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Post by Rowan Sakamoto on Feb 8, 2020 5:10:56 GMT -4
The nightmares got less frequent but she was still very convinced Lady was out there. But how did you explain that a matter of thought process was out there walking? Did she find another host, did she get her own body? Rowan had no idea how it worked, what happened, she vaguely heard voices but they never said words she could understand, she swore she saw his face but she tried to avoid it. Luckily he wasn't in the newspapers and luckily his name was forbidden in the Sakamoto household. The extra classes on economics from her father and the talk about the business did help to actually put her a little away from the nightmares but that did not mean that the nagging feeling was gone. She kept her eyes open every time she walked home and tried to be home after classes as soon as possible, luckily she was picked up by her father for the other classes and she did not have to walk the dark streets.
She wasn't sure how it happened and that kept bothering her. She had been working really hard to get over it. Training with Hellhound to no longer be afraid of fire. She asked to work with Blue Agathe to get the control back of her fire. She had never agreed with any systems and repercussions but with the professionals, she understood that a different point of view was necessary. Finally opening up to be ready for combat she had gone to the Martial Art class and got boxing lessons from Darren and she was picked for an internship with Wildheart where she learned to control and let go of the worry to learn more. To focus on what she needed to do at that moment. She would be probably ready for the third year and everything, preparing for the last things to go to England, she would be glad to see grandma Rowena again and it was all fine. Lady wasn't there, Lady wasn't here. She did not really exist. She thought about meeting up with Shockwave as she wanted to ask a few things and prefered him over her own homeroom teacher but she would have to consider that later, it was Saturday in the early morning, 9 am and she was on a run to train. There was barely anyone at the path that she took but sometimes she bumped into other runners.
She fell face forward out of nowhere. She would have believed that she had tripped because she got so focused on her thought process that she would have missed something on the road. But her back was burning, almost literal and it suddenly got a lot colder around her and she felt the pain as she got up, she noticed a person in front of her that froze in his movement and looked behind her and she looked over her shoulder to stand eye in eye with a blonde or more like white-haired girl that she did not know. She tilted her head to look at her, the silly scary grin and those eyes. There was something in there that Rowan recognized but that was not possible? Mosa said it wasn't possible so it wasn't who she thought it was, they didn't even look the same.
"Who are you?"
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Post by Crimson on Mar 4, 2020 22:14:49 GMT -4
"Hunh, that didn't hit as hard as I wanted it too~ Maybe I'm more tired than I thought~"
The white haired woman thought to herself as she closed her right hand into a fist, smacking it harshly into her left with a cruel smirk on her face as Rowan went down. The woman looked up at the man who had stopped to stare at her in awe, her fist suddenly erupting into fire as she stared him down.
"Boo~"
She stated with a laugh, causing the man to take a few steps back before falling onto his ass, wide eyed and horrified of the woman that would attack another with her quirk out in public. Was she a villain!? What should he do! Not like some civilian would think of using his quirk to help Rowan.
'What a useless waste of space... still... he might have a useful quirk when the quirk war starts... Nick wouldn't be happy if I killed him for nothing.'
She sighed internally before returning her attention to the dark haired girl who only now seemed to realize what happened. Rowan turned to face and asked who she was. The white haired woman scoffed as the flames around her firsts suddenly engulfed both of her arms. She then brought them up to her side, allowing Rowan to get a good view of her.
"Oh, baby~ You don't recognize me? I'm so insulted! After-all we've been sooooo close so so many years! Rowan-chan~ Is that any way to greet a Lady."
She boasted as small sparks began to erupt from her cloves and jacket in a way that Rowan would find all too familiar.
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Post by Rowan Sakamoto on Apr 5, 2020 5:27:29 GMT -4
Ugh her back felt like it had drops of blood trickling down. She tried to convince herself it was sweat from her morning run. She would not freak out yet but Mosa had said this was not possible. But that explosive power, no, it made no sense she had a heat quirk and this was ice cold. She looked at the man behind her who crawled a little backwards, hoping he would call a pro-hero or something. She scrambled up, her legs were definitely not stable. You want to be a goddamn pro-hero, well if she is really who you think you are, this is your time to make up for your mistake. Where was Nick? She hoped Lady came alone? It couldn't be Lady? Lady was her brain, her mind, how could she be in this body? She had to ask, so she did and would try to gain her balance in standing, not only sitting up. Work, she told her legs. She stared at the flames that the young woman had around her arms, Rowan couldn't do that?
