[The scream that emits from Rocket's throat goes straight past the artificial voicebox that he barely acknowledges is a thing, and he only just barely gets away from the pouncing claws of the predator before scrabbling up a tree desperately and taking safety in the branches.
Somewhere along the way, he's shed his jumpsuit but the transformation has only made him lose his canny intelligence and shoved all animal instinct to the forefront. He still reeks of metal. His back is still a bald mess of brackets and scar tissue, and his hands are still far too humanoid to be a traditional raccoon, but he still looks like prey, and he knows a predator when one comes close to snapping his thin body up in its jaws.
And yet... Familiarity. Set upon a branch out of reach, he presses his scrawny body lower trying to take in the sight of the white wolf. A predator is a predator is a predator. Differentiating them isn't what a creature does, and yet... He's puzzled.
Like has been happening since this transformation began, Rocket tries to chitter something and it comes out as words, accentless and lifeless, like a computer translating foreign words.]
the hunt- b because why not
Somewhere along the way, he's shed his jumpsuit but the transformation has only made him lose his canny intelligence and shoved all animal instinct to the forefront. He still reeks of metal. His back is still a bald mess of brackets and scar tissue, and his hands are still far too humanoid to be a traditional raccoon, but he still looks like prey, and he knows a predator when one comes close to snapping his thin body up in its jaws.
And yet... Familiarity. Set upon a branch out of reach, he presses his scrawny body lower trying to take in the sight of the white wolf. A predator is a predator is a predator. Differentiating them isn't what a creature does, and yet... He's puzzled.
Like has been happening since this transformation began, Rocket tries to chitter something and it comes out as words, accentless and lifeless, like a computer translating foreign words.]
I know you.