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Bishoujo-senshi Mahou-shoujo
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 Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2023 6:50 pm
Ethe would venture out beyond the Rift. Ethe would see what the rest of Negaspace was like. Ethe would meet other people. But what if those people did not like Ethe? One head growled at the other, the one that held that thought. They padded down the Hall of Shadows, their claws on the stone the only sound. They watched the youma in the walls. They were like them. Something Ethe understood on an innate level. Such good guards! They would delight if Metallia would give them something to guard. As they neared the end of the Hall, they wondered if they really should go any further. What would happen if they did? ✧
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2023 7:49 pm
Being a half-youma, Wolframite was limited to the Negaverse and the Rift most of his foreseeable life. Aside from patrolling, the only daylight above ground he saw was when he was in his very limited glamour. Otherwise, he lived under the dark crystal sky and rolling electrical storms of the Negaverse. At first it had been a bit jarring, but years and his other youma half made for a easy enough adjustment. In times where he was restless and just wanted to get away from the house, he went for walks. There wasn't much to the landscape, but moving around made him feel productive and the Rift at least had enough wildlife to have something to look at.
Heading down through the castle, he got to the doors and headed down the Hall of Shadows as he usually did but stopped when he saw not the shadows inside the crystal walls, but something in the hall. Typically he might on rare occasions see another officer, but the shadow of it wasn't the typical look of a person. No, it look like -
His breath caught in his throat, and he slowly walked forward. The sound of his heels crunched and clack on stone and crystal as he got closer and closer still before he stopped and brought a large, clawed hand to his face, stiffing a noise.
It was the cutest, handsome-est, beste-st youma he had ever seen in his entire remembered life.
Bless Metallia on this day for I have lived and died in this moment. Amen.
Standing there, he lowered his hand, steeled himself to not make a noise that wasn't breaking down, and managed a little. "Hello there." In the same tone you'd use on a stray animal you didn't want to scare away but wanted to be friends with for forever and ever and ever.
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Bishoujo-senshi Mahou-shoujo
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Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2023 5:24 pm
Ethe was about to turn around and go back. Maybe the only proper place for them was in the Rift. But then they heard something coming close and saw a shadow in the distance that looked like nothing they had seen before and they growled low and the fur on their back stood on end. For a second, they thought they would defend the gate. From… whatever was coming their way. Yet, when the person got closer, they didn’t feel bad at all. They smelled like youma. They even had fur! Their aura certainly wasn’t threatening. And neither was their voice. Their tail stood straight up and they froze as if not knowing what to do. “Who are you?” One head said as it sniffed the air. Then the other looked at the ears and the tail. “… are you like me?”✧
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Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2023 7:00 pm
Wolframite was still too, keeping himself from getting too close, but slowly went lower to kneel there.
"I'm a half-youma. Part human. Part youma. So I'm part like you and part like a human." He said, his eyes glowing in the dark as his eyes focused on the youma, surprised it could talk. Most youma that looked this feral couldn't string a word, let along a sentence together.
"I'm Wolframite. I have parts that look like yours a little." He titled himself to show his tail and pointed to his ears.
Carefully, he held out one clawed hand still and out. "Do you want to see?" He offered.
"You are very wonderful. I haven't seen a youma like you before. Do you have a name?"
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Bishoujo-senshi Mahou-shoujo
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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2023 4:45 pm
“You are half-youma?” The left head questioned and then repeated. “You are half-youma!”And then they stared pacing and wagging tail, which rapidly meant their entire backside was shaking in excitement. “You are partly like Ethe!”The right head tried to inspect Wolframite’s claws, even if the body didn’t want to cooperate with the shear excited joy. “My name is Ethe. We are glad to meet you.”✧
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2023 8:17 am
He couldn't. His heart felt like it was going to explode. The tail wagging was infectious, and his own picked up as well, fueled by a swelling happiness that made him want to lay down and take deep breaths.
Moving closer, he basked in all the fluffy details of the wonderful delight that was Ethe. "I am and you are partly like me! You are the most delightful and beautiful youma I have ever seen." Laven aside but this wasn't a competition, right?
"What are you doing, Ethe? Are you going somewhere?" Youma could move outside of the Rift, but he usually they just worry for portals to show up in the Rift and go hunting out in Destiny city.
I want to pet and squeeze and play with them omg look at this divine beast. They are the highest example, the prime essence of the Negaverse. They should be on any currency we every produce. I would kill everything in your wake if it so much as clipped your nail but with those chompers I'm sure you are a skilled killer. Yes you are! The bestest killer. Wolframite was dying from his own mental dialogue of everything she wanted to say to this glorious being.
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Bishoujo-senshi Mahou-shoujo
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2023 4:53 pm
“Ethe. Beautiful. Delightful.”They felt like they were about to burst. No one had ever called them things like that before. Good things. Very good things. They could barely contain themselves and started to shake. They were so very much happy to be called those things. Things they never imagined they could be. “We wanted to explore outside of the Rift. See what existed beyond the door. But we were afraid that people would not like us.” The left head started to sniff Wolframite. “We did not know if youma could roam the halls out here by themselves.”✧
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Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2023 5:02 pm
Wolframite looked behind him before turning back to the youma. "I guess that depends. I know personal youma can be outside the Rift. I suppose if you are strong enough, you can make it outside the Rift without suffering too much. The Rift is your home at the end of the day so you'll need to come back to rest." But most feral youma didn't just wander out of the Rift like this. Then again, most youma didn't have the mind to think hard enough to make these decisions. The fact that Ethe could even talk put them above most youma Wolframite had met. Not to mention they were pleasant, could string together whole sentences, and were such a pleasure to speak to.
"I guess the worse thing is that you'll feel tired and need to come back." Youma like these would, at worst, die and regenerate back in the Rift. Ethe didn't have much to loose.
"Would you like some company with you to point out things and make sure you feel okay?" He asked.
"I don't think people would be afraid of you as long as you don't attack them. That means you have to behave, even if you see a senshi. You can't attack them."
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Bishoujo-senshi Mahou-shoujo
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Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2023 10:52 am
“Yes. The Rift is home.” As Ethe said this, they immediately felt a yearning for the place. As if, at any time, if they only thought of the place and wished it, they could instantly go back. They did not know why they felt that way. Initially, they had been banished there after their first dusting and they had not liked it for it felt like a prison that they could not leave. But that was only because they were weak and needed the time to regenerate. But there was too much to explore out here, too much they didn’t know. “Please stay with us. We will behave. We won’t attack people.”✧
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Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2023 11:26 am
"Alright. I'll take your promise. Let me show you outside of the Rift then." It was probably best to make sure Ethe didn't get any bad demerits in the event some senshi either passed by or agitated the youma. It was one thing for Ethe to be civil with him but there was no telling if the youma would suddenly act on impulse if presented with a perceived enemy.
"Well I don't know if you know, but we call this The Hall of Shadows. It's our security system to make sure no unwanted trespassers get into the Rift. These poor souls are those trapped due to the war between the Moon Kingdom's takeover of Earth through the selfish union of the Prince of Earth and the Moon Kingdom. They attack those they don't agree should be here." He said, pointing them out and standing up to let Ethe come closer. There was only so much room in the narrow hallway so being one behind the other was necessary. "
"Out those doors leads into the Castle." He said, moving down the way and out of the Hallway. There he stood to make sure Ethe could and would make it out.
"The Castle is the main headquarters. It's where the Queen and all the officers have places to work. You'll even find the corrupt Mauvians there. Have you met a Mauvian before?" He asked, not sure how much exposure to other agents the youma had.
He hoped he wasn't flooding too much information at them. Should he speak simpler?
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Bishoujo-senshi Mahou-shoujo
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Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2023 1:52 pm
“Why do people have to try and ruin good things with their monogamous relationships?” Faustite had explained what the Hall of Shadows was. They hadn’t realized the Throne he was referring to was a prince. That sounded like an awfully dumb and selfish way to destroy the good thing the Earth had going for it. “I have met an officer before. He is a general-king. He was the first one to be nice to Ethe and told Ethe who they were.” They replied as a matter-of-fact. “Ethe has not met a Mauvian. Would Ethe like Mauvians?”✧
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Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2023 2:28 pm
All concerns that Ethe might not be able to fully understand what they were explaining were dashed when they pulled out a rather extensive vocabulary. At least he was surprised to know they knew what a monogamous relationship was, which meant they knew what other relationships were out there enough to put their opinion out there about it.
"Some people are just selfish and blinded when it comes to wanting someone. Most likely a little manipulated too. Who is to tell. I certainly wasn't around for it." He said, though if he had, he'd probably have been one of the fallen that were now youma scattered about the Rift.
"A General King. Do you know which one? Could you describe them?" He asked, curious to which person first met the youma.
"You might. I guess it depends." A mauvian looked and acted like a cat, and if Ethe acted in any way like a canine, it could be bad. "We can see if we find one."
Leading Ethe out, they moved to a set of stairs leading up into the castle. From there, he could point out the landscape of the Negaverse from someplace higher up to help Ethe see what was all out there.
"We can go up higher and see if we can find a window to look out everything." He explained, walking up the stairs.
"The castle has a lot of rooms in it. Most are offices for the officers. There is a computer room too, a medical bay, and a training room in the ballrooms."
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Bishoujo-senshi Mahou-shoujo
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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2023 11:07 am
“Faustite. He found us after we reformed in the Rift for the first time.”Ethe’s tail starting wagging as they got higher up the castle. “I would like to see everything.”✧
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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2023 5:09 pm
"For the first time. Are you a young youma?" He asked, which meant a lot of things if they were.
"General Faustiteis a very good General-King to meet. He helped me a lot when I was misguided. What did you think of him?" He asked, leading them to the first floor of the castle.
"Let's head to the ballrooms." He said as he walked down a hallway wider than that of The Hall of Shadows. Here the walls were of the same dark, slick stone with purple torchlight. He wondered if it was too much of a undertaking for the Mauvians to install lighting with the entire castle. He knew they could do offices upon request, but it would have been nice to have full lightening up for the modern age. Then again, it did have a charm to it.
Leading the way, he went to one of the few ballrooms. It was a large room with high windows and glimmering chandeliers overhead. The purple light somehow managed to keep the entire place lit up. "This is the ballrooms. There are more than this one further down. We use these as training rooms since there is a lot of space and not much to destroy." He said, stepping inside the large, expansive room.
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Bishoujo-senshi Mahou-shoujo
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2023 4:48 pm
“Yes. We haven’t been youma long. But we would not say we are young because we do not know how old we are.”Ethe continued down the hall and into the large space. They stretched out their wings which had been curled at their side. “We like Faustite very much.”✧
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