1st Day | Roommates, Flowers and Demons. Seems like a pretty normal day (OPEN)

[worldrestored]

Characters: Hitoshura/Naoki Kashima/Demi-Fiend & You
Setting: Dormitories, Meadow & Somewhere where there is a giant spider
Format: I started in prose, but please feel free to switch to action, I will match accordingly.
Summary: Half-Demons enjoying flowers, being derps and also silent protagonist.
Warnings: None.

[DORMITORIES - OPEN TO ALL TO RUN INTO HIM, ROOMMATES WELCOME TOO]

Your world has been destroyed. Waking up in a bed in a place alien to him.

Those were all to familiar events that had happened to him before, only this time involved less things being stuck inside his eye. So...had he failed? After all that work, fighting for his freedom and wanting the world restored, had Kagutsuchi betrayed him like all the others as well? He said he would...

It was... a rather depressing thought. Looking down at his body, he realized he still had the markings of the demi-fiend. Closing his right hand, he closed it and called forth Pixie. Her sight was, at least, welcoming to his eyes. He wasn't sure what he'd be doing if she hadn't appeared...

"You okay?" she asked him, sitting on his head. He shook it, but shrugged. He was going to find out what had happened and why he was here.

Time to explore.

[LEVEL - 28 - MUSIC ROOM]

He didn't play music. He was more of a sports guy, leaving that to others more talented than him. Still, when he arrived here, his first instinct was to touch things. Just making sure they were real. The organ, especially, made him jump the second he touched a note, but he realized that other instruments started to play by themselves as he went on.

...and hey, they weren't too bad.

He could stay here for a while, to appreciate it.

[LEVEL 25 - FLOWER MEADOW]

Flowers. He hadn't seen so many of them together in what seemed like an eternity ago. While the time in the Vortex World had no real rules until the Rebirth was complete, to Naoki it was a strange eternity. Without waiting for Pixie's reaction, he opened his arms and let himself fall face first into the nearest pile of wildflowers.

"Hey! Don't do that, you'll destroy them!" Woops, much too late, he was already in a pile, smelling in the tiny buds that had peeked form many of them. It felt so nice. It wasn't the smell of death, rotten corpses and destruction he'd gotten used to in the other world. He was almost strangely at peace. Cerebus was called forth and he leaned on the giant lionlike demon's fur.

Even Pixie got tired of her nagging and settled to sitting on his feet, hanging on as he moved then back and forth slowly. He turned his head around after a while and noticed a small broken flower. Obviously, his movements had shook it up, and with two fingers, delicately picked it up, admiring the daisy from all sides.

"Oh! Are you going to see if someone loves you or not? I love this game!" He gave her a look. No silly, Hitoshura didn't have someone like that...nor was he sure if he could love someone like that anymore. Idly, he continued to spin the flower he thought. Left and right, right and left...

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Floor 25

[doublechecks]

[...uh. Demi-Fiend might want to be careful on where he face-plants.

Because he totally just face-planted onto a sleeping man's stomach.]

[worldrestored]

[Oh. Oh! A sleeping human. It's weird to be so close to one and he backs away quickly once he realizes his mistake. Well...technically he's half human...no, he'd rather think of himself as humans with ~tattoos~ and ~special powers~]

See? I told you to be careful!

[Pixie's scolding is rather swift. PIXIE YOU ARE NOT HIS MOM OKAY. But he does appreciate that you care.]

[doublechecks]

[He's just. Getting up. And rubbing his stomach because ow what the hell happened.]

...Wha-?

Floor 28

[worldsapart]

At first, Xion didn't know what to make of the self-playing instruments. Still, the music was nice, so she decided to stay. The longer she did, the more she realized they reminded her of the talking candelabra and clock from the Beast's Castle, and she smiles a little to herself from the memory.

... except the smile changes. It doesn't so much fade as it becomes sad and small and lonely. She wishes... no, that's silly. In some way, because she's seeing it, Roxas is seeing it, too. Besides, she knows Roxas is here in the Tower, even if he isn't... the Roxas from where she's from. That kind of thing wouldn't matter -- Roxas is still Roxas, right? She wonders how he's doing. (She doesn't think she'll ever have the courage to seek him out herself.)

She jumps a little as the organ sounds, and she turns and blinks curiously, since it was rather out of place. There's a man standing there, looking as perplexed and then contemplative as she is. She doesn't think she's seen him around before, but... that... isn't really saying much, considering how rare it is for her to venture out and find people.

