Well, he is a Peacock....

[nomen_est_numen]

[video]

Hello, phone network. Have a contemplative but slightly smiling bird.

"I've remembered something from when I was very young," he murmurs. "Well, several things. I recall a...palace, I suppose one could call it, though my memory of it seems to consist of endless flights of stairs. Perhaps it was a tower. It was very richly decorated... I remember a lot of red and gold and jade. A lot of things made from jade. And people. There were a lot of people, but they weren't Pecaocks. Mainly Sheep, Geese... I suspect humans didn't exist where I came from. It was... home. It definitely felt like home." Here he looks a bit puzzled. "And everyone referred to me as 'Prince Shen.'" The smile returns, slightly amused, this time. "Everyone was much larger than I was. I must have been quite small, indeed."

Something about remembering having been itty has put him in a warm mood.

((3% spent on this smattering of childhood.))

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[trustycrowbar]

"Wait... Prince Shen?"

[With all his squawking about being from the fifth century and yet being so prone to expensive tastes, he'd figured him to be well off in his world but... a prince?]

[nomen_est_numen]

"As far as I've recalled, yes. It seemed a bit odd to me when I did remember it--not everyone expects to have been royalty, after all." A beat. "There was a recurring Peacock symbol everywhere, as well. I've the feeling that my family had ruled for a very long time in this place--" His face suddenly lights up with realisation. "Gongmen City! Yes, that's the name!"

[trustycrowbar]

"Gongman City... that doesn't sound familiar, but you said yourself there's no humans there."

Magical fictitious city in the past populated and ruled exclusively by animals? Huh, why the hell not?

"I'm not going to have to call you 'your highness' or anything now am I?"

[nomen_est_numen]

Shen actually stops and thinks on that for a moment with a smirk. "Hmmmm."

Then surprisingly, the smirk drops and he answers, "No. No, I don't think I wear it all that well right now."

[trustycrowbar]

"Good, 'cuz I probably wasn't going to anyway." He adds with a grin.

[nomen_est_numen]

Eyebrow. "Well, at least we've got that sorted."