[❤] The Uprising of Delra (accepting, pm me)

[Vivika]

𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐘𝐉𝐀 𝐌𝐘𝐇𝐑𝐄
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Role: Phoenix squad member | Power: Aerokinesis | Location: Park, Oneta | Tags: Team Omega [Mentions: x]
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The park didn’t disappoint. From the sunlight filtering through the trees and the pristine gazebo, it truly reflected the Onetian grace in its upkeep. She was glad to have seen it. Her gaze lingered on the neatly trimmed grass, allowing her thoughts to wander as she settled down. The others - were they alright? Had they secured the prince? The alternative to that was drastic, not something she was willing to think about, but it was there - the dark, lurching, ever-present concern hovering in the back of her mind. Soft crackle of static from their communication devices broke her from her thoughts, bright blue gaze snapping to attention. Her brows furrowed as she tuned in to listen to their commander’s instructions. Alastair was secured peacefully. They were heading back. Watch out for the Roy.

Aisling had taken the lead, quickly relaying that the team had received their commander’s instructions and would be heading out. It was followed by Ardai, tone hushed as he brought up a question and an important one at that. She moved quietly, falling into step beside the group as she listened to the red-head’s suggestion. “A prank... like a diversion?” Warmth flooded to her cheeks, she was painfully terrible at this. Of course, that was what he was suggesting. But starting off was always hard, right? “Right, yes. A distraction could work. We could divert their attention from the other teams to something else, then the others can get on the train without too much trouble. Maybe we could try to get the Roy to investigate something in the distance with a prank or something else?” Admittedly, she wasn’t sure. What if the Royal Guards were too experienced for something like this? She curbed the thought for the time being to scan the rest of the group, gaze resting on Aisling and Caleb. Perhaps the others had something else in-mind. “What do you all think? Any ideas?”

[Pistol Annie #1 NPC]

Ardai Fairchild
Shadow puppets
Tags: Team Omega

Ardai's expression lit up in bright enthusiasm. His smart friends seemed to like his suggestion, meaning he had come up with something reasonably smart this time. Freyja even elaborated on the idea, spinning it into a plan of diversion. The redhead fought the urge to start giggling in glee like an overexcited little kid.
"I think we could pull that off," He said, hazel eyes gleaming as his voice shook with barely-contained excitement. Finally, his day had come. He could prank some fresh new faces and see their hilarious reactions! Oh, and save the squad while he was at it. That was important too.

"Oneta is super clean, right? Look at all the white." Ardai gestured around at the immaculate buildings that rose around them. Sparse splashes of color came in the forms of lush flowers and other neatly-pruned greenery, but otherwise the city was ghostly pale. "I think a little graffiti would go a long way here... hee hee hee. And it's so clean, so Roy's sure to come running right?"
Ardai could just imagine the extreme overreactions to a vandalism prank. Suit-wearing, posh people fainting on the spot from sheer outrage. He would literally pay an arm and a leg to see that!

Atlanta Hunter
Commander of the Phoenix Squad
Tags: Everyone

The commander was skeptical about this whole idea, but willing to give a chance. The Prince was actively warning them about an ambush instead of leading them directly into one. Perhaps his help would best. Of course, there was always the possibility of a trap, so Atlanta would be on guard for everyone's sake.
Everyone seemed on board with voting, though, and Atlanta was more than happy to see their input. "Alright, that sounds good. Those in favor of removing his blindfold, raise your hand. Those against it, hmm... cross your arms."

The actual vote will be carried out via poll.
I'll end the vote in my next post, and choose the majority decision.

[cocogerber13]

Onyx Carriado——————————
♣︎ // Phoenix Squad Recruit // Acrobat // Tags: group, Quinn

Onyx’s eyes flitted up to Quinn’s silently as he answered, not sensing genuine certainty behind the remark. Of course, after all that had happened it would be hard to not be thinking up a storm. It did appear that Quinn was decent enough to give such an answer however, which led the Raven-haired recruit to not push for the truth. “That’s true,” They agreed, scratching the back of their neck as violet irises drifted towards the back of the blindfolded prince’s head. “He’s compliant enough, I’ll give ‘em that. His words back there seemed earnest too. That doesn’t automatically clear him of suspicion though, and if you ask me he’s a little too eager to go back to the base. I think we should take up any offer of working together but make sure to lock down on surveillance over him. Maybe all of us could take turns keeping watch while he’s there? In pairs, maybe?” Onyx planned, reminding themselves that the decision to come was not entirely up to them. The Phoenix Squad was specifically trained for this sort of scenario though, although now that they thought about it no one’s abilities seemed to work on the prince.

