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[justabignobody]

Characters: OU!Riku and OPEN
Setting: All the floors, Night time
Format: Gonna go with action; but if you are more comfortable with prose, go for it!
Summary: Riku decided to go out at night and take on a private fact-finding mission. Someone has to start taking notes on the different monsters after all, right?
Warnings: Some violence, will update as needed

[Ever since the Tower had folded itself together into one room and almost overwhelmed its residents/prisoners with that army of monsters, the floors have become far more unsafe... at least, as far as Riku had noticed.

He is used to the constant threat of being attack, has gotten used to it long before he had been drawn into the tower, but the constellation of creatures it has thrown at him so far... is interesting to say at least. Some of them he knows of course, but there are many, far too many, he thinks, that he knows nothing of, that don't feel like Heartless or Nobodies or anything else he's ever encountered and he's pretty sure that only some of them are creatures of the tower.

Tonight he has assigned himself a fact-finding mission in that regard - to find out just which Heartless have made it to this place, just how many other creatures aside of them, to get an idea how to fight those he doesn't know.

He is wandering the floors in silence, head slightly bowed, his hand gripping tight around Soul Eater as he stretches his sense the best he can - he prefers not to be surprised if he can help it. While he won't ask or even accept help if offered aloud, he most likely won't stop anyone from helping out either, if he happens to be in the middle of a fight. He won't hesitate to come help out, should anyone find themselves in trouble either.

Help/bother/distract/talk to him?]

[ooc: If you haven't, please take a look at his permissions post!]

Comments

[beknightedheroine]

<sub>[Going out at night was a habit from her witch-hunting more than anything, one that Sayaka hadn't gotten cause to break yet. Oh, monsters? She could handle those. That was all she COULD handle.

The imps that had beset her were strange and reminded her too much of familiars, all mismatched features done up in an unsettling way. She had transformed, started to fight - and utterly neglected to notice any signs of someone approaching.]</sub>

[justabignobody]

[Riku has settled to watch for now, there is as much to be learned by watching others as by fighting himself, especially when the scent of the person fighting is so puzzling.

There is nothingness mingling with the smell of a heart... which is unusual to say at least and he can't help but be just a little bit wary.

Still, he holds himself ready to interfere and back her up, should she end up fighting more than she can handle.]

[beknightedheroine]

<sub>[The imps are easy enough foes. They don't flee and they don't hit hard enough to down her in a single hit, so she's pretty much safe. Of note would be the intricate little circles of musical notation that appear over where she does get hit, that vanish with a chime and take the wounds with them.

As a wielder of a sword she isn't elegant in the least, and it's clear Sayaka's not really had any sort of training. But while her attacks are brash, they definitely do damage.

She seems startled when the enemies are all dispatched, looking around wildly as if she's sure there's something still there.]</sub>

[justabignobody]

[Riku isn't exactly one to judge, with no real training himself and just a few pointers from a mouse-king and almost two of fighting experience.

It seems that she is sensing his presence though... and maybe that means that it's time to stop watching and talk to her. She is no enemy after all, despite the oddness in her smell.

So he steps out of the shadows, Soul Eater dismissed. He doesn't seek a fight after all.]

[beknightedheroine]

<sub>[Well hi there.

Sayaka takes a step back when he steps forward, and doesn't let down her guard.]</sub>

..when did you get here?

[justabignobody]

[He stays where he is, stance somewhat relaxed.]

...A while ago.

[beknightedheroine]

_{[She takes another look around, but seems to give up on it halfway through - before fixing him with a stare.]}

..hey, I know this is gonna sound insulting. Sorry. But you're coming off to me as... some kind of weird.

[justabignobody]

[He meets her stare with an even look, crooking his head a little. He doesn't look very insulted though.]

So I've been told.

[Even though maybe not quite in the way she means.

His coloring is not very usual after all; silver hair, sea-green eyes and pale skin? Destiny Islands hasn't seen anyone remotely alike in many generations. When he'd been younger, his mother had told him of an ancestor that he most have inherited it from, but... stories don't help much with the pain of simply looking different.]