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Post by Kazuki on May 13, 2023 12:49:15 GMT 9
Kazuki laughs at the immediate bout of crankiness. “It means what it means.”
Unlike their dance for the prince’s armor, he doesn’t attempt to swing Verai around like a marionette on a DDR pad. He leads their steps lazily, still hitting the little arrows the crafting UI demands, but without any force. Whether this is because he doesn’t give a shit how successful the repair is or because he wants to legitimately dance is left to reader interpretation.
“What did your cat want us to say, exactly?” Because he really just cannot get enough of being a little shit.
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
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Posts: 883
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Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on May 13, 2023 12:37:45 GMT 9
Kazuki is sitting on an outcrop of stone, one leg folded and chin resting on a propped-up palm. He’d been uncharacteristically quiet since they transferred to the cave; firstly because there isn’t anything to punch, and secondly because the ensuing conversation had piqued his interest.
Verai finally turns to him and asks, and the contemplative look on his face vanishes in an instant, replaced by his usual smirk.
“Sure.” Standing from the rock, he goes up to Verai, taking the man’s hand while the other pulls him by his waist into a familiar pose.
“Anything for a friend,” he purrs.
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
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Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on May 13, 2023 12:00:32 GMT 9
He hears Verai call his name, and Kazuki clicks his tongue, ceasing the game of shotput he’s playing with a few birds. As the shotput balls.
“What!” He yells back, returning with his fists already crackling. There don’t appear to be any immediate threats, but as he approaches, he finds Kitten in some kind of argument with Verai, demanding both of them to say—something.
“The hell is she talking about?” But his question is shoved to the backburner as a Rufflet skulks its way into the huddle, going full throttle on Verai after being ignored.
Kazuki scoffs, wondering why the place is suddenly littered with meddlesome birds. He winds his arm back and prepares to punch it.
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
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Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on May 13, 2023 11:45:04 GMT 9
A screech from the sky calls their attention.
Kazuki has little time to react; he dives, nabbing his piglet off the ground before the bird can come make porkchops out of him. “Fuck off!” He hisses as it swipes its claws on his head, trying to nab Tepig from his hands.
Tepig tries to shoot fire at it, but it’s moving too fast, and Kazuki is jarring his aim, plus he has to take cover. They scramble down the Steppes with it hot on their heels.
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
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Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on May 12, 2023 5:00:18 GMT 9
Kazuki sighs. “Then just follow my lead.” He carves out a path through the mists, Verai in tow. Any pokemon that attempt to stand in his way are scared off with a stomp or a crackle of threatening spark. He makes noise deliberately even if it attracts more vermin, because otherwise there’s only the haunting silence of the Timberlands, and if seeing this place is unnerving, he can’t imagine how it feels only to hear it.
They reach Precipice Shrine. He leads Verai over to the edge of the abyss. “Alright, just—no, don’t take another step. You’ll fall in, and who knows where the portal leads to.” He tugs him down, ushering him to sit beside him. “Just sit. You need to gaze into it for it to work, so lean forwards a bit.” His arm is ready to clamp over his back and pull him if need be.
“Sit. And listen.”
The abyss hums with a strange energy. Even for having just arrived, Kazuki can already feel it restoring his wounds, and Sprigatito still wrapped around Verai’s shoulders seems to purr, feeling refreshed. Seeing opportunity, the cat hops down to curl up in Verai’s lap.
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
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Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on May 12, 2023 4:08:23 GMT 9
Morpheus and Caspian join in the slapdash effort to put out the fire, which Kazuki appreciates, although now they’re both kind of fucked. The fire eats up the proffered fabrics and flesh with great relish, Sunday barbeque style. Kazuki, who is for once not being a huge liar at the moment, nevertheless finds his pants on fire. “Well, shit. At least you can’t get naked in this game,” he ponders aloud, hands on his hips as the fire eats his clothes.