But the heat that she produced worked that, it was not outright flames but the pattern was exactly the same and she looked at Lady and scoffed. "How can you be here?" She didn't want to say it if that man was still around them, she did not want to look over the shoulder but she had to open her ears and eyes, Lady would probably not be alone right? Though it had been months she last swore she saw Nick and that the voice died down in her mind. Lady probably had all the time to train and had begged Nick to just come here and show off. She had to heat up her own hands, it was shit, she had not brought any ammunition.
"What do you want?" buy time Rowan, do something? There were probably pebbles here around the road, she would have to manage to grab some or something, she would have to do better. She had to work on it. She wasn't sure how else she would manage to do this. She was nervous and that blocked her thinking, how could she be here? How could she look the way she did?
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Post by Yumi on May 3, 2020 12:25:25 GMT -4
"Oh wow. That whole thing really did a number on you huh? You not even remember that beautiful day I leapt out of your head and into this fine little 'outfit'?~" Lady gestured over herself with a cocky pride. While being trapped in Rowan's head was about as Miserable as Rowan would have felt 'sharing' it with her, it definitely didn't compare to the joy of being able to stretch her own two legs of her own accord... plus, if she did say so herself, she was definitely the looker of the two now.~
As for why she was here... she clicked her tongue against the back of her teeth, as if that wasn't obvious enough. The crackling energy of her quirk relaxed as she sunk her hands down into her pockets, looking down over her old residence that was Rowan's already worn out little body, admiring the feeling of being able to stand over that form that once held her trapped. "Oh please hun. You're training to be a hero right?~ This should all be obvious for you.~ Its as cliche as cliche can get. The better looking, stronger, more impressive 'evil twin' comes to destroy their pathetic, simple minded, goodie two shoes lesser half... I mean, when shit hits the fan, and me and my Nick baby start burning down the pathetic non-quirkers... I can't have people associating me with your whimpy ass."
Drawing a hand out of her pocket, she held out a single yen coin, the already blue-ish metal turning a harsher, colder shade as she imbued it with her quirk. She balanced it between the side of her finger and her thumb, flipping it into the air. Rather than catching it though she caught it with her nail as it fell, flicking it off towards Rowan again with a dismissive nature, as if the woman before her wasn't even worth really trying for. The coin practically sung as it's near zero temperatures catalyzed with the remaining warmth in the air around it. The reaction of the molecules hitting a critical point close to Rowan, air collapsing inward toward the coin before bursting outwars once again, a burst of freezing cold as Lady's unique form of explosions burst forth in her second attack.
"So do us both a favor and die quietly why dont'cha?~" She held a deeply smug smirk, more than prepared fore retaliation and a fight, but even then, it wasn't like she could expect much from her whimpy old brain partner.
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Post by Rowan Sakamoto on May 3, 2020 13:32:18 GMT -4
Baffled Rowan stared at the white-haired young woman. This seriously was horrible, what the heck. How can she be here? Has she missed something? She knew she had missed things before, after all, Rowan had the feeling Lady was here the whole time but nothing happened. Ganbaroshi-san had told her that Lady couldn't be there and she hoped she was hallucinating, making bad assumptions about something that wasn't even possible. But that's why she would ask, that's why she had to know for sure. This wasn't true, nothing was true about this, it couldn't be true, they didn't even look the same (thank god). She wanted to know why she did this, why was Lady here and why she was here but her answer only made Rowan's eyes turn bigger. All those bad thoughts that she had before had disappeared but that did not mean that it had not been true. Everything of it had been true, no matter how they separated or how you looked at it, it was true.
Do something Rowan, Do something. She needed time, pebbles? Anything, she needed to say anything. Hero training. Igarashi-sensei. She needed to do something. She had no idea what the yen coin meant and she looked at it, looked at Lady and back at the yen. What was she doing? Treating her like some poor sick woman or something? Pebbles, find something, go look, Rowan, please. But her eyes looked at the blue turning yen and she could not quickly lift up her hands to protect her face and the skin of hers turned cold and cut it. She shivered and tried to brush the blood of the cutaway. She scrambled backwards, found a pebble finally and stood up.
