saturations: (STEEL)

[personal profile] saturations 2022-03-11 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ Why are you all mcfucked up girl ]

You did ask. I had no objection to joining you here.
countermeasures: (003)

[personal profile] countermeasures 2022-03-11 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
[jiuqing's mind is hazy, for a moment. did they ask...? why are they here, anyway? shouldn't they be somewhere else... in...

then, with sudden clarity, she looks down at the sword she's been cradling and offers it to steel.]


...I think we're meant to bring this to you.
saturations: (STEEL)

[personal profile] saturations 2022-03-11 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh.

They seem surprised they didn't notice she had been holding that sword the entire time and seem almost shocked into silence at the sight of it.

Like they did not expect to see it here, of all places, in the arms of a mortal woman. They reach out, almost hesitant to touch it. Almost like Jiuqing herself, when she was offered it. But electricity seems to jump from the sword to their fingertips, and they do not seem to flinch.

Still, there's hesitation.
]

. . . The Musou Isshin.
countermeasures: (097)

[personal profile] countermeasures 2022-03-11 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
You recognize it, then...

[she keeps it held out to them, watching the electricity jump from the sword to their fingertips.]

We were also asked to tell you not to leave your belongings lying about...
saturations: (STEEL)

[personal profile] saturations 2022-03-11 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ They don't move closer yet. ]

When the Narukami first walked amongst her people, she brought with her the art of swordmaking. This sword was created from her divine might. A symbol. It was never sharpened.
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[personal profile] countermeasures 2022-03-11 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
[jiuqing isn't going to keep it. it doesn't belong to her by right, and she has a feeling that it belongs to steel. (maybe it's because her brain is still scrambled.)

she'll keep it within steel's reach. they can reclaim it when they're ready.]


Never?

[she looks down at the blade



how sharp is it looking]
saturations: (STEEL)

[personal profile] saturations 2022-03-11 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ now? it looks sharp.

Steel looks at jiuqing, level, the ozone smell in the air rising - almost like a familiar energy thrumming through the small space - if not the same as the sacred sakura, then a relative of it. a sister.

the library drops to darkness around them as the lights flicker with crystalline, pink and shockingly bright for a few moments.

Steel reaches to take the sword, and, at least for a brief moment ( `a brief flash of light`)



You are face to face with someone.
]
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[personal profile] countermeasures 2022-03-11 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ah.

that's a familiar face - and not just because of makoto. there's a far-off memory of a time and place jiuqing never really belonged to, and she finds herself bowing.]


...Shogun.
saturations: (STEEL)

[personal profile] saturations 2022-03-11 03:54 am (UTC)(link)


... No. Not here.
countermeasures: (049)

[personal profile] countermeasures 2022-03-11 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
[we're going back to a DC of 10 for this since they're not in inazuma anymore, so jiuqing snaps out of it at that, shifting her grip on the sword to bring one hand up to her head]

...but you were, before here...?
saturations: (STEEL)

[personal profile] saturations 2022-03-11 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ im not doing the icon thing again im too lazy i have a perfectly good sword icon ]

[ they remove the blade entirely from jiuqings hands now, holding it. ]

There was no before here.

[ this is said in maybe a more stubborn way than before. digging in. ]
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[personal profile] countermeasures 2022-03-11 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
[gently:]

...do you really believe that?

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[personal profile] nightchild 2022-03-11 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
[he has the sense not to say Mako-chan out loud here, thankfully]
georeject: (peek.)

[personal profile] georeject 2022-03-11 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
[thank you itsuki]
saturations: (STEEL)

[personal profile] saturations 2022-03-11 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ probably smart unless you really did wanna fulfill all that death flagging people think youre doing ]
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[personal profile] nightchild 2022-03-11 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
[NOOO MODS LET ME RETCON AND SAY THAT HE DID SO HE COULD BE DEDA]
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[personal profile] saturations 2022-03-11 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ he also came close when he posted ... someone's ... panties ... to the network ... ]

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[personal profile] georeject 2022-03-11 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
[?????

clarte is starting to understand how their friends felt every time clarte spontaneously grew wings]
saturations: (STEEL)

[personal profile] saturations 2022-03-11 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ yea imagine if you were like just vibing in your formless ways and could be a giant bird or a giant snake and then people come back and give you memories and you have incredible tits again ]
georeject: (art2; o:)

[personal profile] georeject 2022-03-11 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
[i'm

anyway]


... So this is the form you gave up before...?
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[personal profile] saturations 2022-03-11 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
... To traverse the Plane of Euthymia, one must place their consciousness within an object. And as I said, I had little need of it anymore.

The shape of it, however much I try, still seems to haunt me.

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[personal profile] saturations 2022-03-11 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ thank ]



You are all staring quite blankly.
saturations: (STEEL)

[personal profile] saturations 2022-03-11 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ steel voice: ]

It is not what you were hoping to achieve here? What other purpose could you have had?

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