solar_flare: (Excuse you?)
Yang Xiao Long ([personal profile] solar_flare) wrote in [community profile] genessia2018-01-10 03:37 pm

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[Yang's serious face flashes onto the screen, her arms loosely folded over her chest. One hand comes up to gesture as she begins.]

So I'm just going to get straight to the point for this: I need some sparring partners. And I don't just mean people who are good at punching and kicking, I mean someone who can test me and push my limits.

[She shakes her head with a small frown.]

I just... I need to be better. More controlled, more thoughtful. So whatever you're good at, weaponry, magic, super powers -- I'm interested. Maybe I'll give you a run for your money too.

...And if you're any good at dealing with enchanters or illusionists, send me a private line. There's a bounty that's giving me more trouble than he's worth, and I could use some tips, or back-up.

[Not something she likes admitting, especially for a one-star bounty, but that's how things stand.]
unhappy: (tfw mom says we're not going to disney)

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[personal profile] unhappy 2018-01-17 07:33 am (UTC)(link)
That is literally the most detail I can go into because I tuned out the second someone went on about it since it was completely irrelevant to me beyond "power of love crap." It involves something like someone you love deeply has to be able to reach you emotionally and that can reignite it or.. something.

[ Emerald sounds like she legitimately doesn't really get it. ]

Merc's awful with his emotions though, so you'd probably just kill each other while he tried.
unhappy: (Those are lies and slander.)

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[personal profile] unhappy 2018-01-17 07:45 am (UTC)(link)
What? No. The split thing has nothing to do with the love thing. Supposedly there's no split or drain during that, so it's the fastest recovery option but it's the riskiest.

What's the worst you'd find? That I'm really angry at everything or that I think Merc is important? I'm literally offering to split my emotions with you because I don't want to risk him getting punched to death by his psycho emotionally-drained bimbo, it isn't like there's much to hide.

[ Maybe the self-loathing and ] I mean, you might get a strong sense of loyalty and a little gratitude toward Cinder on you.
unhappy: (You can't tell me who I can't text.)

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[personal profile] unhappy 2018-01-17 08:21 am (UTC)(link)
I can handle myself around you and I don't mind hurting you- he'd beat himself up about it. [ She doesn't mind him being mad at her for a while. They've been mad at each other plenty of times. ]

I just gave you an emergency plan.

[ It takes her a moment to answer that. She isn't exactly wanting to open up to Yang- the person she had opened up to about what she agreed to seemed appalled by it. Desperation that deep to agree to the promise of not going hungry again? That's something you don't share with the world. But she's not going to deny that she owes everything to her. ]

Everything I have in my life I have because of Cinder. Including Mercury.
unhappy: (The worst kind of family.)

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[personal profile] unhappy 2018-01-17 08:57 am (UTC)(link)
I mean like, really hurt you. Not just rough you up.

[ She rolls her eyes. ]

Fine.

[ How much should she tell her? She settles on not a lot. The idea that Emerald had family was almost laughable to her at this point. ]

I had me. If you're looking for some supervillain backstory that's going to make you feel like you kind of understand why I might kill someone, you're not going to find it. All Cinder promised me was that I wouldn't go hungry again.
unhappy: (I'll try not to get blood on my outfit.)

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[personal profile] unhappy 2018-01-18 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
Don't try to pretend you understand just because you feel bad, Yang. The worst kind of person is the one who confuses sympathy for empathy.

[ Emerald didn't sign up not knowing what she was getting into. She said thank you, and Cinder told her what the stakes were- she explained everything to her, about Salem and magic, the whole shebang. It had sounded impossible, like a tale of lunacy, but she stuck around. She could've bailed the second Cinder said they were going to go pick up Marcus Black if she'd really wanted to. It wouldn't have been hard, it was long before she'd even gotten half of the Fall Maiden's powers and Emerald could disappear if she concentrated. She chose to be there, and she chose to stay. She doesn't need Yang feeling like she understands why she might go on a murder spree because she knows she was a street rat. ]
unhappy: (And no one's around to hear it)

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[personal profile] unhappy 2018-01-25 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not lonely, and you're not me. Stop trying to pretend you are or that you understand anything.

[ Yeah, she's hanging up now. Sorry, Yang, she really doesn't like what you're trying to do here. ]