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御冷 ミァハ | Mihie MIACH ([personal profile] imitationsoul) wrote in [community profile] daybreakacademy2020-02-01 12:24 am

You're pretending you don't know anything

Who: Miach & Nana
What: A seemingly harmless recon mission to the Outlands.
When: Early February.
Where: Outlands.
Warnings: Miach's edginess, mission-typical fighting.

[ Miach hasn't taken her mission duty as seriously as some. She only goes out when it suits her fancy and there is something to see that she believes worthwhile. So maybe it had been a little surprising to some when she signed up for a fairly simple recon and retrieval mission to the Outlands. Go to a secure location, scope out any changes in the local wildlife, retrieve a few sacred stones that are useful for certain rituals. Simple and straight-forward. Almost boring. Almost.

Miach hasn't been to the Outlands since that fateful day she was rescued from the clutches of demons. She longs to see it again and going out there with Nana as her mission partner is a good bonus. In school, Miach is still fairly isolated from her peers, but Nana's company has become a welcome constant in her life.

Stepping out of the gate to the Outlands, they find themselves on what appears to be a normal meadow - if you ignore the fact that the colors all seem a little wrong.

Miach twirls around on her heels once, getting a good look at the place. ]


This is prettier than I expected. Have you been to this kind of place before, Nana?
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[personal profile] playitagain 2020-02-02 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nana takes a lot of missions. Not all of them. But, she has a tendency to be on the front lines... or the rear lines, to pat shoulders, patch up wounds, and cheer people up. It comes with being class president. But it's nice, sometimes, to go with someone alone.

Maybe with Miach, especially. It's nice when it's just them. There's a little more she can say. She steps into the Outlands with her, in...

Well, it's the same white coat and skirts as usual. But, it glows a little; she's using her Flame, and the Radiance gives it that subtle sparkle. She looks at Miach, and she's falling into the persona. Her nod is more sure; more confident; more... commanding.

But her voice is friendly.]
I have. It's beautiful, really. It's a shame, that our relationship with the Outlands is so... complicated.
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[personal profile] playitagain 2020-02-12 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Hm... you have a point. If things are perfectly peaceful, there's no vitality to life. It would make life predictable.

[Nana smiles, then she walks up behind Miach, bending to look over her shoulder. She peers at the flower.]

Let's keep our wits about us, though. It isn't entirely safe here.
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[personal profile] playitagain 2020-02-17 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
Mm. I suppose not entirely.

[Nana nods, then stands up a little straighter. But she spares a last look at the flowers. There's so many different sorts; it's the type of thing one could get lost in. Things she can't see on earth.]

I think they've got a... hm. A gravity? They're an astounding setpiece. Unfortunately, everyone realized this. If I were going to be an evil overlord, I'd pick something original.

A theater, maybe?
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[personal profile] playitagain 2020-02-17 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
The Phantom of the Opera is one of my favorite musicals. And movies. And... well, you see where this is going.

[She maaaaaybe identifies with the Phantom a little too much.

But shh.

Nana taps a finger against her cheek.]


You're quite right. He would be a poor overlord... though, I think I would have others perform. A place where they could have fun doing so, feel safe knowing nothing bad could happen...
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[personal profile] playitagain 2020-02-17 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm-hm. Though... I think I wouldn't be a very good overlord. For one thing, I'd be too guilty. For another... well, I don't like the idea of being that controlling.

[At present.

She wonders, though. Is that in her?]


But it's a little fun to think about what I might do.
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[personal profile] playitagain 2020-02-18 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not remotely surprised that you'd resist my terrible reign.

[Nana even laughs, but...

She means it, too.]


I have less plans and more those idle musings you sometimes get. A lot of it's in the design of the theater...
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[personal profile] playitagain 2020-02-20 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Nana sees it similarly. Though, there's another hope there -- the one there with almost any relationship she has. There is the hope that, somehow, they will find a way to get along.

She tilts her head, then shakes it.]


I'm afraid not. Bananas are much too cute to be imposing. But... it's grand! Really, it's not scary as much as grand and old-fashioned.

I might make it, sans the world conquest, some day.
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aaaah sorry, work has had a conference, some tours to run, just the works

[personal profile] playitagain 2020-02-25 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nana laughs, and she nods.] Yes, exactly! I'm not religious at all, but I have to admit that shrines are beautiful -- and so are cathedrals, churches, and temples in their own way. It's interesting, to see what they say about people, and--

[She pauses.

