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improvking- GODKING : main handle
- Necrophades : "serious" handle
- understanding : anon/alias (polite persona)
- Fritvælge : for sub-cult business
improvking- GODKING : main handle
- Necrophades : "serious" handle
- understanding : anon/alias (polite persona)
- Fritvælge : for sub-cult business
Action, Dyster wandering post-event. icons are white fur but he's a gray shade boi
Date: 2023-02-07 09:11 am (UTC)He hasn't gone home yet. All this time, he's been wandering Dyster, in one form or another. Today, he's shapeshifted into a wolf that is not his overpowered tier 2 wolf form. Rather, it looks surprisingly similar to his werewolf travel form, and doesn't give off the same oppressive, angered aura as the tier 2 buff.
The ruff of fur that cascades down his neck and shoulders and which also creates a fringe of bangs that would be unmistakable to anyone who knows him...well, it's a pretty dead giveaway. Even with the silvery gray cloak he's wearing.
It's for the better, since he's basically walking aimlessly, head down, paws gently moving along the dark pathways between living spaces within Dyster.
He doesn't even realize...that he's walking towards a familiar face. His head's down, and he doesn't have werewolf senses despite his looks.
Why would he be looking for the Ring-Spirit at this point anyway? Ryou's out for a walk...but he's been avoiding people like the plague for days, and is only out stretching his legs because he can't very well stare into the courtyard pond and lose himself in the lilies forever, right?]
sorry for the delay on my end asdsa... also upcoming-[cw: mouth/teeth body horror]
Date: 2023-02-10 03:23 am (UTC)Hey.
[ Should Ryou look up, the Ring-Spirit looks normal. ]
...You feenin' any begger yen?
[ Ok scratch that, there is clearly something wrong with his tongue. The Ring-Spirit pulls a face as he realizes how he sounds. ]
...Fug, I gueth I neen do gen uth'oo nese...
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Date: 2023-02-10 07:52 am (UTC)--oh.]
Ah, Spirit, I...
...are you alright?
[Listen. He knows he was asked a question first, but it's not half as important as needing to know why the Ring-Spirit's talking like that.]
and now [cw: mouth/teeth body horror]
Date: 2023-02-10 08:26 am (UTC)Yeah, i'th buth -
[ The Ring-Spirit cuts himself off with a groan, finally giving up. He rolls his eyes, then sticks out his tongue and points at it by way of explanation.
Along the edge of his tongue, the Ring-Spirit once had avian ridges, much like the creepy "teeth" ducks and geese have on their tongues; those are gone now. Instead, he sports a new row of actual, human teeth. On his tongue.
They're proving an obstacle to speech. ...He'll adjust.
Also, Ryou may notice that the Ring-Spirit's right hand, which he's been wrapping with athletic tape since the Fourth marked a bunch of them, is now unwrapped - and free of the hieratic four tattoo that Atem may or may not have mentioned (or maybe even Ryou'd asked about the tape previously; the Ring-Spirit certainly would have explained the unwanted tattoo if he'd asked). ]
haha WOW THAT'S SURE SOMETHING RING MAN
Date: 2023-02-10 09:05 am (UTC)But when the Ring-Spirit reveals his tongue-teeth, all else is forgotten. Ryou leans in closer, eyes widening.]
Oh...that's...
[Creepy? Weird? Inconvenient?]
...cool.
[This is Ryou Bakura. This is his brand. And for now, the teeth take precedent over the freshly-unbandaged hand.]
if I hadn't wanted the demon eyes more he'd have gotten these ages ago,
Date: 2023-02-10 09:21 am (UTC)He lets Ryou take a good long look, but he does need to use his tongue if he's going to talk at all, so eventually the "show" part ends for the "tell" follow-up. ]
I' mabes dalging harder, bud I'r ged uth'oo ib.
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Date: 2023-02-11 08:52 am (UTC)[Ryou's lip curls upward, revealing his pointed teeth. Months. It had taken around a month to talk around them without sounding off, but he had the time to learn when he was keeping to himself and sticking to the streets.
It seems like such a long time ago, though...since he'd had the trouble..]
Also my fog form. I could speak in it, but it took practice to talk around the different shapes. I wish I had advice...but overenunciating helped with the teeth, I suppose.
[This is actually helping him loosen up. Whenever it's not his problems, things are easier when he's trying to fix them.]
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Date: 2023-02-12 09:14 am (UTC)Nagth 'enth. I'b gonna dalg bore - nore - care-hu-ny.
[ Ugh, even when he tries to enunciate real slow, the sounds come out wrong. He gives an impatient huff. Well, whatever. Beats having a four stuck on him. He sighs, resigned to it, brushing his feather-hair back with one hand and looks at Ryou for a moment. He did notice Ryou relax when they stopped focusing on him, so maybe... maybe, the Ring-Spirit thinks, he shouldn't redirect the conversation. ]
'hragith, dath wha' I neen.
[ ...This would be easier if...
