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 Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 1:43 pm
Gathering energy was something he didn’t mind doing, it was better than fighting, and the eternal dark mirror took his duties seriously. He would fight if, and when, he had to but he’d like to not find himself in such a position. It was, thankfully, rare to need to fight as a dark mirror senshi. There were times, when wouldn’t there be? But more often than not the need wasn’t there. That left energy draining as the main duty for himself and others of his court.
Energy gathering he didn’t mind doing, he actually almost enjoyed it in a sense, he was helping his court and it wasn’t anything serious that he had to do. The swing on this rooftop was nice, very comfortable, and the low lighting kept him fairly well hidden from anyone who might look over. Someone had a very nice rooftop to go with, what he assumed was a very nice luxury apartment. But the owner he guessed wasn’t home so he was using the area to watch the next building over, his wraiths were gathering energy there.
Across the way on the next building overs rooftop was some loud, wild, and out of control party where people were splashing about in a pool and drinking. The music was loud enough that it felt like he was playing music right next to himself, how they got away with it he had no idea, but he wasn’t going to complain too much. No one was likely to notice his wraiths; they were too busy.
Held in his arms, pressed to his chest, was a marshmallow like panda plushie. There wasn’t much for him to do right now as his wraiths worked, no one to fight and he didn’t actively collect energy like the Negaverse did. He would let his wraiths work while he sat here swinging himself gently.
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 1:45 pm
Beatrix was finishing up gathering from someone and stealing the money from their wallet when she notice a weird ghostlike thing on the ground. “That’s… cool?” Taking a moment to count her take home from this most recent drain, she then followed the little ghostie for a bit. It was leading to one of the rooftops nearby, away from the large party. This was going to be a pain as she saw the ghost going straight up the side of the building.
It took her a moment to find the fire escape, then she started to make her way up. It wasn’t easy and she was envious of those who could just teleport to and from areas. She knew it was something that would be available to her in the future because Chrysocolla had summoned her so that had to mean there was something to move around easier as well. It was difficult to say the least, climbing the ladder rungs with heels and long hair that got in the way of everything.
As she reached the top, she cursed at how tiring it was. She tumbled down onto the rooftop with a groan before pulling out her phone to use as a light source. “Here little ghostie Bea wants to take you homeeeeeeee.” The edge of her light caught something else though, a plush toy? “Panda?”
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 1:45 pm
With one of his wraiths full of energy he’d called it back, the other two were still out doing there thing. He knew someone else was near by, he could sense them, but he figured they weren’t after him so all was good. They also happen to be chaos, though not the same as himself, so they weren’t likely to come after him.
“Ghostie…do you mean my wraith?” Tilting his head Kiuchi sat there still, one leg drawn up towards his chest, the plushie still held close to himself. “I was gathering some energy from the party on that rooftop, no one would notice, so I let my wraiths out to do that. This one got full first.” And he didn’t need it actually being spotted by the drunks at the party, they would likely make a scene and who knows who’d get hurt…or drown in the pool. It wouldn’t be a good thing really.
“You came from there to here just to see my wraith?” He questioned with a certain amount of innocence in his voice, along with some small bit of curiosity. “You must be new if you didn’t realize I was here this whole time. I could sense you though.”
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 1:46 pm
“Ok, that is a much cooler name than ghostie.” She gathered herself up and stepped closer with her phone light, illuminating the figure sitting on the swing. “Oh you must be like killer queen then, the same but not really the same. Well, I wasn’t sure if it was going to someone or if it was something I could catch yanno? It’s not like I’d seen one of those before and they’re hella cool.” Nodding to herself, this person looked kinda cool too. With the color scheme, she could see they were definitely from the same group as Melp was.
“I would say sort of new sort of old, but more the ******** around and find out type if you catch my drift?” At least if she did stumble into a bad situation she had at least two people she could contact to maybe come help. Croconite seemed like the guy who would love sinking his teeth into someone and Melp Melp had that juju love beam thing to buy some time or just plain out-stop the fight if they wanted it to stop.
“Are those like…. Wingy things?” She stepped a bit closer while looking them over, they were definitely taller than their posture let on. Probably even taller than she was, though she was only average height, to begin with.
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 1:48 pm
“Killer queen…?” Had she met someone else from his own court? Listening to her he shook his head with a smile tugging at his lips. “They are like shadows but they become more visible, and tangible, as they gather energy. It’s best to not let people notice them.” Saying that as he brought two more mirror shadows out from the metal cuffs he wore, time to bring the other two back. They had to be good by now.
Standing up, still holding onto the plushie, he kept his plushie held to his stomach as he turned around so she could see his fluffy black wings. “Yeah, eternals get wings when it comes to senshi. You’re corrupt so you get bat wings but dark mirror court get black feathery wings.” Much better than the white fluffy ones that order got, he didn’t like the idea of angel wings much…too overdone and cliche somehow.
At six foot tall he was taller than he let on, as he typically tried to shrink into his height rather than use it to his advantage. He wore oversized clothing as a civilian and really most people did not expect his height given his rather soft nature. Though he was rather willing to fight if he had to and his magic was not so passive. His magic could do some damage to a person and more so match his look rather than his usual demeanor. “Were you out gathering energy as well tonight?”
