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[Alcidesune]

◄ Tooru Mutsuki | 21 | Male | X | Tags; Annabeth ►

Taking residency in a condemned house, regardless of both the Ward its in and the length of the stay, was always, at its best, an iffy and possibly dangerous idea. Even in the 1st Ward, allegedly the safest of Tokyo's 23 public Wards (emphasis on allegedly, as his own experiences had long since swayed him away from such an idealized thought - no city with Ghouls could ever be safe, as it was simply their nature to tear apart and destroy everything dear in life) such an idea still left one open to a variety of heinous events. Tooru knew what he was doing when he slept in that house, but he was short on other options - having defected from the CCG had cut off both his income and access to his "home", and having been apart of the CCG at all rendered Ghouls hostile, at best (not that residing with them had been a true option to him in the first place).

And so, with all of that in mind, it hadn't been unexpected that he would be attacked by an unknown, coat wearing assailant, woken from one of several reoccurring nightmares by the sharp pinch of a needle in flesh. Panic was the first of two things he experienced, a near all consuming fear that made his breath come in quick, shallow puffs and told him to run. 'Not again, not again, please, please, I can't...' ran on repeat in his head, memories of not one, but two previous experiences with kidnapping running through his mind. Yet, no matter how hard he told himself to run he simply... Couldn't. Despite his fear and the adrenaline pumping through him, he found himself much too groggy to do much more than stand there, vision swimming as he fought to stay awake. It was around this point that he gave up, allowing himself to slump to the floor, eyes screwed shut in a futile attempt to fight off the thoughts about what was to come. He was defenseless, too sluggish to properly fight back, or, even, bring out his kagune for even the slightest inkling of protection. His best bet to survive - and to minimize any harm to him - was to stop struggling. Struggling always, in his experience, made situations worse for him. It wasn't much longer before he slipped back into the bliss of unconsciousness.
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When he woke again it was with a similar start, scrambling to his feet and patting himself down, checking over his entire body only to discover....
"I'm okay? I'm not... They're all there?"
It was perplexing, to say the least. Tooru's last encounter with an eerily similar situation had resulted in the loss of four limbs, all of which still contained scars from the encounter. Brief thoughts of what else could have been done - something far, far worse - crossed his mind for but a brief second before he forcibly shut them out, trying his hardest to ignore their constant whispering while he looked around.

He was, at the moment, in a forest filled with remarkably tall trees - what were they called? Pine? Tooru was fairly certain they were pine trees - with light filtering down from their canopies, speckling both the needle covered ground and a... Piece of paper, which he quickly picked up, turning it over in his hands several times and giving it a suspicious sniff.
"This is.. a note. Who...? "
The scent on the note wasn't one he recognized, completely unfamiliar to him and, frankly, drowned out by all the new and foreign smells around him.
'We can think about the smells and forest later, right now we...' he reminded himself, opening the folded paper and quickly skimming through it. English wasn't his first language, but he was passable enough at it to get a general understanding of what the paper said. '... have a glade to find?'
If he was in a new dimension... Maybe there weren't Ghouls? Maybe... Maybe he could actually do it - actually just live for once, instead of fighting and suffering at every turn, constantly worried about what will happen next.

It was a pleasant thought, but he knew it wasn't possible. Life was never kind enough for such a thing, such was a lesson driven into his mind repeatedly over an agonizing 21 years of existence. So instead he did all he could think to do, and started walking. Staying in place seemed like a horrid idea, an open invitation for either the cloaked figure from the night before or a monster of some sort to discover him (Ghouls, he reminded himself. It said this wasn't his world, but if he were here it only made sense that his awful luck would drag a Ghoul here, just to torment him and keep him from getting too comfortable).

It wasn't long before he heard footsteps, albeit light ones. They were bipedal and fairly light, so it wasn't an animal. More likely than not, it was either a woman or a guy on the smaller side. Or some sort of biped he hadn't seen before - what were the large birds called that danced and made funny faces? The name was going to bother him for a while - which was entirely possible. So he did the only appropriate thing he could do, drawing his trusted blades and moving forward carefully, keeping his eye out for the thing making the sound.

