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 Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2023 2:47 pm
So. Dunnottar was beginning to get used to this whole... thing. It pissed him off a lot, but he supposed he'd better go out there and get strong enough to protect himself. Flex his new, magical muscles. Ugh. He hated every part of that. But really... this was just another form of training. If he was able to train himself up enough to earn Knight rank rather than being stuck as a simple Page with no magic to even protect himself with, he'd be in a much safer position. He wondered briefly what his magic would look like, when he got it. The lollipop for a weapon didn't exactly give him any hope for something decent.Sighing, he patrolled on, frowning at his... bright pastel outfit. This wouldn't exactly be good for staying hidden, either, and while he preferred challenging things head on, it was sometimes better to gather intel first, and you couldn't spy on anything if you were a walking beacon of bullshit. So when the youma appeared to snarl at him, some kind of small, mangled creature that looked like a wolf and a snake tried to have a kid and it about halfway worked, he really could have only expected it. "Better not get bit by that," he muttered to himself, brandishing the lollipop and feeling ridiculous. "Get out of here!"
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2023 6:15 am
Riker saw the tail of the youma as it slith-rawled past the treeline. For a brief moment, he thought he should leave it for someone else to deal with. He was still feeling like garbage, and he was certain he would have bruises in the morning, but the most he could have done in the situation was laugh it off like it was nothing and definitely not make it look like it bothered him that his brother clearly hated him enough to make fun of him after causing physical harm.
It was just a joke, his brother had said at one point. Riker thought it was a bad joke, but laughing kept him from --
It didn’t matter. What mattered now was that he couldn’t ignore the youma, even if he really wasn’t in the mood to fight one. He ducked behind a tree, took a deep breath, and felt the magic of being a Page wash over him.
And with it came the aura of a youma.
And another Page.
Had one really been close enough and he hadn’t noticed?? Reims could hear a voice now, and quickly stepped out of the bushes so he could see what he was dealing with, and who was also going to be fighting it--
Sort of.
“It’ll keep going after people if you don’t dust it,” he called back, using the heel of his foot to kick some rocks at the creature to get its attention. Maybe if they confused it, they’d have a better chance of, well, not getting bitten.
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2023 11:27 pm
Dust it? What on Earth did that mean? Kill it? Well, that was no problem by Dunnottar, he would be happy to destroy the creepy monstrosity before him. Vaguely, he did wonder why there weren't strange monster corpses turning up all the time on the news, but it was probably something people just brushed off as one of those Destiny City things. Ugh. He nodded sharply at the other Page to show he understood, lashing out with the lollipop and giving the creature a sharp bonk on the horrifying combination of a wolf and snake mouth. Too wide, full of fangs, and oh, ew, that hissing bark actually managed to send a chill down his spine. "How do you think we should kill it?" he called to the other Page, who seemed more experienced. Despite clearly being a teenager. Ugh, it annoyed him that he had to listen to a teenager when he was nearly thirty, here, but he had to be logical about this. He didn't quite know what he was up against, and the other person clearly did. Teenager or not. He just hoped they'd take it seriously.
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2023 8:13 am
A lollipop??
This guy had a lollipop he was whacking at youma with??
Reims tried holding back a laugh. He managed!! But his cheeks puffed out a little in amusement and he couldn’t stop the noise in the back of his throat.
To be on the safe side, he lifted a hand to hide his mouth.
“Maybe, uh… try using your actual weapon?” he suggested behind his hand, but once he knew he could control his expression he lowered it so he could pull out the letter opener he had. It wasn’t a blade, but it sure wasn’t (as he tried not to snerk again) a lollipop. Because there was no way anyone would be stuck with something as ridiculous as that!
“Oh, but also don’t get bit. Or hit by it. It probably has venom or something,” he grimaced now. He certainly jumped back when the strange wolf snake thing turned towards him. Oh, no thanks. He didn’t want anything to do with the business end of that creature.
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2023 9:12 am
The snarky comment made Dunnottar grit his teeth and remind himself that he really didn't want to go to jail for assaulting a minor or something, if he chose to whack the stupid teenager for his stupid comment. "Oh, what, am I just supposed to pull a gun from my a**?" he grouched, giving the teenager an annoyed look. But once the animal targeted the kid, he shot out with his foot and kicked it hard in the ribs, sending it flying back a few feet. He wasn't sure what it would take to kill it, but he hoped that would work.
