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 Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2016 9:06 pm
Cadmus was fourteen. He was practically an adult. Sure, he had four more years to be recognized as one, but he considered himself an adult and that was all that mattered.
So it was a very adult thing to head out powered-up when the snow fell its thickest and build a snowman, only to blow it down with a magically focused berry beam. Cranberries splattered against its victim mercilessly, sending an explosion of snow and globs of red across the park in savage brutality. Cadmus clutched at his stomach and laughed, dropping into the snow and rolling about at how much fun this really was.
Any passersby would've been alarmed; it looked like a murder scene caused by one of those younger terrorists. Yet, even if someone were to think that, Cadmus paid them no mind. He went right back to building his second victim from the remnants of snow still about him, keen to take another snowman's life again.
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Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 5:35 pm
"You," Anakeion hummed, crunching pleasantly away on a candycane as she rounded the corner, "have magic, and I wish I had some, that sucks." Her aura hadn't been there, and then it was -- she'd had the foresight to take off her jacket before slipping into the white and blue like a second skin, so she wouldn't freeze to death -- but she had a sandwich bag of candy canes, and an eye for aesthetic, and that was all that really mattered.
"Mind if I join? I haven't gotten a good snowman in forever, and half the fun's building it up and then knocking it down." She sauntered up, staying an arm's-length away, holding out the bag like a peace offering.
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Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 8:22 pm
Red eyes blinked at Anakeion, as if she had just pulled an incredible magic trick. Even though he was the one with the real magic, it seemed.
Dropping from the tree branch he sat on, Cadmus approached Anakeion, and cheekily smiled with hands to his hips. "It's 'cause I'm a... senshi," he said, careful to remove 'chibi' from his vernacular. He was fourteen, he wasn't a chibi anymore. Even if he was still smol as one.
"And I guess you're not." He scratched the back of his head where the recognition of an energy signature throbbed. Well, at least she was Order. "You're probably one of those knights people, right? I haven't meant one in, like, ever. And yea, sure! There's enough snow around here to build a whole bunch."
He extended his hand into the bag without taking it from her, keen on what was inside. In a swift moment, he peeled away the plastic from a cane and stuck it in his mouth.
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Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2016 1:32 pm
"You," Anakeion said loftily, shoulders straight and level, like she was imparting the weight of the world upon Cadmus' shoulders, "are a very powerful and magic young man, and I would be lucky if you'd chat with me -" she winked, and all the gravitas went away, and she was just a grinning young woman shivering in the cold of the winter season - "nah, I don't gotta talk like that and neither do you, don't worry about it, it's too much trouble to be fancy-formal."
"I'm Anakeion Page of Castor -- you met Castor? Kinda tall, 'bout yay high," she shrugged, approximating a height in the air with one hand (it was probably four inches away from Prince Castor's actual height, but you couldn't win them all). "Big wings, laurels, wearing a Greek skirt or something I dunno the term for. Iuno how it works, lil' man." Crunch, crunch; Anakeion shoved another candy cane into her mouth and bit down hard enough on the bottom that parts of it shattered off, chewing away at them for a bit until the candy cane was deemed plausible to hold in the corner of her mouth. "But yeah, I'm a Knight - kinda new to this." It was a ploy, perhaps, but it wasn't an ill-meant one -- he was a kid, and she wasn't going to demean him like acting like she knew better -- it'd work poorly and she'd just frustrate him away. He was a little easy to read, and that was nice.
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Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2016 4:54 pm
Cadmus was just about to elegantly besmirch the lofty attitude of the page before she corrected herself. Of course, not without agreeing to her well-received statement first; something he reflected well in his forever cheeky smile. It was good to know someone respected his magic, 'chibi' or not.
"Oh, that's right. You knights serve other people, like royalty, right? I haven't, like, talked to him or anything, but I've seen him. Back when I was..." 'Chibi' nearly slipped out again. "Back when I was a first stage senshi. It was only from a distance and he... well... He's pretty much as you described. Probably knocks down a lot of people and things with those wings."
