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 Posted: Sat May 23, 2015 9:35 am
She relented, and Ochre wrenched himself upward. His face ached, pounded where blood gorged and rose to the surface, and he was fairly certain his eye threatened to swell shut. The bracelets binding his impossibly long braid clanked together ineffectually. And when he reached his feet, his legs wavered, as if a trembling breeze might bring him down again.
But he was not interested in capitulating. "What the ******** is wrong with you?" He seethed toward the girl. He dusted himself, running hands against the back of his coat while he measured a few steps' distance between them. "Others' magic? You think I knew that'd summon up some kind of metal bomb?" A hand strayed to his face to feel for blood, broken bones, bruising. "s**t, that hurt..."
"Why the ******** did you have to come after me, anyway? All I got was some pervasive, disgusting vibe from your general vicinity, and there you are, some alien after my a**. Would it have killed you to just move on?" Umber warned about them - that they would strike regardless of your intentions. That they think agents are inherently evil. Maybe we are. Who am I to say. I've never been raised with this good and evil s**t, it's so hard to acclimate to. How can they just fall into step like that? How can they just figure we're all out to screw everyone so it's better to hunt us down and beat us for it?
I don't get this war at all. There has to be more to it.
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Posted: Sat May 23, 2015 9:40 am
HE WAS THAT NEW?! Elpis felt her stomach roll again and she rubbed her face more, dimly concious of the blood from the cut of the chain, and a dim awareness to clean it. Would she need stitches now? More important was that this senshi was so new, but... How? How?!"You came at me. If you'd just - run initially... I would've been fine!" She agued, a bit with a whimper. She was shaking herself and swallowed, not bothering to read his body language, or fully try explaining her loss of temper. A rare loss, but a loss of it. "Why?!"
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Posted: Sat May 23, 2015 9:52 am
"Because I should definitely turn tail and run from people that generally want me dead, great plan." Ochre scoffed around the blood filling his mouth. "Doesn't change the fact that you were just creeping closer, does it?" And it hardly changed the fact that he attacked her first. "You still pursued me afterward. My magic didn't seem to do anything to you, either - but you still decided it was better to make sure my a** was in the ground, didn't you." He spat a thick stream of intermingled blood and spit onto the ground, and wiped his face afterward.
"The Negaverse said that people in white just want you dead. That they don't care what kind of life you lead, or did lead, and they don't care where you're going with it. That since you're part of the Negaverse, you're scum. Wanna know something? The Nazis thought the same ******** thing about all the groups they persecuted." Ochre began walking backwards at a slow clip. Each tentative step provoked a shudder in his muscles, and he took ample care in avoiding tree roots or potential pitfalls. "The Negaverse was right. Even with their shitty protocols and their maddening little chain of command, they were right about you. What's your excuse for attacking, anyway? That I might be hurting some innocent bystander? Draining their energy just like I'm told? All forbid that I'm being a good little drone."
Not that he ever was - for how often had he fallen behind on his mandated quota?
"I didn't choose to be this way, you know. Maybe next time you should think about that before you decide to rip someone's face off for apparently using your magic."NovaCracker he's just salty about his face
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Posted: Sat May 23, 2015 10:01 am
Strickenized THEY DO NOT PLAY NICE AT ALL. "Dead?" Elpis sputtered. "I didn't go out just to hunt to kil." She groaned. "I didn't even want a big fight. I wanted to watch." She breathed, trying and failing to collect her thoughts. "I don't ******** expect people to be repressed. ********, it pisses me off, and ******** you but if it was a crook the Negas drained? Fine, I couldn't give a ********, but they attack innocent people.Why? It amuses them. Who's the nazis, a bunch of people trying to protect people or the God damn military organization persecuting people because they think they're aliens?!" She had to breathe, to remind herself not to fly off again, and watched, grimacging. "I defended myself, and will, when someone tries to kill me for something I can't help."
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Posted: Sat May 23, 2015 10:13 am
"You wanted to watch." Are you ******** dense?
