#crimsonkaiser

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@crimsonkaiser Has Requested An Audience

She didn't ask for his cure right away. The crimson flame dragon had been through quite an ordeal by the hands of the now defunct Pale Moon Circus. It would be cruel to ask him for anything in his condition. So, she allowed him to recover in the peaceful sanctuary of the Eden House's estate for as long as he needed too, instructing every one of her staff to allow him to do as he wished while there.

One afternoon, not even a week after his arrival, he approached her while she was sitting and admiring the fish in the pond to do the deed. The noble woman could tell his condition had improved just by looking at him, much to her delight. And it was only after seeing that did she nod her head in acceptance. If his condition was any less than this, she surely would sent him back for more rest.

As she prepared herself for the moment she had been longing for all these years, knowing there would be some pain involved in removing a flame dragon's burns, the woman couldn't help but be...concerned and perplex by his own preparation. Instead of trying to ignite a spark of flames, he instead had...a knife? Did he grab that from the kitchen?

Upon seeing the sharp object, Eve quickly put the pieces together as to what he was planning. And using all her stored up strength from days of resting herself, she miraculously stands to her feet to grab his wrist tightly to prevent him from carrying out his self-inflicted harm.

"Wait...! There is no need for that!" Her voice portrays both her strength of will and her concern for his well being, while her legs start to wobble ever so slightly from the sudden movement. But she would remain firm as long as she needed to in order to ensure this ritual would go properily and without bloodshed.

"You...You were never taught how to control your beautiful flames of crimson. Were you, child?"

[fatedluna]

@crimsonkaiser (Cressy went go looking for her boo and accidentally runs into Toshiki prompt)

"Where are you, my sweet chevalier? Where could you have gone?”

Those questions have been repeating in her mind ever since Olivier didn't come home that night. As soon as the sun rose and he wasn't anywhere to be found, she quickly started to panic. Crescent had been spending all her time for the last few days looking all around campus for him. She checked all his usual spots, and talked to all his teachers and his classmates, in hopes of finding him and bringing him home. Sadly, her efforts all ended in failure, for no one had seen the French student.

Crescent was close to giving up, wanting to bring in campus security at this point, but then remembered there were two people she had yet to try and contact, people who spent almost as much time with her boyfriend as Kenji and Leon. Aichi Sendou and Kourin Tatsunagi were both frequent study buddies with Olivier, and while Crescent was very familiar with people associated with them like Toshiki Kai, Rekka Tatsunagi, and Ren Suzugamori, she didn't really know either of the students personally. That meant if she wanted to get any information out of them, she would have to meet them directly.

It's times like these that she wishes she used social media more. If she did, it would save her the trouble of coming to the most remote part of campus where the service fraternity they lived at was. She was a traditionalist and preferred communicating with people by calling, sending letters, or sending postcards. Her French grandparents probably were the influence on that front, she thinks.

Emerald green hues then glance down at her phone after her G.P.S. stated she was at the destination, the young woman confused. The place before her didn't look like the Pale Moon Club at all, going by the pictures online at least. What before her was not a traditional university building but rather a towering castle just hidden by the tops of the trees surrounding it. It looked like something out of the fairytales she read as a kid. Was she dreaming?

She then takes a few steps forward to try and find an entrance, but is stopped as the smell of roses hits her nostrils. Crescent's head turns towards the direction of the smell, and by doing so, she is treated with the sight of a beautiful rose garden just to the right of the castle. She's never seen anything like this over here in Japan. Though, what grabs her attention, even more, is the sight of a person standing there with a red rose in his hand, someone Crescent had known her entire life and was connected to the two people she was looking for.

"Toshiki...?" The girls speaks his name softly as she approached him. She was...confused, but not for the reason one would think. Him being in a flower garden in the middle of the night wasn't weird, not when he had a boyfriend who he expressed his love for in various ways. No, what caught the fashion expert off guard was the clothes 'Kai' was wearing.

Crescent had a talent for telling someone's personality just by the clothes they were wearing and how they wore them. It was a talent her mother said that made for a great designer. Kai was usually clad in reds, greys, and blacks, very simple, practical, and yet stylish clothes. What she saw before her was very different. Not only was he wearing blue, a color he didn't often wear if at all, but the clothes from what she could make out in the dimly lit space were...historical? They looked like something out of one of her art history textbooks. Definitely not something you could buy these days from any local store.

She can feel another wave of anxiety begin to wash over her, but the woman remained strong. 'Kai' was the only potential lead she had to find where Olivier had gone, and she wasn't about to waste this chance. With a deep breath, she gets close enough to engage in a conversation, despite something inside telling her to stay away.

"Hi there, Toshiki. It's been a while, huh?" She starts with a greeting, her nervousness and concern being plain to see across her face. "I was looking for your partner, actually. Do you know where he is? I wanted to ask if he's seen mine at all. He's been missing for days, and I'm getting really worried."

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@crimsonkaiser (To Get Unite Going!)

