although open to memes, i like them a lot as potential starting points - please feel free to dm if you would like to set something up.
atieno is likely to be found near bars, in abandoned buildings or ruins, in varying locations throughout space, checking out performances .. or even hanging out in nature as potential locations.
potential options for interactions: most scifi exploration [or just wandering about in general] kind of situations, secret deals, finding rare items, being a source of information, urban modern fantasy (for more every day kind of potential run-ins), they are likely in the midst of keeping themself engaged and finding something to do (also leaves them open to truly silly stuff to be honest). they do show up at performances, shows and creative spaces fairly regularly as well
also open to playing around with some of the more horror tinged aspects of encountering them in the depths of space without expecting them.
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for all the dark nothingness enclouding the other's presence, the moment of the impact is bright. bright white and intense, the opposite of nothing, an unignorable unimaginable presence, deeply anchored in its physicality. his own words seem to drip and flow from him in a little dose of blood upon his tongue and spat onto the ground at their feet. he quiets down. he smiles, a brief flash of reddened teeth, and victory in his eyes.
a careful movement of his jaw, testing its mobility, a tender touch of his fingertips where they'd hit. "well... at least you're strong." at least you get that much for the bother of whatever space you must occupy. he doesn't say the latter part, though. two instincts battle within him, one to prod them further, whispering again, again, one to let then have this win, appease them, and have a chance of seeing then again. it's that simple. it's almost love. it's desperate enough, anyway. even if the sheer pathos of it, despair, doesn't reach his face.
it hurts. moments later, it still hurts. it hurts like hell, only hell never could because he'd desentisised to it a long time ago. it hurts like hell and it feels like home. there's victory in his eyes. "is that a part of the job, of being you, or is that just the sweet perk i get for being me?" it's a much less offensive way of addressing them than he has up to now. an odd inkling of respect for the creature that doesn't respect anybody or anything. to whom nothing is holy. on whom the holy can choke.
atieno has to admit something to themself, they know that there is something deeply cathartic about getting to act on the frustration that they sometimes feel. so by the time that they are provoked towards violence, there's often a distinct lack of remorse for using it. just because at this point, they had given so, so much leeway. how much more of this would they really be willing to take?
it's moments like this where atieno is very much clear about the more ambiguous nature of their being. a force, one that doesn't truly fit into models of being, who should not be admired.. at least not in a way that can feel deeply constraining.
still, seeing that he has this kind of victory in his eyes makes it all kind of melancholic. almost confirming that he was very much the type to provoke these kinds of things in purpose.
how often had he tried this? is a morbid question they can't help but think, withdrawing their hand and staring at him.
at least you're strong. atieno sighs. "comes with the territory." they are matter-of-fact, finding themself recognizing more and more from previous encounters with those who demanded such a response just to have some kind of experience.
when asked about it being part of the job or a specific perk... atieno thinks for a moment? is this something of a real question? or is he being a bit facetious?
it's hard to tell, and they raise an eyebrow. but it is much, much more.. manageable of an interaction which is something.
"i stay ready to fight if it comes down to it. but i guess doing sudden strikes like that.. is a special little treat if you'd treat it that way. "
❝You don't have many vices, do you ? 'Least not many I can pickup on from a first glance.❞
Always made him both curious and annoyed in equal measure. Challenges, that's what people like this were. Always ready to rise to the occasion, but you know, sometimes it's nice to just have an easy dinner. Little effort, a quick meal before going off to do whatever it was he felt like doing. Not that it mattered, there was probably no eating this one. Life force can be shared, blood can be drank, flesh can be consumed, but eating as a whole… not really something that seemed on the table even for a primordial being like himself.
Atieno chuckled a little bit. They had their things they had enjoyed and tried over the years. But could they really consider them vices?
Given that Atieno had been willing to go without many, many things, that could be a difficult question for them to answer.
"Suppose, i don't have many that tend to stick for very long. It all feels so temporary for me after a while that it doesn't feel like much of a fixation for me whatsoever. Anything I do enjoy.. it's only out of some curiosity, which I guess has gotten me into some situations now and then."
They shrugged a little bit. When asked about what they fell into, Atieno thought for a moment before responding again.
"Good question. Cosmic force, cosmic entity... those tends to be more of the phrases that seem to be close enough for what I am in general. "
{ @the27percent sent:// “Something isn’t right here but I can’t put my finger on it” to Ex-Con!Ben :/ from this meme /always accepting }
"Wanna be specific?" he deadpanned.
‘Here’ lay along the coast beneath a sky the color of old tin, sea shuddering under it, sardine-silver breakwater. Salt-blanched houses stood weathered, their windows held the last of the evening like trapped water. Dogs would stop in the road and stare eastward toward the horizon. They’d been talking about the dogs. Where they might be looking and whatnot.
