Our Own Hurt (Closed/Please Delete)

[subtle fox]

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Name → Erin Tellan
Powers → Appearance shift,
power amplification.
Age → 26
Location → rebel camp
Tagged → Evelyn
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"Yeah, I know you'll tell us, I know. It's just-" Erin stepped forwards and gripped her elbows impulsively, dark eyes wide. He'd been around when she'd had her visions before, but it still worried him how she just... spaced out like that. But it ended but a minute later, a long minute later, and he let her go, stepped back. Let her collect herself. He knew Evelyn would talk, once she knew what to say.

(short post is short.)

[kotalicious]

Evelyn Symphony Redfern-Rebel-Visions and healing abilities- with Erin.

Evelyn took a deep breath before looking up to meet Erin's eyes. "That was strange. It wasn't like any of my other visions." She said, her eyebrows knitting together in confusion. "It was all in pieces and I couldn't see any faces." She said with a small shake of her head. "We were attacked Erin. From the inside." She said, her eyes filling with fear and concern. "There were two of them. I couldn't tell who they were or what their powers were. All I know is they were attacking us. I just don't understand. I've never had a vision like this before."

[subtle fox]

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Name → Erin Tellan
Powers → Appearance shift,
power amplification.
Age → 26
Location → rebel camp
Tagged → Evelyn
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No, no. Oh, no. This wasn't actually happening. "It must be that cryokinetic girl, and her friend," he growled, tangling his fingers through hair that was suddenly shoulder-length, curled, and a touch lighter. "I knew there was something..." Erin trailed off as he slumped onto the stump he had vacated no even an hour ago. Comfortable. What a joke. They'd survived in the middle of the forest for, what - three years? Not even that. And now they were here. They'd just walked right in, and no one had suspected a thing.

But he couldn't know they were the enemy. Not without asking them. As far as he knew, there were no telepathics in the camp, and if the girls were the enemy, questions would likely just provoke them into doing something horrible. And that one girl. Rhianna. Grade bloody A. "Maybe Smith could fight her," Erin muttered, staring at his tightly clasped hands. The fingertips were the colour of the bark. "Santiago would want to help, but I can't ask him to do that. Is there anyone else strong enough... we would need to get them all out first, but the supplies..." He was muttering now, but he stopped, suddenly. Stood.

"What influences your visions?" he demanded, "You touched me, then had a vision. I'd just talked to Santiago about Rhianna. I just asked if you'd had a vision. And then you had one, and god, this is messing with my head." He crouched, leaned his head back. "What I'm trying to say is, maybe you picked up on my suspicions." His voice was calm. "I have no evidence, and so all you got were the ideas of being attacked. Ideas that were mine. And you said yourself," his voice rose, and he waited a moment before continuing, "You said yourself that this time, it was different." He cleared his throat. "Powers change, we all know that. Yours may have, too."


(When the character you write turns out to be nothing like the one you wrote the form for.
I swear he's mentally stable, though! He's just... enthusiastically confused.)

[gallifrey falls.]

rhianna - scientists - cryokenisis and power sensing - tagged; adelaide - ooc; ---

xxxRhianna waved a hand at Adelaide's raised eyebrow. "Don't worry about me." If it came down to it, she was sure she could take anyone in the camp, with the possible exception of Santiago. Earth was something she had only had limited experience with, and she couldn't do much if he stuck her somewhere underground. With Adelaide's help, however, she was confident they were going to come out of this with at least one rebel, even if it wasn't the one planned. She had a sneaking feeling things were going to go down soon, and it would end bloody. Not for her, of course.
xxxShe emerged from her rather pessimistic thoughts, listening with a smile to Adelaide's words. "You dislike stealing, and yet you help capture and potentially doom other mutants?" Rhianna laughed quietly, shaking her head. Priories, priorities. She was interrupted from making any further replies by their arrival in the town. No one much seemed to be around at this time of day, and so Rhianna ushered Adelaide forward, leading the way. A grocery store lay just ahead, open 24 hours. Stopping just outside, she sent a blast of frost that froze the insides of the security camera and any other piece of technology in the store. Even though the scientists had their fingers in all kinds of pies and could probably save them from any legal trouble, Rhianna didn't put it past Rick to let them get arrested just so he could play white knight getting them out. Jerk.
xxxGrabbing mostly canned things from the shelves, she threw in a few loaves of bread, chips, and other foods that didn't need refrigeration. Adelaide was elsewhere in the store, but she assumed she would be doing similarly. Causally making her way to the front, Rhianna was annoyed to see the single clerk was out in front again, rather than in the back as he had been when they arrived in the store. It wouldn't be too much trouble to rectify that. Extending her arm, purely for show than any need to do so, Rhianna froze the man in a solid block of ice where he stood, starting with his hands and head, and working from there. The ice wouldn't kill him if she melted it off soon, which is what she planned to do. Rhianna didn't really have a problem killing or wounding normal people if they got in the way of a mission, but she didn't go out of her way to kill them.
xxxShe made her way towards the door and leaned against it, waiting for Adelaide.

[kotalicious]

Evelyn Symphony Redfern-Rebel-Visions and healing abilities- with Erin.

Evelyn shook her head. "You can't just jump to conclusions like that. We don't know it's her. It could be any of the four." She said. Her eyes widened when he said Santiago might be able to fight her. "No way Erin! You can't put him in danger like that. We are not going to put anyone in danger like that until we know for certain who was in my vision. Maybe I will get another one soon that will tell me more."she said with a sigh. This situation was definitely getting stressful but she couldn't let it get to her.
Evelyn sighed and shook her head again. "I've had these powers since I was two. I'm twenty one Erin. I highly doubt my powers are going to change."

