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In any city and in almost any outdoor location, Tektite can be 'found' lurking about, making a menace of herself. More likely, she'll find you. Instead of introducing herself via the network, she's taken to a more hands-on approach. This is far more fun.

Leaping down from trees to scare the shit out of passerbys, darting by and snatching someone's shopping bag with her tail, suddenly appearing by someone's side, transformed to look like a black and grey copy of her target of annoyance; she's having a grand time. Occasionally she can benevolent, sometimes smacking a thief to the ground or offering something a hand- tail?- up. But that's uncommon. It's more entertaining to be an asshole.

She might well drop onto someone she thinks can handle 600 pounds of mutated dog beast falling on their head.

[Ooc note: Feel free to come up with an annoying thing for her to do to your character if these aren't to your taste. She doesn't have any interest in causing serious harm to anyone, however, and is much less of a jerk to children or those that look/act like children.

For other Gem characters: She has a Yellow Diamond emblem on her 'uniform'.]

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Alleyana was on babysitting duty again, following behind a rich idiot client who felt like he needed extra security to just... do stuff. Whatever. Alley was charging him an arm and a leg for her intimidating presence, and just had to deal with being bored in exchange.

That was, until something huge and grey went barreling past, snatching her client's shopping bag and galloping off. Alley elbowed her client out of the way and threw her grappling chain after the dark monstrosity.

Tektite's hit the sidewalk with a yelp and a snap of teeth when her jaw collided with the pavement. She whirled around, best she could while laying on the ground, and jerked her tangled legs back violently, knees smacking her own chest. How rude, she'd pull the thing off its feet if it wanted to trip her up!

All that did was pull Tektite closer to Alley, who was a living fortress when she chose to be. The Inquisitor continued to pull the chain, slowly dragging the huge gem back toward her.

"Give that back," she said calmly.

In retaliation, Tektite flicked her tail, sending the shopping bag soaring several feet farther away. Otherwise she didn't fight, simply crossing her overlong arms and waiting to be dragged along. She could snap the chain if she really wanted to put forth the effort but she was too busy pouting about being caught to do that.

Alleyana frowned at that, and glanced at her client. "Well? Go get it," she told the fool impatiently, "I have my hand full."

And she did. She used the tip of the bar inside one link of the chain to be able to pull it in 'hand over hand'. She'd keep the pouting creature bound and sliding slowly across the sidewalk until her client had his bag back in hand.

Once her client had his things back, Alley stopped, just out of tail-lashing range, and undid the grappling chain with a flick of her wrist, coiling it back up again. "What was the point of that?"

Tektite sat up in one awkward, wobbly movement and gave Alley a vicious look before she bothered to reply. She'd even stopped dragging her before Tektite could smack her with her tail, now that wasn't fair.

"You tore my pants," Tektite said, somehow sounding petulant over all the growl and gravel in her damaged voice. She'd already fixed the hole. That wasn't the point.

Tektite flung herself up onto all fours, landing with a heavy thud and smack of claws on concrete. Right in front of Alley, her teeth bared in a demented smile. Ah it usually took someone bigger than this to drag her around. Maybe this one would be fun?

Rather than being intimidated, Alley leaned forward a little, and up, visibly daring the gem to start shit. Her shield was on her back, but the bar that made up her left forearm would do in a pinch.

Her client shuffled nervously nearby. Alley ignored him; she'd already been paid upfront for the day.

Oh, a challenge was it? Tektite would never turn down the chance to do something stupid and self-destructive. She considered her options briefly before deciding.

She licked Alley's face and jerked back to howl, quite literally howl, with laughter.

The disgusted sound that came out of Alley's mouth would have done Cassandra proud. She reached up with her singular hand to wipe at her face. Gross. Not that the leather of her palm did much to help.

"The hell are you?" the elf asked, "Besides annoying."

"Does that matter?" Tektite answered, laughter still in her voice. Describing what she was grew tedious. Even to other Gems she was an oddity, something hard for them to grasp as a living, thinking being.

She made to rest her forearms on Alley's shoulders, barely considering the discomfort that weight and contact might bring.

"I think 'annoying' is enough for most people. What are you, little thing? You look like I kicked you in the face a few times."

Alleyana simply stepped to the side to avoid the odd contact. Not back, but sideways; smoothly. Like in one of those dances she'd had to learn for the Winter Palace.

"Unimpressed," was her answer to what she was.

Tektite took the evasion in stride, instead trying to loop around Alley and keep her in place. How short was the temper for this one?

"If I was out to impress you, I wouldn't do so in daylight." Despite what she might be implying, there was no threat in her tone. "You're a warrior hrm? Are you a bit much to be defending that thing?"

She jabbed a clawed thumb in the direction of Alley's client.