When he found the thing in question - brown or blonde haired, he had trouble telling in this lighting - it was as he thought. t - she - was indeed a woman, or, at the very least, looked like one. His experiences with strangers weren't quite stellar, nor were his social skills, so, for now, he elected to keep behind the trees and trail her from a distance until he could get a good idea on whether or not she was safe to be around. Of course, trailing while groggy from a tranquilizer did impair him ever so slightly - every time he crunched a twig or redwood needles beneath his feet he cringed reflexively, despite how pleasant the crisp crunches were to his ears. Enhanced hearing in any form made quiet things seem loud, as such, gauging the actual volume of these things was difficult. Did the woman overhear? Would she turn around and attack? He wasn't sure, but he was worried.

[sniper tf2]

- ｍｓ． ｆｏｒｔｕｎｅ
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fem || 20 || skullgirls || tags ;; rin.
ms. fortune wasn't all too happy with the idea of splitting up, but she agreed anyways. "well, alright then! i'll be going with rin! we're sure too bring something as soon as we find it!" she chirped a bit, quickly rushing so she could catch up with the teen. once she did she was very surpised to see a small sized dragon, but it was still rather large compared to them, her tail going between her scarred legs. she didn't want to get into any sort of problems with creature. "r-rin! just stay away from it! that thing can just step on you!" she made it clear that she was more worried about him than anything else, not knowing if he could die despite being a demon. "just leave it alone and lets go somewhere else!" she said in a worried tone. her ears already sharpening just incase she needed to attack.

♢ ｃｅｒｅｂｅｌｌａ
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fem || 18 || skullgirls || tags ;; open.
cerebella blinked a bit, only to see that the person the had been talking to seemed to have almost poofed away from existing. had she been imagining all of this? seemed like it, and though it confused her, she simply shrugged it off, and began to walk away, looking at the small note she had kept. starting to follow the map on her own.

♰ ｓｑｕｉｇｌｙ ＆ ｌｅｖｉａｔｈａｎ
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fem || 14? || skullgirls || tags ;; haise, ariel.

[normal text is squigly, bold text is leviathan]
squigly fumbled around with leviathan, but she still payed attention to their words. leviathan decided to get into the conversation after a while of listening to them speak. "no matter what they wish, they will still be treated as human. as we're all going to be treated that way." the parasite huffed. squigly, though she agreed, still frowned a bit, as she didn't want to cause any conflict.

[ultimate writer.]

Tenya Ida
Form // Male // 16 years old // Engine // Tags: None
Ida felt the surface was really hard and Rocky at the same time, it's not normal one's, it's painful for his legs. But he is trying keeping up with it, he can ask Recovery girl to revive his damage... Once he gets back. He didn't really know if the map leads to trap or the real portal, according to the letter...
Ida forgot about the way of living here now, he stood for some minutes befits starting to hunt, this is really strange to him, he never even did these in the forest camp with Pussycats...But he has to be alive, so he can go home.

Tsuyu Asui
Form // Female // 15 years old // Frog-form // Tags: Cerebella
Tsuyu kept walking, she was getting tired, but the good thing is the surface is soft, she can resist a bit more walking till she can rest..... Or start hunting for food. She came from the west direction to see a girl, she had an inappropriate clothing style, but Momo also had an inappropriate hero costume also, so it's nothing new. At least her hero costume is fully guarded and no skin is seen, expect from her face. Her pure black eyes were on her, and said politely "Ribbit. Hello I'm Tsuyu Asui, but call me Tsu". She didn't know whether to trust that stranger, but she seemed quite passive.

[guar]

ariel • archangel • supernatural oc • tag; haise, squigly, leviathan
A light chuckle escaped the woman once Haise began to apologise for his apparent rudeness considering she did not believe anybody had been rude so far. Even so, she accepted the apology. Then she was asked about how she would like to be treated, and so she had to take a moment to think about her response - she did not mind if she was treated like a human, however she was used to being treated like an archangel when it came to her siblings or people who knew about what she was. "You can treat me like a normal human if that is easier." She responded, then she glanced over at Leviathan and nodded her head. "Now, we should decide what we plan on doing. Personally, I would quite like to be able to get to those portals as quickly as possible." Ariel allowed her eyes to scan her new company while she spoke, hoping to get some of their ideas.


genji shimada • thirty-five • cyborg • overwatch • tag; natsu
Natsu Dragneel. Genji made a note to remember that name if he had to, he wouldn't want to anger this boy even more by having to ask for his name once again. The rather harsh response was, as the cyborg believed, uncalled for albeit somewhat understandable - maybe he was removed from his home in an important time; Genji wouldn't want to press on the matter, though, unless it was brought up by the pink-haired boy. "I too wish to leave here quickly. You must consider that there could be dangers here," The man warned, looking at Natsu, "You appear to be powerful considering you can manipulate flames and I was trained as a ninja, we do not know what opponents may face us here."

