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 Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2013 10:54 pm
Some nights, Aquarius wasn't even up for pretending to patrol. That wasn't what brought her out to the streets, not anymore. Just because she didn't lock her henshin pen in a box anymore didn't mean she had to embrace the senshi life. She could keep her worlds separate if she just tried hard enough.
Except she couldn't. Tara Kavanaugh developed a sudden interest in language that her friends and family couldn't help but notice. It was a puzzle that had been slowly taking her over for more than a year, and now she couldn't escape from it. Most of her waking moments were spent wondering how to crack it. Sailor Iris had given her a big piece, but it was only one piece. There were still so many gaps that needed to be filled before she could see the big picture, which was hopefully a picture of a world where she didn't need to fight to survive.
Hence, the patrols. Or fake patrols, rather. Aquarius packed her well-worn messenger bag full of essentials and set out, looking for people to help her translate a long-dead language.
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Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 5:10 pm
It was growing increasingly more frustrating that he was no closer to his goal than he had been a month earlier. He had upped the amount of patrols he did on a daily basis, he had spoken to several senshi (who were of no help at all), and yet he found none knew of a Sailor Neptune.
He had even cut out the distractions from his patrols, avoiding territories that actively had youma lurking about. It was not like he could do anything about those youma anyways. His weapon had seen its last battle recently and would no longer be of any use to him. The Squire wasn't about to go get his gloves dirtied with the burnt flesh of the youma.
He had just managed to leap across a series of buildings when he noted the energy of what he could assume was a senshi. The ranking of the senshi was hard to accurately judge. The closest he could guess was that this was a Super Senshi.
Swiftly he made his way towards the aura and upon approach found a hooded senshi seemingly adorned like she was the evening sky.
Before he had truly caught up to the senshi, he had to call out from his rooftop "Miss Senshi, might I have a moment of your time?"
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Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 10:08 pm
Who the hell was "Miss Senshi" supposed to be? Aquarius looked around before realizing that the speaker- whoever he was- was probably talking to her. Which made her laugh. She'd been called a few things over the years, but none of them as polite as Miss. Not that she particularly deserved civility at this point.
Up was the first place she looked for the mystery caller. There was a split second of disappointment when she realized that he probably wasn't an alien. At least, not in the way she calculated it. Senshi were aliens in a way, but didn't really count. Neither did knights, and judging by the aura, this guy felt like one of them. The same feeling she got from Pharos (and Hvergelmir, but thinking about Laney as a knight was still painful), only stronger.
"Sure, why not?" Aquarius leaned against the fall of the building she'd been walking by and waited. "I wouldn't mind a chat either. Unless you're looking for a teamup, in which case..." In which case what? Would she abandon someone who needed help, just because she didn't want to fight?
Things were so much simpler when she just stayed home.
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Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2013 8:40 pm
With the confirmation that he had another willing party to question, the lad leaped off the building, landing firmly, yet elegantly upon his feet at the street level next to the senshi. He straightened himself, casually dusting off his uniform as he gave the hooded figure a look up and down.
Even at this close proximity, it was difficult to tell what sort of senshi this one was. However, despite the mild curiosity, he did not utter a word about her fuku. He planned to stay on task, since that was the easiest way to ensure results.
"I have no intentions to seek out youma or the Negaverse this evening, Miss Senshi, so a team-up is unlikely." He nodded his head one time down before he spoke the question that had been slowly eating away at his mind like a disease.
"Might I ask if you have seen or heard of a 'Sailor Neptune' in Destiny City?"
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Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 12:23 am
So, Aquarius wasn't the only one taking the coward's way out. She wasn't sure how she felt about that. On the one hand, she was relieved that she wasn't being dragged into a battle. On the other hand, she was concerned that if everyone was avoiding them, people would be hurt. On the other hand-
"Nope, I've only got two hands." Which was a hell of a non sequitur for anyone not in Aquarius' head. It was, she supposed, a good opportunity to get another set of eyes on her character book, and she was rummaging in her bag for it when he popped his question.