Teasing had always been something the prince had been subjected to. From his own family to those outside and inside the palace, it always seemed like he was the target of such things by others. That meant even his bodyguard, his childhood friend who had sworn his life to protect and look after him, often partook in jests too. Guess Aichi made things too easy with how easily embarrassed his was, the red color gracing his soft features at this moment in response to a little jab about his fiance Kai just made being a testament to that.

"W-What?! K-Kai Kun, y-you know it's not like that!" He blurts out, not doing the best job at proving Kai's assumptions wrong by how he was stammering the words out. "M-Misaki and I are just friends! S-She's like a big sister to me more than anything! T-The only reason we're engaged is to keep relations good between the clans! I-If we had the choice, we'd opt out of it!"

He’s certainly tried to convince his father to change the arrangements plenty of times over the years, but the agreement had been set since they were very young. The Genesis and Oracle Think Tank clans were crucial to the runnings of the nation. Without their predictive powers, their army wouldn't nearly be as effective. Keeping those relations good was a top priority of King Ahmes, even at the cost of his oldest son's freedom in regard to who he'll marry.

“Besides, even if I did feel that way about her, I…I wouldn’t be worthy of her. I’m not worthy of anyone…”

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@crimsonkaiser​​ (Random Kaichi Airport things cause I was flying today LOL)

He had gotten to the airport later than he wanted. Without Emi around to help him wake up on time, such a thing was sadly a common occurance for Aichi. Even setting multiple alarms wasn't enough to get him out of bed at a reasonable hour, despite the importance of him actually waking up early today. The more things change, the more they stay the same, right?

Aichi moves with purpose throughout the airport terminal, doing his best to make it to the meeting spot he and the person who was coming to see him had planned. Of course, he was getting lost with running so fast. No time to read the signs when you're constantly worried about if who you're waiting for landed safely or not. That information was available to him, but he was too much in a rush to check his phone, another situation where his younger sister would scold him. All he was focusing on was getting to the center of the international terminal, a place he eventually reaches after what felt like a marathon of a run.

And sure enough, standing before the young man who was doing his best to catch his breath, was his special visitor, someone who means more to Aichi than even Vanguard itself. Yes, standing before him was the current champion of the Euro League, the fierce user of both Kagero and Narukami clans, and the person who brought Aichi back from the brink of despair countless times...

"Kai Kun!!! You're...You're here!"

No time is wasted as the Royal Paladin user moves to bring the taller man into a warm embrace, instantly feeling a wave of relief and joy at seeing him having made it safely to the states. Kai's warmth was something Aichi hadn't felt in what felt like forever, despite the fact he visited Kai over winter break in Paris just a few short months. Being apart from him, and everyone else he knew from Japan, was hard, but...he had his own path he had to walk, just like they all had. It makes him treasures these reunions more and more, no matter how long they last.

"I missed you...I missed you so much." Aichi is doing his best to hide back tears, not wanting to embarrass himself or Kai out in public like this. "I...I can't wait to show you around Washington D.C! You're going to love it! There's so many card shops around here, and strong players for you to challenge! Plus, Ratti is here too! Her dad set up a little donut shop in the downtown district. Maybe we can go there right now. I’m sure you’re starving after that long flight from Paris.”

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[fatedluna]

@crimsonkaiser​ (I had the idea for this at work this morning so just yeeting this out there LOL)

It was an odd request, grooming a human like this. Yue specialized in grooming and caring for canines. She barely interacted with many other vampires let alone humans on a daily basis outside of her clients. Though, most vampires saw their blood servants as nothing more than dogs, so perhaps that’s brought on the request from Lord Blasteed. Still, she was in no position to refuse it, considering the person the pet belong to.

Prince Ahmes was to attend his first formal event at the blood moon gala that was to be held that evening, a sign that his health was improving. Along with his appearance, both his retainers along with his own blood servant would also be present. It is that very servant, the human male known as Tohsiki, that she is currently tending to with a brush in hand. 

The human with eyes that shone like beautiful sapphires was in poor condition. Despite the prince’s refusal to feed from him, signs of damage laced all over his body; from his arms, to his legs, to his own neck. Not to mention, he most likely was not being bathed or even dressed properily, even though he belonged to Prince Ahmes. In all honestly, he looked like a beat up doll a peasant child would play with it, one that could break at any moment.

And it made her sad...

Thus, she decided to go a few steps further than what she had been asked to do. She had prepared Toshiki a warm bath, a proper meal, and even used what remedies she had here to try and help with his wounds. It seemed out of character for the usually cold girl, one who would push away anyone who wasn’t a canine if given the chance, but...she also wasn’t a fan of needless cruelty. She understood what the purpose of a blood servant was. They were to provide blood for vampires so they could survive. That was it. What upset her was how they were constantly tortured or treated like garbage for other’s amusement or vengeance despite the fact their masters would die without what they can give, a sentiment she also feels for anyone who mistreats their high beasts.

Perhaps it is because she is more of an outsider on the deep innerworkings of vampire society, despite playing a pivotal role in maintaining it, that she has this different thinking. Yue had no reason to hate humans or see herself as better than them. Her knowledge of them was rather limited. It wasn’t necessary to her own purpose, after all. All she really saw when she looked at one was another person, and thus, she will treat a person like a person. It was that simple, really.

