#asksozo

Yes! Finally someone asks about my fav bugs! Thank you! I was already starting to delete ask-not-to-Helob-or-Sozo from my ask-box, but today I stopped it, focusing on answering this one…

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Well, as me mentioned recently - once a year I do a cleaning ritual when I get all the dirt out of my fur, yes, once a year. This sometimes takes several days, yes, long activity, long and often boring. Grooming sounds like a very similar activity, so me probably wouldn't have time to do something like that more often. Besides, Helob's fur is tangled like a Lamb's wool - combing it is a job for many, many hours, yes, many hours of long grooming, brushing, smoothing, touching and searching for matted fur, and untangling, again combing and brushing… Helob doesn't think that anyone wants…

Long hours of touching Helob's fur? Sounds like Sozo dreams come true! And by the way, he has an excuse not to take care of his subjects (it's better for them, less of them will die).

I'm a bit out of practice in drawing, but it turned out nice.

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+ not well drawn BONUS:

Are you alright, my dearest friend of Sozo? Sozo doesn't tug too hard? You've got a lot of matted fur here… Helob good, yes?

Ask from my friend Titatotrix... In my bad translate it sounds something like that: What's that cloak you're wearing? What is it made of, who gave it to you, why do you wear it?

Ask for Sozo, so...

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Cloak? What cloak? Sozo doesn't wear cloaks… Oh, unless you mean Sozo's royal cloak! Yes, yes… this Sozo sometimes wears. He doesn't know what it's made of, but it's a nice material and some fluffy fur. Soft as Sozo's fur, only less smelly… but still Sozo thinks Helob's fur smells better. Sozo got it from the little traitors, yes, when he didn't know they are little traitors - on the day of the coronation, along with the Mushroom Crown and the death sentence, yes… He doesn't like wearing it, no, he only wears it on special occasions… When he issues decrees to kill more traitor toadstools… when he's having a day of listening to requests and refusals them… Ah, and when he goes to someone and wants them to know that Sozo is important… For some ceremonial meeting (in Lamb's village, for example)… or when he's going to the Smuggler's Sanctuary, yes…

Once he went without his royal cloak and was disrespected, no, bad smugglers, they tried to cheat Sozo… Then Sozo left and came back soon - in the royal cloak and with a lot of mushroom subjects. He got what he was supposed to get and everything he was supposed not to get in reparation for smugglers' bad treatment him… From then on, Plimbo and his smugglers treat Sozo like they should - as a king. But Sozo wears a cloak when meeting with them anyway, so that they never haven't forgotten who Sozo is…

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Thanks, Titatotrix.

First kiss? Oh, I remember that one... It was right after the Blood Moon… Sozo had spent the first day of the festivities in the village of Lamb and there had seen two friends doing a strange ritual. So he asked and found out it was a kiss - and that only very close friends do it. So when he met Helob again, Sozo suggested that they should try… It was really interesting, Sozo likes Helob's scents, and then he found out that he also likes Helob's taste, yes… Friend liked kiss thing too, so they repeated it, and then they added this "kissing" ritual permanently to their common rituals…

*giggle* But Helob upgraded the "kiss" recently, yes, yes… Sozo likes the upgraded one, yes, no?

Helob saw in one village in Anura how two animals make a kiss, but longer and… more interesting, yes, more interesting. They used tongues. So Helob suggested they try it too, yes? Yes. Helob likes a new better kissing ritual. Sozo do?

Pfff… what stupid thinking. Just because it's been a while and someone else has pooped a shit doesn't mean it's stopped smelling terribly and being shit!

