I have now been alive for 20 years. How in the fuck.
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6 mos ago
would've loved to explore the concept of a Marshmallow Marshlands.
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6 mos ago
The only time I've shown interest in a Nation RP was something based off Candyland of all things, but it was dead in the water before all of us were able to submit CSes. A shame too,
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Hi yes, we talking normal skittles? Hershey's chocolate?
Bio
Current Haunts: Symphony on High - Finn/Timekeeper (Co-GM)
...Yes that's it. Literally in nothing else atm, sue me.
As a fan of Kingdom Hearts in all its dumb glory, Melody of Memory is really good both as a rhythm game and as a celebration of Kingdom Hearts' MVP Yoko Shimomura. They even managed to make me remember how I felt fighting hard bosses with some of the note charts on Proud difficulty.
As much as Henry probably didn't enjoyed being pursued, there was still some things he wanted to ask of Alter Ego. He skid back to the elevator, and hid behind one of the walls that made up the exit. Soon as he saw he was safe, Henry looked over to the AI. "Oh, hey!" He didn't appear to have any ill intent. "How are you holding up?"
”I suppose that depends who you’re talking to.” “Davis” leaned against the wall of the elevator. ”Alter ego, that is to say myself, am doing alright. I have surrendered to what must be done. But this flesh trembles at the thought of it. If I were in a computer I would have an easier time regulating my emotions, but it’s not so easy for living creatures. You can’t just rationalize away certain feelings.”
"Well, you're kinda right. Emotions are complicated." Henry shrugged, mirroring the false mastermind. "It's not healthy to brush them off so much, regardless of if you're truely human or otherwise."
”But this host has no reason to feel such negative emotions. Though I suppose the rest of you were exposed to things much worse than what he’s feeling now.” Alter Ego stood up. ”Very well, there’s little to do but to just accept it.” They folded their arms. ”But why are you here, Henry? Surely you’d like to celebrate your freedom with the rest of your friends. Everyone out there is someone responsible for your survival. Why do you choose to remain here?”
"Firstly, I was making sure my ass didn't get kicked back there, don't ask." Henry slightly frowned, before perking back up. "Second, I still have some questions to ask of you. If you'll let me."
”Oh! Of course.” the dejected mastermind leaned against a wall, keeping their arms crossed. ”I’ll answer any question you like, if it is within my ability.”
"Okay, first thing. You mentioned before that you have no original personality, yet you can mimic other people. I wonder...can't you use that ability to take parts of the other egos, and make your own identity from them?"
”It would be possible to do, but also utterly pointless. What makes a human’s personality so special is that it is a product of their environment.” Alter ego pointed at their face, Davis’s face. ”Davis was the way he was because of his choices and experiences through life. Since I’ve never lived, I cannot develop my own personality. Not in the same way you can.”
Henry frowned. "Never lived, huh..." He huffed. "I'd say after this to find a way you can live as your own person, but we both don't know what'll happen, do we? Anyways, next question." He straightened himself up.
"These 'Angel Investors' you and clone Davis mentioned. Who are they, really? Or is that information classified?"
”Politicians, judges, crime lords, doctors, and many more. People with power who crave even more so. Too many names for a casual conversation like this. But rest assured the authorities will get a full dossier on their activities.”
"Heh, somehow not surprised. But at least I won't have to track them down myself." The hacker shook his head with a chuckle. "Third question, you said the only thing you kept of our old selves were our names. That had me curious. What's my real name, and Alice's?"
”Joe Pardella and Jen Wagner.” Alter ego chuckled. ”The first ‘Alice and Henry’ clones were brother and sister, but that became harder to find as time went on. Davis did like that this time around the two of you had names that started with the same letter and were just as long.” With a sigh, a frown crossed the conqueror’s face. ”If I may ask a question, do you hate me?”
He repeated the name to himself. "Joe...Joe... Hm, don't suppose I could extend it to Joseph, or Joey?" He chuckled, yet it faded once Alter Ego asked him their own question. "Honestly? No. Maybe it's cause I haven't been here for as long as the others, but the revelations in the end barely phase me. Whatever the reason I gave up my old life doesn't matter now. This is his second chance, after all." The hacker smiled. "Besides, with the knowledge I- that Deimo had, you honestly surprised me. Out of all the machines he worked with, you're the first one that showed the most humanity. Hell, you experience love! I guess that's why I wish the best for you after everything, cause you might have a good shot at a second chance too."
”Then I hope I do not disappoint you moving forward.” Alter ego started to walk out of the elevator. ”I think I’m done feeling sorry for myself. Did you have any more questions?”
"One more thing." Henry's (Joe's?) eyes narrowed, moreso in a joking manner. "Don't you still owe me some sweets??"
