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lostcarnival2017-09-04 07:53 pm
ringleaders) wrote in lostcarnival2017-09-04 07:53 pm
⇨ GREYSOL
Who: Everyone!
When: Day 155 - Day 169
Where: Greysol
What: The carnival resumes its tour, this time heading to Greysol, a city tied deeply into the fabric of the multiverse. Here, everyone has an animal companion from birth that is the second half of their soul - and thanks to the Ringmaster, so do you. (Remember,![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
joysweeper is our guest event runner for this location, and location specific questions should go to them.)
Warnings: Individually marked!
When: Day 155 - Day 169
Where: Greysol
What: The carnival resumes its tour, this time heading to Greysol, a city tied deeply into the fabric of the multiverse. Here, everyone has an animal companion from birth that is the second half of their soul - and thanks to the Ringmaster, so do you. (Remember,
Warnings: Individually marked!
THE CITY OF GREYSOL↴ The carnival arrives in a manicured park in the center of a big city that sprawls out along where the river reaches the ocean. It’s spring, early enough that nights are chilly, warm enough in the days that people and their souls savor the weather, and sometimes shelter together from the rain. Greysol was designed from the bottom up to accommodate the human-dæmon bond. Go out and see! ► THE SHAPE OF YOUR SOUL: The dæmon-forming spell kicks in at about four in the morning. Most characters will wake up with their souls in some small form, curled against them. Even if they were awake, they became dazed and unfocused while their souls were being drawn out of their bodies and have little memory of how it happened. Until that evening every character's dæmon is able to change shapes, and children and some teens will continue to do so. Most will settle on their permanent forms by evening. Characters without dæmons will just look on, and the few who are thousand-pound bears have to handle being really big. ► IT’S GOOD TO SETTLE: Elaine Tavis Aracari, sixteen-year-old daughter of two actors and a moving pictures sensation herself, just ‘settled’ - her dæmon Tavis stopped changing shape - as a stunning blue peacock. Settling is a major coming of age milestone and celebrated as such in different ways all over the world. She and her family are throwing a massive party in the central park and inviting the public to join in! Enjoy easy access to free catering, live music and showings of moving pictures, and displays of mostly trivial magic. There are also form readers from across the country setting up booths, happy to accept a small fee to inspect your dæmon’s settled or most favored forms and tell you what they mean. Is there anything to these analyses? Eh, maybe, but they’re flattering and fun. ► WITCHING HOURS: Characters who are clearly witches for this event will often be assumed to be in town for a lover, and people, witches and not, may want to know who that is. Humans usually regard them with wary respect and interest. Real witches living with their human families or on business quickly suspect that something’s up, but without clear and present danger take a relaxed wait-and-see attitude. Wait for long enough and any possible decision will come around again, they believe. There isn’t time to learn much witch magic, but witches, real and carnival-made, have an inherent power: the ability to fly using branches of “cloudpine”, an attractive soft-needled tree common in the park. Witches usually ride large branches as if they’re steeds but can use even short sprays, and you’ll probably see the few witches in the city coming to the park to do so. Why not try? ► BEAR PUN: Human-panserbjørn relations have historically been troubled, but have warmed in the past century. It’s the 65th anniversary of the breaking of the Siege of Bertin, a much-mythologized time when Spectres flooded Greysol and a company of panserbjørn arrived and directed efforts to get the survivors out of the city. A statue is being erected and many florid accounts of the story are being told. If you’re in a panserbjørn shape for the duration of the visit you will probably get thanked and celebrated by people trying to hide their nervousness of you. Expect someone to ask if your dæmon would be a human - it’s a common supposition. ► KERNER ISLAND: From the harbor you can see a wooded island. Although there are no rocks to speak of it sports a tall lighthouse, and nearly all boat traffic avoids it carefully. On a clear day someone with binoculars or a particularly sharp-eyed soul can see loads of trash, birds and various other animals that don’t seem local, and… children? Adults and settled teenagers will see tall vague shapes moving about too. When asked about it the most important thing adults will tell other adults is don’t go there. They’ll hold their dæmons close and tell you that on that island are things that eat souls. They may also admit with mixed pride and shame that it’s been a source of wealth and innovation for the city. There’s a facility there that can open windows into other worlds, and the children who can reach it can cross through and bring things back. Many of the children are recruited by research and development teams on the lookout for items they can use, but there are also kids out to have adventures or who’ve run away. More on this later. |
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[Such flattery would of course keep Yugo and the embodiment of his soul in high spirits. But surely there's kernels of truth in the readings anyway.]
Would it be any other way? Because it is also the soul that guides one's heart.
[Wow. Deep.]
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[Gosh, don't spoil the cheer, even if there's more mutual confusion between Yugo and the seal at Yuya's inquiry than anything.]
I was just seeing what this whole reading thing was about. Of course I don't need anyone to tell me who I am.
It's hard to resist indulging in a curiosity.
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But that's also too long, so I've just been calling her Tama!
[Coincidentally the name has the same amount of letters as Gon's surname. So maybe that's just accentuating the minor jab Yugo made at the guy back in Portland.]
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Still, he smiles back at Tama and her big teeth while Koemi leans forward.] Hi, I'm Koemi!
Nice to meet you, right? [He's only unsure because haven't they already met, being their souls...] You're the second seal I've seen, but Mr. Strange's looks a lot different.
[Still, given the sheer variance in wildlife everyone's daemons have been so far, he notices two fat seals.]
