Jinxer

Valkyria Chronicles: Squad 11

I'm here, I'm here.

Looks like we have a fair few interested faces. Happy days.

Attack on Titan: Somnium

Trost - HQ

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Fleur Seymour

The cadets moved like waves washing up onto the beach, moving towards the slowly growing group nearest the lift with a few losing their courage as time went and dropping back towards the injured and the terrified. More stayed than left and soon a group of nervous but determined looking cadets stood near the lift, a few of the bravest with the greatest bravado stood on the edge, staring down into the murky darkness where the shifting shadows of Titans danced in the light cast by oil lamps around the edges of the room. Most had looks of resignation on their faces, expecting death but knowing that at least this way they could fight against it, resist the inevitable and let some of their fellows survive through their efforts even if their own struggle ended prematurely.

Fleur watched them from atop the crate she sat on, legs folded underneath her, having hung around near Gregory while the other cadets searched for friends or loves ones amongst the survivors. They were the only two to have made it back alive from their squad, she had no idea what had happened to their squad leader but she knew the other pair had been blindsided by Titans coming from behind. The situation being unsalvageable she had grabbed Greg and dragged him from the battlefield while he cried about leaving the already dead to die. Not that she was cold or indifferent, it cut her deeply that there was nothing that they could do but, unlike Greg, she was not so soft-hearted that she would throw her life away for those beyond help.

She checked on him out of the corner of her eye and, sure enough, he was casting glances towards a cadet lying on the ground, blood on her shirt and trousers, while a pair of girls gathered around her. Mora was looking over Lauren's injuries and spoke to Jade before turning back to her friend, stroking her cheek. With a sigh, Fleur nudged the fidgeting Greg with her elbow resulting in the young lad jumping as if he had been caught prying. He spun around and glared at her, his cheeks red with embarrassment.

"What are you doing?" He hissed furiously before staring at her in shock as she laughed; it was the most alien sound in that hall, jarring harshly against the sombre atmosphere but there was enough noise for her breach of the peace to go unnoticed.

"Just making you snap out of it. Come on, we need to go join them." She vaulted off the box, grabbing his sleeve and dragging him over towards the group preparing to enter the chamber below, speaking over his protestations. "I know you feel like you owe her but she's got help, more than you can give anyway. Best thing you can do is clear a path. Look, I'll even help you. Now you owe me as well so stop whining and we'll call it even, yeah?" She yanked him to a stop, the cadets around them checking their gear for the final time before heading into the breach.

"See you on the other side, Greg." She grinned, whipping out her blades and stepping onto the lift with the other cadets before they began to descend into the darkness. Her partner sighed, joining her reluctantly on the platform just before it lowered but did not draw his weapons; he had completely run out of gas on the way in so he'd be running to the tanks to fill up canisters. As the lift shuddered and began to lower there were audible swallows all around them and the air was tense, no one spoke as they entered the chamber. Titans surrounded them, some lounging on the floor while others just stood, unmoving. Most were roaming the hall aimlessly, endlessly searching for their next prey without knowing that they had already exhausted their immediate supply.

Now, a feast had arrived and they soon took notice, the cadets sprinting from the platform towards the tanks. For the first few seconds they were free, some even making it to the wall and fiddling with canisters on their hips to start refilling before the closest Titans moved towards them, ceasing their random movements and focusing on the humans caught helplessly on the ground.

Fleur had run with the others to the wall, hoping to refill her nearly empty canisters before being forced to fight and had just managed to get some extra gas into them before the first Titans were in range. Cursing the lack of time to properly fill up she shot her hooks into the ceiling a few feet in front of the Titan and pulled herself up, flashing past its eyes to gain its attention. She began to lure it away from the tanks, hoping another of the cadets assigned to keeping the Titans off the new refilling teams would spot the opportunity she had opened up before any of the farther away Titans came for her.

Their suicide mission had begun.

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Lauren Jones

When had she lain on the floor? She could not remember whether she had chosen to do so or whether her strength had just run out and she had finally collapsed. In any case, the pain was becoming numbing and the weights pressing down on her wakefulness were getting heavier and heavier. Dimly, her mind recognised the first signs of going into shock - her body finally unable to maintain normal functions and shutting down bit by bit to try and retain its core functions.

Then Mora appeared above her and she smiled, despite the dread and fear in her friend's eyes.

Ah, it'll be okay now. Ra'll take care of it all.

She tried to speak but it was hard to summon the energy to move her lips properly, they felt alien and resistant to her commands. Mora saw her trying and cut her off and set about putting into practice what Lauren had taught her, checking the state of the patient and coming up with the best possible solution with what resources she had to hand. As always, she wondered at Mora's ability to keep going under so much pressure, to carry on when she was clearly struggling with her own feelings.