The mental consideration of the factors that would be involved with this plan set Onyx up to sorta zone out for the remainder of the walk through the woods. Luckily it was a quiet hike up until they reached the edge of the greenery and the prince’s voice spoke up more clearly. The acrobat’s attention swept over their teammates as the vote started. Onyx was hesitant to cast their opinion at first, but then slowly raised a couple of fingers in support to the blindfold being taken off. “Trust goes two ways, and All-star’s already done his part.” They pointed out with a nonchalant shrug. “Plus, uh, If anyone would know the lay of the land, it’d be the guy who lived there.”

[cocogerber13]

Caleb Oxenbera——————————
♠︎ // Phoenix Squad Recruit // Beast Summoning // Tags: team omega

Caleb immediately felt a fight or flight response when Ardai mentioned using a prank to draw Roy’s attention. Mostly flight. “Uh, I’ll check on the other groups real quick...” Caleb murmured. He was fine with pranks and even found them funny at times; he just didn’t really want to be an accomplice. Although they already clearly knew that their friends were okay from the previous transmission, it also wasn’t a bad idea for the boy to use his resources (whilst also letting the rest of Team Omega plan out what to do). Closing his eyes, the sight of his teammates’ heads (with a plus one) filled his vision. They had been successful but had for the moment stilled their steps. There were also a few raised hands- a class assignment, maybe? No, that didn’t make sense.

Everything became clear quickly enough when Caleb picked up on a few discussions spoken under his friends’ breaths. It was a vote, though on on exactly what it was he couldn’t yet determine. It wasn’t as if he felt he had a vote either way, and he needed to get back to team omega before they moved on without him.

“No one is hurt and they have done their job, but they’re taking a vote right now.” Caleb reported, opening his eyes just in time to catch Freyja verbally leading the charge. Watching her made the corners of the summoner’s mouth lift in admiration before the weight of the words hit him. “Um, that definitely seems like one of the better options for this scenario... but I don’t think we can let ourselves be caught either. The whole purpose of Roy is to be efficient too, so we can’t just assume that they’d all be ‘just’ cleaning up the mess.” Caleb reminded. “And we can’t be too sure about cameras and witnesses. We’d need a proper disguise... if we need them at all..?” His tone changed halfway through the warnings, teal eyes now alight with calculations. “So long as our abilities can’t be traced back to us and aren’t obviously supernatural I think we could use them to do the damage.” He proposed. Aisling could make a shield to cloak all of them while Freyja could manipulate the air to carry colours to places just out of reach of cleaning- all they would need to do now is to find something to make the graffiti with.

[marimo.]

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⚜ 18 ⚜ Female ⚜ Werewolf ⚜ Mood: something's...off ⚜ Location: forest ⚜ Tags: team, Alastair ⚜ Mentions: Quinn, Cujo ⚜

Watching as Cujo puts the gauze around Alastair's head, Arys feels that she's no longer needed for the moment. Soon, the team is on their way, with Arys trailing behind. Her head is still spinning, trying to process the events of the day. How did she manage to switch everything around like that so quick? She never realised how much weight her words have. Though they were fighting at first, she's really happy the team stepped in and helped her out, Quinn especially. The telekinetic has been with her from the start, and she won't forget that. Maybe I can do something to thank him when we get back to HQ... The girl muses. She becomes lost in her thoughts until the teams stops and Alastair mentions that they should take his blindfold off. When Atlanta decides to put it up to a vote, Arys wholeheartedly agrees.
As Atlanta dictates who should do what, Arys raises her hand to vote to take the blindfold off. "I think we should take it off. Although we still can't trust him completely, he hasn't shown any ill intent so far..." She trails off, feeling a twinge in her gut. Although she isn't in her wolf form, her human ears perk up as her senses begin to heighten. Something isn't right, she can feel it...
Her heart rate picks up as she swings her head around, scanning the area. "Can anyone else feel that?" She asks, her voice low. "I can't quite put my finger on it, but something feels...off." The werewolf looks pointedly at the prince, though he can't see her. Even though she knows that some of the other people on the team probably noticed as well, Alastair was alerted to their ambush rather early into the attack, and he knows this area best. If anyone would know what's going on, the prince would. Anxiously, her hand drifts down to the bag at her side, where her claws are stored. She'd put them away as an offering of peace to the prince before, but is now beginning to wonder if she should pull them out.

