[The Arcana Is The Mean By Which All Is Revealed] || [Semi-Open]

[great_king_of_evil]

Characters: A lot of characters, check the tags!
Setting: Various floors for gathering the seeds; the battles will happen on the Roof of Towerception (Floor 75).
Format: Prose or action, whichever you prefer!

Summary: That's the log for everything related to the Nyx Avatar player plot! The OOC post is here if you want more information about it! You can also use it if you want to plot about how the battles will go. The log is going to be divided into five main threads: a first thread for Ganondorf to gather the "seeds" who will be used to make Ryoji go into his Nyx Avatar mode. Essentially, he's just going to trap them into nifty, colored crystals while they're distracted. The second thread will be about Ryoji reaching the roof of towerception and subsequently being kept there alongside the four seeds till the heroes arrive.

The third thread will be about the 'heroes' arriving to Towerception-- If they took part in the Sephiroth battle, they will have received a seemingly friendly letter asking them to come, otherwise either they will just happen to pass by the tower and feel a strange presence / hear weird noises. Finally, the fourth thread will be about the battle against the seeds with a sub-thread per seed, and the final thread about the battle against Ryoji. As a reminder, the four "seeds of grief" are: Diarmuid, Lancer, Patrick Dawn and Yukiko Amagi.

Because of how the log is divided, you can start the battles without having to wait for the three "lead-in" threads to be completed.

Warning: Evil gloating. Unending lectures about the tarot arcana. Lots of sad all around. Of course, anyone participating in the battle against either the seeds or Nyx takes the non-negligible risk of being killed or grievously wounded.

Seeds of Grief Gathering
Ryoji's Arrival at the Tower
Villain Speech & Nyx's Awakening

Seeds of Grief Battle
Nyx Avatar Battle

Comments

[irreverence]

Oh come on.

[She braces herself as he launches himself forward, fully intending to take a bite if she has to.]

You know babe, normally, I wouldn't mind a nibble but get your shit together first.

[But if she gets in under his jaw, there are a good five or six blades in her anatomy that are going to spear Lancer straight through once he's close enough.]

[verybaddog]

[He manages to bite into her shoulder, but her blades pierce through his palate and his throat. On reflex, he shakes his head, trying to pull away from the blades skewering him.]

[irreverence]

[She lets him go, but only because not doing so would only lead to him ravaging her shoulder, and that's the last thing she needs right now. Instead she takes a few steps back and reconsiders what she's going to do.

God dammit, she was really going to nuke someone when this was over.]

[verybaddog]

[After Lancer is freed, he catches the sight of Diarmuid getting attacked out of the corner of his eye and dashes to interfere. In the end, he's left with more holes in his gut and scanning the battlefield, looking from Suzaku to Amelia to Asagi.]

[irreverence]

[She doesn't really give him much of a choice in where to look after that moment, diving at him blades-first. Her hair lashes out at him, reaching him before the rest of her does, and then come the claws in her hands, light building in the palms of her hands.

One way or another, she can't afford to lose much more time fighting him.]

[verybaddog]

[The hair pierces through one of his arms, the one closes to her, leaving him pinned. He tries to swat at her hair with his other arm, but in the process, misses her actual body and leaving him open to being impaled by her claws.]

[irreverence]

[With the one arm pinned and the other having missed her, her claws dig in high on his ribcage but don't quite get his heart.

But that's okay- because she plans to stand up and slam the bladed heel of her cloneblade form right down and through it as soon as she has him pinned to the ground.]

[verybaddog]

[He outright howls as he feels Asagi's bladed heel tear through his heart. Even when mad, he instinctively realizes that it's a fatal injury.]

[As soon as he's done howling, he falls still. His warp spasm seems to work in reverse, making his body quiver and shrink while still underneath Asagi's foot. Finally, he's back to normal, his shirtless upper body showing the full extent of his gaping wounds.]

[irreverence]

[Breathing hard, she bends to grab him by the arm and drag him out of the way of the rest of the fight, feeling herself starting to come undone already. She collapses next to him when she's done, running her hands through her hair.]

What a fucking waste-

[She doesn't get further than that. The gems on her wrists crack, and Asagi turns to crystal for a brief moment before dissolving into dust.]

[verybaddog]

[With his dimming eyes, he looks over at her. Being so close to her, sniffing her scent and hearing her voice, makes him realize that someone precious to him is here, next to him. His mind is still so muddled that he doesn't question why this is happening and how she came to be so close by him.]

[Slowly, he reaches a hand over to try and touch her, but she dissolves into dust before he can reach her. His hand touches only the ground.]

[As he closes his eyes, tears start running down his cheeks. Something inside him tells him he's just lost something important again. And since he had failed again, he should no longer live...]

[Cu Chulainn's form collapses into sparkling dust, which mingles with Asagi's dust and floats off into the air.]