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[masakados]

Who: Naoki (masakados) & Yang (flaredo)
When: IC: 11/28, OOC: 3/06, forward-dated!
Where: a nice empty lot
What: idk some demons and some legs and stuff like that
Rating/Warning: None?!

[Naoki's starting to learn a few things about Yang the longer that he spends time with her. One of these things is that she seems to remember well even the things he thinks she says completely jokingly-- like how they talked about coaxing bellyrubs from one of his demons. How she's going to do that, he's not sure, but hey, there can't be any harm in letting her give it a shot if she's even a bit serious. Especially since he's here in case Yurlungur gets any ideas of trying to eat any magatsuhi.

Tearing his curious gaze away from the outfit she's switched to today, he props his hand on his hip.]

Since you dressed up and all, I could let you try it out. Buuuut, it's not too late to call it off either. [And they can get on to training! He looks again at her clothes, secretly admiring (where he's sure Yurlungur won't). It's different and fresh and er anyway back on track he's completely focused on the topic on hand.]

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[masakados]

Sorry, sorry. Forgive me. [He brings up his free hand, ducking his head with a laugh.]

But, I dunno, the first thing that comes to mind?

[flaredo]

Mm... well, why don't I tell you a little about my team, so you'll know 'em when you see 'em?

[masakados]

Okay-- fire away, Yang.

[And then he's going to end up keeping an eye out for them.]

[flaredo]

[ She cocks a finger like a gun, playfully, before she continues. ]

Okay, so, Ruby's my little sister. She's got silver eyes [ yep ] and short, dark hair, and you'll know her because she always runs around in a red cape. She's a total weapons nut, too. If you want to get on her good side, talk weapons or cookies.

[ It's true. ]

And then there's Blake-- she's got long black hair and golden eyes, and she's pretty quiet. She likes to keep to herself, and she can worry too much over things... [ Here Yang trails off, gaze growing distant, before she shakes her head. ] Anyway, she usually wears a big black bow in her hair.

Weiss... isn't here, but she's formal and proper and finicky and likes doilies, if you can believe that. She's got long white hair and blue eyes, and she kind of loses her temper a lot. If you call her 'ice queen', do it where she can't hear you.

[masakados]

[Naoki listens to her descriptions with interest... and not just the descriptions. He's watching her face as she speaks, watching the shift in her expressions, noting the way she trails off...

His arm tightens briefly with hers, though he doesn't realise that he does it.]

They sound like the types you can't miss even in a crowd.

[Like Yang herself, really--]

[flaredo]

[ She doesn't fail to notice the subtle tightening of his arm, blinking down at it... and deciding not to mention it. She's fine, really. ]

Exactly! If you run into them, make sure to say hello! You're pretty noticeable yourself, after all.

[masakados]

Man, believe me, I know.

[He looks down at their linked arms for a second, the glowing lines of his tattoos, blinking yellow eyes slowly.]

I'll say hi. [...] I suppose mentioning the pie thing to Weiss is probably off limits if she ever comes here, right?

[flaredo]

... Yeah, uh, you never heard anything about that. Okay?

[masakados]

[Naoki lifts his free hand to his mouth, pantomiming drawing a zipper.]

Got it. Another one of our secrets. [And, amused:] I'll try not to get you in trouble.

[flaredo]

It's just, when she really gets going... you know?

[ Angry chipmunk. ]

[masakados]

I getcha. Chiaki was kinda like that...

Once she got going, she didn't stop.

[He'll squeeze their interlocked arms in commiseration. HE UNDERSTANDS.]

[flaredo]

[ She snorts a little, patting his shoulder with her free hand. COMRADE. ]

Yeah, that's how it is. You've had it rough, too.

[masakados]

[The snort has him laughing.]

Well, we can always think of it as good experience... or something. [A pause--] How'd you guys all come to be a team?

[flaredo]

Everyone at Beacon is put into a team for the rest of their time there. So the headmaster hurled us all into a forest filled with Grimm, had us pair up with the first person we saw,and we had to bring back relics they'd hidden.

They were watching us the whole time to see what we did, how we fought, and how we worked with each other, and once we made it back, they decided on our teams. Simple as that.

[masakados]

That's one way to figure out how good people work with each other...

[He thinks about it, tipping his head.] What's it like, fighting with them? [What kind of fighting would four people like that do together? Naoki's always fought with his demons, but even in that...

The fighting is still individualistic in ways. Demons are different than humans.]

[flaredo]

Like... it's good. We wound up training to come up with different combos, and we've gotten a lot better at reading signals. It's nice, knowing that you're not fighting alone and you'll have people to cover your back, like you'd do for them. So you've got someone to slow the enemy down, someone to help you double-team 'em-- it makes fighting a lot easier!

[ And she misses that here-- but instead, she smiles. ]

What about you? What's it like, fighting with demons?

[masakados]

It's... different from that.

[Naoki looks as though he's trying to figure out the best way to word it before he slowly says:] While we're fighting, I'm coming up with strategies. I gotta remember all of my demon's strengths and weaknesses and types of attacks, and I gotta be able to figure out our opponents.

I wouldn't call it a team so much as me leading them. [He waves his free hand slightly.] They also won't jump in to cover another usually, so I have to plan around that.

[flaredo]

... So you're more like a commander. How did you even end up leading them, anyway? Are they just drawn to hot shirtless guys?

[ She really is curious about this, honestly, but she's purposely keeping it light. She's still not sure what's a heavy topic or not. ]

[masakados]

It's not that easy, [he replies, amused.]

Pixie joined up with me right from the beginning, though. Mostly 'cause she wanted someone to help her get to Yoyogi Park, but... [He shrugs his free shoulder.] Other than that, there's ways to get demons to join you. They listen to me mostly 'cause I'm the strongest.

But I'd have to talk and negotiate with them. They'd want macca--money--or magatsuhi, or items... A couple of times, they got all scared while they were fighting me and they'd beg to let them join me or for me to let them go.

[flaredo]

They got scared... huh. Not very impressive...

[ From the way she's scrunching up her nose, she's honestly trying to envision a demon like Long cowering before Naoki the mighty. ]

[masakados]

Some of them are just like that. [THEY WERE WEAKSAUCE. He's also thinking that she's cute when she scrunches up her nose.]

Others weren't, of course. Some wouldn't join up with me no matter what I tried, or how strong I was.

[He pauses.] That's why there's also a place in the Vortex World called the Cathedral of Shadows. There's a minister there, who does these weird ceremonies... and he can fuse demons together to make a different one.

[flaredo]

Fuse-- this is starting to sound more like one of the trading card games now. Mashing up demons together to make a new one...

[ It's a little weird. ]

Then again, it's not like I'm a demon expert.

[masakados]

Surprisingly, neither am I. I think if I tried to figure out and make sense of everything about demons, my head would pop.

[He spreads the fingers of his free hand apart: KABOOM just like that.]

They don't abide by normal rules, that's for sure.

[flaredo]

I could tell that much just by meeting them! I think the only thing they really have in common with the guys back home is the whole emotion thing.

[masakados]

Yeah-- each demon's kinda unique too personality-wise. Though most have the whole individualistic, vain and egotistical thing in common.

[And they're greedy and such; not all of them, but the vaaast majority. They are demons, after all.]