Allimir wasn't sure what to expect for his first meal as a mortal, but as he looked at the bowl of brown..mush would be the only way he could think to describe it he wasn't sure he was going to like it.
He was seated at a table in a booster seat next to Vivi, both of them too short to just make use of the normal chairs and Selen and Dwere had gotten they're bowels for them since they had long since learned that lines and Vivi was just asking for trouble.
Both Vivi and Allimir had formally white cloth bibs tied around their neck but it was clear they had been used many times before as they were now a dullish light grey and there were many old food stains on them.
Selen smirked as Allimir poked at his mush with a spoon compared to Vivi who was wolfing hers down (Well sorta, half of it was ending up in her mouth and the other half on her bib, face,..hair..)
"I know it doesn't look all that good little guy but you need to eat." he said.
"Are..you sure it's ok to eat?" Allimir said, trying his best not to sound bratty, he was representing mommy here after all but he was also in a toddler's form and apparently manifesting a toddlers picky eating habits.
"It's good to eat, it might not taste great but it has everything you need to stay healthy." Dwere said, having a spoonful and forcing herself to smile even though she didn't care for the taste anymore then Allimir would.
"The food here used to be really good till about six months ago." Selen added, following Vivi's example in a fashion, eating the mush fast so that the taste mostly didn't have a chance to register too much.
"what happened?" Allimir asked, watching Dwere take anther spoonful and smile, rubbing her tummy and then scoping up a tiny bit on his spoon and slowly putting it in his mouth, wincing.
"Oh dun be such a baby!" Vivi said and let out a loud belch, wiping her arm across her mouth and waiting on the others to finish up.
"Not a baby!" Allimir whined, then looked down and squirmed cutely and kicked his legs.
"er.. anyways.." Dwere said, speaking up to stop a potential fight. "The orphanage for the most part is supported by the different church's and temples in the city, and the biggest supporter USED to be the Church of day, Masa-Ra the sun goddesses religion."
"Ugh.. she's SUCH a prat." Allimir grumbled, slowly working on his bowl of mush.
"why am I not surprised your not a fan?" Selen quipped.
"Anyways.. They pulled all of their funding from here because we refused to only worship the Church of the day and believe in letting everyone pick their own faith. They were less then please and went the extra mile after they pulled their support and started putting up all sorts of red tape and making it next to impossible for other church's to donate to here without having to compensate them first." Dwere explained.
Allimir raised a eye brow and looked around the room and went to ask a question but Selen cut him off, figuring out what he was going to ask.
"Red tape is a figure of speech, basically abusing the rules." he said.
"Oh! that makes more sense." Allimir said then paused and got a mad look on his face. "wait what!?! But that's just..just.." he struggled to think of a term that described such a injustice.
"Hang On I got this." Vivi said with a giggle and leaned to one side, letting out a poot and filling her diapers, getting complaint from nearby tables.
"yeah that! it's poopie!"
"Well, that's one way to put it.." Selen chuckled, never knowing when Vivi was gonna drop a back door bomb was a second reason to eat fast, Dwere looked like she had all the regrets for not finishing sooner.
"so...what happens if the orphanage keep up like this?" Allimir asked, oddly the smell didn't bother him as much and caught up in the story had been eating his mush without complaint.
"well it's not looking good.. If you can go on to win the tournament or at least do super well it can only help out here." Dwere said, squirming in her seat.
"I'll win the whole darn thing, for mommy, for you guys, and just to stick it up Masa-Ra's snooty nose!" Allimir said, just declaration of justice being somewhat taped as he had started to fill his diapers right afterward.
With breakfast in their tummies and both of the little stinkers in the middle of getting changed (and washed up in Vivi's case) Allimir had more questions, which given how he was new to this plain wasn't exactly surprising.
"oh i noticed this big paint in the dining room of a little guy and his mommy, who was that?" he asked.
"Heh.. that little guy is actually the emperor and his wife. He's one of the best rulers around actually and for the most part keeps the peace and it's why his empire is normally chosen as the location for these tournaments." Selen said, getting the little champion all cleaned up while Dwere had the harder task of cleaning up Vivi having lost the coin toss.
"Wait..you have a little boy as a emperor AND he's married? I didn't mortals were into that kinda thing!!"
"Pffft, Nah little guy, the male half of the royal blood line was cursed or blessed depending on how you look at it, or who you asked, a generation or so back and all of them stop stopped signs of aging on the outside after a certain age. The empress is a former hero who kicked ALL the butt in her youth and actually rescued him when they were both young. It's kinda romantic in a slaying a war camp full of ogres way." Selen said, getting a smile on his face and a trailing off, he was a sucker for a good love story after all.
