MINI MAVEN.

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( ❤ IDIOT #1 )

( ❤ COLONEL‌ )

“It’s missing. How did you misplace a robot that large, exactly?”

Jade’s doubt when Saphir comes scrambling to proclaim that Kaiser Dist is missing is palpable. Surely after last time the man had given it fail-safes so that only he could activate…

Oh. Now it becomes all-too clear. The following sigh is a little more tired than he means it to be, while he checks his phone again to track his double. Definitely moving too quickly to be on foot…

They would have to work fast, then.

“It would appear we’re after a set of robo-nappers.”

How terribly inconvenient. No doubt they were working their way as far away as possible before anyone caught on. Oh well. Tilting his head, Jade’s voice raises while he calls down the hallway.

“Anise, are you coming or not?”

Though it’s less of a question and more of an assumption. He knows better than to think she’ll sleep through this.

@doctorgneiss @galdigger

“Who does my copy think he is?! He can’t steal both my face and my work!”

Saphir had been steaming ever since delivering the news to Jade. Judging by how red his face was turning, the rice would be ready soon.

He was at least channeling his rage – it looked like he’s already whirlwinded through the garage/lab to get supplies for their upcoming trip. Most prominent was the portable power drill that he was waving around to accentuate what he was saying.

“Anise! Make sure you bring Tokunaga.” He pointed the drill directly at her, narrowly missing the wall.

“Anyone who steals my genius work of art deserves to be beaten down by my other genius works of art!”

@galdigger​, @doctorbalfour

“I heard you the first time!”

Hands wrap around the plush toy by her bedside, settling it on her shoulders to the tune of Dist bickering down the hall. Lips pursed tightly, memories that aren’t hers seem to bob and weave their way through her thoughts, and Anise gives her head a hasty shake before she turns the corner to the living room where two familiar figures stand.

Frustration in the youngest in the room manifests in the form of puffed out cheeks and a knitting of the brows, gloved hands settling on her hips as she points a finger at the significantly less mature of the two.

“Ugh, I can’t! They sealed my Tokunaga and I can’t use it at all! And stop waving that around before you break something!” It’s maddening, but that’s the hand she’s been dealt. This wouldn’t be as much of a problem if somebody hadn’t let his giant robot get mechanapped. 

“Colonel, they’re going pretty fast...are we going to be able to catch up on foot?” All she’s got is Guardian, which likely won’t be much help, but hopefully herself is a lot easier to convince than...well, these two. She shifts in place, frown growing. “We can’t let them get away, or we’re going to be in trouble...dealing with more of you two is bad enough already.”

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( ❤ DAD #2 )

@galdigger

“Anise? Aaaaaanise! Where are you?”

“More importantly, where are my slippers?! It’s the weekend, you know, and I can’t enjoy the weekend without my slippers! Aaaanise!”

“Pa-pa! You’re yelling too loud!”

What does he mean by ‘more importantly’, anyway? There’s the subtle brush of dirt off her knees as she walks in the back door, hands on her hips to match the disinterested look on her face.

“Boo, why would I know where they are? Maybe you just lost them!”

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( ❤ charun )

[Blinking a moment, softly bewildered, you move to pull your hat off for a moment, proving to her that your horns are, in fact, attached to your head. What kinda weird costume would that be, anyways?]

CHARUN: See CHARUN: Real horns

[As you return your hat to your head and shift it back into place, you give a soft hum, mulling over her question with a quiet air of curiosity. Another country… odd to think that people know so little of your species. Back home, Alternia is a major power, something everyone knows and fears and reveres for their ruthless nature.]

[You suppose, not everybody could hear of your species violent reputation. Especially not when you’re around people from other dimensions.]

