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私は、ミジンコです
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lmao, even

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Alyona

Alyona evaluated Wolf with a cold glance. 'Probably wasn't the one who screamed. Maybe. Could be a girly screamer.' The thought made Alyona smile slightly. 'He looks like he gets pushed around a lot. A little more from me wouldn't hurt.'

Alyona spoke up, putting on a friendly tone for Wolf. "Of course we are not here to cause trouble! We are here to fix the trouble. Now what is the trou-" As she talked, her eyes wandered from Wolf to... the thing next to Wolf. Her smile froze into a clear visage of surprise, and moments later Alyona jumped behind the doorframe, shouting something (probably obscene) in her mother tongue. "Cel! That one is even larger than the cockroach I saw in the shower a week ago!" She braced against the wall, and raised her voice to talk to Wolf again. "Boy. Do not turn around now. There is a very large bug behind you." She manifested a lance of black energy in her hands. "I will fix. You will owe me."
Alexandria

Alexandria was stunned for a moment at the sudden change in Vera's tone. Tears welled up in her eyes again. "W-What? You're asking that now?!" The image of Vera's face flashing with anger triggered... something. She couldn't remember where it came from. It wasn't from when she was awake, Alexandria felt.

The murmur of the crowd coming back to front and center snapped Alexandria out of her thoughts. She wiped her face. Her gut felt twisted with anxiety, but she grit her teeth and ignored it. 'You idiot, Vera...' She thought. The burning of shame she felt at Vera's last question flared into anger. 'You didn't even want an answer, did you? Did you just ask that to hurt me? Will fighting communicate for you better?!' She couldn't back down now. As silly as it may seem, Alexandria- Or rather, Andras had a reputation to build. She couldn't go down without fighting. She wanted to become a known fighter - a demon in the ring.

Andras's cards flashed into existence around her, and she grasped a spell and quickly cast it - a flurry of cards stretched out before her, and her eye scanned them all in an instant. There were the tools to win, here. She could see it. The cards flickered away. "You..." Andras cleared her throat. "Your challenge is accepted." She had a trump card. But she needed to use her other options first. "I hope you're ready..."

Andras quickly flicked a card towards Vera - it was a minor spell, essentially a warning shot. The card cast itself into a bolt of sparkling energy, streaking towards Vera. Andras knew the spell wouldn't hurt too badly if it hit - not much more than a solid punch - but it would send the message that she wasn't going to hold back to Vera.

She deserved that much.
Alyona

Alyona regarded the pigeon like she would any vermin, brushing off Cel's chipper greeting. "Consider yourself lucky, flying rat, that I don't want to bother destroying another's property today." She shooed the bird away, turning to watch it fly for a moment before returning to face Cel. "So there's actual organized fighting, then? I got my hopes up for nothing when I heard that scream. Or are sparring matches here not the type that ends in screaming?" Alyona would be the first to admit that her home country was not quite up to the same safety standards as Rhea.

There was a brief pause as Alyona looked over the school's interior, before she slowly turned back to Cel. "Wait. What happened to my homework?" She asked, already knowing the answer.




Alexandria

"H-Huh? Ve-" For some reason, Alexandria couldn't finish the name on her tongue. As the girl walked towards her, Alexandria could feel her heart pounding. Her body prickled with a cold sweat, and her covered eye began to throb with pain. She barely registered the sudden removal of her next fighting partner - who cared anyway? This was...

It was something Alexandria hadn't prepared for. She went out for this tournament to do something different, but she never considered Vera would be there. The murmurs of the crowd, yelling from some fans, it closed in on her. She felt like she couldn't catch her breath. 'E-Enough! Everyone needs to go away right now! I can't handle this all at once!' Her overwhelmed mind whirled, reaching out for a way to calm things down.

She grasped a card and wordlessly cast it, throwing the square of light underneath her. The spell was something she planned to use during the tournament, but she needed it now. The spell conjured a wall of ice shaped as Andras wished - it was enough for what she needed. Suddenly, the card glowed and grew into a ring around the two, and in a flash turned into a barrier separating them from the outside world. The crystal structure only showed the distorted figures of the Midnight tournament and reduced the sound of voices to a much lower drone.

"V-Vera?" Alexandria managed to say. She couldn't think of what to say next. Ask what had happened? Where Wolf was? What she was doing there? ...Why didn't she ever visit...? Alexandria shook her head gently, a tear rolling down her cheek. She couldn't ask that. It can't be the first thing she says to her friend.

But she still wanted to know.

"I-It really is you... Vera?" Alexandria closed the last bit of distance between them with a hug. It was something she had played out in her mind so many times... It didn't quite feel real. It felt like she was still imagining it, like she was stuck in her head still. Alexandria's throat felt too tense to say more - if she tried, she might just end up crying. She hoped the embrace would do some of the talking for her.
Alyona


A single drop of water splashed upon Alyona's face. And a second. And soon the air was saturated with drops, all seemingly pointed directly towards the young woman. She clicked her tongue and picked up her pace. "Of course. There was a two percent chance of rain today. 'No, Alyona, you don't need to bring an umbrella, there's no way the heavens themselves would bend over backwards to inconvenience you!' I'm such an idiot."

