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Vanitas ([personal profile] showmeanguish) wrote in [community profile] thoughtformed2013-06-16 06:54 pm

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WHO: Vanitas and YOU?
WHAT: The abomination beyond all hope of redemption has landed amongst you.
WHEN: Afternoon, June 16th.
WHERE: Various spots around the city, as he observes and checks out his new surroundings.
WARNINGS: Some violence and Vriska's potty mouth.

Is that movement, out of the corner of your eye? Blink, and you might miss the dark figure standing at the mouth of that nearby alley, or rooftop, or street corner.

Vanitas had awoken in the hospital almost two days earlier, but because of his... "special" temperament and abilities, had had to be extensively assessed before they'd finally allowed him to leave. Guess they looked down on unleashing dozens of Unversed within the hospital grounds. But hey, how was he supposed to know that? And it wasn't like they'd actually killed anyone.

Yet.

In any case, he'd been released. Which should have made him happy, but instead he found himself even more frustrated.

He felt cold. His connection to Ventus' feelings and emotions had somehow, inexplicably, been severed. He'd noticed it in the hospital, but now that he was out, the absence was even more profound and disconcerting. Like suddenly being blind, or deaf, or dumb in one, sudden blow. He'd never gone without that extra chatter in the back of his mind, and losing it made him feel oddly out-of-sorts. Which bugged him more than he'd like to admit, because if anything he should feel relieved by it.

More importantly, though, it meant that he couldn't sense Ventus if he was, in fact, on this world. Which had left him with little other choice but to do some investigating and hunting on his own. He just had to be here, somewhere.

But the more he looked, the more alarmed he became, even if the mask he wore hid his expression from view. There was no use panicking, but the words he'd been given upon waking up kept repeating themselves over and over in his head.

You were fictional. We cannot send you back to where you came from.

"Stupid," the word's somewhere between a mutter and a hiss, as he turns away from yet another street corner, and stalks in the opposite direction.
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[personal profile] tookthename 2013-06-17 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
Carol's seen enough of shady figures in her time to know which ones should be followed. This one definitely looks like a shady figure that needs following. So she quickly changes her civilian clothes into her uniform and takes off after him.

"Hey, you!"
freezespirited: (I got it)

[personal profile] freezespirited 2013-06-17 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
Jack enjoyed rooftops. They were a good place to go when he just wanted to get away for a little while. He had been startled at first by the fleeting shadow seen out of the corner of his eye, leaning forward in intrigue. Had his eyes played tricks on him? He leaped off the roof, deciding to chase whatever it was, or whoever it was. He kept his staff held out in front of him, just in case, and had to search a few streets, jumping from window ledges and gently landing onto cars, before he actually saw Vanitas. That was...was that a skirt? He blinked a few times, before deciding to follow him until he was noticed. He had never seen this guy before, and he kind of wanted to see what would happen.
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[personal profile] inherited 2013-06-17 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
The unversed are what he notices first: the color is what catches his eye, and then the inexplicable darkness about them. Sure, it's different ... but there's still something about them. And if there is anything that Riku has experience with, it's that. He hesitates from a distance, his keyblade jumping into his hand without him even trying. His first inclination is to rush forward, but he thinks—it wasn't rushing forward blind that got him named as the keyblade master. It was everything else, combined with his ability to be resilient at the end. (And that control and command of darkness that made him different, but Riku is still somewhat in denial of that part.)

So, he pauses—he sends a message, and he prepares to multitask.

It doesn't take him long to catch up with the center of these things' beginning, though. From a distance, Riku draws in a breath. The appearance of that source—it's not identical by any means, but it's enough to make him hesitate. Yeah, that isn't something he wanted to see running around.

Even then, he considers a harsher approach, but decides on somewhere betweeen the two: definitely straightforward but not starting this with a fight.

What that option is ... is landing just behind him and saying, "Hey," firmly. Well, it's a shot.
Edited 2013-06-17 01:08 (UTC)
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[personal profile] ceded 2013-06-17 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ So she's out and about, once again dressed in normal person clothes, because, well ... it's cute! And Lea liked it.... as did Davesprite. So, you know. She likes looking like her own person, now... especially if the people she cares about think she looks nice, too.

