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kaisou2022-08-23 04:25 pm
serpentinthegarden) wrote in kaisou2022-08-23 04:25 pm
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He's the guy in red when everybody else is wearing tan
WHO: Anthony J. Crowley and OPEN
WHERE: Network / A park bench in town / wildcard
WHEN: Aug. 23, Afternoon
WHAT: Intro
WARNINGS: PG-13 - language
1 - Small Community Park
A shady spot on a park bench under a large tree was serving its purpose as a temporary residence as Anthony sat next to a cardboard box full of treasures, many of them gifts of badly drawn versions of himself in the child artist's medium of choice - crayon, with his feet propped up on his suitcase full of clothes. He stared at the new app on his phone before finally completing the log in process, taking a selfie of himself looking cool in a new pair of shades, and settling on an appropriate username...
2 - Video - Network post - un: 007Nanny
I can't find anyone 'Professional' to give me some advice on this so I guess putting my trust in a strange mystery app and a bunch of strangers is where I'm at right now. I woke up couple of days ago to find my eyes changed. They're all...
[ A vague uncanny gesture. ]
Yellow, and not a single one of the Optometrists I've been to has been able to even see that there was a problem! 20/20, perfect vision, maybe you need to see a shrink!
[ At this he whipped the shades off in dramatic fashion revealing his new golden yellow eyes and his decided inhuman looking snake-like pupils. ]
Does this look like a psychiatric condition to you? I'd appreciate some advice if you've got any.
3 - Wildcard
Anthony will be avoiding Cathedral Hill as for some reason he finds the place sort of spooky, but feel free to run into him anywhere else. He is currently between live-in Nanny positions and might be carrying his worldly possessions with him. He is also wearing a new pair of shades, even at night, which if you knew him before the app downloaded would seem unusual.
WHERE: Network / A park bench in town / wildcard
WHEN: Aug. 23, Afternoon
WHAT: Intro
WARNINGS: PG-13 - language
1 - Small Community Park
A shady spot on a park bench under a large tree was serving its purpose as a temporary residence as Anthony sat next to a cardboard box full of treasures, many of them gifts of badly drawn versions of himself in the child artist's medium of choice - crayon, with his feet propped up on his suitcase full of clothes. He stared at the new app on his phone before finally completing the log in process, taking a selfie of himself looking cool in a new pair of shades, and settling on an appropriate username...
2 - Video - Network post - un: 007Nanny
I can't find anyone 'Professional' to give me some advice on this so I guess putting my trust in a strange mystery app and a bunch of strangers is where I'm at right now. I woke up couple of days ago to find my eyes changed. They're all...
[ A vague uncanny gesture. ]
Yellow, and not a single one of the Optometrists I've been to has been able to even see that there was a problem! 20/20, perfect vision, maybe you need to see a shrink!
[ At this he whipped the shades off in dramatic fashion revealing his new golden yellow eyes and his decided inhuman looking snake-like pupils. ]
Does this look like a psychiatric condition to you? I'd appreciate some advice if you've got any.
3 - Wildcard
Anthony will be avoiding Cathedral Hill as for some reason he finds the place sort of spooky, but feel free to run into him anywhere else. He is currently between live-in Nanny positions and might be carrying his worldly possessions with him. He is also wearing a new pair of shades, even at night, which if you knew him before the app downloaded would seem unusual.
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Have one of those, 'were you ever going to tell your old Nanny about this' coy looks over the rim of his shades. ]
Need to help with that? It's fine if you need to go chop some veggies or whatever. I'm not going to panic.
[ Again. It was time to come up with a better way to deal with all this. ]
[private to 007nanny]
After a second of consideration, he briefly switches to private text.]
I'm not sure he likes me back like that? We really are just friends!
A-anyway, I think it will be alright if you still wanna talk! I know this whole Zodiac thing is a lot to take in... D-do you have any more questions or anything?
