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 Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2022 6:22 pm
Eternal senshi auras made Nectaris kinda nervous when she didn't know who they were. It wasn't that she didn't like Eternal senshi, mostly. Encke was one, and he'd become the kinda of person she could cry on, or eat mac and cheese with in the middle of the night, and that was really all she could ask for.
It was just that she knew there was at least one Order Eternal out there who totally wanted to punch her face in, and that made it a little weird when she got that tingling feeling in the back of her skull that told her one was nearby. Like, she was curious about meeting new people, she wanted to see what kind of powerful people were around, and what they would do, but it was hard for her to be all smiley and outgoing when she was worried she'd got someone all mad at her, back when she was Sylvite.
The curiosity won out in the end, always. She still ended up walking towards the aura, when she felt it. It was just kind of a walk where she was standing up on her tiptoes, biting her lower lip, and generally being all kinda anxious.
She was also careful, when she saw the dude, even though his outfit was so pretty, she tried hard not to say anything about it that might be considered obnoxious. Instead, she just kinda waved, and said, "Hi?"
Hopefully that wouldn't be a bad thing to say, even if they had some kind of history.
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2022 1:02 am
Meeting new Knights was always a good time. Any kind of new allies, really--Kerberos liked getting to know the people on his side, especially since a lot of his older contacts were...gone, now, one way or the other. And this one...he didn't recognize her colors, or her symbol, which was interesting, but that didn't have to mean anything. There were probably plenty of Knight factions he'd never really run into.
He realized, though, after a moment, that he recognized her.
"Hi," he said back, waving. "...Do you remember me?"
He wasn't sure which answer he'd prefer. Either they got to start over, or they already had history--both good, as far as he was concerned.
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Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2022 8:15 pm
Okay it didn't look like this guy was about to punch her in the face so that was good. He was asking if she remembered him so that probably meant that he'd met her before. "No," she said, because it wasn't like she was gonna beat around the bush on that one. "Sorry, I lost, like, literally all of my memories. I mean, not all of them I guess." She squinted, trying to think of how to say it exactly, "But, like, seven years. I don't remember being in the Negaverse or anything, I'm sorry if I did something mean to you back then. Apparently I was pretty brainwashed." That was something that she was finding that it was good to say to people. "Please don't call me Sylvite or anything, okay? I'm Nectaris." She waved, again, for emphasis.
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 1:46 am
Aha. Well, that was good enough.
"Nectaris," he said, testing the new name. "That's pretty. Better suited to you than the old one, if you don't mind me saying." Then again, Kerberos always felt like a Knight's Wonder better reflected their heart than whatever cold stone the Negaverse stuck them with.
Maybe that was the romantic in him.
"I dunno if that's better or worse than what happened to me," he mused. "Lost all my civilian-side stuff. Big ol' blank, just the Negaverse left. Which isn't great, as I guess you've gathered." He huffed. "But no, you didn't do anything to me. We talked, actually, and--well, sufice to say, I'm glad to see you got out. It seemed like being in the Negaverse was really weighing you down."
The way it always weighed on people, Kerberos thought. The way it dragged them down, like an anchor pulling into muck.
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 6:49 pm
"Thanks!" chirped Nectaris. "The Moon literally picked my name. Or, like, the Code Piece on the Moon. But, like, it got picked out just for me. The Wonder, too." It was easy to stay chipper now that she was pretty sure that this guy didn't see her like some big scary General, still. If he was gonna punch her for her past, he was taking a really long time with it. That meant Nectaris could take a deep breath, and she could plop down to sit cross-legged on the ground next to him. "Is it weird?" she asked him, because there were questions that she couldn't ask people like Encke, people who hadn't been through the stuff that she'd been through. "Remembering the Negaverse? For me it's like," she puffed out her cheeks, and squinted at the sky. "Weird. Worse than weird, I guess. It sucks." She blew the air out of her mouth all slow. "It was like I woke up and I suddenly can't go home, and people are coming up to me talking about how I tried to kill them, or corrupted them or something." A second passed. "And I don't feel like I'd ever do the stuff that I guess I did, but, y'know. Chaos, right?" That was what the others said, when she started feeling guilty. Blame the Chaos. "I'm glad I wasn't mean to you, at least."
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Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2023 5:31 pm
"Picked it for you?" Kerberos raised his eyebrows. "That's new. My experience is that Knights usually just kind of...know their names. Are Moon Knights different?" If so, that was fascinating. The mysteries of the universe were ever fascinating to Kerberos, and thre always seemed to be more to learn.
Her question made him smile wryly. "....Sometimes, I wish I'd forgotten it," Kerberos said. "I remember all the terrible things I did, and I can never really escape acknowledging that....Chaos or no, I did things I'll never be able to undo."
So much blood on his hands.
"But at least I know what people are accusing me of. And I don't miss a life I can't have anymore."
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