[center][img]https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/68b39d4b-8bdd-4076-83d6-f7b626465c76.png[/img] [color=ed1c24][s]TIME IS LOST[/s][/color] [url=https://youtu.be/rQ_jEzO31QA?si=RxhhCK2jmIOF151s][h3]🝮[/h3][/url][/center] [b][color=fff200]A Rapture in[/color] [color=000000]Black[/color] [color=fff200]and[/color] [color=7ea7d8]Blue.[/color][/b] The world fell away from Tohato, Colors blending and darkening as the wrenching feeling in his gut of gravity betraying him became painfully evident... He was falling. Falling fast and far. Wind and air blew past him in sharp whistles and wails, the void around him only growing darker in his peripheral... [color=00a651][i]"Another Mirrorwalker...? No... There's something off about you... You were brought here, contracted by my brother no doubt..."[/i][/color] A gentle voice, feminine yet also masculine at the same time, a small chorus of sound that seemed to blend and adapt from formless noise into words... A cacophony of crescendos and diminuendos, an emphasis of vocal symphony transforming into the hissing of a snake, a howl of a coyote... A faceless pigeon falls alongside the one who fell from his cage. [color=fff200]"Tohato... Tohato... It's time to spread your wings..." [center][b]"It's time to mend these broken wings. You can't keep yourself caged forever..."[/b][/center][/color] [center]As a light shines deep below him, the distant sound of shouting and screeching from below echoing through the void...[/center] [@CorviDoggo][hr] [b][color=f49ac2]A Seed Sown, Thorns Entwined.[/color][/b] The brambles filled the space in between, piercing through and stitching together the two halves of reality... closer then they ever should have been. Animosity held so much power... A seed of discord sprouting as it prepares its blasphemous fruit... A forbidden puzzle being formed into a complete picture. A tapestry of malice, anxiety, avarice, and all things wrong with humanity being forced into the limelight... [center][color=8e45c5][b]As it always should have been. Their 'truth' had always been flawed, their focus on the physical in front of him limits their vision... Well, what a fitting way to test a race's mettle.[/b][/color][/center][hr] [b]A [color=ed1c24]Fragile[/color] [color=00aeef]Balance[/color].[/b] The grinding screech of the creature rang like a badly tuned viola, as prismatic splinters flew in every which direction with the impact of the frosted beast with the crystalline effigy, glass cracking and shifting as its body cracked and contorted in odd angles to escape. The force of the grim hold seemed to be starting to grind the glass into sharp sand... Before the powdered substance began to ebb and flow like a liquid. shifting and moving as the shards that made up its 'face' cracked as it opened its own maw... [b]Two can play at that game...[/b] [b][i]However it didn't get to play its hand. Not yet.[/i][/b] The honed strings of the marionette struck the creature, the wires eliciting finite control over the creature, fragments flying as it continued to chip away... The creature whipped its head around, roaring like the wind through a subway tunnel, as the fragile prismatic filaments began reacting to the crystalline beast's will. [b]Concentration, Sublimation, Expulsion.[/b] Within seconds, glass bullets were dashing through the air... [i]A ranged attack...[/i] [@Kronshi][@Baphomini][hr] [img]https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/e05d2ee8-beeb-45b0-993c-b1b62a099433.png[/img] [b][color=a187be]A shard, a bud, of one's perception.[/color][/b] When her eyes opened, she had found herself crouched low on the ground, tail flicking behind her eagerly, her body wanting nothing more than to aid its pack of sorts... She didn't even know these things if they even were people... Her senses were on overload as if everything had been put through some kind of amplifier, as she ran forward, her pent-up energy finally saw the light of day along with the side of herself that she tried to hide... true nature always seemed to find it's way... [i]A true battle brings out the fear in those fighting it... But also the fiercest of beasts that live within.[/i] Catching, or rather swatting, a bullet from the air, she slid to a stop next to the wooden doll-looking thing, a soft thrumming aura seeming to emanate from around her, a soft radiance shed through the space as if moonlight were shining down from above... [color=a187be]"So, hope I'm not too late to join in on this-!"[/color][hr] [color=00a99d][b]So much happening... So little time.[/b][/color] They would probably be on her ass this time. But then again, she couldn't keep just listening to what they told her like they could control her in the first place. The hooded girl watched from beyond the walls, sitting at the events unfolding. Her head lifted, company had arrived. [color=00a99d]"What took you so long? I expected you to come earlier, dipshit."[/color] [color=8e45c5]"Tch... Has that body been what made you so... what do humans call it... angsty?"[/color] The man bearing the mask of the oni walks in, shadows clinging to the boots as his footsteps hold steady, stopping just shy of a meter away from the girl. [color=8e45c5]"Where is Elio? I expected them to be here."[/color] The man crossed his arms over his chest, rubbing his glove against the lapel of his coat. [color=00a99d]"If I were you, I wouldn't count on it. They are always lost, to begin with, I wouldn't be surprised if they were off exploring Fracta again."[/color] The hooded one responded, tossing a knife of some caliber in the air before the weapon slowed its momentum and she snatched it out of the air, repeating this cycle repeatedly. [color=00a99d]"You orchestrated this, right? Or was this one of Malgam's old plans that you've 'salvaged' again? I came to play this little game you promised."[/color] Though the face could not be seen under the cowl's shadow, her glowing gaze could be seen from beneath... From beneath his coat, the man of the mask pulled a deck of cards before nodding. [color=8e45c5]"Of course. I remember, I'm not as untrustworthy as I might seem. We are siblings, are we not? Why would I neglect to keep my promise? You are familiar with human 'props' for games such as these, right?"[/color] A table forms itself from the shadows beneath, brought up for the man of mask to place the deck. With a flick of his hand four cards are drawn from the deck. [b]9 of Constellations. 10 of Watchers. Jack of Mirrors. Queen of Artifacts.[/b] The girl snickers... [center][color=00a99d]"Well then... Let the game begin!"[/color][/center]