[Closed] You can't raise hell with a saint

[volksdaemon]

Who: Schuldig volksdaemon etc.
What: Random CR check-ins
When: May 3+
Where: See Prompts
Warnings: Schuldig and his immoral compass

[Closed Prompts in comments]

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Ukoku; May 8

[volksdaemon]

Following Suijin's Network Post, Schuldig contacts his favorite cloud of darkness from afar - just a bit of telepathy this time, not constant monitoring.

'Busy bee there, Mahakala. Having a bit of fun without me, I see.' He's not actually upset or bitter - he's just curious. His mental tone reflects that excitement. 'Any good tidbits you found out that Amaterasu's buddy didn't feel like sharing?'

[existentialcrisis]

Naturally it happens when Ukoku's working on something. There's a long pause before he actually answers, and his own mental tone doesn't quite manage to be perfectly neutral (he looked up reflexively and bumped his head on a shelf, and Loki should knock, or something).

'If math is fun for you, I have lots of it. She was very forthcoming, actually, by their standards, although I'm a little disappointed she didn't just publish everything.'

[volksdaemon]

Knocking's for people with manners and he of course has none. He's reclining in his bed, staring up at the rocky ceiling.

'Nah, math's not my specialty, but I know a guy.' Nagi, of course. 'You really used math to figure out a graffiti artist's intentions? What, was it hiding a demon-summoning circle inside of it?' Possibly being the reason that one Demon showed up in the first place? Stranger things had happened in Schuldig's life.

Jennifer; May 10, Morning

[volksdaemon]

Schuldig woke up that morning to find that his modest 2-room cavern behind the hidden alcove of Loki's Hollow had expanded somewhat to include 4 rooms - one being his bedroom, one seemingly the room for Kageri, another a common room that was where a person would enter from the alcove door, and a 3rd bedroom with the door closed.

Well, it was his temple after all, and one he guarded tightly from outside intrusion, so he wasn't about to let that door stay closed for long. Especially not when he got the feeling someone was on the other side. So he started focusing, enough to try and freeze that person in place before opening the door.

[theunluckygirl]

Her first clue should have been that she'd been sleeping rather peacefully. Good things didn't just happen to Jennifer, not without some kind of cosmic catch, you know? And when she awakens, she stretches out on the bed with a content sigh, but the feeling of peace is broken within moments when a feeling of dread drops into her stomach like a lead ball.

Something as wrong. A connection had been severed--this wasn't Judar's temple, this wasn't her bedroom. Her body tenses and she sits up, looking around in confusion. Although she couldn't say for certain why she thought it, she had the very real impression that Judar simply... wasn't, anymore. Like a candle snuffed out.

Which meant... what, for her? Had she failed that badly? Unease circles and constricts at her heart, leaving her unable to move for a moment.

Er, wait, no, she really couldn't move. What? She struggles a moment in confusion before she notices the door opening, and she watches it warily.

"Oh..." Recognition, if barely-- she knows him, a little. Judar had spoken with him, hadn't he? She blinks slowly, trying to figure out why he'd be here. Unless this was his place? So then... Why was she here?

[volksdaemon]

Her recognition isn't his. However, the fact that he's right he had an intruder got him in a very unpleasant mood as he mentally grabs her roughly and seeks out whatever thread she's connecting in her mind. Okay, another God's shinki. Perfect. His unpleasant attitude becomes outright anger as he stalks over to her, hissing through his clenched teeth.

Schuldig grabs her by the shirt collar even while he has her movement restricted and leaves her mouth able to move. "What are you doing here?" He asks it so that she'll answer it in her own mind, but the confusion he gets in response... He scowls, even angrier. What the hell! "Your God - that Judar guy - you're sure he didn't send you here? He didn't just release you?"

He's about two seconds from just hauling her out of here with a teleport.

Sousuke; May 6, Afternoon - Prayer #20

[volksdaemon]

It hadn't even been 12 hours since his encounter with the Demon and Schuldig was starting to recover from the various encounters he had with all of those people. He hadn't gone that all-out in a long time. It was a little thrilling to be so worn out, if he was going to be honest with himself; it meant that next time he'd be in much better shape for going several hours at a time while trying to balance so many different tasks like that.

Reflecting on them, he remembered one in particular - his encounter with the kid named Goten, the one connected to Sousuke, or 'my bitch' as he'd called him. Schuldig hummed to himself briefly before deciding that yes, he did want to reveal that encounter to Sousuke before Goten had the chance to get to him. The sooner the better, even if he was worn out. He could at least start the conversation now... but to what end?

