It was something, right? Some kind of distraction. It had its own perils, but they felt... easier to step around than the one currently turning him into a sobbing wreck on a regular basis without the assistance of drugs.
He fumbled to reach between them to get his phone out of a pocket. "I probably could, but it'd be magic. I don't know how to do it properly. I was... high-wire, in human form."
That Dexterity 5, Athletics 4, had come from somewhere.
Tannusen got his phone out of its lockscreen and went into a folder to pull up a few things he'd transferred to it from his old one. Selected a video, and let Cassian see the screen.
There was indeed a Tannusen on a highwire, an intricate leather winged white tiger mask over most of his face, the rest of him clad in what had probably been some form of spandex. White with black stripes, to keep up the motif.
The figure on the screen did a series of backflips along the wire, way overhead. Stupidly improbable. But, well, Cassian had fought him once, briefly... the man flowed like water in a brawl. Why not on a wire?
"No footage from the first troupe," he noted, because that had been... Trench's troupe, of course. "I met Isaac in the second, did a lot of acts together with me in my other form." Because while Tannusen wasn't... a hundred percent safe to deal with, in his other shape, he was certainly easier to handle than a natural-born tiger would have been.
And also a hell of a lot more impressive-looking. Inbred zoo animals just couldn't compete.
Why not make it look like he had an extra-impressive handler, then?
"And we worked security together with my sister in the third."
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He fumbled to reach between them to get his phone out of a pocket. "I probably could, but it'd be magic. I don't know how to do it properly. I was... high-wire, in human form."
That Dexterity 5, Athletics 4, had come from somewhere.
Tannusen got his phone out of its lockscreen and went into a folder to pull up a few things he'd transferred to it from his old one. Selected a video, and let Cassian see the screen.
There was indeed a Tannusen on a highwire, an intricate leather winged white tiger mask over most of his face, the rest of him clad in what had probably been some form of spandex. White with black stripes, to keep up the motif.
The figure on the screen did a series of backflips along the wire, way overhead. Stupidly improbable. But, well, Cassian had fought him once, briefly... the man flowed like water in a brawl. Why not on a wire?
"No footage from the first troupe," he noted, because that had been... Trench's troupe, of course. "I met Isaac in the second, did a lot of acts together with me in my other form." Because while Tannusen wasn't... a hundred percent safe to deal with, in his other shape, he was certainly easier to handle than a natural-born tiger would have been.
And also a hell of a lot more impressive-looking. Inbred zoo animals just couldn't compete.
Why not make it look like he had an extra-impressive handler, then?
"And we worked security together with my sister in the third."