"I'm Cadmus, of cranberries." He kicked at the pockmarked snow to emphasize this. "It ain't a great power, but I make do. You can't use any magic or whatever? I don't know much of knights, aha."
In the midst of saying this, Cadmus got to work on a new snowman by piling up a small hill at his feet.
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Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2016 6:02 pm
"I mean -" she shrugged - "haven't met any other princes or princesses, yanno? From what I gather, there's maybe three or so running around including Castor, and the rest aren't here and their knights are here instead. Typical magical girl lost mentor stuff." Anakeion sighed, but it was the face of 'well, that's just how it is, oh well'. As soon as she'd finished speaking, it was already old news; over and done with, not to be repeated for fear of boredom. "Nah, don't got any magic -" she summoned her toy pillar, tossed it into the air and watched it flip before catching it on the downflight - "but I have a piece of plastic, which is obviously better."
Pffft. She snorted. "I wish. It's plastic. Best I can do with it is grab a bedazzler every night and redo some sharp sequins."
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Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2016 9:58 pm
"Typical?" Cadmus gave her another blink, before shrugging and passing on the topic of magical girl tropes for another time. Instead, he gave a laugh, and looked at the toy pillar.
"That's your weapon?" he asked, unimpressed. Then, figuring he was rude, quickly added: "I'm not saying it's, like, flimsy or anything, but how do you fight? Chuck it at the enemy's head and hope for the best? They really don't equip you knights with good stuff, like they expect you to die or something."
For the first time in his life, he was suddenly glad to be a senshi.
By now, he had made a mountain out of a molehill—literally—and shaped it into a small sphere to push. "That'd be kinda cool, though. To customize the hell out of that thing. Just bejewel the crap out of it. Better than, like, summoning cranberries from somewhere." To emphasize this, he flashed Anakeion his gloved hand and held back on one of his attacks. Cranberries rippled up from the palm of his hand like a mini geyser; some even dropping to the snow. "Want one? Apparently you can eat these things, but I'd rather not. Hate their taste." He made a popped sound around his candy cane saying this.
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2016 5:54 pm
"You know," she shrugged with a severe roll of her shoulders, "like anime? Madoka, Cardcaptor Sakura, Bleach, Naruto? That kinda stuff?" Eh. It wasn't important if Cadmus did or didn't, anyways. "Apparently we get magic when we rank up - chick I saw had a shell flute - but this resets every time I power up, and I'm too damn lazy to carry around a bedazzler, so." Anakeion tossed it over her shoulder, unconcerned, and it made a soft Poof! in the snow.
"I fistfight, which works about as well as you'd expect -" she winced - "nnnot super well, is what I'm saying. Maybe I should carry around pepper spray? I've heard it hurts a ton if it gets in your anything."
A smirk. "Yeah, I like cranberries! Wouldn't mind one, if you'd hand em over?"
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2016 10:22 pm
"Oh, I've heard of those. I'm not big into anime, though. That's my brother's realm."
Cadmus managed a small laugh at her nonchalant throw over the shoulder, amiably impressed. He's too dependent on his magic to consider a good hand-to-hand.
"That's still seriously cool, though. Pounding a bad guy's face in with just your hands. You're like the Batman right now, and then like, become Wonder Woman after some experience. I always thought Wonder Woman was better. " His grin waned just a bit at her wince. "But yea, totally carry about some pepper spray. Or a baseball bat. Some senshi I met a while ago suggested the same thing when I was a first stage. I didn't heed her words, but I really wish I did."
Cadmus trotted up to her and held out his palm. "The only good thing about them it that they aren't ever tart-tart like regular cranberries. They still turn my stomach, but they're good." He motioned with his other hand. "But I can't even begin to talk the ones on my homeworld. The ones that grow there. Don't even taste like cranberries. Anakeion—is that, like, a place or something? Have you been there?"