Just as Genji spoke of opponents, he felt the ground beginning to shudder beneath his feet which prompted him to turn his head, scanning for what was causing the rumbling - he moved his hand back to grab at his katana but did not unsheathe it just yet, instead looking over at Natsu.

[jungwonie]

Annabeth Chase
// Percy Jackson // 17 // Mood; Skeptical // Tags; Tooru //

As the daughter of Athena advanced, she caught glimpse of something she'd missed. Stuck on a trees' branches was the Yankee's cap she'd cherished. It was half a gift from her mother and half a gift from her father. The navy blue and white cap was tattered from its many years of uses back at camp and when she went on her quests. At the thought of a quest, her heart tore once again, this time longing for more than just her boyfriend. She missed the grumpiness of Nico, and the way his face would light up whenever he'd see Will Solace, son of Apollo. At the thought of the two, Annabeth let out a chuckle. Lost in thought, Annabeth had missed a few cracking sticks from the figure following behind her, which she was still unaware of.

Approaching the tree, Annabeth snapped back into her reality, staring up at the hat that was caught in the branches above it. She noticed a small, gray ribbon attacked to the adjustable strap in the back. Attached to that ribbon was a small piece of paper, but she was too far away to read it. A number of ways to get her hat back fluttered around her mind as the feeling of longing disappeared from her mind. SNAP! Annabeth whirled around, her hand on the hilt of her dagger once again. Her gray eyes caught a shadow dipping back into the darkness, making Annabeth wonder how many more of this creature was out here. "H- Hello?" It probably wasn't the smartest decision to call out to the unknown, but she wasn't going to die without a fight. Another feeling bubbled up inside her; vulnerability. She could die, right then and there, and no one would be able to help her or hear her last words. Her eyes flicked around quickly, scanning her surroundings once again.

Natsu Dragneel
// Fairy Tail // 18? // Mood; Neutral, Shocked // Tags; Genji //

Natsu hadn't had time to think about any of the other dangers that could possibly be in this forest with the two. Maybe there could be members of a dark guild, leaving Natsu to deal with them on his own. But here, it didn't seem likely that other mages would be on this... island? From the remembrance of the map he'd burned, the span of this place was relatively large, seeming as he could only see Genji in his field of vision. Though he may not have been able to see things around him, his advanced hearing could sense a few groups of people around him. Finally, Natsu came to the conclusion that having company wasn't the worst idea, especially since the two were in the same boat. Neither knew where they were or what exactly the reason was for coming here, which gave the pink-haired mage goosebumps.

Speaking of goosebumps, he'd now had them from the slight rumbling from the ground. His expression turned to a shocked expression, looking over at his new comrade. He watched the cyborg-ninja reach back for the kitana that Natsu just now noticed he had. Flames began to spark in his palms as the ground began to gradually shake harder. A putrid smell was now sensed from the pink-haired boy, making him gag slightly. It smelled like something had just been rotting for days years. Nothing was said between the two, but it was a mutual understanding; whatever was coming their way, was not good.

[bork.]

xxx【 𝐇𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞 】
◤xxxxxxx[♛]xxxxxxx◥
xxxx-(age) 23 yrs
xxxx-(gender) male
xxxx-(fandom) tokyo
xxxxxxxxxxghoul
xxxx-(mood) worried
xxxx-(tags) squigly,
xxxxxxxleviathan
xxxxariel
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Haise shifted on his heels anxiously as Leviathan and Ariel spoke, glancing around. Getting to the portals would be a good idea. But how could they tell which portal was from their worlds? There was no way for him to tell, that was one thing for sure. If how the portals looked like was how he imagined them to look, that is. That's when a familiar scent wafted over to him. So familiar... yet different. Haise shook the scent away and turned to focus on Ariel. "Yeah, let's go find those portals." He smiled softly, but still no directly looking at her. It seemed he was still worried he would take a comp out of her flesh. He began to stride away, hands in his pockets as he began to walk. He took the map out, observing it. "We need to be careful for other creatures, the note said that there will be dangerous creatures in our path." Haise informed, his grey eyes scanning over the map.

