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heckinooc2024-11-02 10:28 am
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TDM 005: Ch-ch-changes!
A, Garden Level - Autumn Celebrations!
[It may be November in the real world but when you're dead time is fake! So this week/month GARDENFEST is happening...........aka a bootleg mishmash of Oktoberfest and an Xmas Market. In general: PARTY TIME.
Drinks! Foods! Bad singing!! Drunkenly built gingerbread houses! You're thrown in a festive identity clash of imps and cherubs in the garden playing music that doesn't match or shoving drinks at you. Don't worry, if you don't want a mug of beer, it might just be gingerale! Anyway sorry you died but PARTY PARTY JOIN US JOIN US--]
B, Hell Level: ICE to meet you!
[Down at the HellRaiser hotel, the hellish amenities await your every need, but spooky season is over. Aside from the usual, er, allure of Hell, it also seems to be slowly freezing over. Ruh roh. It's not much now, but occasionally you may be hit by a teeny tiny icicle as you explore, awww. Other times it's a whole fucking STALACTITE crashes down on you. Better dodge or hope someone pushes you out the way!! Look out for slick sidewalks too!
Otherwise, hey have some fun in Hell!! Go to a club, get some drugs, go to a casino, win and get mugged!! Ever have a drink made out of literal MAGMA? Go on, try it!! Slaps hell's cobbled brimstone you can fit so much chaos down here!]
C, Heaven Level: Spice, spice, baby.
[Heaven-side, the cherubs are ready to welcome you and give you the VIP treatment!! Massages! Manipedis! Lavish outfits and attention! You can raise your hand and just get a fucking cat sat on your lap! Truly, this is bliss!!
Oh, but it's also cozy season in Heaven! So along with the best fits for the chillier weather, There are an assortment of beverages being offered by angels for you to sample (CW Mind Manipulation):
Apple Spiced Latte- Tasty and earthy! But you suddenly feel more subservient.
Cranberry Spiced Latte- A bit tart but it works. This might make you sassier than usual.
Stuffing Spiced Latte- There is no effect. Why would you drink this you monster.
For the TDM you can find small cherub-run kiosks with these drinks on any level you prefer! If that's not your cuppa joe, feel free to explore the beauty of Heaven per usual! The beach! Boardwalk! All the cafes!! Whatever heaven should have, you can likely find it.]
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[ Surely you imagined that conniving expression, Jonouchi. How could someone THIS concerned be plotting, planning, OR thinging anything?! ]
They're doing so much for us, preparing this hotel....If you hear of anyone we can talk to to thank them, you'll tell me, right?
[ "Thank" them. ]
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Mnh...
[Jonouchi seems a bit conflicted on something. No, maybe not conflicted, just lost. His tail shifts side to side, the fire-hair crackling all the while.]
I mean, sure I guess, I dunno tha' they'll be easy to find whenever I do know, though...
[Don't worry about it, or something.]
We got like, a whole tour and stuff t' go through first though. I mean, could grab yerself a room first, but there's still th' rest of heaven, y'know?
[A jabbed thumb toward the hotel doors.]
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Definitely the rest of Heaven first!
[ Heaven. He's....He's in Heaven. After everything he did.....Somehow....There's a new world, new powers.....And a friend here. (Even if that "friend" DOES resemble something he has no business resembling.)
What will it be like, he wonders? Aside from cat cafes, milk, and honey. (Heaven is...twee?) Will it be everything its reputation claims, or will the entire place be in need of Marik Ishtar's assistance? This hotel certainly looks nice enough. Will Heaven be big? Marik hopes Heaven is big. He likes wide, open spaces, with no horizon in sight....! ]
Don't skimp on the details, either. I want to see everything.
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[Hell yeah! Partners in taste! He's gesturing to his winter coat as he leads the way out.] Y' can probably already tell they got fashion stuff up here- actually, I couldn't find a thing like my usual up here, 's been weird...
[That does explain why his clothes actually look good.]
Th' cherub I was shown around by kept sayin' sorry about how little of heaven we get access to, but bein' honest? I don't see what they were talkin' about!
[As he says that, they go out into the pleasantly sunny land in the clouds, birds chirping, angels going to and fro, roads paved with gold...
...Is that nearest building a library? Probably.] I'm pretty sure th' place is bigger than all 'f Tokyo, let alone Domino!
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For once in his life, Marik Ishtar falls silent. His eyes widen, his jaw relaxes. It's beautiful. Even if the buildings hadn't been beautiful, even if the streets hadn't been literally paved with precious metal - the sun. The light. The radiance.
The sky.
Watch out behind them, Jonouchi: Marik's wings are popping into existence again, as his eyes look out and up, up, up..... ]
Kha ha....ha....
[ This isn't enough. He has to see more. More, he wants to soak it all in, and he wants -
His feet leave the payment as his wings flap, and Marik throws back his head, an expression of childlike bliss on his face. He can. He can!
He's drenched in the light, and he can FLY! ]
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[It takes a good bit before Jonouchi realizes, hey, someone has gone missing. Someone has taken to the sky. They're way up in the sky!!
He has not tried these wings.]
Nyh-
O-OI!!!
