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 Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2022 3:03 am
Quote: The Lantern Festival (10) : Scientists have been hard at work trying to understand the strange, glowing qualities of the luminescent caterpillars found in the caves by the reservoir. The caterpillars still shrivel up if they are taken out of the caves but their glowing secretions have been processed into an organic paste that can withstand the outside world. The city is selling paper lanterns infused with various seeds. The glow paste is full of minerals to support healthy plant growth without risking damage to the environment; all lantern purchases come with a small packet of activating power that will heat the paste up enough to mimic the effects of a candle without the concerns of flammability. When the glow paste loses its heat, the lantern will return to the Earth and upon the first rain (or any contact with water) the paper will dissolve and the seeds may begin to grow. All proceeds from the lanterns are put right back into the community to support local conservation and environmental protection efforts.
Agrawain stood on a flattop roof of a building with three lanterns on a table, a paint set laying next to them. He was carefully making designs on the lanterns and adding in his native language here and there as needed. All three were different in looks and writing but shared some key features that only he would understand the meaning of.
The ancient Senshi didn't plan on lighting them up until they were finished being painted and he honestly didn't even plan on lighting them here and fully planned on taking them into the nearby park first.
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2022 3:12 am
Holi was still new to this senshi thing, but she did gather that it meant not doing too much stuff in her powered form. Since she was at the Star festival, buying trinkets was the first thing on her mind. Noah might like one of the star charms and maybe she could get a lantern for her as well? Oh wait...What about Bellamy?! Oh! Maybe she should get him a lantern too? She had heard about the glowy caterpillars and man did she want to take one home. But because they withered like little plants when taken out of their environment, she decided to visit them later and maybe take some pictures with her phone.
The fact that the lanterns were made with the paste from these pillars was what made them seem so cool! Once she managed to buy more than what she was originally going to [Maybe Remy would like some for his family? Oh she was sure her foster mom would love some as well! She also wanted like....6 in her room to keep it lit at night....Not that she was scared of the dark or anything.], Holi snuck off to power up, leaping up onto the first building that caught her eye. She almost fell off when a glowing ball passed by, making her think it was a really fast firefly. She shook her head to clear it, continuing on.
She was not expecting some one to be there but hey look! Was that....?
Proto approached the being, eyes wide. "Oh wow! Youre a big kitty! A-are you one of those....Erm...Mauvians?! You look so cool!"
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2022 3:30 am
Even focused on painting as he was, Agrawain felt the chaos Senshi when her power spiked to life as she powered up. He stilled for only a moment, brush close to one of the lanterns but not touching just yet, then straightened up and put the brush into the dish filled with water so the paint would come off. No need to ruin a perfectly good brush as he doubted he would be adding the paint to the lantern just yet.
He turned to the young woman after she landed on the roof top and started to head towards him. "No, I'm not Mauvian." He said, as he eyed her outfit, picking out key features Hania had told to look for to differentiate between the chaos Senshi kinds. The feel of chaos made his fingers twitch and his legs tense in preparation to move, but it was a different chaos then he had been forced to feel for centuries and he could admit to himself at least that he was curious. "You are a mirror, correct?" If she was paying attention and knew difference dialects and how they sounded like, the mirror Senshi would not have been able to place his.
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2022 3:39 am
Wait, he wasn't a mauvian? Then what was he? Proto's curiosity was once again starting to get the better of her, "Mirror? Oh! Yes! Yes I am!" She was beaming slightly, quite proud that she remembered what the name of her fraction was. Sitting down, Proto made sure to keep a bit of distance because despite the fact that she wanted to pet his head, she knew most kittens had claws of doom. She cocked her head to the side, "What are you?" Hopefully that didn't sound rude, but she couldn't recall if Remy had taught her about non-mauvians. She was sure there were aliens out there [The X-files confirmed this forever ago duh], maybe this was one?! How cool!
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2022 3:47 am
He gave a slow blink at the Mirror's enthusiastic response. He was still trying to get used to even being around living beings again and he had never been the best with new people anyway. He didn't take offense at her returning curiosity however as it was only natural in his opinion. "I am the last of my kind, one of the planet Agrawain of which I hold the honor of protecting." Even if it feels like he failed that honor a millennia ago and technically he was the last of two peoples do to his mixed blood.