CHARUN: Its another planet CHARUN: Never heard of.. Auldrant CHARUN: So i guess were even

CHARUN: Yeah CHARUN: Though the shape.. varies CHARUN: No two trolls look alike CHARUN: .. CHARUN: .. CHARUN: I dont think

Oh-- yep, those are sure real. Anise gives a little stunned nod in response, idly wondering how they deal with putting a hat on every day with those horns in the way before chasing the thought off. Focus, Anise, focus. Enough about that.

“Eh, you haven’t? Well, I guess that is fair if I haven’t heard of yours....” Gently shuffling backwards, she leans a bit against the brick of the alley wall opposite the dumpster now that she’s gotten the closer look she was looking for. The smell was beginning to get a bit overwhelming, anyway. Having a conversation with somebody standing freely in garbage is not exactly how she expected her day to go, but she’s a bit too invested in it now to give up.

“Wow...” All different? How many trolls were there? Geez, that sounded like a lot. Then again, she supposes humans weren’t too different. “Nobody has horns where I come from. Well, not humans anyway...there’s plenty of monsters that do. They’re not exactly friendly, though.” 

“I’ve never even really heard about other planets before. Is it like this place on Alternia, or is it really different?” A moment of pause, and Anise gives a sheepish giggle, rubbing the back of her head as realization smacks her in the face. “Ehe, oops, I guess I’m asking a lot of questions....sorry!”

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❤ SUBVERSION ❤

ANISE BALFOUR. 14.

Your local cute, completely and utterly harmless middle school student! 

Orphaned from a young age, and then adopted about 3 years ago. Doesn’t try to dwell on it, she’s very happy as is, thank you.

Loves cute things and sweet things. You know what else is cute and sweet? Her

Cake connoisseur 

She may not have Fonic Artes, but this won’t stop her from kicking a man in the shins. She was taught well.

Lives with her loving papa and her papa who’s a lot more pitiful

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so, the last two months have arguably not been the best for replies. between work, other things and the holiday blues. the new year is a time for new things, however, and so i’m going to do my best to be more on top of them!

that being said, i’m aware i never finished writing starters on my old rp ad. i apologize if i never got to you, and you’re more than welcome to like the new one i’ll make after the event to get one! i will not be dropping threads, unless you would like to. thank you for reading!

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( ❤ VIOLET ) ‌

         Completely absorbed in the latest sequel to one of her favorite fantasy series, Violet doesn’t even notice the cafe filling up as its peak hours near. Especially with her earbuds in… she doesn’t even look up and misses the majority of the words from shadow that looms in front of her.

         Pulling an earbud well… out of her ear as she realizes the other girl was standing there awaiting her response ( she assumed ), Violet blinks several times, takes a look around as the busy sounds of small chatter and tinkering silverware finally reach her ear. Glancing at the beaming child and then her plate, she attempts to quickly string together her current situation. With a reluctant nod, she lazily gestures for the other to take the seat across from her.

         “Sure… I just hope you’re not a loud chewer. Still… it would surprise me if you managed to do that with cake.”

She takes a moment to reply, and for a moment she wonders if she’s being ignored. Luckily, the other girl pulls...something out of her ears and actually acknowledges her, which means she won’t have to go off and stew in anger for a while. The affirmative lets her tone down the notch on her smile a bit, but still retaining it in earnest as she hops onto the opposing chair with renewed vigor.

“Nope, I’m quiet as can be! You can count on me!” Sure, the other girl doesn’t seem very eager to have her there, but a win is a win!

She only gets one quick forkful down before she looks back up though, focused on trying to get a cook icing to cake ratio. It would be rude to sit down and ignore her, although she’s not too sure on the other’s stance on conversation. Still, it doesn’t hurt to try, and it might help her curiosity in the long run.

“So...have you been here a long time? There’s a lot of stuff I haven’t seen before here, it almost gives me a headache!”

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( ❤ CHARUN )

[With her demeanor changing in the blink of an eye, you lean back in surprise, eyes widening just a tad while still maintaining their constant sleepy look. Seems she’d never met a troll before… what a great first impression on the species you were, you mused.]

