tenth feather: the updated bullet

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

[So after Fourth Wall Weekend, Crow up and vanished. Disappeared. Poofed, for lack of a better term. But now he's back! Sporting a fancy red shirt he's wearing over his regular undershirt. Oh yes, and his right arm is bandaged and sling'd. At the moment he is wandering around, looking sort of lost, and muttering things like "Are they still here?" and "Will Aki be okay?" to himself. Eventually, he just stops in what is a familiar spot for him!]

This can't be real. I mean, it just-- Shit man. It really is, isn't it? No fooling? I'm not gonna wake up tomorrow back home, am I? ... How do I know this ain't a dream?

[He looks both ways, unsure at first, then bites his lip and promptly slaps himself on the cast covering his shoulder.]

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!

F-Fuck why did I do that. Fuckfuckfuck that was stupid. ... But I'll take that as a no.

My luck's really all over the damn place lately, isn't it?

((Crow has been canon updated! As far as he knows, it's been sixth months since he's been on the island, and for those of you who can sense spiritual energy and such (namely the Soul Eater cast he, uh, lives with) there has been a pretty noticable change in him.))

Comments

[skirtingdanger]

[nod] Did something about you change?

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

... *blinking a little, then nodding* It's been over half a year after all. But the biggest thing right now is my arm I guess.

[skirtingdanger]

No, no, it's something else.

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

It is?

[skirtingdanger]

Your wavelength is really different from before, but... How? It used to be normal.

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

My wavelength, huh? *thinking for a moment* I can think of a few things-- That's my energy, my soul and stuff, right?

[skirtingdanger]

[nodnod] Yeah, that's it.

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

... I'm pretty sure I know what it is, but it's in here. *nodding at the sling*

[skirtingdanger]

-- ? ...Alright, so what really happened to your arm?

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

-- Oh, what you're talking about's got nothing to do with what happened. This coulda happened to anybody. *stepping forward so she can peek inside at his arm in there*

[skirtingdanger]

[??? okay then, peering! ...so what am I looking at here]

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

*and there is a red mark on his arm! ... but not glowing obviously and there is probably a tail-like thing that looks like it on his soul bubble aura thing now, nooot to mention it's... trying to connect him to four other people/auras/what have you but oops barriers and islands and such*

This what you're looking for?

[skirtingdanger]

[staring] ... Yeah, that feels like it. What is it?

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

It's the Crimson Dragon's birthmark. Wasn't actually born with the thing, but it is what it is.

[skirtingdanger]

Crimson Dragon?

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

*nods* It's a long story, but to cut it short, it's this god that did battle with a bunch of other guys, Earthbound Gods, a hell of a long time ago. It beat them and sealed them up in the ground, but then a couple thousand years later, they're coming back, so it picked some followers or "chosen ones" or whatever to take them down, and they're called Signers.

The Signers're all connected and a bunch of other stuff, and they're supposed to drive away the Earthbound Gods, battle the Dark Signers, stuff like that-- but that was all happening before I was here before. I actually didn't become one until right before the very end of it all. We're still all connected and all of that now, and there's some crazy stuff going on at home now, but... *shakes his head*

Anyway, that make sense to you?

[skirtingdanger]

[...huh]

Right, I think I get it. But I'm surprised-- I wouldn't have thought your world had anything like that going on in it.

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

You'd be surprised. I'm not gonna say, since it's his business, but Yami's got a lot of stuff going on too.

[skirtingdanger]

I caught him in the middle of something unusual a long time ago, so that may be true, but you never had mentioned anything like he did.

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

Ah, well... That's probably my fault for never bringing it up to you. Sorry. Honestly, I'd really only talked to Kazuha about this kind of thing, and only a couple of times. Lot of that had to do with her seeing some of it firsthand during that memory thing, remember that?

[skirtingdanger]

Memory? ... Oh! Now I remember. It did bring up a lot of things, huh... You don't have to apologize, I'm just surprised to hear of it.

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

... Aaah, still. *shakes his head* Well, it never used to really involve me before, since I wasn't a Signer like the others yet, I just threw myself into it.

[skirtingdanger]

Well, it's explanation enough for me.

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah?

[skirtingdanger]

You said it was a long story yourself, didn't you? But at least I get the gist of what the change is all about now, and since you only just got back, we can save the stories for another time.