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Mr. Strange?
[The leopard seal snorts with most likely amusement, but otherwise seems more preoccupied with mirroring the tiny otter's action- to lean close and sniff inquisitively. Perhaps investigating why such a close proximity brings out a pleasant... resonation between them. Something that Yugo certainly has been too oblivious to notice.
Maybe Tama is too curious, because soon enough if Koemi is leaning far enough, their noses bump semi-accidentally.]
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[Don't ask Yuya how he sees like that. He looks down at Koemi's straining to see their noses bump together, which Koemi just seems to find amusing with the sounds she's making.
So she's made a friend. That's great--Yuya's going to hold her forward and try to gently dump her on top of Tama so his arms can have a moment to rest. Sure, it's his own fault for being so clingy to his soul, but who can blame him?]
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[Says the one who-]
And you're no stranger to growing crystals as well as a tail.
[Not that it's a serious jab, judging from how Tama still gets pats on the head. There's no protest either as the new otter friend is set down on her blubbery form. Does this mean Yugo can pet Yuya's soul as well though? It's hard to really resist the cute of someone else's when they're sitting on top of your own, so he doesn't show much hesitation in trying exactly that.
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[Yuya stops when Yugo touches Koemi and he looks down at her immediately. They both feel it, but it doesn't make Yuya recoil. Actually, Yugo touching his soul feels... almost exactly the same as when he does it. There's still a sense of distance, but it doesn't register as much like it's someone else's hand that shouldn't be there.
Koemi is startled for a second, but then she quickly stretches out to be available for more pets. Hey, if she's going to get attention she's going to eat that up!]
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[Yugo's careful about his claws since glamours are just so they don't look strange to the locals after all. He pauses briefly at the scar, but otherwise lets himself to be pleased over the situation. Once Yugo notices that Yuya stopped mid-sentence though, the petting stops all too soon.]
Oh was that... er... you okay?
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[Koemi shoves her face up and under Yugo's hand.] But we're from the same soul, even if we changed.
... Can I touch Tama? [Look, let him just show Yugo what he means.]
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We're far from being much of a shared soul at this point.
[It was how the matter got partially explained by Yugo to Carly anyway. Tama and Koemi are clearly as similar and different as the animal shapes they settled into. Meanwhile since said otter surprisingly wants so much attention, the resumed petting turns into picking up the small thing so that the seal can scoot forward and nudge at Yuya's hand herself within a second of Yugo starting to say-]
Yeah, sure.
[Action first, questions later.]
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... But I still kind of feel it. [There's a wistfulness that isn't Yuya's own in his voice--dusty and forgotten memories that sink deep in his mind and sometimes pull his heart in directions that feel as detached as Zarc himself did. He doesn't think he'll ever really remember what being Zarc was like, and that much he's all right with.
There's no sense of revulsion as he touches Tama, or as Yugo holds Koemi. And it's not quite elation, like when someone you trust holds your daemon. It almost feels like nothing but Yuya knows that's not it--it's comfortable. Like muscle memory, an action easily forgotten because it feels so natural.]
Uh, but I'd really like to keep my body to myself this time! Honestly, I'm just glad it doesn't hurt... [Not like when their dragons would call to each other and it burned in his chest.
His other hand rests against the pocket with his deck. He hasn't felt Odd-Eyes calling to Clear Wing since they came back, and he wonders if it's because they no longer have the same desire to merge, or... simply think it's futile without that last piece of Zarc.]
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It does make him gaze down at Koemi for a moment as the otter-shaped soul basks in the affection.]
Right...! Definitely no more of that crazy stuff to worry about...! Hah.
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[Well, at least that the crazy Zarc stuff is over (god, he hopes when Zarc is free he won't still be able to control them. What if body doesn't matter?). His expression starts to sober up again as he remembers what he had originally been looking for Yugo for. The pets for Tama continue--it helps ground him as he figures out how to broach the topic gently.]
So, um... Yuzu's here by the way, but she's not going to know who you are? [That's a great way to start.]
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EHHH...?!
She is?
[See look, totally not mad at all through and through.]
What do you mean she's not gonna know who I am????
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[... No, he probably doesn't. Yuya wouldn't have known if it wasn't for Gongenzaka.] You, me, and Reira all remember Zarc being defeated again. But Gongenzaka hasn't seen any of that. He said he started working here in the middle of our fight through Academia.
[Just don't ask him how the hell that's supposed to work, he doesn't know.] Yuzu... she said she decided to join during a championship tournament we were having in our dimension, before Academia attacked.
[Before she even met Yugo, is implied.]
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... That's... impractical.
... Uh yeah what she said.
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Gongenzaka and I are going to tell her, but we don't want to scare her with it. [Versus just blabbing out things she doesn't understand, but mostly it's Yuya who's concerned about the consequences.]
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But I'll try I guess? No talking abou the scary stuff, sure. But what should I say if you guys aren't quick about spilling things?
Which sounds far better to be as soon as possible than eventually.
And she took being stuck in Synchro pretty well when it happened...! Yeah, she cried initially about being away from you and everyone else in Standard-
Not helped by you being a socially inept idiot.
And I noticed then made up for it...! But anyway I bet she'll handle everything fine~!
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... She's already met Yuto, so she knows there's other people that look like me. She just doesn't know you yet--we're going to tell her in a few days so you can keep quiet until then, can't you?
[He gives Yugo a critical look.] We don't want to just 'spill it'. We want to sit down with her and explain everything properly.