She held it strong in her hand, she wasn't sure how to work this out. She wanted to throw it, but what if someone would pass, what if some debris was thrown to the man behind her? Should she look over her shoulder? Should she do anything? "Where is Nick?" Was he here too? Because that would be an issue. She had to be prepared for everything. Throw it, she had to protect herself, she was a hero in training, she should be able to use her quirk. Fear... that was her weakest thing. Tetsuko told her, Junko gave her information. She could do this, but she still held on to the pebble furiously. If she lost it, or threw it wrong, she had no ammunition.
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Post by Yumi on May 3, 2020 14:29:58 GMT -4
“Geeze… you’re not even putting up a fight. I really catch you that off guard raven-hair?~” She teased back at one of the more glaring differences between the two of them now, though she supposed she could have easily picked out something a little more glaring it was the easiest thing to grasp at right now. Still, it was a bit of a pitiful sight, watching her try to grab for pebbles only for her cold blast to strike her at rather close range. “Ya know I was honestly hoping for more of a challenge here…~ Warm me up before I take the real fight to the streets.”
At the question to Nick’s whereabouts, she scoffed and shook her head. “Nah nah nah. I ain’t giving up the big secrets that easily… besides, he knows I wanted the pleasure of doing this myself.” She reached into her pocket, about to grab another coin, clutching it between her knuckles ready to bring out into a throw. The air around her was slowly getting colder, the interlocking of the molecules in her coins draining the heat from the air around her. Her breath already starting to mist as it left her lips. “Come ooooon…. You really gonna make this so easy on me?~”
Drawing her hand back out of her pocket she threw the coin in a backhand strike across her chest, the blue shifted coin cutting through the air as it absorbed the natural heat around itself, dragging in the air once again as the thermal reactions hit a critical point and bursting close to Rowan once again. She didn’t exactly have a reason to be merciful afterall, and if her old alter-self was just gonna sit there and take it, why on earth wouldn’t she take advantage of that.~ “Ya know, I’m almost tempted to let you go… holding that hand so tightly, not putting up a fight… yeah. I doubt anyone would associate you with me anyway.~”
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Post by Rowan Sakamoto on May 3, 2020 15:38:26 GMT -4
Do it. Just let your hand go backwards and throw the pebble. She knew how automatically her fingertips would get warm if she thought about releasing the pebble to make it explode. Do it! There was no one else that could be harmed and Lady was the only one in this fight harming someone. She could go and switch to the man behind her, was he still behind her? She couldn't think about it. She felt her blood boiling. The words her counterpart had said were moving still through her brain as if the end of the river wouldn't come.
Do it now!
She couldn't do it, because it was her fault. She had made her afraid of the situation, of blowing up stuff that had not been in the planning and so on. Could anyone blame Rowan? Fear is just a thing, a mindset, it would take you over an paralyze you. What was it exactly that Tetsuko had said again? She had to be stopped, real fight to the streets? Did she mean here or that she would cause more havoc once she was done with Rowan? She couldn't fight, not officially use her quirk outside the school. She remembered Tetsuko came to give her detention for being in the blizzard. Junko Tanaka had given her permission to use her quirk because it was an internship but what now? She knew the rules, she wasn't stupid, she could use her quirk in self-defence, but did they say that to students with a fire explosive quirk? Did they? Wouldn't that be dangerous?
She tried to distract herself, stop panicking about the question where Nick was. Lady's answer was vague but she had the idea that the cocky answer meant that she came alone and Nick wasn't here to watch her. Okay, that was one worry less, now throw it. No one or nothing would grab her arm to stop her from throwing, now do it. She did, it was sloppy, it missed her enemy's direct hit but blew up next to her shoulder. Shit, too nervous, she couldn't even aim.
Tempting to let her go, but what about the other people. She was going to be hero, she couldn't let Lady go. She had to think about it, she had to do something but now she had no ammunition, what to do next? She had managed to dodge the yen, now that she knew it was coming, but only by protecting her face and upper body with her arms. Damn the cold did hurt her normally warm body, she shivered. She hated the cold. She couldn't let her go, her eyes darted around to find something.
