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[floridas]

 

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[selfimmolation]

[ oh i'm glad they are both alcoholics. he also has a beer ]

Show's not a bad word for it. If they're telling the truth, anyway.

[floridas]

[ she's 19 and no one has taken the beer away from her i'm so glad. ]

Decent actors.

[ siiip ]

People have shit to get back to. And I guess the masked weirdos do too, just like us if it's to be believed. Don't know if I wanna trust them or not, but we don't have much choice, do we? Where else are we gonna go...

[selfimmolation]

[ oh the capybara cover i just noticed it help.

also it's fine they are of age somewhere probably ]

Can't say I'm a big fan of being locked into playing hero for some dinky town "or else".

[floridas]

[ sometimes the first picture has to be the post picture no matter what. /capybara tiktok song go ]

Yeah, it's the "or else" always gets me. Like I'm not an asshole, I'll help, but also I don't like being told it's my only damn option.

Phoenix seems alright so far. You learn anything new or was your leader kinda cagey?

[selfimmolation]

They were pretty closed off. There's the festival thing, and the city's Mayor's the one in charge? All the same info everyone else got.

[floridas]

So their story's pretty tight across the board. Makes sense they'd coordinate it.

Wonder if we can find out more about the Mayor at least. Maybe they're the fast track... I did hear that time doesn't really move while we're here, I guess? So if you had pressing business back home...

[ waves her can ]

[selfimmolation]

Goat said we'd be able to meet them sometime.

[ and then, uh. distracted. ]

Time does what?

[floridas]

Oh, like the... time back home? It's not as fast as it is here. So... when we make it home, it'll be as if we weren't even gone.

That make sense? It's like a sci-fi book kinda...

[selfimmolation]

... Well, that's... interesting. [ huh. pensive. ] They've got the power to do that and drug us from other worlds, but they can't save their own city?

[floridas]

Supposedly they've got their own homes to go back to. They're like us, just... maybe a little more acclimated, so they're saying.

[selfimmolation]

They said they weren't the ones who brought us here either, so I meant... I don't know. The mayor? Whoever.

[floridas]

Whoever it was, it was someone with too much damn time on their hands. And a lot of power to give us abilities while wiping out our own from home.

[selfimmolation]

[ ????? ]

Wait, is that what happened? I was wondering why half my stuff didn't work.

[floridas]

Dude, same, I can't even summon my Stand anymore.

You tried out your new power yet?

[selfimmolation]

It's not really new? It's the defensive stuff I could do normally. [ sighs ] But all the offensive moves are out...

[ it's Hateful to do this to a man who loves to punch :( ]

[floridas]

What the hell, that blows. I mean... I guess if you're a good fighter, the defensive stuff can come in handy, but still. How do they expect us to do this dumb hero work? Idiots...

[ a sigh ]

I got some new ink out of it. But they took my Stand. Totally not worth it.

[ turning around to show him this. massive butterfly tattoo on her back. ]

[selfimmolation]

I can handle myself just fine without the rest, but it'd be a lot easier to fight their "bad guys" if I didn't have to. What's the point?

[ rp characters do not understand the need to nerf. ace gives a low whistle at the tattoo ]

At least it looks good! You could've gotten a total dud. So what's a Stand anyway?

[floridas]

Heh, thanks. At least they've got taste or whatever.

[ ace and jolyne shaking hands like what is nerfing an ability we deal with people with broken powers all the fucking time. stop being babies about our crazy powers god!!!!!!! ]

A Stand's kind of like... the manifestation of your will? Your energy? I don't really know how to describe it, but they come with all kinds of abilities. Like, mine let me unravel my body into string. [ :angry: ] Which would be way more useful here I feel. Especially 'cause I'm used to it.

[selfimmolation]

Huh. Sounds a bit like a Devil Fruit ability, but it's innate? That really would be useful here. [ and then realizing she has no context for devil fruits; ] People can gain abilities back home by eating a certain kind of fruit. What ability you get depends on the fruit--I ate the Flame-Flame one, so I can control and turn into fire. Here I've only got the latter half, though.

Can't get hit while I'm fire, but can't set anything on fire. It's weird.

[floridas]

Devil Fruit? Huh.

[ she listens pretty attentively, jolyne's a lowkey nerd, but above all else she's Gangster first. gangsters hate learning. no one can ever know. anyways ]

That's pretty cool. And... to be honest, that means you can stay fire without burning things up like buildings or whatever. Must be some kind of mechanism to make sure you don't burn the whole place down.

With Stands... it's kinda random. I got mine when I pricked my finger on a locket... but my Dad had his as long as he could remember. Some people just seem to manifest them when they need 'em most.

[selfimmolation]

[ making a face at the mechanic to make sure he doesn't burn the place down because. damn. he'd like to!!!! but he looks equally fascinated by the Stand talk so he cannot call her a nerd]

Huh. Can anyone have a Stand? Or is it a genetic thing?

[floridas]

[ the face is funny. heh. it sucks tho :( no arson. at the question though: ]

No clue. Got mine when I hurt myself on a locket my dad gave me... and I know a few people who just suddenly got one one day... or have had one all their lives. It's weird.

[selfimmolation]

So it's sort of like haki... You have to unlock it. [ sort of, since some have had them their whole lives, but look. ] Haki's just a special kind of technique, no fruit necessary.

[floridas]

Haki... man there's a hell of a lot of cool stuff in your world, isn't there?

[selfimmolation]

Yep! [ proudly like he has anything to do with that ] But a lot of people never even learn about it and just stay on their own island.