#tiny!dreamxd

XD normally does not have the anatomy to actually nom anyone; it doesn’t usually have a mouth, and it doesn’t even fully understand the purpose of a mouth. But it can grow mouths if it wants to and it will start doing so. It would put things and people into the same space the cloak takes them unless it purposefully creates a new storage space, which it could but probably wouldn’t feel the need to.

It’s also just confused by human anatomy in general lol especially how fragile humans seem to be and how much trouble they have storing and carrying things. Their inventory is tiny compared to its, and they can’t carry living things like it can.

Hide! XD flies right up to George’s face; George opens his mouth to ask it to teleport away or something, and it nearly chokes him as it shrinks down a bit smaller and darts into his mouth. He sputters and spits it out, clamping his mouth shut when it tries to reenter. George! Let XD hide!

“Wha- you can’t hide in my mouth!” George blurts out, gently pushing it away. “Go somewhere else, or just teleport away!”

Want to stay with you! It circles him, poking his mouth with a limb. Open! Store XD! Let XD hide in your face-pocket!

“It’s a mouth.” George curls his fingers around it, guiding it to his actual pocket. “Not a pocket. I need to use it to talk, you can’t hide in it.”

Oh. XD quietly hums, then enters his pocket. You use it to store food, though?

“Eating, not storing. I’ll explain later.” George covers his pocket with a hand, encouraging it to sit still. “Hush. If Sam notices you he won’t let me into the prison, so just be quiet and go invisible or something.”

XD does frequently shapeshift, and whenever it learns about a new thing it will often try to mimic that thing. For example, when it first met Bad it experimented with having its eyes white instead of green, and when it learned more about hands it started to have hands instead of more tentacle-like limbs. So when it starts learning about mouths, it experiments with mouths, although it rarely puts them on its “face” because of the mask.

George adjusts his weight, sitting more comfortable in the palm of XD’s hand. It pokes him with a finger to make sure he’s not about to fall off before heading down into the giant ravine.

Before it can lower him to the ground, George blurts out a startled exclamation and twists around, pulling a bunch of blocks out of his inventory.

“Oh, wait, can you carry these?” He asks, holding them out. XD scoops them up in its other hand without question. “I need to keep some room in my bag for new stuff. Thanks!”

It curls its fingers around the stuff, and then suddenly an opening appears on its hand. . .a hole? George squints, before realizing that’s a mouth on its palm. Fanged and could barely be considered a mouth at all, but that’s what it has to be.

XD uses its fingers to nudge all the items into the “mouth,” and they quickly disappear. Its void-black skin starts to seal over the mouth but George blurts out a wait! and reaches his arms for its hand. It blinks at him with several eyes before bringing that hand closer to him.

George stands up, moving a bit closer so he can see but not close enough that he risks falling in. Yeah, that’s definitely a mouth, big enough for him to fit in. “I thought you didn’t need to eat?”

Not eating? Storing. Like you do with food! Before George can explain that he eats food, not stores it, XD nudges him a bit closer with a finger. You can see!

“Um!” George moves away, back to the safety of the mouthless hand. He knows XD wouldn’t hurt him on purpose, but XD’s still learning a lot of things about humans. “No thank you!”

XD doesn’t seem offended by this; it just lowers its hand to the ground and lets him climb off before shrinking down and following him deeper into the ravine.

I think it’s bored? It keeps saying it’s curious. It...doesn’t seem like it means any harm? Aside from the general spookiness and asking how easy it would be to kill me.

George frowns. He doesn’t exactly want it following him back, because it’s definitely still dangerous, even if it’s not aggressive. He doesn’t want to put anyone in danger.

“Uh...I’m going to my home. You stay in your home. Okay?” George points deeper into the woods. “Stay here.”

Not my home. It looks taller again, limbs vaguely more human in appearance. Its mask now has a second eyehole, but this one’s all messed up, practically crossed-out. Like someone carved an ‘x’ over it with a knife or something. ᒷリ↸ ╎ᓭ ⍑𝙹ᒲᒷ. リ𝙹ℸ ̣  ⍑ᒷ∷ᒷ. Curious about your home?

"Um. . .sorry, you can't come to my home." George shakes his head, moving away when it moves closer. "No, no, you need to stay. Stop following me."

Want to explore, to learn. Curious about this world. Curious about you. It gently grabs onto his wrist. Show? Explain? Stay? I can give you things.

George pulls his arm free, taking another step away. "I don't- what? Explain what? And what do you mean when you say you can give me things?"

Can give you many things. Look! Its cloak rustles; a limb reaches out, holding dozens of arrows in its claws. Look! For you!

George hesitantly reaches for them. They're perfectly crafted, unlike his arrows, which are often made in a hurry. "Where did you get these?"

