Cat!AU: Renaissance

In which Mako makes armour for cats. Inspired by . 
# Mako is the daughter of a sword maker. 
## Mako is a poor student with three cats 
## Mako's blood sings with ---make make make---
## Mako can't afford the equipment nor the materials to make swords.
## Mako makes armour instead. 
## Cat armour, to be specific. 
# Cat!Chuck is so ANGRY. Mako looks at him, scowling and licking himself, and knows there will be puke in her shoes tomorrow. Herc kinda sighs and goes to sleep. Cat!Raleigh prances happily around her apartment. 
## This pattern continues--Mako ... not exactly stuffing Chuck into armour but it's close and Chuck puking in her shoes.--for some time.
# A friend of Mako's convinces her to go to a renaissance faire with her decked out clowder. 
# So. many. people. fawn over them and Chuck's like, 'this being the centre of attention is quite nice'. Chuck hates it until he realizes he kinda really likes this 'center of attention' thing. Herc spends almost the entire day snoozing in Mako's friend's arms. Raleigh's already pleased as punch. 
# It's a chilly day but the cats are snug as bugs in rugs. 
## Chuck stops bemoaning his armour. 
## Chuck however is 100% totally and completely against leashes. 
## Mako retaliates with three leashes braided together and clipped evenly along his armour such that she doesn't choke him. 
## When she finds him again after he's passed around from kid to kid, he's cheerful again, and then she picks up his leash, he mreows dramatically, and flops onto his side. As she's dragging his dead weight over the lumpy ground, she considers making him a helmet. 
# Vanessa's hired by a booth to stand around, look pretty, and answer questions. 
## She does a better job as sales associate than the actual sales associate. 
## And maybe she's a princess and runs a workshop for children on how to make those cone hats with the waves fabric at the end. 
# Alison tags along. 
# Alison and Vanessa and Mako meet
# Alison and Vanessa are absolutely taken by Mako (and her clowder) and don't let her just 'leave' the faire--they insist she come over for a late dinner.
# Upon their return, a green, one-year-old-sized blur flies from the house roaring 'WAWR!!!!'. Said blur is wearing a very old jumper of Hermann's with the seams in the shoulders let out so the sleeves trail behind Baby Choi like wings. Gottliebling has a tiny paper crown, Hermann's wearing a swath of starry fabric like a toga, and Tendo's in a belted dress with his guitar over one shoulder. 
## Hermann and Tendo set a stew to stewing in a slow cooker and baked rolls for bread bowls. 
Tendo also suggested hiding the forks and spoons so they'd be more authentic. 
Hermann suggests they don't. 
 
# Chuck pees on the hall carpet, flicks his tail in Mako's general direction, and struts off. 
## Mako apologizes profusely and offers to replace the rug, but Vanessa brushes her off as she gets the cleaner--between her family and Alison's, they have two humans without potty training and five cats--a bit of cat pee is nothing. 
## They hear a feline scream and go running just in time to see Cheung, Jin, and Hu leap at Chuck, cornered, teeth first. 
Mako--
Bigger Sasha ambles in, gets a mouthful of Chuck, drags him to the cage, and headbutts him in. 
Chuck cowers in the corner, ears flat and eyes wide, for hours. 
## Matters do not improve for Chuck when Big Sasha saunters on top of the cage and sprawls, her shadow falling across Chuck. 
## Cheung, Jin, and Hu circle the cage like sharks (as much as they can given only two sides are accessible.) 
Vanessa calls them--
They attend in sync, leap one after the other onto the table and then the counter, and sit at attention as a unit. 
# Raleigh climbs up Mako's dress, settles across her shoulders, and will. not. get. down. He's happy, though, and keeps licking her ear. 
## Herc investigates Gottliebling's bassinet, climbs in, and squeezes himself between baby and basket. 
# When Alison goes upstairs to bathe Baby Choi, Raleigh leaps from Mako's shoulders onto hers. They can hear him singing in the bathtub from downstairs. 
# Bored of toying with Chuck, Big Sasha climbs into the bassinet, wrinkles her nose at Herc, and curls up against Gottliebling's other side. 
## Hu recalls Gottliebling exists and joins them. 
## Vanessa at that point rescues Gottliebling as her baby's in actual danger of suffocation by cat. 
# It's quite late, Chuck won't leave the cage, Herc's obviously comfy, and Raleigh's soaking wet, so Mako ends up staying the night. 
## She wakes to quiet 'clinging'; Herc's curled against her neck, Raleigh's her little spoon, Chuck's under her knee, and one of the identical kittens is slinking along, eyes bright in the dark. He leaps onto the sofa bed and stalks along Mako until he reaches her head, sniffs earnestly, then pads over her face, onto the back of the sofa, and leaps onto a bookcase, off the bookcase, and leaves the room.
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