towerofanimus | EVENT; A faceless merman

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EVENT; A faceless merman

Characters: Kyousuke Kamijo and YOU
Setting: Dorm Area, Work Area, Floor 28, and anywhere else!
Format: commentspam, will match
Summary: Everything is just fine. // Open Event Log! Details here and OOC Plotting here
Warning: Kyousuke has been droned, therefore, depending on direction and events, deaths will occur, so make sure to behave~

[Residential Area, Work Area]
...

[There's a vague humanoid shape wandering around lately, ordering the worker units around and checking up if they're not doing their duties. While it seemed that it's strange enough that this... thing is ordering them around, what's even stranger is it's lower body portion, which is shaped like a merman, only with colors that hurts your eyes, and a general, featureless body that also assaults your mind.

If you have met the person this creature is based off from, though, you might recognize the voice speaking from it when you stared at him for too long a time.]

Can I help you?

[It's Kyousuke Kamijo's.]

[Floor 28]
[...He felt... strange. Here. It's alright.

There's this sense of familiarity as he surveyed this floor, as the music played in a discord that would generally harm a human's ears.

Just relax, everything's alright here

Normally, he would've just walked past it, but today, for some reason, he felt-

Everything is alright, you are just hallucinating, GET BACK TO YOUR DUTY.

Wrong.

Maybe it's just his... malfunction. Yes, that's it... malfunction...

With that, he's going to turn back, and started walking towards the stairs.]

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[Sola-ui almost jumps as the strange worker unit turns to her.]

W-why, yes. C-can you tell me if you've seen a girl with a dark-haired bob?

There is no one fitting that description within this floor. Is there a reason for your question?

[The strange worker unit, as she said, tilted its head sideways.]

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She is my daughter. I want to see to her safety.

There is no need for that, this place is perfectly-

[Wrong.

Destroyed.

Not right.]

Safe.

[A glare.]

Perhaps for your kind. You'll excuse me for worrying about my daughter the way a parent should.

*It's a good thing that Kyousuke is ordering them around - Enoch is tired of having to cut those guys down. What's happened? Why has Jason turned the entire tower against them? Was this revenge for all the "coddling" he'd had to do when Dax was alive...?

He doesn't notice Kyousuke's proximity is what's causing his disorientation, why he has to lean against the nearest surface.*

All of you, the ones whose collars have become pink. What did Jason do to you?

*It's kind of a good thing he doesn't know him.*

He merely improved us to become better. That's how it's always been.

[It's said as if the sentence meant everything to the strange worker unit, clearly a sign that the brainwashing was a great success for Jason.]

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You shouldn't worry. She's safe.

[There's a slight warning bells in the back of his head that's telling him that the person before him is...

misbehaving.]

I would still rather confirm it with my own eyes.

No. No, that's not...

*He can't look directly at Kyousuke anymore. He turns away, raising a hand to his head. Just what did Jason do to their minds?*

It is the truth. And it is final.

[So, how's that headache, Angel-san?]

We intend to serve you to an extent. Trust my words.

[There's this underlying threat of 'or face the consequences' at this point.]

[Sola-ui was not a magus for nothing. Even if she wasn't a particularly good fighter, she wouldn't back away from just one idle death threat.]

What reason do I have to trust you?

Because that is how it's always been in this tower.

[Right at this point, several worker units began appearing in droves, and don't forget the disorientation Sola's now feeling thanks to staring at the faceless creature for a while already.]

[She actually shivers a little and takes a step back when these drones start crowding.]

I-I have been warned about the usual procedures in this Tower. Like how they are not always the safest...

*Enough to make him want to get away from this...*

He's...mutilated all of you in mind and body both...

_{[Even after all this time, Sayaka still holds in her a childish reverence for any kind of instrument; it's what's prevented her from ever actually touching anything in here herself, as if her hands would violate some unspoken taboo - like anything that could make musical sounds must also be as fragile as eggshell. It really wasn't true, but she couldn't help the habit.

So that's why she wanders between basses and bassoons with her hands clasped behind her, watching phantom fingers pressing keys and working bows. It doesn't sound what she'd call nice, or even decent - cacophonies are naturally irritating. But it's always vexed her more that these unmanned instruments can do alone and meaninglessly what should be special. She'd finally gotten sick of it and turned to loom over an energetic oboe, about to do something crazy, maybe rant passionately at it for being offensive to the idea of music itself -

then _she sees ^scales and she can feel the shiver settling down over her shoulders, an inscrutable panic reaction to just - from the collar on their neck, it's just someone that's been twisted, just someone who's been changed, in one of these innumerably similar incidents of Jason's. But why those scales? She knows those scales, too colorful to be real, too Other. Sayaka feels herself running after him before even needing to think to.]}

Hey! Stop! WAIT!

[The figure stopped.

There's silence as the figure didn't do anything for the first few seconds at the prompt of the blue-haired girl.

And then it turned.

It's... faceless. That's for sure, there's no way of identifying who this figure is unless it could speak, and lo and behold, it spoke with a voice that's all too familiar and foreign at the same time.]

Can I help you?

He improved us. It's always been like this.

[It's sounding more like a broken robot now as footsteps could be heard from all over.]

This tower is the safest place you'll ever be in.

[At that, the drones began charging at her.]

Misbehaving is not tolerated, however.

[She backs away more, and then turns and runs. Though she is using magecraft to boost her speed, she is still not very quick. The drones can probably catch her after a couple of minutes.]

[Aaand it didn't take them long to actually start mauling on her just like that, while the faceless one just looked on silently at the process as he caught up with them.]

