Chasma: Power

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Week 0, Saturday

[aono]

[Rin is! Mad!!! But he can be found moping about after the trial. What's Power up to?]

[powerplay]

[ She's picking around hanging out at the Opera House immediately after trial, apparently just hanging around to eat snacks. Just kind of looking around after the Watchers and a lot of others leave, seeming somewhat mystified by the whole ordeal. ]

Oh, you, demon boy! What's with the attitude?

[aono]

It's-

[...WAIT]

-demon boy? Why that nickname?

[powerplay]

[ Hm I was going to say it was because of his tail but then remembered they had curtains for their strip checks so I don't know if she would've seen it. It's okay, she is a creature of whimsy. ]

I dunno! Felt like it fits!

[aono]

[Yeah he hiding it, and he actually looks panicked for a moment, but then he hears that explanation and he just sighs.]

That's what they used to call me in middle school. A delinquent demon.

[powerplay]

I can see why, you kind of have that vibe.

[ Power you've BARELY spoken to him. ]

Seriously, what're you so worked up about though?

[aono]

A dude just killed and ate another dude! Why aren't you worked up about that?

[powerplay]

It's not so strange among devilkind. Besides, we caught him and now he's going to get what's coming to him!

[aono]

It might not be strange among devilkind, but most of the people here aren't devils, so we gotta follow human rules here. That means no eating people!

[powerplay]

Human rules doesn't mean I have to be shocked! Just because I'm a good actress doesn't mean I should have to fake emotions!

[ She does live her life with her emotions on her sleeve, mostly. ]

Besides, with human rules, aren't gladiator-type killing fights to punish the wrongdoers also illegal?

[aono]

You don't have to be shocked, you just have to not eat people.

[Nooooo Marius jerkey!]

And yeah, that stuff's bad too! We shouldn't be doing that either!

[powerplay]

I don't! I like blood, but I'm not going to eat human meat if there's something better!

[ BOOOOO. Beef jerky tastes good! Human maet so stringy and fatty! ]

If we shouldn't be doing that, then why are we?!

[aono]

We shouldn't be doing it! it should be a one-off thing anyway, right? Nobody else'll be killing here, not after all of THAT.

[powerplay]

If someone else kills, it won't be me. Unless someone attacks me first! I should be allowed to kill if I'm attacked, shouldn't I?

[ Seems fair, right? Power isn't gonna just lie down and let someone whale on her. ]

[aono]

I mean, yeah, that's fair. Nobody'd blame you for protecting yourself. But that's way different than killing someone just because and then eating them, yeah?

[powerplay]

I guess so! All just because he was hungry? Not even I would kill a human just because I was hungry.

W2 TUESDAY.

[powerplay]

[ I NEED MY CLOWN TO CLOWN. Idk what mem yet but I'll come up with one as I go. Hello Rin, Power is just wandering around with a dead fish in her hands when she spots him. ]

Oh, you boy! [ Free hand on her hip. ] What're you doing around?

[aono]

[He's questioning where everything went wrong, mostly.

But no he's looking a little tired as he sits on one of the bridges over the canal, watching the water go by.]

Oh, it's you.

[He shrugs. He's not doing much of anything right now.]

[powerplay]

'Tis me!

[ And she just plops herself down temporarily next to Rin, peering over the edge and into the canals. ]

Are you sad? Why are you sad?

[aono]

[You know, Power and Rin are just enough alike that they probably can communicate, which is making me cry.]

Just...brother stuff. You know, fights over stupid things and then you feel bad later.

[powerplay]

I don't know, actually! Devils don't have siblings. I don't even feel bad!

[ Which, if Yukio doesn't feel bad, this is why. ]

[aono]

Oh right, demons are different.

[He just accepts this?]

Don't you ever get into stupid fights?

[powerplay]

I mean... I guess. But it's not like Denji sulks about it. The one time I actually hurt him, I already said sorry for.

[ There's a glint in the waters of the canal -- a bit of broken glass pane in the depths, looks like, happening to catch the sunlight. And Rin will enter a memory.

Blood. The smell of blood and viscera in the air. Power is there, lying in a mess of guts and blood, amidst the carcass of something monstrous -- the Bat Devil, well over at least three meters tall in its prime, now cut apart into pathetic shreds. She's got a dirty, blood-covered cage in her arms, containing a cat who mrrows quietly at her as she wakes. She's being held up by someone -- a young boy with shaggy blond hair. That new kid that the Bureau had just picked up... and the kid she had tricked into coming into the middle of nowhere with her, full intention to let the Bat Devil eat him in order to get back her cat.

'...Why did you save me...? I even tried to kill you...' she says, quietly, her entire body stiff and immobile. If it were up to her, if a devil or human or anything else betrayed her like that, she would have no problems in leaving them to die. The boy, though, just turns his nose up initially, before pointing to her chest and making a grabby motion.

Oh... right. This human and his strange wishes, and the reason he believed her and agreed to help to begin with.

'That's a pretty dumb reason...' she replies. It's not so much a scoff -- she doesn't have enough mobility nor strength for that. But she can, at least on the rare occasion, recognise when deeds are worth their merit. She'd never apologised to anyone before in her life, but just this once, she feels it's deserved. After all, he'd just saved her and her cat's lives.

'I'm sorry for lying to you.' The boy simply looks back at her. 'You saved Meowy...'

Whatever else she was saying, and whatever else happened after, it all fades away into a mixture of static and haze, like a dream, and they're back hanging around the canal.

...Power kicks her legs a little, where they hang over the water. ]

Yeah, kinda like that.

[aono]

[Ah. Just like that, then.

Rin finds himself smiling at it. This isn't his usual big grin though, this is a more subdued smile. One of understanding rather than joy.]

He seems like a pretty good friend.

[They have to have become friends after that, yeah? That seems like a good way to make friends.]

[powerplay]

Denji is my first friend!

[ She's able to say that much, at least. ]