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Kai Ken
I took some creative liberty with the stripes with them still being random but also tiger-like. I know stipes(especially brindle dogs cuz look like they've been drawn all over by a toddler without a somewhat consistent pattern like in felines)are hard to draw, but this SHOULDN'T have taken me DAYS to finish.
It’s neither the first place in which they’ve met, nor likely to be the last.
The hotel in question stands among its fellows at the southernmost edge of Central Park, equidistant, more or less, between the rivers bounding the City to the east and west. The room itself -- (modern, he’s been told; with all its wood, metal, granite, and glass) -- faces the Park at an angle, and, beyond, the towers and lights of the Upper East Side.
It’s ten minutes from here to the docks on the Hudson by car. Twenty-five by foot.
Tora isn’t one to be impressed by the ostentatious and artless, for all that he has a liking, and an eye, for the expensive. It’s for that reason alone that, when he rounds the sleek bar top -- two lowball glasses in hand -- and drinks in the full effect of Manhattan in the night, laid in a glittering sprawl across the glass wall, he smiles.
He knows enough about this city by now to know that it’s a view which costs more for a single evening than what many earn in a month.
He knows too that James Wesley is a man with a deep wallet.
Tora’s smile, if faint, sharpens.
James Wesley, for his part, cuts a tailored silhouette into the skyline from his place at the window, back dimly lit by the warm glow of interior lighting behind. Tora makes little secret of his approving scrutiny as he crosses the floor to join him, appearing at length at Wesley’s elbow and slipping a customary drink into his waiting hand. Already Tora can smell him, and he thinks in lazy pieces about simply pressing his nose into the short, neat hair just behind Wesley’s ear, and breathing. Contenting himself instead with a fleeting smirk for now, and the barest touch to the small of Wesley’s back, he looks away and nods past their dual reflections in the glass. Outside, the cityscape gleams.
“--Do you like this?”
(He finds that he’s genuinely curious about the answer, in much the same way that he’s aware, mutedly, that the Kitchen, Hell’s Kitchen, lies but a stone’s throw behind the hotel, to their southeast. He isn’t fool enough to think it unintentional on Wesley’s part; that, while Wesley may have chosen to put his back to the Kitchen for the night, in a building which rears up and away from it as if from a bad smell, it nonetheless remains impeccably within his periphery. Tora swirls the contents of his own glass idly.)
“Even if your--, work, were concluded; or if it could come with you. Would you stay here?”
[ @amministro-blog ]
The weird yet delightful RP moment when you cobble together an AU setting for the purposes of a specific cross-franchise interaction, and then somehow end up with the most hard-ass among your kai OCs catching Mutual Feels with fucking Moira O’Deorain.
[ @talonedbanshee ]
It was evening. It was time again. Mina stood outside the palace and looked the intruder straight into the eyes. Her own face showed annoyance and anger, while her body stood in a wide stand and her arms crossed in front of her chest, dressed not in her formal Kai clothes, but rather disrespectful she waited in her pajamas.
“On time as usual, Tora! Baby boy is just getting his stuff. He bathed and ate with us”, she spoke cold at the tall Kai. Though, after a small pause, she added snarling “He was covered in bruises and cuts AGAIN, Tora! Seriously, how could this happen? YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO WATCH HIM! Are you blind? Thanks to your INCOMPETENCE he looked even worse than ever before! Do you even care about the boy at all?”
@ofgoldenfruitborn
Bonto: are you in LOVE, Tora? >:3 is Moira your GIIIRLFRIIIEEEND Tora: oh, you got fuckin’ JOKES, huh? that’s it; you’re gonna get it, you little shit--
Bonto tags at Toras sleeve to get his attention. The little Kai boy grins wide at the older one, before his hands starts to sign. "You are spending a lot of time with this woman. You are nice to her and she is nice to you. Do you love each other? Do you like to kiss? What does it feel like? Please, tell! Please, please!"
(How obvious has he been if even a child can put that name to the emotion swimming between them?)
Tora’s first impulse is to deny; to simply scoff and carve a dismissive ‘as if’ into the air with his hands. However, for all the wolves in his heart and for all the cutting, difficult edges of himself that he intends never to buff away--?
He lifts his chin, lids dropping.
It isn’t his way to lie. But, so too, there are some things he won’t say to anyone but Moira herself.
“Oh--?” he signs back, as if to challenge an accusation. “So I treat her nicely, and that means I’ve gone soft for her, huh?” He’s not above reaching down and squishing Bonto’s baby-round cheeks, if for no other reason than simply because he can. A smirk -- a question of his own -- plays around the edges of his mouth. “And what makes you think that?”
What instruments would the boys play?
Tora would favour the drama, versatility, and flair of the violin, as well as the fact that one needn’t strictly sit still to play, nor necessarily play with others. He’d be one of those moody, somewhat violent/erratic players, inclined to pacing around.
Hushen is the one I find most difficult to imagine playing an instrument; not because I doubt his ability to learn one but because I find it easier to imagine him enjoying the consumption of music more than the production. He seems more one to enjoy singing or dancing along than anything. I don’t have an instrument association with him at all.
Heyva is easily the most musical among these four. He’s the type that, given some time to tinker around, both can and most likely will develop at least a passing proficiency with any instrument that falls into his grubby little hands. He’s very much a self-teacher. As of now I associate him the most with the cello.
Talma would find something like a piano the most intuitive to pick up on account of its sequential keys laid out in a row in front of him, but also would find the act of sitting down at one to play to be grounding. Something about the piano would strike him as soothingly orderly.
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[ ‘one thought’ meme ]
Shin
‘He’s unlike any of the Saiyans I’ve encountered before…why; does he like to fight at all, I wonder? A sad thing indeed, if he doesn’t. I don’t suppose that power like that lends itself to an easy, or peaceful life. It certainly hasn’t been so thus far…’
[bonus] Tora
‘That earnest nature of his will get him hurt – and maybe the universes along with him – long before his strength does. Someone ignorant and uneducated like that–? Malleable? Someone who wanted to use him to their own ends very likely could. What he needs is guidance. Simply hoping that trouble never finds a guy like that again–? ‘Tch; spare me. Stupid. Stupid.’