When he looks up, however, he’s greeted by the sight of Taylor loading up Mumble as if he were a—“Oh, sh—” A bullet of water hits him, Kazuki blinking as the splash douses his leg, putting out the flames. His pants hang, soaked, but miraculously intact. More bullets of water are shot, gradually putting out the budding wildfire until the clearing has become all but an overwatered lawn.
“Nice save,” Kazuki chuckles, glad that he won’t be adding a location ban to his record. “Even the jacket’s survived.” He picks it up. “… Mostly.” Then returns it to Morpheus.
Scorbunny, on the other hand, had rolled off of Hibiscus. His face is red, all the way up to the tips of his long ears, embarrassed and frustrated to have been scolded not once, but twice as Caspian had called him naughty during the chaos. Sniffling with rage, he turns, deciding this is the time to bail.
At least until he’s tackled to the ground. <NO!> He screams, flailing and slapping. <YOU’LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE!>
“Fucking chill!” Kazuki hisses, bundling up the Scorbunny in his arms as if he’s a fussy child—which really, he is. “Look. Your plan worked.”
Scorbunny pauses mid-slapping Kazuki’s chin. <It did?> With wide eyes, he looks over to where the trainers and the other pokemon have crowded around the salvaged instruments and hidden eggs. <It did! I told ya!> He waves his arms at Mumble. <Buddy! We did it!>
“You’re still in a ton of trouble,” Kazuki deadpans, heading over to where everyone is taking their pick. “Next time, tell me when you want to torch something. There’s a time and place for that shit. If you’re really a henchman, then you’ve got to report to me.”
Scorbunny pouts, lowering his arms. <Got it, boss…>
He puts him down. “Now let’s pick ourselves an egg.” There’s a couple of them to choose from, some even shaking, ready to hatch due to being well-incubated.
<This one!> Scorbunny leaps, picking up the egg that looks blindingly pink. It’s moving too, and as he goes to bring it to his trainer, it cracks, and out comes the long head of a strange but familiar creature.
“… Is that a lawn flamingo?”
Scorbunny screeches as the newly-hatched Flamigo bonks his skull. <It’s hitting me! It’s hitting me! Boss!> He’s trying to hold it away, but with how tiny his arms are and how big the egg is, there’s no chance of escape.
Kazuki simply stands by, deciding this to be a rather appropriate part of the bunny’s punishment.
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
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Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on May 12, 2023 2:14:58 GMT 9
Verai snaps at him, and where Kazuki would normally feel delighted at having gotten under his skin, this just causes him to furrow his brows. His shoulders fall with exasperation, even as Verai grabs hold of his arm. While he's made some changes in that department as well, it still astounds him, to know just how far Verai will go for his pokemon.
“You act like I’m the one who blinded you,” Kazuki snorts. He clasps Verai’s wrist in one hand. “So, what are you going to do, then?”
He pries it off, leaning into the man’s face, and it really is too bad that he can’t see anything anymore. He’d see him smiling. “You plan on leaving her to rot in that ball for as long as it takes for you to change this? Because you’d rather just keep her blissfully ignorant?”
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
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Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on May 12, 2023 1:46:10 GMT 9
Kazuki’s brows rise, having definitely not anticipated this from the man who’s been drilling him about how to care for and forge healthy relationships with cats.
“Uh. Why?” He’d been in the middle of reaching for Sprigatito’s ball as well. Now he observes Verai, the discomfort in his posture. “You know she’s going to be pissed if you keep this from her, right? And she is going to find out.” And he knows Verai would sooner cut off his own leg than get rid of his starter, so what gives?
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
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Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
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Post by Kazuki on May 12, 2023 1:36:03 GMT 9
The Drilbur does chase them down, the digging trail of jutting earth following them until they reach the end of its territory, which turns out to be much farther than anticipated.