"And who exactly are you trying to protect? Why protect them? If they can't do it themselves, and they wind up dead, that's not on you. All I know is if I want to keep this power, then I better collect energy. Doesn't matter who from. Energy is energy. And I don't know who else is out there having a blast draining from 'innocent people', but you know what? I don't give a s**t. There's no 'deserve' in nature. There just is and is not. The zebra is not clever enough to get away from the lion, so the lion gets lunch. And if I have to drain 'innocent people' to get what I want, it doesn't matter to me if they don't 'deserve' it.
"Hell if I know who's persecuting who - from the way my brother explained it, the Negaverse would rather get the lot of you on their side then turn you extinct. Coulda just gone with it and been fine, as far as I know.
"Put yourself in my position for a minute. You see youma attacking people, and you get youma attacking you. Some a*****e drops off a roof and dusts them for you. You find out he's a knight, or a senshi, or whatever, and you think to yourself, damn I want that power. I want to deal with these little shits and be able to finally ******** leave the house without worrying over if I'm going to die that day. And then you find out people you know talk about youma, so you confront them. Next thing you know, they're shoving a hand in your chest so you can figure out what death feels like without the reprieve of actually dying. And then they send you on your perry way with the warning that youma still think you look delicious, you now have s**t you need to do in exchange for that power, and by the way there's random people in white out there that want you dead.
"This whole thing is a massive ******** shitshow, and you with your fists-first-ask-later idea aren't helping. What would you do, huh?"
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Posted: Sat May 23, 2015 10:26 am
"Ever been drained?" Elpis scowled. "Ever go outside knowing s**t might eat you? You go out, and you live, and you don't hide. If you need help, fine. You need help. Yeah, wid animals hunt, but humans don't need to hunt their own kind." Elpis glared. "Needless murder is still murder. Draining a mother, or student, or someone else who did nothing wrong robs them of a chance to do good, or great. You really want to know why I protect them? Because I can. I can look at that youma and say piss off a*****e, and maybe that person might go on to help others. Yeah, it's s**t, it's thankless, but it's making s**t better. And what I do is live anyhow." ...Not like she'd sleep tonight though. Hell no, someone in chat got an all night marathon oif Marvel movies later because of nerves. Very likely Captain America.
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Posted: Sat May 23, 2015 10:42 am
"Were you listening? s**t already tried to eat me. More than twice. And that same s**t still tries to eat me." What protection had the Negaverse offered from their own allies, the youma? None - not to him. To officers, certainly, but what of him? Officer in spirit alone, he could not muster the command to send these creatures out. Had it not been explained already that he would have no dominion over the monsters they produced?
"Except they do - humans need to hunt their own kind just as much as animals need to fight to the death over dominance. We weren't built to last without conflict. And even if we do somehow manage to make peace with everyone around us? Then we start spinning our own conflicts. People need to fight. That mother wants a better child than her best friend, and that student wants to have the best grades in the class. It's human to want for the best, and it's human to fight for it. You want to fight for some construct called 'good' - and there you go, there's your fight. Now maybe you should ask yourself if you're really fighting for good, or if you just need to fight and any noble-sounding clause is qualifier enough." Another spit, another dribble of blood that bubbled out onto the grass.
"You expect me to leave? Fine. Thanks to you, I've got a face full of teeth I need to check." Ochre spared a glance behind him to confirm that the retaining wall housed a break some fifteen feet away. he edged toward it with gaze still settled on his attacker, and once he reached the familiar wash of lamp light, he turned to dart back onto the streets. Running felt new and stilted, and he felt uncertain that his legs would hold for long, but he fostered no luxury to wait until adrenaline wore away.
'Draining a mother, or student, or someone else who did nothing wrong robs them of a chance to do good, or great.'
But what is good? What is wrong?
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Posted: Sat May 23, 2015 10:48 am
"Because they don't care if you die." Elpis snapped. "Maybe you should reread your history books before throwing accusations." She didn't move to pursue - she drew herself up and crossed her arms to ignore the want to run or cry. "Desire does not mean they always mistreat." She did not like this one, she decided. And she noted to pass information to others to weatch out, though for now she maintained her ground purely by the fringes of being livid, and only that. He could run all he liked - she wasn't in the mood to chase and didn't WANT to kill needlessly. Still, it was tempting. So very tempting.
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