Should she say something? Probably. It'd be nice, and friendly. ... but what if he wants to be left alone, and that's why he's here? Ahhhh. What should she do?

She doesn't realize it, but she's staring at him. Whoops.

[worldrestored]

"Hey! Hey turn around someone's watching us!"

Pixie pulls Naoki's ear so that he does, and he looks at what he assumes to be a boy slightly younger than him and gives him a small, awkward wave. After being in a world of demons, monsters and humans that betrayed him, it's hard returning to something a little more...human-like.

"Hello!" Pixie adds for the both of them. "That's Hitoshura and I'm Pixie!" Her enthusiasm is a stark contrast to Naoki's nearly perfect poker face expression. He's not quite sure what to expect, really.

[worldsapart]

If it makes Naoki feel any better, Xion isn't quite sure what to think. Is he... mute? Is the fairy like Tinkerbell, only she can talk using actual words?

And then it sinks in they're actually talking to her because she's staring at them, and she very quickly goes red.

"I -- uh -- um -- H-Hi..." Xion wishes the floor would open up and swallow her. ... except not really, because that sounds like something the Tower would actually do. "S-S-Sorry... for staring..."

Floor 25

[floreatnoctem]

[If the sudden faceplant into the flowers hadn't gotten her attention, the pixie fluttering around him and chattering certainly would have. Closer inspection revealed that pixie to be the Pixie and she frowned, wondering why she didn't feel quite the same as usual.

How strange.

So she rose from her place, carefully dusting the pollen off of her skirt despite the fact that it would gather again eventually, and made her way closer, sketchbook tucked under an arm. She had to wonder, as she approached, just how it was that he was keeping Pixie out the way he was, why she wasn't just disappearing back into his mind like she should have. Perhaps another version of someone she knew, their powers even stranger still? A good look at him from one side eliminated that possibility, and she had to admit she didn't quite know what to make of what she was seeing.]

...you're not what I was expecting.

Re: Floor 25

[worldrestored]

Oh! He's seen a few girls before in his visits to Harajuku parading around in familiar outfits. Lolita right? Huh. Naoki stares at her, still lying down in the group, as Pixie flies to Chidori's elbow and makes herself quite comfortable. He's just...watching her back. It's hard to reach out when he's been betrayed or used so many times.]

Hello! What do you mean, not what you were expecting? Do you know him? [She stops asking questions and is suddenly fascinated by her hairpiece.] That's so cute!

[floreatnoctem]

[She noted his silence curiously, but didn't say anything about it, instead following Pixie with her eyes as she hovered closer.]

No, I do not- but he has summoned you. [She tilted her head to follow the fairy, brow furrowing and a hand rising to hover near the decoration on her head, confused.] ...thank you?

Floor 28

[moontothetide]

"D-Do you think these belong to anyone?"

Tara, who had previously been obscured behind a cello, steps smartly away from it when its bow levitates into the air and begins to play a quick little waltz. She's eyeing the instrument warily, just in case, but otherwise doesn't seem too bothered...or at least, instruments that play themselves is low on her list of things to be worried about. She just doesn't have the energy.

"...m-maybe they're ghosts. W-Whatever's doing this."

She could accomplish much the same with some telekinesis, but not without looking at whatever she's trying to lift.

[worldrestored]

He turns around and looks at her. She looks pretty nervous, but poor Demi's still weary of people in general and so watches her from his side of the room without coming too closer.

"Ghosts? Awww, we already talked and fought a bunch of those!" He eyes her a little, before wondering if this tower also had shadow brokers and spirits of humans who had died and stayed around...

"What about you? You're a human, right? You don't seem too bothered by us!" Well at least not more so than the instruments.

[moontothetide]

"W-What?" She certainly didn't see Naoki reply to that, and the voice certainly didn't match what she expected to hear, so...

Curiosity temporarily overcoming anxiety, Tara takes a couple of steps forward. "Um...y-yeah. I'm human."

But, well, her oddness bar has already been set pretty high, starting from Eridan the shark man and going downhill from there. She shrugs tentatively. "But...y-you're not bothering me, right? So...i-it's okay. A-Am I, um, bothering you?"

Dormitories

[fusedstars]

Hei had expected being put in a room with others, considering the number of beds and the space available. However, what he did not expect was someone like Naoki, particularly the Pixie that just came out of nowhere. No Contractor he knew of had that type of ability, save for maybe fake projections or hallucinations. That didn't seem like any of those abilities though.

