dear_mun | re: victory road

[It was a little difficult to discern just what the commotion was all about, but it definitely sounds like someone might be on their way to a universe that nerfs powers. Not having any supernatural abilities herself, Miho misses part of the point entirely.]

At least you're getting to go at all. My mun keeps talking about letting Miho get more involved, and then passes over me for other muses.

( that is absolutely the scenario. )

Amaterasu would be VERY HAPPYU ifu another muse-san was going inustead! Powahs nerfedu?! Who can even fathom the thoughto! ( her palms press to her cheeks in dismay and disbelief. ) How am I supposed to be a powerfulu kami without POWAHS? Amaterasu isu DOOMED.

Ah! Is that so? Then maybe we could switch and I could go in your place.

[Beaming as she said this as if it were even possible to make such an exchange sans mun approval]

I really want one of those pastel-colored horses. There's no one my school that has one of those~

( she squints at this girl and wonders... could they swap, perhaps? )

... you could alumost passu for me ... blue hair! Cheery dispositionu! ( cheery... ama, what... ) Yes! Let us suwap! You go and Amaterasu will stay away furom the game!

[Miho would nitpick and say.. "it's purple" but since it's more advantageous to her she decides not to quibble over it. Their hair certainly looks close enough to her too.]

I could even style my hair more like yours. [At least until she got in, since she does like her cute ponytail so.] I'm not sure where I could find a convincing costume.. [As a Kami, Amaterasu's clothes looked quite ornate to this high schooler. Kimono were not cheap]

( purple, porple -- tomato, tomahto. ~~that's not how this works.~~ she clenches both fists in glee and her brow furrows as she smirks with renewed determination. )

Excellentu! Amaterasu will giveu you some clothes so that you look more likeu her! Lets do this new furiend!

[This has turned into the most amazing day. Not only is it finally her turn to embark on an adventure of her own, but she's getting some new clothes in the process!]

I'll need to at least tell my mom that I'm going over to a friends house for the night. [~~Sorry mom, wish you could come too~~] Is there somewhere we should meet after?

( this is the best day of her life ever, too! ~~damn amaterasu, harsh. chazz would be so pissed.~~ )

We can meeto wherever you want! Amaterasu isu just thurilled to not have to go to this debilitating game! You are my new bestu furiendo!

[~~Look, these two girls look at the present. It's fine~~]

Ok, then let's meet at the mall. I'm going to need to pick up a few things for the trip, and they should have a hairdresser there and plenty of changing rooms.

That's so sweet, I'm just so glad I can help. [And get a free trip in the process]

( ~~this is fair, yes.~~ )

Wonderuful! The mall! Amaterasu will go to the mall! ( and she's on her way already, honestly, because she doesn't want to go to this place that's going to take away her ability to fly, to use fire or her memories that she's built up over time. )

Where am I supposed to meet I wonuder? ( she taps her chin but it won't be hard for miho to see the only flying girl in the mall. in fact, she miiiight be causing a scene... )

Was.... she flying?

[Miho tilted her head to the side, and finally questioned this as the other girl slipped out of her vision. For someone that had witnessed some supernatural things before... there were still plenty of things that surprised her.

Shaking her head, and blinking a few times.. she shrugged and hurried home. What she had to accomplish was finished quickly enough so she was soon making a beeline to the mall.]

Now where did she-... [A few shouting and pointing customers later, and Miho is raising a hand and waving it to her new Kami friend] There you are! Miho is here too!

Miho-Miho! ( congrats, you have a random nickname, you're welcome. ignoring the customers that are shocked, yelling and just generally freaking the freak out, she cuts through the air and lands, almost on her feet but not quite, near miho. ) Amaterasu isu glad to have fuound you! ( she balls her hands into fists and positively beams with joy! )

Are you ready to suwap!?

[Maybe Miho should have been more concerned about the blue-haired woman who claimed to be a goddess and could legitimately fly, but she wasn't. This was a way easier way to score a trip than training a digital pet for some contest!]

Mm! Or I'm getting there.

[She reached up to touch her own hair lightly.]

It won't be believable if I don't get this changed first. [Reaching out she grasped the other girl's hand and aimed for the nearest escalator] A mall is the perfect place to make the exchange. With everyone going in and out all the time.. no one is going to notice when we each come out separately looking different. [She's given this some thought, and for it to work she's convinced that Amaterasu needs a make over too!]

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( she glances at her hand being taken but allows it and drifts after the girl only too easily. she's honestly just thrilled that she's found someone to take her place and all! )

Ah, yes! This isu a good pulan! Where are you takingu me, Miho-Miho?

Miho-Miho? [Noticing that this was not just repeated for emphasis upon their reunion and that she has indeed, acquired a strange nickname of sorts.

