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seofon's relationship status is always complicated so we will see where that goes. the issue is he cares very much for danchou and is working through a lot, but he's always up for dates and flirting and whatnot and we will see where that goes. ultimately, ooc communication is key and if something changes here, i'll let you guys know!
for my isola besties, the basic rundown of seofon is that he is OP sword guy, he has an evil alter ego thanks to the wedge of time playing "fuck around and find out" with the timeline, he can solo the other 6 pillars of reality, but also he is a tailor and pastry chef and struggles to get dates even though he is cute and has an accent β he is spanish, while his localized name is seofon, his og name is siete which is spanish for seven β he is also a sword collector but in the same way as shirou emiya β he shares a seiyuu with EMIYA archer and cygames knows this and has gone with it β
he's learning to adjust to spirale city and he does like archimedes ward, but man his arrival was An Experience.
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This is anΒ event rerun. For more information on how to participate and the rules that apply, please check ourΒ EVENT RERUN GUIDE! If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask!
Itβs a relatively quiet day, all things considered. No sudden outages, major bugs or hacker attacks. By all means, it was a perfectly normal day.
βGot any fives?β
βGo fish.β
Arcturus blinks and picks up their twelfth card.
βI donβt think you are playing this right.β
βWhatever do you mean?β Taygeta tilts its head curiously and asks back. βDo you have any fives?β
Arcturus removes one card from their hand and slides it over. With a triumphant beep, Taygeta pulls three cards from its own hand and places the stack of fives to the side. Arcturus stares blankly at the cards, then back at them.
βAgain, I donβt think-β
The door to the breakroom swings open, banging loudly on the wall behind it. In the doorway stands none other than Edward, their much⦠tolerated janitor, armed with a broom currently held in an attack position. He scans the room and points the broom bristles at the only two people inside.
βDid one of you two take my lunch?β He asks in an even tone that does not correlate with the white-knuckled grip he has on the broom handle. βOne that had my name on it in capital letters. And βDo not EatβΒ right under that.β
Both of them shake their heads slowly. Edward exhales and lowers the broom to the ground.
βWell, then someone is clearly lying, because you are the last two people I asked.β He looks around the breakroom one last time, as if his lunchbox could hide in a corner somewhere before turning around. βSince nobody is willing to confess, I am going to review the security tapes. Sorry for the interruption.β
The door closes much more gently than it was opened and the breakroom is silent for a moment. Only a moment though, before Arcturus turns back to the cards still on the table.
βSo, about those fives-β
βIsnβt it interesting,β Taygeta ignores them, still staring at the doorway, βHow people are tempted to lie even when that might hurt them in the long run?β
Compelled by the question, Arctutus lowers their cards to the table.Β
βIt is an interesting question,β they admit, βWhy do people lie? Is it a defense mechanism? An ancient instinct from the olden times that has incorporated itself seamlessly into our modern lives? And-β
β-Can it be overridden? And what would society be like if lying was no longer an option?β Taygeta picks up, looking back at their companion. βThat would be an interesting thing to test, donβt you think?β
Arcturus has already risen from their seat, their card dispute momentarily forgotten.
βWhat do you have in mind?β
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In multiple places in the city, a unique type of flower starts to bloom in spite of the coming winter. With their red and purple petals and a strong but sweet scent, they just beg to be picked, put in a little flower crown or gifted to a treasured friend.
But, unbeknownst to the city inhabitants, the pollen from these flowers is more tricky than that from the regular ones. Where ordinary flower pollen only brings allergies to the unfortunate few, this pollen is wired to render anyone who touches it unable to lie and more than willing to spill the truths that theyβd rather hide.
Though it can be possible to resist the pollenβs influence, it is a difficult feat, even more so for people who have much to hide. Each time you try it will only get harderβ¦ In fact, those who attempt it too much will notice that flowers will start to grow on their body as well. These batches of flowers will bloom and wither within days, sometimes hours, only to reappear in a different part of the island mere moments later. Check your lodgings, maybe there are some hiding in your house right now?
