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 Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2021 5:46 pm
The past few days had been a whirlwind. What with getting Ana set back up in the world...getting the apartment, her office in Negaspace…everything. She had been so busy that she hadn’t had a chance to think...and when she did get the chance to...she realized how very little that...thinking appealed to her.
The apartment was almost oppressively silent and Ana sat on the edge of her bed, her hand absently running over the comforter that felt just a bit too…
...Too something. It didn’t feel right. None of the things felt right…she didn’t feel right, but perhaps that was to be expected...perhaps...after all, she had forgotten everything...and…
Anastasia stood up, clenching her hands into fists and made her way to the kitchen counter, grabbing her keys and wallet off of it and setting out of the apartment at a brisk pace.
No. This was fine. She just had to go shopping. Had to make the apartment a place that felt more like...more like home.
...Whatever home felt like. But. If she went out with her very best little brother...he would know. He would help.
When the dark haired woman was a few blocks from the apartment, she powered up and teleported back into Negaspace. Her own office was still bare, again devoid of...well. Everything. But...they could fix that too!
Swiftly, the corrupt made her way to Faustite’s office and knocked swiftly before letting herself inside. “Wake up, little brother.” She assumed he was sleeping, if not...well. Whatever.
“I want you to come shopping with me! Doesn’t that sound like fun? I want to decorate my office! And my apartment and you and I can get burgers or something!”
She didn’t ask...and she hoped that the desperation that she felt wasn’t leaking into her voice.
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Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2021 1:18 pm
The past few days had been hell. Eion couldn't focus on the myriad tasks before him when his mind kept wandering to the night they protected the generators, to the strange little bone that Taenite so knowingly broke in front of his face. He'd realized how the city infringed loudly on his thoughts when he went out canvasing apartments with one of the infiltration officers. The Captain kept trying desperately to solicit his opinion, seemed to already believe that Eion and Ana were related, that he'd finally secured his long-lost sister, but Eion was too dazed to commit to an answer.
Even if he had liked one corner loft apartment over one duplex or one ground floor rowhouse-style, what would it matter? He didn't know anything about living in an apartment. He didn't know what to look for.
In the past few days, Eion became a great delegator of tasks. All that needed to happen with situating Lysithea in daily life was left to those who knew what daily life was. It gave him time to run himself down to exhaustion, since sleep eluded him anymore.
He hadn't heard the knock; Faustite was long asleep with his head buried in his arms. Normally he'd made it to his room by the afternoon, but his morning grew cluttered with pointless meetings that he had even less reason to cancel. He roused, then, at the sound of her voice. At little brother. Then he wondered, dreamily, if it was Elizabeth calling him. But as Lysithea kept shouting, the cobwebs fell away.
He hadn't seen Elizabeth in years. Silent, he stood, and his dented metal stool skidded across the floor noisily. He strode around the still-broken-but-hammered-into-a-vague-desk-shape desk, reached the door, opened it for her. Stared at her softly for a moment.
Considered it. Nodded. "We'll have three hours." He stepped out, the shut the door behind him with a soft latch.
Shopping. He hadn't gone shopping for fun since he was fully human. "Where to?"
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Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2021 2:47 pm
Oh, he was so cute when he was half asleep. Her little brother was without a doubt the sweetest, most precious thing in the universe. Half youma or not, she thought he was no more than a warm teddy bear and it took all of her willpower not to hug him tightly, both from the fact that she had missed him...and the fact that she had just. Well.
Been terribly lonely.
“Three hours is more than enough time, and...as for where to, everywhere I think! I want to get...I mean. Just. Things, you know?” She hoped, because honestly...she didn’t. But the idea of spending time with Eion. Shopping and maybe getting dinner or ice cream...it sounded perfect. And if they were lucky some of the holiday lights might be going up in the city, though it might be a little too early for that.
“I want to decorate my office, and the apartment...so maybe a store that has home things? I’m thinking fancy rugs...and um...cute things. I like cute things, though I’m sure...you must already know that. Duh.”
Of course he did. Which...just meant that this trip would be ultra successful. “Some store that has cute things...and practical things?” She knew that there were such things, and she could almost think of a name but…
It escaped her.
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Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2021 2:09 pm
"Mmm…" Faustite shut his eyes slowly. Everywhere — what was that supposed to mean? "Like a mall?" It was the only place that would have a big enough selection for… Whatever she wanted. He knew what malls were, though he couldn't say what stores were in any of them anymore. Hadn't been in one for years — at least, not to go shopping.
"Or." He wanted a name, but none came up. "Some home goods store." Couldn't remember the names of any. Normally he had Nembus or Taenite order him s**t through Wayfair.
s**t. A half-youma who hadn't been human in years and a Negaverse senshi that couldn't remember two weeks ago were a terrible combination for human activities. He had to trust that, perhaps, Lysithea would remember some of the stores she would want to visit. Or she had a good enough grip on Googling to find the places to go.
The more time he spent around her, the more he realized that she would've made a perfect older sister. Would've, as if she weren't already. But legal appellations aside, he wished she really was his sister. Wished they grew up together, and maybe his life wouldn't have been as abysmal.
"Try the mall first? There's one…" He pinched the bridge of his nose as he tried to recall. "Near the river. Graveyard in the back. Can take us there."
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Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2021 5:32 pm
“Oh! The mall sounds like a fantastic idea, yeah!”
Lysithea beamed and held her hand out to the half youma. “Change back into Eion, and I’ll take us both there! I can do it, you know.” She was strong enough, and honestly…she wanted to show her brother that she was picking things up again. Picking things up again was the very least she could do, honestly, there was nothing worse in the corrupt’s mind than being a burden to her brother.