“Let me know if I’m being too rough. Even after that washing, you got some nasty knots in here.” She informs, currently brushing through those brunette locks of Toshiki’s. On one of her fingers lay one of the two tailsmen rings that Percival usually worse, Yue having been given one of them temporarily in case she need to tame the human. Though, she doesn’t see herself encountering a situation where she needed to. Toshiki was a gentle soul, she could tell that much just by the way he’s been this whole time. 

“You can speak freely here as well, by the way. No one is in the building other than us and the high beasts. Everyone else is getting ready for tonight. Consider yourself fortunate. Not many humans get the chance to attend a royal gala. King Alfred usually forbids any blood servants from being anywhere near the vicinity of an event like this one. He’s...He’s been very cautious since the death of the queen, after all.”

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@crimsonkaiser​​​ / @blasterdiablo​​ 

The Queen of Hearts was atop her throne. For the first time since she had been crowned, she had taken a seat in the very chair her mother once did. She’s been avoiding this room, the throne room, since the incident. It was a place that, much like with the old courtroom, held too many memories for her. But after her conversation with Ren earlier, since the wool had been finally removed from her eyes, things had...changed. 

Misaki was now becoming what she needed to be, what Wonderland needed her to be. Her home was in a state of chaos, broken by the White Rabbit’s strictness due to that clock he inherited from her uncle, and it was up to her to fix it. She owed it to the very people she’s allowed to be broken under her watch up until now, those she desperately wanted to protect but lost the strength under the weight of her own sorrows.

Teal eyes then narrow as the door to the room is opened by a pair of card guards, revealing the rabbit to her. Normally, the sight of him brings a sense of peace to her darkened heart, a sense of calm and ease. That...wasn’t the case anymore. Quite the opposite, actually. Seeing him standing before her now...just makes her chest ache and her anger boil, such is the feeling that comes from seeing someone you cared about, someone you cherished, betray your trust...

“You’re late...White Rabbit...” Her cold yet commanding voice echoes throughout the chamber, the cards quickly moving to close the large doors to the room. “Where have you been? Running around breaking things again? Like you have been doing for years now behind my back?”

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[universestreasures]

@crimsonkaiser​ (Cause Fishermen Kai Kun is here)

“Kai Kun...”

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@crimsonkaiser​ (The Kai and Aichi POV Of This Ask)

He and the White Rabbit had been traveling for quite a while now, the duo visiting various locations in this crazy messed up world with no rules on their way back to the Palace of Hearts. Everything didn’t make sense here, and the more he tried to make sense of it, the more frustrated he got. He’s thankful he at least has Kai to be his guide. Without him, he surely would have gotten lost in the madness by now.

Throughout their travels, which had all been in the span of a single day despite it feeling like weeks, he slowly has gotten to learn more about this place and the rabbit who was guiding him. Aichi could start to see what was hidden behind the layers of madness, the broken state of the world so desperately trying to be vibrant and free. He most noticed it with the talking flowers as they walked through a forest, noticing right away the dullness of their petals and the way their smiles seemed forced whenever Kai would look at them. 

This world was...not right, but not because it didn’t make sense to the human clad in blue. It was almost like it was...dying, like how any plant would without water and sunlight. And according to Kai, this was because the heart of the world was breaking, the very heart that belonged to the person the White Rabbit served and who he desperately wanted to return to the side of: The Queen of Hearts.

“Hey, Kai? I...I want to ask you something.” He breaks the silence, the pair now finding themselves in a flower field of roses where one could see the Palce of Hearts in the distance. “This...This Queen you keep talking about...She...She means a lot to you, right? That’s why...you want me to meet her, right? So I can...help her.”

He isn’t sure what he can do to help, but Aichi promise Kai that he would help. He wasn’t exactly the type of guy to let someone who is suffering remain in pain if he could alleviate it, especially since from what Kai said his heart and hers had things in common, whatever that means. He still had trouble wrapping his head around how people here spoke, even if Kai’s language sounded more ‘normal’ than anyone else.

Cerulean hues widen then as the ground before them shakes, his view focusing in on the red wave of energy coming from the tallest spire in the royal palace in the distance. It eventually makes it way to the two, it’s power passing over them like a huge blast of wind that causes the petals of some of the roses to scatter. Aichi’s eyes shut at the intensity, doing his best to not fall over into the flower-filled grass below.

Eventually it does pass though, and when Aichi opens his eyes again, he now gazes upon a wonderous sight. The red roses in the garden, and the petals of them scattering in the wind, all start to glow. In a matter of seconds, the dulled darker red of the flowers start to become vibrant, as bright red as the color of blood. It was striking, a sharp contrast to everything else around them whose colors were still dull and lifeless in comparison. 

“Look, Kai! The flowers they’re...brighter! But...just the red ones? Is that normal? And...what was with that light and that earthquake? It looks like it came from the palace.”

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