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 Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 6:31 pm
Being an agent of Chaos was still something Galena was getting used to. As a civilian who had been attacked by the Negaverse more than once, she really didn't see a scenario where she would be joining their ranks.
But that was before, and before she realized that power felt good.
The newly minted Lieutenant was beside herself with really knowing what to do about her recent induction, and had powered up tonight only to end up wasting her time on a rooftop, just to see if she could get up there.
She could, and was left with a bit of a 'now what' situation that left her anxiously fiddling with her hands and tugging on the delicate lace gloves of her uniform.
So far she had yet to do battle or really even do much of anything, other than use her stick weapons to hold her hair up, which led to lamenting she was going to be the lamest agent ever. That's just how they showed up when she powered up!
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Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 12:57 am
Ah, the "on the roof, now what" situation was something Ashur was quite familiar with. Not that he knew that whoever he'd spied just one rooftop away was in such a fix or anything. The Page just happened to get bored that often. Get up rooftops, up water towers, up trees...he'd been up a lot of things -- take that statement however you will.
In any case, that evening was no different. He'd scaled a building and was resting up on it's roof, ignoring important things yet again. Ash had been doing that a lot as of late...but it didn't bother him as much as it ought to. The guy was good at shirking responsibilities, after all; he might even consider it a skill at this point. Still, from where he lay he suddenly felt an aura -- kind of Chaos-y, but he wasn't sure -- creep up nearby, and it caught his attention.
Sure enough, on the next roof over was someone clad rather heavily in black. If he weren't specifically looking for a body he probably would have missed them entirely. So, because he couldn't be sure if it was a Chaos-aligned individual or not -- his energy-reading still sucked, after all, and he hadn't been around all that many of them before -- the Page grabbed a nearby flattened soda can and chucked it right on over. Thank the gods for the extra boost in power that came with his knighthood, else it probably wouldn't have made it to the other roof.
His aim was, however, rather questionable.
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Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 10:05 pm
Galena was still feeling out the different sorts of energies that played on her foreign, sixth sense since being recruited and corrupted into the Negaverse. Something was here, but she couldn't quite understand what the weird, creeping feeling was.
Until a soda can whizzed by. She responded by releasing a squeal and hopping to the side in shock before she whirled around, looking for its source.
Oh, yes. that's what that feeling was. Another person. Who had the nerve to throw something at her.
Her fists balled, putting some strain on the light material her gloves were made out of and she stared at him, utterly shocked and indignant. "That was rude," She hissed, clearly appalled.
"Where I come from, people introduce themselves, like proper and civilized creatures."
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Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 5:18 pm
In hindsight, it probably wasn't a good idea to be throwing things. Even if it were a senshi, throwing crushed cans at them was probably a good way to quickly get on their bad side. Too late, though, and despite himself Ashur actually snorted, amused by her reaction. Going by that alone, he felt she wasn't really a hostile, so the page hopped off the little platform he'd been resting on and dusted himself off.
He easily dismissed her comment with a shrug. "Guess I should visit your homeland sometime," he joked. This was the kind of thing he heard all too often coming from his dad when he was still living in LA, and ignoring them was second nature already. Still, the teen did feel a little bad about it. She obviously wasn't his dad, after all.
"Sorry, just had to...check," and he paused and eyed her uniform. Chaos, probably. Mm...definitely. But she wasn't trying to kill him yet, so that was a good sign.
"Been trying to get used to this signal business. Thought I sensed a body around, so I had to check." A half-truth, but she didn't need to know that. Actually, he'd done it so he could escape more easily, You know, in case she went and tried to kill him right away.
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Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2014 1:37 pm
The page's quip about her homeland in response managed to garner a bit of a pursed lipped and petulant frown from Galena. She didn't find it amusing at all. He could've at least apolog-- oh, he apologized.
The lacy and business like Nega cleared her throat and gave her jacket a prissy little adjustment as if she needed some stalling to regain her composure.
"It's fine, I suppose. I hear we're supposed to be enemies."
Although she still appeared to have no intention of attacking. Her weapon, after all, was still being used as a hair accessory.
"I still haven't quite... gotten the hang of what the signals mean," She admitted in embarrassment. She had barely even noticed him and without seeing him, probably would've have pegged him as an opposing faction.
"It's been less than a week since they recruited me," She said with a clear case of embarrassment as she looked down and started to anxiously fiddle with her glove fingers.
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Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 4:25 am
Enemies, huh? He tilted his head side to side in a very slight motion, as though he was deliberating whether or not he agreed. Ash narrowed his eyes, brows furrowed for a moment before he just ended up shrugging. "Eh, neither here nor there for me. First time I've met someone with that kind of outfit though, but nothing about it screams 'dark senshi' to me." The memory of that ridiculously hostile one he'd run into just recently came to mind, and his mouth twisted into something of a frown as he quickly dismissed it. No reason to get himself in a sour mood. "Plus you didn't attack on the spot, so."