Oh well, it doesn't hinder her progress.]

The hairstylist of course! [Silly Kami, keep up] Do you think we should dye out hair too..? [Sounding a little unsure. It would be hard to get back to her natural color..]

( die? why would someone want to kill hair? ~~no, wait. that's not it.~~ )

Fwuah?! You thinku that I should desuturoy my hair!? ( maybe this isn't going to be a cake walk in the park after all... )

[The confusion only cntinues]

... Do you really think this color is that bad? [Feeling a little insulted that her new friend didn't want the same hue of purple.]

You don't have to be insulting...

( of course, amaterasu has no idea what dyeing one's hair is. it's not something she's learned from the humans in midgard or the ones she's met in the other game where she currently resides. )

What! Insultulu!? No! Amaterasu justo does not want to killu all my hair! Why would anyone wantu that!?

[And sadly, Miho has no idea what the major malfunction is. Who in the modern era doesn't know what hair dye is? It's not until Amaterasu mentions killing her hair that it starts to dawn on Miho.]

So your hair is natural too. [Twinsies!] As long as the stylist knows what they're doing they shouldn't over bleach it. Your hair will be fine.

Everuthing about Amaterasu isu naturulu! ( even that jacked up way of talking. ) Weh!? Buleach?! What is... buleach?

Miho too! [She replied enthusiastically, just to get that out there] It's what they use to lighten your hair so it takes the new color well.

[Let's face it, it doesn't take much to wind Amaterasu on any given day so he's not all that concerned initially.]

Hey, hold on a second here! What do you mean that you're losing your powers?

[Trying to get a word in edgewise when she's blowing a gasket is never easy]

( she suddenly grasps chazz by the lapels of his coat, hovering in place and ... just totally shakes the heck out of him! )

Haveu you not been listuning to Amaterasu!? The gameu! I will loseu my POWAHS to be in it! Amaterasu will not fly! Amaterasu will not have FIYAH! I will haveu to rely on a CREATURU! ( is she going to cry? she may, she better not though. she's not interested in looking weaker than she already will be without godlike abilities. )

Edited (html oops.) 2023-02-23 23:58 (UTC)

[There was a slight delay between when her fingers wrapped around the fabric of his coat and when she decided to violently shake him. In that interim his expression swiftly shifted to pure shock. Reaching up to try and encourage her to release him he also expelled a garbled mess of consonants and vowels that didn't sound a bit like the "knock it off!" he was going for.

After a more concerted effort he managed to form a few phrases.]

The game? Are you kidding...? No one loses any powers there. [He's thinking of the wrong game..] Pretty sure we have creatures in there that could wipe out the whole universe.. and the mods don't care.. so what are you freaking out about? If you were going to lose your powers, you would have lost them already.

( she stops shaking him for a moment and realizes he... doesn't know it's a new game. again, she grips his coat and this time instead of shaking him, she draws him into herself so that her forehead is against his forehead and she stares deeply into his eyes with one of the most serious looks on her face she's ever had. )

... Chuazzu.
This. Isu. A. New. Gameu.

One that ifu you joino... Will make us have to meet... burand new, all over again.

( surprise, forced to have a girlfriend no longer. you're welcome. )

Edited (grammar.) 2023-02-24 00:17 (UTC)

[Nope, somehow he missed that part. At the pause he hesitantly gazes at her.]

You're not going to start shaking me again, are you?

[What she does do, however, he's even less prepared for. The simple actions make his cheeks flush with color. The close proximity of his face to hers feels a little too intimate for a public place. Swallowing hard he anxiously awaits her explanation.

A new game?]

......................................

[That's a hard pill to swallow.]

... but it was hard enough to arrange the first time! [Thinking back on the clever ~~deceitful~~ way he'd tricked her into dating him before.] .. So we really won't know who each other are?! [Freeing himself, he took a step back and started pacing. This was terrible. What guarantee did they have that they would even fall for each other a second time?! He'd still be crushing on Alexis Rhodes. Something he decides to omit, lest he want to be set on fire. She's not powerless yet]

Edited 2023-02-24 00:18 (UTC)

( her eyes actually start to tear up when he comes to the same conclusion she has. who's to say they'll even meet? who's to say she'll love him? who's to say ~~that she already loves him /shot~~ that someone else won't snatch up either one of them?

amaterasu blinks and the tears disobey her, having mentally told herself not to let them spill, they do. they softly trickle down and streak her cheeks. she's aware of PDAs being a thing since she's not usually into them too much herself but she slides her arms around him and crushes him into her small ~~but mighty~~ frame. )

Amaterasu... doesun't want to loseu you ... the thoughtu ofu that... hurts even more than losing my powahsu...

