She makes heart hands at Neo.

Neo grins wider, bounces in place, and makes heart hands right back at Hyacinth. Then she does a quick pair of back handsprings before bouncing in place happily once more.

Wow, she just really did that! 

Hyacinth applauds!

Neo bows and grins.

Hyacinth pauses to curtsey in return. 

Neo tilts her head, then points at Sin, then traces a question mark in the air with her fingertip.

Sin spreads her hands. She doesn't happen to know sign...

Neo rolls her eyes and snickers silently, and then Hyacinth suddenly gets a message.

I'm mute, not deaf. I was trying to ask if you had any questions you wanted to ask me.

Hyacinth laughs and nods. "Yeah, okay, sorry. Um..." Is there a reason why you're mute — nah. "How'd you learn to do handsprings like that?"

Training sims. They're what we do when we're between MMOs, since we all have special interest skills that make us feel more like ourselves.

Neo grins proudly — a bit smugly, even — and does a backflip, then keeps walking backward.

Sin grins. "Fucking sweet. I'd love to tag along for one of those sometime..." 

Neo grins back and gives Sin a thumbs up.

Hyacinth smiles back. "Are you going to stick around, or are there more people to introduce?"

She shakes her head and holds up one finger.

"One more, huh? I'd love to meet them."

Neo blows a kiss, gives a little finger-twirling wave, and then starts to shift.

She gains a couple inches of height, and her hair shortens substantially, turning a slightly reddish black with vivid red tips. Her eyes turn silver, and she smiles cheerfully. "Hi there! I'm Ruby!"

"Hey Ruby! Nice to meet you! I like your hair."

"Thanks! Yours is really pretty too!" She bounces in place as she walks alongside Sin, almost vibrating with excitement.

Awww, how adorable. To think Sable had a person like this sharing the same brain as her...

"Enjoying CORA? I think Sable said something about your favorite build being different from the one you got — care to remind me what you'd prefer?"

"Oooh, yeah! I really like high speed combat and being a whirlwind of death to monsters — Sable calls me an adorable blender — but I also really like being a sniper especially if I can mix the two and dash back and forth with a scythe while mixing in rifle shots or sometimes even using recoil for mobility it's so much fun!"

"Ooh, cool! So you are another source of the Guns Fascination. Is that like a general survival thing too or?"

"Mhm partly that but also partly just because I love hunting monsters and mostly just because I really really love designing weapons and seeing other people's designs and the smell of cordite and the feeling of holding a shiny new blade I just forged or a gun I just built!"

"Ooh, cool, you're a smith?"

"Uh huh uh huh yep if it has anything to do with making weapons I love it!" She bounces some more.