August Catch All [closed]

[nastyboy]

Who: The Femblemtroika Gang, minus 1
What: Their fresh arrival in Kanto is marred by the loss of one of the group. Time to spend the whole month being emotional disasters about it, plus a new arrival.
Where: Cerulean City for the most part
When: All of August

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[fortuna_tenax]

Oh, uh... nnno. My magic has bad vibes, most animals react to my presence as a threat.

( most people, too. in johto, she can be at peace finally, but... ... when the world makes you sharp and angry, you learn to just work with that instead. )

... I've never been anything but a fighter. Either for the wrong people, or for the law. It's all people like me can be, because our powers are too much, too destructive, too... othering. And I have a lot to make up for anyways, I don't think anyone would let me be anything else.

( some people are thrown into leadership, born kings and dukes and emperors.

some are thrown into other things. it's only here that she has a chance to break out of that mold. )

[nastyboy]

[Ah. That's right... Her powers. Dimitri falls quiet for a moment, unsure of how to think of that. It reminds him a little bit of him struggling with his own Crest. It's clearly not the same thing, of course, but, well. It was hard to be a painter, or a craftsman, or anything else, when his crest would shatter even metal apart inbetween his fingers.]

[The Crest of Blaiddyd... like so many other crests... was something made for times of war. So much so that, unlike those other crests, it never ceased to remind him of such a fact.]

[Before Dimitri can muster himself up to say something, however, Hafren brings her dancing to the close. With one particularly hard sweep of her little arm, the fire at the end of her club extinguishes... just not all the way. Instead, there still seems to be an almost sort of ember to it, a residue glow, that leaves it in that same haunting green.]

[Hafren does not try to stop it any further. Instead, she simply straightens up, and pads her way over to where the two humans are sitting. Hafren was always exceptionally quiet as a Cubone. As a Marowak, this does not seem to have changed that much. So there's no sound, no explanation, as she simply reaches up to lightly rest the very end of it against Jinx's forehead.]

[The end of her club, still glowing with that faint green, is warm. But it doesn't burn.]

[fortuna_tenax]

( the silence is a bit damning in some ways- but hafren, it seems, has no time for that sort of thought. her dance ends, and then she wanders... no, not wanders, this is far more purposeful despite how silent she is, and taps jinx's head with a glowing club.




okay.

jinx stares at the club, and then down at hafren, before smiling a bit, huffing something of a quiet laugh out as her shoulders drop. )

I know. Things are different here.

[nastyboy]

[Whatever all this may mean, Hafren doesn't seem to regret it..... oooor be inclined to explain it in any way whatsoever, although admittedly she'd have a bit of difficulty. It's hard to say if she's taken to human language as well as, say, Gremlin.]

[Regardless, she just nods, and then just as quietly pads over to clamber onto Dimitri's lap as she has always done many times in the past.]

[....Dimitri guesses he can't argue with the decision of a small bipedal reptile who dances for the dead. Gently, he rests his palm along the curve of Hafren's helmet.]

...I hope they become different in your home land as well, Jinx. I would like to believe that for you.

[fortuna_tenax]

They won't. I'm a criminal, you know? Or I used to be. It'll never be enough.

( it's the first time she's outright said it at all in this world, but with what she's given out before, she's sure it's obvious. and... despite a lot of things, dimitri's still cared for her, hasn't he? so...

it's safe.

right?

jinx leans back, watching the corsola above. )

I've already made my peace with it. The fact that I have an opportunity for normal is more than I could ever ask for.

[nastyboy]

["I'm a criminal." As though it is an immutable fact, an innate part of her that cannot be changed and which can be recognized on sight. Dimitri thinks of Dedue, blamed for something he could never had a part in, and he thinks of Ashe, doing his best to survive before someone could reach out a hand for him.]

[And he thinks of...]

...I am a criminal as well, and they allow me to be king, apparently.

[A murderous thing like him, given something so precious and which could break so easily.... And Jinx is a young girl with her life ahead of her, who deserves so much. Gently, as though he still possesses that terrible strength of his, he pats his head along Halfren's skull helmet.]

You deserve more than that, Jinx. I will do my best to give what I can here... including being allowed to be happy here, in places like this.

[Where strange not-quite-plants stretch ethereally up towards nothing in pale branches, curious creatures peering between them.]

[fortuna_tenax]

( she almost says something about how he's a rich white guy with super strength from a wartorn fantasy realm, and he can get away with a lot of things. buuuut... does she really want to explain all of that and how it changes things separately and together? ... not really. so she just sits there, petting minerva's head when she floats on by again. )

... You sound like someone I know.

( that's what she says instead. )

[nastyboy]

[...That is a very quiet response for what he said.]

In a good or bad way?

[If it's a bad way, he is going to change everything forever immediately.]

[fortuna_tenax]

Good. ... There was... this boy, back home. He was the first person to really treat me like a person... instead of a weapon. Or a curse.

... You'd like him. You'd like Starfire, too. They both kind of... Claude and Sylvain act a lot like him, similar attitudes. But Claude's kinda like Star, too- wise, and friendly.

[nastyboy]

[Hearing that it is a positive association eases Dimitri up considerably, and he listens to Jinx with a slight smile. A boy she likes, and a girl - Starfire.]

That is quite the beautiful name, Starfire. Were you close with her?

[fortuna_tenax]

We were... getting there. She was friendly. Forgiving. ... Considering we first met when I was hired to kill her and her team, that's more than I deserve, even if I did intentionally botch it.

( did she mention she was a hitman briefly? no? well surprise! )

[nastyboy]

[Ah. That would sure put a damper on one's relationship.]

...It seems you both are a good match for one another.

It would be nice if she could arrive here. Perhaps the two of you could be even better friends, in this sort of situation. Johto seems to have that sort of effect.