Because I realize you're just a dream

[freezetheheavens]

Who: Hitsugaya and YOU
When: August 31 - September 5
What: Catchall, basically. (Adult Hitsugaya, fire-related things, and headaches)
Where: Far Shore and Near Shore.
Warnings: None at the moment


[A. Bankai Training a.k.a Introduction of Adult Hitsugaya]

[It’s not an unfamiliar sight to see someone training, especially anyone who bothers coming to the forest near Kuraokami’s temple. What is an unfamiliar sight, however, would be what would appear to be an older version of Hitsugaya.

He’s in the sky, training with his sword. Bits of ice and snow appear with his movements, causing him to frown a bit as he reins in his reiatsu enough to ensure he doesn’t end up freezing the moisture in the air. Swinging his sword to the side, an ice dragon flows out from the tip and circles overhead before it disperses in the air.

He watches it disappear, sighing and rubbing the back of his neck before he decides to land.]

[B. Investigations]

i. Yamada Department Store
[After hearing about the department fire, Toushirou doesn’t really waste too much time checking it out.

The remains of the building stood out to him as he approaches it. There’s some faint look of wonder on his face, wondering just how bad the fire could have gotten this bad. It makes him frown, peering up at it before he slips inside the burnt department store.

People are free to join or prevent him from doing so.]

ii. Lava

[He would have initially missed the lava - the hot weather was already beginning to take a toll on him - but it was the smell of sulfur that managed to catch his attention.

So, Toushirou is looking in the direction of where he could practically feel the sudden increase in the temperature, expression somewhat annoyed. He breathes out, a hand coming up to cover his face.]

Now there’s lava?

[C. Headache-Induced]

[Now here’s an odd sight.

Anyone who knows Toushirou would be surprised to see him either sleeping under a shaded tree or leaning against it, eyebrows scrunched up together as if in pain. There doesn’t seem to be anything wrong, but at the same time, he pinches the bridge of his nose as if warding off a headache.

A teal eye soon glances over when someone approaches, but then soon closes.]

What? [His tone is wary, a bit on edge.]

[D. Wildcard]

[Make one up your own or hit me up at seabutterfly]

Comments

[revolutionfalcon]

[There's a faint hum of agreement at that.] I stopped being surprised a while ago, around when I started getting to know the guy who was an eight hundred year old construct of human greed. And considering Knox mentioned working in centuries, all the other reapers here from his world are probably like that too, and there's something like four of them now.

[Not to mention probably a multitude of others he hasn't mentioned. He'd doubt Will's "demon" is any younger than that sort of age, as one example.]

[freezetheheavens]

You can count Spears' demon in that, as well.

[Learning that Hannah is Will's shinki didn't really come as a shock.]

At the rate it's going, it's not surprising if it's become the norm by now.

[revolutionfalcon]

It would help if he'd actually told anyone who the demon was. [Shun had a couple of people mention they'd pass on the information if they got it, but none of them have gotten back to him yet, so he assumes either they haven't gotten it or they've had bigger problems recently.]

I doubt it'll get that far, but I definitely wouldn't call it uncommon anymore.

[freezetheheavens]

....[He blinks at him slowly.] Her name is Hannah Annafellows. [The irony of that demon being his shinki.

He's also not sure if Shun has met Hannah yet, but a name would suffice.]

[revolutionfalcon]

[Shun looks...not so much surprised by that as like someone who just had a lot of things explained all at once, in a way he feels he should probably have seen earlier.] Figures. I knew something was off about her, but I couldn't exactly ask anything she didn't tell me anyway.

[Even then, the whole "sensing negative emotions for feeding despite not being interested" was a bit of a red flag.]

[freezetheheavens]

She was aware that there was a meeting held because of her, but understood why she couldn't know the details.

[Sort of. It was stupid in the end, but now it did have Hannah wondering more about herself.]

[revolutionfalcon]

He's just going to make her curious at this rate. She's already figured out she can sense shifts in negative emotions, though she also said she didn't feel interested in them beyond understanding.

[Considering what was said about demons from that world, Shun now has his reservations as to whether that's actually true. So it's more a question of how much instinct to memory would affect the behaviour of a demon.]

[freezetheheavens]

Has she?

[He's only met Hannah once but he could still feel power from her. Unfortunately, he's not really used to demons so he can't say anything about that.]

I don't much about her myself or her powers since we've only spoken once.

