one_one_se7en: (Senshi - Eyes Closed)
Master Chief | John-117 ([personal profile] one_one_se7en) wrote in [community profile] onepassingnight2012-08-23 12:24 am

Third Journey :: Cosplay

He rises up through the stairs, his reticule levelled until his eyes readjust to the light, and sees instead masses of people... All dressed in curious regalia, reminiscent of the worlds he had explored, but in a more imitative style than cultural style he had seen in the nexii he had visited... Not to mention many of them seem to be feeding on snack foods rather than full meals they'd devour too quickly. Turning to the windows, he realizes it's a twentieth-first century Earth. No supernatural presences anywhere.

As he turns around, he realizes the cyan lines of the HUD are no longer there, and his eye level is lower. Something's off. Even as he walks, he doesn't so much hear thuds, but clicking. There is an advertisement on the wall about a “Convention” in oriental kanji, denoting the location as... Tokyo.

He puts a hand forward to lean on the wall to inspect the writing -- but the limb that moves forward is the delicate arm of a girl... and from the little he sees of the body, it's the gloved arm of a young senshi rather than the metal of the MJOLNIR.

...

He -rather, she- looks below.

"Not again."

Joan hears herself in a feminine voice.
waterfell: (misc ✫ dark jewelry star bracer)

[personal profile] waterfell 2012-09-22 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
It's a question she never expected to be asked. It's a question she'd never been told the answer to. It had simply been there, once she transformed that first time, so long ago. The words had come to her mind, and suddenly she called them out, and there were bubbles and fog where there'd been nothing.

The words.

"The words should come to you," she tells Sailor Reach. They weren't necessary, of course; Venus had used her powers without them, when her attacks would have ruined her disguise as the fake princess. Mercury herself rarely uses them anymore.

But they're a start.
waterfell: (darkury ☿ rain of hail and ice)

[personal profile] waterfell 2012-09-24 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
Mercury's lips curve upward. Not bad at all.

Not to be outdone, she holds her hands in front of her, palms outward. Ice and hail barrage the youma, stinging at the same time it starts to creep across the creature's body. The stream curves to avoid the shields as if it has a will of its own, and the ice thickens as it grows. The youma has more and more trouble keeping itself free.
waterfell: (mercury ☿ flowing movements)

[personal profile] waterfell 2012-09-27 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
It reminds her of Jupiter: that force, that physical strength. But what comes from Reach is not lightning.

The soldier of mankind and war. Mercury knows enough of that world to understand it: the war for mankind's very fate, and the soldier who's fought since the beginning and will fight to the end.

She falls behind, with her shorter stature and lesser speed. It doesn't matter. There's plenty for both of them, and these are not opponents that matter. Just low-level nothings. The energy of her sword hums to life, and cuts at the youma.

Its form is strong, she'll give it that; even this has trouble piercing whatever type of material that armor has become.
waterfell: (darkury ☿ visor)

[personal profile] waterfell 2012-10-01 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
Nicely done. But Mercury doesn't let her guard down. Her eyes narrow as she focuses on the youma, for any movement or sign of life. She steps closer, still alert. The click of her heels against the floor sounds loud, now that the noise of confusion and panic among the people is more distant and the youma is silent.

She presses her earring, and her visor slips into place. A second later, she makes the call. "Maybe I should congratulate you. It's gone."

Before their eyes, it seems to shrink until it resembles nothing more than the costume it was created from, somewhat charred and worn from the ordeal.
waterfell: (darkury ☿ animated)

[personal profile] waterfell 2012-10-02 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
"No," Mercury, content to have already confirmed the kill, turns her attention to Sailor Reach. "This was an interruption."

There's a trace, just a trace, of annoyance. What was a youma doing here, challenging her, in the first place? Well; it met the fate its foolishness deserved.

"That youma was too bold, trying to challenge us."
waterfell: (darkury ☿ up to something)

[personal profile] waterfell 2012-10-06 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
"There's a perfect place for it." She's definitely up to mischief, but at least it's the pranking sort rather than the malicious sort, this time.

"Shall we go?"
waterfell: (ami ♍ go ahead! if you can)

[personal profile] waterfell 2012-10-07 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Mercury leads the way - releasing her transformation as soon as they might be seen.

She leads them to what seems to be a large warehouse, with a strange device already set up. Ami turns it on, and air pressure pushes out tiny papers.

She turns to Joan, and holds out a pair of chopsticks.
Edited 2012-10-07 03:33 (UTC)
waterfell: (ami ♍ i don't believe in you anymore)

[personal profile] waterfell 2012-10-08 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, she's serious. And it's not quite as strange as it seems.

"It's an exercise that can improve focus. Your mind should be concentrating only on this." And focus, that related to power.
waterfell: (ami ♍ snark)

[personal profile] waterfell 2012-10-20 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
Though she's mostly teasing Joan by bringing her here, Ami does take a pair of chopsticks herself. She has decent success; she sometimes lacks the true emotional calm for this exercise, but she has excellent mental focus. The butterflies she reaches for generally end up in her grasp.
waterfell: (ami ♍ cold in the shadows)

[personal profile] waterfell 2012-10-23 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
[It's the sort of thing that requires that perfect focus - the very reason it had been considered training to awaken more of their power: That single-minded focus, that heart purely thinking only of one thing for that time.

Without the advantages of Spartan time, Ami has never found it a perfectly easy exercise. She does well enough, but not enough to be remarkable. After awhile, she stops and watches Joan instead.]
waterfell: (ami ♍ strategy)

[personal profile] waterfell 2012-10-28 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
[There's a sound that can only be laughter. It's definitely coming from Ami. While the exercise is one used in the senshi's past life, she'd mostly been teasing Joan with it.]

It would bother you to do less well than this, wouldn't it?