#serenexgraced

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"Tong, you think if I ever became a demon, you could just stuff me in a box and not kill me too. I'm serious don't kill me if I ever am a demon." from Autumn~

"It'd be pretty damn hypocritical of me to kill anyone just for bein' a demon." replied Tong in rather nonchalant fashion as he leans back in his seat, looking on at Autumn from behind his mask. "I may not be the exact same thing as the demon's that run around here, but at the end of the day I ain't human either." Tong was a Yaoguai, which wasn't what the people here called a 'demon', but it was similar enough to one; they both consumed humans in some way, and they were both seen as monstrosities. "Fifty steps laughin' at one-hundred steps, or the pot callin' the kettle black; all that crap, you know?"

Tong points at Autumn and continues, "Plenty of reasons to kill demon's don't get me wrong, but just bein' a demon ain't one, and you bein' a demon definitely, positively, absolutely wouldn't be one." There was a bit of emotion to those last word's of Tong's, not a lot, but it was there, the clear notion that he cared about Autumn and wouldn't be trying to kill her if she got demonized.

"But sure," Tong reaches over to the cup of wine that had been sitting on the table next to him, slipping it under his mask to take a huge gulp, and afterwards he dryly teases, "if you become a demon I guess we could stuff you in a dumb little box, if that's what you want-- might make you less of a headache in general if you're locked away all day, and I can get behind that."

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Tong doesn't say anything for the longest time, staying silent and observing Gabriella like he had before while she talked and talked. Tong had encountered many fantastical creatures in his time but never had he seen a living dragon in person until now-- he had heard the many legends of them from his homeland, seen some bones, and read many supernatural treatises that claimed to afford their readers great knowledge on the beasts, but that was it.

Safe to say, Gabriella was, to someone like Tong, a sight to behold, but to him she was much more than that. In Gabriella, Tong saw a plethora of opportunities and potential that were just waiting to be tapped, if she could be swayed to help and follow him, anyway. For anyone else, that might have seemed like a tall order, making an ally out of a dragon (who were notoriously prideful creatures) and all, especially one that was as fiery and observant as Gabriella appeared to be, but Tong figured that if he could trick a fallen, primordial deity into a Contract, he could convince a feisty dragon to join him and his friends.

"I didn't come out here lookin' for a dragon, no." Tong finally answers, his tone nonchalant and his posture relaxed, despite the hulking, somewhat agitated Gabriella barking before him. "Was actually expectin' one of those demonic beasts; that's what the villagers I spoke to claimed was up this mountain, but you obviously ain't that." Tong slowly paces toward Gabriella, letting out a small, snarky sounding chuckle, "Guess those stories about some dragons bein' able to gaze into people's souls weren't all bullshit if you can see my 'friend' so clearly, but don't worry about him, he won't be causing you any trouble, and I sure don't intend to either."

Tong goes on to casually take a seat on a large boulder that was sitting just a few feet away from Gabriella, and from here, he looks up at them from behind his mask, and claims, "As a matter of fact, I'm thinkin' I might be able to help you, dragon, if you're willin' to help little old me out, too. Nothin' sly or dull, I promise." Tong briefly pauses, and then shrugs, "Well, nothin' too sly, anyway, but definitely nothin' dull, not for someone like you."

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(continuing from here) @serenexgraced (autumn)

Amagai's Reiatsu, even at the small amounts he was letting out right now, would be quite warm, such was the nature of his soul, but what he, and what Autumn clearly, were feeling right now did not come from him.

The warmth Amagai felt while standing there with Autumn was, different, it was hot, extremely so, but at the same time it almost wasn't-- it felt like something was trying to play a trick on his mind, trying to trick him into thinking it was scorching hot. "That's something." Amagai commented, observing more closely what was happening with Autumn. "It isn't me, Autumn, I think that's you? I think that's you!" Instantly, Amagai's excitement shot up. Amagai didn't know what exactly was going on with Autumn right now, but it was clear to him that his technique here had worked, Autumn's Reiatsu had been drawn out, and there was much more than that, too-- it appeared that she was channeling some sort of Kido that was uniquely hers, faint as it was!

