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Nue "I have only one friend" Houjuu ([personal profile] undefines) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2013-05-29 03:04 pm

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Characters: Nue Houjuu and OPEN
Setting: The dormitory floors; the cafeteria; Floor 6 (forest)
Format: Action preferred
Summary: Nue wakes up in the Tower, is annoyed by mysterious sounds, and doesn't care for the cafeteria food.
Warnings: Some goriness in the last prompt.
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I. Dormitories
[Nue has a lot of questions about her situation when she comes to. There are the obvious, like where this place is and how she has been brought here, and then there are the more esoteric, like the number of youkai and the number of humans here alongside her. However, as she explores her new surroundings, her thoughts begin to come back to one particular question more and more often.]

[What is that noise?]

[Her pointed ears twitch and lie back like an animal's—not that most people should be able to see that, given the way she has covered herself with one of the few seeds she has access to. (Another thing to wonder about.) She even growls a little. It's seriously irritating, and it doesn't sound like anything she has ever heard before. Her wandering through the dormitory hallways quickly turns from an attempt to get her bearings to a quest to locate the source of that whining. Occasionally, she'll stop and scratch at a wall, as if to dig inside.]


II. Cafeteria
[Sometime later, Nue can be found in the cafeteria. She doesn't look significantly more pleased by the situation here than she did by the one upstairs, but for what is at least in part a different reason. Specifically, she's miffed by the options she has for food.]

[Seriously. As if suffering through the oatmeal wasn't bad enough, her reward is this flowery crap? What kind of self-respecting youkai would be pleased with this garbage?]


III. Floor 6
[Being unable to fly makes taking down a prey animal somewhat more difficult than it would otherwise be, but Nue makes do nonetheless. The loss of her powers and the aggressiveness of what should have been a timid doe catch her by surprise—and she has the bloody shoulder to prove it now—but it isn't hard to entangle the animal's legs with one of her flexible, blade-like wings while the other five slit its throat and rend its flesh. It doesn't take her long to leave it jerking against the ground in its final movements.]

[She doesn't feel like carrying her prize all the way back to "civilization," so when she settles down to eat, it's in the dirt. The scythe-like limbs at her back cut into her meal's still-warm body, and the blue spears opposite of them pry it apart for her. Blood drips down her chin as she gobbles down the meat raw. Unashamedly, she eats like an animal, because there's no one around to tell her she should do otherwise. She doesn't mind it.]
true_noir: by Sky Team (mmm)

Cafeteria

[personal profile] true_noir 2013-05-29 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nue, there's a young woman staring at you with a bemused look on her face. By now, she's become intimately accustomed to the little nuances of the cafeteria, and one of the small joys she has in eating in this place is watching the expressions of disgust when someone tries the oatmeal for the first time or gets stuck eating one of the more ... colorful dishes.

All she sees is a sort of dumpy, cute, brown-haired, brown-eyed girl like so many others in the tower, plowing into her flowery food with incredible annoyance. It was a sight she'd seen so many times she couldn't help but forget most of them. She simply giggled, helping herself to oatmeal.

Bland? Yes. Tasteless? Yes. Debatable texture that sometimes made you want to gag? Yes. However, it was consistent, and she appreciated that in the mornings.]


New here, aren't you?
vermicompost: (fifty)

Dormitories

[personal profile] vermicompost 2013-05-29 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[As he's walking through the hallways, he stops at the sight of a girl scratching at the walls. She looks so young and so unsettled that he can't help but feel immediate sympathy and concern. Another child here... He hates to see that. Is she new here? He can't just leave her alone.]

Hello. Are you all right?

[He smiles at her, limping his way over to where he's scratching. He doesn't see anything on the wall, but he wouldn't be surprised if she's just upset and acting out of panic. Who wouldn't want to scratch through the walls to get out of here? His tone is gentle when he speaks.]

Can I help somehow?
terreifying: (Youth!)

floor 6

[personal profile] terreifying 2013-05-29 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Wooow...

[Rei stares at the way the girl is tearing into her meal.]

...Is it good like that? When it's completely raw?
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[personal profile] vermicompost 2013-05-29 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's used to being stared at, considering how he looks. He's just glad he doesn't scare her. He hates the thought of scaring children. She doesn't seem to be shy at all, in fact, with the way she approaches him so readily. He isn't offended by her close scrutiny. It isn't her fault he looks so strange. He does feel self-conscious about it, but he tries to ignore the feeling.]