"Just what are you?" he asked, hand already by his side. Too soon to know if he was a threat, but he had to make sure; anyone here could be a potential enemy.

Excellent.

[worldrestored]

Oh good, just waking up and finding out his world was destroyed (AGAIN) he already had what looked like a full-blooded human looking over him asking him question.

"Me? I'm Pixie the fairy!" his partner spoke up, before pointing to Naoki's large forehead and tapping it a little. "And that's Hitoshura! Or the Demi-Fiend." He gave him a small nod as a greeting.

I imagined that in Mr. Burns voice, but with the Demi-Fiend XD

[fusedstars]

Hei managed to get over his surprise, though had to hold it all in as always. Just...what in the world were these two? Okay, the Pixie spoke and told him, yes, but that didn't really tell him much.

"Demons then?" he asked, the only thing he could think of. There really wasn't another explanation; tattoos didn't glow!

Dormitory

[yougotthatwrong]

!

[Well, Demi-fiend certainly just bumped into a person on his way out, oops.]

O-oh, sorry about th-

[He's going to just. stare a bit at him okay.]

[worldrestored]

[That's okay, he can stare right back at him. Oh! Someone who looks fully human.]

Phew! I almost fell off!

[Pixie YOU CAN FLY.]

[yougotthatwrong]

[There's... a little bit more staring, before he realized the fact that this guy was just walking out of his room.]

A-ah, are you two my roommates?

floor 25/meadow

[fractus_animus]

[ ... Um, well.

This is... strange. Is that... a fairy? And a giant dog? They might be Shadows, but they... don't look dangerous.

Demons, maybe? Hm. Don't mind Minato, he might be staring a little. ]

...

[worldrestored]

[Excellent guess! It takes a a small while before Naoki blinks his eyes open and looks at him. Oh hello other person, after everyone else it still was...nice to see more humans around. He gives Pixie a small gentle prod with a finger so she wakes up.]

...huh? Whaadaya want I was...oh! [She grins at the new guy, before her eyes become wider and she hovers over his head excitedly.] Oooh! I feel a lot of energy coming from this one! Mixed feelings coming from his heart too...

[...he doesn't like the sound of that right now, especially after all that has happened. The last time a fairy (Oberon) told him about the affairs of someone's heart, it turned out to be Chiaki's complete corruption and her acceptance of her Reason. The fall and betrayal of his two friends was probably what hurt him the most from the Vortex World. He could have faced a million demons more with one hand if it had meant they had all walked together.]

[fractus_animus]

[ Blinking.

Once, twice. He doesn't think he looks too dangerous, but then, well, Personas. ]

... How do you even know that?

Floor 28 because I'm predictable

[beknightedheroine]

She's not sure whether she should be showing up back here, whether she deserves to or if it's safe to be - but Sayaka's taken a hesitant walk into this floor, drawn in by all the myriad instruments sounding a bit more chatty amongst themselves than usual.

She still couldn't hear the song she'd come here looking for, on that other, disastrous day. But she steadfastly tries not to let that bother her.

- oh. It's almost like there's a lopsided path of the autonomous instruments, today, and she's able to follow it to Naoki. She's quiet for a moment, looking over the markings - she's tempted to proclaim them cool, but the last person Sayaka encountered with neat seemingly-tattoos turned out to be not so cool.

"Appreciating our very own invisible orchestra, huh?"

[worldrestored]

He nods, just as the instruments started to play Gustav Holst's Finest. Oh! He had heard this song before, he thinks. Maybe in a movie...

Pixie on the other hand, hadn't and she hums along.

"This is great! Human music is always soooo inspiring, you know?" She flies over to Sayaka and grins at her. "Name's Pixie the fairy, by the way. That's Hitoshura!" The instruments pick up just as the song hits the first loud mark. This is not foreboding at all.

Floor 28

[metawoof]

"You know they sound even better when there's not a bunch of freaky ghosts or whatever playing them," Echidna piped up, stepping around from behind Naoki with her hands folded behind her back. She had been stopping here a lot to play the instruments since she hadn't gotten her own bass in her trunk, and hey, this guy looked freaky as heck!

"You can make them much louder!" And here she did a little burst of jazz hands with her hands.

[worldrestored]

Well unlike most of the others he'd met before, she didn't seem to afraid of him. That was kinda good. Still didn't remove his usual suspicious, but then suddenly JAZZ HANDS. Naoki didn't...quite understand that.

Maybe if he'd been part of the music club...

He stared at her, slightly confused.