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2016 6:50 pm
"You," Anakeion said immensely seriously, "have got to introduce me to your brother. Is he one of us?" She said that like being a senshi or a knight was a Secret Cool Kids club, and being in it meant you were In on everything cool - or at least, that was what her tone conveyed, combined with the eyebrow raise.
She picked up one cranberry at a time with careful fingers, eating it with an inquisitive face. "Pretty good for raw cranberries, actually! Hey, that gives me an idea -- you have a phone? I like hanging out with smart people, and I still...don't really know a lot of the ropes of how this goes." Her laugh was calculated, perhaps, but it sounded perfectly carefree and just the tiniest bit apologetic. "Besides, I figure people will screw less with the two of us together than one of us, yeah? And -- Anakeion's a place, I'm pretty sure." Her brow furrowed again. "Someplace on Castor. But iuno --- it's kind of like some sort of greek temple? Really cold, lot of huge statues, looks like people probably trained there...never paid a lotta attention in history."
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Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 10:30 am
Cadmus shook his head. "Naw, Conner's just a normal guy. No powers or anything." Unless you counted his weird ability to really meow like a cat. He confused the neighborhood ferals once.
The boy nodded his head swiftly, and he took out his senshi phone, and then his personal one. He tended to keep them separate, but he wasn't sure how to go about contacting the other. Weren't they supposed to keep the civilian half of their lives secret? Nevertheless, Cadmus was eager to keep in contact with someone. Most of his meetups with other Order members were chance encounters.
"You can totally contact me or something if you need help or advice," Cadmus reassured her. "But like, do you mean as a knight or as a regular person?" He weighed both devices in his hands. "Do knights even get phones? 'Cause, like, this is a 'senshi' phone. I can give you my real number, though. It's fine." His mouth drew to an O next. "Oh, that's pretty cool! I never expected knights' names to be, like, places. Though if it's on Castor at least it's somewhere."
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Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2016 2:28 pm
"Oh, come on, you get a phone," Anakeion whined, looking distinctly put out. "Knights don't get phones, this is nonsense?? Apparently we get rings or something, whatever, but I haven't found mine - if you hand me your civvy phone," she pointed to the personal one, "I can shove my number and name in there, you can text me sometime and just say you're the berry guy."
"Nah, apparently all Knight names are places or something, is my assumption? We've gotta be knights of something, so it makes sense they'd be somewhere, just. Maybe not on earth. Definitely not on earth."
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2016 2:55 pm
"Oh, that sucks," Cadmus said sympathetically, offering the page his phone. "I mean, I guess rings are more discreet than a phone, but don't seem as handy. Then again, I don't really know how they work either... And you have to find it? G-good luck doing so."
"Whoa, but that's pretty cool. I thought all knights, like, just stayed on Earth or something. Space is great, and since knights can go to, it's even cooler."
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2016 4:05 pm
"If you wanna go scrounge through an entire town-sized temple n' try and find the ring," Anakeion complained, her lip curled in disgust as she typed in her number, "call me, beep me, whatever -- but that sorta thing would take hours, and I do not have the discipline to do that by myself, okay." She shrugged, handing the phone back to him. "Nah, though, I could really use help with that sometime, if you're free. Dress warm, it's basically this cold there all the time."
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2016 10:43 pm
The chibi's eyes sparkled. "Oh hell yea, I would love to!" Cadmus said, a little too spirited. "I-I mean, I am totally open to helping you. Contact me whenever, as long as it's not a weekday because of— Actually, contact me even if it is a weekday."
He made a face at the fact it was just as cold on Castor as it was during the wintertime on Earth, but it was one of incredulity rather than disgust. "Oh, that really sucks. But at least I can make a snowman there, too." He smiled cheekily. "So yea, anytime works. Whenever you wanna."
Daekie if you wanna fin in a post or two, i'm game!
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