Sailor Neptune, huh? Now there was a name that she hadn't heard in a thousand years.
"She visited Uranus once. Maybe more than once, I don't really remember." Aquarius' time on his home planet had been fairly brief. "I wasn't exactly on speaking terms with royalty at the time. By the time I was, there wasn't really anyone to speak with." Just a funeral, and then he'd been shipped away like a parcel. He faintly remembered seeing the Neptunian princess at a ball many years later, but they had never really spoken, and he never minded. Not like with another princess he'd met...
But this wasn't what the knight was asking about. "I'm sorry," she said, shaking her head until the dancers in her head faded away. "You said in Destiny City, right? Funny, I haven't heard of her in this lifetime. Maybe she lucked out and wasn't reincarnated this time. I wouldn't blame her for skipping this whole mess."
There, question answered. With that done, Aquarius pulled out her composition notebook and began to flip through the pages. "Now, would you mind looking at this for me? I'm looking for people who might be able to recognize the written languages used back then."
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Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 9:30 am
The girl made a stray comment about her hands, which the Squire completely missed the reference, but he also was not nearly as interested in the number of hands she had when compared to the other information she offered.
Most Senshi said they had never heard of her. This senshi did not start off with such. She instead started to speak of Uranus and speaking terms dealing with royalty. However, just as his interests had been piqued, she then harshly threw his interests down.
"I haven't heard of her in this lifetime."
So far, the most informed of the senshi had not heard of Sailor Neptune in Destiny City.
However, she couldn't just stop there.
"Maybe she lucked out and wasn't reincarnated this time."
Why would his princess refuse a second coming? Why would her knights come into power if she did not need them? What sense did it make to have her Squires and Pages come into power without her leadership to guide them? It just couldn't be right, could it?
If this senshi could have made any sort of commentary to make his blood turn to ice, the words she had selected had indeed done the job. As she pulled out her notebook and began to fuss with them, he almost seemed to completely tune her out.
"You are of no use to me." He had to reject her theory, he needed to prove his faith in his Princess. Standing around here looking in notebooks would not help him out by any means. Quite sharply, he turned about-face and soon enough began to start walking away.
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Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 11:55 am
"Yeah, well, that's the way it goes sometimes." Aquarius shrugged, not particularly sorry. If this Sailor Neptune did skip out on reincarnation, and didn't share how, then she didn't really care all that much.
She did care when the knight started walking away. "Hey, wait a second! I'm not done with you yet! I answered your question, so now it's your turn to answer mine." She waved the book at him, and briefly wondered if throwing it at his head would help.
Nah, she didn't want to hurt her notes.
"You're gonna stiff me just 'cause you didn't like my answer? Real chivalrous, man."
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Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 5:20 pm
Nysa's foot stopped upon one word.
Chivalrous
It was a word frequently used to label knights and the kind. However, the word could never truly apply to the Neptunian Squire. If he had been the ideal warrior, his ancestor would approve of him, his weapon would have never broken in such a pathetic display, and he would have already found his princess.
"If you seek out chivalry, do not seek me out, Miss Senshi... if you seek a failure..."
He could not even finish the statement. Finishing the statement would have been a confession as to his inability to complete his decided task as a Squire of Neptune.
He didn't speak again. He continued to move forward, and once he was close enough to a building, he bound up to the rooftops again. Despite how indifferent he seemed to act about the mystery-senshi's words, something had gotten to him.
And he didn't like it.
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Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 8:51 pm
In other circumstances, Aquarius might've felt bad for the guy. She knew all to well how it felt to be a failure, for all of one's efforts to come to nothing. Maybe, if things had gone differently, they could have talked about it. Soothed each others' bruised egos, offered advice, worked together.
Instead, she hollered "I didn't seek you out, you jerk! You sought me out, and now you're leaving without even trying to help!" And then, under her breath, she muttered "I know it's hard, but dammit!"
Knights were clearly useless. Except Laney. And Pharos. And maybe that guy Pharos told her about. But otherwise, totally useless.
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