xxx【 𝐇𝐲𝐬𝐚𝐧】
◤xxxxxxx[♛]xxxxxxx◥
xxxx-(age) 19 yrs
xxxx-(gender) male
xxxx-(fandom) zodiac
xxxx-(mood) content
xxxx-(tags) mable;
xxxxdipper
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Hysan began to tug on the vine, that is, until he heard a crash. Hysan whipped around to see Mable fall from the tree branch she was on, and onto a lower tree branch. Hysan's leaf green eyes widened in worry. "Mable!" He exclaimed, staring in horror as she claimed to be okay. How could she not be bruised from a fall like that? She had hit several branches, and yet she claimed to be fine? She wasn't even hurt? Or scratched, or scraped? "Are you sure you're okay?" He asked, abandoning his vine to rush under the branch she was clinging to. He scanned the tree branch, but it seemed sturdy. "I think I should be up there. I don't want you to get hurt, your brother will have my head if you did." Hysan offered, chuckling as he glanced over to Dipper. Hysan also didn't want someone younger than him to get hurt, and with the height of these trees and how weak their branches were, it was almost inevitable.

"I... I'll leave you to decide what you'd like to do. I'll work on our pulley system." Hysan hesitantly turned, if she said she was okay... Hysan would have to give her the benefit of the doubt. He would have to make a pulley system, and it wouldn't be easy without help of technology. Hysan tugged on the vine, grumbling under his breath until it gave way under him. The vine tumbled to the ground, causing Hysan having to jump away from it. It was a long, sturdy vine. It could probably hold up a lot of weight. Hysan glanced around for a large leaf that might have fallen, or a fern, or something. He walked over at seeing a large plant, with amazingly large fronds. He tugged on a frond, and it eventually gave way. The width was about two feet, length about three and a half. He smiled broadly at his find and threw it over to the vine. He stood, thinking of what they could do. This would be so much easier with blue prints. Hysan rubbed his chin as he looked around. "Anyone got a knife on their hands?" He asked. He planned on splitting the ends of the vine and forcing the ends into the frond he had gotten, making a basket of sorts. He would then get something strong to put under the frond and into the vines, since the frond could easily slip off with the weight of what it was carrying.

[Ploegy]

Ochako Uraraka
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♦ 15 ♦ Female ♦ My Hero Academia ♦ Tagged: Yellow ♦

"I could try to weave a basket, but I've never done anything like that before so I'm not sure I'd be that great at it either," she said. She wasn't even sure if she could figure out exactly how to weave one to begin with. Would it be that hard to learn? That was something she wasn't entirely sure on. The same went for hunting. Yellow made it sound like it might not be that hard, but for someone that really didn't want to harm animals, Ochako found that hard to believe. Maybe they should stay away from such. Fruits and berries would be enough for her to get by and if they needed to eat some kind of animal, she rather fish than actually hunt. That would be far less bothersome to her. "You know, maybe hunting isn't a great idea. We're not even sure if there are any animals around that would be easy enough to hunt. Perhaps for now we can just stick to berries and fruits if we find any and if we come across a source of water, fish would do just fine and would be far easier to catch than hunting would be." She was sure such wouldn't be too much of a problem. They had to find water eventually anyways otherwise she'd be in major trouble. There was yet another thing she'd have to figure out how to collect and carry along with them. Things couldn't just be easy now could they.

Rin Okumura
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♦ 15 ♦ Male ♦ Blue Exorcist ♦ Tagged: Ms. Fortune ♦

Giving a flick of his now fiery tail, Rin glanced over his shoulder at Nadia. "I don't think that thing is just going to let us leave," he remarked. No, there was no way it was going to let him just walk away after he had been grabbing the eggs in its nest and he still had no intentions of leaving it after it whacked him the way it had. Looking back toward the creature, he could see it moving forward toward them with its fangs bared. That was definitely not a sign of peace. Holding his sword out in front of him, he slashed it in the air to send a burst of blue flames as a warning. Of course he was fine with fighting this thing. It really was nothing unusual. Fighting dangerous things was kind of a normal thing for him and this was no exception. "Just stay behind me and you'll be fine. Fighting stuff like this isn't to strange for me." By no means had he ever fought a dragon, but he had dealt with plenty of demons that had been decent sized. Surely this thing wouldn't be that much different. All he had to do was make sure his flames didn't light the trees on fire or hurt Ms. Fortune with them. The second part was much easier. He had learned well enough to avoid hurting his friends that he knew it wouldn't be that big of an issue.

