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 Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2022 12:39 am
She had never seen the rift. Honestly, she'd had her fill have it seen negaspace, the few memories that still remained from that day that was, thankyouverymuch. She didn't voice her thoughts though. Didn't want to ruffle any feathers by mentioning the attack on negaspace. Sure that had been years ago, and she had been fairly new to senshi hood, but she had heard some agents of chaos didn't take lightly any conversation about their home being invaded by white-moon. "I suppose that's true." She said, unable to imagine what the Rift could possibly give anyone besides scary youma. Unless that was what he meant?
"I'd like to think that maybe Earth is the place where we can all figure out how to live together." She shrugged, knowing it sounded naively optimistic. "I doubt our ancestors would have wanted to see us stuck in what feels like a never-ending war either." Her eyes shifted from Albite back down to Cerb. The bird had clearly found himself a comfortable spot in her lap and she was enjoying having something to turn her attention to that wasn't likely judging her and her thoughts on matters.
A hot blush spread across her face. The scratches she'd been doting upon Cerb paused as she looked away from Albite and Cerb indignantly. "I have friends." She stated defensively. Maybe a bit too defensively. Since having returned to Destiny City after graduating college, she'd found herself more secluded than ever. Living alone and working constantly both in her career and as a senshi had definitely given her no time to socialize or create new bonds.
Albite didn't need to know that though.
"I liked my homeworld but was too young before to really realize how important it is and since college I've had no time or energy to put into it. So no, I've not taken any of my friends there." She huffed out as her fingers began to scratch Cerb again, if a bit more forcefully than before.
"Besides, you're telling me that having been awakened into chaos was a choice?" She raised a brow. "It might be a choice to stay but it wasn't a choice to awaken to them." Her full attention shifted back to Albite, though it was clear by the red still tinting her cheeks that she continued to be flustered. "I'd hardly say that we are all some honorable people." She knew that statement to be far from the truth. There were many white moon who could be as aggressive or cruel as some were in the negaverse.
"I am not angry or upset that you made the decision to stay. Having family and friends is important and if that's where yours are then it would be terribly hard to make any decision that could take them and possible memories of them away." Could it be so simple? "It's just interesting tome. That some do make that choice. There had to be something pushing them to want to leave their close ties."
How had this conversation turned so heavy? That hadn't been her intent, but here they were discussing the merits and downfalls of purifying. Well...more downfalls according to Albite. It was curious how the man just seemed so content with where he was. Just accepted things how they were and rolled with it. Meanwhile, Harmonia needed to understand it all. Maybe it was her past experiences that soured her thoughts on the Negaverse. It was her optimism that kept her going to meet new people and attempt to comprehend their way of thinking.
"I will. Eventually." She stated softly. "If nothing else than to take you along so you see what you're missing from yours." She offered a him a cheeky smile. "Because I get the feeling you do hate not being able to visit your own." Maybe that would be the gateway to her getting to know Albite better and help him see that perhaps where he was wasn't necessarily the best place.
Albite seemed so kind and gentle after all. He'd been willing to chat instead of attacking. I Wonder what he'd look like in white. Her mind ran away with that thought. A picture of him in a white fuku that looked even brighter on him with hiss darker tone. Not to mention his physic and that smile...
Another blush burned across her face and she looked back to Cerbs.
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2022 11:52 pm
Oh, he liked that. He really, really, liked that. Returned her cheeky grin with one that rivaled the brighter side of the moon, because ******** Yes! That was the spirit he wanted to see. Some bit of getup to match the bravery it took to run around stained to the soles of toes in bleach, the same ways he loved his koolaid mixxed with so many flavors it came out nice n black.
"Dazzle me Har," because he oh so rarely hated with any sort of real malice, there was anger there, sure, for people or places or things. What there wasn't? Was jealousy, or contempt. Not for his brothers and sisters of the stars and their holdings of vast worlds, by his own understanding the whole of space and it's holdings were full of grand yet desolate wastes. What was a planet without life? What meager options or binding ties could exist between a person and a ball of ghost-filled dirt? Unless they filled the dirt with things other than ghosts all on their own, n that was maybe a daunting as ******** sorta task!!!
