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 Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2017 8:14 pm
Kapoodles Thank you Chara, he needs this! Themisto simply wasn't prepared for this. He thought this sparring session would end up like it had with Fornax - two friendly people trying to better their skills. Chara? He was lobbing probably molten chocolate bars at him. Definitely probably molten, searing and ready to just melt his goddamn face off. If he was calm and could analyze this situation, he would agree with Chara's methodology - the super senshi was on the money in that the Negaverse wouldn't stand still to allow his creepy ghosts to do the dirty work for him. Just like Fai, Chara was fighting in the same way a Negaverse officer would, granting a more realistic experience. But since Themisto wasn't in the position to do any such analysis, he was mostly just running his a** off and swearing. Finally, since Chara was at a higher power level than himself, he was caught. Themisto felt himself become grappled and fell to the ground, eating some grass and dirt in the process. "...aaaAAAHHHFUUUUC----!!!" He only had one geta left and the struggling senshi couldn't reach it. Themisto started to panic, thinking molten hot chocolate would come pouring onto his face, so he did the only thing he could think of - start using the rope that made up his fuku to tie Chara up. GAH!
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2017 8:59 pm
Once Chara had gotten Themisto pinned to the ground, he had planned to poke at his face a few times until he called uncle. All of his basic attacks were used up, and anything else he could use would certainly leave a mark or two, and he didn't want that! To his pleasant and somewhat irritating surprise, Themisto turned out to be more determined than he thought, using his fuku to start fighting back. First one hand was tied, and just as quick the other was bound, leaving him straddling the boy and tugging at the ropes that him in place.
Though it was a smart idea, Chara would have to remind Themisto later that the rope was bound to his neck... If he tugged the wrong way, well, that wouldn't be good at all for the other. Instead, of tugging more, he leaned forward, pressing in close to the other and hissed. "Head butt!" without actually making contact.
Then he quickly scooted himself further down Themisto, lining their hips together before forcing himself forward with only about half his strength to dig his elbow into into the older Senshi's gut. Hopefully it wouldn't hurt him TOO much, but he really DID need to learn this lesson the hard way.
Lucifer Force I'm assuming that Themisto left the rope on his neck when trying to bind Chara, hence the worry. If not, let me know and I'll change my post biggrin
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2017 1:51 pm
Kapoodles Nah it's totally fine! He needs to learn these things and think critically. wink It was a good idea on paper, but against Chara, who was quite scrappy, Themisto found it was only half effective. The cry of head butt made him visibly wince and coughed and cringed when an elbow hit his gut. "God damn dude..." Themisto wheezed, trying to turn over with Chara still atop him. "...Aight, aight, you win. I got... I got a lot to learn." He thought about trying to fire off his attack a second time, but Chara could easily just roll out of the way and Themisto may even hit himself with it. The fact that he even started thinking strategically like this was a testament to Chara's School of Hard Knocks lesson Themisto didn't even realize he was taking. "...maybe you can teach me a few things, Jesus..." He and his sister used to quarrel, but not like this. And Themisto wasn't a total a*****e like that Negaverse lieutenant. He wasn't about to try and knee Chara in the crotch like a douche. This may have been a lesson, but the last thing he wanted was to be pummeled when Chara eventually recovered.
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2017 3:55 pm
"Yeah you got alot to learn! If I was a Negaverser, you'd be dead!" In a slight apology for hurting him so bad, Chara gave Themisto's belly a nice little rub before rolling off of him and sitting by his side.
"Misty, you can't just think training is gonna be 'boom, here's my magic!' all the time. The Negaverse doesn't really have magic, so when it comes to fighting, alot of the time you're gonna be right in their face. Got it? But I admit, the rope use was nice! Just.. Take it off your neck first, or else they can strangle you right back. " For once, Chara felt incredibly informative and helpful, far different than he normally did.
"And don't forget, these bastards aren't going to fight all nice and 'proper' either. They want to KILL you, so you need to fight tooth and nail, get dirty if you have to, as long as you stay alive! You can't help or protect anyone if you're dead."