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Welcome to our next event rerun:Β A Crocus Among Us!
As stated, a pretty new species of flower has bloomed on the island regardless of the snowy weather rolling in. Though the flowers' life cycle is fairly quick, they do pop up everywhere--from cracks in the concrete to personal gardens to parks... even the beaches aren't immune to this hardy flower. And neither are you!
The pollen from these flowers have a special property: If touched by it, it becomes increasingly difficult to hide the truth from others. This can be in several forms:
Lying outright becomes almost impossible
Keeping the truth from someone becomes very difficult (like keeping quiet, or omitting a crucial fact)
Reserved people are more likely to over-share information
People feel compelled to tell truths about themselves
If someone tries to resist the effects of the pollen anyway, their own body will begin to sprout flowers on its own. A person may start slowly become covered in flowers, leaves, vines, petals, or other plant-like growths until they spill the beans!
Frequently Asked Questions:
"How long does the pollen effect last?"
The effect wears off in a couple hours, provided a person doesn't get any new pollen on them.
Also, the effects will stop if the character is no longer covered in pollen, so taking a shower and changing clothes would also help. Of course, for that they would need to know that itβs the flowers that cause this whole situation...!
"Will damaging the flowers stop the pollen effects?"
In theory it should, yet these flowers seem impervious to any type of damage. Removing them from the earth does not stop them from blooming, and more will appear in the place of any that were taken away.
"If there is a secret related to my muse that they do not know, will the truth pollen reveal it?"
If it is something that they did not have any way to know about beforehand, then no. The pollen can only reveal secrets that the muse is aware of in some capacity.
For example, if it is something that they knew but repressed enough to hide it from everyone including themselves, the pollen might get it out of them. Of course, someone would still need to ask a specific question for it to come up, or they would need to talk long enough to get that secret out of their own brain.
"If my muse is not human, will they still be affected?"
Yes! Anyone who can be covered by pollen will experience the same effects.
"How long will my muse be able to resist the effects of the pollen?"
It depends on your museβs willpower and pain threshold. The more secrets your muse has, the harder - and more painful - it would be to resist the pollen. At some point, the truths will start spilling even through their teeth. Stronger ones might hold out for about a day, but it is very unlikely someone could go longer than that.
"What about flowers that sprout from people who try to resist the pollen, will they show up on muses that are not human?"
Sure, why wouldnβt they? You might even customize what specific flowers will grow from your muse if you want. Maybe their metallic chassis will get covered in lichen instead, or, if your muse is particularly big, small trees might suit them more.
"Does that affect my muse only visually, or can the flower growths hurt them?"
It is supposed to be a visual change only--while resisting the pollen itself may lead to pain, the flowers or other plant growths do not in and of themselves. But⦠Who knows? Maybe your muse was unlucky enough to get a bugged version that makes them feel pain where the flowers appear. See where your angsty heart leads you~
"How long will the event last?"
The event will run fromΒ May 1st until May 22nd at 11:59:59PM!
"Maybe hang around in the Land of Burnt Umber? You could count the days that place has had where standing outside won't make you sweat off a couple of pounds on your fingers alone."
β no- that's different. see, back where i'm from, i tried to get my team together for a nice summer vacation- β multiple times, in fact, and in the rare occasions that any of the other eternals joined, something always happened. not that he was about to admit that- β and i guess there's something about a nice summer day at the beach that takes away a bit of that homesickness ... β
β i'm sure it will warm up soon enough, at least if we hope enough, the stars might change the weather here as a gift! they seem to know how to do that. β
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β oh man, i really could use some warmer weather! β which really means he'd love to go to the beach and try to pull off that beach boy persona- the one that didn't quite land back in the skies.