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Post by Yumi on May 3, 2020 15:56:44 GMT -4
Lady grit her teeth. Rowan managed to remain standing but this was starting to become more than a simple pain at this point. This was meant to be some sort of... triumph. Something more than just a simple beat down. She wanted to show she was better than the old co-habitant of that body not just get rid of her like this... maybe this was all Rowan could myster as a form of revenge. Just denying Lady the satisfaction of truly being able to claim she was the victor between them... "You're really not putting up a fight...?!" She spoke through barely grit teeth, her shoulders tensing as she pushed forward, closing the distance between them somewhat.
"Come On Rowan, we've shared a head, I really thought you'd be better than this but... heh. Guess I took all the fight in you with me when I left...!" She raised her hand out of her pocket once again, holding a coin between her finger and thumb, ready to flick it once again like she had the first time. Initially she aimed it towards Rowan, the coin slowly turning a brighter, firmer shade of blue as she prepared to launch. "You really just gonna sit there and take this? I'm almost ashamed we used to share a brain...~" She was purposely baiting her now, more than prepared to take a blast back if it meant this could just feel all the more satisfying...
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Post by Rowan Sakamoto on May 3, 2020 16:04:14 GMT -4
Maybe something on the left, or right, where was something. She rubbed her shoe against the sandy earth. Come on! How would she be able to do something, why did she not bring anything for her power... because she didn't think it was necessary or allowed! Who would have thought to bump into someone like that, oh for heaven's sake. She could not return to the infirmary again, what would her father say! She bit her lip. Yes, she had taken everything with her, the control over the quirk but also the fear she had installed by making Rowan faint, burn people during the Sports Festival last year and the like. "It's thanks to you that people are hurt." She mumbled, she did not know their names but it was all the more reason not to go to England. Of course, she could not really tell anyone about that.
Maybe, however, Rowan did deserve to just take the hits, after all, was it not her that had made Lady in the first place. This was karma, this was punishing for creating this monster, they were both monsters. She had still the firepower, still, everything within her to hurt others, she shouldn't do anything. Now find the damn stone or something! She wasn't a good hero, she didn't deserve this, she still had not dared to watch over her shoulder if the man was still there, she had not heard any footsteps but there was a noise zooming in her ear, her blood pumping, her heart racing, obviously she could not focus on much herself. There on her left was a little stone, it would probably fit in her hand and would thus work well for her to explode. She jumped at it, almost on her knees immediately on the ground. But now she had to get over her fear to throw it and throw it right this time. She had to hit her, she had to hurt her... she couldn't!
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Post by Yumi on May 3, 2020 16:17:55 GMT -4
"Heh... no one that matters. Otherwise you'd remember, right?~" She cheekily quipped, still aiming a prepared shot right for Rowan, ready to launch with a simple flick of her thumb. She could just let go and... really this would all be over. ROwan had been taking her licks with these blasts and a few more good shots would mean she wouldn't even be able to fight back, but it all felt too easy. It had been along time coming getting free of Rowan, and if she was honest, getting rid of her for good would offer a sense of... security. Make sure there was no way to get trapped back inside her head. Unlikely to ever happen, but who's to say what's possible in this world of quirks.
But still... it was so... unsatisfying... Her eyes idly drifted to the world around them, and an idea came to her. Her eyes flared, turning back to Rowan with her sharp gaze.
The arm aimed towards Rowan, slowly turned out to her side, her eyes flicking out towards a small duo who'd been too stunned by the initial explosions to properly flee the scene. Lady shuddered a little, but with a clenched jaw her stance remained strong and intimidating. Even as she continued to dragin the heat out of her surroundings with her cold projectiles she wasn't about to let that get to her in what she considered would be her moment of triumph. "Put up a fight, or I start taking my 'feelings' out on some people who might... how many quirkless civilians do you think I can get through before someone who can fight me shows up? 5? 10? 20?~" Her hand tensed, about to launch the coin at the bystanders, who, sensing the impending danger, were tensed harshly enough that they weren't prepared to move.
"Maybe just...3...2...1...?~"
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Post by Rowan Sakamoto on May 3, 2020 16:34:15 GMT -4
"No wait!"