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2017 6:48 pm
Themisto's breathing began to return to normal as he sat up and tried to get his hair out of his face. He nodded solemnly at Chara's motivational speech and, while he was absolutely correct, it was quite a bit to take in and stomach. "...yeah, a Negaverser probably would just straight-up kill me, heh." he admitted, lifting his knee and leaned against it. "Glad you liked the rope trick. Maybe I'll keep at that, but uh..." He tugged at the rope around his neck. "I'll use this one first, heh." He then looked at Chara with all seriousness and frowned, thinking of Cetus and his own training. "Ey Chara, have you... uh... ever... killed one of 'em?" It was a sort of taboo subject for him, not having dwelt on it purposefully. The moral complications of taking a life was something Themisto wasn't ready to unpack. "Do you think you could or would do that? I heard some people have died... both sides, you know?" Do people even know about this? Who had died? Are there graves for the people who died in the war that the majority of Destiny City didn't really know about?
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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 9:22 am
"Hrm?" Before it registered with him just what Themisto had asked, Chara had allowed his mind to refocus out on the gross pond not too far away. The smell was sickening, but the brief spat was enough to distract him. Now that he settled down, the smell was all too strong. Bleh. Then then question of death came to him and he thought long and hard about it before answering.
"I've tried to before," He answered truthfully looking at his gloved hands and remembering the feel of them around the Negaverser's throat. "The b*****d had stolen the starseed from a mother who was out with her child. The little boy was screaming and shaking his mother's lifeless corpse, over and over going 'mommy! mommy wake up!' and I lost it."
There wasn't any shame in his words, only the truth, and the burden of what was right and what was wrong. For Chara, the line was blurred more than it had been originally, and even death seemed not all that unreasonable a punishment to those who were willing to hurt the innocents.
"I got her starseed back, and the mother and child fled, but I wasn't done with that b*****d, and before I realized it, my hands were about his throat and squeezing down tight. I guess I would have killed him if it weren't for the shouting of the woman again, who had called 911 so I had to leave. Dunno what happened to that Negaverser though." His hands now fiddled with the grass below them, pulling up a few pieces absently before letting them fall and doing it again. He seemed surprisingly deep in thought for a few moments before turning his gaze back to Themisto and shrugging.
"I don't want to say to kill anyone, but they kill relentlessly. Hundreds of people have died by now, I bet. Maybe not just in our city, but other places too... Keep that in mind if you have a choice. Kill or be killed in most places. And those Negabastards the the kind to keep grudges too. You let them go, they remember your face, then hunt you down with their little friends."
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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 6:02 pm
"So they do go out and kill people.... that's what I thought. The starseed is like... our soul, right?" Themisto recalled Denebola speaking of starseeds, that corrupting brought on trauma to it, which may have resulted in the memory loss many seemed to suffer when being inducted into the Negaverse. He had no idea that regular folks, civilians, moms and children, possessed starseeds that could be destroyed. "That's... that's ******** up." Chara then explained that he had returned the starseed to the mother and, he assumed, saved her? "Did... did the mom... is she okay? Did you like... put the starseed back? We can do stuff like that?" The senshi stared down at his palms, wondering what it must be like to handle someone's precious soul. This war was getting crazier and crazier with each passing day. The fact that the Negaverse existed in other places (another piece of information Themisto did not know) made moving out of the question. "Where else are the Negaverse? If they're not just here, are they... everywhere?"
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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 6:15 pm
"Yeah, something like that. Kinda our soul, I kinda see it like a battery of sorts. A fancy battery that has emotions and what not. I don't know too much about it, just that I think if a person is close enough, it goes back in? I can't remember how it happened or how the lady got back up and ran away. She's okay, as far as I know. Dude, don't ask me too much about it, I just remember wanting to kill the man." Perhaps Chara's memories were messed up, or maybe someone else was there, he didn't know. Only the memory of the man's face turning more and more red under his grasp was truly still there.