So when Vanitas spots her from behind, at first all he'll see is a girl in a cute dress. But she still has the latent skills of a warrior, and her senses start clanging, telling her something's wrong. Which makes her stop, looking around for whoever might be nearby. ]
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[personal profile] tookthename 2013-06-17 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
Yeeeaaaah, outfit definitely screams villain. Great. She stops when he does, but stays hovering just a bit above the ground.

"You new around here? What's your name?"
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[personal profile] doublebladed 2013-06-17 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Walking around New Moore usually wasn't a threat as far as Roxas could tell. Things were pretty quiet except for when people didn't remember things correctly or when people were screaming about lions running around the island. But it appeared as though all of that was going to change; he heard it before he saw it, the whizzing sound of something zipping by his head and dashing off to the distance. He whipped his head around to see what it was and stopped in his tracks.

He…wasn't familiar with this kind of creature. It was similar to the Nobodies and Heartless though, if the emblem embedded on it was any indication. Without thinking about it he summoned both of his Keyblades, throwing Oathkeeper in a strike raid to take the creature down before it got away.

Whoops. There went a small chunk of the building. But at least the monster was gone.

…but only that one. There were others now and they were spreading out faster than he liked. He had to find out where they were coming from. He summoned the Keyblades away and dashed forward, running against the flow of monsters toward the center of what he was hoping was the answer. And it was then that he saw him.

He thought it was a him, anyway. It was actually kind of hard to tell what with the outfit and the helmet. But it was definitely someone Roxas had never seen before, and there wasn't any kind of doubt in his mind that this was the one causing the trouble. He really should have thought this through more, maybe planned a little bit. But Roxas was never very big on planning when he wanted answers, and right now he was going to get answers if it killed him. He could have settled for the easier sort of "Hey you!", but that wasn't going to fly. That would give the guy a chance to run away. Instead he focused for a moment, creating a dark portal in front of him and stepping through. With any luck it would open in front of the stranger so Roxas could stare him down.

It didn't exactly work perfectly. Roxas stepped out a few feet to the boy's left, but it was enough to give him a clear view of his front. He settled for stepping over to put himself right in the boy's line of vision. That had to get him to stop, right?

'Don't you dare try to run.']
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[personal profile] freezespirited 2013-06-17 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
As the chase continues, Jack begins to have more fun. He isn't sure if Vanitas has noticed he's being followed. Usually, people would be surprised to realize he's there. He has no idea where he'd see Vanitas next, part of the fun in the uncertainty of it all, but as his feet touch down onto the next roof, he has a feeling the other guy didn't just stop to enjoy the view.

"When did you notice?"
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[personal profile] ceded 2013-06-17 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well then. Deeply unnerved, Xion turns to face him fully, frowning. The way he's dressed... ]

... who are you? What do you want?

[personal profile] ohmyblack 2013-06-17 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe it was the fact that he was a spandex wearing superhero that was tipping him off but, seeing someone with a black bowl for a head in a tight outfit either meant you were a sentai or a faceless foot soldier and that outfit would makes you fall under the later category by a mile. With the exception of the colourscheme, lack of dreads and lack of amoeba all over, the black blur that went by did resemble a Zorima.

"That's something new." Ian thought for a second before deciding to follow this strange person and determine if it was a threat or not before alerting King and the others.
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[personal profile] doublebladed 2013-06-17 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, the voice was definitely male, and definitely not belonging to someone he already knew. It was almost disconcerting to have the boy facing him inside a helmet. It was hard to tell where his gaze was and Roxas felt himself tensing up a bit, prepping for a fight if he had to.

The question was also a bit odd to him. Wasn't that supposed to be his question?]


...someone from the dark. I'm more interested in who you are though.
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[personal profile] tookthename 2013-06-17 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm what you might consider a protector of the people here. No offense but you seem a little suspicious. I make it my business to keep tabs on suspicious people"
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[personal profile] ceded 2013-06-17 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
... I don't know what you mean. I've never seen you before. [ Frowning more harshly. ] Why would I want anything from you?
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[personal profile] doublebladed 2013-06-17 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
Really. [This is going to go in circles, isn't it? Good thing Roxas has nothing but time here.] And am I right in guessing it's yourself creating these guys running around the island now?
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[personal profile] ceded 2013-06-17 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Like someone ... you know?

[ ... she takes a step back, confused. That ... but she ... she looks like herself, doesn't she? Why would she look like anyone else?

Her face pales. ]
Who ... who do I look like, to you?

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