Her legs were shaking as she had managed to stand up. She wanted to be a damn hero, she should start acting like one. She was here to protect herself, to fight back, self-defence, that was within the rules. She had to stop Lady before she would do more than just hurting her, then go for others. She had already said she would do that and how her anger was towards the quirkless and her mind, her face, quickly snapped to look over her shoulder. There were people that had come to help the first man, but now they were all a target. She felt herself shaking, focus. There was nothing to be afraid of, or well, nothing apart from Lady doing some damage and bad things. She took the steps, stood in front of the people. Held the rock in her hand, well the small one and she just had to focus. She didn't know what to do, take the yens that her enemy would throw at her? Would her body be able to take it? Her jaw was still obviously bleeding and she wasn't sure how much more cold she could get but seriously she wanted to protect them. She bit her lip and took a deep breath, if not now, when? If not herself then who would do it? And where would she go and how many more people would get hurt? This would not be innocent school kids that knew how to take a stand and had the school nurse keeping up with her, this would be bystanders, the hate for quirks would grow. Her own fear would come back. No!
She had done this, she was the foundation and this was maybe higher than the foundation of the house she was building but if there was a pest within the house, she would stop it. She felt the cold, she saw her breath coming like little clouds in the air. Adrenaline was rushing through her veins and she threw, the heavy item, this time calculating, knowing perfectly well to explode it before it would reach Lady, making the burn wash over her and she stared as the cold air absorbed the heat even more and she quickly covered her own eyes with her forearm.
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Post by Yumi on May 5, 2020 19:43:55 GMT -4
Lady scoffed deresively as she watched Rowan finally take action, the aim of her arm turning back towards her and launching the prepared coin with her thumb, a 'thwip' as it could through the dense, cold air around her, absorbing what little heat remained in the atmosphere surrounding the would be 'evil twin' of the two. "Atta girl! At least show me some fight!" She called out, not expecting this to be much of a challenge. Her own explosion was about to burst... but as she watched Rowan's own projectile something felt off. The air around it seemed to distort, pulsing almost around the building heat of the unstable molecules. The air around her had become so cold, and with another 'cold explosion' about to meat it, the differential was too great. The immense heat Rowan's attack generated rapidly expanded the air around it, doubling if not tripling the size of the explosion. "W-WAIT THA-"
Lady's voice was drowned out by the eruption of force, trying to hold against it briefly, barely managingt to cover her face with her arms before she seemed knocked back off her feet, the burst of force kickin up grass and dirt to the point of making a thick cloud of brown smoke, flakes of glass fluttering in the wind. The cloud slowly settled bit by bit, though by the time Rowan had found enough footing to feel confident in moving forward, Lady was long gone. That eruption was nothing like she'd been expecting. heck, even accounting for how her own quirk had enhanced Rowans... this was different. Rowan had gotten better, gotten stronger, and with the advantage that Lady had accidentally set up for her. Well, suffice to say the 'evil twin' of the pair wasn't liking her odds, and while she wanted a satisfying take down of her other half, she wasn't about to risk it all on a badly planned attack.
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Post by Rowan Sakamoto on May 6, 2020 5:53:06 GMT -4
Rowan had to do something, she was going to be a hero, she should act like one. She should do something and that what happened, her mind reacted and would throw the stone eventually. Which was something strange that was going on, something she could not put her finger on? The explosion was bigger than the yen coins that she had gotten from Lady but also bigger than Rowan had expected and she staggered a few steps back herself, fell on her ass and stared at the whole scene. But that's when she realized she had to do something and she walked a few steps back, "Call the police, tell them it's a quirker." She said with a strict voice to the three behind her, now that she had a moment, she quickly moved forward but the cloud dispersed and there was... no one.
Rowan looked around, where did Lady go? How did she fix that so quickly? Did she even get hurt? She thought she saw some blood on the ground but that could have been her own from before and she finally realized she could show a moment of weakness and pushed her hand against the cut on her jaw again. The cold had maybe stopped the bleeding, she did not know but god her whole sports outfit was covered in it, wounds in your face; wonderful.
Finally, she noticed Suwa-sensei and some officers and he patched up her jaw and told her to go to see Nakahara-sensei later and she had to tell the police what has happened, that was hard to explain if you did not know a name but she could describe Lady for sure. She had to calm down though, she had shown more power, did this mean that she was safe? Could she keep this a secret?
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Post by quizzity on May 6, 2020 20:13:02 GMT -4
Rowan Sakamoto started with 804 exp and earned 25 exp. Yumi started with 150 exp and earned 15 exp. Crimson earned 2 exp, and will receive it once she gives me an account to put it on.
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