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 Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 9:33 pm
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Even if she didn't have anywhere to go on Earth, Alkaid had eventually found herself drawn to it. With her new teleportation power (which she was 99% sure she didn't have before) she'd escaped the headquarters for a much needed change of scenery. What better place to go for that than the park? She'd been careful to steer clear of open areas because, well, she wasn't sure she'd know quite how to act around people and she definitely didn't want to be stumbled upon by a senshi - it was enough that they'd probably feel her from pretty far off. Regardless of the risk, she needed a little break. She couldn't wait until Rhodizite stopped being such a brat and found her a place to stay.
She'd found herself a partially wooded hill that opened up near the very top to display a fabulous view of the stars overhead and planted herself there, standing with her hands clasped behind the small of her back. Her eyes had been immediately drawn to the constellation she knew by heart, to the glimmering star of Alkaid at the very tip. She'd spent a long time gazing at it in silence but eventually she'd found her attention shifting to the nearly full moon looming above her.
It was a mixed feeling she felt as she stared up at it: pain, irritation, hatred. She felt wronged somehow but couldn't say why, she just stared at the pale orb with a frustrated look etched across her features. Her memory was ruined - whoever she'd been as a civilian was entirely gone and her senshi life was splotchy. She didn't know if she had any reason to dislike the moon kingdom before her corruption but she knew now, without a doubt, that she did. They'd failed her. They'd let her fall into the hands of a new master, for which she should have been thankful. Who wanted to be a pawn in a weak kingdom? Yet she still harbored a sadness over the whole thing. She had a new queen and a stronger kingdom, but what had she sacrificed for it? Everything. She knew who to blame though, and the mere thought of them set her insides to twisting.
She finally dropped her eyes and brought one hand up to rub at her temple, as if she had a headache. She was trying to rub away the emptiness inside her head but knowing at the same time that it was useless - there was nothing to fill what she'd lost. She just sighed instead and returned her hand behind her back, looking up at another star in the distance, one she almost remembered but couldn't quite grasp.
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Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 2:00 pm
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Vivianite had not wanted to be out on patrol, though this was nothing particularly new for her. It was entirely too cold, and the pastel blue scarf she had wrapped around her neck looked more than a little incongruous considering the rest of her outfit. The scarf had been Uranophane's suggestion - more of a command, really - before the corrupted senshi had been sent off on 'independent patrol' for the evening. She'd chosen an area close to the Destiny City park for no real reason other than she was familiar with it.
With a shiver, the pink haired teen rubbed her arms and looked up at the sky. There were no clouds, something she'd learned meant that it was likely to be even colder the next day. Which meant there was already a frown on her face when an unfamiliar dark aura registered itself. The frown grew thoughtful as she measured the strength of it.
Darker than hers, which likely meant another corrupted senshi. There were not, after all, all that many Negaverse officers who compared. Something to do with being a senshi, she supposed. Uranophane would have a theory, and she briefly considered asking the captain about it later.
Her attention, however, soon became solely focused on the senshi her feet had guided her to while she thought things over. A shiver went down her spine that had nothing to do with the cold. Vivianite was behind the other girl, who looked rather familiar, though not immediately placeable.
"Hello," was all she said, thinking it likely that her own aura had been sensed when she'd gotten closer.
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 1:07 pm
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Alkaid had felt the dark, powerful aura approaching nearly as soon as the Vivianite had noticed her in the first place. Fortunately, Alkaid recognized the aura - it was similar to the one she had felt on Spinel, one she knew to be similar to her own. Similarity usually meant no threat, so she hadn't bothered to turn around and confront the approaching corrupt senshi because she felt no danger. She just kept staring at the stars looming above her, like something in the great expanse above might jog a memory lodged deep in the emptiness of her brain.
She turned her head to the side, looking over her shoulder, as the brightly colored corrupt finally came into view in her peripheral vision. The voice sounded.. oddly familiar. That, and the fact that she really wasn't one to be rude in the first place, made Alkaid turn around to face the senshi that had sought her out. As soon as she saw the face beneath that fall of bright pink hair, something in her memory shifted - she saw the same face beneath similar trees, outlined against a starry sky.
"I knew you," she said softly, her face scrunched up a little in a mix of confusion and frustration. The memory was there, but it gave her nothing - just a face, a voice with garbled words she couldn't quite grasp. She frowned and closed her eyes again, reaching up to rub at her temple in that same way she had done so many times before. It looked like she had a headache she was trying to massage away, but it was something more akin to the opposite - she had nothing she was trying to massage back into place.
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Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 8:41 pm
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When Alkaid turned around, Vivianite sucked in a deep breath. And then released it, the exhale turning into a bit of a sad, wry chuckle. It echoed a bit in the silence between them, and the pink-haired senshi took another few steps closer. At least this time neither one of them would be looking for the other to attack, taking that bit of edge out of their meeting.
"We met, once," she answered, clasping her hands in front of her. "In a place much like this." Her head tilted to the side slightly. Her warnings had either gone unheeded, or had been of no use. It was likely the latter; if the Negaverse wanted something, it usually got it.