[subtle fox]

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Name → Erin Tellan
Powers → Appearance shift,
power amplification.
Age → 26
Location → rebel camp
Tagged → Evelyn
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Erin paused for a few moments, studied her. "If you say so," he finally replied. He took a few breaths, allowed his mind to settle. A thought came up, then, and he spoke, "I'm an idiot." He grinned, his old, easy grin from the morning. "You touched me, Evelyn. Touched me. And," Here he raised a finger, as if to demonstrate a point, "And, you were focused on getting a vision. It's obvious what happened here, if you say it wasn't my first theory." Erin turned, then tapped his finger on his other hand. "You were focused, and I strengthened that focus. It was a collective effort, your vision. Different, as you said. Now," he raised an eyebrow at the skeptical young woman, "Tell me I'm wrong this time."


(ooc: Such an urge to italicize every few words. He speaks so passionately when I'm reading this over in my mind, it's really quite fun.)

[gallifrey falls.]

✗ Ahaha, this is going to get really interesting!

should I be posting ooc in the discussion topic, if it isn't part of my post?

[.synthetica]

{adelaide || rebels || teleportation, enhanced strength || tagged; rhianna}

A flippant don't worry wasn't enough to turn off Adelaide's pessimism or stop it from running wild through her thoughts. But she tried, for the sake of Rhianna's pride, to not focus on it so much. With any luck, they'd get one of them on their own soon and they'd be off into the woods, back to their camp and an armed escort back to the facility. It was obvious that all outcomes involved injury and (possibly) death, but they'd had luck on their side so far. She hoped their streak continued, even as a part of her was not fooled by her forced optimism.

Hearing Rhianna's reply, Adelaide rolled her eyes. "It's not a moral thing." She insisted, at Rhianna's side as they walked towards the town. She found that not being perfect at something upon the first try caused disproportionate irritation. Stealing, it appeared, was just like any other activity in this respect. "Just.. Whatever. Let's get this over with."

It seemed that this was something Rhianna was either well-practiced in, or had a talent for - her movements were too casual for someone doing what they were doing. With her easy pace, the cryokinetic blast which deactivated the alarms and cameras and the flow of her actions she seemed like an actress on-set, performing flawlessly. And yet simple conversation stumped her. Adelaide huffed in frustration, and tried her best to imitate Rhianna's relaxed demeanor as she followed her into the store. Whilst her partner headed for food, she split off and collected toiletries, medicine, various bottled drinks, some snacks and whatever Rhianna hadn't picked up whilst she was collecting that could possibly be of use.

When she saw the giant block of ice that had formerly been the store clerk, her reaction was initial fear, then a sigh of relief as she realised Rhianna was about to thaw him. She cast him a slightly amused look before turning towards her partner. "Aren't you useful." She deadpanned, brushing past her and out of the store. As she passed, she whispered, "Show-off."

They made their way back to camp easily enough, but were met by no one. Narrowing her eyes, Adelaide glanced at Rhianna. Evelyn and a mutant they hadn't met yet were standing a bit off to the side, deep in what seemed like an intense conversation - they hadn't spotted them yet. The two teens were nowhere to be seen. Other than that, the camp was still other than some peripheral movement from its other occupants. "So. Think they're just chatting about the weather?" She asked her partner with no small amount of sarcasm in her voice, slowly lowering her bags to the ground as the hairs on her neck stood on end.

{santiago || rebels || terrakinesis, minor healing || tagged; evelyn, erin}

Don't you worry

For all that Erin's presence could be a grounding force most of the time, somehow this time Santiago wasn't all that calmed by his words. Which wasn't a complaint about his friend so much as it was a statement to how suddenly it hit him that he might have allowed traitors into the camp, that it was through his distraction that people he worked every day to protect would be put in harm's way. Grinding his teeth together, Santiago stormed off when Erin disappeared into his hut. As satisfying as it would have been to up-end everything in his room, he sat perfectly still and stared at the same page in a book as he waited for the group to return from the store.

When he came out to welcome Evelyn back, he found her standing with Erin, deep in conversation. One that didn't look particularly jovial.

...Tell me I'm wrong this time

"Wrong about what, now?" Santiago said by way of greeting, still as tense as he was that morning. He hadn't eaten that day and it was starting to show, though the shake in his hands could just as easily have been caused by his nerves, or even badly disguised anger. His tone was clipped, his dark eyes serious, his mouth a grim line as soon as the sentence was out of his mouth. Despite all the stresses of hiding a large group of people from an evil organisation, it was rare he got like this. But then, in their two years there, he hadn't allowed members of that organisation within their home. They'd never faced anything like this.

[recklessgod]

(I'll be gone for the weekend, I might on once or twice and make a short post, but I'll be back! You guys can go past the five pages, but I'd like a good recap and no major decisions, please! Thanks guys!)

[subtle fox]

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Name → Erin Tellan
Powers → Appearance shift,
power amplification.
Age → 26
Location → rebel camp
Tagged → Evelyn, Santiago
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"Evelyn had a vision, but she said it was 'different'," Erin made quotation marks with his fingers, "So you know me. I had to figure out why. My current theory is my power influenced and scrambled up hers. Amplification is always iffy. So," he spread his hands out, "What do you think?"

(ooc: dialogue, making my posts sooo short...
also, Erin, you goofball. tell Santiago what the vision was, not blab about your clever little ideas.)