After all, he was who she loved the most in the entire world.
“Oh! Can we get Mall Pretzels? Those are always the best, and we can get dipping sauces and just wallow about everything.” She wasn’t a teenager, but it sounded like a fun thing to do.
…It was eternally frustrating though. The fact that she could remember mall pretzels...but nothing about the people who were important to her. Nothing about her family, nothing about any other humans.
Damn the White Moon and their magics…
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Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2021 7:48 pm
"I know you can." An automatic phrase, spoken before he could think about it. He didn't, not formally — he'd never seen Lysithea teleport before, but he knew the Unicorn Senshi's determination, her fervor, her interest in doing and learning and meeting everyone's expectations.
Something lodged in his throat. He swallowed it down dutifully, without asking questions.
Faustite called to fore his glamour, the peels of skin that wrapped up over his visage and melded into one where inhuman markers once rendered him unmistakable. Eion lacked the look of Faustite's fire, and even the highlights that once rendered his hair brilliant. He wore a pair of orange and gold argyle-patterned leggings, tucked into a failed Etsy attempt at fashion couture cowboy boots, two jackets zipped as far as they would go, a chunky striped scarf in black and white and a bright green beanie with a Destiny City sports team logo sewn into the front.
It was tiring, all this shifting back and forth, but he would do it for Lysithea. Would do it for Ana.
"Whatever you want. Mall pretzels, boba, ice cream, tacos, sushi." They'd visit that place where people made stuffed animals too. Seemed like something Ana would like, and Eion had never seen the inside of that store before.
He held his hand out to her, curious where she would drop them. If she would; teleportation wasn't the easiest of their skills to master.
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Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2021 6:01 pm
She grinned, utterly pleased by his promises. By the idea of eating everything at the mall and just spending time with her brother. Though…Perhaps Lysithea would help him find something better to wear when he was in the guise of Eion, but…he was trying! And to his credit, the corrupt was rather sure that most of the time he chose to look human he wasn’t really…wearing much.
But that was nothing more than speculation.
Squeezing his hand, she teleported them both to the wooded area just behind the mall, and let her henshin melt away the moment she was sure that they were both alone, and both safely there with feet on the ground.
Grinning slightly, Ana puffed out her cheeks and looked utterly pleased with herself. “See?” Her voice was only slightly winded. “Here we are! Ah, I’m so excited! Come on, Eion! We have a whole mall here just for us!” And she had money, and they could buy things and eat things and just…
Make new wonderful memories.
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Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2021 6:32 pm
Felt all the more disorienting when someone new vanished them elsewhere. Eion felt his head swim, shut his eyes to the languid oscillation of all the surrounding trees, and swallowed back the bile in his throat. He would get used to it, as he acclimated to Albite's perpetually strange jumps through space, but Eion would lament the process.
At least, he thought, he hadn't eaten recently. "You remembered," he muttered weakly.
It was time to go to the mall. He let go of her hand, thinking he should take the lead —
He took a step, but his motor function hadn't caught up with him yet — Eion stumbled, tripped over his own foot, ate dirt in a pile of sigh. He laid there, face down in the grass, contemplated whether or not he wanted to get up before he fit his hands underneath himself to push up to a seated position.
"Need a minute."
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2021 9:14 pm
Ana nodded and frowned slightly, squatting down beside her brother and made a sound of worry. “...Did I do something wrong? Did I like, leave half of you behind or something?” Oh god, had she messed up so badly? Had she done something that had hurt her brother?
“I…do you not want to go? Should I take us back? Eion, I’m so sorry…”
She had killed him. She had obviously liquified her brother’s insides and he was going to turn to a puddle of goo and she would never get to talk to him again ever, and it was all her fault because she had been stupid enough to let the White Moon do horrible things to her.
For a moment Anastasia fell quiet and then she reached out, pulling the younger into her arms and sniffling, trying so hard to force back her tears. He didn’t need to see her cry. He shouldn’t know she was unhappy. “...I’m so…so sorry…”
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Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2021 2:27 pm
"Nononono," small rise of panic in him for how Ana got so distressed for him tripping over his own feet and falling over. It hurt, being cared for like that — like they were truly related. He wished it were so, and it should be enough for him to say it was. Reaching back, he tried to gether an arm around her shoulders.
"I'm fine, just, haven't slept much. Got moving too quickly." He stood, then, and dusted off his knees, mussed his hair a little and looked back at her.
What a ******** heavy load it was to be someone's only family in a wide world of strangers. He wouldn't trade it, being around her, having her pi[finally on the same side of the war as him. But it was like keeping a crane in a birdcage, having her tethered only to his team. They had to find her more than that. More than mall trips and Christmas cards and apartments full of fresh-baked cookies.
And he was depending on Albite to figure that out.
"It'll go away when I wake up more. Let's find some tea, then we'll find some stuffed things." There was a word for that. "Plushies," he amended.
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Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2021 4:16 pm
“Why didn’t you tell me you weren’t awake yet then, silly? I would have waited…” Ana forced a smile and rubbed her eyes swiftly, hoping he didn’t notice. “We can find tea. I…Yeah. Of course!” Drawing in a breath, she helped her brother back to his feet and held him as close and upright that she could. “...I’ll start bringing you tea in the mornings if you’d like me too!”
The thought cheered her up somewhat. It was a purpose, and it would let her see him every day! There couldn’t be much better than that.
“But, right now, tea for us! And some plushies! And…and everything else we’re going to get.”
It was time to shop with her most favorite, most perfect baby brother. Time to make her life a little more…well.
Her.
…Whoever she was.
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