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 Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:26 pm
Winter, or whatever he assumed this season to be, in this place was awful. Cold, wet, dark... it had never been like this back on Cernunnos. Granted, back on Cernunnos he lived in a massive temple where the magic lights kept it from ever being truly dark. His attendants had always made sure he was warm and well fed... but hiding out in the muck of this place was fast wearing him down and he could feel how thin he was getting from the sub-par food he was managing to scrounge. It was ever worse than in the warm months... nothing was growing here, and fewer and fewer people ventured out into the oasis of green.
He needed to do something. He couldn't just... keep going like this.
The pale face twisted in disgust as he bent over the rim of the garbage receptacle, pushing up onto his cold toes so he could reach deeper into it. Everything was frozen, of course... partly a blessing, since it meant none of it was really slimey, but also partly a curse, because he was already cold and miserable, and he honestly couldn't remember the last time he'd actually had a hot meal. Longer tugged at him... he could remember the warm water of his bathing room. The trays of food the attendants would bring him while he soaked in the rose scented water. Warm bread, salty cheese... rich, sweet fruit and cured meats.
His stomach clenched and burbled as he emerged, dragging a wrapper around the last crusts of bread some child hadn't wanted. At least it was... clean, ish, since it had been wrapped when it was discarded. He peeled back the layers and plucked a bit of the crust free, popping it into his mouth to crunch between his teeth. Stale... but at least it was food.
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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 10:13 am
Hati enjoyed himself when he patrolled, usually. It was nice to take a walk and just be, while keeping an eye out for danger. There hadn't been much happening tonight, at least, not on the side of town he had picked to patrol tonight. He liked that. he inhaled deeply of the sharp, winter-cold air—the way it filled his lungs made him feel alive. And, unlike the person he was about to come across, he had a nice, warm home he could go to when he was done. He felt the aura and frowned a little as he headed towards them, already not very far. When he saw the strange alien (ah, these Deep Space senshi he'd heard so much about) eating out of the trash can, he felt he knew immediately what had to be done. "Hey," he called out. "Would you like something real to eat?"
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2024 6:08 pm
He'd... felt something growing for a while, but he had dismissed it in favor of his search. So it came as a surprise when someone he hadn't noticed called out, making the small man jump and spin, the stale crust hidden behind his back like a guilty child.
The stranger was... human, as far as he could tell. Well-built and tall, with a dark streaked hair and pale eyes. Handsome, if you one liked that sort of thing. Another time or place, maybe... but right now, there was far more to worry about than a pleasant face.
"I, ah... what?" Cernunnos said, quite intelligently. "Why would you ask that? I'm... fine."
Soft, long ears had pinned back into his short, curly hair, but eased forward just a little as he spoke. The stranger looked like a senshi, of sorts. Not in black, like the other had been, but it had been a long time since he'd seen another of his kind. A rumble started up in his middle, embarrassingly loud, and he flushed, feeling a flush of purple across his freckled cheeks.
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Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:05 am
Hati just stood there for a long moment, watching the alien senshi with careful, gentle eyes. "I know what it's like to have to dig into trash for food." Though, back then, it had been because his and Skoll's father was a shitty deadbeat with too much debt and couldn't actually provide for his children. Now, though, he had a nice little home with his girlfriend and twin ( also dating Asmodeus), and they could make the space for a lost alien with nothing to his name. "I'm serious. Come on. You can come stay with me and mine, get some food in ya, and have a shelter, away from the winter winds." They wouldn't mind, he knew.
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Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2024 6:26 pm
The young man eyed the stranger with misgiving, finally turning to toss his crust back into the trash and dust off his thin fingers. He gave a crooked smile as he paced away from the can, though sideways to the new-comer rather than towards him.
"I don't make a habit of going to strange places with strange aliens." He said as he flashed his palms at the stranger. "Even if they're cute aliens. And even if I was hungry, which I did not say I was! You literally just walked up on me, I've never seen you before in my life, and I'm on a strange planet, not even sure how I got here. And, I don't even know your name, Mr. Earth Senshi. You could be a murderer like that guy in the skin skirt, how would I know?"