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 1:49 pm
Reaching forward she poked them, trying to see if they were just decoration or growing out of him. “That’s kinda cool, are they just like decoration or did you grow butt wings at eternal?” Would that be the same rank she needed to rise to in order to see what really lurked in her fog. “Oh I uh… I think his name is Melp something but he reminds me of the queen of hearts kinda. No wingy things though last I saw them.”
“Uh mostly gathering, plus hunting down some rent money as a side gig for it. You look hella cool by the way, I dig your vibe.” He kinda looked like a snake or something, especially with the long draped scarf thing he had. “I’m not interrupting your wraiths by following em around though right? I guess I shouldn’t touch them though since they drain people. Probably would be a bad time if I did.”
“So do you always bring a panda with you? Aren’t you worried about it getting dirty or banged up if something rowdy happens?” It also made her wonder how that scarfy thing wasn’t a tripping hazard. It looked like it basically touched the ground in places. Everything was kinda interesting with this senshi, especially the eye makeup they had going on. It put her concert makeup to shame.
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 1:50 pm
“They’re part of the uniform…not me.” For a moment he stalled on who she was talking about, he didn’t know everyone in his small little court, but he’d seen the senshi he figured she was talking about. He didn’t have their full name though, he knew they were close to Acubens however. He was certain he could find out who they were, if he wanted to, with a fair amount of ease.
“No, they’ll keep working if I let them. They just can’t be out too long, they’ll grow more visible.” And that wouldn’t be good, he didn’t need them seen, even if the people were drunk, it would cause a panic and he didn’t want to deal with that. He wasn’t good with handling people like that.
“I’m not too worried and I keep it in subspace all the time.” Along with a pillow, and sometimes another plushie. He didn’t mention this, of course, he was certain some people thought him odd or even weak, in some manner, because he kept plushies with him and was an eternal and fighting a war. It didn’t seem to fit together well; image wise.
“You can call me Kiuchi by the way.”
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 1:51 pm
“Oh ok, that’s still hella cool. I think the bat wings will be perfect for my fit.” She kinda pulled a bit at the layered and tattered fabric of her skirt wondering how they would look as she ranked up. It would be awhile she thought though, since she was still really just getting back into stuff and hadn’t really gotten herself out there other than to team up with Croconite.
‘Ah yup, that would be bad unless you wanted to spook people. Probably fun during Halloween, gives a really haunted house kinda vibe. I know I can’t wait until that time of year.” She wanted to go out and spooky people with her magic more around that time of year, to give them something to really be afraid of. It also would be her own way of trick or treating, grabbing money as she drained and took starseeds. Yea it took focus, but it was a lot less effort than working at her graveyard shift. Even if she did think the other graveyard worker was kinda cute in a lost puppy sense.
“Oh that sounds hella handy, I would love not having to put things in my boobs. Oh and my name is Beatrix but you can call me Bea, ok Kiuchi?” She winked a bit at him and blew him a little kiss teasingly. “So what kinda hoodoo do you do? Mine’s kinda spoooooooky like I have a creature from beyond the veil if you know what I mean.” She wiggled her fingers in a spooky motion for a moment as she spoke.
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 1:56 pm
“I think they’ll work as well.” For her the darker looking wings of the corrupt senshi would work for her, he was good with his fluffy dark wings. Hopefully she’d get them and not burn out on all of this and leave before she got them, as he had a feeling it might disappoint her not to get them. She seemed to have a certain look she was aiming for, and he hoped she’d get there, though he wasn’t entirely sure what she had in mind he had an idea.
“Perhaps but I’d rather not start a panic and get found out. I doubt people would take kindly to me, and my outfit is certainly not a halloween costume. As outrageous as some costumes could be his obviously was not one, there wasn’t likely anything he could even hope to pass it off as. At least her outfit could pass as a halloween costume of some sort. He knew others could also…he couldn’t.
“I’m fairly certain you have subspace as well….” Trailing off he wondered if she didn’t…but he was certain she did - had no one told her? Tilting his head he smiled then. “Interesting. My magic tends to make people sick…it ties into the snake aspect of my sphere - gorgons. Think medusa.” Hence why he had snakes on his pants leg. Though medusa was greek so how he’d gotten a very asian looking uniform was beyond him. Maybe cause he was asian personally?
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 1:58 pm
“Wait what? I do? Howsit work? I know I can kinda pop out my own crystal from my thingy here.” She waved over the crack in her chest, it was a fun party trick she had learned early on after figuring out she could pull the crystals out of other people’s chests. “Or I guess you might not know maybe since your stuff is all mirror right? With like backroom liminal space vibes?” It was a bit disappointing because now she would have to read more of the guide that Chrysocolla had given her. It was pretty handy but she really didn’t wanna put more effort into the side things other than draining since she wasn’t sure how that would help her get stronger just yet.