Sound?

[Her voice sounds older than he expected, but considering the range of people here, he isn't too surprised by that. Is she older than she seems, maybe? The thought doesn't make him any less concerned for her.

He isn't sure what she means by "sound". He stops to listen for a moment, but he doesn't hear anything unusual. Is that why she's scratching at the walls, because she hears something?
]

I don't hear anything. What does it sound like?
vermicompost: (thirty-three)

[personal profile] vermicompost 2013-05-30 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
There's a sound like that? [Ah. He'd noticed that the worms were more restless lately, and he hadn't been able to ascertain why, when everything seemed normal. Normal for the Tower, that is. Could it have something to do with that? Maybe they were sensing a vibration.] That explains it...

You've heard it this whole time? [As he stands, he unconsciously wraps his right arm around himself, holding his limp left arm in place.]

There are a lot of strange things in this tower. [He doesn't know what could cause a noise like that, though.] Maybe it's something electronic? Do you think there is something inside the walls? [He peers at the wall more intently, but it just looks--normal.] I wonder if they're planning something.
terreifying: straight at me (You are just smiling and looking)

[personal profile] terreifying 2013-05-30 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
I really haven't.

[And the one time she did eat raw meat...well, it wasn't like she could taste it.]

But you never know. Maybe I would!
true_noir: (Creeper)

[personal profile] true_noir 2013-05-30 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
Very blithe. This isn't the first of these I've been trapped in. You learn to enjoy yourself in the midst of hellish nightmares...

Or you go crazy. [She giggled and took a bite, watching the young girl with curiosity in her gaze. Definitely far too casual.] Sometimes it's fun to do both for a while.
vermicompost: (thirty-eight)

[personal profile] vermicompost 2013-05-30 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
Just something I noticed. [How to explain the Crest Worms, really? Oh, I'm full of worms, and I'd noticed they were acting strangely? He tends to avoid mentioning them so directly.] I sensed something was different, but I didn't know what.

It could be. If I could hear it, it might be easier to tell, but it sounds like it, from your description. [Kariya doesn't know much about that kind of thing himself. For all that he's familiar with the technology, some of the more technical aspects elude him.]

The administrators. They run this place. Sometimes they do things to us. Run tests on us or change us, or change what we think. [He feels bad for having to say this to a child, so he softens his words.] Usually it doesn't last too long, though. You must be new here. Do you have any other questions I can answer? I know it can be confusing at first.
terreifying: (Youth!)

[personal profile] terreifying 2013-05-30 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay. I've never really killed my own food before, though. So you might have to wait a while.

[She goes to sit by a tree to wait for some unfortunate toothed animal to pass by.]
swiftkicks: Chloe get out I killed you twice already (Fighting Spirit)

Floor 6

[personal profile] swiftkicks 2013-05-30 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ugh.

She knows it's necessary for some people to kill animals for food, but was that particular display really needed?

So her voice is just going to float down from a tree nearby.]


You could have just killed it quickly to end it's pain. I could have helped.
true_noir: (Cloak6)

[personal profile] true_noir 2013-05-30 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Who said anything about Docile or Domesticated?

[She smiled. Ok, no, there was something very different about the way that Chloe smiled. It wasn't entirely sane. She giggled and grinned over at Nue, winking as one hand reached back and settled the tip of one of her blades on the table while she ate.]

I'm just not the shouting type.
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[personal profile] vermicompost 2013-05-30 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's never been asked that before, but it brings home to him just how strange he looks. Other than human. Again, he's not offended. The direct question is childlike in a way, reinforcing his belief that she must be young. He can't be angry with a child for speaking her mind.]

Yes. I am.

I must look strange to you, but I have a health condition. I'll be all right. [He's just going to conveniently ignore the fact that if left unchecked, it will kill him.]
true_noir: (Cloak20)

[personal profile] true_noir 2013-05-30 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
You find ways to cope. Mine are fun, personally. [Crazy to begin with, but semi-controlled most days. The world she'd been trapped in before this also made things... complicated at times.] I am Chloe. And what of you?

[She was carrying the bowl over, her knife slipping back out of sight. When she settled across from Nue, she leaned over, resting her chin on her hands curiously.]

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