β huh. i could've sworn the fitness center was here- β that's rather disturbing, isn't it? while basilio was known to always have some task to do, he certainly knew his way around campus and wasn't nearly as flaky as some people thought he could be. and it looked like he wasn't the only person confused.
he vaguely recognizes kingu as one of the more gossiped about teacher's assistants. half the students loved him, the other half hated his guts- and basilio had heard his fair share of complaints simply due to the fact that the fencing team had such a variety of individuals. as for his own opinion? he hadn't really formed one, but he saw nothing wrong with someone who was focused on their studies and kept others on track. β maybe it would've been different if he was on the same track, but there was something freeing about what he'd chosen. something fun- culinary arts and fashion β
β please tell me i'm not just losing my mind here- i don't want to keep the team waiting, you know? β
27 year old basilio is known for a multitude of talents. a double major in culinary arts and fashion design, he is also the captain of the fencing team. a cheery fellow, he spends a lot of time hanging out with friends, making food, or looking around the campus for his next inspiration for a new outfit to make! and if he runs into the perfect person to model a new outfit, that's even better! or so he is during the days...
after classes and fencing practice ends, basilio becomes more melancholy- struggling with some dark part of himself that he doesn't want to let out. he worries that his friends will vanish- but more than that, he's afraid of what he'll do to their captor. after all, there's something vengeful in him.
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while he's certainly not a campus killer, basilio still has that ' gotta be a hero even if that means vengeance ' mentality, and when he finds out who's behind all of this, they better watch out.
as in he sure is looking for the campus killer, he's going to make them pay. you better watch out. you better watch out!!!
unlike he is as the godlike leader of the eternals, basilio is rather popular! truly the beautiful beach boy that he claims to be. he has a circle of close friends that he hangs out with if he wants to fight off the depression β and more β
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! It was an accident!" He had hoped Seofon hadn't heard anything, but here he is, by his side. Sun is expecting to be hit, or something, and it's why he flinches, but when he just feels the weight of Seofon's cloak, he blinks. He's helping him?
And he has such a strange power, but cool.
"I'm sorry..." He apologizes again.
"I wanted to make something for you, Soffon and Monkey King. You guys are always doing something for me..."
β really, you don't have to apologize, β because every time he does, it breaks seofon's heart. he wonders what sort of people sun spent time with for him to feel guilty about every little thing- to see him flinch at any sudden movement- to fear that he would be hit, or worse? in a way, seofon is angry, but not at sun.
no, he's angry at the sorts of people who would make a kid feel like this. sun's not really a kid, but neither were tien and feower, and that didn't change how seofon felt, did it? but that was definitely not a conversation for the current moment.
β we do things because we like doing them. sun, you don't have to do anything in return; at least not for me. but i get it- wanting to make something for someone else. wanting to give back- β
seofon is gentle, with all the powers of the heavens within him- even if only while he lived in the sky-strewn isles. he exists like a god, and he is gentle. because that's what the point of power was- to protect and help others who needed it. sun had his own powers, but clearly he hadn't realized his own potential. seofon only hoped that one day, he would.
β how about this, let's get you cleaned up, and then we can work on something for monkey king together. you don't have to make anything for me- spending quality time together doing something like cooking is a gift of its own, you know? β
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He looks down, and there's a MESS on the kitchen floor. The kitchen itself is a colossal mess, and his hands are red from being burned by HOT, boiling water.
There is no scream of pain from him when the pot spilled over his hands, but now he has to clean this mess up quickly. That's exactly what he does. He's not sure what to clean with, so he strips the clothes off his back, revealing the old and new scars scattered across, and starts SCRUBBING.
He's forgotten that there's something else on the stove....burning.
β sun, what happened? β seofon's at the young man's side in an instant, a look of worry on his face. he takes notes of the scars, of sun's reddened hands, and thinks quickly- he takes off his cloak and drapes it over sun's shoulders- and he's glad they live in the sky strewn isles. he breathes, reaches the boundary, and calls a few sword gods to help take care of what's on the stove- a simple task while he helps sun clean.
