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thenearshore2017-05-30 01:54 am
revolutionfalcon) wrote in thenearshore2017-05-30 01:54 am
[OPEN + closed/semi-closed] a nightingale in a golden cage
Who: A + B: Shun and you! C: Shun and existing CR, D: Shun and Ren
When: A: July 20th, B: July 21st, Morning, C: July 20th-22nd, late evening to ungodly hours of the morning, D: July 22nd, late evening
Where: A + B: Around the Far Shore, C: Temples of just about anyone Shun knows decently, D: Inanna's Temple
What: Shun having sleep issues and trying to be productive about themby lurking suspiciously around the temples of people he knows at why this in the night/morning, testing the surveillance bird Ankh left him, and toting a vulture around with him as one does.
Warnings: Possible minor mentions of murderplot things, prompts C + D will be dealing with PTSD-related traumatic nightmares.
Prompts A-C [2 Open + 1 Semi-Open]
[A: July 20th, Open]
[It's been quite a while since Ankh's disappearance - almost a month and a half by now, and Shun's spent that time on and off messing around with the can bird robot the god had left him. He'd managed to work the thing's transmission method out enough to view the last video left on it by the old owner, but actually making it work to transmit images to the device he has best suited to that sort of thing, namely his duel disk, has taken much more working out. Even so, he still doesn't have a good idea of the distance the thing can transmit from or how well it can actually be remote controlled, so it's time for a little field testing.
As such, people around the Far Shore may encounter a very small, red and silver bird robot attempting to get up in various business, poking around temple gardens and maybe bumping into some heads at its worst. Not too far away in any of these cases is Shun, who might appear to be wearing some kind of oddly designed wrist computer to anyone unfamiliar with the technology. Not helping is the fact that he's returned his cards to their deckbox for the moment, since there are a quite a few people here now that he'd rather not catch wind of him having them at all, and one of them lives with him.
As always, Shun is the epitome of polite company (except not at all), and if the bird happens to be inquiring around anyone in particular, he'll call out to them across the distance with a short nod to the bird.]
Say something to it. [He mostly just wants to know how well it takes audio...]
--
[B: July 21st, Morning, Open]
[As he'd said he would a few days ago to Izuku and Lavi during their late-night discussion, Shun's accentuated his morning patrol with a friend. Specifically, an almost-metre-long, fluffy-headed, brown and white and feathery friend who is presently riding on one of his shoulders. Apparently his coat is thick enough to shield from the claws involved, and having a not-insignificant weight on his shoulder doesn't seem to be bothering him any aside from the times the vulture leans too far into his peripheral vision and he has to look around her to actually be able to see anything.
Having a hand-raised vulture is presenting one or two unforeseen problems, though, the main one being that she's prone to jumping off Shun's shoulder at the sight of other people and hopping over in apparent birdly curiosity. Her size might make even that offputting to some people, though, so it's probably lucky Shun's around to distract her if she decides to inspect anyone too closely.]
Don't bother with her, she just wants food. [Excuse him while he takes a cleanly-wrapped ball of raw meat out of his pocket and holds it out to lure her back in his direction.]
--
[C: July 20th-21st, Late Evening/ungodly hours of the morning OR July 22nd, Evening, Open to existing CR]
[Unfortunately, Shun's particular surge of productivity, even for him, has been born of something else. Namely the fact that his nightmares are coming back in force for the first time since May, and it's getting to the stage where even trying to sleep is a laughable idea, when it feels like so much as shutting his eyes is all the cue his mind needs to pull sounds and images of burning and screaming, combat and destruction out of everywhere from its surface to its deepest recesses. So obviously, the solution here is to spend that additional time on something else useful.
As such, anyone Shun knows and might be inclined to keep an eye on may end up with him lurking in and around temple grounds at what ranges from reasonable but still late in the evening to hours of the morning that should only be known to night shift workers. On one hand, at least he's quiet, so he shouldn't be waking anyone up. On the other...maybe hope your windows aren't available to be stared through, or that you don't run into him by chance. His eyes are a little sharper than they should be in the darkness, owing to the silver bracelet he's wearing with the kind of thick body and intricate lines one might expect to see more on a ring, and his focus turns just as quickly as usual to anyone he notices through it...though perhaps not quite as well as the days wear on, and anyone catching him on the 21st or 22nd stands a good chance of noticing the more pronounced shadows and lines beneath his eyes, those of sleep deprivation rather than his usual faintly worn countenance.