[guar]

ariel • archangel • supernatural oc • tag; haise, squigly, leviathan
“They mentioned only seven would be allowed to leave, correct?” The young woman recalled as she began to follow Haise, making a gesture with her hand to prompt Squigly and Leviathan to follow the half-ghoul’s lead. If that was the case, that meant there would be four others that could leave - that is if the entire group managed to get to the portals; this place was supposedly unpredictable and you could easily fall if you were unprepared for a fight. Ariel shuddered and gripped the hilt of her blade at the thought of being attacked, she couldn’t even tell what abilities she had and what abilities she had lost,,,what if she truly was an average human here? No angelic powers? Had her grace been stolen from her?

The archangel of nature shook her head to clear away the negative thoughts, she could still fight like this, but she would need to learn her weaknesses to avoid the risk of them being exploited. “We will likely face a few battles on our way then, I am sure we all are capable, though.” She spoke once Haise mentioned the dangerous creatures they could possibly encounter on their travels.

[Alcidesune]

◄ Tooru Mutsuki | 21 | Male | X | Tags; Annabeth ►

A surge of panic rushed through his veins, a freezing, nearly paralyzing feeling, as if someone had injected ice straight into his veins. Time seemed to slow as his mind ran through every possibility and self directed insult it could come up with - She noticed you, stupid, stupid, worthless, can't even sneak past a human - for what was an agonizingly long period of... two seconds before he began trying to calm himself. Doing so was difficult, even in minor cases such as this, but, well... With as much practice as he had gotten over the years, Tooru was fairly adept at dealing with his own minor panics. Perhaps not the major cases, but this? He could deal with this.
'Focus on the physical sensations instead of your own thoughts' . His grip tightened on his shirt, ringing the fabric and running it between his fingers as he tried his hardest to slow down his breathing and just focus. 'Warm sunlight, rough bark against your back, sensei's smell(no, no, no, ignore that one, it had to be fake, you have to be imagining it), feminine voice - she speaks English? She doesn't smell like a Ghoul, can't place the smell, maybe human?' That was definitely a possibility, but it was also possible she was just excellent at disguising her smell, or that Tooru had simply fallen out of practice when it came to scents.

With his breathing down to a more acceptable level, he leans around the tree to get a better look at the girl in question. She... Looked like an American. Or maybe she was English? Either way, she looked like a teen, and not too threatening at a glance. But... How many Ghouls did he think weren't threatening at a glance? Touka was one, with her stupid fringe and her stupid Ukaku. Tooru couldn't really be sure unless he took the risk, could he? With that in mind he slides the rest of the way out of cover, body tense in anticipation of an attack.

"Hello, uh..."
He wasn't quite sure where to continue with that, his knowledge of proper American greetings being poor, at best. His accent, while noticeable, wasn't so strong as to make understanding him difficult (nor strong enough to border on stereotypical).

[Egg With Legs]

Dung Beetle Knight - Kingdom Death Monster - Tags; Genji and Natsu

Maneuvering the ball had proven much more difficult than he had originally imagined. He was used to traveling through woods, but these were much worse than before. Trees were practically trunk to trunk, and now he had gotten his ball stuck between two. At the very least he could still see the smoke. Stopping his fruitless pushing of he ball through its place between the trunks, he stepped back a ways back. Throwing himself into a full sprint, he slammed his shoulder into the ball, sending it flying from its prison in an explosion of wooden shrapnel. Maybe he hit it too hard, as the ball kept rolling on, smashing through a few more trees before coming to a rest with a loud thud in the flaming tree, ornate face facing the person who had caused the fire. The DBK followed shortly after, making an effort to step on any flaming chunks caused by the balls impact. After getting to said ball, he grabbed it by the mouth's rim and pulled it out of its place in the tree with ease. Only after he pulled it out did he actually look around where he was, finally noticing the two humans. As soon as he saw them, though, he froze like a deer in headlights, staring straight at the cyborg in particular.