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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.

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Huh. Funny. My eyes are the same, see?

[He brings the camera to his eye to show that indeed, Moxxie's eyes are also yellow with a slit pupil. Of course, that hardly stands out with the rest of his appearance being so clearly demonic.]

If it's the same as what I've got, you have nothing to worry about. You're completely healthy. You're just turning into a demon.

A...

[ No, there was something very clearly wrong with his eyes! The screen had gone all red and this guy, not guy... not human looking guy... no one has red skin like that naturally!! Anthony actually blinked several times in succession trying to clear what he was seeing but of course the little demon never became anything but what he was. ]

What the hell ARE you?!

[ Demon. He had just said. Right, scratch that! ]

I might do things a little on the wild side when I'm not working but I'm not a demon.

If it's any consolation, that is pretty common around here. My eyes turned red, for example.

[He gestures to them, and... he's not going to get into the whole tattoos and cat ears thing for the moment because he has a question.]

...Do you have a brother, by any chance? [because you look and sound exactly like his advisor but he can also tell you're not him.]

[There's a joyful gasp, first of all:]

Ah, Nanny!!

[He's enjoyed being in occasional contact with Anthony since he'd sought him out as an adult, but he'd never expected to see him on the Libra app!

--Oh. Oh he's on the Libra app. That's troublesome actually, because that means he could be in more danger. Yoosung's life has changed so much since he discovered the app himself.

Yoosung frowns a little, concerned.]

Ah. My eyes changed recently too. See: purple! [He points at his eyes, as if they're at all hard to miss, being rather vibrant] Everyone's reaction to mine was like yours as well.

Gosh, yours have really changed though...

Red.

[ His head bobbed as he acknowledged that, yes, indeed, those were striking red eyes. ]

Red's a nice color.

[ Better than yellow, maybe, only he was put off this line of thinking by the question. ]

Alec. He doesn't know anything about this. I'm trying to keep it from him so don't mention this to him. I can handle this... whatever is going on. What is going on, exactly?

Most people aren't going to notice.
Or if they do, they'll assume it's contacts.
Welcome to the magical bullshit circus. It's only gonna get weirder.

Even if I don't mention it, he's going to find out.

[Given that he has the app too and all, but-- he probably shouldn't mention that? He probably shouldn't get in the middle of that??]

I'm Raha, by the way. I'm a graduate student of his. As for what's going on, it's a bit complicated. How familiar are you with the supernatural?

Yoosung?

[ Forgive him if he stares. It was one thing if one of his kids had decided to take up wearing colored contact lenses but to have their eyes actually change! What did that even mean?? ]

What? Has everyone else gone blind? They must have noticed how purple those are!

What color have your eyes become? Everyone on this app seems to have the same affliction... Is that why the app? Its some kind of weird eye-color tracker?

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[ This was true as he couldn't duck Alec forever but... ]

He will find out about it later, once I have it handled.

[ So there would be no reason for Alec to feel guilty over anything. ]

Anthony J. Crowley. You're one of his students? That makes sense. He has always been out there looking for those sorts of things. He probably teaches a whole class on the subject.

[ Anthony shrugged, a lazy more than dismissive action. ]

I've heard the stories. I never thought much about them. Is this supposed to be the work of ghosts? Don't tell me it's Kettleman.

Red.
But that's the least bizzare thing to happen to me since the app showed up in April.
The shady bastards who made it target people with 'notable spiritual signatures'.
Everyone I've talked to on here is either from another world or eventually starts remembering another world.
And these features are tied to those 'other world' versions of us.
Yours must have yellow eyes.

Ehehe, they are pretty purple...

Um, you might experience other changes too, though. Or visions of another you. Or... Gain powers.

[Such as dying and coming back to life. Or...

He clears his throat, then echoes Anthony in his exact voice and accent:]

Has everyone else gone blind?

[And then he beams. Because he may be 20 now but hasn't gotten out of his system showing off for a parental figure who actually cares.]

They have actually changed? Shit. I thought there would be one person that hadn't happened to.
We're supposed to have 'notable spiritual signatures'? I've never heard such

[ The text ended abruptly. After all if he did have some kind of spiritual what-ever-you-call-it that might explain some of the things. The eyes, that fire that should have killed him as a boy.

New message. ]

What do they want with those kinds of people?

[Somewhere in the background on Yoosung's end, someone can be heard snickering. A male voice.

Followed shortly by a curse as he drops his phone on his face after that voice mimic trick takes him by surprise.]

What the fuck?

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Every month we have a gate open into a new spirit realm and they want us to go in and check it out.
I don't think anyone actually does it FOR Zodiac though.
Those bastards can burn in hell.

That's! You sounded just like...

[ Me. Ah, then did the evil little wheels of his mind begin to turn. There were so many things they could do with a skill like that! ]

We are so using that!

[ And then there was another much less familiar voice which placed a pause on the 'isn't that a great way to prank Alec plans', for now. ]

Wassthat? Sharing a dorm room with some one?

They call themselves zodiac?

[ Snerk! ]

Really running with this 'magical' theme aren't they?

[Yoosung is busy snickering himself for a minute there. He's glad he saved the knowledge of that power until now so Katsuki had no idea he had it. Startling him was pretty fun.]

No, I'm in my apartment, this is just my best friend Katsuki~ He comes over a lot. My cats love him!

[Except he blushes as he says all of this, tilting his phone for a second to show the other twenty-year-old on the couch next to him.]

Umm, so how are we using my power?

Can't believe you had a nanny

[Katsuki is lounging, head on the couch close to where Yoosung is sitting. When the phone tilts towards him, he hastily pushes at it.]

Oy! I don't consent to you showing your nanny my face, damn you!

My brother. He needs a good scare every now and then.

[ Despite the lack of consent Anthony did catch a small glimpse of a face before the camera was pushed away but maybe not quite enough to remember clearly. ]

Best friend.

[ With a blush like that? Ok kid, if you say so. ]

Does he also have that app?

Oh, I met your brother on the app too! I don't think be believed me about the "visions of another you" thing. Or the lights in the sky.

[That repetition of "best friend" makes him blush harder and he's glad Katsuki isn't actually looking at him.]

Ehehe... Something like that. And sorry, Katsuki!

[Look, he's a friend but also a crush but he can't tell Anthony that with the guy sitting right there.

To not step on grumpy Katsuki's toes again, he'll leave it to him to answer the app question.]

hfhfufffu

[That would be Katsuki dropping his phone on his face. Because he's currently texting while on Yoosung's couch unaware he's texting the nanny.]

Yeah.
No points for creativity.
About what can be expected of a corporation.
And just like any corporation don't expect them to give a fuck about your well being.

[Katsuki responds by sticking his tongue out and flipping him off. The most mature. He also makes an attempt to shove said middle finger in view of the camera.]

'He' can hear you and can answer for himself. If you mean Libra, yeah. Currently dealing with a newbie as we speak.

[ Alec has the app. Alec has the app that the shady zodiac guys he only just heard of in a random text message just told him about?

Anthony's poker face was pretty good but his eyes might have given away what a bombshell learning that was. Fortunately he had a new pair of shades to hide those with. ]

He's rude. I like him.

[ Anthony will recall the name Katsuki however one should never be polite to that sort of hello. ]

I've seen those lights...

[ There was nothing to betray that Dynamight was also the rude gesture boy he had just 'met' through Yoosong.

Other than that comment about a newbie. ]

Corporations usually try to make money. Is it really all about that?

[ How many newbies were there anyway. ]

Shadowy organization with a shady name, they probably wouldn't tell anyone much of anything. They can get away with it.

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