Anyone who catches him outside from inside is likely to just get stared at until such a time as they might choose to come out. If they're already outside, they'll get a slight nod from Shun as if this is an entirely normal thing to be doing at entirely normal hours.]
You're out late. [Implying he isn't.]
[D: July 22nd, Late Evening, Closed]
[Even with what he knows will be willing help available, it takes Shun a while to swallow his pride enough to take it. But by late on Friday, he can feel his alertness and habitual reactions slipping away like they had done the last time he went without sleep for longer than this, and with things as they are right now, he doesn't want to risk that. He isn't sure not being alone will help, but nothing else seems to anyway, and all that's going to happen if he doesn't admit it now is getting found out tomorrow.
It still takes him longer than it should to actually send the text asking for that help, that isn't even directly doing so. Old habits die hard.]
If you're not asleep, I'll be at your temple in a minute.
[He doesn't really think this is worth dragging Ren out of his temple or even out of bed for, but the text is more a warning for something he was already on his way to doing. It is really only about a minute before he shows up, leaping up to alight on whichever balcony happens to be closest to Ren's bedroom, and then having to lean back against the barrier and press a hand against his face as even that simple motion makes his head swim. He'd been driving himself much less the last time he went this long or longer without sleep, and the additional exertion apparently hasn't been doing him any favours.]
When: A: July 20th, B: July 21st, Morning, C: July 20th-22nd, late evening to ungodly hours of the morning, D: July 22nd, late evening
Where: A + B: Around the Far Shore, C: Temples of just about anyone Shun knows decently, D: Inanna's Temple
What: Shun having sleep issues and trying to be productive about them
Warnings: Possible minor mentions of murderplot things, prompts C + D will be dealing with PTSD-related traumatic nightmares.
Prompts A-C [2 Open + 1 Semi-Open]
[A: July 20th, Open]
[It's been quite a while since Ankh's disappearance - almost a month and a half by now, and Shun's spent that time on and off messing around with the can bird robot the god had left him. He'd managed to work the thing's transmission method out enough to view the last video left on it by the old owner, but actually making it work to transmit images to the device he has best suited to that sort of thing, namely his duel disk, has taken much more working out. Even so, he still doesn't have a good idea of the distance the thing can transmit from or how well it can actually be remote controlled, so it's time for a little field testing.
As such, people around the Far Shore may encounter a very small, red and silver bird robot attempting to get up in various business, poking around temple gardens and maybe bumping into some heads at its worst. Not too far away in any of these cases is Shun, who might appear to be wearing some kind of oddly designed wrist computer to anyone unfamiliar with the technology. Not helping is the fact that he's returned his cards to their deckbox for the moment, since there are a quite a few people here now that he'd rather not catch wind of him having them at all, and one of them lives with him.
As always, Shun is the epitome of polite company (except not at all), and if the bird happens to be inquiring around anyone in particular, he'll call out to them across the distance with a short nod to the bird.]
Say something to it. [He mostly just wants to know how well it takes audio...]
--
[B: July 21st, Morning, Open]
[As he'd said he would a few days ago to Izuku and Lavi during their late-night discussion, Shun's accentuated his morning patrol with a friend. Specifically, an almost-metre-long, fluffy-headed, brown and white and feathery friend who is presently riding on one of his shoulders. Apparently his coat is thick enough to shield from the claws involved, and having a not-insignificant weight on his shoulder doesn't seem to be bothering him any aside from the times the vulture leans too far into his peripheral vision and he has to look around her to actually be able to see anything.
Having a hand-raised vulture is presenting one or two unforeseen problems, though, the main one being that she's prone to jumping off Shun's shoulder at the sight of other people and hopping over in apparent birdly curiosity. Her size might make even that offputting to some people, though, so it's probably lucky Shun's around to distract her if she decides to inspect anyone too closely.]