β let me handle this one, or, i can put a sword god on cleaning duty. we should take care of your hands. β a pause, he offers a gentle smile. β so, let's get cleaned up, ok? then, i'll handle the rest of the cooking for today. you need to rest. β
β a new year! well, that's exciting! β but, he does miss the other eternals. he's been in this city for more than a year and a half, now. he's in a new home where the owner doesn't want him around- he's made a promise to a kid who reminds him of feower and tien. he's stressed, but at least ... he can do his best, right? like he always does.
Of course the guy sounds so proper and reasonable it sets his teeth on edge. He's even gracious enough to give him an out for the frustration and a solution. Instead of tempering his anger this only makes it boil harder, a controlled burn that keeps him from accepting the olive branch but not strong enough to do something drastic.
"I believe Sun would do well enough with just me here, but sure."
You know nothing about him, not like I do, he doesn't say, but it does sit in his throat, itching to get out. Maybe it's the fact that Sun doesn't remember him anymore, or that the kid already made a friend that he looks up to for care and protection the same way he used to with Wukong, or maybe he's just been angry for a while now and finally found an outlet in form of this guy. Maybe it's all of the above.
(Wukong's aware that he's the one being unreasonable here. Surprisingly, that doesn't make him feel better.)
"Yeah, I don't need to do that. If you do anything in my house, I'll know." After all, the whole place was covered in his magic, top to bottom. If anything, he'll be keeping his eye on Sun.
"...Listen, Soufon, the kid likes you, so you're allowed to stay here. You do anything funny, I throw you out. That's it." That's about as much ground as he is willing to cede, and even that is said through his teeth.
seofon's aware that the monkey king doesn't want him around. sun had been so enthusiastic and as far as he could tell, the conversation may have ended with the monkey king agreeing to seofon moving in because sun wanted him there. seofon can't blame sun for the miscommunication, but it doesn't mean he's not worried.
as leader of the eternals, he'd been a mediator of many rough situations. he'd been able to smooth over miscommunications and prevent disasters- but sometimes he couldn't. sometimes fights happened, and sometimes they were catastrophic. here in the sky-strewn isles, he had once battled against aurelius, a divine being. he'd acted in anger because of what aurelius had done to fiyero. he had dropped the power of the heavens onto the angel and had inflicted death after death after death. one for each blade in the arsenal, he'd said, and he would've done it if fiyero and klaus hadn't shown up.
in the sky-strewn isles, he wandered the sea of stars. the boundary flowed through him with ease, and ... he really didn't want a fight. because sun was a good kid. is a good kid, present tense. sun likes the monkey king, and in sun's mind, he's got two people he likes living with him. seofon's not about to ruin that.
β he also really cares about you. you know, this might be a case of sun just wanting to have people he likes around him, and that's not a bad thing. but if you didn't want me to move in, too, then you should've told him. i think we both know he would've respected that. β
β anyway, i'm not going to do anything other than keep my promise to sun. and if you need to let out your anger on me, then spar with me. a lot can be said about a person from the way they spar with another. so if you need that, just say the word. β there's a sort of sorrow in it, knowing that sun might catch on to how awkward things are between seofon and the monkey king. because sun wanted them to be happy.
β oh ... if you'll allow it, i'd like to make dinner in the kitchen. before i was a swordsman, i grew up as a tailor and a chef, so i promise i know what i'm doing. β he considers correcting the moneky king on his name, but decides against it for now. sun also had it wrong, and seofon found it rather endearing- but maybe later, when things weren't so tense.
"So you're Sun's friend." He leans on the doorway to the bedroom that used to be for guests but now belongs to the man in front of him. Wukong is still not super happy about having someone else in his house (he took his time considering if he even wanted to have Sun here, not to mention someone he doesn't know), but the place is not big enough for them to avoid each other completely. Might as well get the introduction out of the way.
