[center][color=lime][h1]Loch[/h1][/color][/center]

Loch's grin faltered slightly when O'Malley referred to them as 'm'lass'.

Ah, right. They forgot about [i]that[/i]. They weren't sure exactly how to address the pronouns issue. It certainly didn't seem like the most important thing right now, and they weren't even sure how easy it would to be to explain to him. 

He was, after all, an animatronic at a children's establishment.

Based seemingly on the personality of an Irish gangster from the 80s and 90s.

It was kind of the closest experience Loch would ever have to coming out to a grandparent, now that they thought of it. 

[color=lime]"I-I see,"[/color] Loch said in response to O'Malley's answer, filing those thoughts away for the moment as the much more important topic of a "missing person" case came to the forefront. They certainly hadn't come across [i]that[/i] on their cursory research of the park. At least that gave some resolution to the "who had opened the door" mystery.

[color=lime]"Err, something like that,"[/color] Loch answered O'Malley's question about whether they were searching for cryptids. Cryptids, mysterious organisation, mass conspiracies about kidnapping people to use them as basis for AI. In the eyes of the common man, they probably were all of similar ridiculousness... then again, could O'Malley be considered a 'common man', either the animatronic himself or the man his personality had been based on? 

Before Loch could elaborate, a third person joined their conversation, one familiar to both of them: Cassidy Byrne, former Olympic martial artist turned spooky psychic. The simultaneous sensation of her presence being unexpected while also inevitable washed over Loch. It was also tinged with discomfort, in part because she seemed to be armed.

[color=lime]"Yeah, I agree with the platypus,"[/color] Loch said. [color=lime]"Approaching someone in the dark while holding a gun doesn't give the friendliest of vibes."[/color]