[She screams. How could she not scream? And she thrashes at them too. Slapping, kicking, even biting. But in the end, she's no fighter. And when the drones disperse, all that's left is a bloody corpse.]

...Dispose of the body.

[The merman stared as the corpse was hoisted out and brought back to be processed by the one dealing with it, before moving to go do his duties once more.]

No...

*It had never been like this. But He can't risk anything in this state. He staggers as he tries to move again, and manages to eventually lurch into a workable gait. If nobody is stopping him, he's going to lean on the stairs a second before stepping onto them to get out of there. If he can even handle stairs.*

_{[In those last few moments before the strange figure found words to spare, Sayaka stopped and simply stared, an unwise decision considering the dizzying effect it generated simply by existing in one's field of vision. She had almost expected - no, she'd certainly expected armor, maybe some kind of metal mask obscuring the absolute nothing for a face.

Then she hears the, it, his voice. She feels her heart wobbling, skipping a beat then speeding up in her chest, leaving her limbs unsure of their own blood supply. ^{She's still so weak, every single jab with his name on it always hits the vein-}]}

..Kyousuke. That's you. That's you, isn't it?!

_{[Her voice cracks.]}

[In the back of his head.

l̡̪̖̮̳̒e͑̄͋͗̾t̜̫̦̿̾̔̐̈́ ̛̮m̸̬͔̥͖̗̳̰ͫe̤̰̹̘͔͙ ̠̆̇͑͗ͯͪö̧̦́̏ǘ͙͇͉͉͎̣̘ͫ͒t͗ͯ̅!

Ah, there's the sound of something, faint as it was. But that was just it, a whisper. There's no need to bear it any mind, perhaps the presence of a monster is alerting him to it...]

That is my designation, yes.

You are denying the state of this tower.

[The sounds of footsteps are fast approaching, it might be better for the other person to flee while they can, or...

FACE THE CONSEQUENCES]

...misbehavior is not tolerated.

Your desig--no, it's your name!

_{[Ah, she's moved again, once more without really thinking about it - she reaches for his hand (it doesn't even look like his hand right now, none of this looks a single thing like Kyousuke) as if hanging onto him could do anything to change what's already been done.]}

*Okay, forget trying to navigate the stairs, he's just going to drop right off them and glide down with his Arch! At least his adrenaline still worked against that dizziness...*

State your intent.

[The contact of flesh on his arm brought yet another faint murmuring on the back of his head.

d̜̝͎̲̽ͥ͐̐͂o̧̱͓͚̮ͣͅn͛ͭ̓̾͛̐'̜͈͇͙t͕̖͒̐͌̄ ̌̀t̶̬͉̺̬͖̲͗͋ͭͮ̚ọ̶͓̣͆̊͆u̠͗ͩͫ̅ͤͭcͪ̉͐͒h̷͎̠̅̏͋ͧ͊ͩ̄ ̢̦̳̘̩̭ͬ̿ͦ̍̏̍͆h͈̬͈̹͈̹̫ͩ̆̉ͤe̺͎̭̘̯ͫͣ͐͆̒r̛̝̝̩͊̎ͬ͆͛̍̚!!!

...It doesn't matter, it looks like this being does not care of his state.

Is it...

d̼͓͒̌ͬ̎̍͂̄o̜ͯ̍ͭņ͕͕̖͖͖ͯ̓̎ͣͫ'̼̟͎͎̱͈͛̓̊t̺̥̗ ̞̼ḙ͕̜̜̥̠̦͆̿ͮ̅͑ṿ̦͍͐ͪ̏̏̎ͭ͒e̬͋ͭ͛ṇ̖̙ͩ ͔̥͖͍̜̽̑ͅt̊h͈̣̽ͧ̏̾̅i̹͛n̼̱͚̝͍k̝͉̱͉̤̀͒͌̔́ͯͅ ̥͔̒̌̔̍̒ͬ̅a̩̐̋ͩ͋ͯͨ̑b̤͎̯͉̫͇̠́̐͌͒̓͝o̿̄́̌͋ͣ̚u̢͉͙̦̰̯̼ẗ̪̫͙̣ͤͣ̔ͅ ̱̓ͅi͇̣͓̘͖͓͊ͅť̼̯̬̖̮̰̉ͫ̿ͅ!!!!

misbehaving?

[While there might be a bunch of worker units chasing after him, they won't be able to touch him, unless he happened to fly by a non-powered floor.

Otherwise, the faceless mermaid is going to return to his duties after a few moments.]

...I'm not letting go.

_{[She doesn't know the half of what's been going on lately; she was gone, after all. She's not kept up with any warnings, anything else - honestly, she doesn't care about the specifics right now.

This wretched cocoon that's been put over him - it's going to slough off anyway, sooner of later. Nothing's permanent here. So she can just - tag along and wait, right?

Sayaka continues to simply hold onto his hand, even if it doesn't feel like skin, like the texture and temperature are fundamentally not a human's. _{She can relate.}]}

I need to return to my duties.

[It is clear this girl is misbehaving. Then it's only right for him to... end- dsajkdh- askdahk - her.

Why.

Why is his mind noisy.

Why wouldn't it stop murmuring...!!!]

_{[She takes a single step to the side, and sweeps her free hand in a wide, open-palmed gesture to the staircase.]}

Then start returning! But I'm still coming along.

...Befriending a worker unit... is not... allowed...

[...There's no hesitation in that drone-like voice, but still, deep within his mind, there's still screaming.

This... girl is causing it.

Ah, so he should just end her, right...?]

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EVENT; A faceless merman

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Floor 28, of course

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gonna use this for some bloody icons

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