"He said a lot of nice things about you. Buuut kid's prone to befriending just about anyone, so." Wukong sizes the guy up. Several of his monkeys also peek around him to look at the new guy, all with that same tense focus as their king. "Why'd you actually decide to move with him?"
seofon understands what it's like to defend someone precious. from the look of it, this guy β the monkey king, as he had been told, because that was the name of the owner of the home- it was a solid assumption all things considering β was worried about what the swordsman's presence meant- because he also cared about sun.
he's said a lot of nice things about you, but ... β he was so scared when he showed up at the apartment in archimedes, β seofon says, and there's a sadness in his tone. β covered in dirt and shaking like a leaf- like he thought i'd hurt him, or not let him in. β
β see, back where i come from, i took in two kids just like sun. feower and tien grew up in this place called stardust town, and the people there ... well, they weren't the savory sort. β he's homesick in a way, isn't he?
why'd you actually decide to move in with him, asks the monkey king. seofon takes note of several other monkeys watching him. he understands he is in the house of a deity. something about that feels familiar, too.
β sun's a lot like feower and tien. he's got a lot of potential, but the world hasn't been so kind to him, it seems. i think the kid deserves to have people looking out for him, and so that's what i'm planning to do. i want him to have a good time here- but i get it, you're worried it's something sinister. β
β you don't have to worry about that. still, if you don't trust me, that's natural, too. you can have one of your monkeys keep an eye on me if it will put you more at ease. β
well, time to adjust to the new surroundings! and in the sky-strewn isles ... it will also be a lot easier to access the boundary in a place like this.
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β come with you... you want me to move in with you? β seofon's smile is soft- sun has been a good roommate, a curious sort, and seofon has always done well as a caretaker. well, even if his team didn't always take him seriously- seofon had built a family from the eternals, and he liked to think he was building a family in spirale, too.
he'd been in the city for more than a year. he found love and friendship, and ... β you know, i work in archimedes. but the city has means of travel. β and fiyero will get it. seofon's a caretaker. his love is deep and vast as the sea of stars that he embodies. and sun reminds him so much of threo, of family that he'd not seen in more than a year- he misses the eternals more than he can properly put into words.
β i'll come with you, sun. you know, it means a lot to me that you trust me like this. β he moves to ruffle sun's hair β and he thinks of feower and tien, and how they were still working through everything that happened in stardust town. seofon had taken them in as his 'kids', even though they were already seventeen. even though he was only twenty-seven. but, the more the merrier, right? β
"A group of heroes?" There's a guy that he knows. Bentleyβs closest friend, who'd tell Sun all about heroes when Bentley wasn't around. He talked about how heroes always did good and protected others from evil. "You protect people?" And maybe that's why he didn't expect anything in return?
"You are...the first hero I meet then." And man, is that amazing? His tail reacts in a way of excitement, but quickly he grabs it and holds it in his hands.
"..."
There is no such thing as free.
"Bentley says nothing is free. There is always something to be expected. Do heroes do things for free?"
β yeah, i protect people, β comes seofon's reply- there's a warmth in his words, a sense of pride. at least, he likes to think that he's protecting people. he likes to think of himself as a hero of justice, and maybe ... maybe he is. or maybe he's just something that needs to be kept in line.
when he'd met anre for the first time, the old harvin had told him that he was afraid that if something went wrong, no one would be able to stop him. anre had then learned that he wasn't the threat in the situation- seofon was. seofon had proposed the idea to recruit the strongest adventurers in the skies as a team, but they both knew that the real purpose of the eternals was ...
well, it wasn't like that would work in the first place. seofon had been able to soundly defeat his entire team without breaking a sweat. if not for the captain ... would he have been able to really get a grip of the situation? even if he had just wanted to test out the power of the seven-star sword, things had ended rather poorly.
and he still wanted to think of himself as a hero.
bentley says nothing is free, says his new housemate, and seofon frowns. β bentley seems like he doesn't know what he's talking about. the entire point of heroics is to do good for the sake of it- β
β i get it, you're stressed and scared. but i'm not going to do anything to harm you, and i don't expect anything in return. i promise, you'll feel a lot better after a relaxing bath and a hearty meal. β
