Holy water cannot help you know

[floreatnoctem]

Characters: [AU1] Chidori Yoshino; OPEN
Setting: Anywhere, everywhere
Format: Action, but I'll match if you prefer prose.
Summary: Chidori can't quite get back into simply existing in the tower, especially after the month she's had.
Warnings: Mentions of body horror, suicidal thoughts, righteous fury, possibly language if she gets worked up enough.



[Everything is still the same, and she's not sure whether it's depressing or infuriating.

In the month without them there, despite everything they've been forced to go through, how much they've been cut into, 'enhanced', mutilated for the sake of 'science- the tower remains just as she remembers it before leaving. Nothing has changed, save for the fact that some have gone and more have come in their place. Unsurprising, as most things in the tower were at this point- it was just another part of the routine, something to be seen, noted, and taken in stride. Nothing she couldn't do, and nothing she hadn't done before. The only thing that was different was that it seemed that some of the other residents of the tower had taken to emulating their captors, using the others against her will.

She could still feel a twinge where she'd been run through again.

Medea, for her part, has been nothing short of insufferable; the steady chatter of her derision a steady stream of sound in the back of her mind. Every day is an even greater failure to her, but as ever, Chidori ignores her and continues about her days as best she can. But the strain from the last few days is evident in the way she carries herself, the frost in her gaze and the derision in her tone, when she can be persuaded to talk. But she keeps the anger controlled, a seething roil of emotions held in check beneath her usual impassive mask.

It won't be too long before she can't keep her hold on it anymore though.]

Comments

[floreatnoctem]

That's a fair bit creepy, yes. Especially since I'm sure there are doors and walls to get through to get to you. Does it make them highly capable of breaking and entering then, I wonder?

[knightime]

Maybe the attraction was just so strong that they did whatever they could to get to me.

Walls and doors can't stop them from getting to the source of some strider swag.

[floreatnoctem]

Now all I can imagine is pajama-clad sleep zombies making their way through brick walls in order to get through to you.

[knightime]

It would be the worst zombie apocalypse. Constantly on the run to avoid zombies jumping my dick.

Holy shit, that's some major nightmare fuel right there.

[floreatnoctem]

You poor, afflicted dear. How ever will you survive if they can more or less smell you out? Maybe you should stick to being a loner in such an event. Wouldn't want to be the downfall of a group now, would you?

[knightime]

I break out of the group. Took one for the team. Just traveled on my lonesome away from society so everyone else had a chance at survival. [This oddly sounds like him and Rose traveling to the Green Sun. Wow that's kind of depressing.]

[floreatnoctem]

How very noble of you, really.

[Imaginary headpats, you can has. Lucky for him, Chidori doesn't know enough to make the comparison.]

[knightime]

[No one really knows, and he's going to try and make sure they never do to be honest.]

I am a knight. Comes with the package.

[floreatnoctem]

[Curiosity: piqued.]

Are you? What kind of knight?

[knightime]

Uh. Knight of time I guess. [He doesn't usually care to bring this up.]

[floreatnoctem]

Knight of time?

[Her curiosity is evident- but so is the fact that she won't pry if he doesn't want her to.]

An interesting title, certainly.

[knightime]

Yeah. Had all these time power shit and had to do time related bullshit.

[And while he didn't really consider himself a knight, he really did what his title wanted him to do. He protected the alpha timeline, after all.]

[floreatnoctem]

Time powers?

[A slight inclination of her head, curious again.]

As in 'time manipulation'?

[knightime]

More like I can travel through time. Time traveler all up in this bitch.

[He'd recommend not being too excited about having them though.]

[floreatnoctem]

How interesting. I've never heard of anyone who could do that without a machine.

[It sounds kind of like it might be a lot of trouble, actually.]

[knightime]

Naw. In our shitty session, we get powers based on our aspect. Mine was time and bam. Time traveler.

[It sucks. Hopefully you haven't seen his dead alternate, doomed selves yet.</small.]

[floreatnoctem]

Oh- so what other things could people do in your 'session'?

[No, she hasn't- but that's probably fixable.]

[knightime]

Well, space got kind of weird because for some reason it required breeding frogs to create a universe.

Saying that outloud makes me realize how fucking ridiculous this thing was.

[floreatnoctem]

[Chidori laughs quietly at that, shaking her head.]

Situations are never quite as strange in the moment as they are when you're looking back at them. Though I'm not quite sure how you're supposed to make a universe out of frogs.

[knightime]

I can't really tell you either. I just helped out. Our Space players were in charge of actually creating them.

I mean I guess space and universe are of the same line, but shit if frogs somehow has anything to do with space.

[floreatnoctem]

Perhaps it's some great metaphysical mystery you're meant to learn a lesson from. 'Be the frog', or something like that.

[knightime]

That...probably isn't it. I guess they just had to choose some animal for it and they just thought "hey frogs are the shit" or something. I wouldn't be surprised honestly.

[floreatnoctem]

Frogs are creepy. [She's actually really serious about that tbh.] You know what would be a good universe animal? Kangaroos.

[Not quite as serious about that though.]

[knightime]

Aren't kangaroos considered pests or some shit? Why couldn't it be birds? Birds would be pretty fucking baller.

[He's serious about the bird comment to be honest.] I would say cats, but I already know how wrong that would go.

[floreatnoctem]

I actually don't know. I just figured their pouches would be good for holding a universe. Birds would work too though.

[And Chidori's voice goes very flat at the mention of felines and she simply states-]

Honestly just... no. Fuck cats.