Being in a new city had almost diminished her bitter pessimism. New sights, new people, none of which knew her as the walking curse that she actually was. It was nice... But reality crept back in, as it always tended to. Alyona started up to a brisk jog as the rain began to intensify, as if it had locked onto the poor girl. 'Of course there's not a single piece of cover overhead as well.' The long brick wall she was walking along opened to a gate which opened up to a school courtyard. 'Good enough for me!' She thought, turning her jog into a dash to the school's entrance area.

Alyona sat down on a bench and caught her breath. Her clothes were already saturated with water, but she had managed to protect her bag from having water soak into its contents. She was just thankful that she didn't slip while running across the featureless school courtyard and break something. "Well. Now wha-"

A scream from deeper inside the school interrupted Alyona's self-directed question. "Ah. This must be that kind of school. Well... Not my problem." She went back to observing the rainy school courtyard, humming to herself.

After a moment, she suddenly shot to her feet. "Wait! I can probably save the day and get some chump to buy me a ride home. All right! Perfect. Forget getting an umbrella... Or even walking!" Alyona grabbed her bag and started towards the source of the noise.
Alexandria Sova

Alexandria gave a small yelp of surprise when she noticed Michael. "O-Oh, I-I didn't see you there." She put a hand to her chest and steadied herself. "I-I mean." She cleared her throat. "Alexandria? You must be mistaken. I am A-Andras." Her voice was shaking slightly with nervousness.

Andras turned her face away from Michael. 'Why did someone I have to know be here?! He was the one who's seen me get winded climbing up stairs for the past year!' She took another deep breath as a new wave of embarrassment washed over her. 'But I already went and acted like I was someone else... What do I do?!'

Andras turned back, giving a weak and awkward laugh. "A-haha. A-After consulting the Root of All Magic, I can see who you really are now, Michael. Though I don't know this Alexa- This girl you seem to think I am! I will humor you." She flashed an uncomfortable fake grin.

@Scarifar
Alexandria Sova

AKA Andras

Alexandria tightened her hand into a fist. She had actually done it this time. This was the first time she had really headed out and done something on her own in ages. And she had even won a fight already. 'To think I wouldn't have even been able to hold Vera at an arms' length with my gift before all this... And now!' A brief flash of anxiety washed over her body. If she did too well, her counselor might hear about it. She wasn't supposed to be using her gift for something like this, but there was no way Alexandria - no, Andras was going to have this power and refuse to use it. She grinned to herself. 'That's right. Andras did that. The Demon Lady, returned from the Void Dream of Purgatory.'

~~

There was snickering and murmurs when she had entered the first round. "Demon lady? Is that even a girl?" "It looks like a stiff breeze could lay her out." "Aren't demons supposed to have red skin?"

But the murmurs turned to silence when she grasped her cards - abstract squares of light that seemed almost ethereal - and dramatically summoned a new one from nowhere. It was a simple move, and didn't require the theatrics, but of course Andras was going to make a show of it. She knew what the card was the second she grasped it. A simple, yet powerful spell.

"Listen girl, I'm sorry to do this, but you knew what you were getting into with this. You can give up now if you want, but I'm not going to think twice if you don't." Her opponent prattled on, not knowing their doom was already sealed.

Andras covered one side of her face with her free hand, giving a low chuckle that rose into a loud laugh. "Your fate is already sealed. If anyone should concede now, it is you. Do you know what magic I hold in my grasp?" She held up the card she had just drawn.

"Some flashy lights aren't going to scare me. What are you going to do, hit me with those?" The opponent scoffed.

Andras continued, almost speaking to the audience more than her opponent. "This is a piece of the Root of All Magic. It was a divine miracle, codified by the miraculous waves sent by the gods of the oceans to protect those they favored. Akashic sages codified it... and now I hold it in my grasp."

"I warned you..." The opponent sprang forward, closing the gap between the two fighters. Their power flared up, tiny spouts of flames welling from where they stepped.

Andras didn't brace herself for the attack. She merely moved her hand forward, the card held between her two fingers. With a flick of her wrist, the card launched forward. The golden glow of the card seemed to change into a blue arrow, before the entire card seemed to burst into a torrential jet of water. The force of the immense wave of water struck Andras's foe directly in their chest, knocking them clean out of the fighting area and sending them careening into the spectator's area. They groaned from their splayed position, unable to stand back up without the help of nearby spectators.

"The ocean is a cruel mistress. Perhaps another time for you." Andras replied, grinning as she turned to the crowd.

~~

It was taking all her nerve to stop from erratically hopping with joy. She had managed to play it cool and even throw in a perfect one-liner. Alexandria was truly, for a moment, the demon Andras in that match. It mixed with a fear of what she might run into next, of course, but her hand of spells was formidable enough. Her cards floated around her as she mulled over their effects in her head. Plenty of possibility, and she still had seven spells left to cast. She was ready for whatever was next. Andras could take on anyone. She had, after all, dragged herself out of much worse and lived to tell the tale.
Lots of people expressing interest, one of them can take my "spot" (if I had one to begin with!). I'll keep an eye on this RP though, if there ever is need for another wave of characters let me know.
I was actually thinking of just playing a conventional character idea for the Knights RP, though I'm not exactly sure what kind of knightsey guy would fit well with the others. My first thought was a mage-turned-knight due to outside pressures, but that might overlap with Rin's so I'll try and feel out other ideas. Unless two magic-oriented knights would be fun? Perhaps a more conventional "protector" type of knight would fit best with everyone else. Someone tall, strong, and ready to put themselves between their comrades and danger.
To Become a Knight sounds pretty fun to me. Regardless of gender ratios!
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