Ash's mind was a simple one when it came to this kind of thing, and he tried not to generalize. Mostly.
Her admission about being new to the scene perked him up a bit though, glad to find someone in a similar boat. "Nothing to be embarrassed about, we all start somewhere," he said, suddenly all smiles. Something kept him from sharing the fact that he'd been a knight for nearly a year now, though. And he would have dropped more words of encouragement had she not mentioned the word "recruit" before he got the chance.
"Recruited?" His brows were raised in question, his gaze the usual overly inquisitive one he'd given his teachers hell with in high school. "By who?"
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Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 8:56 pm
"Oh, no, I'm not a senshi," Galena said with a small head shake that in her restrained body language probably looked like a dramatic flail, relatively.
"Recruited, yes, by the Negaverse organization. Are knights not recruited?" If so, what prompted them to don costumes and take to the city streets? A whim?
"Your uniform is interesting. All of the knights I've met so far, though, have strange uniforms..." She trailed off quietly, which was an understatement because her natural speaking volume was a touch below the average level and too soft to really demand attention.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I don't mean that in a rude way. Only... I'm not sure what the unifying theme is? In the knight uniforms?" Camelot had looked the stereotypical part of a knight. Babylon was dressed in furs, and now this boy practically looked like a Jedi.
"Then again, I am sure I don't look the part of a warrior," She said, going back to looking embarrassed and anxious ans she twisted a fingertip on her lacy gloves.
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Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 3:06 am
Ashur made an "o" shape with his mouth as she clarified that she wasn't a senshi, though the motion that she gave with it did get him to raise a curious brow. The page kept his comments to himself, however, and at her question he gave his own head a slight shake in reply. "Nope, I'm...actually not sure. I just got attacked one day and then bam. Knight." Which was one of the reasons he didn't really know what to do with himself in the present. No recruitment meant no real reason to be doing something, though that insecurity he'd keep to himself.
Still, the idea intrigued him. Maybe even made him a little jealous -- she had an idea about what her side was doing while he was just floating about trying to figure things out by trial and error.
It surprised him, though, that she would bring up his costume of all things. That comment got a small frown out of him, and he brought a hand through his hair as she trailed off. Ashur was about to say something to comment back in his own defense (or maybe help to add to her argument, since he wasn't actually a big fan of his knight garb), but she apologized before he could and tried to explain herself.
"Honestly, I haven't really been paying that much attention to the themes," he answered after a beat. "I'm not sure if there's some cosmic tailor or something that handles our individual wardrobes, but if there is I'd probably complain about the weird Jedi reference in mine." This was all said with a shrug and a rather annoyed look on his face, though his eyes trailed to her outfit when she brought the conversation back around to herself.
And it was true, she didn't look too warrior-like or anything. She just looked like an office lady who was rather fond of dark shades and prancing around on rooftops at night. But, again, Ash held his tongue. "Well, what about you guys?" he returned. She looked a bit uncomfortable all of a sudden, and Negaverse or not uncomfortable girls were not something he was an expert at dealing with. "Any theme your uniforms follow?"
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Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 6:19 pm
"Erm..." Galena remained still, save for the way her fingers fidgeted. "I'm not really sure. I don't... I suppose a vast majority of the uniforms I've seen so far seem a bit... crisp and professional? But I've also seen Steampunk costuming and... leather straps and corsets. I do not think we are that standardized either."
She tried not to go into what she considered rude detail about what she thought of some of the more provocative uniforms she'd seen. Not that she necessarily looked down on provocative dress considering in her civilian identity, Elle invested a lot of time and money into a figure she hoped was going to get her noticed at auditions. It just seemed like an odd choice, for whoever was making the choices, to pick for an army defending the Earth and all.
She tried to hold her tongue for a longer moment, but she couldn't resist asking. "And what about the senshi? Do you maintain a relationship with them? I hear they're invaders."
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Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2014 4:38 am
Talk of costumes caused Ashur's brows to furrow a bit, the topic being a sore spot for the page considering he wasn't a fan of his own. However, it wasn't anything specific so he didn't really mind all that much. At least, he could put up with it. The question about senshi was a welcome subject change, though the "invaders" part of it made him snort. Not rudely -- at least, he didn't mean it to be rude as it was more an amused snort than anything -- though. His mouth pulled up into a small smile and he shrugged.
"Not sure about the 'invaders' thing, but I have met a few." Ash put on a thoughtful expression then, and he paused and took a deep breath, stretching his neck a little as though it'd gotten stiff with him just standing there. It was a familiar feeling since he was slaving over alarm clocks and radios for hours on end at home, but he never enjoyed it. "One attacked me," and he frowned briefly at the memory before shrugging it away. "The rest I've had conversations with, kinda like the one we're having now."