Albite recognized that too, felt the responsibility of it, bone deep -- the second he'd learned the word 'henshin' -- n how quickly had he shunted that responsibility aside in favor of being able to ******** s**t up on his own terms?
"All I can ever ask is that you dazzle me. Show me all the s**t that's supposed to make the grass greener on your side -- the pretty planets n prettier people who inherited 'em, all your loving friends that make 'this' worth while." She deserved that, didn't she? His honest attention, his rapture in her interests, Har seemed like the kind of girl to Albite that should've had more friends than she could count. Who was gentle enough to be worth Cerbs time, n easy going enough to be worth his too! "Cause the only thing I ever really hate? Is seeing people sad with their choices, thinkin there ain't no options for left or right, or up or down, when there really, truly are. I mean----yeah, all us Senshi are technically born of order, star-wise, but not alluv us are put into a box n given some hard line of drinking the pitch-dark nega-aid, or dying from avoidance. Though death's kinda like an extra choice..but...." and she had fair points, he couldn't disagree with that. The idea that if no one had ever made it known to him; no cat or agent or otherwise, that he had Senshi as a box checkable option for his existence?
Well...He woulda just kept on being Waru, wouldn't he? No powers to his name. No dog in any fight. N now that he was in? Getting out wasn't so much of an option, sure as hell not an easy one for him, no matter how many he knew who'd made it for themselves. He couldn't just schluff his memories off n wipe his hands of 'em, that was a solid no-go.
"You're right though, on a lot of that. Especially about the part where I just ******** love seeing space...like..c'mon? It's space. All grand n -- out there in places that I don't understand...maybe full of air? Somehow..I think?" laughing even as he reached to ruffle Cerbs increasingly lazy form, the idea that she thought he missed his own planet? Cute little asteroid just to the right of mother Ananke; a broken sister, a fracture of a whole.
However much he knew of the place, whatever glimpses of hazy bits he earned from Praxidike proper, or some other distant self beyond even the last Senshi before him? None of it changed the fact that he was born on Earth -- he'd never be a prince, or travel the stars, or have loyal subjects or...
It didn't change the fact that whatever Praxidike had been? It couldn't ever be again. Not in the same ways at least. Not without people, and people were what he lived for! How could he have that up there if no one else was into it, if everyone else was fighting over earth instead of taking what they loved most from Earth back into the stars! It was too much work for him, but for someone else? People like Albireo, or -- maybe even Harmony? Sister Senshi he could believe in. It was well worth a shot.
"N if it's with you? I bet I'd like seeing it even more. You kinda know your stuff, huh? You're like--good to philtalkifize about stuff with. It's the smile," and hers was as beautiful as her blush, impossible to miss how it tinted her cheeks so fleetingly between topics, it helped too that he'd missed having someone like this to chat with. Someone on the other side who -- and Cybele had never held still while having those chats, but she'd always been willing to have them, "and the fact that Cerbs clearly likes you. So of course m'gonna have to see you again after this, can't deprive my baby of a good petting. They'd peck out my eyes..." whether he was serious, or just ******** around, even he didn't know. He hadn't met anyone yet who Cerbs rolled over for all cozy like. It was too interesting an opportunity to pass up a second chance at!
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2022 10:27 pm
"I promise you'll love it. Harmonia, I mean." She said with determination. "It's all reds and golds and just...it's like something out of a fairy tale. It's honestly beautiful and I can't even begin to imagine what it was like in it's full glory so long ago." She'd been granted very few glimpses of her past. A fault of her own brought on by her lack if visitation. Perhaps she should go more often. With how much Albite, and other corrupts, were forced out of the ability to o visit their homeworlds, Harmonia felt a sudden need to make up for their inability by over indulging in her own.
