Code name: Redux

Welcome to the rp blog that overlooks the life of a hybrid Prex and their adopted family, enjoy your stay while watching Redux's life unfold.

[heyredux]

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Zach would only let out a chuckle at the claim that it was against the law. Well, he had certainly noticed that in these countries, away from his own it seemed to be quite frowned upon. Particularly in the busier parts of the city, but well… “ Is no stickler for rules. Laws meant to be broke, yes? Squatting never hurt anyone, ” he stated, half joking to try and lighten the atmosphere. He met plenty of anxious people, and it wasn’t like he could blame them. He knew first hand what sort of people one could run into. However, sniffing the ear, his eyes widened as he took a look at the snack the other was eating. Despite giving the other his space, he looked awfully interested in whatever the other was eating. “ Ah, Redux! Good name, my friend… You can call Zach, everyone does… ah, if not at work! ” he chuckled, waving his hand dismissively at the rude comments. He didn’t seem that bothered about it, nor was he in truth. He’d heard worse, and it was rather difficult to get under his skin. Instead he seemed amused. “ Bah, here old man think he speak perfect. Hide true nature. Sneaky, yes? ” he’d joke amused,  even if the question at hand always left him with a tinge of homesickness. “ Is from far far far, deep north in snowy mountains. Slavic country, yes? Was home before, but ah. Travel much with work now. ”

“Some laws” They then replied, as some laws were truly foolish. He felt like loitering was one of them, that and in some cases trespassing. Just let a boy free run, ignore that he’s on your roof and that free running is overall very dangerous. Let a boy liiiiiive.

Redux quickly took note of the man staring down his snack pack, well this was his. He bought it and he alone would munch on it! That being said, Redux shoved some of the mix into his mouth, being sure to keep his teeth hidden behind his hand as he did so.

“Makes sense...Travel will do that to a person. Though it does make a bird curious as to why you’re all the way out here. Big travel, eh?”

[heyredux]

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“ Opa- ”

Well, he certainly had failed at not startling the poor creature. He looked apologetic, taking note of the shift of the kid. The stranger certainly seemed shy, so Zach would try and accustom around it. He would refrain from approaching, touching the other. As much of a physical person as he was; he could easily enough recognize when it would hurt someone more than help. “ Everywhere is squatting spot, squatting is social activity, yes? Is okay, no one own. Is for everyone, my friend, ” he let out a breathe chuckle, looking out of the window, crossing his arms when he couldn’t smoke. Tapping his fingers against his arm, doing his best to keep track of his claws so they would not unsheath.

“ Is time yes? Don’t mind rain, but is bit much, even for old man like me, ” he let out a ‘tsk, shaking his head. “ Don’t need cold, is free time, can’t get sick now. ” Leaning against the wall, he gazed over the other, humming softly as he thought of ways to make the other more comfortable. “ Name is Zach, no need be stranger. But be comfort, yes? Old man dont get offended. ”

Shy was certainly one word for it, and overly cautious was another. Redux had always been the weary type after leaving his old family and being adopted into his new. “It’s mostly frowned upon and some places even ban it via law...You know, no loitering signs and such” Redux knew what the other was getting at in the end, that it was chill that he was here and yet he still felt anxious about this meeting. Redux watched the other carefully before allowing their gaze to fall to their snack, soon scooping out a fried pineapple bit for nibbling. “People around here call me Redux” They could tell that the other was trying to ease the situation, so he decided to attempt to play along. “You don’t sound like you’re from around here, accents pretty thick and English, well it’s getting there.” Rude bird.

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Of course it had started raining at the absolute worst time. Zach never really did mind it, but even he struggled in this type of storm, not to mention he was quite far away from his resting place. And he had no idea where the bar was at, considering he was new in this town, and locals had been less than helpful.

How lucky to at least have found a building, one that looked abandoned enough that he probably wouldn’t get in trouble for getting into. Not that he couldn’t get out of it most likely. Even luckier, company seemingly just appeared in the same room he was staying. Most likely to get shelter. It had him quite surprised for a moment, blinking to make sure it was real. But then, magic wasn’t exactly uncommon.

Whistling, both to notify the other of his presence and get his attention, he approached closer. Trying to do his best to not scare them. They looked rather upset with the situation, in contrast to the optimism emitting from the werekin.

━  “ Greetings, my friend, ” he grinned wolfishly, crooked despite trying to look friendly, despite a rather rugged appearance. “ Take shelter from rain, yes? Very lucky to have found, I have not seen rain this bad in very long time. ”

He fished up a cigarette, only to take note at how drenched even that was, mumbling a russian swear word before putting it back.

