week three | dates

[showhost]

You worked up your courage and asked someone out on a date! Good job!





Now you have to hope the producers are kind re: where they send you.

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[warhawks]

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I do not need calming. Do not project your foolish problems onto me. [ Pointing angrily at the capybara. ] As for you, foul creature: cease your staring!

[singurarity]

... So what should I call you, anyway?

[ The capybara goes back to docile munching. While staring past her, I guess. ]

[warhawks]

[ ...

Lowers her hand. ]

She told you, did she?

[singurarity]

Even if she didn't, the demeanor would've told me you were a completely different person.

[ So. Yeah. ]

[warhawks]

What nonsense. You would have had no way of knowing unless that fool revealed my existence.

[ Her Oscar worthy acting skills... ]

My name is War Devil. For the remainder of this exercise, you may call me "Yoru". [ Since "War Devil" is apparently too ~weird and awkward~ to use for SOME PEOPLE, yes she's still salty about you insulting her name, Asa. ]

[singurarity]

Yoru. Okay, then.

[ She's just going to roll with it. ]

Is it going to be you for the rest of the time here? Like this week and the next?

[warhawks]

[ She wants to say yes, but: ]

Doubtful. I'm not interested in this "love" you humans all care so much about. [ Not now that she can't use it to make weapons out of people here. ] I'll let her back once she's learned her lesson. She knew the consequences of telling anyone about me.

[ Thank god "two girls at a petting zoo" isn't great TV on the surface, and the camera crew all seem distracted by the cute animals. It's giving them a moment of privacy. ]

[singurarity]

[ thanks, camera crew. You're all peaches. ]

Um, something about me being in danger?

[ Was that it-- ]

[warhawks]

You? I have no reason to kill you, girl. [ Better it sounds like she doesn't want to, rather than that her powers don't seem to work here. ] No, the punishment is Asa's. Our agreement was simple: if she ever revealed my existence, I would take over her body for good. I have no use for disobedient tools.

... And yet, for whatever reason, she deemed you worthy of that risk. I struggle to understand why. You certainly aren't much to look at, nor do you seem particularly powerful.

[singurarity]

You didn't hear our talk?

[ Well, thanks for not threatening her life. That's so rare! ]

[warhawks]

[ Don't worry, she'll still threaten to kill Ritsuka at least once before the game is done. Promise.

With more petulance than Asa herself has ever shown: ] Obviously not, girl. But don't bore me with a repeat of your conversation. I'll ask Asa about it later.

[ weren't you going to kill her though ]

[singurarity]

[ Well, she did say she'd let her come back! So it's fine! ]

Okay, then. I guess if nothing else, I can say I've met a war devil now. That's a first for me.

[ And Asa is coming back so all is well!! ]

[warhawks]

The War Devil. [ ... The capybara is staring at her again, but she won't be drawn into its game. ] For as long as mankind lives in fear of war's horrors, my powers will continue to grow. Neither you, nor anyone else, are capable of stopping me.

... You seem rather unfazed by all of this. Are you by any chance brain damaged? [ Why aren't you more intimidated by her... she's offended... ]

[singurarity]

[ Sorry, ma'am...

She's crouching to let a goat clip-clop into her lap. ]

I've heard that before, but no. I'm just used to a bunch of insane things happening to me and if the embodiment of fairy tales exists, the epitome of war isn't that far off to be able to assume that's a thing in the first place. Kind of like the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

I'm a little surprised you're in a human body, though. And one probably not involved in a war in the first place?

[warhawks]

That is what us sisters are called, yes.

[ The Four Horsemen, she means. Wow, this must be Ritsuka's first ever experience with traditionally male figures actually being women... what a shock to the system... ]

My goals require a human body. I only kept her mind alive to better blend in with your society. [ She very much doesn't mention the part where she was near death herself, being in just as desperate a situation as Asa was. ] In all likelihood, she came here seeking a way to remove me. She's much like this creature — arrogant without any justification.

[ Speaking of: she's going to try and get hold of the capybara's head, but it keeps turning and blocking her with its giant ass. Behold the mighty War Devil, outwitted by a giant rodent. ]

[singurarity]

[ Yeah, let's not talk about Okita Souji or Oda Nobunaga or Ushiwakamaru or Musashi or Nero or Mordred or one of the King Arthurs or Leonardo da Vinci or-- ]

I think people do kind of have a right to want to have their bodies to themselves without it being arrogant. And the capybara just... wants to eat?

[ It looks like it's winning, too. ]

[warhawks]

She was dead when I found her, girl. She should be grateful to me for saving her pathetic life!

[ And threatening to end it a dozen times since, but let's not focus on that part.

Now that she knows the name of her nemesis, she focuses harder on getting the upper hand, finally managing to grab hold of some neck fur. It's like scruffing a cat, if the cat was three feet long and weighed as much as a human — the noise it makes sounds almost like it's laughing at her attempts at holding it still. ]

Capybara sword. [ Nothing happens, because we aren't killing cute animals. Yoru makes a disgusted face and lets go, stomping her foot in frustration. ] Worthless. Everything here is worthless!

[singurarity]

Oh, you can call me Ritsuka--wait, sorry, you were going to turn him into a sword??

[ HE'S SO UNBOTHERED, THOUGH. ]

[warhawks]

[ He is... it's only making her mald more... ]

I can turn what's mine into weapons. It should have worked on such an insignificant creature... clearly, some outside force is at play here. [ or maybe the capybara is just more powerful than you ever think about that ]

[singurarity]

Well, you don't really think of capybaras when you think of warzones...

[warhawks]

You're far too shortsighted, girl. A beast of such mettle would have made a formidable weapon.

[ ... She's starting to like it a little. Just a little. ]

[singurarity]

... [ looking at the capybara. ]

It's... definitely inspirational.

[warhawks]

Hmph. And I suppose you think yourself the same, for not cowering in my presence?

[singurarity]

No, I think I've seen too much. That's a different problem.

[warhawks]

Yet you persist. At what cost, I wonder? How many lives have been fractured so that yours might remain whole?

[ The smile on her — Asa's — face is both deeply unpleasant and jarringly out of place, belonging to something far older, more malevolent than a teenage girl. ]