N if it's with you? I bed I'd like seeing it even more.' Her face grew redder at those words. Swallowing down a stutter Harmonia half coughed on her first words. "Consider it a promise then." She said with a shy smile. "I will take you to Harmonia some day. I can't imagine you not wanting to see your own homeworld after seeing what it could maybe become. Harmonia has a lot of growing to do too."
The redness in her cheeks eventually began to calm as she sat thinking, letting a gentle silence spread out like a warm blanket. "It's honestly been a long time since I've sat and talked to anyone like this." She said with a small wave of her hand that she lifted from Cerbs. The last time she'd had such a long talk with someone well...it was a memory with many more she wished she could erase from her mind. Eyes fell down to her new avian friend as her fingers slipped between the feathers once again to scratch carefully at the skin below. Each individual feather became a nice distraction as she focused on the pattern, texture or the precise way it laid.
"I've enjoyed it, honestly." She said as she slowly began to disentangle her legs from Cerbs who had made a nest of her lap. "It's not very often I find anyone of your..." She paused trying to think of a better way to finish her sentence, failing. "Well, of your kind who are willing to talk. Genuinely talk and not just chat out of fear." How often had she tried to talk to other corrupts or agents only to see them fearful of her? It was disheartening since she never meant any harm. Now, whether or not the corrupt in front of her had an ulterior motive to this who meeting was left to be decided. She couldn't trust him fully. Not yet. Not after seeing the cruelty of having her good nature being abused. But, fear wasn't what she was feeling now. Just a very strong, well learned need to be cautious.
Once free of Cerbs, Harmonia rose to her feet and brushed off her skirts, dislodging grass and bits of dirt. A feather or two also drifted to the ground with the action. "I'll never be upset with seeing Cerbs." There was something about animals that spoke of a purity that Harmonia didn't want to think could be corrupted. They were so genuine and true and Cerbs certainly was a new feathered friend.
"I hope it's not too long until we run into each other again." She said as she gave Cerbs one last scratch on his head. "This evenings patrol certainly brought about several surprises, that's for sure." She chuckled as she turned toward the direction she had first come from.
"I hope you and Cerbs have a lovely rest of your nights. Cerbs, please done knock poor Albite out of the sky again, ok?" She smiled before slipping back into the copse of trees she had hidden in when first spotting Albite. Utilizing the trees she hurried off as quickly as she can in a direction that was no where near her apartment. Enjoyable evening or not, Albite was still a corrupt, and certain cautions had to be taken.
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2022 9:47 pm
Promises, promises~
Albite wanted though. Wished. Basked in her warm soft vision, it was easy enough to see the scenery expand behind his own eyes, if he closed them brief enough to imagine it all. Her world sounded beautiful, and he could only smile bashfully for being so praised, he tried to be nice, to be good.
He really, really -- he did!
All his fences were gray, n there was no point in throwing down with someone who, ******** clearly, didn't want a fight. He could keep it to himself too -- Cerbs wasn't about to squawk on him about having harmless enough chats with people on the other side, sisters, cousins, the whole like! Future friends -- the people of order deserved better n empty skys and hollow threats.
"I'll be seeing ya round Har," cajoling his massive hell-turky back into his lap where it belonged; Albite made Cerbs wave, rather comically, with it's long, leggy, feets -- till he could no longer feel her through the trees, and till the bird could abide it no more and the pecking of dreads recommenced, like they were so many worms to be torn n shredded, "it's a date."
"Ya'hear that Cerbs? I've got a date with a planet~ Oh, and a girl! But also? A planet!" Silence -- a bobble of heads -- Cerbs agreed, maybe? Albite intuited it all that the bird missed her already, as was right n proper! Considering how pampered the lump of feathers had been. "Now, let's go get me cleaned up..n ice off this...not a concussion..but..yanno..the *ache* from the face-shaped hole you had me leave in the dirt."
It was easier to teleport home at that point, bird in tow.
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