Schuldig tapped his chin for effect and walked around his bedroom of Loki's Hollow, mind wandering back to that first conversation with Sousuke. What could he possibly do with Sousuke's help... 'Hou~' He'd felt a small surge of energy when he'd gone and answered that one prayer with Nagi. It was too soon to ask him again and Kageri was a sword, not his preferred weapon. Maybe he could exert more control over a shinki that hadn't been a weapon in the past. And hey, if something happened to Sousuke, he wouldn't even bat an eyelash. Okay his god may ask about him. Best to find out who his God was before casually sweeping bodies under the rug. Alright, he'd find out in person when he could peruse the kid's mind.

Was he alone - that was the important question. Was he somewhere that an outburst of anger wouldn't alert someone? Yes? Perfect.

'Ring ring, bitch~'

[takenwithhim]

How many days had it been since he’d come to be Rin’s shinki? A little over a week. After their first day together as god and shinki, the following had been a blur sometimes. Relieving as it was. What all this “god” and “shinki” business really entailed had finally started to make some sense, what with their occasional training and practice. Sousuke was starting to get used to shifting in and out of his canine form when Rin needed him to be in it.

Though that didn’t excuse his god from answering that embarrassing prayer request in that was. No, Sousuke wasn’t irked at him for answering the prayer; he’d want someone to help him find his dog too if his pet had gotten loose and ran away. But honestly, did Rin think Sousuke’d be fine with literally sniffing out the wayward canine’s whereabouts because he was also a dog? Che, he’d been pissed at him for a while afterwards. (Even if he was more or less over it by the following morning.)

However, despite his comfort in spending time with his god, no amount of requirement was going to attached Sousuke to someone’s hip. He valued his own freedom, and that of his god’s. Staying cooped up in the castle for the first week had been fine; there was a lot to see in the castle and he got to learn his way around it, somewhat. Plus the occasional lessons which he’d rather not have other people see either of them making fools of themselves trying to figure things out.

It’d been an hour or so since he’d left Eros’ Castle behind. Getting out into the fresh air again was relaxing, gave him time to think and be on his own. As for getting back… well… Rin could find him via their connection and of course Sousuke’d find his way back when he wanted to (right). Hands in his pocket, normal clothes on his body, he headed towards the one main place he knew of in this world: the sakura grove that he’d first encountered here. Even if the trees had burnt down, the open area and the park around it were still a landmark he’d come to base his wanderings off of. It was relaxing…

Until that voice came into his head. Sousuke tensed up and his jaws locked. There was no way he could forget the person that voice belonged to. He wanted to be surprised, wanted to feel shock there was a voice in his head in the first place. But unfortunately, his loathing towards that person canceled out even his stun. Teal eyes narrowed and he purposefully ignored the words and kept right on walking. Filling his mind with useless things, like how many trees he could count right now in his vision.

[volksdaemon]

'Aww, no hello? How rude...' Schuldig teleported to behind one of the burned trees. 'Been too long, hasn't it? We've both had some time to get busy...'

He latched onto Sousuke's mind, noting he'd spent most of his time with his god - that Eros kid! Hah! What a laugh. Maybe next time he wanted to see the young man he'd use that connection instead of the kid. 'Maybe if you'd kept as close an eye on your new friends as on that little dog, little Goten wouldn't have gotten hurt.'

Schuldig stepped out from behind the tree then, and held tight to Sousuke's mind. This was far less about keeping Sousuke pinned to one spot this time -- Schuldig was counting on pure shock to do that this time -- and more about showing him a memory of what he'd done: how he'd hurt innocents, how he'd hurt the boy himself by making him fall, how he'd controlled Goten's body as he'd done to Sousuke, how he'd revealed that he would hurt Sousuke, and then how the light dimmed from Goten's eyes while Schuldig started to wreck the boy's mind from inside out, causing external bleeding. He cut it off there though.

'So here's my suggestion,' Schuldig began in Sousuke's mind with thinly veiled sadistic mirth. 'You help me out for maybe an hour or two, I don't go back and finish the job on the kid.'

Jae-Ha; May 8, Late Afternoon

[volksdaemon]

[Many hours after their Network conversation, Schuldig reflects on the information he'd gathered from the withholding of information on Suijin's post and his chat with Ukoku. After that, he decides to track down Jae-Ha in person and teleport nearby in the Far Shore. Funny thing is with the Green Dragon's leaping power, he knows that as soon as he picks a spot, Jae-Ha's going to keep moving, so he gets close and then...