[It may well be that Marik just flies off on his own for a good while. Just, disappears. It's fine, clearly. He'll see him later then.
...
:[ ]
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Except he seems to have lost his tour guide? Well, that's Jonouchi's loss (somehow). Marik will figure things out on his own.
Thus it's several hours later, when Jonouchi is minding his own business, that a shadow falls over him and someone asks: ]
Why didn't you follow?
[ OH NO JONOUCHI IT'S THE EVIL, DEPRAVED MARIK ISHT---
no, never mind, all the swooping around he's been doing has tousled his hair, we're good ]
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Something with his cards. He's pretty intensely focused on them, which is kinda wild since it's not like anything special is going on and it really isn't like those cards are anything special.
Needless to say Marik scares the heck outta him.] NYHHHH!-!
[AH-] GEEZE WHERE TH-
Oh, Marik. [oh its you] Nh- I dunno how t' fly! I ain't even sure how you took off so easy! You were gone b'fore I could even think about it...
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[ Said with an incredulous look at Literally All Of Jonouchi. Then he's frowning and moving to try and rap his knuckles against Jonouchi's cards. Normally he's all for anything involving Duel Monsters - in fact, he's filing away the knowledge Jonouchi has a Deck with him for later use - but this is urgent. ]
Put those away. We're fixing that.
[ Behold, the man whose mere presence caused hardened criminals to quake in fear! Bow before the authority in his voice when he insists: ]
Now.
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[But yes, okay, he is packing the cards back into his pocket,
Not quite bowing but they can work on it,]
...what are y' gonna do though, y' just...flew, didn't y'?
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[ He taps the side of his head. ] Analyzing the process. I'm always thinking, Jonouchi. Never forget that.
[ A little smirk, and, with the absolute confidence of someone who always gets what he wants, except for those times when he doesn't, which don't count: ]
I can teach you to fly.
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Maybe he has no idea what the fuck Marik is talking about.
mysteries]
...Kay.
[Alright fuck it he has nothing better to do, even if he kinda just cut things short with the cards.]
...What's step one then?
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Focus. Have you ever been asked to concentrate all your awareness on one part of your body?
[ Meditation? Physical therapy? Anything? Marik got a lot of practice doing this himself when fine-tuning his control over others with the Rod, but he understands that's an exceptional circumstance. ]
Send your consciousness into your wings.
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[oh ok cool he's getting instructions anyway-
Welp, Jonouchi just starts to think about those words, pauses, starts to try and say something realizes even HE doesn't know what words you say to that, and finally.
Tries to send his. Consciousness??? Into his wings???
...Largely all that happens is Jonouchi looks increasingly more bewildered and frustrated, and also his wings do jack shit.]
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....Think very hard about fluttering them.
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[He's thinking...he's thinking...he's-
-sproing-]
OH, hey!
[He stretched them out!!
....
THAT IS ALL HE DID.]
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(He misses Rishid. Rishid never needed instructions. Rishid was the only person on the planet who never needed instructions.....He always knew just what Marik wanted, how Marik liked things....he was the only person Marik rarely felt the need to critique....
.....he's never gone this long, nearly a WHOLE DAY, without Rishid....
No. That's not what we're thinking about right now.) ]
Can you flutter them?
[ You know? Wiggle the bones? Contract the muscles consciously? Anything???
O mighty Ra, great god of the sun, permit him, as last heir of the Tombkeepers, to formally apologize for what this "Heaven" has done to Your image. ]
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[bad news Marik, apparently Ra's just laughing
the consistently low rolls on his ooc dice ain't helping]
Uhhhhh..... ...I mean I guess they kinda feel like...arms..? So...
[The tips twitch, right about as Jonouchi makes two fists with his Actual hands.
He immediately winces in pain.] Nh, alrigh', tha' wasn't great-
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OF COURSE HE DOES, HE'S MARIK ISHTAR, THE ONLY COMPETENT PERSON ON THE PLANET ]
.....Close your eyes. I'll help.
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.......................help how?
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[ Least suspicious answer ever. ]
Now.
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Tha' just makes it feel ev'n less like a good idea-!
[Though there's time enough while he's looking away from Marik for, perhaps, a way out, that it may as well count as Jonouchi closing his eyes.
Quick, a Distraction!]
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Here. You can feel how the muscles connect now, right?
[ He is fully expecting to get swatted at with wings or some other retaliation. Doesn't matter. If Jonouchi gains awareness of his new appendages, Marik's plan will have succeeded!
He's so smart. ]
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WARK-
[Maybe? Maybe. What do surprised falcons even sound like?
Marik surprisingly doesn't get swatted, but the wings did move a good bit just in alarm, and...well.]
...Huh. [Huh.]
U-Uh...yeah, I think...man, tha's weird...
[Experimentally, he does try moving the joint he can feel Marik's hands on. A slow, hinge-motion, pulling, pushing, able to focus on the fact that whatever he is moving, it's the spot where someone else is.]
Huhhhhhhh....
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Awareness is half of any physical feat. Practice moving your wings. Both of them.
[ He taps the same joint on the other wing, then steps back. Can he do it without Marik's hand as a focal point...? ]
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