"Why did you chose to walk the path of chaos?" It was on the but side but that was honestly the most pressing question he had for any person of the chaos factions. Why would anyone want to side with destruction?
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2022 3:59 am
The last of his kind? How sad... Proto tilted her head once more, "Planet? Does that make you like the white moon?" Now she was a bit on edge, but since this kitten didn't attack her, she figured she was in the clear. The question he posed threw her a bit off guard, so she stumbled over her words at first. "I-I uhhhh." She cleared her throat, "It seemed like the thing to do." She didn't think she was actually walking the path of chaos per se, but if that's what some choose to interpret it as then who was she to judge? "Besides, I get to walk in mirror space, which is super cool~" That and Remy was just the best person to talk to with all her questions. She still didn't understand most of what she was capable of, but with time and patience [at least what patience she could manage to gather because man this was the longest thing shes ever committed to] perhaps she could be something great! Hopefully like Commander Shepard of Mass Effect~ Or Maybe Liara?! Oh what about Kaiden?! Or better yet, why not all three? Who said being a bad a** meant that she had to pick just one example?! She was getting distracted...."Why did you choose the path you did?"
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2022 4:11 am
"Yes." He still wasn't used to having to use that term either. Before coming to earth he has just been a Senshi, as far as he was aware no Senshi had sided with the Dark Kingdom and the Mirror's didn't even exist. "You...chose chaos... on a whim?" His brows furrowed as he looked at the Mirror in disbelief. "You chose the most power that leads to destruction without much thought to why?" His fingers flexed, the hard nails at the end glinting when the light caught them but he didn't make any move to attack, rather it seemed like more of a fidget movement. "To walk the mirror space seems lacking when you could walk the entirety of a planet instead."
"I chose to step up up as protector when Hania sensed my potential along with my brothers. There was never a split path for me to chose between order and chaos, only to chose between being what my people needed or to not." He didn't regret it, even now a thousand years from the fall, his only regret was that he didn't die then to be able to be reborn with the rest now that he knows it was even possible.
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2022 4:48 pm
Well when you put it like that... Proto smiled, "If that's how you put it, then yes. If a white moon kitten had come to me first, I would've been a white moon senshi. If some one from the other side of chaos would've gotten to me.....I dont think I would've been happy." She's heard about corrupted senshi and it just didn't seem neat to have a hole in your chest and head, what if something got stuck in there? Like a burger or some fries? Well....If that's the case, does it mean you've eaten? Maybe she should find a corrupted and ask! "That makes sense~" She frowned, " What if your people needed chaos?" She wasn't trying to convince him, just curious.
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 1:28 am
So she admitted that she could have been swayed to order if they had been the first to find her but not to the Negaverse's corrupted? "Did you know anything of the factions before you accepted? I'm not so sure your wouldn't have fallen for the Negaverse's seductions other wise." Agrawain wasn't sure still if the young woman fully understood the motivations behind each faction or if he was the one not understanding the Mirror Court, or both. Though it was likely both.
However all thoughts on that derailed the moment that she asked if his people might have needed chaos. The growl that came from his throat was reminiscent to that of an Earth tiger's, his fangs bared in affront and his hands clenched hard enough that he was leaving bloodied marks on his hands from his claws. "My people were swallowed by chaos. I spent hundreds of years trying to save my planet, my people, the very fauna and flora that had once been thriving, from chaos. It does not seek to preserve life, it does not seek to protect, it seeks to dominate all and destroy everything!"
As angry as he was, he still did not attack even as he pined a heavy glare to the curious Mirror Senshi. "I held the last of my people in my arms as he took his last breath, starved due to chaos, I buried the animals that were poisoned by the chaos, I watched as the plants all fell to decay and fade all due to chaos. I would never and will never regret being order, so let me warn you child that you play with something far more destructive then fire."Viva Viola Sorry for the wait and oopes, she poked the wrong button there lol
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 2:06 am
"No, not really. I just thought that having a hole in my chest and head would be kinda weird you know? Like, what if you have to eat or if you think too hard?" Food could spill out and brain matter could get everywhere if it decided to explode from too much thinking. Was that even possible? Proto didn't think so, if that's the case, people would think less often. She was about to ask another question when the sudden growl made her frown. "Huh?" She almost fell backwards at the sheer amount of anger she felt coming from the male before her. Oh! Well maybe she didn't word her question right? She would be mad too if she thought of it the way he did. "Oh I'm sorry....I think I worded this wrong. I guess my question is what if the right thing for your people was to join chaos? Like if it got to you first? I'm not saying your people needed the darkness and I'm sorry if that's what you thought? You make your own choices based on the needs of your people right? Not your own? I'm sorry, I just want to understand." Granted if he tried to attack her, she would run. But really, maybe it might be for the best. Order senshi are.....Hostile depending on what you ask them apparently. Sad that it seems like no one from either side wants to just understandI. Proto also frowned at being called a child, "I am 20 thank you, that counts for an adult here."