( wait, did she just say, out loud, that he's more important to her than her abilities? couldn't be... )

Edited (added content. sorry.) 2023-02-24 00:28 (UTC)

[Well- given both of their temperaments and his inability to impress those of the feminine sort and her original disinterest in any dating... they at least stood a good chance to not wind up with anyone else. ~~..but that just felt insulting to voice outloud and it wouldn't have been much comfort~~

During one of his passes, she latches onto him again pulling him in to a tight embrace. Seeing the tears on her face just about kills him- it usually takes a lot for her to get this upset.]

....................................... Wait. Run that by me again?

[The significance of those words were not lost on him. Considering Amaterasu couldn't even bring herself to call him "boyfriend" in the past this bore repeating. Not that she was likely to. Did he have time to push record on his phone...? Ah, but he immediately felt guilty for getting hung up on those few words.]

You're not going to lose me. [Somehow. Maybe... possibly] We... just have to figure this out.

( that's ... fair. they just have to somehow, miraculously, wind up together again. chazz, start thinking up ways to trick her into dating again!

normally, she would shake him or bark at him that he's not going to get repetition of her words but instead...

there's a catch in her voice and this time, it comes out more shakily than it did the time only moments before: )

--I don't want to lose you. ( she didn't even let her telltale additional vowels get in the way this time. it felt like this situation is bigger than her slip ups in her speech. ) Because... Amaterasu... loves you...

( they definitely have to think about this. she can't just let him go...! )

[Ugh, why can't she do the tricking this time! ~~For the aforementioned reason of course.~~

The air was feeling heavy, weighted down with heartache and strong emotions. Chazz grew silent, unsure how to turn any of this around. There was a lot to lose and not much to gain. That added an additional layer of frustration as to why this was even being allowed to happen in the first place.

As she struggles to repeat what she said, a lump forms in his throat as he thinks to himself, Cry if you have to.. but just light something on fire, rage, shout it out (~~again~~), something! Placing his hands to her shoulders, he leaned into her touch.

Somehow hearing her express her true feelings drove home the seriousness of their situation and for once he was speechless. It's just what he'd always wanted to hear.. but it came at such a price.]

( her fingers are suddenly gripping his coat more tight until her knuckles go white and she can only feel aching in them. her face buries into his shoulder and amaterasu screws her eyes shut tightly as though blocking out what a nightmare this really is. why were their muns so keen on this when it was tearing them apart?

her shoulders start to shake with the telltale signs of sobbing. somehow, her fingers dig even harder against the material of his coat as she lets her emotions, for once, shine above her will to create chaos in place of talking things out or being emotional apart from rage. )

Chuazzu... ( her voice is so small. it's foreign to anyone who knows her because amaterasu is generally as loud as her attire is. she's surprised at his speechlessness but also not at the same time. how could this be happening? )

[As she presses in closer, he moved his arms around her to better facilitate that, then rested his head atop hers. The earlier concerns about PDA have completely evaporated, he couldn't care less what anyone else thinks.

Letting out a shaky sigh of his own, he tries to push his own emotions aside as much as he can. What good would it do if they both fell apart here? It's impossible to hold it all back though.. for the first time in his life it had felt like everything was going his way, and that was all about to change.

To really feel needed- and more importantly loved was not something he felt often. Certainly not before he met her. Sure, maybe deep down his brother's cared about him but they were terrible at showing it and only treated him like a bargaining chip in their own master plans. Ama wasn't like that.] .. Just..... uh... give me a minute. I'm thinking of something. [There wasn't a single scheme in his head, but she didn't need to know that.]

( she's spiraling so quickly that she's not even able to worry about who sees and she's not even sure she cares, either. left sobbing against his shoulder, she leans into his arms wrapping around herself and gives a pitiful nod against him. )

Y- you always... makeu good pulans... Amaterasu h- hasu full conufidenceu in you...

[It's just not like her to come apart like this. The last time he'd seen her this upset was when Armitage disappeared but even then she was ready to take on the whole universe to set things right.

She just felt so fragile and helpless right now, and somehow he was supposed to come up with something to make this all right? No pressure or anything. How much he didn't want to let her down- them down. If only he would keep from cracking under pressure..]