[hellb0und]

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name. // jennifer dire. x • x gender. // female. x • x power. // pyrokinesis. x • x tags. // gav, atlanta.

"i am as deadly as fire itself."

Jen was still behind Alastair and watching him cautiously when Gavotte approached her. She turned to him, "Thank you." A brush of his hand against hers was something she had not expected but made sense taking into account how things were left between the pair earlier on. The disorder had pushed the event into the back of her mind. Another bizarre wave of heat raced throughout her as he mentioned her being alright, and how that's all he wanted. "I'm relieved you're okay as well, I was worried about you." She admitted gently, meeting his stare and then turning back to the lot up ahead. Just in time to hear Alastair mention removing his blindfold for the sake of handling the guards that waited up ahead. She didn't trust him, not one bit. However, in the event that he had been telling the truth, not removing the blindfold would mean they were all captured. If he wasn't, then he'd put up a fight and potentially escape. At least with the second scenario, they'd only be taking on one person, for now. Atlanta decided it was time to hold a vote, and Jen put her hand up in favor of removing the blindfold with hesitance.

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name. // demetria greene. x • x gender. // female. x • x power. // dragon shifter. x • x tags. // alastair & atlanta.

"she was not fragile like a flower; she was fragile like a bomb."

She had since smiled back at Atlanta and Alastair and remained absent from conversation with others from there. It was just more walking from there for her until Prince Alastair addressed all of them. She bit her lip as she thought over what he had said. When her sister proposed a vote, she decided to give him the benefit of the doubt and vote to take it off. Please let this be the right decision...

(Gave up on Dem, I'm so sorry. Dx But someone can tag her if they want!)

[Pistol Annie #1 NPC]

Gavotte Tenuto
Water manipulation
Location: Forest
Tags: Jen, everyone

Touched by the normally-abrasive firebender's concern, Gavotte looked away as a blush painted his cheeks. Jen rarely expressed such tenderness around others, so these words were like diamonds. "Ah, thank you..." He murmured, smiling as he gazed up again and met her eyes. "I'm glad you came with us this mission. It makes me feel safer to have you here."
Especially with the son of the tyrant emperor around, Gavotte thought but didn't say. He was reluctant to cast his vote, but it seemed everyone else was okay with the blindfold being removed. Even Jen, the wary archer, voted in favor. Gavotte's reluctantly raised hand soon joined hers. If the rest of the squad was confident in their choice, he would rather trust them than start dissent when he wasn't firm in his own opinions anyway.

Atlanta Hunter
Phoenix Squad Commander
Location: Forest
Tags: Everyone

The vote was almost unanimous, with the choice to remove Alastair's blindfold winning by a landslide. The commander was pleased they were able to decide without descending into more arguments.
"Thank you all - it's decided then. The blindfold comes off," Atlanta said, undoing the gauze tied around the Prince's eyes. She turned to the acrobat who had interjected with a few remarks. "Very good points, Onyx. This could be helpful for everyone."
Their resident werewolf seemed nervous about something. Atlanta herself was a little dense, but she made eye contact with Arys to show she'd heard her. The commander hadn't picked up on anything amiss yet, so she concentrated, tuning her eyes and ears to the unfamiliar forest sounds. What had the werewolf noticed?

Alastair Brungard
Prince of Delra
Location: Edge of Forest
Tags: Phoenix Squad

A smile danced upon the Prince's face as one rebel affixed him a creative nickname. What a quaint and clever sense of humor. Soon, the revolutionaries' commander unfastened the blindfold around Alastair's head. The Prince sent an affable smile in the nicknamer's direction before addressing all their peers.
"Thank you. You shall not regret this choice," Alastair told them, his expression earnest and determined. Green fire flickered in eyes that turned in the werewolf lass's direction. "I advise you trust Lady Arys' judgement - I too suspect danger at hand. Perhaps you should arm yourselves in preparation."

Alastair continued onwards by the commander's side as they travelled the final stretch of the woods. A growing suspicion began to form as the trees thinned, as shrubbery became more scarce, as the sound of faraway trains roared in the distance. They were nearing the edge of the forest now, and what the Prince saw confirmed his intuition. A legion of perhaps twenty Royal Guards, armed with various blades and led by a certain knave.
The Prince exhaled an exasperated sigh. Out of all the ignoble, malodorous tramps that had to jeopardize a potential alliance, of course they encountered Captain Wayne and his undignified crowd of felons. Barbaric despots, the lot of them, representing nothing the Royal Guard stood for by principle.
"This ambush was meant for me," Alastair told the rebels with a disappointed shake of his head. His voice was low, not yet audible by the waiting forces. "I will speak to them. In the meantime, I ask you arm yourselves if you have not done so already. Ah, and I will not fault you for pointing an arrow at me to discourage my escape." That was a 'friendly' suggestion to reassure the rebels. With this many archers on the team, it was quite foolish for Alastair to run.
Leaving them with those ominous words, the Prince turned and walked forth to face his father's brigade. He was well aware he would not be greeted with open arms by these uncouth heathens.