Another shrug. "I guess that's about the only 'relationship' I have with them. And another pause. "You?"
Although he was keeping up with the conversation well enough, however, his mind was going back to the whole idea of "recruitment" every so often, particularly whenever he let his eyes wander over to his company. Ashur felt it wasn't something he needed to really understand considering they were technically "enemies," like she'd said, but like most things he just found it was something he wanted to know. Really wanted to know, but he stayed his tongue. For now.
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 9:00 am
"I have not really had much face to face interaction with them," Galena admitted, and the fact her questions drew amused snorts had her take her fiddling and fidgeting up a notch and shyly look in another direction.
She did not enjoy being so new to the game, and being a lesser informed party.
"You've actually been quite kind, so I suppose I'm not... entirely sure... who the villain is intended to be, here," She murmured. "My recruitment was a loyalty made under duress, I'm afraid I'm ignorant to things even on my own side."
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Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2014 10:14 am
Ash could only nod along as she admitted that she'd had limited encounters with the senshi. Truth be told, his own run-ins were pretty far apart, though he couldn't be sure whether that was a good or bad thing.
Ash didn't quite catch on that she'd started getting a little uncomfortable because of his nonverbal responses to her questions, but he did notice that she was fidgeting a bit more than earlier. He raised a curious brow but let it go without bringing it up; maybe that was just how she was with new people? Or...maybe he just said something odd.
"You haven't given me reason to not be kind," he replied, again with a shrug and hoping that maybe that'd get her to relax a little bit more. "But yeah, I definitely know what that's like. All this stuff," and he waved a hand, as if to include everything, both Order and Chaos. "Has been giving me the biggest, most long-lasting headache I've ever had."
He was frowning then, though that quickly changed as she switched back to topics regarding her recruitment. The word "duress" probably should have had at least one warning flag go up, but instead it just made him a bit more curious, and since she'd brought it up he figured it was alright to...talk about it. "So," he started, pausing for a second to try and come up with the right question. "You were talking to these Negaverse agents even as a civilian?" He found that kind of...interesting, to be honest. "Any idea why? I mean, did they choose you or did you approach them or...?"Carneli Sorry for all the quotes. Had to edit a few things. xP;
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Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2014 5:21 pm
She continued picking at her lace gloves as he asked, and then for half a second more as if she was pondering the answer. Was it treasonous to admit she wasn't one hundred percent loyal to her faction?
Probably, but she was new, what did they expect? It was only the truth anyway.
"It was less a conversation. I was almost devoured by a youma on my way home one night, and a captain tried to take my starseed another," She admitted, a slight flush reaching her pale cheeks at the confession of what felt like weakness and a lack of autonomy.
"So when one offered me power, I concluded it was a more attractive choice than being a victim. If that is how all factions recruit, it seems the city is a dangerous living choice for reasons beyond simple monsters?"
She still had not fully comprehended that knights and senshi were not forcibly taken or seduced into the ranks by superior officers and that awakening t your magic had the possibility of being a natural thing. Magic, at it's core, felt very unnatural as a concept to her.
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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 12:41 pm
The more he listened the more disbelieving the look on his face became. When she finished the Page scratched his head, eyes narrowed as if he didn't really know what to say. "Sounds like some serious bad luck," was what came out, and he winced.
That probably wasn't it.
Still, he continued. "So you decided siding with them was the answer?"
...that probably wasn't too good a way to continue, either. Fortunately her question kept him from shoving the shoe further into his mouth, and he nodded a little at first. "It isn't, far as I know," Ash said, recalling his own little "awakening" in the midst of a paintball war that a youma just decided to crash. Before then he'd run into only one other youma, and a couple of mirror wraiths, and none of which came close to devouring him or even really harming him.
He'd gotten pretty lucky on all counts.
"Like I sad, knights just kind of...get called out. Uh, so it's not so much 'recruitment' as it is choosing to accept some kind of inner......power...or. Something."
He really hoped his stupid choppy explanation didn't lose her.
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Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 9:26 pm
"I think siding is kind of a... a misleading word," Galena murmured quietly, the embarrassed tinge to her cheeks stubbornly remaining. "We can be summoned when they want us somewhere. And I'm not... I don't think quitting is really possible."
She straightened out her jacket and did her best to stand up tall and confident, her painted lips in a firmly grim expression. "I didn't decide to support their cause so much as conclude that the role that was chosen for me was not optional, and that surviving as long as possible means filling whatever role they want me to."
She tilted her head slightly and looked at him up and down, doing her best to process what he was trying to communicate.
"I see. I wonder if they target us because we have no inner power to awaken," She mused, opening her own hand and staring at the palm. "This entire magic situation still doesn't feel quite real... Sometimes I think maybe I was killed or put into a coma and this is just some weird dream."
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