Redux jumped when he heard the whistle, almost ripping the back of trial mix open and spraying the contents everywhere. In a flash, the annoyed young man seemed to shift, suddenly turning meek and unable to make eye contact as he pulled down his beanie to cover up the third eye along with placing a hand over his mouth when he spoke in order to cover up his teeth. It was nice that being a monster wasn’t a death sentence and all but at the same time, Redux couldn’t help but feel self-conscious over his looks. That, and his species as rare as they were weren’t exactly on anyone's good list. He was pretty sure they still ate humans and most anything else that wandered into their territories in the mountains.  “U-uh, yeah...This your, um, squatting spot? Didn’t mean to intrude” Redux had never been good with strangers, they always made him nervous. It was a wonder he had friends at all with how he avoided people. “And it gets this way sometimes around this time of the, hm, year.” 

[heyredux]

Closed starter for @kaengeru Well, it was one of those nights it seemed where it sounded like the world's largest raccoon was back at it in the dumpsters behind some store in the middle of the night. But was it a raccoon? Oh no, instead it was the world's largest corvid and prankster, Redux. What were they digging for, who knew but they were making a decent amount of noise and probably getting into all sorts of adventures in there? It was only after a while did the lid to the dumpster creak open,  squinted eyes peering all about before the young man started to crawl out, something dead curled up in his arm, protected at if it were a child. It was certainly one of those nights were the bird's mind just, ‘Don’t you ever want to just go feral?’

[heyredux]

Closed starter for @undead-muses “Hey Redux, why don’t you go to the store and pick up some milk hey says, as if we don’t own a cornER STORE” To say that Redux was frustrated was an understatement as a storm poured down around him, in his hands was two bags of milk and some trail mix. The plastic was starting to dig into his palms while the bags slowly got heavier and heavier and even worse, he could feel his clothes sticking to his body. He hated it when it rained, it left him feeling disgusting and sadly this time all his layers of clothes weren’t protecting him or his phone. Soon his anger got the best of him and he shifted the bags into one hand as he pulled back his beanie to reveal the third eye along his forehead that quickly looked for a way out. In seconds it spied an open window to a building he assumed was abandoned, in seconds small purple particles began to form around his being and in the spot the third eye had spied. In seconds he would teleport inside the window, growling softly to himself as he put the bags down and examined the pink lines across his palm. Out of the rain for now. “I should text pops and tell him I’m waiting out the storm.” He sighed, but first thing first, he’d crack open that back of trail mix and take a little nibble as he watched the rain pour over the city.

[heyredux]

I have the sudden urge to write for Redux, so if anyone wants an open starter, just like away.

[chalk-boards]

sigh’s runner team and their fixer

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[theoiseaubird]

@maudunit requested a happy Redux and I do aim to please.

[heyredux]

Nsfw fun fact for the newcomers about Prexes, along with a few other facts.

Male Prexes are rather colorful, rarely having a black feather along their bodies while shifted. They also commonly borrow feathers from each other, trading a red for a blue or any of that to attempt to make themselves look better or if they have no friends, dying their feathers. Likewise, females are usually dull colors with maybe lightly colorful plumage but are much much bigger than their male counterparts and when nesting, more aggressive. Prexes have large batlike wings that have feathers on the outside. Unfortunately, they are not large enough to carry a Prexes weight and instead act in a way as large laaarge hands that grab onto prey after a Prex teleports closer, pulling them close to the predator into a deadly inescapable hug.  Prexes are kinda like the spotted hyena in the sense that female Prexes has pseudo dicks while shifted. 

[heyredux]

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I grunted slightly, some changes were starting to occur, a short snout had appeared on my face, my tail had been extended by a couple inches with a rounded tip so it would look more feline and less strange/possibly monster like

I wasn’t sure I remembered correctly how panther ears looked exactly, so that remained unchanged, unfortunately I had forgotten to attempt to change how my eyes appeared

I paused, then opened my eyes to look at myself, thinking and trying to decide if anything else feline like was missing…

It would be hard to hear at first, the sound was low but with time it picked up as Redux’s breath grew heavier and heavier. THIS WASN’T BETTER! THIS WAS BAD, BAD, BAD! The grinding of the teeth came back as Redux was having a mental fight with himself, as on one hand...Not a monster. But on the other, still, something that cannot walk around in public what so ever, the zoo would be called out here so fast. “N-no....No. This....Not better, not not. This isn’t...Why this form? Whhhy, we are in a city, not the jungle! Wait...where are panthers from?” Redux softly groaned, his stress making his stomach turn sour as he pulled out his phone to check where panthers were from. Not America he was sure. Even worse, he felt even less safe around this form. Big cats were bad, bad, bad.

[heyredux]

d-d-disgusting replied to your photo: I wanted to redraw Prex Redux with the things I...

(BABY!!!!)

A giant 9ft baby, who just wants a hug and to be told that everything it alright and this will be over soon.

[heyredux]

I wanted to redraw Prex Redux with the things I had forgotten, like the more colorful plumage, reddish black teeth, and horns. The lil glowy things around him is a good sign that he’d about to teleport/overly stressed.

[heyredux]

-part 1-

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I had noticed the sound of teeth grinding and the moment of frustration, causing some confusion to flare up in me, but I nodded…

I took a deep breath, it was better off that I do this quickly, the quick way… “whatever happens… don’t be scared” I said softly, then paused for a moment to attempt to come up with a creature that definitely didn’t seem too unusual… “house cat? No… my size is a problem… must be bigger… short muzzle… black…” I thought to myself…

Then I had that aha moment that I was really hoping for, a black panther!

