Un: Zodiac | Mid-Month Update

[kaisoumods]

WHO: Everyone!
WHERE: Libra App
WHEN: April 15th
WHAT: Zodiac Network Post
WARNINGS: None!

[We've reached the middle of April. By now, the folks who were trapped in their own personal dungeons have been rescued, and the peach has been recovered from Zodiac and destroyed. Undertown has gone back to normal, while Zodiac's been very quiet. The post begins like the previous one had, with notifications of peoples coming and goings]



Dante, Vergil, Nicholas, and Kara have joined the app. Say hi everyone!


Suzume and Diluc have left the app.

[The post then continues on as normal.]

Hello. Thank you for using the Libra App.

It's me again. Could you stop telling people I'm dead? I was just visiting my family out of state and I forgot to turn off the auto-post function, for crying out loud. Have none of you people ever heard of taking a vacation?

Anyway, I'm not sure what happened, but there's something going on with head honchos. They cancelled their big announcement and took the rest of the month off, citing that "they deeply regret their greed-filled actions and wish to take time to reflect". I was skeptical at first, but then they offered to increase everyone's pay and give us a better benefits package. There's even been talk of donating to charity, and not just for tax purposes. It's like all of board members had a change of heart.

Well, the surviving ones. Two of the board members died all of sudden. It was a pretty grisly way to go, black fluid started coming out of their eyes and then they keeled over. No one knows what happened, but it's got a lot of people freaked out. There's been sanitation crews and exorcisms all over the place.

Crap, I rambled. Anyway, Zodiac's going through some restructuring so if you don't hear from us for a bit that's why. And seriously you weirdos, stop saying I'm dead.


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[Well that was weird.

Anyway, Users will have the option to choose their own display names and user pics if they haven't already. If nothing is chosen, the app will use their real name and a quick photo taken of them from their camera's phone. Like always, there'll be no responses from Zodiac.

Note: Even if the event is over ICly, please feel free to continue backtagging the event logs for the month!]

Comments

[kowase]

[ social media isn't his strong suit, even reading texts give him a headache after a while. ]

And you.

You do not seem worse for wear, but.
For all I know you have one of those regenerative abilities.

[drewthetower]

Oh, I do. Comes with the whole "being half-demon" thing, but I'm a backline fighter or healer type anyway.

[kowase]

[ he's quiet for a long moment. Playing with something on his desk, almost absent-mindedly as he thinks about that. ]

Apparently, I used to be one, as well.

[drewthetower]

[August debates saying "yeah already knew that" but decides against it for now. Vergil can call him out for it later.]

Welcome to the club, good news is we don't seem to have an allergy to holy shit and can eventually handle getting run through no problem.

[kowase]

Not quite.
While I have learned that I was a half-demon, in another life, I am afraid I have none of the abilities.

I do not have the ridiculous strength or speed that Dante does.

Nor your nonsense healing.

[ he actually does, he just isn't aware of it. ]

But I digress. It is not as if I wish to test being 'run through' anytime soon.

[ a pause ]

I stabbed Dante in my kitchen.

[drewthetower]

That'll come with--

[It takes a second but when it registers what Vergil just said August about falls out of the chair laughing.]

Why?!

[kowase]

[ DON'T LAUGH, WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU. Vittore looks so VEXED. His hands coming up onto the desk, covering his face as he just.

Tries to keep himself from groaning in exasperation. ]

The idiot came up behind me when I was cooking. I had my music on quite loudly, so I did not hear him enter the room.

When the... fool hugged me from behind, I had a ... vivid memory of being attacked, and I ...

...

Ended up using one of my favorite kitchen knives to counterattack a damn memory.

[drewthetower]

Shit, I'm sorry, this is just--just stabbing Dante is fucking hilarious. You okay?

[kowase]

It isn't funny, I stabbed a man in my kitchen.

[ he's so stressed. ]

I nearly called 911 before Dante admitted what sort of ridiculous creature he--we are.

I'm fine. [ he's using contractions. ] It was just a very new experience for me.

[drewthetower]

Sorry, sorry, it's funny to me because I knew what Dante was from the get-go. [Also like. It's kinda funny.] How's the knife?

[kowase]

I threw it away.

Do you think I could continue to cook with a knife that I put inside someone's lung.

[drewthetower]

[Shrug!]

It's never happened to me, so I wasn't sure. Seriously, are you okay?

[kowase]

[ is he. the question strikes a cord. ]

I dislike this.
Remembering who I was.

Not because I think it's bothersome to suddenly have a brother. Or memories that aren't ones I remember making myself.

Rather, I mislike it, because I think.

The person I used to be was terrible.

[drewthetower]

I mean, good news you aren't that person anymore and can think he was a jackass all you want?

[kowase]

Of course, you are right.
I am me, but 'he' is who I was.

What I mean to say is.

Remembering who I used to be, and what a vile piece of work he was to those in his life. [ dante ] While those people yet still seem to care about me.

It feels insincere.
Like I am getting off easy.

[drewthetower]

I mean, if you're talking about your family--past you being a jackass doesn't stop them from loving you then or now, you know.

[YOU ARE NOT SUBTLE SIR]

Why would you think you're getting off easy?

[kowase]

[ he's making such an expression at you, august. yes. yes, he did think he'd get off that easily. ]

They don't... know me, as who I am.
So forgive me for thinking they'd not want to get to know a complete stranger who reminds them of some homicidal asshole.

[drewthetower]

Looks like they already made that decision though, huh?

[kowase]

....

Given Dante moved in with me within twenty minutes of speaking with me for the first time...

[drewthetower]

Yeah. I don't think you being a jackass in a past life matters.

[kowase]

I suppose not.

...I would hope not.

[drewthetower]

If it did, I don't think Dante would have moved in that quickly.

[kowase]

I'm not sure about that.

Have you ever seen the man? He looks feral, and vaguely homeless. My home is a luxury compared to whatever hole he recently crawled out of.

[drewthetower]

Technically he was homeless, because I don't think any of us were gonna let him stay in the Zodiac apartments. So. Also I haven't seen your house but I bet it looks like your shop.

[kowase]

...

It's upstairs, if you wish to go look, but what do you mean it looks just like my shop.

[ august is right. it's just a very white, clean, rich person's house full of antiques and books, it's too clean to be fucking reasonable. ]