[revolutionfalcon]

I was pissed off about something the other day, and she showed up and said she'd felt the shift in emotions. I'm not that sure what it was about them she felt, but she was using tastes of food to describe it.

[Shun doesn't sound particularly fussed about that, actually. He's encountered people with that kind of ability before, and the last one turned out to be decent. If he'd been here longer, Shun probably would have come to call the guy a friend.]

We've only spoken twice, but the second time was where I learnt about all that.

[freezetheheavens]

Somehow, I'm not surprised. Then again, I'm not sure what kind of demon she is since Emizel is different.

[As if there really needs to be anymore demons.

He sighs softly.

In any case, Spears should be more careful about what he plans to do with her. She claims to not want to know more but curiosity is strong.

[Hitsugaya just doesn't want to deal with more potential demon drama.]

[revolutionfalcon]

Neither am I. We didn't have that sort of thing in my world, and all I have on her is what I've seen and that guy's word. [And while Will had definitely been impressing the point that she was dangerous, it was pretty clear he was biased. He considers Grell an unreliable source as well given her disposition towards Will, so Ron is really the only one there whose word he'd consider all that reliable, and he had been much less passionate about the subject than the other two.]

There's a limit to how much shinki can pry into their own pasts, I think, but he's definitely going to make her suspicious if he keeps behaving like this. [There's healthy caution, and then there's just being incredibly obvious about hating your shinki from the get-go.]

[freezetheheavens]

Can't depend on Knox's word? [Considering Ron's own lack of enthusiasm for the subject. Toushirou has no issue finding out more facts about Hannah or demons in that world in general, but at the very least, you'd think there'd be some unbiased opinion on it.

He breathes out slowly.]

Regardless, he'll be forced to make some peace with her eventually, even if it's just a little. Let's hope that he'd finally come to some sort of conclusion as to handle the situation better.

[revolutionfalcon]

He didn't seem that invested. And we've both been around for a while, but I don't know him all that well. [He's talked to Ron a fair few times by now, but their relationship is pretty much exclusively professional. Shun talks to him when he needs to, and that's generally it.

Hitsugaya's summation gets a slight hum of agreement from Shun.] He has to work with her somehow. I'm hoping that figuring out the entire death god population of these Heavens aren't going to be his watchdogs are going to convince him to find his own solution.

[freezetheheavens]

[A slight inclination of his head in agreement.]

In the end, it's his own problem. We all have other things to do than to worry about that. [Not to mention the whole thing between Grell, Botan, and Emizel. He'd rather not want a repeat of that given how Botan's still currently asleep in his own temple at the moment.]

[revolutionfalcon]

Especially when it's his responsibility to keep an eye on her anyway. [Shun manages to keep a relatively decent eye on his own shinki, and he's just human. He imagines a reaper would have to have much more impressive abilities at their disposal.]

[freezetheheavens]

It's best if he keeps that in mind. Sutcliffe isn't exactly helpful in that department either. [So that's fun.

Either way, Toushirou shakes his head, sheathing his sword.]

[revolutionfalcon]

Sutcliffe wouldn't do anything to disagree with him, from the look of her. It's an embarrassment to watch. [Shun sounds rather exasperated with the whole thing. It's one thing to obviously be in love with someone, but when you get to the point that you fawn over them like she does him, it's a little trying to deal with.]

[freezetheheavens]

Watching her is enough to give me a headache.

[He shares the sentiment honestly. He never did quite like her when they first met and still doesn't like her now.]

[revolutionfalcon]

Likewise. And she gets nosy about that sort of thing with other people as well. [While Shun wouldn't say he outright dislikes her, he definitely finds her a bit trying to deal with. Even if she does have useful outlooks on certain things he wouldn't think of.]

[freezetheheavens]

You sound as if you've dealt with her more times than you'd like.

[revolutionfalcon]

Far more. Though I think she still owes me a favour, so that's something.

[Easy to handle she is not, but Shun can't say she isn't competent with that chainsaw of hers.]

[freezetheheavens]

[A quirked eyebrow, a curious look, though he doesn't ask.]

Must've been something if she owes you a favor.

[revolutionfalcon]

Not really. I gave her a tip when she first arrived.

[And lured some of the taboo ayakashi off her so she could regroup, but he still doesn't really consider that a big deal.]

[freezetheheavens]

I see.

[That kind of explains it then. He shrugs a bit.]

[revolutionfalcon]

[It's not really something Shun feels the need to elaborate on, and he glances up to where Hitsugaya was just training.]

Unless you need someone to train against, I should probably get back to my patrol.