Ben watched the gulls wheel in silence.
“Thinkin’ one more night and—” he motioned to his truck that rose above the dunes like a shipwreck from its spot on the paved hilltop. Driftwood-sized from where they stood. Near the marshes where the reeds bent when there was no wind.
His motion said, leaving. He looked at the person from under his windbreaker. Scars that caught even the dimmest trace of twilight.
Rarely offered, but he shrugged toward his newfound companion. Another drifter, by the looks of them. Maybe it was that look that made him ask, “How far’re you going?”
Atieno had been used to wandering all kinds of places, staying on the move was fundamentally part of their existence and how they spent the time when not tending to the stars. It meant that they were prone to show up in all kinds of locations, experiencing so much along the way.
So when they were starting to feel an odd kind of feeling in this location, the entity did feel a certain obligation to at least listen to the impulse even if not entirely pursued.
"Heh. Right. I guess the dogs might have seen something, sensed something that might otherwise.. not get noticed. Might be beneath.. somewhere in this area. " There's always so many layers to places, who knows what could be lurking beneath it all.
The notion of leaving after another night, Atieno pauses for a moment - the notion of traveling with someone feeling almost a bit novel for a moment.
"If I could get a days worth a way from here.. that would be a good start. Get over to the next community and gather myself together .. might not be a bad idea."
The Doctor nods at the other's band recommendations. "Nice! I'll have to check them out." The Doctor doesn't always listen to a lot of music. They don't have that much time. However, they would like to listen to more. So why not start with the bands that Atieno had recommended?
"It definitely is. I'd much rather be at peace with everyone around me. But there's not much one can do when others aren't peaceful themselves." The Doctor says with a slight sigh. "And yes, it's definitely better to be able to defend oneself than not to have that skill."
"Yeah, I hope you do enjoy them. Or at least find something interesting about them." Atieno knows that their tastes might not be for everyone, but they don't mind supporting people in trying out varying sounds just for the sake of doing so.
"Isn't that the truth... can't control what people do. Even if that means those people insist on trying to control others. Those sorts have to be dealt with each and every time." Annoying, frustrating but comes with the territory of many beings having varying ideas of what life means within the universe.
"Oh for sure.. I feel for those who genuinely can't for any given reason. I just.. it just is a rough place to be in. "
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"well, me specifically, and in turn everyone specifically. and if one does not admire the world in its specifics, does one admire it at all? and if one does not admire it, do they love it whatsoever? and if one does not love it, isn't their experience downright miserable?"
speaking the words, he smirks and gestures to suggest just how all-encompassing a truth this is. within his patterns of speech, they might find if they strove to dig for it, the words of emmanuel, twisted and turned onto themselves, serving a different master, hope turned to cynicism.
kesabel had spent some time around the other angel, even when emmanuel himself didn't often know he was there. he knows atieno like one knows the pollen settling on a lover's shirt, brought in from a long walk, itching in your nose and causing you to sneeze. he knows atieno even if atieno may not know him.
"you are not apart of this world, though. buried in its marrow, you are forever intertwined, and your insisting that that's untrue, that must only bring more misery."
another pitiful smile, another overdone expression of being sorry for a creature larger than him, older than him, for a creature that could take him in a fight, and yet his tongue does keep on quivering, spitting words with no further thought to them than poke and prod and provoke.
"you wound me so. my tongue knows nothing but the truth. they threw me out of heaven, once, for being too open. too sincere."
atieno narrows their eyes, genuinely quite irritated by his ongoing bullshit. and what is starting to really nag at them is that there's a familiarity, there's a sense of they had heard something similar but not twisted in such a way. which makes them all the more convinced that this man was on some absolute bullshit.
leave it to him to take concepts, notions that could be more reasonably expressed and used to press his own interpretation, his own versions. and while it's one thing for someone to feel that way genuinely in his own thing.
but to keep projecting that onto them is enough for atieno to be seriously annoyed.
"i don't see why you would want to be asking about my apparent so-called misery in the first place." if they did have their difficult feelings, their sense of hardship about their experiences... this was not someone that they had any sincere interest in talking about it with.
and it's only made them feel aggravated - with the condescending little smile. pathetic, rotten, disgusting.
at this point, they are not wasting further words as he keeps talking.
with him claiming that he was too sincere, that he had been wounded by them despite all that he was continuing to say - atieno falls silent.
and when they fall silent, there's no more patience - no more words.
in a sudden moment they just use their arm to throw a strike right towards his face, his mouth. knowing that the sheer speed of their movement, the force with which they carried themself would break through any block that he would do.
they know it will connect, and they know there's only a brief moment of satisfaction that they get from hitting him.
but hitting him is the course of action that they take, no longer willing to entertain his harassment.