Don't bother with her, she just wants food. [Excuse him while he takes a cleanly-wrapped ball of raw meat out of his pocket and holds it out to lure her back in his direction.]
--
[C: July 20th-21st, Late Evening/ungodly hours of the morning OR July 22nd, Evening, Open to existing CR]
[Unfortunately, Shun's particular surge of productivity, even for him, has been born of something else. Namely the fact that his nightmares are coming back in force for the first time since May, and it's getting to the stage where even trying to sleep is a laughable idea, when it feels like so much as shutting his eyes is all the cue his mind needs to pull sounds and images of burning and screaming, combat and destruction out of everywhere from its surface to its deepest recesses. So obviously, the solution here is to spend that additional time on something else useful.
As such, anyone Shun knows and might be inclined to keep an eye on may end up with him lurking in and around temple grounds at what ranges from reasonable but still late in the evening to hours of the morning that should only be known to night shift workers. On one hand, at least he's quiet, so he shouldn't be waking anyone up. On the other...maybe hope your windows aren't available to be stared through, or that you don't run into him by chance. His eyes are a little sharper than they should be in the darkness, owing to the silver bracelet he's wearing with the kind of thick body and intricate lines one might expect to see more on a ring, and his focus turns just as quickly as usual to anyone he notices through it...though perhaps not quite as well as the days wear on, and anyone catching him on the 21st or 22nd stands a good chance of noticing the more pronounced shadows and lines beneath his eyes, those of sleep deprivation rather than his usual faintly worn countenance.
Anyone who catches him outside from inside is likely to just get stared at until such a time as they might choose to come out. If they're already outside, they'll get a slight nod from Shun as if this is an entirely normal thing to be doing at entirely normal hours.]
You're out late. [Implying he isn't.]
[D: July 22nd, Late Evening, Closed]
[Even with what he knows will be willing help available, it takes Shun a while to swallow his pride enough to take it. But by late on Friday, he can feel his alertness and habitual reactions slipping away like they had done the last time he went without sleep for longer than this, and with things as they are right now, he doesn't want to risk that. He isn't sure not being alone will help, but nothing else seems to anyway, and all that's going to happen if he doesn't admit it now is getting found out tomorrow.
It still takes him longer than it should to actually send the text asking for that help, that isn't even directly doing so. Old habits die hard.]
If you're not asleep, I'll be at your temple in a minute.
[He doesn't really think this is worth dragging Ren out of his temple or even out of bed for, but the text is more a warning for something he was already on his way to doing. It is really only about a minute before he shows up, leaping up to alight on whichever balcony happens to be closest to Ren's bedroom, and then having to lean back against the barrier and press a hand against his face as even that simple motion makes his head swim. He'd been driving himself much less the last time he went this long or longer without sleep, and the additional exertion apparently hasn't been doing him any favours.]
C
Not that Shun knows that, anyway.
He steps outside, casting the god a curious look, unsure of how he's managed to find Hel's temple in the first place, though he chooses not to question it. He's not sure if he wants to know.]
So are you. What brings you here?
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Lavi's question at least means he can step around the actual problem for the moment, and Shun shrugs slightly.]
Keeping an eye on people I know. I don't have anything else to be doing right now. [Like sleeping, because that's clearly optional.]
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He raises an eyebrow.]
There's always the option of sleeping. [Since Shun definitely seems as if he really needs some right now.]
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It's not an option right now. [Nor is it something he's overly fond of going into detail on. There's all of about two or three people here who'd have any context for what's causing his nightmares.]
You're not doing it either. It's not like I really need a reason to not sleep anyway.
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I could never really sleep, anyway.
[After the aftermath that came from that sleepover a while back, Lavi has chosen to only sleep when it's necessary.
But he won't push Shun about his own reasons for the lack of sleep.]
Well, to each their own. Not sure how my goddess would react to you standing around our temple, though.
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For a moment or two, Shun looks over the area with a somewhat wary eye before turning his attention back to the other. This isn't actually a temple ground he's seen regularly, and it's honestly pretty much chance he came upon Lavi.]
It's hardly a problem if I'm just standing around. If she was the sort to react as badly as me, she would've noticed already.
