wayfarers

@wxyfxring​ asked: “You can’t kill me. I’m not alive.” (dbh from naomi aheheh)

Well, that’s not something you hear very often in the middle of the battlefield…

The scans Tony had taken show that she’s telling the truth of that much - she’s not organic, or at least not in the normal sense, given that there are biosynthetic components showing up in the readings.

His helmet retracts as he lowers his hand, the repulser powering down. “Alright, I’ll bite,” he says, watching her closely. “What exactly are you?”

Naomi was tensed, one hand hovering over the small of her back - where the gun was tucked under her thick jacket. The tiny LED circle at her temple flashed red, indicating her nervousness, her panic...

Her deviancy.

Dark eyes scanned the armored man, identifying him from her database: Tony Stark. Iron Man himself. Maybe dislocating that man’s arm had been a problem...

“...CyberLife prototype, NA-350,” Naomi answered tentatively. “I go by Naomi. What...what do you want? I didn’t...I didn’t hurt him that badly. He came at me first. I...I was defending myself...”

Taika flushed and chuckled weakly at her rescuer’s - Allys’ - laugh. At least someone was willing to help her, though without her disguise Taika had no idea if anyone would help her.

“I’m Taika; ‘s nice to meet you,” Taika introduced herself, though she blinked at Allys’s arm and pointed briefly. “I’m…not sure what that’s supposed to me. Sorry, I’m very…not versed in people.”

Allys kept a warm smile on her features. She enjoyed helping people and being there for her. Maybe that was how she had become the Champion of Kirkwall against her own will. She was always there, helping people, against every possible enemy. She wanted PEACE, but it seemed that war always found her.

She nods quickly, though Allys presenting her arm again just made Taika look confused.

@wxyfxring​ asked: “We live in a world where villains may not always look like villains. Nor heroes like heroes.” [from Naomi!]

“You’re not telling me anything new,” Tony huffs with a hint of a wry smirk playing at his lips. Ever since Afghanistan, that’s been something he’s been rather painfully aware of. Though… vampires exist. That’s a new one.

And yet, given everything he’s seen in the last couple of years alone, he can’t even say he’s surprised anymore. Someone could probably tell him ducks talk and he’d be inclined to give them the benefit of a doubt, at the very least.

“So, let me get this straight: you’ve got this whole secret society thing going on, to stay hidden from humans. Which sounds very X-Men of you, only with less yellow spandex, by the way.” 

“Considering who I’m talking to, I’m hardly surprised anything is new for you,” Naomi quips, flashing a wide enough smile to hint at her longer-than-average canines. Getting a position at SHIELD meant, at least for her preferred methods of feeding, weighing a larger safety for mortal and not-quite-mortal combined against the Masquerade. Her choice was quite obvious - survival against losing her hard-preserved humanity.

“After what happened in New York and Sokovia, my question to myself was: what causes more harm? Maintaining the Masquerade and letting the world burn, or risking the Masquerade to help preserve the world at large? For me, that choice is easy. And, for the record,  Mister Stark, I don’t have any larger connections to my kind. My sire and his sire were...pariahs from vampire society, in a way.

“Do you think we have souls like humans?” Matilda asks quietly, glancing over at the other curiously. 

Naomi blinks at the question, surprised at the information. She takes a bit to consider and makes sure Matilda registers this: a touch to the chin, a low hum of thought. Naomi would hardly be surprised if Matilda registered her as a walking corpse. Or perhaps similar to another android. She hadn’t asked.

“I do not doubt souls are common across all living things,” Naomi answers. “You, me, a tree - all with souls. I know the desert has a soul as a whole.

“No no, I can walk! My arm took the brunt, really, I’m fine -”

Taika began to take a few steps away from the bench, though as she turned away from her rescuer to face the city she felt the bottom fall out of her stomach. She had…no idea where she was, where she was staying, or anything.

“…on second thought, um, maybe I…go with you, I - I get lost easily…”

A BRIEF chuckle escaped Allys’ mouth at the other’s sudden change of behavior. But she still offered her an arm and kept a kind smile on her features. Her friends warned her really often to not help people she didn’t know since many people tried to attempt at her life, but she simply couldn’t do otherwise.

@wxyfxring​ (Taika) || gets a random loveable dwarf

Life in Kirkwall is drastically changing, and not, in Varric’s opinion, for the better, as tensions continue to rise between the templars and mages in the Gallows now that the Viscount is dead and most of the qunari are gone from the city. 

The nobles have named Hawke their Champion, and now his best friend has even more on their shoulders than ever before. So it comes no little surprise to Varric that the human comes and goes as they try to figure out their new situation, unbalanced by their new responsibilities and leaving their friends struggling at times to help them maintain a sense of normality in the chaos.

As it is, this evening Varric finds himself walking back alone after escorting Daisy back to the alienage - even if she’s not as likely to get lost as she had been a few years ago, he still worries - when something else catches his attention. A stranger, and a young one at that, looking rather lost.

Dammit… he thinks, exasperated with himself as he starts cautiously toward the unknown figure.

Taika has never, once, in the years she’s wandered Thedas, been as lost as she has been in Kirkwall. One day and now she’s turned around and entirely discombobulated. It doesn’t help she can taste the Fade so close, which just forces her to wrap her cloak more tightly around her - the better to mask her tail, made invisible but not incorporeal under her magical disguise.

But the voice makes her start, turning around almost fast enough to lose her human appearance: long, curly dark gold hair, nearly-too-pretty face. Taika blinks when her addressor doesn’t appear at eye level, and quickly adjusts her sight down. Oh! Interesting. But she at least musters a polite smile.

wxyfxring asked : “no. i’m different.” [from taika to any of your dragon age bbs! :D]

The meme went into the fade / @wxyfxring​​ – always accepting

                    𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬!

                    Sera couldn’t believe it. The woman standing before her, she had an uneasy feeling about her from the start. Ever since she came to Skyhold. Something she couldn’t exactly place. Magical, almost, but then not.

                    With her sudden change, it solved her suspicion.

                    ❝ No you bloody aren’t! The same thing as them! ❞ Them as in the creatures that came out of the rifts. The ones she stocked pointy arrows in. ❝ Both deserve tiny arrows. Tell me else wise! ❞ Without hesitation, Sera was quick to grab her bow and ready an arrow, pointing at her.

Even if she still wore a human look most times. People would still look at her strangely otherwise.

“Half a thing’s not the same as a whole thing, right?” Taika points out. “It’s a half I don’t even want! It’s why I’m here and not there, here trying to find the half I want to be! Helping the half I want to be, yeah?”