014 ≠ ( CONSOLE | VIDEO + ACTION )

[denyamenti]

((OOC: Very belatedly backdated to the start of the MisSpell plot.))

---

[ While this isn't the first time Bakura's been on the console looking like he's been in a fight, this might be the most indignant he's ever looked about it. Some absently wiped cuts have made a few streaks of blood against pale skin, and those are going to be some spectacular bruises later. ]

Is this the Dreaming's doing, or is someone here once again messing around with what they shouldn't be?

It seems-- [ aggravated sarcasm ] --that it isn't enough where alternate versions of ourselves can show up in this city. Now it's ourselves, from past or future, and mine decided he did not approve of what he is to become.

private to Pepper, Raine, Valdis

Be warned: he took the Ring. Well meaning as it might be, don't try to take it back from him unless you intend to keep it. My--

[ pause; voice is carefully, exactingly neutral ]

The ghosts are also responding more strongly to him at the moment, than to me.

---

[ around; ]

[ Both Bakuras can be run into throughout the city, one searching for the other, and the newer arrival still trying to figure out exactly what the hell is going on. They both look alike and yet don't... it's kind of jarring, and yet there's no mistaking. TKB replies will come from diaboundthief ]

Comments

[denyamenti]

Nor do they apparently have the necessary evolution to parse sarcasm. By the state of me what, exactly?

[purelychaos]

I don't remember...

[Well...she really didn't want to finish that sentence.]

[denyamenti]

Hm. Well, perhaps it'll come to you.

[purelychaos]

I doubt it, prey animals seem quite stupid...

[denyamenti]

[ amused ]

You are that offended by this form, then?

[purelychaos]

[easier to pretend offense than to aggravate Bakura at least. She shook her head, white mane dancing.]

It's pretty, and Raine seemed to appreciate it, but otherwise this form is quite useless. Unicorns are not very intimidating...

[denyamenti]

Well, hopefully none of the kirin get it into their head to think you're in heat.

[purelychaos]

][Valdis' ears pricked up and for a moment she simply stared at him. Then a low giggle began though it soon became full blown laughter.]

You, my friend, are an ass.

[She snorted, swished her tail and then added...]

If that happens, I'm not responsible for their state of being.

[Valdis lifted a hoof and stretched it out to paw the air.]

[denyamenti]

Fair warning, I will not be hosting little ponies in my side yard.

[purelychaos]

[A snort and more laughter]

What? You don't want to be a godfather?

[Amusement aside.]

Though what I meant was I'm not responsible for broken legs, heads or...other parts.

[denyamenti]

I knew very well what you meant, khapshemet.

[ The jesting tone curbs slightly, however. ]

No. We don't put any more children in my care, remember? It ends poorly for them.

[purelychaos]

[Emily-Helen...right. Valdis might have told him that it hadn't been his fault, that there was nothing any of them could have done, but that didn't make the hatchling's death any less painful and it wouldn't bring her back.

[Loss had a way of causing pain long after the initial impact...]

I'd make a terrible mother anyway.

[denyamenti]

[ Bakura isn't sure what the appropriate response to that is, so he doesn't make the attempt to answer it. ]

I wonder if this is the same thing which caused Ravel to become a rabbit.

[purelychaos]

Klaus is a lion, and Gene and Midii both seem to have been aged down a bit.

[Or a lot...]

If it is the Dreaming, then I hope it fixes itself soon...