Warmth touched her cheek and she stirred, realising her eyes had been closing, and saw Mora staring down at her. She slid her eyes sideways and saw the bloodstained hand caressing her cheek, understood the warmth that was Mora's touch and felt some stubborn core inside her stir, raging against the darkness that encroached on the edges of her vision; that slurred her thoughts and stole her strength. With significant effort she reached up and gripped Mora's arm. She knew it was weak despite all the strength she tried to put into it, not even able to squeeze gently such was the paucity of power left in her muscles.

"Hey you." She smiled weakly, feeling tears well up in her eyes at the expression on Mora's face. How had she let this happen, that she would make her friend worry so, again? "What's that look on your face for?" She coughed, turning her head and spitting out a glob of blood to the side, breathing freely afterwards. "Why so worried? I'm not. Not while you're here." Her smile spread into a grin as a thought occurred to her and she laughed before the pain flared in her chest and it turned into a cough.

"Schulz was such a prick but... he got at least one thing right." Her hand moved to Mora's cheek, holding it in a hand stained with her own blood but she was tired to notice or care. "You always were a hero. And you'll always be that way to me. So I know I'll be fine."

Attack on Titan: Somnium

Alice Hart

Captain Alice 'Al' Hart

Age: 24
Height: 5' 5"
Weight: 130lbs

Short Bio: Captain of the Special Operations Squad of the Survey Corps and reputedly the fastest and most skilled user of the gear, Alice's more humble origins make her reputation all the more remarkable. Born into an orphanage from where she moved immediately into the military at an extraordinarily young age, having approached her current height at the age of eleven, she is one of the youngest cadets to have made it through the Training Corps' strict regime. She quickly showed great promise, in particular with the Gear, and came top of that year's graduating Cadets but spurned the promise of a luxurious career in the Military Police in exchange for a role in the Garrison.

Stationed in Shiganshina at the time of the attack, Alice came face to face with the true horror of the Titans. She had seen them from atop the Wall, seen the Survey Corps returning battered and defeated time after time but nothing had brought the reality of a Titan's power, their sheer appetite for humanity and the seeming inevitably of death at their giant hands like he arrival of the Colossal Titan and the subsequent destruction of the town.

She immediately requested a transfer to the Survey Corps and rapidly worked her way up to Captain having shown no real appetite previously for advancement or any real motivation beyond simply surviving.

Personality: Deadly serious at all times with a burning rage towards Titans always simmering below the surface, Alice can often seem like a bomb ready to go off at the slightest touch. She is fiercely protective of those under her command but is aware that sacrificing herself would be a detriment to humanity, more so than the loss of any other skilled soldier currently in the Survey Corps. She is not unkind but rarely interacts on a deeply personal level, encouraging those struggling with negative emotions to simply work through them without engaging herself. She is a fighter rather than a leader, choosing to command a small team of elite soldiers who support her more than work with her, allowing her a free hand to fight as she wills.

Stats
• Physical Strength: 2
• Speed:25
• Teamwork: 1
• Leadership: 2
• Skill (gear): 20

Attack on Titan: Somnium

@Poi Thought I'd replied to this, my bad.

The squads will be reformed as most are missing a few members now.

Attack on Titan: Angels and Giants { Angel & Jinxer }

Julius 'July' Charlton

They were tired. It was clear in the sagging of their shoulders, the drooping of their eyelids, the slowness of their responses. There were on the battlefield, though, and there were still Titans dangerously close to them even if the Scouts were steadily demolishing them. He sympathised, they were fresh soldiers, green behind the ears and in their first ever conflict with the Titans. Even if they had encountered the Titans before it was another thing to have to fight them, to head towards the predators and come out the other side victorious, against the odds, than to simply escape the monstrosities.

"Come on, let's go." He said decisively, stepping forwards and turning to Jaeger, held firmly in the arms of the female of the trio. She had an air of capability and he suspected that she was the ace of the most recent batch of Cadets but right then she was an obstruction, clinging to the unconscious boy. "There's no time for this, we need to get you to safety." He lifted Jaeger up bodily, heaving the boy's limp form over his shoulder and out of the girl's grasp before turning towards the Wall and firing his hooks upwards into it. "Don't forget what's going on around you, no matter what's right in front." He shot upwards, reeling in his hooks and speeding up the Wall face, emerging onto the broken Wall top.

The tracks laid down only a year or two ago after much conflict with the worshippers of the Wall were torn up and destroyed where the Colossal Titan had swept the top clear, scattering debris everywhere and leaving the occasional bloody smear against the stone surface. Julius turned back to face Trost, watching the others scale the Wall after him and the battle carrying on below them. He saw the flutter of Captain Levi's cloak, a flash of blades and the bright red splash of a Titan's blood arcing out of its pierced nape and was struck, once again, at the small man's finesse and skill. Possessing no small skill himself with the Gear he had never managed to keep up with Levi, losing his control and focus at higher speeds although he was able to pull off some truly stomach-churning manoeuvres where others might baulk at such difficulty.