By the time they’re in the clear, they find themselves back on a familiar dry path. Tepig resumes scouting the area, sniffing the ground in a manner that reminds Kazuki a lot of how his own dog searches during their walks. He doesn’t rush his pokemon, sauntering behind the eager piglet as if he were, in fact, taking him on a nice weekend stroll.
“Anything?” Kazuki asks.
<A little bit further…> Tepig mumbles, trotting through the shrubbery, his nose still low but ears twitching, alert.
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
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Post by Kazuki on May 12, 2023 1:26:57 GMT 9
“Hm. Right.” At least he could do that. It would make traveling back to the Settlement easier if anything were to happen. But it would still be preferable for Verai to get a hold of his new- what to even call it. Play style?
Kazuki listens to Verai recalling Kitten’s enjoyment of the shrine. “Why don’t you let her out? I can let my cat play here too, they’d both love it. Running around and eating leaves.” Although he has noticed that Sprigatito’s been less energetic as of late. Growing pains, maybe.
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on May 12, 2023 1:13:09 GMT 9
His hands remain on his shoulders, Kazuki puzzling over the look on Verai’s face. As Verai laments, his eyes move to the shrine nearby. Noonlight Shrine is the respawn point he’s visited the least out of all of them.
“Did you think it would help?” He sighs. “Ver, we’ve already met one of those birds. They aren’t exactly empaths.” Kazuki has never believed in gods, and he's not about to start in a videogame.
He takes his hands off him, but it’s incremental, hesitant. “You got here on your own, though. Are you getting the hang of it? Your senses.”
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
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Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on May 12, 2023 0:56:04 GMT 9
To be fair, Kazuki’s modus operandi hadn’t necessarily changed since—everything, but it’s still a bit odd to experience that pang of panic when he looks around and finds Verai not within sight.
He tracks him down, and finds him wandering around the shrine at Birchwild. Kazuki walks forwards to get his attention, only to nearly collide when the man abruptly turns his way.
“What the hell are you doing?” He hisses, hands settling on Verai’s shoulders and pulling him back. “Are you that eager to get chased by hell deer?"
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on May 11, 2023 12:46:06 GMT 9
Kazuki is in total control of his body, and yet not. It’s as if every movement is oiled, the act of aiming a punch enough to send the train hurtling down the tracks at top speed. He’s carried by a momentum he can’t name, and all the while, adrenaline floods his senses, synapses firing.
When his punch lands, Verai reacts like a wounded animal. It’s by no means an easy hit to take, yet even burned and battered, Verai is still going.
“You really don’t know when to quit, do you?” Kazuki laughs, unaware of his own exertion until he hears how breathy his voice has become. “See, that’s why you’re my favorite.”
He knows he’s past the precipice. When he aims to hit, where he’s aiming for doesn’t even register beyond the direction of DOWN. He throws it, hears the CRACK and crash that follows, and opens his eyes to see his fist has burned through the rug and shattered floorboard.
“Ha… haha… shit. My bad.” He pulls his fist out from the hole, the skin of his arm shredded by the wooden teeth. “Getting sloppy. I need to hit the bags again.” Fire crawls out from the hole.
“Where were we?” Kazuki smiles serenely. “I was pummeling you.”
He reels his bleeding fist back, preparing to do it again.
In the corner of the room, Sprigatito snores in a pile with Kitten, oblivious to it all, and opting for sleep instead of battle. His eyes twitch, paws fidgeting in a fitful dream. His fur grows duller in the firelight.
{Prompts}Sprigatito - Quick
- take an action on reflex - start your move before your opponent's lands
- ricochet a move off something
- get a running start - make a hasty decision
- make a sloppy mistake - leave skid marks
- act without orders - use a speed-raising move
- use a priority move
Kazuki (Black Belt) - Forceful
- fight through the pain
- try to crush your opponent
- try to strangle your opponent - get blood in your eyes
- break something in the arena - take damage from falling - get hurt to protect a teammate
- turn the power up to 11 - use a move with recoil - use a move with over 100 base power - use an attack/sp.atk-raising move
Total: 11 points
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on May 11, 2023 12:13:25 GMT 9
He looks back at Verai when the other man asks his question, taken aback for a moment when he realizes he’s looking straight at him. He has to take a moment to observe his eyes, trying to find a hint of them focusing despite the complete lack of anything other than sclera.
