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Izunia Lucis Caelum ([personal profile] founderinglight) wrote in [community profile] phantasmalrift2018-05-09 08:50 pm

and the hope of morning

Who: Izunia and you! And a kitty. (First prompt closed to Ardyn)
What: TWIN FIGHT TWIN FIGHT and general catchall. And a kitty.
When: Twinfight: Morning of Tues the 1st. Everything else, whenever whenever after that.
Where: The beach; around the Station
Warnings: All the hecking warnings on the twinfight.

Closed to Ardyn

[It takes some time to find his brother; as a result, people might see Izunia doing the "think murder and walk" thing for a half an hour or so around the Station before he concludes that Ardyn isn't there and heads elsewhere. Those with a careful eye will notice more than just his stance being different; he's clean-shaven and decked out in full black coat and boots, including a black tricorn hat with an impressive plume and a bird skull of some sort attached to it. If the growing heat of the mid-to-late morning bothers him, it's hard to tell.

Those who are more used to the casually-dressed, laid-back man usually seen around the Station could well be surprised to see this side of him. Today, the Founder King walks.

And so it is eventually out of the Station that he roams, and there spots the figure down on the beach from the cliffside. A thrown dagger hits the sand, leaving behind it the blue trail of a very long warp, and Izunia plucks it from the sand before crossing the last few yards to his brother.]


Ardyn. If you have some time, might I have a word?

[menacing]

May 2-4, aka the Heat Wave, around the Station

[Come the heat wave itself, however, Izunia is dressed at least a little more practically for the weather, though still in teeshirts and black pants. He can be found in all his usual places - the low-numbers kitchen, the deck, and the library - during the day, as well as sitting in the Annex underlevel on a blanket to enjoy the breeze in the cooler underground cavern. He's not completely immune to heat, only mostly.

Those who hang around the outside of the station at night, when things have cooled off a little more, will find him either on the deck still or out on the sand behind the stables, working with some sort of light magic as he turns it into different colors from his usual blue, and, eventually, into the shapes of letters and simple symbols. It seems like he's having quite a bit of fun, at least.]


Also May 2-4, also around the Station but more common room/kitchens/his room

[What's that sound? What's that flash in the corner of your eye?

It's a cat - the size of a full grown feline already, though her proportions mark her as not yet an adult - with a dark blue collar and a ringing bell.

And she is having the zoomies around the residential floor after escaping her dad's room. Nyoom, off she goes!

Or perhaps you're sitting in the kitchens or the common room when she finally wears herself out a bit, and you've been approached for Pettings, Please. Or perhaps you have food. Or perhaps your shoelaces have just become her new toy in place of randomly zooming around.

However it is you encounter this fluffy little monster, you can be sure that Izunia is not too far behind, led by the sound of her bell.]


May 5th, Night

[Once the heat wave breaks, it's finally time to make use of one of the Station's new features. With all the windows open to the breeze and the sound of the storm, Izunia is sprawled out in the hot tub in a pair of black trunks and nothing else. The way his head is tipped back, it's easy to mistake him for asleep, but the sound of someone else arriving makes him glance in the direction of the door. It's still fairly easy to tell him apart from Ardyn, though, if you know what to look for - blue eyes, still clean-shaven, and a black tattoo on his chest, the majority of it blurred by the bubbling water except for the two crows flying highest in the direction of his neck.]

Evening.
burninglight: (when it feels like a lie)

fite fite fite

[personal profile] burninglight 2018-05-10 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
What do you want, Izunia?

[Ardyn narrowed his eyes, pausing in his practice and letting the scarlet-hued Blade of the Mystic vanish from his hands.]

...and what the hell is that hat.
burninglight: (ever on and on i continue)

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[personal profile] burninglight 2018-05-10 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
[WHACK, and after a moment of seeing stars Ardyn found himself knocked to the sand, briefly stunned. A hand came up to his jaw as if that would remedy the sudden jolt of pain running through it like an electric current, and gold eyes came into focus on his twin brother standing over him.]

[Just like always, just like the shadow of the Founder King in his memories ordering his execution. Just like the figure that condemned him to torture and exile, and now he dared come to Ardyn as if it were all his fault?]

[Ardyn Tenmyouji kept a very tight lid on his anger; he bottled it up and forced it back for fear of what it would manifest as if ever it saw the light of day again. For fear of the Accursed, or whatever remnants of him still existed in a shattered and rebuilt mind. He'd kept his mouth shut about Nina, about Price, about the Director and all the bloody vengeance they deserved yet would never get. He'd not forgiven but set aside his fury with Xander for Jane's sake, patiently repressed his resentment at Nari for a multitude of reasons, and just refused to let himself express anger lest he unearth what should never have seen the light of day again.]