I got them. Out comes another limb, holding a bow. A third limb reaches out and starts a small fire on the ground, lighting up the slowly darkening clearing. Bow? Do you want another bow?

"Um. . .I don't need another one." The limb curls around the bow, crushing it and snapping it in half as it retreats back underneath its cloak. "But really, where did you get these?"

I got them, It repeats, moving closer. Show me your house? I will give you things for your house!

George nearly takes it up on its offer, then hesitates. "I- you can't. I don't think that's a good idea."

Other people will DEFINITELY be scared of it. It doesn't seem aggressive, but. . .it's too risky. Can't risk it lashing out at someone.

Maybe in the future. And hey, maybe I can bring some of my friends over to meet it? If I decide to come back? Dream and Bad probably wouldn't provoke it. Sapnap. . .hopefully wouldn't, unless it threatened one of us. Quackity's probably a bad idea for now.

Okay, then you stay. It moves around to block his path, limbs coming out and gently pushing him back. Not my home, but I am here. I can show you things!

....

It grows in size and reaches for him, holding him tightly and carrying him back over to the lava. George fights the urge to squirm so it doesn’t accidentally drop him. Stay! Not dark here.

"It's not dark here, but it'll be dark everywhere else!" George crosses his arms when it sets him down. "I could get hurt going back if I wait any longer."

Dream and Sapnap are probably worried sick.

Stay, don't go back. It pokes his arm. Stay. Stay.

"I'm sorry, I have to go." George walks away; it comes along, hovering next to him as he makes his way through the woods.

I can give you things! It reaches under its cloak, pulling out arrows and gravel and obsidian and logs and offering them all to him. Stay!

"I can't." George gently pushes its limbs away, refusing to take any of the gifts. "I'm sorry. But I'll come back later, okay? Promise."

He doesn't really feel hesitant about coming back, anymore. Maybe because it seems so upset about him leaving. Maybe because it's not trapping him, even though it clearly could. It doesn't want him to go but it's not forcing him to stay.

XD hates it when George leaves, and it always tries to get him to stay, but it never forces him to. But yes, it absolutely would try follow him out of the woods. I imagine if George was distracted or maybe upset, he wouldn’t realize that it was following him. It can also teleport, so it could just literally teleport to him.

I imagine the first time it left the woods to visit him would be at a time when George was upset. XD shrunk down small and followed him, and George didn’t realize this until they reached his house.

George pauses, dropping the rest of his blocks into the chest before closing it and glancing around. He could've sworn he heard something, but he doesn't see anyth- hold on, is that a bat?

He slowly reaches for his blankets, planning to use them like a net to catch it and release it outside, but then it moves closer and he realizes it's XD, smaller than he's ever seen it before. It hovers in front of him, most of its limbs tucked away, looking almost sheepish as it squints at him.

"Wha- XD!" George blurts out, standing up the rest of the way. It stays in place, now at about eye-level with him. "What are you doing here?"

Gifts? It offers, pulling a diamond out from under its cloak and holding it out to George. The gem's nearly as big as it is. He's never seen it this small; it hasn't ever been smaller than a cat in front of him before. Have gifts for George.

It drops the gem into his hand; he puts it into his inventory but doesn't stop frowning. "Why did you follow me? I told you not to. I can't deal with any more chaos right now."

Not chaos, calm. It moves away, returning to its human size as it starts opening his chests and sorting through them. Want you to be happy. Giving you gifts.

It picks up his diamond sword, inspecting it; George snatches the sword away and it slides a new sword out from under its cloak, dropping it into the chest. The blade’s shimmering with enchantments.

....

Yeah, those are absolutely footsteps. George starts pushing XD towards the corner. It doesn't fight the movement but it's letting out a confused hum as it starts to grow slightly bigger.

Danger? It asks. Will protect you.

"No, no, it's not danger, it's probably one of my friends." George grabs onto its arm, tugging until its full attention is back on him. "XD, you need to go. Teleport or. . .or shrink down and leave or something."

Why? Want to meet your friends. XD does shrink a bit smaller, but it's still taller than George. Stay?

"You can meet my friends later, but surprising them isn't a good idea, okay?" George releases its arm. "I'll tell them about you and take them to visit you soon, I promise."

It blinks at him with several eyes, then glances over at the door. The second the door starts to open, it shrinks a bit smaller before suddenly disappearing, the air seeming to twist around it like a Nether portal as it fades away.

Sapnap charges into the room, excitedly shouting something about Karl did. George glances around, just to double-check that XD actually left, before following Sapnap outside to see the "fucking huge" creeper hole Karl had accidentally caused. 

He swears he sees movement out of the corner of his eyes a few times, but every time he looks, there's nothing there.

George will eventually bring his friends out to meet it, and he knows it would probably be better to do that sooner rather than later, before XD messes up.