Oh yes! Helob happy, cuz has a hobby and can boast of it! I love to carve in wood. Being precisely, like to make wooden figures. Helob can do many things, yes, builds traps by his own - but makes figurines for fun, yes, yes… Helob likes. Usually they are figurines of beings he knows and likes, sometimes completely random creatures, yes…

Unfortunately, once he tried very, very hard, but no, no, didn't succeed… Now I'm ashamed, yes, ashamed, cuz it was a figurine of his beautiful mister, his great and beloved king, and the shrewd king Sozo found the figurine and took it, and has it… and Helob so, so ashamed, oh, very, very ashamed…

But that's okay, because he's already doing the next one, yeah! Helob makes a beautiful one and give in exchange for that ugly, not good one, and king Sozo will be pleased! Because now it will be something really beautiful, see for yourself!

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Oh, Sozo hasn't had any hobbies that weren't obvious for a long time, y'know, like researching mushrooms, drawing different types of fungus, experimenting with new potions and mixing drugs… but recently Lamb showed Sozo something new - fishing! And Sozo loved it! And he's very, very, very good at it. There's no conceit in Sozo now, see for yourself.

And that's just one last hour or so. Sozo loves fishing but doesn't like eating fish, his Helob doesn't like fish either - so he didn't know what to do with them at first and threw them at his stupid, false mushroom subjects. But then Helob said he knew someone who would buy Sozo fish. Sozo wanted to give fish to Helob so he would have more money, but Helob said no, no, not like that… and now Helob and Sozo are business partners, yes! Sozo fishes, Helob sells, then they share money fifty-fifty… Sozo doesn't need money, no, he doesn't, the mushroom king has enough money for his needs, so he collects for something veeery special… yes, yes!

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Hi, hello, Mrs Cat! Hello there, old baby kitties! Wanna more fish? Helob has some freshy, mmm… still alive, yes, yes…

King Sozo.

Well, not so long ago Sozo would have said "mushrooms" without hesitation.

...But now, after staying with Helob in his lair for a week, and having Sozo's friend cooking various delicacies for him, he can't say otherwise than: what Helob will cook for his king! Spider cooks great, yes, so everything he's cooking is my favourite!

King Sozo! He's better than anything Helob could ever cook!

Oh, my! I can see that you're really hungry for your king! Would you like to taste Sozo's limb?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes, yes, please!

If you wanna know, Sozo feels really honored to be a beloved friend's favourite delicacy. Too bad I only have four arms and they grow back so slowly…

Helob likes to eat many, many different things. He likes meat, yes, meat (but not fish, no, nasty fish). He also likes mushrooms. Even some plants, yes, good herbs, give a good taste to meat and mushrooms. But nothing, NOTHING compares to the taste of his beautiful mister, the good and generous king Sozo!

Sozo is on drugs. Helob is on Sozo X"D

My friend gave me next interesting question. Thank you, Titatotrix :)

My poor translate: Is there any subject you like, liked, or even tolerated more than others? - to Sozo

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What? Favourite subject? One of these toadstools? Have you looked at all these Shroomies? They look exactly the same! They may actually have different colours, but that only makes them even more difficult to tell apart! Even if they weren't vile traitors and murderers who all want their king dead, there's no way Sozo would know he was talking to someone of them for the second time in his life!

But wait a minute… Yes, Sozo actually likes certain toadstools more. To be precise, the ones he doesn't see are the ones you can assume are his favourites!

Oh! Even more Sozo likes, yes, likes the most - those mushrooms, little toadstools that go to or with Sozo's friend, Helob and don't come back! Oh, yes, those Shrooms are king's favourite!

1/2 asks from my dA :) Next one tomorrow I guess...

Oh, Sozo and Helob have engagement every week. They have one day and a specific time once a week when they're meeting.

Yes. Helob has a deal with the Lamb and can visit his wise king once a week and be with him for up to four hours! Four hours of pure time with the king Sozo, yes, the journey doesn't count…

By the way, Sozo needs to talk to Lamb about limiting his time with Helob. He doesn't like it very much. It looks he'll have to be unpleasant to Lamb again.

*gasp* Or maybe king Sozo will just visit Helob more often at his home in Anura? Helob will make a formal dinner engagement.