[He was, ultimately, afraid of himself. Or at least of the looming shadow of what he had once been.]
burninglight: (choosing hope when hope seemed lost)

[personal profile] burninglight 2018-05-10 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
[But now? Faced with the person who had, essentially, been a catalyst for all of it in Ardyn's eyes?]

[It boiled over in a matter of seconds, and Ardyn snapped.]

[In a flash of red he was on his feet, launching himself at Izunia with a kick aimed right at his ribs, ready with a punch to follow up sif that should have left him doubled over.]


What the fuck did you expect me to do--?!
Edited 2018-05-10 05:14 (UTC)
burninglight: (choosing hope when hope seemed lost)

[personal profile] burninglight 2018-05-10 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Did he want this? No, not in the part of his mind that struggled to put reason before emotion. But unlike his brother, Ardyn was and had always been someone who operated on sentiment before rational thought.]

[And that nature of his was one that wanted this. Badly.]


And then-- [The air was knocked out of him for a moment at the punch, before he came back with another of his own aimed for his brother's nose.] --and then what?! There was nothing to be done about it, you absolute fool! What would telling you have done?! You would have seen me stop entirely and condemn the world to death as far as we knew!
nojohnyouare: Confused. (you are the morning)

kitchen

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-10 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
Cat-san...

[Mai was going to start cooking, but she closes the pantry door when she spots the cat and crouches down to look. She slowly offers out a hand.]

Whose are you?
nojohnyouare: Lying on the ground. (save me)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-10 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
...Hungry?

[She gets up and carefully opens the door. This may be more indulgent than sensible, but still. Mai watches to see what the cat will do.]
nojohnyouare: Looking up again. (they want to break me)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-10 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Mai doesn't look up at him, too transfixed by the cat's antics.]

Exploring. Or looking for mouse-san? Maybe.
thoroff: (068)

[personal profile] thoroff 2018-05-10 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
[Hum de dum, another morning, another flight.... Huh, is that shouting she hears? From the distance, Wren doesn't immediately recognize the two figures at the source of the disturbance, but she flies over to investigate, and realizes what she's looking at just in time to watch Izunia lash out at Ardyn's leg.

She has no idea what brought this on so maybe she should stay out of it? ...But she does know that more fighting is the last thing anyone needs, so no, she's going to try and intervene anyway. From just far enough away to not risk getting caught in the ruckus, she calls out to the twins.]


What in blazes are you two doing?!
Edited 2018-05-10 05:43 (UTC)
burninglight: (must i live to sacrifice)

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[personal profile] burninglight 2018-05-10 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Ardyn took the kick and staggered back, dropping to one knee and snapping automatically:]

Stay out of it!
Edited 2018-05-10 05:43 (UTC)
nojohnyouare: Looking out a window. ('cause it's so easy)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-10 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
Cute. [Belatedly:] Hello. Hungry?
nojohnyouare: Happily eating. (to sing it to a crowd)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-10 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Mai nods.] Verity. Cute. I didn't know somebody had a cat-san.
thoroff: (012)

[personal profile] thoroff 2018-05-10 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Yep, twins indeed. Not that she's ever fought her own like this, but the unified reaction is kind of endearing nonetheless. It doesn't look like there's any immediate mortal danger in the spat, at the very least...]

...Fine, but please don't kill each other.

[With that, she flies just a little bit further from the duo and moves to land. She can't bring herself to simply ignore them, so she'll just go ahead and watch this unfold. (While capturing video evidence.) Hopefully things won't escalate badly enough that she'll actually need to get involved?]
burninglight: (ever on and on i continue)

[personal profile] burninglight 2018-05-10 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Luckily, there was no sign of blades or scythes or crossbows.]

[Just Ardyn, immediately going to plant his hands on the ground and lashing out to try sweeping Izunia's legs to knock him down.]


I don't give a damn what you think it would have changed, and it doesn't matter! You think you were the only one lied to?!
burninglight: (ever on and on i continue)

[personal profile] burninglight 2018-05-10 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Good, because that just puts you right in range of another punch.]

Like hell you wouldn't! Don't you dare look at me and say that as if you wouldn't have been rid of me however you could to protect your precious godsdamned kingdom and act like Bahamut's gullible lapdog!

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