“I didn’t,” he admits. “I whited out before I could reach it.” And until now he’s unsure if that was a stroke of luck or not. Until now he wonders what had been there.
He shakes his head. “No, that’s not the point I’m trying to make. I’m telling you that you have to be fucking careful. It doesn’t matter to me if some fucked up hacker digs up my info.” Half a lie and half a truth; he would rather not have to deal with someone leaking his information again, but it’s not as if they have any leverage if they did. He has a team for it. He did live with Ren, but anyone who tries to lay a hand on Ren is basically self-flagellating.
“You, however. You have a kid.” And he doesn’t know what Verai’s current circumstances are, but he doubts the man is prepared for that kind of a breach.
They enter the Timberlands, the fog swirling under their feet. “Nearly there. You sure you… don’t see anything?”
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on May 11, 2023 11:51:52 GMT 9
<NO!> Sprigatito cries as Kitten lunges towards him, attempting to brace himself from getting bowled over—which turns out to be a fatal mistake. Kitten’s jaws clamp over the back of his neck, causing him to <Mreep!> in surprise, though it actually wasn’t all that painful—but Kitten is still a bit heavy, especially with all the armor, so he flops on the ground.
So now he’s on the floor, his face on the rug, with Kitten on his back, drooling on him. His little heart is still beating fast, his breaths labored from fighting such a fierce war. He can feel his eyelids begin to droop. No!
Very, very slowly rolling over to his side, he tries batting Kitten away again, except he severely miscalculates the requisite amount of force, and it just becomes him kneading her side. <Geddooofff…> Sprigatito yawns, eyes already shut.
The loud CRASH and clatter of armor and bone falling sounds like the end notes of a song. Music to his ears. But Kazuki is still far from done.
“Can’t get up?” He says, despite being the weight pinning Verai. The armorer struggles, and it does jar Kazuki enough to brace his knees further on the ground to keep from being thrown off. Hungry eyes rove over the battered plating below, trying to spot weaknesses to exploit. “It’s the armor. Why don’t I give you a hand?”
His hands burst into flame with FIRE PUNCH. As Verai struggles, he grabs the steel pieces, ripping and tearing, the clink of armor and diadem being tossed across the room. It’s all mindless, barely touching on the straps and rivets that could make the task easier, but it doesn’t matter. His fingertips melt it all the same.
Laughter bubbles out of him. Without the armor, Verai is polka-dotted with weaknesses—on his skin, in his joints, his vital points. They’re like little self-destruct buttons, and Kazuki itches to press them all like a child let loose on a control panel.
“Ver, Ver, Ver, Ver, Ver.” The fireplace is situated right behind him, casting Kazuki’s silhouette in a harsh light. He’s grinning. It is very, very bright. “This is so much fun.”
His hands are burning. Everything he touches is crumbling in his fingertips. The pain all over his body is background noise to the sound of KEEP GOING roaring in his brain.
“Let’s keep going.”
He launches his fists down on Verai from above.
{Prompts}Sprigatito - Quick
- take an action on reflex - start your move before your opponent's lands
- ricochet a move off something
- get a running start - make a hasty decision
- make a sloppy mistake - leave skid marks - act without orders - use a speed-raising move
- use a priority move
Kazuki (Black Belt) - Forceful
- fight through the pain
- try to crush your opponent
- try to strangle your opponent - get blood in your eyes - break something in the arena - take damage from falling - get hurt to protect a teammate
- turn the power up to 11 - use a move with recoil - use a move with over 100 base power - use an attack/sp.atk-raising move
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