"Back a few months before that, before I lost my eye, there was this huge fight in the secret base of the Negaverse. I was with some other senshi my age and we found this huge amount of starseeds. Imagine a pile as tall as your hip, standing up. We did our best to get them all back into the buckets and in our pockets, trying not to crush them and get them out. It must have been like.. Hundreds and hundreds of souls there. We ended up putting them in this giant pot thing, called the Space Cauldron or some s**t like that. Apparently that's where all souls are born, so all those starseeds would become people again." It was alot to digest, and it STILL felt like alot, but... It was the truth. What reason did he have to lie again? This wasn't fun or teasing, these were hard facts.
"I bet they are everywhere. All though our city, out in the world. Who knows how long we've been fighting. There's such little information that we can access, and I think we're just fighting a war that people way before us have been fighting forever. Atleast that's how it feels. But what else can we do but fight? They aren't going to ******** off, so we might as well give them hell while we can."
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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 10:10 am
kapoodles i think we might be able to wrap it up soon! Themisto laughed hesitantly and shrugged. He didn’t realize how much of a deep and deleterious topic a starseed was. The mention of the Cauldron made Themisto nod knowingly - at least, he recognized the phrase. Denebola mentioned the Cauldron, that people are reborn from such a thing or… whatever. “As tall as my hip? Jesus, that’s a lotta souls… wonder what they were usin’ ‘em for…” he muttered, though in reality, Themisto didn’t think he could handle whatever the answer truly was. He also didn’t think the Negaverse would ever willingly give up that information, even if he asked nicely. Did Denebola know, perhaps? The senshi sighed deeply and picked himself up off the ground, dusting some of the dried chocolate and dirt (with no visible difference between them) from his fuku. “I guess… that makes you a hero, don’t it, Chara? You helped save all those souls, even if they can’t be reborn again anytime soon… at least they’re back where they belong?” He leaned over and offered his hand to Chara, to help the super senshi stand up. “If there is a way to get ‘em outta here, I dunno what it is, but… at least we got your molten chocolate on our side, huh?” Themisto nudged his superior playfully with an elbow.
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Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2017 8:08 am
"They eat them. And the Youma eat them. For energy, kinda like a snort of cocaine, I imagine, but beyond that, I've got no ******** clue." It truly was a dreary subject, but the mention of Themisto calling him a hero did lighten the mood, and he grinned up at the boy, before taking his hand.
"Yeah, I bet they will all be reborn and go back to being the same little shits they were before. This time, though we'll protect them all and give the Negaverse the what for right up the a**!" He laughed at the nudging and put his wait into bumping his shoulder, which still probably didn't do anything with him being as short as ********. But atleast they were smiling now.
"With my chocolate and your scary.... Ghost creature thing, we're going to just keep them on their toes! But anyway, come on, kid, we got work to do! Let's ACTUALLY work on protecting the city and find some youma to dust!"
Lucifer Force Sure~ We can end it with the two patrolling together for a bit!
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Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2017 3:02 pm
"Oh god, dude... that's... that's too much for me." came an exasperated sigh. Themisto had no idea that souls could become a physical object, and that object could be digested. The thought made him positively sick. Standing up, he punched his open palm in frustration. Then he realized he was down one geta. Patrolling wouldn't do much good if he only had one shoe. The shoulder bump did make the boy smile, and he agreed with Chara - they had to do something to protect people, whether the Negaverse liked it or not. Patrolling to let off some steam and anxiety was a great way to spend his time tonight. "Yeah, you're right. Just uh... lemme grab my shoe... did you see where it went?"
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2017 7:52 pm
"Chin up, man. We got this. We'll dust so many that they will have to get a whole street sweeper to clean that s**t up. As for your shoe... Well, maybe you should think about that the next time you're fighting." Chara was relaxed once more, turning on his own heel to head back towards the alleyways.
"Come on, slow poke. One shoe shouldn't slow you down!"
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