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 Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2015 8:23 am
Quote: Backdated prior to Sandrine's corruption
And what were the benefits to wandering around playing charades?
He might encounter others that wanted to see him purified, or people he might call allies after the brain scramble bit. After all, he'd need a place to live after the change of allegiance was accomplished. Meeting more of the White Moon now meant he secured more allies after the fact. He might encounter a royal on his own, beyond Thraen's guidance.
Which might be pretty nice. He was eye candy, but way too eager to jump the murdertrain.
Ochre halted for a moment and looked toward the sky, where only the brightest stars remained visible from the light pollution. And somewhere up there is a planet with my name on it. 'Sheikh'. Katya told me that's what it was. The dreams coincide. I wonder... is it possible to get into that city? I could start working on it as soon as I'm purified. I'd get a couple years' jump on it anyway.
His pedometer read out a handful of steps from two grand, which met his goal for an excellent stopping time. if nothing else, becoming a senshi kept him in the best shape of his life, but even so, that shape required rest before he gave himself shin splints or any manner of ugly sports injury. With a bench near the center of the park by a fountain, Ochre considered the park as good a place as any for kicking his feet up to prevent edema. So he started toward it, sat on it, and breathed a much-needed sigh when his legs started pounding in disuse. At least the White Moon required no stringent patrolling rules or daily tasks.
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Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2015 6:25 am
Sheena felt him before she saw him, a member of chaos headed in her direction, or really ambling. She scurried up a tree to get a better view being barely a foot high did not offer.
She spotted walking toward a bench and further sitting down and lay down on the branch several feet away. She doubted he could see her. She wondered why he was so at ease in the park when it was the most frequented parts of the city.
"You would do well not to rest and linger for to long, many pass through here, most who wouldn't mind trying to end you." She called out from the tree before jumping down and heading over to the corrupt.
She reached him and sighed and tisked. She hated to see senshi stolen into chaos, or really anyone for that matter.
"Look what they've done to you. Unnatural," she stated boldly, "disconnected."
She hopped up on the bench probably getting far closer than she should with someone she didnt know, but she wasn't overly worried.
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 6:51 pm
A voice came from nowhere that startled Ochre significantly. No energy signature revealed itself, and no one of threatening stature stepped out from the bushes. The corrupt jumped to his feet abruptly, despite bodily complaint, and looked for the source. Only trees stared back at him, barely moving in the stagnant air.
Ochre felt his paranoia grow until a cat leapt up to the bench, looking impossibly soft and inviting to pet. An Order cat, from the sound of it, and the barely perceptible aura that he completely missed prior. Finally he settled back onto the bench and directed his attention toward the obnoxiously cute new companion. "Yeah, trust me, I've been lucky enough to encounter goddamn everyone and their mom who wants to kill me. I mean, it's not like I asked for this." Except that he did - though without knowing the nuances embedded in the corrupted lifestyle. Power wore no face of slavery, then, as they oft stood in opposition.
"Yeah, I get it, the holes look weird and my hair's way too long and this uniform looks generally awful. Can I pet you now or what?" As much as he wanted to touch the soft fur without invitation, he figured it ranked up there with running his fingers through some subway stranger's hair. That only seemed to find acceptance among... Normal cats. Dumb cats? He wasn't sure how to qualify the difference.
"Someone already told me that I could get purified. Said he could arrange it. I'm guessing he's working on it now. In the mean time I gotta keep up with pretenses." Explaining all of it simultaneously sounded like a very terrible and very liberating idea. What was it to the cat if he wanted to purify? She staked no claim in the Negaverse and their senshi.
"But disconnected is kind of a weird way to explain it. Is there something to that?"
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 6:29 am
Sheena gave a small nodded, "didn't ask for it, huh? Sounds about right, can't imagine they would give you much choice anyway. The negaverse is a thief stealing people from their rightful paths in life. Pitting us against one another."
She gave a bit of a laugh at his asking permission to pet her and hoped right into his lap settling down happy to ablige, "you certainly may pet me."
She perked up slightly when he noted someone told him he could get purified and he was working on it. It made her happy to hear that the negaverse wasn't so able to hold onto what wasnt rightfully theirs. "That's good to hear. Yes be careful, but try to talk to many because you will need allies and people to help you. Most are very for purification, as am I. You will need a prince or princess to actually do the deed, but there are a handful at the moment."
She nodded at the his question, "yes. You can't go home. You don't have what would allow you to go to you planet and reconnect and help awaken and revive it. So you're disconnected from part of what makes you a senshi. It's very sad. Like being half full."