Skys above, he was hungry though... the last few weeks... months? had not been kind in that department, and he'd not had a lot of meat on his bones to begin with.
"How do I know I can trust you not to yank my starseed out the moment you're in arm's reach?" He said as he braced his hands on his hips.
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Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:44 am
Hati blinked at that, then his brain rebooted and he winced a little. Yeah, no, he wasn't... being very smart about this, was he? Ah, well. "I'm Hati, and my sphere is Cu-Sithe," he said. "I—hold on, skin skirt?" Oh, no. Well. No wonder he was extra not feeling like trusting someone. Who the ******** was running around in a skirt made of skin? "Never mind," he said quickly. "Uh, you can trust that I won't yank your starseed because I literally can't. I'm a White Moon Senshi, not one of the Corrupt Senshi." He gestured to his bodice. "White chest. No soul stealing abilities. Black chest? Hole in the forehead?" he said, pointing to his very much not holey forehead. "Those are the ones stealing energy and souls. The Agents of the Negaverse look like twisted versions of Knights, mostly in blacks, as well. Then there's the Dark Mirror Senshi... some of them are pretty alright, and they can't steal your starseed, either, but you should still be careful around them."
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Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:07 pm
The young man's face fell a little at the descriptions rattled out, listing people on this planet he probably definitely never wanted to meet. Again, anyway, since he'd obviously already met one corrupt senshi.
Corrupt, huh? That implied they were senshi, but like... ones taken by chaos, maybe? Chaos had not been something that had bothered his planet, not until more recently. Remembering it made him uncomfortable, made his skin crawl with unease. The memories were kinda all over the place and his mind kept wanting to skitter away from them, but... he remembered being afraid. Of his own people, even. People who had worshiped him and taken care of his every need. That he had trusted and, to some extent, had kind of loved. But he was afraid of them now... or what they had become.
His mind skittered away from that again and firmly dismissed it from his mind as not important right at this moment.
"This place sounds even more dangerous than I thought it was." Cernunnos remarked as he shifted forward a little towards the apparently 'good' senshi. The darkness around him made him feel just a bit nervous, and hey, at least this guy hadn't tried to jump him, or ask him for weird stuff yet. He eyed him up and down again, this time in a new light, and after a moment... made his decision.
"You said you had food right? Well... I haven't eaten decently since I got here. If you're offering real food, then I guess I can give you the benefit of the doubt. For now." He said. Cernunnos touched his fingers to his forehead and swept his arm away in a smooth gesture, bowing his head.
"I'm Cernunnos. My sphere, I guess, is Freedom."
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Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:46 pm
Hati relaxed when Cernunnos finally agreed to come back to his place. Good. Very good. He didn't want to leave anyone scrambling through trash for food, or out here in the cold with no shelter of any kind. It wouldn't rest with him right. Especially not with a fellow Senshi in need, one who clearly needed extra assistance in adjusting to Earth in the first place. "Nice to meet you, Cernunnos," he said, bowing back. "Come on. We've got leftovers we can heat up. A big shower, too, and... there's no extra beds, but the couch is a pullout bed."
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Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2024 11:59 am
Cernunnos cocked his head as things were mentioned, things that he wasn't quite sure of. A shower? Like, falling water? And a couch that was also a bed? Whatever 'pull out' meant in this context... a bed that pulled out of what? The couch?
Strange. Why not just have one of each?
Well, he'd get to find out soon enough, wouldn't he? Everything felt better now that things had been more or less figured out. It wasn't perfect, or even a long term solution, but he'd settle for being warm and having a full belly for now. Tomorrow could be worried about tomorrow. Even further away was the worries about why he was here, or what he was supposed to do now that he was. Or what had happened to his world and the people there. Those worries had gotten buried so deep in the fight for survival that he'd nearly forgotten them.. and even now, he refused to even consider them.
Nothing could be done until he was safe. Everything else would have to come after.
"Lead the way Hati. Hopefully, some way that would have your strange people gawping at me the whole time."
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