There's a shuffling, behind her, in the woods. And then a thunderous step.]
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[personal profile] playitagain 2020-02-27 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
[What comes is... massive.

Not the size of a Rune Armor massive, but it's nearly ten feet tall, and muscular in a way that humans just don't usually do. Its head is more like a mass of muscle, a too large jaw, and a single, bloodshot eye in the middle of the head. Its skin is one of those impossible shades: blue-grey, like stone.

It looks at them, eye flicking between Miach and Nana, as they both stare.

Nana stares back, not quite comprehending, until she does: a daemon, and the sort that would like to brutally kill them both. She swallows; that understanding passes between them. The cyclops daemon roars, shaking the forest.

Nana's voice is quiet, in comparison:]
...Miach. Stay behind me.
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[personal profile] playitagain 2020-02-29 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
[Nana, conversely, is terrified.

Everything in her mind screams that she's just an ordinary teenager; that she has no business facing down this monstrosity. She wants to scream and hide, and she hates that. So she makes herself walk forward, head held high, and gives the daemon a cold, angry look. It's a walk with purpose.

She nods at Miach's advice.]
I can do that.

[Then she runs forward. She lashes out with her two swords; the first cuts across its chest, and then she leaps, trying to strike for its eye. One meaty fist catches her, though, and the punch throws her back. Back past Miach, and then she slams into a tree.

Bark cracks, and Nana stumbles down.]
Gh...
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[personal profile] playitagain 2020-03-26 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nana pushes herself to her feet. Her back protests in pain for a moment, but she draws on her Flame until the pain is dulled. Or, maybe, it's the adrenaline. The light sparkling in her sword hilt is dimmer, now. She grits her teeth, when she sees the cyclops turnings its head towards Miach.

Nana can't quite move fast enough to stop its first attack. The cyclops scoops up a rock -- not a boulder, but bigger than anyone would ever want thrown at them -- and hurls it through the air with a bellow.

It starts to run immediately after, but it stumbles when Nana leaps and lands on its back. She doesn't find purchase with her legs; she finds it with the sword in her left hand, which she rams into the meat just to the side of its shoulder. The blade sticks out the front of it, black blood dripping down. The daemon reaches a hand back, with a bellow.

Nana just manages to dodge that. This time, she's shouting at Miach, and it's more of a frightened frenzy than calm and controlled:]


Miach, RUN!
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[personal profile] playitagain 2020-03-30 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[Miach runs, and Nana's glad for that. The rest of the fight is short; it's no drag-out, knockdown thing from a movie. Nana dodges the thing's attempt to grab her, and then gets slammed bodily into a tree trunk when it decides to move. She loses her grip on one sword.

So that's when she gets the other one under its neck, and uses all her weight to fall, and cut its head off.

It's a little while later that Nana approaches. Her swords are sheathed. But, she's covered in blood; the cyclops's reddish black, congealing blood still managed to do a good arterial spray and coat her from the neck to her knee in the stuff. She's peering out into the woods, warily.

It occurred to her, after the fact, that she might be yelling at Miach to run at more of them.]
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[personal profile] playitagain 2020-03-30 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nana blinks, then she looks up at Miach. She smiles with relief, then; the pit of dread in her stomach that something might have happened is gone, though a specter of it lingers. It leaves her on edge; an irritating reminder that anxiety, sometimes, simply won't vanish.

Her smile widens a little at the compliment.]


I'm glad you think so. Are you okay? Nothing else came to bother you?

[She remembers when being covered in blood was upsetting. Now... it's still upsetting, but there's no crowd. And Miach isn't bothered. She wipes herself off, globs of blood falling to the forest floor.]
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[personal profile] playitagain 2020-03-31 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Mm. Probably not... it looks like that information is outdated. The professors will probably need to know.

[She catches the way that Miach's legs are shaking, then her hands. She blinks; it surprises her, because she just sort of assumed Miach was unflappable. Oh, she could surprise Miach -- it's fun to do, really -- but she never really has seen her scared. Even if it's a more visceral fear, perhaps.

She takes a second, because of that, before she steps forward, and extends a hand upward.

And then she turns red at being called a brave knight.]


I-I can help you down?
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[personal profile] playitagain 2020-04-01 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nana doesn't complain, when Miach says she doesn't need help down. She watches her fall -- blinks -- and then sees her fall back, laying in the grass. That makes her laugh; not at Miach, but just the situation. It's a cheerful, joyous sound.