"Should we wait for Erwin, Sara? He probably wants to talk to the lad before the MPs get their hands on him." He turned his gaze along the Wall to where he could just about make out large groups of Garrison soldiers standing above a crowd of Titans clawing fruitlessly at the Wall, unable to reach their prey. "They'll be here before long, now that the fighting's all over."

Attack on Titan: Somnium

Trost - HQ

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Lauren Jones

""Lauren are you okay?"

She twitched her jacket, trying to pull it over to cover the red stain blossoming across her shirt but it was too far gone now, creeping across the white fabric stubbornly as the wound in her side continued to bleed. Searching around for some way to distract her friend, some way to redirect her concern away, to maintain her status as infallible 'bossy big sister' of the group, she saw no way out and reluctantly let her jacket slip back down again to reveal the bloody shirt underneath.

"Lauren what's going on? Are you hurt?"

Lauren nodded, sighing and closing her eyes as a wave of weakness washed over her. She swayed, the temptation to resign herself to the pain and the drowsiness descending on her growing ever stronger, but caught herself and focused her mind on staying away, staying conscious. Grant was speaking to the group, pacing in a circle of gathering soldiers as more roused themselves to listen to the first one to propose a plan. She could not hear everything that he said but she was glad that someone, anyone, was taking charge of the survivors. Doing nothing would surely result in their deaths and she no longer had the will, confidence or strength to try and lead again; the look on Emil and Helen's faces had told her all she needed to know about the results of her first attempt.

"I sort of got caught, a little bit." She held up her left hand, the one she had been holding her side with, to show the sticky blood covering her palm and forced a smile to soften the shocking blow she was sure she was dealing to Jade's nerves. Gabriel's absence was haunting but they could pretend that he was save somewhere, out there. Seeing someone injured allowed no such delusion, no fantasy to allow one to carry on until they had time to sort out their compartmentalisation of the traumatic events of the day. "I made a stupid mistake, taking an Abnormal head on when it had caught Helen." She shifted her position, trying to take pressure off her bruised side through her posture, leaning back against the crate stacked behind the one on which she sat. "Ra showed up, caught me before I hit the ground. If she hadn't shown up..."

She tailed off, staring up at the ceiling high above them, long and straight shadows cast from the beams running the length of the room by the oil lamps set into the walls around them. With a force of will she turned her gaze back onto Jade, having wanted to avoid seeing the worry she knew would be in her friend's eyes but knowing that, even if she were the cause of it, she could not ignore or gloss over it; no longer were they kids where she was just old enough to cast herself as a mothering figure. They were soldiers now and she could not let her mistakes impede Jade's actions.

"Don't worry, I'll be okay once we get back over the Wall. I.. just need Ra's help with some bandages and cleaning it." She hissed as her chest suddenly flared with pain as she paused to breath, protesting her continued talking and exercising of her lungs beyond their minimal resting capacity. "Focus on getting us out of here, Jade. I can't do anything to help now so it's up to you guys to work it out. Maybe be more careful than me though, eh?"

Attack on Titan: Angels and Giants { Angel & Jinxer }

Julius 'July' Charlton

"Score? Two, I guess." He glanced down at his blades, now clean of Titan blood, looking over the recent Titans he had killed in his mind. Normally he was unconcerned with keeping count, the other Scouts did it to maintain a pecking order but he, Sara and Captain Levi were on a different level and no one asked them for their kill counts and assists; although many made up wildly exaggerated figures for them as part of the hero worship.

Around them the last Titans in the immediate vicinity entered the square where dozens from the Survey Corps waited for them, working in teams to distract and separate the instinctive monsters before someone dealt the lethal blow and the corpses fell clumsily into the already wrecked shells of houses before disintegrating. He looked towards Jaeger again and nodded over in the young lad's direction.

"Well, we should head over there for now and find out how he is. The others have the rest handled." He reeled his hooks back in, falling downwards as his anchor was released. Righting himself he pushed past the fast approaching edge of the roof below with a blast of gas and then angling himself to use a Titan as an anchor to pull himself towards the sealed gate. As he passed, upside down as he spun through the graceful arc the Gear's movement produced in the hands of an expert, his blades blinded the Titan and it stopped in its tracks, hands grabbing uselessly at the air in a vain attempt to find its now elusive prey.

Cloak billowing around him as he controlled his mad spinning, hooks finding purchase in the Wall and pulling, Julius shot across the wide open space where the dead and dying, Titans and humans alike, lay in the bloody remnants of the melee the Scouts had returned to. He descended in an arc down to the decaying Titan form of Jaeger, landing on the boulder he had sealed the Wall with, and reeled his hooks back in with the ever-satisfying clunk announcing that they were secure.