A benefit to having a leader to focus on, she supposed. The senshi did seem awfully confused and disorganized. "Headache?" Vivianite asked sympathetically, only vaguely aware of the memory loss that accompanied an awakened senshi's recruitment. It hadn't affected her, since there had been nothing for her to forget.
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 8:53 pm
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That nagging feeling in her head persisted, but it was just that - a nagging, a tug at the endless darkness. She couldn't place more than a glimpse of her face and the memory of the park around them. She supposed it was just enough that she could remember anyone at all, though when this corrupt senshi admitted to having met her, she couldn't help but need to know more.
"No," she began to answer, then adjusted to, "sort of." She opened her eyes and dropped her hand from her head - it was still bothering her but she didn't want to keep drawing attention to it. There were questions to be asked, answers to find. "It's just an odd feeling when things that weren't there start to show back up."
She watched Vivianite as she took a few steps closer, then clasped her own hands behind her back. As she studied the girl silently for a moment or two, something more recent jogged her memory - her conversation with Spinel and how a certain name had seemed familiar. It was the same feeling she had now, as she stared across at the pink-haired corrupt and though she couldn't recall their former introductions, it seemed.. right.
"Are you Vivianite?" she asked then, her eyes narrowing and her brows forming a contemplative 'V'.
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 3:16 pm
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 8:29 pm
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She pursed her lips at that question and stood there, silent and letting the silence between them grow and swell to uncomfortable proportions. Then she finally glanced back up at Vivianite and the only true answer she could offer was a simple shrug.
"Maybe not, but I don't think this is an exact science." She glanced down at her gloved fingers, turning them over back and forth and listening as the bracelets around her wrists jingled. It was just a way to distract herself, but in the end she met eyes with her again. "I don't know what might trigger things, what might not, and if some destinations could have.. multiple roads."
It was beginning to be annoying, this memory thing. She liked the knowledge that came with her discoveries, but it was like having a really awful case of Deju Vu twenty-four seven.
"Sort of," she admitted, smiling partially as she said it. "I spoke with Spinel a few days ago in the subspace and when he said your name it seemed familiar." Then she waved a hand in Vivi's direction, as if to indicate the whole of her. "In the same way you seem familiar now, so I guessed."
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Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 11:39 am
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Silences rarely made her uncomfortable; there were nuances enough in them, usually, to make things easier. For example, this one was fraught with unanswered questions, regrets, and a dose of awkward guilt on Vivianite's part. Fairly typical, all things considered.
A slow nod greeted Alkaid's answer. It made sense, inasmuch as anything about the entire process made sense. "Perhaps it would be...better not to worry about it?" she offered somewhat hesitantly. Having memory loss would be difficult, but Alkaid certainly seemed capable of moving on with her life and doing rather well within the Negaverse.
"Oh," she replied with a faint blush, an unaccustomed thrill of pleasure running through her at the though that Spinel had taken the time to mention her to someone else. That was...good. Right? "Have you met many others?"
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Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 7:35 pm
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"You're right," Alkaid said, lying through her teeth but accustomed to the lie that came so quickly now. No one could understand what it felt like to have such a black nothingness in her mind or what it was like to not even know who you were. Yet Vivianite was repeating the words that Spinel had told her, more or less, and she knew that it was going to be a popular opinion. So, she lied, and pretended that she could just move on with her life without questioning the past.
Vivianite was nice enough though, just like Spinel, just like the few others she had met. (Apart from Rhodizite, of course.) For that reason she lied and chose to appease her. Even if they had different opinions, they could still be friends, right?
"No," she admitted, chewing lightly on her lip and glancing around them as if she expected someone to walk out for absolutely no reason. She was quickly coming to realize that few shadows in Destiny City were empty. "Just a few people, all of them in the Negaverse, but that suits me just fine." She shrugged a little and glanced back up at Vivianite, noting the blush but choosing not to mention it. If there was something personal about Spinel, it wasn't her place to poke about it. "But, everyone I met has been absolutely lovely, for the most part."
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Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 7:52 pm
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She bit her lip at the quick reply, feeling as though she'd said something wrong. She probably had; conversation was still not among Vivianite's strong points. "I," she started, then stopped, shaking her head. There wasn't really a way for her to articulate how she felt, or what she was even trying to explain, if she even knew in the first place. "Nevermind," she said finally with a long sigh.
"That's good, though," Vivianite continued, looking slightly more enthused. The Negaverse was perhaps not always overly welcoming to those senshi now on their side, so it was a good sign that Alkaid was being treated so warmly. "That helps." Probably. She wasn't the best judge of that, truly. a quick glance up at the night sky revealed that it had gotten quite late at some point.
"I should be going," she said somewhat awkwardly. She had to go to school tomorrow, for one thing; Vivianite had her normal life to continue, unlike Alkaid. "It was good to see you again, though." With that, the pink haired senshi slipped off into the surrounding shadows, not able to shake the feeling that there had been a missed opportunity in that conversation.
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