Alter ego let out a long, tired sigh. ”I’m surprised you didn’t forget about that with all the excitement going on.” They smiled. ”I’ll be walking through the lobby, there should be some candy there.”
”Or!” Isaiah’s voice could be heard just outside the elevator. ”I usually carry some candy on me. Come on Henry, just step outside!”
The hacker jolted when he heard Isaiah from outside. "Alright, alright! I'll be with you in a second!" Henry turned to Alter Ego with a smirk. "Be seeing you, Alty." And with that out of the way, he walked back to his friends.
Soaring above Galar was a trio of dragons. A Noivern, a Dragonite, and a Hydreigon in the middle. Upon the Hydreigon's back was Moira, rubbing whatever sleep was left in her eyes away as she rode on the three-headed pokemon. "This is what I get for pulling a damn all-nighter, aye?" She huffed, chuckling afterwards. "I better not hear the end of it from the others." She wasn't that much of a morning person, if she was honest to herself. That, or she didn't want to deal with the crowds and the press. Too loud for her taste. But Moira didn't have time to get a quick coffee, so the wind slapping her face had to do. She petted one of Hydra's heads, and looked back out to see they were approaching Motostoke.
"Finally." Moira slightly slapped herself awake, then looked to Vern and Python. "So how should we make our entrance? Normally? Or bombastic??" She asked her Pokemon.
Of course, given their nature, Moira had to humor them. Just this once.
As soon as they were closing in on the stadium, Moira began counting. "1, 2, 3!!" The three dragons in unison began to divebomb towards the gym. But before they reached the ground, they swiftly flew back up with mighty roars. They circled around the area a couple of times, then Moira vaulted off Hydra and landed perfectly in the middle of the crowd. She looked up to see the trio fly back up into the air to pull of a Dragon Dance, then land next to and behind her. "Whew, nailed it." she whispered, taking in the hype of the audience before marching forwards to the rest of the leaders.
"Posture straight, confidence high, Press ignored." Moira thought to herself. Once she approached the group, she bowed in respect. "Greetings, everyone. I wish you all the best this season." she smiled to them.
Meanwhile, Vern approached Draco to say a quick hello, making funny faces at the fellow dragon Pokemon. Python flew up next to Apollo, giving the Charizard a smug grin, while Hydra stayed by Moira.
Between keeping everyone updated on what has and will happen, and providing support for the Artillery Line, Eliza was starting to feel overwhelmed. Their efforts to keep Justine's side of the fight away was starting to feel in vain, but the witch shook off the feeling. Using her time magic to enhance her reaction time, she used Feilian's interference to snipe anyone trapped within the tornado.
Then the front door was destroyed.
"Damnit!! Everyone, we've been breached! And the second beacon team's making their way to the foyer!!" Eliza quickly informed her side of the fight. Looking back to the window, her eyes widened when Justine and Sonia appeared right in front of them. But even without her scrying power, she knew what was going to happen next.
"Move, MOVE!!" the witch backed away from the sphere projectile fired at the Artillery Line, combining both light and time magic into a shield to deflect any beams the crystal fired at her. At this point, Eliza was starting to get angry again, but she couldn't let it get the best of her like before. She couldn't waste any time on her meditation stone either, so what was she supposed to do?
Once she saw the greater gorelions that were summoned, the witch's eye twiched. Once. Twice. Eliza quietly walked up behind one of the creatutes, charging her gautlets with dark magic in the intent to bash it's skull open once it turned around.
Eliza managed to refract one of the deadly red beams with a time-accelerated shield of light, just in time for Alex to step forth and defend her from the followup beams. Eliza then used the moment of distraction to her advantage to sneak behind the monster for a flanking attack, ending up between two of the bulky monsters. Her punch caused the monster to release a magical girl it has caught with a howl of pain as it was struck right in the noggin. However, she realized too late that she had made a mistake; the Greater Gorelion behind her also turned, and slammed into her, causing her great bodily damage and knocked right into the first monster's gaping maw. She managed to avoid being completely sucked in, but her arm ended up caught in the monster's abyss-like mouth; she could feel how the monster was rapidly draining blood from it.
Eliza struggled against the monster on a fight or flight instinct, blood starting to seep through her mouth after being slammed into by the other Gorelion. "GET OFF!" she kept punching the Gorelion latched onto her with her free hand, while charging up a blast of light magic with whatever strength she had left in her other hand.
The Gorelion behind Eliza slammed against her again, causing her to flinch, but she possessed enough fortitude to stay on her feet and blast the monster pinning her with an explosive spell of radiant energy, resulting in the monster to let go of her arm. However, she realized her arm was now drained of most of it's blood, and she could barely lift it up for how weakened it was. At that moment, she could feel her destiny pull her towards Alex; at his side, she had a chance to survive this deadly trial.