Ardai Fairchild
Shadow puppets
Location: Streets of Oneta
Tags: Team Omega

Caleb tuned out of the conversation, then returned with a report on their teammates. Sounded like they were unharmed and getting along just peachy. At the summoner's next words, however, Ardai's beaming expression turned thoughtful. Planning was always the difficult part, especially for a dumbass with the brains of a juvenile monkey. "Uhh... I could use my shadow puppets for the graffiti. Pose them like flat pictures on the wall without actually hurting anything."
His shadows would disappear the moment Royal Guards shone their flashlights. However, they could use this to their advantage... "What if I made a giant shadow-spider for our 'graffiti'? Caleb could summon a real spider, make it look like the little guy caused the shadow. Roy will look so stupid!"
They were drawing close to the train station now. The grand, pearly building in the distance was unmistakable. Seeing all this beautiful architecture made Ardai feel guilty about the idea of wrecking it, so fake shadow graffiti might be best for their consciences.

Sycamore Jin
Phoenix
Location: Headquarters
Tags: Aida and Kevin

Back at Headquarters, fresh scars marked the foreheads of three newly-fledged rebels. Now, the trio had time to make preparations before joining the Phoenix Squad.
One feathered friend, in particular, had to take drastic measures to even appear human...

After a grueling session of clipping and shaving, Sycamore finally entered the common room to meet her friends. She was wearing a t-shirt that fit normal human arms, now that her wing feathers were cut and plucked away. Her eyebrow crests and peacock-like tail had been trimmed down in a similar manner. The color of her shaved-down eyebrows was still off, though.. white and gold stubble didn't exactly scream 'human". Perhaps Aida could help her later.
"Hey... How do I look?" Sycamore asked a little awkwardly. She slid into one of the raggedy couches, a smile lighting up her gentle features. "I can't wait to join the squad. I've read so many books about the districts, but I don't think that compares to the real thing."

[Stumpy.]

Robin took this advice to heart, and wasted no time choosing a tree. She quickly walked over to Gavotte, tapped him on rhe shoulder, and morioned upwards at the trees. In a few brief momers, she'd vanished from rhe group of rebels and had quickly scaled rhe tree, now watching from the branches above. She avoided shifting just for the time being, not wanting to possibly alert anyone that the rebels could use their powers. She crouched carefully on the branch, her net tossed over her shoulder. How many people have a bone to pick with the Prince? Seemingly a lot.

Aida looked up as Sycamore entered the room, a slight frown crossing her face. Her surprisingly natural pink eyes faded to a slightly duller shade, though once Aida blinked, they'd returned to normal. It wasn't clear if that was related to her district power, or her natural one. Of course she understood why her friend had to lose all of her lovely feathers, but that didn't make it any less sad.
"Oh, babe! It looks lovely. And I'm excited, too!" Aida replied, standing up as she spoke. She tossed her currently bright red hair over her shoulder as she walked, stumbling a bit as it thumped heavily against her back.
"I wonder what our first mission will be? There's so many possibilities! I really hope that we get to go to Fivana." Aida had heard stories about the district from her mother, but the place just sounded so amazing and bright. Just the thought of going was enough to fill Aida with excitement.

[Zyn]

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♕ Male || Eighteen || Telekinesis || Team Alpha
♕ Location: The Clearing
♕ Tags: Onyx, Team Alpha
♕ Mood: Calm, Confident, Wary
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After years of being Onyx's friend Quinn could tell that the answer he had given wasn't one hundred percent believed. However he assumed that his friend chalked it up to the mission getting to him. He didn't know for sure since his friend didn't bring it up, something he was grateful for. To be honest he was sure what he would have said if Onyx had pried further. His own gaze followed Onyx's as their eyes drifted towards the prince's head and they started answering his question. It seemed that his friend still had doubts about the prince's words, not that he could fault them he had similar doubts floating through his mind. Of course those doubts had be drowned out by the voice in his head seemed to take pleasure in dragging him down. With a quick nod of his head he trained his gaze on Onyx. "I agree, which he seems to be all for an alliance we can't rule out the possibility of it being a trap. You should bring it up to Atlanta later once we are safety on the train. She might have a few ideas on how to broach the idea with the others" he said reasonably. He wanted to believe the words the prince was telling them but until now that was all that they were. There was no doubt that taking the more peaceful approach would benefit the prince as well making his plea for peace a possible trick. So while he was more than willing to give the guy the chance to prove that they were truly on their side and not just planning something else he also had to keep on his toes. With that lovely thought he felt himself drifting back into his thoughts again.