Schuldig leaps as high as he can - far below Jae-Ha - and teleports himself the rest of the way up into the air, projecting where he thinks Jae-Ha will end up.]

Yo~

[razzledazzles]

[Jae-Ha is too deep inside his head for this. Not many people can reach him, and the ones who can always have to make their way up slowly. He feels free soaring through the skies, until Schuldig appears out of nowhere like this. Walls go up immediately and his momentum is ruined by the way his body turns in surprise.

It's so easy to just twist in reflex, spinning to dig his foot straight into the side of this person's face.

It's only after the fact, when they're both (likely) falling to the ground that he registers the "yo," and recognizes the voice. The feeling that comes from that is no better. He's terribly on edge, and he might not land on his feet after a surprise mid-air kick.]

May 12; Hajime

[volksdaemon]

[Neith's temple... he doesn't know exactly where that is, but he manages to snatch the mind of one of the bustling little workers who supports the entire Far Shore and figures it out. That still doesn't tell him what to expect when he gets there.

So Schuldig waits on a nearby rooftop and stares down at the place, beginning his recon. This place is massive as far as he can tell and that's not a deterrent, but it does mean that he's going to be scanning for minds of people inside of it in an effort to pin down roughly where this person Hajime and her cube actually are... possibly for awhile.]

[birdstheword]

[It's thanks to Deku that she managed to be reunited with her alien friend fairly quickly. Everyone on the network was a big help. While the post was to find Messy, it was more to warn the residents of the Far Shore that Messy wasn't dangerous. Back home, when she first became a Gatchaman, her teammates would attack Messy for the disappearance of humans. It wasn't until she tried to talk and get to know the alien cubes that they really meant no harm. Since then, they had become a great friend and an useful ally.

Hajime is sitting in largest room in the temple, what she calls the living room and has put together as such. The multi-colored bunches of cubes are floating by her as she smiles brightly. As happy as she is to see Messy, its concerning to how they're here. Not as a god or a shinki... She knew of others that got items or pets from their world but Messy was neither of those. Sure they couldn't talk but she'd hardly put it in the same scale as a pig or rabbit]

It's good to see you Messy-chan~ Seems like you had a super eventful day, huh?

[She giggles making a swirling motion with her finger, the cubes move to imitate. ]

Jae-Ha; May 13, Late Afternoon

[volksdaemon]

[Schuldig's bored. He's made his Anonymous post to the BBS and that's deferred some of his anxious energy, but now he wants to actually get out. He doesn't do friendship, but he does do alcohol. And between all of his 'acquaintances' - gods and shinki alike - there's no point in reaching out to most of them. His personal shinki would bring the relationship too close for comfort, and the other gods are something of competition.

Meanwhile, there's Jae-ha, who despite busting up his nose is still someone of Interest because he still wants to see the guy remember something and try to prevent him from going ayakashi. He'd been interested before and Schuldig certainly still was.

So Jae-ha gets a text first.]

Bored. Wanna get a beer? See, I can use this thing too.

[razzledazzles]

[Jae-Ha loves alcohol. He loves sake, but he doesn't love being pursued, and he doesn't know what to make of this at all. In a way, he's respecting his wishes... Had a kick to the face taught him a lesson? But on the other hand, the paranoia that came just from a person with thoughts like this "Loki," and who took actions and spoke like he did... It didn't feel right. He was a good judge of character, despite how he seemed like an idiot from time to time.

So he ends up staring at this text for a moment before replying.]

See, this is much better. This is out of nowhere, though... Why the invitation?

Izumo; May 13

[volksdaemon]

[OOC: Continued from this thread.
Please also note that I won't use his Telepathy powers unless you'd like to fill out my Permissions form. :Db ]

[Schuldig waits down the street a bit from "AiiRO CAFE" until he catches sight of a blond-haired man with purple sunglasses -- at night? Weird, dude, even Schuldig at least leaves his behind when he knows he'll be out in the evenings.]

Yo, Izumo, right?

[He'd been in this position several times now where 'Schuldig' was his Weiss-only name, and Loki was no longer a safe alternative. When people asked to meet him in person, what else was he supposed to give them as a name? His conversations with Ukoku had proven that he should get a third, 'completely normal' identity. He'd finally decided on one, the Dutch variant - so weirdly rooted and transformed he doubted anyone who didn't speak German fluently would catch it.]

Glad I found you - I'm Skylar.

[toremainbehind]

[To be fair, Izumo never did ask who exactly he was meeting or who the person he was texting looks like.

But don't poke fun at his sunglasses; there is some attachment to them for a reason. At the call of his name, though, he lifts a hand in greeting.]