"It's babysitting duty," Alleyana didn't much care if the client heard -- and he did, and huffed accordingly. The Inquisitor continued in the same flat, bored tone. "That's most of what mercenary work is on this world. It's inane."

It was absolutely beneath her, at this point, but what else was she to do to pay the bills? Bounties weren't much better; most of the listings she'd read had sounded as dull as this.

Alley stood her ground, for now.

"Do tell, what would you prefer to be doing? I do agree this is trivial work. I only wanted to hear him whine about the bag, he's not worth more than that, is he?" Tektite to the chance to push her luck further and tried to rest her head on Alley's shoulder.

Alley raised her hand to brush it off, the gesture casual but with surprising strength behind it. She had dragged Tek with one arm, after all.

"I prefer fighting," she said simply. Not killing... although killing things that needed it satisfied something in her she couldn't quite pin down. Like those evil, stuffed animal things in that diner.

"And now you are trying to get under my skin," that didn't take someone half as observant as Alley to pick up on. "That seems at least as trivial. At least I get paid to be boring."

"That I 'bore' you amuses me. That's all I'm concerned with." Tektite lowered her head, momentarily considering snapping at the hand that had pushed her away. She couldn't tell, just by looking, how hard that metal was. Mmm...

In a blur of movement she was gone from Alley's side and had looped herself around her client instead. Her tail curled, loosely, around his legs, just daring him to try to disentangle himself.

"I can make your job more interesting?" she said with a laugh.

Alley's eyes narrowed, and she reached up for her shield. She was under an obligation to protect the pampered fool currently coiled in the creature's tail.

"If you're so eager for a fight, you could just ask."

The Inquisitor just sounded... tired, honestly. She bolted the shield into place, tightening the wingnuts down. This wasn't the type of fighting she cared for; this was just duty.

"This isn't any better than just watching him shop?" If Tektite was asking that honestly or mocking her, it was hard to tell. She watched Alley bolt the shield in place with wide eyes, her chin resting on one shoulder of the unfortunate man and an arm looped over the other. His knees were buckling under the weight. Terribly weak.

Tektite wasn't paying attention to how he shook or the babbling for her to please let him go. Alley was far more interesting. How would she get Tektite away from her client?

"Not really," Alleyana drew her mace, the blunt end crackling with fire-lightning from the Corruption rune. "I prefer kicking in doors and eliminating actual threats; going on the offensive. Not protecting nobs from bored hounds. This," a slight sneer curled her scarred upper lip, "is still babysitting."

Taunting, taunting. Tektite let her chin slide off the man's shoulder and clicked her teeth as she debated rising to the bait or not. Anger was such an easy reaction. All too easy for Tektite to lose herself in, it was best not to get riled up.

She lowered her arm as well and the man fell against her tail in surprise. No wonder Alley was bored, Tektite didn't know how this man moved his legs by himself. Hrmph.

"Oh, I'm a real threat," she said as she put on a expression of deep boredom. It wouldn't fool anyone.

"Not to you and not to him, he's only worth the time to see you bare your teeth. You are a curiosity at most."

The moment she had her opening, Alley threw out her grappling chain again. But not at Tektite; no, it wrapped around the man's waist, hook snagging only chain, and she yanked him away from the creature's grasp hard enough to make him fly through the air.

She set him to rights and untangled her chain immediately. "Run, you moron," she snapped at him. "I think I've earned what you've paid me."

The man didn't argue, he just ran. Unsteadily. Alley planted herself between the fleeing human and... whatever Tektite was, expression still flat and bored. It had to be on purpose, at this point.

Tektite slammed her tail on the ground once the surprise wore off, annoyed more than she hadn't seen that coming than the fact she'd so easily failed. She got to her feet- hands and feet- and eyed Alley. Her mocking smile had vanished.

"I could always find him later." She wouldn't, but she could. "Are you actually going to fight or just keep up that look of your's until I get bored?"

"I don't care about later," Alleyana shrugged, "I'm not his on-call sitter."

She tilted her head a little to one side and forward, studying Tektite with that intense look she was famous for in the Inquisition.

"That was quite the reaction. Am I getting under your skin?"

Tektite didn't like that look, she'd met no one that would give her a look like that. She knew fear and apathy and, rarely, kindness, but not that look. Torn between anger over the failure and unease at Alley's demeanor, Tektite was unsure if she wanted to risk attacking. Alley had a even headed confidence that few Gems had. That it wasn't backed by boasting arrogance said a great deal.

She glared at Alley for a long, tense moment, before turning her head away. No, it wasn't worth it. Even if she could win that fight, she wouldn't want to.

"Maybe. You're not a coward, that's refreshing." Tektite sat down, pretending as if there hadn't just been a risk of a full out fight in the streets.