“Oh cool so you’re like a stoney boy? Or I guess that’s a bit rude. I think that’s pretty cool though, I don’t really know exactly what that other guy’s magic did other than like being some sort of weird love beam. Also I don’t think you look that scary so maybe you would stick out during halloween. I’ve got that like tattered wraith goth thing going on though I wish I had more skeleton biddly bops yanno?” She though it would be neat if they like were part of her heels or if she could have bone stuff in her hair but in truth she still wasn’t one hundred percent sure how everything got decided when she became all magical.
“Oh I forgot to ask, how long have you been doin this whole thing? And would you mind if I got your number? I think we could kick it pretty well yanno maybe you could show me your plushies if you have any more of them? I really like your panda it’s super cute.” She used to collect a lot of cryptid inspired plushies in the past but they were way more expensive nowadays.
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 1:58 pm
“It’s hard to explain how subspace works, or how to put things in. I just sort of…do.” Trailing off with a bit of a weak look as he spoke. It was hard to explain though, honestly, and he wished he could do better with explaining it to her. “Hmmm, did you ever watch or read Harry Potter? You could think of it as a bag that holds things it shouldn’t hold, looking at the size of things, but you just can’t see the bag. It’s there though.” That was perhaps the only way he knew how to describe it.
“I don’t think you’ll get much in the way of bone things when you rank up…I could be wrong though. But it should match your sphere somehow. Though mine I don’t know about either.” Aside from the snake on his pant leg he really didn’t see himself as gorgons but what did he know. It all seemed random, though he knew magic somehow decided these things.
“Ummm, sure I don’t mind giving you my number.” He didn’t expect her to ask but he didn’t have an issue providing it either…though he didn’t carry a pen or paper around. “I don’t have anything to write with, or on, though.” And maybe he should start tossing a pen and paper into sub space from now on, it might be useful in odd cases like this. “Ohhh…and you wanted to know how long. Hmmmm…” Trailing off as he thought on that, trying to figure it out, he let his dark eyes drift for a moment before he slowly managed something of an answer. “Five years…six maybe. It’s been awhile.
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 1:59 pm
“Oh so kind of like one of those bag of holding things but invisible… I’ll have to go ask someone about that. I keep my cellphone just kinda in my boobs…” Pulling out the cracked and janky android phone, she opened the contact section and handed it over to him. “You can just type it in there.” She was a bit embarrassed about how shitty her phone looked but hell if she was gonna shell out the cost for a new one. If all the iphones weren’t like cloud locked she would just steal one when she took some poor dude’s energy and money.
“Well maybe I’ll get lucky, I still think you look pretty cool if that’s any consolation? Also I think we have been around almost the same amount of time. I just… kinda fell off into the hellscape that is college and have really only gotten back into the groove of things. I really don’t know a lot about all this and at some point I’ll figure it all out but I like the idea of learning from others instead of from books and stuff yanno?” If someone could regurgitate the info that would be nice so she wouldn’t have to study as much. Those days were in the past and she wanted to keep them there.
He did seem a bit spacey with all the pausing he did but it kinda added to the general cool vibe she got from him. He would be neat to kick it with in the future and maybe go on gathering outings and stuff with too.
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 2:02 pm
Ohhh, she kept her cell phone on her. That wasn’t exactly safe but he did take her phone and type his number into it. Rather than his senshi name he put his actual name, he was not going to risk her phone getting grabbed and someone getting his cell number, under his senshi name, and tracking him down somehow. “As soon as you figure it out - put your cell phone into subspace. If someone grabs it they can get numbers off it.” And he didn’t think anyone wanted that befalling them - senshi tracking them down.
“I don’t mind helping but things are different between us. I’ll help where I can’t.” Since she seemed ok, she wasn’t violent with him, and she did seem to honestly need help. It wouldn’t be bad to have a friend on the other side of chaos either, it could be useful in some way. “I can’t imagine putting all the information into books.I feel like that would be difficult.” As it might be hard to explain everything that way, some things just needed to be seen to be explained.
“Have you met other corrupt senshi? They might be able to help in ways I can’t, or officers perhaps?” Since he knew there were differences and he wouldn’t be able to answer some questions. He would help where and when he could but he knew he couldn’t do it all.
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Posted: Mon May 08, 2023 8:23 am
"I've met a few yea, it's just kinda weird to bring some things up is all. A lot of the time they're like read this or do that and it just kills my vibe. I like learning from watching or experiencing things yanno, risk it for the biscuit and stuff maybe once I get more of the basics down and stuff I'll think about more of that but a lot of them are really about this war and stuff. I mean I'm here for a good time not a hard time." It really was how she felt about stuff, her goals were more selfish and yea maybe she was doing her duties as outlined by Chrys and the few other corrupts she met, but in the end she really just wanted to see what would become of her own magic if she kept on track with it.
"But yea we should meet up sometimes, I still think those wraiths are super cool and maybe I could learn more about how things work on your side of stuff? I gotta run now though, stuff to do and report yanno." With that she begrudgingly threw herself back over the side of the building to climb down. It would also be hella nice if she didn't have to do this when she wanted to go up high.
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