"This is amazing! I don't know what type of Kido I'm looking at right now, but this is all you, Autumn!" Amagai would take a few steps back from Autumn, and immediately began to process the next steps he would have to guide her in, if she were truly in the process of, miraculously, creating new Kido like he thought. Soon enough, Amagai then says, "Whatever you're doing right now, keep it up, and try to push it a little farther. Try giving this Kido you're channeling a shape in your mind, and then chant the first words that pop into your head out loud." After all, Amagai had created a few Kido spells before himself, and he knew that if that's what Autumn was somehow doing here, she would need to assign it an incantation for it to fully materialize.

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         (re-posting from here so the new xkit can work with this thread DFJHGDFGHJDS @serenexgraced​ )“Why am I apologizing? That’s actually a good question.” Tanba, despite apologizing to Sylvia, didn’t know why he was exactly doing it either. Tanba had a few ideas, hearkening back to some of the feelings Sylvia inspired within him during their excursion at the ball, but even then, he had to agree this was odd even for him. “You’re not wrong when you say this is something I don’t usually do. After listening to you, and being around you again, I don’t know, something hits me inside and I feel compelled to apologize too for some reason?” Tanba runs a hand over the exposed part of his chest, as if motioning to his heart. “It’s real weird right?” Tanba laughs a bit, and then adds, “Better to be confused though I say, at least in this case! There’s a saying I’ve heard people use these days– ’don’t look a gift horse in the mouth’? I think that works for us.” More so it was Tanba who didn’t want to look at this all too closely, with regards to himself– he had already dug deep enough into his feelings toward Sylvia, and he didn’t want to dwell on it more than necessary right no

“I’d like to hear an explanation on your part, actually.” Tanba vanishes from his current position a cloud of smoke and black feathers, only to reappear in much the same fashion, sitting right next to where Sylvia had invited him. “Go on then,” Tanba, his head tilted slightly, continues with a curious though friendly tone,  "I’m all ears; let’s hear it, Sylvia.“

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( @serenexgraced (autumn) liked for a starter!)

"Autumn," Amagai, a bright on expression on his face, waves at his favorite 3rd Seat from across the central room in the Third Division's Barracks, "have you seen Lieutenant Kira around? I can't find him anywhere around the Barracks." Amagai had gone over about every inch of this place, and spoken to a number of his subordinates, but no one seemed to know where their Lieutenant had gotten off to. Autumn was probably the only person in his Division Amagai hadn't asked so far. "I needed him to hand something important off to the Head Captain for me, but I'm starting to think he went off somewhere last night."

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"Would you still love me if I were a wyrm?" Autumn to Amagai uwu

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"Autumn, you know I love you no matter what happens! I can't lie, you becoming a Wyrm would be, something, but I'm sure we could find a way to turn you back! Worst case, I'm willing to bet Captain Kurotsuchi or that Urahara guy would know a thing or two."

"Is there a reason you're asking me this, though? Is something wrong? Are you turning into a Wyrm? Does this have to do with that dragon you smuggled out of the Western Branch--"

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"When you call your captain by their first name and everyone looks at you weird, nope, couldn't have been me!" Autumn's fitting in just fine. ( from autumn to ama uwu )

"Not everyone looked at you weird-- at worst it was maybe half the people in our division, but not all of them!" Because that definitely made it 100x better, right, only being seen as weird to half everyone? Amagai thought so.

"At least you didn't do it when other Captain's were around." Amagai added, who then let out a hearty chuckle before continuing. "I can already imagine the looks some of them would have given us BOTH, not to mention what they might have said; things could always be worse, Autumn."

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"That's a neat way of talking you got there." Tanba commented, sounding wholly curious and enthused, not speaking in any sort of jeering or mean-spirited way. The way Fran talked reminded Tanba of someone he once knew, one of those poor sods who followed Nobunaga around, but unlike them, Fran didn't seem anywhere near as insufferable. "Good question though, why help indeed!"

Tanba vanishes for a second, and when he reappears, he's holding someone up by the scruff of their neck, that someone being the currently unconscious Shakespeare who seconds ago was trying to put Fran through a harrowing nightmare. "I was trying to keep a low profile and only watch everyone but I never really liked this guy-- he's the bad kind of dramatic-- and I saw he was obviously doing something reaaallly mean to you! That's when I thought, hey, why not beat this guy to a pulp and make a new friend in the process?"

Tanba tosses Shakespeare onto the ground and then places one foot on the back of their head, forcing their face into the dirt as he continues to cheerily converse with Fran. "Technically, I used to be part of the Black Faction, too, and I'm clearly no friends with the Red guys! Soooooooooo it's not far fetched to think we could be friends or allies, is it?"