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[worldend_dominator]

Characters: Rosa Ushiromiya and you
Setting: March 17th-22nd, all over the Tower
Format: anything
Summary: Rosa explores her new powers
Warnings: Blood due to the Deadman Wonderland player plot. Maybe gore.

Spring

[Miraculously, the past few weeks had been good to Rosa. Being able to defend herself, at least, made her much more confident. Ever since she had gotten cut on a red crystal, she had the ability to create hammers out of her own hardened blood.]

[Sure, it had been outright horrifying at first--all the blood rushing out of her body, forming into a hammer, and then smashing down on a monster's head to crack it open, but she had gotten used to it. It was freaky, but it was her weapon. And it meant she didn't have to hide in the shadows all the time just to survive.]

[The new rainfall was annoying, but she figured she could handle it. Her stock of food was waterlogged, but with this hammer, she could now hunt.]

[So throughout the days that spring lasts, she can be found on the floating island floors, either gathering vegetables and mushrooms, or trying to crack the skulls of a couple of unfortunate animals. Sometimes she'll be on one of the other safe floors, relaxing.]

Summer

[Spring had been nasty, but it was nothing compared to summer. At least in the spring, she had plenty of access to water. But in summer, the entire Tower felt like a desert.]

[Even worse, the heat had deprived her of her weapon. Whenever she had hammer out, she felt like fainting. No wonder. It was made of her blood after all.]

[Even if she doesn't like it, for summer, she's gone back to her usual schedule of hiding herself in whatever shade available and avoiding contact with others.]

Autumn

[Autumn is certainly a relief. Though the winds are strong, she likes this season better than the waterlogged spring and the burning summer.]

[Still, as she walks through the Tower, trying to gather and store food, she feels pretty jumpy. The weather had been erratic. Who knew when it would change again?]

[But she has her weapon. She can handle anything as long as she has her weapon.]

Comments

Spring

[vermicompost]

[Kariya was waterlogged and not particularly happy, but he made his way to the meadow floor as he usually did, in spite of the fact that it was more of a meadow bog at the moment. Well, he could remember what the flowers usually looked like, anyway.

At the sight of the young woman, he paused. She seemed familiar... Oh no. That's right. He remembered. The woman he'd killed. A wave of guilt washed over him, stronger than the water itself.

He didn't draw any closer to her, but he waved, tentatively.]

Excuse me, hello.

Re: Spring

[worldend_dominator]

[She recoils at the familiar voice. There was so much water. Does this mean the merman had come out of his lagoon to hunt her down again? She generates her hammer before she turns around.]

H-hello...

[She feels just a little more relieved when she sees that he is, in fact, no merman. His face, like his voice, is familiar. And yet he looks completely human.]

[vermicompost]

[Kariya starts and takes a step back at the sight of the weapon. He almost slips, but by some miracle manages to right himself in time, though he takes a moment or two to get his balance back. What is that...?

I-I don't mean you any harm.

[worldend_dominator]

Maybe not, but I've seen people cause harm to others without meaning it.

[Even though his reaction seems to show that he's pretty harmless, she keeps her hammer out.]

[vermicompost]

You-- are you all right?

[That blood hammer looks odd, to say the least, and Kariya knows all about having a weapon that hurts as much as it helps.]

I don't think I could harm anyone accidentally right now.

[The bugs take some effort for him to bring out, after all. Indeed, he doesn't look threatening. He looks lopsided and drenched and a little bit sad.]

I just wanted to apologize.

[worldend_dominator]

...

[She stares at him in surprise. Apologize? Did she hear that right?]

[vermicompost]

What happened before... I wasn't in my right mind. I couldn't control my actions. You see, the mermaids turned me into one of them. [This is sounding ridiculous, even to him.] It's hard to explain. But I didn't mean to do it, and I'm sorry.

[worldend_dominator]

Ah...

[She does not know if his story is true. Did the Tower truly hold that much power? But she can remember what the experiments had turned people into.]

So what you're saying is that you won't do it again. Not if you had a choice?

[vermicompost]

Of course I wouldn't. I don't want to hurt people.

[Well, he wants to hurt Tokiomi and would hurt Zouken if he could, but that's another matter.]

I felt awful about it. Worse than awful. I've never hurt anyone before. But I'm back to myself now.

Autumn

[taintedwhite]

That's good... [The voice behind her is low and when she turns around she'll be facing a young albino girl. She can't be more that fourteen and still the serious expression on her face, with those blood red half-lidded eyes, makes her look older.] You look less weak now~

[She smiles, a wicked smile.] Though blood looks good on you~

Re: Autumn

[worldend_dominator]

[Rosa swerves to face the source of that voice. The expression on the girl's face sends a shiver down her spine. It looks like the Witch's expression, and certainly promises the same power and brutality.]

What would you mean by that?

[She tries to keep her voice level.]

[taintedwhite]

I saw you try and use that hammer~

[But if she was to faint after two minutes, it really wasn't worth engaging her in a fight. So Wretched Egg had waited.]

[worldend_dominator]

...So you know what this thing is made of.

[In quick, smooth motions, she pulls her sleeves back and undoes the bandages around her arms. She lets the blood emerge and coalesce into a hammer.]

Not just try. I can use it.

[taintedwhite]

Oooh~

[Wretched Egg's smile widens at that.]

Let's see just how good you are, then~

[worldend_dominator]

Are you telling me to attack you?

[Rosa gives the girl a dangerous grin of her own.]

Don't mock me, little girl!

[taintedwhite]

Only one way to find out~

[She doesn't look scared or impressed in the slightest.]

[worldend_dominator]

[She takes this as an invitation to attack, swinging her hammer wildly.]

Spring!

[hemoeroticism]

[ Oddly enough, a hammer was something he'd never seen before, but should have been an obvious manifestation of a Branch of Sin. So seeing her crack open that monster's skull was oddly satisfying, even to him. He claps his hands when he sees it, like a little kid who just watched a performance. ]

Another one? [ He begins skipping towards her, grinning ear to ear. ]

Deadmen everyone. I love it. ✩

[ And this one even seemed to know how to control her Branch of Sin, seemingly without being taught. That was impressive. ]

Re: Spring!

[worldend_dominator]

...

[She doesn't know why this boy seems so cheerful after seeing her do such things.]

I-I'm very much alive right now.

[And she plans to stay that way.]

orz, 'Deadmen everyone,' I need to stop tagging passed midnight.

[hemoeroticism]

Why does everyone think I'm saying they are literally dead? ✩ Only I was, but I got better.

[ He laughs, and finally closes the distance between them. ]

Did you really think you're the only one who can do that with their blood?

/pats

[worldend_dominator]

...No.

[It had seemed like too much of a coincidence from the beginning. Rosa had never been singled out for a stroke of good luck.]

So that's your word for it. Deadmen.

[hemoeroticism]

So many of the Branches of Sin were wasted on fragile children who get sick at the sight of blood. So sad... at least the Deadmen in my world were fun to play with.

[ He pouts childishly as he says this. But then once again, he claps his hands, grinning ear to ear. Talk about mood whiplash. ]

But you're not like that, are you? ✩

[worldend_dominator]

This weapon gives me an advantage. They're fools if they refuse to use their powers.

[hemoeroticism]

That's right. ✩ [ He looks down at her hands. ] May I see your hand for a moment? I need to get a closer look at that.

[ TRUST HIM AT YOUR OWN PERIL! ]

[worldend_dominator]

[She frowns, and the backs away.]

Why? You already know what it's made of.