While chewing the next piece, Mirko smirked & grabbed another plate.
“This is obviously the most exotic thing here! Want to try it with me?”
It was a joke - atop was a small bowl full of smaller watermelon pieces. It was the only fruit option in the place so it was unique in that respect. It might also work as a pallet cleanser.
Atieno was enjoying the piece while they saw the next plate coming in - now filled with some smaller watermelon pieces.
They chuckle at Rumi's joke.
"Heh. So exotic indeed. But that does look delicious. I would love to enjoy some of it with you." The notion of a palate cleanser before the next set of dishes also seemed pretty appealing.
coccyx / tailbone. what outdated beliefs do they still carry, if any ?
atieno is incredibly old when it comes down to it so there might be some like weird like existential things that they carry with them. like when it comes to being around nature, they might be a little bit cautious about development and how it's happening.
of course, if it's already a place.. where it's established, that's not making them an anti-civ necessarily.
but they do wonder about what things might be like if more beings didn't really.. 'develop' in a way that demanded more and more out of the resources around them.
of course, that's not even the case for all planets because there are those places who are living more intune with what came before and they admire those places quite a bit. and they do find themself at least somewhat interested in some of the unique creations that do come out of what gets called innovation.
but atieno tends to really think about if it's done in a way that actually reflects interaction and more well-being even for the sake of survival, or is it... more out of what already is benefiting selected groups.
also i do think they have a weakspot i guess for the ways stories could be used to explain certain phenomenon in a way that wasn't necessarily literal but still placed some deep understanding of what happened within one's worldview. i think they do have an appreciation for those kinds of interpretations still.
tarsals. what past mistakes stick with them with every step they take
atieno does find themself fairly haunted by some of the memories that they have.
some of the first times that they found themself recognizing the sheer scale of the kind of destruction they are liable to cause with their adjustments.
actually seeing the scale of the influence they had and actually remembering the devastation they had caused by doing things.. without more knowledge of what they are capable of and what that meant - that has stuck with them for a very long time.
leaving them to be a lot more prudent, a lot more cautious when it comes to wielding some of the power that they know that they have.
to be able to alter atmospheres, ecosystems, to be the cause of the end of civilizations in many ways - it's not something that they should or could be so .. trivial about.
and so they have these incidents, where they set things in motion by accident, or as a result not having all the information they needed to make a more prudent or subtle adjustment and the impact of that is.. permanent. they might be able to stem some of the damage but not enough to undo what they are capable of doing.
atieno had been just taking some time to visit a few old friends. there were moments where catching up with those still around after a good amount of time was a useful thing for the entity to do.
it's good to have those situations where they can connect on what was seen and cherish the amount of time that they have left with certain individuals.
because although they might know some longer-lived beings, often their time is still but a blink in context for what they had known and experienced over their existence. so they do try not to take anything for granted.
best to savor in the memories that can be made in a given moment.
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[although atieno likely doesn't expect things to be with someone forever just because of the nature of their existence, they can be certainly consistent in terms of being able to use their actions to demonstrate that sense of care.
wish that there wasn't a binary for just taking the quiz but okay. ]
Their power was greatly admired by the King and patrons, even causing their whole rave to shift moods entirely. Those who were frolicking came to a complete standstill, gazing at the very glamorous sight; it was almost as if the Gamble Galaxy was directly above their noggins, beaming down at them.
It was enough to silence the boisterous King, where the astral projection tranquilised him rather calmly. As he watched the display, their voice distracted his own trance.
"Huuhhh? Aw, a lil' Dede-demo? Call that there 'un? I wanna see how ya'd do in m'castle?! I can get endless sleep with stars projectin' 'cross tha ceiling!! Hey, s'pose y'can do a light show 'cross tha sky better than m'dozy drones?"
The King managed to grab ahold of the bartender's attention by loudening his tone. "YOOOO TUH GLASSES O' WHISPY WINE ON THA DOUBLE FOR M'NEW PLANET PROJECTIN' PAL!!"
One of his arms eagerly wrapped around the newcomer's back, bringing their body across Dedede's; he was giving this new face an overly-friendly side-hug, while one of his arms outstretched excitedly to wave at the barkeep.
Something about knowing that they could have such an effect among a grand gathering like this brought back some memories for Atieno. They had visited many a civilization in their existence. And while they didn't tend to .. show off much, little shows of something or another often did have the impact of getting a bit of favor. Allowing for a nice restful place for when they wanted to be in the company of somewhere or someone for a little while among their travels.
For now, they were just paying attention to the way that the King had been so in awe of their display.