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It's not very often that many people stop by Hel's temple, especially since there are distinct wolf howls that never seem to be close but not too far either.
Lavi chuckles, managing a wry grin.]
Given the fact you're here in the middle of the night, she's a little less likely to notice you. [Like he did.] Then again, she's a little kinder than the both of us to react too badly.
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He doesn't recall Lavi having said much about his goddess before, though, so Shun's first thought is to wonder if he's met her.]
You got a lucky assignment, then, if she can be considered kind.
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[And no, Lavi actually doesn't talk about Cardia much unless it somehow comes up.
He rubs the back of his head.]
...Better than some of the others here. [Which makes him remember something. He tilts his head to the side.] You've been here for a while, right? Have you ever met a god named Loki?
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The one who forcibly names shinki? I don't know if I've met him in person because I don't know what he looks like, but I spoke to him on the network once. Probably before he got prolific enough to need to hide himself.
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No wonder why he's always felt uneasy around Loki. Given how it seems that not even Shun knows how he looks like, Lavi feels the need to tell him now.
Shun has shinki of his own; Lavi isn't a god, but the best he can do is to tell the god about Loki's appearance.]
Long orange hair and blue eyes. [He frowns.] I've met him a couple of times myself, but there was always something about him that made me wary.
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Lavi's description strikes a chord with him, though, and he looks aside with an expression obviously troubled and wary as he tries to remember the circumstances he encountered it in, and whether they'd offered a name.]
I have met him once, then...it was a while ago, mid-May. He was trying to convince me to start up another search effort for whoever's bringing us here behind the Heavens' backs, but I turned him down. I figured if he had a real plan, he'd be doing it himself, and without information on where to start, it'd be a waste of time to attempt something like that alone. Good to know him rubbing me the wrong way wasn't just coincidence.
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But seeing the troubled expression on Shun's face doesn't make him feel any better.
Lavi sighs softly.]
He rubbed me off the wrong way, too, when I first met him. [His own expression is troubled.] There was alway something that felt off, but good to know he's the one forcibly naming shinki.
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I only found out when Eros made that public post about it happening to his shinki. He told me privately, because apparently he had some plan to deal with it, but if the guy's still around then I doubt it was a permanent solution.
[Which means he can expect that to become a problem again even after they manage to get to the bottom of the murders. Nobody speaking up about it doesn't mean it hasn't still been happening.]
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He huffs softly.]
If there is a plan, then it might not be enough to actually detain the guy. [He rubs the back of his head.] It doesn't help that neither of us know what his powers are either.
[It makes him uneasy, but asking on the network is already dangerous enough. Right now, Lavi has to focus on not trying to draw attention.]
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[Shun's at least managed to fend off and cripplingly incapacitate a vampire here once before, so he's confident in his ability to get out of a confrontation like that alive, but Lavi's comment on it is both true and troubling. Though he doesn't look overly concerned, he grimaces a bit at the thought.]
The right help would've been able to do it, but if he was stupid enough to walk into a group attack he'd have been caught by now.
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At any rate, he could be considered as a lesser problem compared to the murders. It'd be wrong, too, to exactly rule him out of anything even if he might not be involved with the murders.
[A troublesome god and a troublesome murderer.
Lavi thought Heaven was supposed to be simpler than this.]
It depends on what kind of powers this guy has that could be giving him a continuous advantage.
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[It doesn't seem likely that he's the murderer, given naming shinki implies his plans lean in some other direction that's likely more low-key, but maybe there's some sort of link. His next thought on it is basically what Lavi says outright straight after.]
That's what I was thinking. There doesn't seem to be any kind of limit to the powers people have here, so it could be almost anything.
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It'd be reckless of them to completely write Loki off from being a suspect.]
Guess we'll just have to keep a lookout for him as well.
[But considering that between the two of them, Lavi might have a better chance of running into Loki more than Shun, especially since Loki seems interested in Cardia. Just the idea of it almost has the redhead grimacing.]
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On that note, Shun should probably get back to it, so he turns away with a brief raise of the hand.]
Contact me if you need help with it, anyway.
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Will do. Stay careful on your patrol.
[And he'll wait until Shun is out of sight before he goes back into the temple.]