[private to un: ShootingStar]
Some how that sense of limbo seemed familiar to him. Does he love me, does he not? Maybe as it was the plot to every romantic movie he had ever seen. ]
I can't give any useful advice on that. I've never had a deep and meaningful myself or a best friend I was that close with really.
[ Just a brother, which did not count in the same way. ]
But if you need anything you know who to call.
I have a ton more questions! The longer I sit here the more questions I can think up! But... if I asked them all you might miss your dinner. I'll just ask this, your friend mentioned listening to the future seers. How do you know who they are? They wouldn't look any different, would they, no crystal balls... You could be talking to one and never know it so how are you sure you are getting their messages?
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Oh!! I think he might have been talking about the seers who make a monthly post on the network about their visions and stuff for the coming month! I haven't really looked into it but I've heard other people say they're pretty helpful?
If you just keep an eye on the Libra app they'll post a video or something. Mm... They might have done so already for this coming month? I'm not sure.
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[ Naturally it did not sound the least bit trustworthy but time would tell.
He frowned thoughtfully, just watching Yoosung through the screen. ]
Has this been going on the whole time? Not that you don't seem to be handling all this well...
[ But he should have known about it! What sort of Nanny doesn't know that their kid is changing into a magical being?? ]
What's it been like for you?
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Mm, it's only been happening since May.
[What's it been like for him? Well...
He looks down and off to the side at that question, a tell-tale sign even from when he was a kid that he's about to try and avoid answering the question. He's never been good at lying and usually doesn't want to either... But he is worried about, well, worrying his former Nanny. After all, he did die and come back to life earlier this month. That's sure as hell gonna worry him, right?]
Um, it hasn't been real bad, although the dinosaur thing was pretty rough, but... Having Katsuki around has been really helpful...
[This is all the truth. It's just not the whole truth.]
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I can see that, he is making you dinner.
[ Having some one to confide in, share your troubles, must have been nice especially in a time like this with all this weirdness going on. ]
I know looking after you isn't my job anymore but... I wish I had known.
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[Not that he was great at it but the staff usually indulged him. He's gotten better now! Katsuki is helping teach him things.
He looks guilty at the rest of what he says.]
I'm sorry... Without the Libra app, it seems like most people don't really know what's going on, and everyone acted like I was just lying for attention when I first told people not on the app about my eyes... I was scared you might think so too, and I care about your opinion, y'know?
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I do remember how much you used to like to cook. You're probably an expert by now or at least you must know how to break an egg without ending up wearing half of it?
[ He had been a sweet little chef in training but messy at times as most kids that age were in the kitchen, with lots of enthusiasm but not the skill yet to properly control the flour without sending it airborne. ]
Yeah, I never would have thought you were lying. I don't think its in you to lie... I don't know what I would have thought.
[ He wouldn't even have thought Yoosung mad like everyone he had spoken to seemed to think of him. Yoosung had always had too much sense. ]
Forget it. I didn't mean to make you feel guilty. Its just... all this!
Were there really dinosaurs?
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[Well, he's right about the lying. He feels bad for even omitting the truth now.
His mood shifts easily between excited into more somber. He's always been very emotional this way.]
I know it's a lot... There really were dinosaurs! Um, actually, something happened to me that I think you would want to know about, but... It's... It might worry or upset you and I know this is a lot to take in already, so...
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[ Permission granted to make a mess, not that it was needed any longer!
The shift in mood put him on guard, curious yet cautious about what might be said next... ]
You are not about to tell me you have a Compy in your closet? I know they are cute but you can't keep one.
[ But not without a lighthearted quip. This sounded like it was going to be more dire than Yoosong's love of animals raging out of control. ]
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Not exactly like that. Actually... I got really hurt.
[Understatement.]
I think I died for a little bit, and came back to life...
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D... d... died... and came back??
[ He nearly choked on the words, spluttering as the mind worked faster than the tongue could keep up with. ]
You what??
That doesn't happen! You can't just come back. Aren't there rules about that??