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 9:41 am
Ochre happily (and surprisingly naturally) settled into petting the feline on his lap. He felt her fuzzy warmth through the thin material of his pants and was thankful for it - the summer night wore on unusually cold. For a time, he mulled over her comments silently. The Negaverse stole him from his rightful path? What was that supposed to mean, anyway? While he wasn't particularly set on joining the Negaverse specifically, he wanted power, and they supplied it - on their own terms. Was their brand of power somehow counterfeit to the White Moon's?
And Royals - didn't Thraen mention getting in touch with some of those? "Yeah, someone explained the Royals thing. Thraen said he knew a couple and would help set up a meeting with one. Maybe I'm supposed to plead my case for them to help or something. I dunno what to expect there." And if he wanted the chance at it, then he needed to act quickly; the noose tightened fast around his neck, and soon he would have no freedom but to breathe. And how was he supposed to get people to agree on being his ally through the whole endeavor in a handful of days? What sort of signal was he supposed to use to call true to talk with them? The entire prospect of purification felt both attractive and impossible.
Ochre sighed softly, and found himself surprised to see no vapor rise from his throat.
The corrupt gave the kitty a healthy scratch behind the ears while she spoke of planetary travel. "What do you mean, 'home'? I can go home just fine. It's like... A decent walk from here but it's maybe 20 minutes tops. But, uh..." Ochre paused, narrowed his eyes, and furrowed his brow in concentration. "Did you just say 'my planet'? Like, not Earth? I own a planet?" He would've written the cat off were it not for a keening split of ideas - no, less than that, more of fractured images - consisting of himself in different garb, in different setting. Was it him? Perhaps not, but the features of an otherworldly location was impossible to deny.
The redhead sat silent for a span afterward, staring toward the array of overflowing trashcans on the opposite end of the street, and said nothing while he tried to parse out the present from a handful of strange recollections. Was he hallucinating now?
"Er, nevermind that. Mind telling me more about that 'Negaverse stealing people' bit?"
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Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2015 7:58 pm
Sheena happily spawled at the petting, stretching out across his lap and enjoying the attention offered her. It wasn't too often one could do there job in such a relaxed manner. Her tail flicked as she nodded, "Yes," she said, "it you know you're name, your true name, it belongs to you planet or celetial body of sorts. Could be a star planet, asteroid, nebula among other things. It's yours."
She looked up at him and frowned slightly, "Do you not think it unnatural to be pumped full of chaos to become something? All I need to do is give you a pen and you do the rest, because you are and always will be a senshi. Corruption, listen to the word, doesnt sound terribly natural, no?"
"You were born to be a senshi, the power is inside of you and always has been. The negaverse steals you, corrupting your starseed and feeding you lies."
She sighed, sitting up again and putting a paw on his chest beside the whole where is starseed sat. She frowned and shook her head. "Nothing about that seems overly right to me."
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 7:42 am
"Yeah, I remember hearing that once." Ochre's features scrunched while he racked his brain for the single syllable name that Katya mentioned upon his rocky awakening. "Sheikh, I think? I was kinda... Distracted when I was told. I mean, it's not exactly a walk in the park to get corrupted. Okay, maybe it's a literal walk in the park for some people, and then the Negaverse swoops down and drafts them or something, but I mean I was kinda in a lot of pain at the time so I wouldn't swear that's my true name or anything." Owning a planet, though... That was something else. A whole planet, however large or small, meant that he had all that real estate to himself. Or anyone else who lived on his planet. And if it really was him, and there really was a civilization present there, then maybe he could tax them for their rights to live there. Or he could shuttle people there and start a civilization.
How did one reach their planet, anyway? By his estimations, there was probably some magical ability that would get him there.
His mouth reduced to a thin lipped, cockeyed line when she spoke of chaos as an unnatural force when compared to - he assumed - White Moon senshi. He sat back beneath the paw and temporarily discontinued petting her; her up-front and declarative mannerisms sent him on the defensive for a situation that he himself couldn't control. "Look, I wouldn't really call any of this 'natural', so yeah, I think it's unnatural. I think turning into a senshi at all is really off the beaten path as far as 'natural' is concerned. Now I'm not saying it isn't, it's just that compared to real life, or normal life or whatever you wanna call it, this s**t is totally out of left field. It's not standard. Holes or no holes, it's just... Weird to suddenly be a superpowered person that nobody recognizes.
"And besides, it wasn't exactly my choice to be this way. I didn't exactly get a choice in it. Now stop touching my hole." Ochre frowned and attempted to draw up his coat around the gaping darkness that showcased his starseed. He liked the cat just fine, but she laid it on a bit thick with the 'chaos is evil' spiel. Evil, sure, but wasn't his intention to come clean of it enough to earn a little reprieve?Kaori_luv please quote me with tags! otherwise i will never know when this gets tagged
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