I was sort of excited for a milasecond at that idea, but quickly tried to regain my focus, and took a few deep breaths… I put myself in an all fours position and closed my eyes, forcing my magic to rapidly rush through me, nothing was visually happening yet, but it was obvious something was happening, my magic and energy could be felt in slight waves but sort of growing stronger…

Redux let out a somewhat shrill single laugh, don’t be scared they say. The animal part of their brain was already puffed up like an owl ready to throw down or flee. The human part also wanted to flee, go back to what they knew, what was unmistakably safe. But as they say, no risk no gain. Ah yes, the very safe on all fours position. Good for sniffing out prey, good advantage to go for the neck and sometimes not be seen at all...Yep, totally not scared.  Didn’t help as Redux could feel something in the air, causing them to clench their teeth with a small step back.

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I was able to sense their fear until they managed to calm down a little, but still I knew to be careful…

“I don’t want to scare you” I whined, it felt weird of me to say that since I was the one that was scared, I allowed the invisibility spell to wear off after glancing towards the farther end of the alley and deciding that I was in the clear…

“I Uh… just recently learned something… f-from a mentor, I don’t know how it will work… but I can try” I whined after a moment, i remembered that I could do it in one of two ways, first was going to take a bit of time, focusing my magical energy to my paws and then coating myself in my own magic and willing it to make me look like something else on certain parts of me, and the other was a little faster but required a lot more focus and concentration and energy, willing my energy to leak out of me and cover me up in a walking illusion, and either way it would take energy over time to maintain it

“I may not need a glamour…”

Redux let out a laugh at being called scared, a sound that caught in their throat and quickly made them reconsider pretending to be tough. Lily wasn’t here, nor Esper...No big dog for this small dog to hide behind. “Ah um, maybe you should have kept that spell up? You don’t..fit in here” What Layer had they dropped from? Oh if only they knew more about these things...Let’s see, let’s see... They kind of reminded Redux of a big cat, but the fur wasn’t thick enough for Aslren, a tundra wasteland...What was the first Layer called again? The jungle one....Ah, how frustrating!  They soon looked frustrated, teeth grinding behind their hand before being pulled back into the conversation. “If you can cover up properly without Glamour it will surely save you money but um, hm....No, no, give it a try. Let me see what you’ve got”

[heyredux]

continued from x @d-d-disgusting Being a predator by nature Redux found it hard to ignore the scent of blood as he now stood where the trail began. In some odd way, he had hoped some feisty feline had snatched down one of those fat pidgeons he could hear above. They were always so big, so loud and sadly efficient at staying off death's door. But no, no, no, this was no feline with a tasty morsel. This was a grown man...With a tasty morsel. It almost felt surreal, they almost felt like they were dissociating as they have never been on this side of things. The rare times they had ever been in a situation like this, they were on the other side. They were the ones who were caught giving in to their more feral nature. Oooooh this was weird, it almost made their head hurt.  “Dad always said that’s how you get worms” It was the first thing out of their mouth, though certainly, not the first thing thought. His words were muffled, speaking with a hand over his mouth, eyes trained on the carcass of the raccoon.   Run said the human, logical part of his brain. Fight for the scraps said the less logical animal part of the brain. And in the end, he was stuck, unable to step back or forward as instincts fought. 

[heyredux]

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I let out a slight whine, my ears had lowered and folded back a little, my hope that this was still Evras faded, this was either a completely different world or I was in an isolated place somewhere in Evras where monsters weren’t accepted and were feared still…

I paused for a moment and then thought of the spell as well as say it under my breath for extra measure, the spell worked even through some issues like fear/anxiety/unable to completely concentrate, and I faded from sight…

“I-I’m still here… j-just… invisible” I whined, “w-What is glamour here?” I nervously asked, unsure if this was the right time to ask questions but I was in a rather scary situation and felt the need to ask that question since I felt foreign and sort of knowledge-less

Redux blinked a few times, the feeling of tension seemed to fade for only a second until they realized what kind of danger this could mean for themselves. Hard to protect yourself from something you couldn’t see. He didn’t really like this but told himself to have faith. Tried to soothe the bird part of his brain that screamed predator. Despite the fact that he...Was probably more of a predator then what was before him. “This is um...This could feasibly work? Can’t see, no one would panic. Can’t see...Um, gimme just, moments” Redux sighed, taking in a slow deep breath, calming himself as he just noticed that his speech wasn’t correct. He was skipping things, shortening sentences. Deep breath, 1, 2, 3. Exhale.  1, 2, 3 “Glamour is used to hide people like you from others, to help you appear human...It’s not cheap though and the dealers aren’t easy to find.” Still, being in debt was better than being hunted down.  Redux knew that one day, they’d have to get some Glamour themselves, that there would be a time when they could no longer take chances. And he knew where a dealer was.