CHARUN: ..Yeah CHARUN: Theyre real CHARUN: Would be kind of CHARUN: .. CHARUN: .. CHARUN: A weird accessory CHARUN: I think

[You drum your fingers along the edge of the trashcan, glancing off to the side.]

CHARUN: Alternia CHARUN: Doubt youve.. ever heard of it CHARUN: If im the first troll youve met

After everything she’s seen, a person with horns shouldn’t seem as surprising, but there’s nothing wrong with a healthy dose of curiosity. No matter how old she tries to act, she’s definitely an adult yet.

“Hmmm...I don’t know, maybe if it were a costume?” A finger taps her chin at the idea, recalling a certain outfit she’s run around in before. It didn’t have horns, but those would have worked just as well...maybe she shouldn’t mention that, though. She’d rather not admit the odd outfits she’s run around the battlefield in to a stranger so easily.

“Alternia...? I don’t think so....Is that another country? No, I don’t think so, so....another planet? I didn’t think there was life on other planets besides Auldrant!” To be fair, she knows little about space. Besides her own planet and the Fon Belt, she has other things to worry about.

“Does everybody look like you in Alternia? You know, with horns and sharp teeth?” She bobs somewhat to the left somewhat to the right, like she’s trying to get a better look. How different would it be, she wonders....

[jesuisceleine]

chibi skit portraits - anise tatlin

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Getting out of bad situations is, usually, easy. You just need to rely on your steps. Anise, being who she is, has plenty of those. So much that she has them memorized! They’re really quite simple:

Step 1. Sweettalk your way out with your adorable, charming charisma.

Step 2. When that fails, just threaten them. 

Step 3. Realize you are in fact absolutely powerless and simply throwing yourself onto one enemy of many will not end in your favor.

Step 4. Run. 

Sometimes step 4 has complications. Obstacles, foreign territory, nothing she hasn’t handled before. She thinks she manages to lose them at some point, darting around alleys and across roads, but a quick peek around the corner proves they’re still there. Damn. The fact this place is half-abandoned at this time of day is both a blessing and a curse.

Being so caught up in her spying, Anise doesn’t even notice the other girl walking until she’s almost past her, and a surprised noise slips past her throat before she reaches out and yanks her back by an arm. Sure, she’s the one who crossed them ( by accident, mind you, she doesn’t go looking for trouble ), but they didn’t seem to be in a very welcoming mood either.

“Hey, wait!” It’s a low, sharp hiss, younger pressing her other gloved finger to her lips before gesturing to the street she was just about to head down. Finger point, head shake. X-Shape with the hands. Is she getting her point across? Hopefully.

@fantasynature

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( ❤ IDIOT #1 )

“Anise? What are you doing here?”  The sudden pink weight pulling on his arm almost pulled him right off his hoverboard. He instinctively tried to pull his arm free, but her latch was fierce.

It didn’t take a genius to piece together what was going on; Anise, clinging to his arm, and a uniformed officer clearly in pursuit of her – she had come to Saphir for his help. And, surely, as a friend from work that he hadn’t seen in forever (a year or so?), he could do her this favor.

“Don’t you think I’m a little young to be your papa? I’m more of the older brother-type! Officer, this is my little sister, you see! Although not that much littler, we’re really actually close in age! What a prankster, isn’t she?”

He patted her on the head, between her pigtails, for effect.

Saphir had never feared god.

...This.

This...idiot.

Her smile freezes on her face at the other’s gloved hands patting the top of her head, taking a moment to compute he really, actually just said that. With the officer right there. The officer who’s looking between them both with a hard line for an expression, and it’s in this moment Anise came to realize her own folly. Alright. 

If that’s how it has to be, so be it.