She walks over -- and she doesn't flop down into the grass next to her, but instead sits down next to Miach.

She looks down at her, smiles, and... hesitates. It's nice, she thinks, seeing her like this. Nana puts a hand down, steadying herself.]
We shouldn't stay too much longer, probably...

[But she isn't taking a single step to leaving. Far from it.]
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[personal profile] playitagain 2020-04-02 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
[It isn't bad at all, Nana thinks. Sitting here with Miach, looking down at her; looking at her seeming so unfazed. She can almost forget that she is covered in blood. The part of her that wants to run and hide is very, very quiet right now. Such a difference than the girl she was, even a year ago.

But is it a change for the better? Or did she finally lose part of herself, after spending so long trying to keep everyone safe? She wonders if she hollowed herself out, a lot of days, and just hasn't really noticed.

Here, now, with Miach, it doesn't seem so.]


We should. It's as dangerous as it is beautiful. We've had a firsthand demonstration about why we should go.

[She doesn't move to stand up. She looks down at Miach. She's so different than her. A background she knows so little about, a past she can only imagine. An outlook on life that seems destined to lead them to argument and strife, one day.

But she makes Nana not feel like a monster wearing the trappings of her old life, somehow.

And that's enough.

She falls silent, looking down at Miach with a thoughtful expression.]
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[personal profile] playitagain 2020-04-03 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
Mmf!

[There's a squeak of honest surprise from Nana. She goes from contemplative to surprised, pulled down onto the grass. She lands to the side of Miach, in the grass, and stares at her for a moment more. Her cheeks start to redden.

Then she stops contemplating -- or maybe makes herself move, before she can overthink it. Nana leans forward, sighs softly, and kisses Miach. For all that she's usually having her thoughts race...

There's a simple clarity for her, right now.]
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[personal profile] playitagain 2020-04-03 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
[It doesn't take too long for Nana to think, and overthink, about everything.

She's never kissed anyone either, outside of a few plays that called for it. A kiss on stage, though, is different from one done genuinely. She was tempted... but it never really came to this point, even with Kano. She imagined her first kiss as being entirely mundane -- on Earth, maybe in a park somewhere, and almost divorced from the reality of Daybreak Academy. But she can't complain about this.

But she worries if it was the right move; if it was forward or unwanted. She worries a little that she picked the wrong time. That she should be resolute and strong and in control, even now, and spontaneously kissing someone isn't any of those things.

But... no, the split second of uncertainty ends and Miach returns it. Nana's hesitation lasts no longer, and one arm supports her, bent at the elbow, as she stays there.

When she pulls apart, she brings two fingers to her lips -- a look on her face that says, 'I really did that.' -- and then she looks down. The smile has to fight nothing, to be as bright as it can be.]


I do too. We should stay for awhile.
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[personal profile] playitagain 2020-04-03 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Nana's head tilts, but she smiles all the same. Honesty always came easily, with Miach... and it comes even easier, now. It's thrilling. And a little terrifying.] I hated that I was, you know. I thought it was at odds with who I am, who I said I am...

But it's not like that can be separated. I'm glad you like it. [She reaches out, her hand brushing Miach's cheek, almost experimentally.]
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[personal profile] playitagain 2020-04-03 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Nana shifts back to her side, after a second, and then onto her back. She looks up, then turns her head, looking sideways at Miach.]

I like how you can see that sort of thing... and like me all the more for it. The way you see the world, the things you notice... they always amaze me.
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[personal profile] playitagain 2020-04-04 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah... honestly, I... didn't really put a lot of thought into it when it occurred to me. I didn't expect a rejection, but I wasn't sure what to expect at all. It's not really like me.

[Normally, she overthinks everything. She keeps smiling, though.]

Normally, I would hesitate, overthink, and... not act on impulse.
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[personal profile] playitagain 2020-04-10 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Mm... yes, you're right. I've done so before.

[At nearly every junction of her life, really.

She watches Miach's smile, and there's a chill at what she says. She can't say, for sure, if it's anticipation or concern.

But she finds herself smiling again.]


I don't want you to.
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[personal profile] playitagain 2020-04-11 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm.

[That's a happy noise from Nana.

She wraps both arms around Miach. Not really tightly; not really enough to be a hug in any sense. But it feels nice, she thinks, to have her in her arms, and look up at the alien sky with open eyes.

And listen for any more monsters.]