least it was one hell of a ship. Luxurious and state of the art, with plenty of open room that a giant snake man could move around comfortably in. Korra led him to the main communal area, an open and high ceiling-ed room with couches and chairs and low decorative tables.

"The trip will take a couple of days. How can we make you comfortable?"

Every pair of eyes that met his would receive a hiss. Fancy sky cruiser or not, he was not about to become a slithering freak show for these TWO-LEGGERS. Once they made their way into the lounge, he wrapped his entire body around the first chair he encountered.

The chair now belonged to him. Property of one James Walter.

"Honestly? A pillow, some pain pills, and some peace and quiet. I'm not a hard man to please, it's been a long day."

"I think we can manage that. Well, the first two, anyway. It is an airship."

'Quiet' wasn't exactly the normal. But pillows and something for pain? Definitely doable. Korra flagged down a crewman, not about to just leave her snakey guest alone. It was comfy in the lounge. She'd hang out there.

Just to be safe.

She flopped down into a plush chair and propped her feet up on a coffee table after someone had been dispatched for the pillows and medicine.

JW tried to relax as they waited but found that he couldn't. There was so much going on aboard the ship. He could feel people walking around through the parts of his body that touched the floor. The chair wasn't big enough to pile all of himself onto.

He found himself jealous of how at ease Korra looked. So if he couldn't be at peace, neither could she.

"So you think the spirit world will really get this thing off my arm, huh?"

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IT'S BULLSHIT SNAKE AU TIME!
I WANT TO PLAY THIS DUMB NAGA VERSION OF MY OC AND THAT IS WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN