Welcome to Gaia! ::

|| Tendaji ||

Back to Guilds

HQ for the B/C Shop "Tendaji" 

Tags: Roleplay, Tendaji, B/C Shop, Eathlings, Alkidike 

Reply ◈ Archives
[FIN] The Aftermath [Zadia]

Quick Reply

Enter both words below, separated by a space:

Can't read the text? Click here

Submit

Painted Moose

Dapper Codger

PostPosted: Wed Oct 11, 2023 8:46 am


Skin (Lightning):
Crystals (Leaf):

The Aftermath


Solo or RP Format
Counts as 5 RP growth Points
Solo word minimum is 750, RP post minimum is 7

After the Aishan trees had suddenly and furiously bloomed, pollen had started to fall from the sky in never before seen quantities. The sun seemed choked by its presence and the breeze currents seemed to carry it across all of Tendaji.

Curiously enough, the impact of the pollen could be seen in earthlings...

Random earthlings across Tendaji saw cracks and fissures in their skin, shedding as if they had a sunburn. New skin tones shone through from underneath. Almost as if by magic new eye colors and crystal colors emerged with a night's rest. Earthlings changed overnight without regard to their family lineage. Brothers and sisters now sported new colors; mothers and daughters that once looked like spitting images captured the eyes of many with their sudden differences.

What could be made of these changes? The world was in upset, some overjoyed and thrilled at the new colors, others in despair as their self views shifted beneath their feet.

[ Earthlings (and those with earthling blood) have started to suddenly change colors! What does your character make of the changes? Did they change too, or do they just witness the new looks of someone close? Are they fascinated in this sudden new change, or are they in the throws of woe? Let us know how your character handles the change in the world! ]


Color Change Instructions


|| Either at the very beginning of the WE or at the very end, the owner(s) should create a post dedicated to the new colors chosen if they choose to update their palette.
|| Owners do not have to change all of the character's colors, they can opt to change just one, a few, or all.
|| Owners should specifically post which new swatch they would like (no CC, this event is for owners who specifically want new colors for their characters).
|| Characters can only choose new swatches in the race that is already established. (A hybrid with fire skin can ONLY choose fire skin, just a new shade. A hybrid with leaf crystals can ONLY choose leaf crystals, etc.)
|| Aishan hybrids that have earthling colored skin can choose to update their skin tone and the staff will decide whether their fade needs to be updated as well (if applicable). We will pick the fade color best suited to the character, owners only have to pick the base skin tone.
|| ONLY earthling colors can be updated. Aishan and Kahikinan colors are not affected by this event.
|| All updates will be made during the next growth of the character!
|| Characters can update their swatches individually of their families (colors chosen will not affect any other character in the shop).
|| Any breeding moving forward will use these new colors (consider these new swatches new genetics).
|| If you have any questions feel free to reach out to the mule, Ely, or Kana and we can help with anything individual that hasn't been addressed here!
PostPosted: Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:05 am


Out of all places to find mass quantities of pollen Zadia had never expected to see it in Matori. While her family was still recovering, they’d settled into a sort of routine on the sands and trees weren’t a common sight. Some tropical varieties, sure, but mostly beach grasses and prickly bushes near the coves. Maybe it had filtered in from other locations? Still, that was a lot to have traveled this far.

Zadia observed a few others talking about it before she went to bed that night, but it was nothing more than a curiosity. For a moment it seemed like everything was coated in the stuff, though with a splash of water it seemed to disappear. The seasons were changing, some would say, surely it had to do with that? There were bigger worries, bigger problems and so long as it didn’t carry onto tomorrow then why worry? Her skin had started to crack and blister, nothing knew because of the sun, though she had to wonder if the pollen weren’t a factor as well? Maybe she was having a reaction to the stuff.

At least, that was the thought.

When Zadia woke the next morning it was to the sounds of discontent. She’d bedded down in a makeshift boarding house for volunteers – and those who’d come to collect bodies – so it wasn’t as if she were alone. Several voices around her were curious, many more were whispering words of panic over…changes? Opening her eyes, the hybrid slowly sat up in her bed and observed an odd sight. Several people she knew to have different features looked….different. A woman who had helped her wash linens the day before, who Zadia knew to have black hair, now sported a vibrant teal. Another whose eyes had been a dark, nearly black sort of crimson was transfixed in a pool of water by his softened pink eyes. The more jarring sights were those whose entire skin tone had changed and as the panic grew so did her own.

“Zadia? Is that you?”

What kind of question was that? Turning to the left, she saw the boy who slept in the bunk next to hers, utterly unchanged. He was still the same shades of blue and green as he’d been before they slept. His question, though….”Fielo, am I…?”

“…I think it’s best if you see for yourself.” His eyes were widened with shock and he motioned vaguely to water buckets everyone else was using to check themselves. There were no mirrors in the boarding house; who needed them? So the water’s reflection would have to do! With a hurried stumble Zadia pulled herself out of bed and shuffled through the bodies around her to a bucket of her own.

The reflection looking back at her from the bucket wasn’t her own and yet it was. Its eyes were just as frightened, just as pink as the ones she remembered, but that skin…When she reached up to touch her cheek pieces of flaky, pale skin came away with her fingers and the new skin underneath was a much, much darker hue. She looked nearly leaflike! And her crystals….Spirits above they were so dark.

If it weren’t for the pink of her hair Zadia might have believed it was an illusion. And yet, no one else in the camp dyed their hair like she did and no one else had roots as thick as a bramble branch to show for the lack of upkeep. This was…This was her and she couldn’t deny it.

“Do you want me to find your father?” Fielo gently asked. She wasn’t even aware that he’d been that close to begin with until speaking up and when she turned sharply toward him the boy took a good half-step back.

No! No, don’t…don’t find him.” Why was this happening now? Why was it happening at all?! Wasn’t she going through enough?! “I just…I need some time.” Time to figure out how to break it to Uquin, to Isaia, Lioe…her mother…If the woman was having trouble recognizing her husband on a good day then what would she say to her own daughter? Zadia turned back to the bucket and picked off a few more pieces of dried skin before reaching for a rag.

Try as he might Fielo couldn’t stop her from scrubbing her face raw, but it wouldn’t go away. She tried to dispel the magic, to twist it to her own whim, to even put an illusionary enchantment over the water in her own desperation….but what good was it? She’d changed.


[761]

Painted Moose

Dapper Codger


Suhuba
Captain

PostPosted: Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:36 am


A Change Has Occurred!

A change has occurred resulting in surprising results. Please see below for Zadia's new swatch!


Skin || ██
Crystals|| ██
Hair || ██
Eyes || ██


This will be reflected in his next growth's art, but may be considered as an immediate change in-character.
 
Reply
◈ Archives

 
Manage Your Items
Other Stuff
Get GCash
Offers
Get Items
More Items
Where Everyone Hangs Out
Other Community Areas
Virtual Spaces
Fun Stuff
Gaia's Games
Mini-Games
Play with GCash
Play with Platinum