They chuckled at the notion of a Dede-demo. "Heh, you could say it was something like that. I.. yeah, I imagine that I could be able to do it in your castle. Of course, it would be available while I'm here but.. "
They shrugged, not minding the option of doing that every so often.
"I probably could do a pretty pretty good light show based on what I had learned how to do over the years. "
And now they were suddenly pulled in for a pretty intense side-hug from the King, something that left Atieno feeling a little ungainly and awkward at the moment. But they were certainly looking forward to that drink - that might taste pretty good.
although atieno was certainly used to laying low in between errands and their own activities within the universe, sometimes they did have a way of casually popping up here and there just for the sake of doing so.
it was when they did so that running into carletta made them feel .. almost a bit sheepish? that was probably not the exact wording that they would use to explore this feeling.
they are tapping their black boots and keeping their hands in the pockets of their black jeans for a moment.
"i mean, i have a way of coming and going when i need to and want to. been that way for a while for me. what brings you around though?"
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"I'm not angry with you. That's just my default expression." - ahmya
there's something to be said about having that line of reassurance. they know that working on finding different items can be tricky and frustrating even under the best of circumstances.
so even while having a bit of a breather from their latest venture, atieno had found themself a little cautious around ahmya, espcially with the expression that she generally had.
but the statement, the clarification had the entity nodding a little bit in response.
"good to know, good to know. i ... default expressions. i get how they may cause more feeling in others than you even intend to in the first place."
a collection of quotes, phrases, and sayings from a science fiction novel I never completed. change & alter as needed.
"Every mistake comes with consequences."
"Do you deserve it? Have you earned it?"
"I'll do better next time. I'll make you proud."
"Things don't work that way anymore."
"Knowing you has made everything that has ever happened to me feel worth it."
"I didn't earn this. I don't deserve it. I can't even imagine what I would have to do to become the kind of person who does."
"If you weren't ready to feel my teeth at your throat, you shouldn't have taught me how to bite."
"I wish they'd all just shut up about me already."
"Being in the public eye is a living nightmare."
"You have to trust your own judgment. You have to take the leap."
"I've never been so terrified of getting it wrong in my entire life."
"You can lie to yourself all you want, but that's not going to make the truth disappear."
"I know what I am. I've always known what I am. And I've always been okay with that, but... it's different now that I know you."
"Suffice to say, it did not make for a pleasant read."
"Don't take this the wrong way, but that looks exactly like the sort of car I'd expect somebody like you to drive."
"Did you put Red Bull in your coffee again?"
"Am I ever going to get any of this right?"
"You're fidgeting worse than a fieldmouse in a tree full of hungry, hooting owls!"
"You're the bravest person I've ever met."
"Sometimes, it feels like I could go blind just from looking at you for too long."
"I'm honored to fight alongside you. ...In a totally normal, casual, not at all hero worship kind of way."
"Don't remind me of happier times, [name]."
"Just yell at him until he cries. That always works for me."
"Can't you see I'm busy trying to repress my thoughts and feelings?"
"Thinking somebody else is going to step in and help you is a stupid and dangerous way to live. You can't count on anyone but yourself."
"I'll handle it alone. That's how I handle everything."
"Maybe taking in a teenager you've only known for three weeks wasn't the greatest idea in the world."
"Mistakes aren't always a bad thing, you know. Mistakes mean you're moving forward. Mistakes mean you had the guts to try."
"That's your problem. You're so scared of doing something wrong that you never do anything right."
"I wasn't good enough."
"Look, nine times out of ten, you're right. But you couldn't be more wrong about this."
"I don't know what I was thinking. I don't know why I thought I could do this."
"You'd be better off if you'd never even met me."
"That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life."
"I made a mistake. I made a really stupid mistake, and I have to fix it before it's too late."
"Who's that talking to me right now? Who's that coming out of your mouth? 'Cause it's definitely not you. You're too smart to be spouting that kind of baloney."
"You can't take orders from anybody, can you?"
"He must be rubbing off on you."
"You don't run from a fight. That's not who you are. So what's got you thinking that's the answer this time?"
"I'm not running from the fight. Running from the fight is easy. And this is going to be the hardest thing I've ever done."
"If I go through with this... I'll never see you again, will I?"
"Sorry I couldn't make it to Algebra II today. I was kind of busy saving the world."
"You wouldn't ask for help if you had a gun to your head, would you?"
"It's obvious once you know where to look."
"Is that a serious question?"
"I'm not really crazy about how you just dismissed the very real problem of having no heat in the Canadian winter as hullabaloo."
"Can't be too bad if you're still breathing."
"I'm not angry with you. That's just my default expression."
"Don't give me any of that Hallmark bullshit."
"You'd take a lot of pain, wouldn't you, if you thought it'd make you worth something to other people?"