"whoa! How old was she when she kicked THAT much butt?!" Allimir asked, going all stary eyed.
"Ummm I think they were both 6." Dwere said, furrowing her brow. "I'm not actually sure HOW old they are now, She's aged well and well, you've SEEN how tiny he is.. they have a son."
"Or so they say.. No ones ever seen the little guy. I mean,m the supplies for a little one are going to the castle but he's kept hidden away for his own safety." Selen said, finishing up with Allimir's diaper change and helping him start to get redressed.
"Pffft, come on, I bet they don't even HAVE a kid, all those diapers are just fer the emperor because he knows diapers are where it's at!" Vivi said and giggled, getting glares from Selen and Dwere.
"Vivi! you KNOW that kinda talk isn't allowed!" Dwere scolded, looking around the room to make sure no one else was there, looking semi panicked.
"Is..is that really such a bad thing to imply? Me and Vivi are diapered." Allimir asked, looking confused.
"Look, it's a sore point for him, and since you'll be meeting him at the start of the contest PLEASE keep such thoughts and questions to yourself." Selen said, sweat dropping.
Before more could be said however there was a knock at the door, and then the headmistress Muluss, a tall crabby lady who's smile was known to make small children cry even if she presented herself as a kind warm hearted woman to the public.
"We need to talk." she said, narrowing her eyes.
"So.. I do believe that MORE then once I've stressed that while we welcome all children in need, we have to go though proper channels, is that NOT correct?" Muluss asked, hands behind her back and pacing back and forth.
all four kids were stood in front of her (with Vivi's change having been finished) and for the most part only Vivi was trying to make eye contract, being the least intimidated by her.
"Yes head mistress." Selen and Dwere Mumbled.
"after all, we do NOT have infinite resources, we have to allocate what we do have. Correct again?" She asked.
"Yes head mistress."
"Dwere, as a priestess in training I would of expected you to understand this more sharply then your friends..and yet here we are, with a sudden new child in our care and anther one that requires diapers far beyond what his age would suggest.. Did you think I wouldn't noticed?" Muluss asked, her tone a mixture of disappointment and wonder.
"I..but.. He has official papers and everything!" Dwere said, her voice a mousey squeak.
"Yeah! so back off!" Vivi added and got hit with a glare from Muluss that had a muffled poot escape out her back side and she found something on the floor to look at.
For Allimir, seeing his friends getting in trouble over him AND seeing Vivi get scared was hard to bear, and he was fighting the urge to change into his champion form and kick this ladies butt, though something told him that wouldn't of helped anything.
"Do you think just because you forged the papers and have them filed away I wouldn't know what you did? I might not be able to prove what you did, But I know it and so do you and there, punishment is called for." Muluss said, stopping and locking all four of them with a glare. "Since you three went all in to bring him in and put a drain on us, you may spend the day passing out flyers and pamphlets about the orphanage and encourage donations."
"That doesn't sound so-" Allimir started to say.
"In just your underwear." Muluss added, getting shrieks and whimpers from Selen and Dwere, though Vivi just kinda shrugged.
Public opinion was split on the apparent new campaign the orphanage was employing to get donations. Apparently the place was suffering from such hard times that the children couldn't even afford clothes, or at least that was the take away.
"P-Please take this flyer and..and look it over.." Dwere said, wearing a pair of plain white panties (that had a few stains in the back, no one was perfect!) and modest white under shirt despite not being that well endowed, she wasn't as shameless as Vivi was.
Selen meanwhile was slowly getting used to the humiliation, though was still blushing like gave he couldn't help but grin like a fool every time someone told him how cute his light pink undies looked. Having not been familiar with human undergarments when he'd first come to the orphanage, He'd gone with panties over briefs and while he knew better NOW, he'd grown to prefer the other and was comfortable enough with himself not to feel any shame for wearing them, But took a bit to get used to showing them off.
"Thank you for taking a flyer sir! And remember, there's no such thing as too small of a donation, every little bit helps!"
Vivi Meanwhile well, Since she walked around in just a diaper most of the time anyways this was basically a Tuesday to her, but she went the extra step and was shaking her rump and trying to play up her cuteness and as such had moved the most flyers and pamphlets so far.
"Come on everyone! help out a good cause! you know you wanna! side, do you wanna live in a city where I only git ONE diapie change a day?" She giggled and made a scrunchie face, though the tank was empty at least for the moment.
Allimir meanwhile had moved the second most, though not from a over the top performance but just from being so shy and meek but polite.
"T-Thank you so much. Please have a good day!"