Quinn was only pulled from his thoughts at the sound of Atalanta calling for a vote. It seemed that the prince had suggested the removal of their blindfold. It was a reasonable request after all they did know the lay of the land much better than anyone else present. That coupled with the fact that if they ran into anyone it would be even more suspicious to have the prince among with them a blindfold on. He opened to mouth to say something about it when his friend beat him to it. Closing his jaw with an audible click he turned his attention to Onyx. It seemed that his friend had similar thoughts to his own. Once they finished speaking he lifted his own hand to signal that he also was pro taking the blindfold off. He was the last to vote and as soon as he voted Atlanta announced the results of the votes and started to take off the blindfold. His own gaze flicker around them when he heard Arys' voiced worries and his grip tightened on his bow. He didn't want to use it again so soon but if he had to he was ready to. However nothing really happened after that, not that he doubted his fellow ally. It just make him more uneasy, who knew what their resident werewolf had sensed but it couldn't have been any good. As the came onto the finial stretch of the forest he started to understand what it was that Arys' had sensed. He could hear the soft movements of people ahead of them. Unfortunately he didn't speak up soon enough since a small part of him hoped that he was imagining it. It was a hope that was dashed as soon as the legion of Royal Guards came into view. His grip on his bow tightened once more and he cast he gaze towards their commander before rounding on the prince. The moment the prince recommended arming themselves he flicked out an arrow and readied his bow without actually raising towards the Royal Guards. He didn't want to screw up whatever it was that the Prince had planned.

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☯ Female || Eighteen || Shields || Team Omega
☯ Location: The Streets of Oneta
☯ Tags: Team Omega
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Aisling listened silently as the group started to come up with ideas, Ardai seemed very excited about some good old fashioned pranking. To be honest she wasn't really shocked about that, what surprised her was how the rest of the team seemed to get behind the idea. It wasn't often that pranking was endorsed even by the quieter members of the Phoenix Squad. Her brows shot up at the idea of graffiti, her heart ached at the idea of the pretty white city being tarnished. With a swift shake of her head she pushed that thought from her mind, she couldn't be thinking like that. If it would help the two teams that had the prince with them then she would do anything. Her eyes widened slightly when Freyja stared at her and Caleb, she hadn't said anything but she supposed her actions earlier had made it seem like she was a leader. Which she wasn't much of leader despite taking the lead on several occasions this mission so far. So instead of saying anything she turned her attention to Caleb who was giving them a report on the other team. From what she could take away from he was saying it seemed like things were going well enough. With that Caleb seemed to move right back to their diversion idea. "Did you have something in mind?" she asked. From the way he had spoken she had sensed that he had an idea forming. Her attention was then pulled to Ardai who had an idea about a spider and a shadow spider, it could work and it wouldn't hurt this lovely city. However she didn't know how to say that she agreed with this idea so she just nodded encouragingly towards Ardai.

[DetectiveLunar]

Kevin Fernandez//18//Male//Base//Tags: Sycamore & Aida

Kevin looked up from the flower crown he’d been weaving together during the wait. He looked over at Sycamore and couldn’t help but feel a little bit weirded out. He’d gotten so used to seeing her with her nice golden wings and tail that seeing her without them was a bit weird to him. He smiled at her and replied,”I agree! You look beautiful, just like you always do.” He laughed at Aida’s excitement about their first mission though he immediately put on a face of slight disgust when she mentioned Fivana. Sure Fivana sounded like a nice and fun place to be but their fashion sense was something that he wasn’t very fond of. Honestly it made Kevin want to cry from how horrible their clothes are. The colors clash and make such a unpleasant combination! “Fivana does sound like a nice place. Maybe we’ll be lucky and that’ll be the first place we’ll go to!” He replied a bit reluctantly. He didn’t want to put down his friend’s hopes just because he didn’t like the way their outfits looked.