and when you gaze long into an abyss...

[sageprincess]

Characters: Everyone!
Setting: Everywhere!
Format: Every format!
Summary: General mingle log for the first day of the Into An Abyss event.
Warnings: General Tower warning.

[Freak out, organize, stick your hand into the tear in reality on floor 23, etc.]

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[hemoeroticism]

Well, alright then. Let me show you my love. ✩

[ The blood roared to life, forming a myriad of shapes; bladed stars, barbed whips, spheres. He knew that, ultimately, Wretched Egg would win, as she always did. Anything he could do to her would be reversed by her healing powers in a matter of seconds, while all it took from her was one well-placed shot from her Branch of Sin to tear him limb from limb. ]

[taintedwhite]

[Wretched Egg didn't move. She just offered a bright kinda psychotic smile and waited for the blood weapons Hagire had just created to cut through her flesh. It looked as if she couldn't feel pain anymore.]

Your love feels lukewarm~

[hemoeroticism]

[ She didn't move. She didn't dodge. She didn't even try to fight back. With the blood weapons cleaving through her, he didn't launch another volley; he simply watched as she healed herself, and appeared confused afterward. ]

Well? [ He asked. ] Love is a two way street. ✩

[taintedwhite]

Ksha~ Who ever said I loved you back?

[There, Hagire. She's learnt some things hurt more than blows.]

[hemoeroticism]

You... [ No way. This is an attempt to get under his skin. She's trying to psych him out. ] Then maybe I'm not showing enough love. ✩

[taintedwhite]

Maybe~ I guess it's worth a try if you think you're up to it.

[She gives him a blank look. Shiro is an open book, Wretched Egg however has quite the poker face.]

[hemoeroticism]

Well, it won't end the same way it did last time. All of those new Branches of Sin... I loved it. It brought back so many fond, irrational memories. ✩

[ Hagire takes a few steps forward, two Crow Claws already forming on the backs of his wrists. ]

Shall we?

[taintedwhite]

I'm the one waiting, Mockingbird~ Although you know how much I hate being kept waiting~

[hemoeroticism]

Well, it has been a while since we played your favorite game, hasn't it?

[ Fair enough. She's right. The Crow Claw's extend in length. Let's keep things simple to start out with... ]

Love Labyrinth. ✩

[ The blades form large, sweeping arcs of 'sharpened' blood, one crossing over the other in opposite direction, heading straight for the Wretched Egg at waist-level. The idea was to try to get her to jump to avoid it. Of course, there was the fact that Crow Claw didn't have the best range... she could jump backwards, too. Or fly. Wretched Egg is just that powerful. ]

[taintedwhite]

[She chuckles.] Ksha~ That's at least something we have in common~

[At first it seems Wretched Egg is not going to avoid the attack and let it slice through her body, just as she did the previous time. But at the last second she jumps, not backward but high, high enough to avoid the claws. A platform appears under her feet as blood and blue hexagons start swirling around her. She'll wait until Hagire's look meet hers before launching several waves of hexagons straight at him.]

[hemoeroticism]

[ She's really going to fight back this time. Good. His eyes don't leave her for a minute, but as soon as he sees the hexagons appear, he has no choice but to try to avoid it, too. Her Branch of Sin is just too strong to try defending against with one of the shield Branches of Sin (like Yosuga's or Rokuro's). It would break on contact. There's too many waves to jump over... but thankfully, he does have a way.

The blood from the Crow Claws returned to his veins, only to come back out near a seam on his neck, forming two Whip Wings. They shot backwards, and, like grappling hooks, pulled him back towards the staircase. Hopefully it's fast enough... ]

[taintedwhite]

[Fast enough to avoid the first wave, yes but maybe not the second one that she launches immediately at him again.

She starts walking towards him, ribbons of blood twirling around her.] Always shying away from me, huh? You're no better than the others~

[hemoeroticism]

[ As soon as he lands, he sees the second wave coming. He doesn't have nearly enough time to try to dodge again; the Whip Wings are severed, and an entire layer of skin is ripped off of his back as he tries to talk. Blood begins seeping out. ]

Ergh... I didn't think you'd want it to end so early, my love. ✩

[ Owl's Eyeballs begin forming from the blood on his back, and start flying towards Wretched Egg. Not like he expects them to actually do anything. ]

[taintedwhite]

If you were stronger, it wouldn't have to end so early~

[Blue hexagons are filling the air again, some slicing through Owl's Eyeballs, some throwing them back to sender and some aiming directly at Hagire.]

[hemoeroticism]

[ The Owl's Eyeballs explode on impact with the hexagons, but obviously, she's outside of their blast radius. The ones returned to him were still made of his own blood, meaning he can simply reabsorb them into his veins instead of being hoist by his own bloody petards. It was those other hexagons that he had to worry about.

Some of the eyeballs began forming a shield, not unlike that used by Yosuga. It wouldn't hold for long against the Wretched Egg, but it might buy him a bit of time. She was really going all out. He could very well die, here. ]