“Ah...Ahahaha, yup! That’s it, so you don’t have to worry about anything, OK? Sorry to bother, but we’ve got to get back to Mama now— !” Anise’s smile seems a bit more frigid, but she still manages to keep it going for the man in uniform as she digs gloved nails into the scruff of the other’s impeccably clean suit, yanking the other man along as fast as she can go. Whether or not he can keep up on that thing he’s on is irrelevant; the faster they get away from here the better.

His complaints or anything go completely ignored until she drags him to the furthest edge of the crowd, taking a look around to make sure they hadn’t been followed or anything before taking a deep breath in....

And then roundhousing her foot straight into the twiggy expanse of Dist’s ankle.

“Ugh, seriously, you’re hopeless! I went through all that trouble putting on my best cute face, and it was completely wasted!” Eyebrow twitching, she grinds her heel a little further in, just to drive the message home. Perish. “And what’s with ‘I’m too young’?! Don’t try to act younger than you are when you’re the same age as the Colonel! I’ll bury you...!”

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( ❤ COLONEL‌ )

“Quite so.”

His affirmation is short, but that’s only because he fully intends to clarify more for her later. For the moment, they still have a more pressing issue. With a sigh, Jade gives his spear a casual twirl while lifting it into something closer to a fighting stance.

“If they know what’s good for them, I daresay they’ll rethink it now, before I remember more artes were that came from.”

He says that, but it hardly seems necessary with the bunch already backing away, soggy as they pick themselves up from the earlier downpour. Good. He isn’t really in that much of a fighting mood tonight.

Once satisfied that they were gone, his arms flicks and the spear disappears again, while his eyes move to the girl at his side. A sight for sore eyes, to be sure, even if this place wasn’t the ideal for a reunion.

“Good, you appear unharmed. Perhaps we should find somewhere more comfortable to catch up.”

Before they risk that group coming back with more of their ilk, or worse.

Right to the point, as he tended to be....most of the time. Really, she was glad to see him, if not a bit surprised. But a familiar face does help to soothe her somewhat frazzled nerves as the situation weighs down on her shoulders.

That being said, she certainly doesn't look as threatening as the older man does with nothing but a regular-sized plush toy in her hands, but she still manages to pull something off. Who would she be if she didn’t?

“Yeah, that’s right! And you better watch your damn backs, you hear me?!” The grating tone of her voice is back as she shakes Tokunaga menacingly, watching them scamper off with damp clothes and equally bruised egos to match. She keeps watch as well, cheeks puffed out and mouth twisted as they disappear around a corner, finally lowering it just in time to hear Jade speak up.

Right, catch up. They certainly had a lot to do in that regard.

“Physically, maybe, but emotionally, no way! I woke up somewhere weird, and I can’t use my Fonic Artes, and Tokunaga’s broken, and they took my money, and I got lost already, and  — !!” Oh, geez. Alright, deep breath. Irritation furrowing slender brows, she gently sets Tokunaga back on her shoulders, taking a moment to calm herself and adjust the plush before finally turning to face him.

“Uuum, but, on that note...” Anise shuffles her feet for a moment, before letting her shoulders relax somewhat. If the smile that spreads across her face is any indication, she’s at least trying to fall back into her usual routine. It’s easy with him, after all, “If we’re going to talk somewhere, surely you won’t mind treating a pretty lady to something to eat?” Wiggle, wiggle.” Along with a biiiig explanation, right, Colonel? ♥ ”

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doctorgneiss‌

Haha, Anise… you’re always such a kidder… where’s the door, by the way? Behind Tokunaga?

You aren’t trying to run, are you? Not from the super smart, cute, endearing Anise~chan? There’s no escape, you know.....

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doctorgneiss‌:

Sometimes you have to break a few eggs to invent a new branch of science.

Hey hey, you know, your head is kind of egg shaped too. I bet if I gave it a goooood punch, it’d crack! ❤

[leacherous]

Who’s scheming? Certainly not us~!

The last commission from today’s stream! Gotta love these innocent, upstanding citizens who’re never /ever/ up to no good <3

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This place is definitely big, that’s for sure.