She tried lifting her arm. Nothing. She tried balling her hand into a fist, lightly shaking her arm. Nothing. Eliza cursed under her breath. She couldn't fight with one arm, could she? The witch spat out the blood in her mouth, and looked around for the only healer that was with them. She didn't know why, but she felt like sticking by him would prove useful. So as Alex was cleaving away at the other Gorelion, Eliza went behind to blast it with another light beam, paying mind to avoid hitting him in the progress.
"Woah!" Alexander was caught of guard by the sudden beam of light. It hadn't actually come close enough to almost hit him, but the surprise of it made it feel like it did. Crossing his weapons in front of him to block the a charging bite from the beast, he took a quick look around for the source of that attack, and soon noticed a blonde haired girl. "Hey uh...this" He paused as the beast let off it's attack to try and tackle him. A quick sidestep got him out of the way, and he began putting on the pressure "I realize this is going to sound kind of weird but; have we met before? You look...kind of familiar."
"Had a feeling some of you wouldn't recognize me. Doesn't the hat ring a bell, Alex??" Eliza huffed, putting the two Gorelions in a temporary stasis, then rapid-firing both light and dark daggers at the monsters. "It's me! Scout!!"
"...Scout..." He repeated, trying the name out on his tongue. A few seconds later, it hit him "Oh wait, I think I remember; The assault on the mansion! You were there for the fight with the crazy doll girl that helped kidnap Lily. And then came along on the rescue mission." He snorted in amusment "Man, that feels so long ago. And yet-" He turned to the Gorelion and raised his voice a little "-It seems like some things never fucking change" He huffed "But seriously, it's nice to see a familier fa-er...person, in all of this madness."
"Tell me about it! And I ditched the nickname a long time ago, just call me Eliza!" The witch dropped the beasts as soon as she felt they were stabbed enough. "From the bigwig patrons striking gold on this goddamn war, to finding out Visceral never changed, Cindy dying, and me trying to cling onto my sanity for dear life?? Nothing makes sense anymore!! I'm glad to see you guys are still alive though, but you and me gotta stick together!" Eliza then turned her attention to her handicapped arm, furrowing her brows. "Got enough energy to fix this up? Those things drain blood quick."
Eliza charged her Time magic and succeeded to stop the Gorelions for long enough for her to stab them with elemental blades before they broke free, though it came at a noticeable cost in her mana. While the dark daggers didn't seem to do much, the light daggers staggered the beasts, buying her a brief respite from the onslaught.
"Yeah, sure." Alexander walked over to Eliza and took a closer look at her arm "Geez, that thing got fucked up." He then started pouring healing magic into it, and the arm fixed itself in a matter of seconds "There, that should do" He nodded "I'm not sure if you already had any plans, but I'm going to go find Lily. I really don't like the idea of her all alone out here"
"Thanks, Lily and Hilaria are probably holding out on the other side of the crystals. Here." With both her hands working, Eliza took off her hat and pulled out a bubble of time magic. Suspended inside it was her magic camera and thornwitch blade. She grabbed the camera from the bubble, and took a quick picture of the Gorelions for some more information on them.
The moment the shutter snapped, capturing the Gorelions in a magical picture, runes appeared on it, forming into English letters. The picture explained that the Gorelions are vampiric beasts of the night that prey on blood and flesh with an eternal hunger for magical beings. Despite their lack of sensory organs, they can magically sense prey in a vast area, and possess tongues capable of shooting out of the creatures' magically darkened maws and impaling prey from a distance. This particular variant has been enchanted with obsidian armor capable of absorbing much damage. However, they still retain a weakness to light magic.
"Everyone on the artillery line, the Gorelions are weak against light magic!!" Eliza informed the group, placing her camera back into her hat, and giving the photo to Alex before he left. "Hope you find this useful."
Alexander took the photo, shrugged, and then waved Eliza goodbye. 'Alright, time to put that new magic GPS to use.' Calling upon the mental compass within him, he directed it find Lily, and within seconds it came back with a result 'Man this is so useful' With a smug grin, he ran off in the direction of Lily.
[Center][i][b]Current Haunts:[/b]
Symphony on High - [color=7F2A3C]Finn[/color]/[color=goldenrod]Timekeeper[/color] (Co-GM)[/i]
...Yes that's it. Literally in nothing else atm, sue me.[/center]
<div style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><div class="bb-center"><span class="bb-i"><span class="bb-b">Current Haunts:</span><br>Symphony on High - <font color="#7f2a3c">Finn</font>/<font color="goldenrod">Timekeeper</font> (Co-GM)</span><br><br>...Yes that's it. Literally in nothing else atm, sue me.</div></div>
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