The lad was unconscious, clearly not used to his Titan form, with a young woman his age clinging onto him defensively with one blade drawn. Another boy with blond hair stood by them, watching the Scouts saving the day. They looked up at Julius' arrival, Captain Levi having temporarily departed to deal with an approaching Titan.

"It's probably wise to move him out of here. Your ODM work, yes? Let's get up to the top of the Wall for now then."

Attack on Titan: Angels and Giants { Angel & Jinxer }

Julius 'July' Charlton

"Fall back, we'll take care of this."

Julius descended from above with all the force of a lighting bolt, spinning through the air with support from his Gear so quickly that he shot through the Garrison forces aimlessly flying around the Titan, trying to find a gap to attack at its nape without endangering themselves. It was an Abnormal, not taking the bait of the soldier bravely flying within its grasp but instead heading continuously towards Eren Jaeger, its bulging eyes focused on him as it prowled towards its target. His blades dug into his nape cleanly, the Abnormal's focus elsewhere making it an easy kill and it dropped to the ground heavily with Julius standing victorious atop its head with the body below him now steaming as it disintegrated. He was covered in Titan blood, vapour rising from his blades and his clothes as it, too, disappeared in the way only the monsters' blood seemed to.

The Garrison soldiers, tired from the day's fighting and eager to take any chance to withdraw that was offered to them, headed to the Wall and safety, their Gears carrying them up its length and out of the maelstrom of Titans and Scouts. There were far fewer of the lumbering creatures in immediate vicinity although more were heading their way, drawn by the strange attraction of a Titan Shifter. Their heads, too big or too small but never the right size for their unbalanced bodies, drew through the smoke haze of Trost, wide grins and blood soaked teeth enough to strike terror into the hearts of even experienced soldiers. Julius' grey eyes stared coldly back at them, disgust the only emotion he felt when regarding creatures and, not for the first time, he wondered what abomination first brought about their existence.

Drawn back to the present by the thudding steps of a nearby Titan, he left the decaying body of his most recent kill behind and headed to a rooftop, keeping the pursuing Titan's attention on him as another Scout saw the opportunity and took its nape from behind. The body spun and crashed through the wreckage of a house, already damaged by the early stages of the invasion, and the Scout landed on the building adjacent to Julius, waving his bloodied sword in acknowledgement before heading off again.

His attention was constantly being dragged towards Jaeger, where he could see Captain Levi fighting any Titans that made it past the other Survey Corps. With some effort, he focused his mind and left the building top, heading for a higher vantage point from where he could find Sarah and any Titans that might be heading towards them. He spotted her standing over the corpse of a Titan and waved his blades to try and get her attention, hanging from the edge of a chimney by his Gear.

Attack on Titan: Somnium

Well they've just found out that most of the group are still alive (although Gabriel is missing) and they need to come up with a plan for getting at the gas safely.

Plus there's the whole dead bodies filling the halls to freak out about too.

Attack on Titan: Angels and Giants { Angel & Jinxer }

Julius 'July' Charlton

The pall of smoke was visible above Trost even beyond its curtain walls, too thick for any kind of celebration and too ominous to merely be the result of an accident. Julius stood atop the broken wall, having arrived with the returning Survey Corps to find that in their absence the Wall had been breached and then sealed.

Below them, by the boulder with which he had sealed the Wall, the Mysterious Titan kneeler and it's Shifter emerged from the nape, exhausted from his efforts. Elite Garrison soldiers died in droves all around him in the remnants of the square, doing their best to fend off the Titans attracted to their position. Two Cadet were trying to help the Shifter free, trying to get him to safety but the Titans were too close.

Captain Levi was gone before anyone noticed, faster than anyone else with the Gear and killing the closest Titan to the trio. The others stood there, still shocked by the destruction they had returned to, before gathering their wits and flooding down from the Wall to return the slaughter the Titans had inflicted on the defending soldiers.

Julius' attention remained on the unknown Shifter as he barrelled downwards, ahead of most of the Corps as he entered the fight. He took an unsuspecting Titan on his path down, hooks firing into one of the buildings on the other wide of the square and turning his downwards momentum into a low, swinging arc; his blades biting through its nape and dropping the shambling monster instantly.

The tide turned with the arrival of the experienced Survey Corps, their soldiers used to fighting Titans more than those of the other organisations, and they tore through the Titans threatening the remnants of the Garrison force who had come with the Shifter.

Julius paused atop the building which offered him a convenient vantage point, watching the Shifter as he was helped from his Titan form. It seemed that the moment they had been waiting for had finally arrived and so he targeted his gear and moved off in search of his partner to discuss their next move.