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 2:23 am
If Agrawain was less angry, wasn't currently trying to not have flashbacks of the destruction of his home world, he might have agreed that the hole in the chest and head was weird and he too had questions on how that didn't cause complications. Though he was vastly less likely to talk it would with a Negaverse Senshi to try and get answers to said questions, at least for now.
Her farther rewording of the question made his anger spike again but when she said her age he let out a growler huff. "And I am over 1,200 so to me you are still a child." It was enough to lessen his anger to the point he was no longer baring his teeth, though his hands remained clenched. "Tell me. In any experience, personal or second hand, have you heard of even once there a Senshi who belonged to chaos could visit their home world? Have heard even once that any sign of life was able to be restored on said planet even the tiniest? From what I'm told Mirror's such as yourself are bared from their planets to only walk the mirrors, and the Corrupted are equally bared and can only walk the negaverse. Meanwhile Order can visit their planets and start to restore them."
Another huff of breath before he started to purposefully slow it down to try and calm himself. "My people would have died to chaos even faster had I surrendered my planet to it willingly. It would have meant centuries less of suffereing on their part yes, but dead is dead. As I said, chaos does not protect, does not preserve, and only wants to destroy. Feel free to ask around little Mirror, the Order are starting to bring life back to the galaxy, Choas can no say the same."
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 2:53 am
Well, at least it seemed like she wouldn't have to run now. Proto tapped her chin, "This seems more like an opposites thing to me." She was going to keep this next thought to herself, maybe ask another mirror senshi. Call her naive, but wouldn't things have to die out eventually? Her foster mom used to tell her that in this universe, there are opposites that cannot exist without the other. She figured this was one of those things. Sure chaos was destruction, but what good would it be to restore a whole planet? It doesn't bring back the inhabitants that once lived on there, the flora and animals would come back, but unless you were like Dr Doolittle and could communicate with them.... Wouldn't that be really lonely? She thought so. "I cant visit my planet, but why would I want to? All my friends and people that I care about are all here." She didn't need a dumb planet to know that her home is here, not some weird dead planet in the stars. Besides, what if this was something akin to Destiny 2 or Mass effect? Wouldn't chaos and order need each other to survive? Just like the light and dark in Destiny 2? "But what if it was meant for what is dead to stay that way?" What if they were upsetting some sort of weird cosmic balance by restoring something long dead? Either way, this was starting to hurt her head, she had alot to think on. Standing up, Proto tilted her head and gave the big cat a smile. "I'm sorry for upsetting you." She yawned, "I'm going to go now, but thank you for being nice and answering my questions! I think I understand a bit more now~" with a small wave, Proto started leaping onto the next roof, already on her way back home.
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Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2022 11:04 am
Agrawain shook his head at the Mirror's questions. He was trying to sort his thoughts and feelings in a way that would hopefully make her understand that it was clear that things long dead were not meant to stay that way. After all she herself would not exist as a Senshi, even if one corrupted by chaos if that was not the case. While there were some who lived up until now like himself, most of the Senshi had died and were reborn. Even the Knights were either reborn or of a lineage that lead back to the Knight of the past, with the exception of the new Moon Knights. The universe itself made sure that their would be Senshi and Knights so that was clearly part of the balance the universe needed.
However she made her farewells before he could voice any of this and he instead gave a nod in farewell, watching her leave before turning back to the lanterns that had him up on the rooftop in the first place, eyes landing on one in particular. "But with the universe cycling, does this mean you too will be back soon?" His voice was stolen by the breeze with how soft it was. Silent once again, he returned to painting.Viva Viola Wrap up post finally heart
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