The Ring-Spirit snaps his fingers abruptly, having an idea. ]
Con ober do by b'nafe? I can uth a pag dere an' buth ri' thid 'own. Eathear for bofa uth.
[ As he "speaks", he first gestures back towards the way he came and then mimes writing, hoping to clarify the mess that are the sounds coming from his mouth. ]
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Date: 2023-02-13 05:59 am (UTC)There's a difference between talking past a jacked-up nose, and having the main part of your speaking-bits be nearly unusable. So, when the Ring-Spirit offers(? Ryou is pretty sure he is anyway) Ryou an invitation to his Dyster-home, Ryou simply nods and offers him to lead the way.]
Sure? I...probably shouldn't be walking around so much right now anyway, just in case.
[In case he wears himself out--he'd just revived recently--or in case he finds someone ready to lay him out for being responsible for the mid-month event.
Either or.]
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Date: 2023-02-14 12:49 am (UTC)Perhaps(?) unsurprisingly, the structure the Ring-Spirit leads him to looks like a miniature ancient Egyptian temple - albeit one that's half sunk into the ground. The entryway is imposing, as tall as a two-story house... once past the threshold, the building turns into a long walled-in courtyard lined by thick columns. The courtyard is a good twenty feet long, on a descending incline so steep that the middle walkway is simply stairs; at the foot of which lies a large arch opening into an underground chamber. That chamber proves to be fairly dark, being dimly lit only by a pair of torches, one on either side of a small door opposite the open arch. This room serves no clear purpose, being sizable enough but containing nothing besides a double-row of columns and the aforementioned torches. Through the small door...
...is a windowless but nonetheless well lit modern Japanese-style apartment. There's even a place to remove and stash your shoes by the door.
The Ring-Spirit, barefoot as he always these days, simply ignores that, walking right past it; but it's there.
He disappears into what appears to be a small bedroom off to one side, and returns with the notepad he mentioned, quickly scribbling out:
I'd offer snack but haven't stocked up yet
There is a small kitchen along the back wall, but if his note is to be believed, the fridge and cabinets are currently empty.
The Ring-Spirit settles by the kotatsu in the middle of the living area, placing the pad down on the table, and waits for Ryou to join him.
The apartment section of this place isn't fully on display as Ryou enters, there being a few closed doors; but it sure looks like it's not even as big as Ryou's own apartment had been. ]
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Date: 2023-02-21 08:59 am (UTC)When the temple chamber gives away to a more modern Japanese-style living arrangement though...Ryou can't help but blink in confusion. He's overcome with a strange feeling--homesickness? Even now?--as he stands at the entryway for a few seconds longer.
He's somewhat lost in the old familiarity of a place like this, to the point that the Ring-Spirit communicating with the notepad doesn't initially hit home.
After a few long, possibly worrying moments, the shade shakes his head to clear it, then answers back:]
N-no, it's...it's alright, I'm not that hungry.
[Probably odd for Ryou, but...well, the situation is what it is. He walks tiredly to the table, moving as if he's on autopilot and making himself comfortable afterward. If it's a heated kotatsu then...by god, Ryou really will feel all the more homesick.]
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Date: 2023-02-27 11:07 pm (UTC)He slides the pad forward, looking away uncomfortably.
sorry I wasn't there ]
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Date: 2023-03-03 09:10 am (UTC)When the Ring-Spirit slides the pad over, and Ryou sees what he wrote...his heart feels as if it skips uncomfortably.]
I wouldn't have wanted you there. Everyone I ran into, I fought them. Even other Fog followers. Humans. Everyone.
...I didn't want to fight you, Spirit.
1/3
Date: 2023-03-03 10:58 pm (UTC)I 'ouldem 'a pawed ba -
2/3
Date: 2023-03-03 11:00 pm (UTC)fair enough
on the edge of the page with a wry expression, then turns the writing around to face Ryou. ]
3/3
Date: 2023-03-03 11:04 pm (UTC)but know I wouldn't mind. if you ever fight me, no matter the reason, don't feel obligated to regret it. if you do, I get it, but if you don't that's ok. it's always ok.
When he spins the pad around again for Ryou to read, he reaches over for one of Ryou's oversized hands to give it a squeeze. He smiles somewhat helplessly at him; honestly, after everything, he deserves to have Ryou kick his ass, and he'll never quite know what to do with the fact that just doing so would make Ryou feel worse. ]
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Date: 2023-03-04 09:28 am (UTC)You know me well enough, Spirit. You know...I regret a great many things.
[He breathes out a slow, achingly heavy breath.]
I told Atem I wouldn't regret this. For the most part I don't, but...it's hard not to feel as if all I've done is cause pain to people who don't really deserve it. I know that things could have been worse, and that some enjoyed their time as a shade. It's not all bad.
I just can't stop fully being who I am and pretending that it didn't affect me, I suppose. Or...pretend that I enjoyed hurting my friends.
[Or, though he doesn't say it aloud, pretend that death didn't hurt every time it happened.]