She has her own complaints about the place, most of them about the ‘being unable to leave’ part, but she will admit that there is a lot she hasn’t seen before. The food, and the buildings, which seem a lot bigger and brighter than what she’s used to, and even the people —

If she has to be stuck here, then she might as well make the best of it.

It’s kind of odd that the water remains still and the fog remains heavy, even as the light wind rustles her hair. Gloved fingers absentmindedly swirling in the blue that just seems to get darker the further down she tries to peer, she seems intent on trying to pinpoint whatever’s down there.

“Boo, I wonder what’s down there....” A squint, and Anise leans in a bit closer, but not close enough to fall in. She’s had enough dangerous falls in the past few years, thank you very much.

That being said, she doesn’t seem to be paying much attention to the presence of anyone else.

“Ah, but a castle, I wanna see it! A glimmering palace under the sea, just like a fairy tale..! Huhu....”

@ladyofsado

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( ❤ charun )

[You had already made a habit of rummaging around in the trash way before arriving in Spirale, but now it seemed like there was nothing else to do. You didn’t have your hive, or your stash of materials, or… anything, really. You didn’t even have Internet connection! So what else was a troll to do?]

[You hadn’t found any big garbage dumps yet, like the one from home that you found so many interesting materials from, but you had found some pretty rank dumpsters in the cities. Which was good enough for you, you supposed. You never know what those big metal structures are hiding inside until you look…]

[…Old food, usually. Some strange ringtailed trash eating creatures that never took too kindly to you landing feet first in their lunches. Seems humans didn’t have as much interesting trash as trolls did, but it never hurt to look.]

[And that’s just what you were doing, digging around through the trash in an artistic stupor before a voice outside cuts through the stagnant air and you jump, peeking out with only your eyes visible to the source of the noise. It was… a human? You supposed. She looked human, but if your time here is any indication, not everything is as it seems. And you don’t want to offend anyone by guessing wrong about their species… if that’s even possible.]

[Though, you guess you wouldn’t really care if you did.]

[You pull yourself up to rest on your arms against the inside of the dumpster, not really doing anything to remove yourself from the pile of trash you’ve immersed yourself ankle deep into. Good thing you wear boots.]

CHARUN: Guess you could say.. im looking for something CHARUN: Though.. CHARUN: .. CHARUN: .. CHARUN: I dont really know what

It’s probably not any of her business as to why somebody would be trash-digging in the middle of the day, especially in a place like this, but it still garners a bit of attention. She wouldn’t mind helping if it was a lost item, although she’d rather...not dig her hands in any garbage, ever. The smell was enough for her, thanks.

Gently pushing herself up on her tiptoes, she catches a glimpse of yellow eyes staring at her, which earn a surprised blink. Yellow? She hasn’t seen that before...red, sure, but yellow? Twisting her head to the side gently to meet their gaze, she waits patiently for her answer, at least until the other opts to push themself up out of the garbage so she can get a better look.

Oh, they look....look....

“ — Hwah?!” A hand comes up to rub at brown eyes, as if to clear her vision. No, she’s not seeing things. The other’s skin is most definitely an ashen shade of grey, and are those...horns? Peeking out from the other’s hat? Sure, they could be fake, but they certainly look real...

“Hey, hey, those aren’t real, are they?” Curiosity piqued, she sucks it up and hops a little closer to the dumpster itself, peering up at the individual within it’s confines. Now that she’s up-close, they definitely seem to be attached...

“I’ve never seen a person with horns before!” Monster? Experiments...? From another planet? Ah, that’d be pretty rude to say, though..a hand gently adjusts the plush toy on her back, so it won’t fall off. “Where are you from? It can’t be Auldrant, so...unless you are, but I’d definitely have seen you before!” 

Previous question: forgotten.

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my name is anise tatlin and im going to eliminate dist the rose from the gene pool —