My ... first thought, is to have a word with my mun. If I can convince her not to app, then your mun won't bother. It's a package deal. [Not bad for a start, but he needed more] I'll stress that she's a flake and a loser, who sleeps too much... you know.. anything to destroy her ego. [~~Oh screw you Princeton XD~~]

( losing armitage was a big hit to her as she was seeing her as a big sister and it sort of filled the void of not being able to see 'yomi as much as she wants to. but he's right, she was able to perk up and get herself into ass-kicking mode back then at that time. but this is different. she loves armitage but she loves him far more.

she sniffles, trying to come back from the sadness to help him think of something. his first thought isn't a bad thought. she nods. ) I- Itu is a good thought... My mun already feels badu for this messu in the firsto pulace... M... Maybe they will reconusider aluready! ( ~~the app is being written, ama.~~ )

[~~It probably doesn't hurt that Armitage is badass and is likely a formidable force in combat.~~

He takes in his first good breath since her confession when she seems receptive to his first suggestion.] I'm not sure what mine's thinking... if she thinks at all really. [Nudging in a smidgeon of levity for Ama's behalf.] My mun can write an app in a day.. if she can focus. That's a big if.. seems like everything is a distraction for her.

We can't count on this working though... so.. [Using one of his hands he slides it around to wipe some of the tears of her cheeks.] Maybe if we each carried something with us... like a memento or something, that might remind us of the past? [~~Yeah no, that's not gonna work.. but you can try buddy~~]

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( ~~I MEAN...~~

she feels her brow knit into a light frown and casts her gaze away to think about it. her mun is pretty swift at writing apps, too, when she wants to be. she grimaces. ) Yes, Amaterasu isu sure that the mun can write up something swiftulu herselfu. ( kami-damnit all, why can't her mun be distracted by the kids!? )

A... memento? ( maybe that could work? possibly? ~~not even a little bit.~~ either way, it's a sweet suggestion. ) We can do that, yes! M, Maybe Amaterasu can haveu a Duel Monusters card to rememberu you?

[That doesn't give them much time.] Yeah, your mun is always writing up those fancy profile pages... [He's a little envious of those. Wouldn't it be nice if he had one for himself? Well, at least his mun did make him that sweet phone post.]

It's worth a shot, right? [Not realizing that they'll be coming directly from their canons, and that they therefore won't have exchanged these items..] ... Which card, would have the greatest chance of jogging your memory. [Taking a step back, he reached for his deck box and started leafing through them. He hesitated when he got to the Ojama, fanning them out smoothly with his thumb. Ojama Yellow would be the obvious choice, but to lose any one of them- would ruin his Ojama strategies. He looked at it thoughtfully and recalled how every time he tried to toss this card away it always ended up getting back to him somehow.

Then he looked over the card to catch Amaterasu's eyes.] Here... take this one. [Reluctantly forking Ojama Yellow over. They'd been through a lot together, and formed their own bond of sorts. It would be difficult to part from the monster as well... but he figured Yellow would understand. This wasn't farewell forever....]

Edited 2023-02-24 08:38 (UTC)

( there definitely isn't much time at all. both of their muns are working toward getting them settled into the new game and they're running low on time for stopping this. ) She doesu do that, yesu! ( actually, with the app mostly already scrawled out from both their respective muns, there isn't going to be a way to stop this, is there?

she watches as he starts to leaf through his cards. she knows how much they mean to him and honestly, she would be upset to ruin his deck but if they want to have a memento... she catches sight of the ojama cards and notes his hesitance. when he offers yellow to her, she feels tears welling in her eyes all over again. this would be not only destroying his ojama deck but it would be like losing one of his friends since the spiritual form of the card follows him about. she grips it carefully and nods. ) If... you are sure...

( she's struggling to find something to give him in turn because as something of a vagabond, she doesn't have many worldly possessions apart from the large mirror hanging on her back -- her weapon. that's much too large, though. instead, she opts for something that's always on her person and reaches up to the glass bauble hanging from her pigtail. it takes some shifting, but she loosens it and offers it toward him. it's a red bauble with a gold star embroidered on it, encased in the glass covering. she always has it on as it represents the fire of the sun. ) You takeu this furom me...

Edited (words, i don't even know.) 2023-02-24 16:15 (UTC)

[Why do they have to be so quick on this?! Why can't they apply that energy to something else?!] Think you could convince her to draw something up for me... instead of writing an app? It might distract her... [He has to try.

The way he sees it, it's only fitting. If Amaterasu is going to be deprived of her full strength then through this he'll match. When he notices the emotional effect it's having on her, he screws his eyes shut and waggles the card at her again. Feeling the cardstock slide gently out of his hand prompts another sinking feeling of his own. Who knows when any of them will be reunited, and Ojama Black and Green will feel that loss profoundly as well. He's not sure he can take the sight of them bawling too. ~~Chazz hasn't realized that a power nerf game will likely remove his ability to see the spirits too~~] I'm sure.

[When he was able, he looked back towards her and somberly accepted the hair thing. Normally, he definitely would have squawked about having to keep something so girly on his person, but there was no reluctance today. The weight of the object in his hand felt lighter than it looked, and it would fit snuggly in his jacket pocket.] So... I guess that's it then. [Not enjoying the finality encapsulated in those words he tightens his fingers around the orb.]

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