"I've got nothing to prove, unlike most people," Alleyana replaced her mace at her hip and went about unbolting her shield, since it didn't seem like there would be a fight. And even if the creature surprised her with an attack, she was hardly helpless.

But call her ugly, call her a heathen, a monster, a murderer, a fraud, a coward... she didn't care.

Alleyana had heard it all, and so much more. And as she said, she had nothing to prove. She'd saved her world, and she would do so again.

How had Cassandra once put it? Ah, yes; with or without anyone's approval.

She was the gods-damned Inquisitor.

"So if we're done dancing, I'll ask again. What are you?"

Tektite preferred dealing with people that were far more reactionary. Say the right three words and you could have a quartz frothing at the mouth. Ah, that is why she hated other Gems. Too easy. It was hard to find the balance that made someone worth wasting time on.

"That depends on who you ask," Tektite replied, sounding more genuinely bored now. "I'm a Gem. Yes like a rock. Technically a glass in my case. How my body itself works is more complex and that doesn't matter. I'm an inorganic life form from a species of useless parasites. If I had to guess by your ears and size, you're an elf. I don't know why that's such a consistent feature in your species across so many different texts. You're almost as uniform as humans."

"Well," Alleyana considered that a moment, then decided, "that's not the weirdest thing I've heard of."

Spirits still took the cake; emotions and concepts... made into people. In their fully natural form, they weren't organic either. Cole was... weird, for a spirit. And yet also not. It was no wonder he'd thought himself a ghost at first.

"I am elven, yes," she conceded. Then, with that settled, she turned to walk off. If she was off work for the day, she had other things to do than make small-talk. Let alone with someone who'd tried so hard to bait her into a fight.

Tektite was fine with that, small talk was hardly her strong suit. She stood and headed off in the opposite direction to find someone else to harass.

[As soon as that mutt comes leaping at him, Tsukihito let's out a loud squeak-like yip. The fox god was just minding his own business when something loud and viscous comes darting out from the canopy above.

He jumps back in fear and accidentally drops the brown satchel filled to the brim with various herbs and cured meats.]

What in the world---!?

[He takes a second to catch his breath before yelling angrily at the accursed mutt. The kitsune is raving mad now.]

You idiot! How dare you impose yourself upon me!

"How dare I, how dare I!" Tektite laughed as she scooped up the satchel with her tail and peered inside. It smelled nice but she wrinkled her nose at the meat. Gross. She was entirely unconcerned by his anger.

"You're a jumpy little thing aren't you? How far can you hear with those ears? Dang." She reached forward with a foot long claw, like she might flick one of his ears.

[He hisses loudly at the creature and moves quickly to slap that monsterous appendage away from him. There's no way he's letting this sin against nature touch him. Especially not some foul demon like this monster.]

Do not touch me, beast!

[Tsukihito's fur bristles a bit and his twin tails flick behind him in annoyance.]

Unhand those precious goods or taste my bite!

Tektite curled her claws inward before he can slap at it. As funny as it would be to see him pay for it, she didn't want to deal with the blood. She made no move to return the satchel. She seemed even more amused by his threat than his insult from before. Her teeth were bared in a vicious smile.

"I like this bag, even if your choice in food is lackluster. I think I'll keep it. Let's see this bite of yours, puppy." Tektite wasn't quite sure what he was, but it looked related to a dog.

"Puppy?" He snarls a little. "Do I look some damn dog to you?!" That little puppy is starting to look suspiciously more and more vulpine-like by the second. Tsukihito isn't above a bit of roughhousing but he's not about to stomach this monster's advances. These herbs are meant for the shop and the meats for the markets. Tsukihito isn't about to suffer a loss just because some overgrown demon decided to steal his bag.

"You'll live to regret this day!" He yells once he starts to transform rapidly. Instead of remaining in his human-like form, the kitsune suddenly morphs into this gigantic wolf-like beast that is far larger than the average fox. It's a towering behemoth of a monster with pristine white fur, bright crimson eyes and a nasty bite. He lunges right at the creature in a failed attempt to snap the mutt's head clean off. Instead, the fox tries to snatch the satchel back with a viscous tug.

Tektite always loved a target that was easy to bait. That elf from the other day barely did anything! It was boring. This was the kind of thing she loved!

She laughed and jerked back with alarming speed, her tail whipping out of reach. As a courtesy the bag was wrapped up in a way it shouldn't spill. Providing she didn't need to use it to beat him back. She didn't think so. Ha! Let him try to take her head off again! She looked forward to it.

Tektite sprung back, along his side, and made to nip at his fur, around the ribs. She didn't dare try to bite deep. Blood tasted disgusting!

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