That's right.

[Izumo gives him a smile.]

Nice to meet you, Skylar.

Yukio; May 15

[volksdaemon]

[OOC: Initiating this conversation with permission, but if you could fill out my Permissions Post for Yukio that would be even better &heart;]

[Every once in awhile, Schuldig just mentally wanders the expanse of the Far Shore to see what sorts of interesting former-mortals are around. He's acutely aware of how 'normal' humans taste to his telepathic senses, but there's this scale of how far left of center a taste goes. There's the ones who still taste pretty sweet, and then there's the more sour non-humans, and then there's Ankh, the weird not-human-at-all who tasted like a wrench.

So when Schuldig catches a whiff of something very different, his curiosity makes him hard-pressed not to investigate.]

'Hey stranger. That's an interesting sort of mental power you've got there. Most of your type have shields to go with it.'

Re: Yukio; May 15

[has_too_many_moles]

[Not quite prepared for someone to mentally communicate with him, Yukio stiffened slightly as he adjusted his glasses and casted a wary look around him. If there was one thing since his "replacement" of being the "New Satan" that could bother him more then just the title, having someone invade his mind was one of them.]

Forgive me. I wasn't aware of how open my thoughts were. Came Yukio's rather prickly response as bright blue eyes darted from one god and shinki as he tried to pin down the one that was bold enough to poke into his mind.

May 17th?

[falseshore]

[Somewhere on the Near Shore, there's a shinki kid hanging outside a convenience store, playing with his phone. He's just ended a call to his god; 'yeah, I'll be out for a while...going to meet a friend, do you want me to pick up anything...no, shut up, I have money.'.

Except he's not meeting a friend, he's trying to find another god, just by a name. No phone number and no way to contact him online. Maybe if he put up a BBS post asking for a 'Loki'...nah, that wouldn't work.]

Damn it, there's gotta be a way to find this guy.

[Hmm.]

[volksdaemon]

[Oh look, a ringing in his ears... and the name 'Loki' getting whispered in the anxious tone of someone plotting. His God Power kicks in and his curiosity is piqued enough that he teleports a few yards down the street from where the voice had been asking for him.

He takes a quick survey and lands squarely on Sora's young shinki. Ah exemplar even? How interesting. But to get called by this guy...

Schuldig steps into a nearby store where he can look out at the kid for a bit.]

'Be careful what you wish for, as they say.'

[He smirks a bit at the quick glance over the young man's mind.]

'Uh oh, lying to your god... that can't be good, little boy.'

Omi; May 14

[volksdaemon]

[After he convinced the youngest Weiss to a raincheck, Schuldig thought long and hard about how he could possibly cash in on it. That's when he heard a prayer that he couldn't have cared less about and didn't want to bother with... but he also realized that he could benefit from someone with a polar opposite moral compass being the one to help him sort it out.]

'Ring, ring, little kitty. You awake?'

[It's early afternoon. Almost everyone's awake unless they stayed up super late the night before. Which, to be fair, he did, but that's why he's only been up for 2 hours.]

[oneblackcat]

[Omi is awake. He also immediately tenses up stiff as a board when he hears Schuldig's voice in his head.]

'What do you want?'

Jae-Ha & Jennifer; May 20, Midday

[volksdaemon]

[Schuldig's ego is going to take weeks - months perhaps - to recover from the events of May 17th, when he'd been thoroughly beaten by Anti-Sora after his damn shinki got the kid's attention. Who knew Mr. Bright Shiny Baldr had that in him?

So Schuldig spent all rest of that day and the 18th and 19th recovering physically. Now at least he can walk around again. He just shouldn't get into any sort of brawl. Which means it's a good day to do some low-key training with Jennifer and call up his favor from Jae-Ha.

He sends a tap to Jae-Ha's shoulder first, a sort of 'knock' as Nagi put it.]

'Hey. Need your expertise for training today. I need to get back out and answer a prayer.'

[And get stronger.]

Come, Kekki.

[He summons Jennifer into her boots form.]

We're going to meet your new mentor.

[Which he hasn't told her about yet, but details can be explained on the way.]

[theunluckygirl]

[A little forewarning would've been nice-- the sudden change shocks her and leaves her momentarily disoriented as she figures out what just happened. Summoned for--? Not battle, apparently, but given the suddenness of the summons, she could be forgiven for thinking there was a situation.

...Mentor?]

I-I'm sorry, what? [Jennifer can figure that mentor probably means training of some sort with someone but the 'who' and 'why' are lost on her]