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2023 6:09 pm
“A gun?” Reims let out a bark of a laugh, because-- “Wow, that escalated unnecessarily. Okay, Boomer. Subspace would be more reasonable, by the way,” Reims rolled his eyes.
“But you don’t even need a gun to get rid of those things,” he scoffed, watching as the youma went sailing. “Lucky for you. Wait, is that really your weapon? Wow. Spiky croissants and lollipops.”
He waited until the youma pulled itself back to its feet, then he took his turn and rushed towards it. He didn’t have a bat like he’d prefer to use, but that didn’t matter. Just like sliding into home plate, Reims took a running leap and went crashing into the youma, hoping it would be enough to get rid of it.
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Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2023 1:11 am
Boomer?! Seriously?! ********> He's not even thirty, ******** hell, he hated this kid already. At least Reims' tackle finally turned the damn wolf-snake into dust. Oh, that did happen literally. Huh. Well, that explained the lack of monster corpses. "You have a letter opener," he pointed out with an eyeroll. "With no blade. Is that truly any better?" Ugh, he hated that a stupid teenage brat was getting under his skin.
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Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2023 6:11 am
Reims let out a breath of relief when the youma disappeared. He picked himself up and dusted off his outfit, which he happened to think looked a lot better than the insanely bright colors of Lysithea knights with their spiky croissant knight symbols. Dering was cute!
But Dering was also not old.
He glanced down at the letter opener in his hand, turning it over a couple times to look at it and watch the light catch through the stained glass handle.
“Can you open letters with your lollipop?” he snorted, clearly unimpressed by the insinuation that his letter opener wasn’t any better. “No? I didn’t think so. Anyway, I just got rid of that youma for you, without using my much cooler weapon. Go touch grass or something.”
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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2023 4:37 am
Dunnottar exhaled sharply through his teeth. Come on, idiot, don't let a stupid teenager get under your skin, he told himself sternly. That's what he wants, and he's not going to get what he wants."Do people your age even send letters anymore?" he asked with a scoff. Not that he did that, either—despite this guy's words, he was not, in fact, a ******** boomer. Still, it was the principle of the matter. "We took the thing down together, by the way. If anyone needs a reality check, it's you."
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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2023 5:45 am
Reims had a hand up to his ear, rubbing it like he was in pain as he made a face at the other Page.
“You sure talk a lot for someone who looks like they stole from a baby,” he grimaced, and then scoffed.
“Typical boomer, always wanting a participation trophy. Okay sure, if you want to say you helped, then go ahead and brag about it to your baby friends about how you’re so cool with your baby toy,” Reims rolled his eyes.
Should he stay around and make sure this guy knew enough to not get eaten by the next youma? Probably. But he was kind of annoying.
“It’s called a youma, by the way, Lollipop Guild. Stay away from them,” he warned with a step back. “Sorry, don’t have time to babysit tonight.”
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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2023 5:55 am
Stole from a baby?! LOLLIPOP GUILD?!He inhaled sharply, ready to let loose (because first of all, he was NOT short, ********), before he abruptly turned on his heel and began to walk away. The last thing he needed to do was curse out some stupid ******** teenager, even if he was getting on every one of Dunnottar's nerves. He needed something to calm him down. Maybe he'd pick up a new sweater pattern to knit. That usually worked. He hated how easy it was to make him angry like this. A stupid, rotten, annoying teenager shouldn't find it so easy to push all of his buttons. "I didn't choose this s**t," he muttered, arguing with himself and staring at the stupid ******** lollipop in his hands. Impulsively, he chucked it as hard as he could at a nearby wall, scowling when it didn't shatter. "Stupid ******** magic." He sighed, picking it up and continuing on. There was one thing the kid was right about, though. Dunnottar was still a fish out of water with all this s**t. He needed to do something to learn more about the world he was thrust into, because ignoring it simply wasn't an option. He could probably find someone he hadn't talked to before; that would be easy, and hopefully they could at least start off on a foot that didn't make him want to strangle the other person.
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