towerofanimus | Once bitten twice shy

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Once bitten twice shy

Characters: The Ψiioniic and YOU
Setting: hall on the 2nd floor of the dorms to start with, after that we can move elsewhere
Format: Prose preferred but I'll match you
Summary: Ψ is finally venturing out again
Warnings: Probably not but with the trolls you never know when it'll end in bloodshed and violence

It took a day or so before Ψiioniic was willing to venture out of his respite block again. Not that the room felt all that safe, considering Signless and Suzaku had attacked him in his sleep. Still safer than the rest of the tower, though.

When he did finally poke his head out, he was very wary and nervous, much as he had been when he'd first arrived in the tower. At least his had his powers firmly back under control, which made him feel a whole lot better about his ability to defend himself.

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Vivi had kept a low profile during the experiment madness. People had just been going crazy and he'd been too frightened to even attempt speaking with them. Now that things had (apparently) settled, he had left his room, staff clutched tightly in his hands.

He saw the troll and approached cautiously, peeking out from under his hat. He was so intent on keeping an eye on the adult that he didn't keep track of his own limbs, resulting in his foot getting caught on his staff and sending him flying face-first on the ground at the troll's feet.

"Whoa, careful!" Seeing the strange little creature go flying, Ψiioniic hastily reached out with his powers and caught him before he could hit the ground hard. With a twitch of his fingers he gently lifted the alien upright again, and set him down on his feet before withdrawing the crackling red and blue power. "Are you okay?"

Vivi let out a yelp at suddenly being lifted, head whipping back and forth around him to stare at the colourful energy that had saved him from (another) concussion. "W-Woah-!"

Once he was set down, he dusted himself off and glanced up at the troll, blinking his glowing eyes. "Y-Yeah, thank you, mister uh..." Tilting his head he asked shyly, "Wh-what's your name? Ehe..."

"I'm called the Ψiioniic," Ψiioniic replied with a little smile. What a strange creature. He hadn't seen anything at all like this before. It seemed nonthreatening enough, and kind of cute. Though he reminded himself that looks could be deceptive. Just because it seemed small and harmless didn't mean it couldn't hurt him. Look at Ψiioniic himself, who appeared to be the most fragile and least aggressive troll on all of Alternia, but who could wipe out an entire battle cruiser with a moment's thought.

Still, it hadn't offered him any aggression, far from it. "What'th your name? What kind of creature are you, are there otherth here like you? I haven't seen any before."

"Ψii-Ψiioniic?" he tried, fumbling a bit with the unfamiliar name. He wasn't entirely sure he was saying it right either, considering the man had a lisp, but oh well. He dealt with Quina's massacre of language, he could deal with Ψiioniic's lisp!

With a smile that Ψiioniic probably couldn't see thanks to the shadow of his hat, he answered, "My name's Vivi!" At the second question he fumbled a bit, glancing down at his hands before barelling on. Hey, it's not as if the people in this tower knew about black mages, right?

"I-I'm a black mage and uh, yeah, there's a whole village of black mages like me," he answered, a little shyly. "The others don't usually leave the forest unless it's to trade with the Conde Petite dwarfs." Most of them wouldn't associate with the rest of Gaia either, not after the stigma Kuja had effectively attached to them, but anyway. "Um, a-are you a troll like Terezi?"

"Really? A mage?" Ψiioniic's shy smile grew a little. "Me, too. I mean, I don't know if your powerth are at all similar to mine, but they call me a mage at home. 'Psionic' ith just another word for mage." He said the word the proper way this time, shaping the sounds carefully to keep his lisp and quirk out of it.

"I can't imagine a whole village of mages," he continued, a little wistfully. One of his biggest regrets had always been that there just really wasn't anyone he could talk to who could truly understand the burden his powers could be. It was one of the reasons he'd been so delighted to meet Sollux. "Where I come from, mageth are taken at adulthood and turned into slavees for the high-bloods, tho... we don't exactly get to socialithe much. I am a troll, though I don't think I've met Terezi yet. There'th quite a few of us here."

"S-Slaves? ... That's terrible........" Clutching his staff, he mumbled, "... Black mages are dolls. W-We were literally put together in factories to serve in armies, but then a lot of us just sort of 'woke up' one day and ran away. Oh, but I never got to the army, my Grandpa found me and adopted me." He really was lucky compared to the other mages, and Ψiioniic. Shrugging, he continued, "So the black mages who ran away made the village in a forest - you can only get in if you're with a mage because they cast an illusion there. They... don't want to be found by humans again."

Vivi then blinked, thought... and jumped a little. "H-Hey, 'Psiioniic', you're Mr. Signless' friend! Th-the one he was looking for, right?" With an excited jump again, he all but pounces on Ψiioniic's legs, hugging them because he really can't reach higher. "You're safe!"

Ψiioniic had to blink a few times at the notion than the creature in front of him had been literally manufactured. It was a little hard to believe, but then again, there were a lot of very, very strange things here in the tower.

Either way, he wasn't going to doubt the creature's story. True or not, it obviously believed it to be true. And it meant they had a few things in common.

"Yeah, SS ith my moirail," he agreed, grinning slightly when the little mage got excited. He was a little uneasy being hugged by someone he didn't know, but it wasn't as if it was really hampering his movements at all, since it was so little. And it wasn't as if he needed to move to fight, now that his powers were back. "I probably wath the one he was looking for. I'm okay, now. Hopefully I'll stay that way, thith time. You know him?"

Standing back he scratched his head through his floppy hat. "Sort of... He was looking for you in the dormitories and I was trying to help." With a blink and a tilt of his head, he asked, "What's a... mo-moirail?"

"Um... your moirail ith the person you trust more than anybody else, barring a matethprit if you have one," Ψiioniic explained awkwardly, trying to put the quadrant into words another creature could understand. "Thomeone you can be vulnerable with, talk to about anything, and who you know will alwayth be there to support you. It's a type of love."

Thinking for a moment, Vivi tilted his head to the other side, looking down at his clasped hands before mumbling, "Um, so... like your best friend? No wait..." Puck was Vivi's friend but he certainly wouldn't trust the prince to support him the way Dagger and the others did. "Uh, your..." What was it that Zidane had called everyone, when he was explaining their relationship to Eiko? "Um... Part of your team?"

"Kind of like that," Ψiioniic agreed, smiling as he thought of his three companions. "Only, your moirail ith the person MOST like that to you, but without any mating fondness. I've got three companionth who all fit my description, but if for thome ungodly reason I had to pick one of them above the others, it would alwayth by SS."

Humming, Vivi nodded his understanding. "Are your other friends here too?" he asked, adjusting his hat a bit, staff awkwardly held in the crook of his arm.

"Disciple ith, I talked to her over the network a little but I haven't seen her yet," Ψiioniic told him. "Dolorosa'th Descendent ith here, but she doesn't seem to be." He sighed. "I'm thtill trying to decide if it'th better that way or not. I wouldn't wish thith on my worst enemy... both of whom are altho here, I might add - but I do miss her."

Fiddling with his gloves, he sways his head this way and that as he thinks out loud, "Maybe she'll be brought in later... I mean, isn't it better if your friends are all here, especially if our worlds are really destroyed?"

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