[ Whose he didn't know but it felt like there ought to be. ]
What happened?!
cw mentions of blood and death
I got... Run through. With a horn. Through my back.
[He's wincing even as he's describing it.]
There was a lot of pain, and blood, and everything went cold, and black... Then there was just... Nothing? The next moment light was blinding me and I was gasping for air in a big puddle of my own blood. I was panicking. Katsuki showed up after that.
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[ Of course this made no sense. A horn stabbed through a body would destroy internal organs. Its not like anyone would just wake up from something like that. ]
What do you think happened, some kind of magic?
[ Maybe Katsuki saw what happened. ]
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Yeah, I had a friend who can kind of sense magic tell me that it's probably this item that I found. Or, well, technically my cat brought it to me... But I think it has magic attached to it, and I had it on me at the time.
[He'd had the idea maybe he could use whatever ability it gave him to use himself as some sort of sacrificial distraction whenever one was needed, but several people have talked more sense into him at this point. (Mostly he won't because there's no way to know for sure how the magic works without the risk of killing himself permanently while testing it. And he also doesn't want to make the people who care about him sad.)]
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Good cat. You better have given it a lot of treats for finding that... You never said what it was exactly. I have in mind some kind of magic amulet.
[ If magic like that existed it could have appeared in any form even a boring old marble. ]
You seem fine. You know, like some one who has never... actually... died... It healed you completely? Must've, or you wouldn't be here.
[ This would have been discouraged by him too. There's no need for martyrs. ]
I wouldn't tell too many people about this. A power like that, some one might want it for themselves.
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[He double checks just to make sure the connection is still set to private. Not that he's worried about Katsuki overhearing, but random people on the network it would probably be best they don't know.]
Okay, I'm on it right now so I'll have to send the pics with my regular cell phone, but...
[The pictures he sends over are of what appears to be a strange cellphone with a shooting star pattern on the front plate and a glowing stone on the inside at the bottom, with a wing and halo symbol on it.]
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[ Huh. He had not been expecting that. ]
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Yeah... it's pretty much a phone? Rhel and Jun both think the magic is probably in the stone that's inside of it, though. I think it also allows me to create these balls of light...
[He holds his hand up and forms a baseball-sized ball of pure light in his palm in front of the camera.]
Ah, it's dangerous to look directly at it though, be careful!
[Is that still true over video? Who knows. But he doesn't want to risk blinding his former Nanny, even if he is wearing sunglasses at the moment.]
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[ Looking into the glowing orb wasn't quite as bad as staring directly into the sun, both the transmission over the phone and his shades having something to do with in mitigating that, but Anthony still had to look rather quickly aside and blink away those annoying colored dots that drift through your vision after you have been dazzled. ]
Guess you will never need a flashlight again. How did you even discover you could do that? Are you getting memories back too?
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He quickly puts out the light, making the ball disappear, and looks surprised but a touch apologetic at the screen.]
Sorry! Oh, um... I found out when some raptors were attacking and suddenly I was making light balls and throwing them at them?
I've got some memories or visions or whatever they are, but I haven't seen any where I'm using any powers. From all I can tell, the other Yoosung is a pretty average guy just like me? Uh, well, except now I do have powers...
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If you are going to suddenly learn you can throw magical orbs then a raptor attack would be the best time. It must have worked.
[ Since the raptors hadn't been the ones to kill him the horned, whatever it was, did.
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...
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This was all feeling very insane again. ]
When does any of this start feeling normal?
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[Yeah. It is a little funny he managed to escape from raptors but a poor, panicked triceratops was the one that accidentally murdered him. He hadn't really thought about it, but. It is funny. Actually he's always felt bad for that triceratops. He hopes it got back home safely as opposed to getting killed.
He laughs a little at the question, giving a sheepish shrug.]
If I ever find out, I'll be sure to let you know.
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Yea, right, stupid question.
[ Nothing was going to be normal again. ]
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