Hold on to normality

[star_of_sad]

[1]
[People with unusual powers such as magic, psychic abilities or weirder stuff - suddenly Setsuko is hovering in your vincinity.]

Umm...

[Finally she gathers resolve and approaches awkwardly.]

How does your thing work, exactly?

[2]
[Star Rose is bright and noisy, especially in the tourist-centric parts of the space station. Setsuko does not like large crowds, but today she finds their presence comforting. It is a reminder what is she fighting for. Lives who are allowed to have a normal daily existence. Well, there's also one more reason why she's there.]


Ahh! It's so good~!

[Que the Glory Star enjoying a huge girly parfait, sitting near the giant space squid aquarium for an extra impressive view.]

Comments

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[tiger_ken]

My... 'thing'?

[Ken pauses, trying to think.]

You mean... my ki? It's an art.

[star_of_sad]

As in, a martial art?

Do you think anyone could do the same, if they worked hard enough?

[tiger_ken]

In theory. There's a number of variables that can affect someone's development. Some can have a lot of inherent power but never develop it, or total discipline but just too little to work with, and others won't even begin to realise their potential because they subconsciously dismiss it.

[He raises an eyebrow.]

What has you curious?

[star_of_sad]

I want to know where everyone's special abilities come from. I know it's far fetched, but I find a similarity then perhaps I could learn about...

[Setsuko's sentence drifts away before it could end.]

[tiger_ken]

About whatever it is you have?

[He pauses, thinking.]

...Well, where my ancestors - on both sides - first learned their art is something of a mystery. One of those things that's been lost to time, as it were, even with what scrolls we have. But some of the basic concepts seem universal enough, so maybe...

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[brought_it_back]

My...thing?

[star_of_sad]

Your psychic power. I'm sorry if I am not being discreet, but... how does it feel like?

When you use it.

[brought_it_back]

No, it's fine.

When I use it myself...? Something like...lifting a heavy weight with your entire body. Not just the places where you'd normally lift something, but everywhere.

With the Albatross things became much easier, as though they were all lighter-but the startup for that robot felt like having several drills go into my skull, so...

...Why do you ask?

[star_of_sad]

Ah.

[Setsuko frowns slightly. The drills thing didn't sound pleasant at all.]

I hoped to find similarities between what other people are capable of, and, well, what I have.

So I'd be lost in the dark a bit less, regarding what to do with it. Just waiting for Asakim Dowen to make his next move... no, I need to do more than that.

[brought_it_back]

...Your primary ability has been...some kind of dimensional disturbance, yes?

What did that feel like? The Albatross had a teleportation function...that's somewhat similar.

2)

[sang_av_helten]

[Setsuko, as you are busy enjoying your no doubt sweet and delicious parfait you hear a splash and a minor commotion.]

"Mommy look! A kitty!"

"Somebody get that cat out of the aquarium before it drowns or the squids eat it!"

[If you look into the aquarium now, the extra impressive view has a fuzzy guest swimming awkwardly through the water towards the squids. He also has a plastic knife held in between his teeth.]

[star_of_sad]

Huh?

[Setsuko turns to see what the commotion is about. And she sits there, immobilized, eyes wide from surprise.]

...

Skald?

[sang_av_helten]

[Skald cannot answer through the water sadly. But either way he was going to swim towards the squid with the intention of slaying it. The knife honestly irritates the squid more than harms it and leads to a climactic life and death struggle between the ball of fluff and the undersea horror. They are evenly matched.]

[star_of_sad]

[Unfortunately for Skald, his epic struggle is interrupted by a robotic cleaner that suddenly floats in, picks him up and moves away, like a giant crane game. A crane game that just captured a cat, soon to be dropped out of the basin, soaking wet.]

How did he get in there, anyway...?

[sang_av_helten]

[To hear Skald tell it, the tale would no doubt have been full of high adventure and battle and aee inspiring moments of daring. Honestly and plainly though, to quote Asagi - 'A cat can get anywhere if it wants to'. Such as at this very moment the thoroughly drenched feline walks purposefully to Setsuko with a towel laid across his back.]

....

[He calmly leaps up to sit opposite to the Glory Star, dropping the plastic knife next to him before looking up at the human.]

Meow.

[Once more he must maintain the charade of being a normal cat. Except he kind of messed it up from the get go.]

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[cloningblues]

[Asagi passes by, carrying two ice cream cones.]

Having a day out too, I see?

[star_of_sad]

You could say that, yes.

I guess I just wanted to rest a little...

[cloningblues]

That's normal. Well, going out like this is not my idea of resting, but a certain someone insisted.

[Asagi shrugs. The ice cream in his hands are melting slowly.]

[star_of_sad]

Ah! Are you here with someone?

[Setsuko stares at the ice cream. It looks very tempting...]

Or are those both for yourself?

[cloningblues]

A friend dragged me along. Well, she's a part of my pit team, actually. And she demanded ice cream, so making her wait too long is probably a bad idea.

You want one too?

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[kill_all_vagans]

Being an X-Rounder? It's...

[Huh. It's been a while since Flit's really talked to anyone about it, hasn't it?]

-It's like when I can focus, I can feel something more. Like a pressure.

[star_of_sad]

Is it a painful sensation? What exerts it?

[kill_all_vagans]

It's not like it hurts at all, it just...

Sometimes without even thinking, or even before an attack comes I'm reacting to it. And everything feels different, like that there are things I need to fight and destroy or they'll destroy me.

[star_of_sad]

It sounds like an ability used only in combat, to fight others...

[kill_all_vagans]

Captain Grodek said that the X-Region's like that... That more humans could access it in barbaric, violent times.

... But if that's true, then why could Yurin use that power then?