10th Aura | Action

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[Action at Nova City]

[For the most part, Jaune felt like while he couldn't always take what this place dished out, he could roll with the punches. He had a lot of practice with it, after all. A headache thanks to a set of horns and a ruined bunny t-shirt courtesy of a pair of wings would probably be a considered an inconvenience at best. And honestly, it kind of was. He had already knocked over a lot of things--and people--with his wings. They kept twitching as he tried getting more accustomed to them. Once they felt more natural and not just like two entirely foreign appendages stuck to his shoulder-blades, he wanted to test them out. He didn't consider that he might be an Incubus. He didn't care where they came from or why they were there. He could even ignore the horns.

Instead of picking a nice, relatively open place to test out his abilities, like Attleton or Fayren, he picked Nova City, mostly because he already lived there. With its daunting skyscrapers and flying vehicles, even in the dark, it probably wasn't the best choice.

It definitely isn't the best choice. Without the ruined remains of his t-shirt, Jaune is shirtless and flying into a lot of objects. He seems to think that by flying faster, he'll somehow be better and dodging too, which doesn't work at all. Sometimes he'll impact something so hard he falls on the ground, but he keeps trying, ignoring the way his head increasingly feels worse.

He's acting stupid and reckless. But this is the closest he's felt to invincible. He has to take advantage of it while it lasts.

Feel free to jump out of his way or approach him when he falls and keeps trying this out. On the bright side, he's actually smiling faintly.]

[Action at Remnant House]

[Eventually, he ends up returning to the house. It's late, probably around 3am at this point. Normally, he wouldn't even think of sleeping, but he's exhausted. Flying is tough. He's just going to...sit on the couch and hope his horns or wings don't ruin it if he jumps up or moves in general.]

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Like an aspect of someone's personality or something? That makes sense. I guess each world calls it something different. There are prequels? So it's Dave, John, Jade, and Rose. I'll call you...team DJJR. [He pronounces it as team Danger.] And it can be associated with the color red, because of danger signs and you wear red.

[He looks like he's trying very hard to focus. Don't mess it up don't--

He nearly drops them. A little hesitantly:] Do you like it? If he makes you happy it deserves a name.

[stairsbro]

Probably how it works. I don't really know. Someone did but I didn't give a shit. My personality is time-y, apparently. Everyone gets like a class to go with their aspect too. A fucking title. I'm a Knight of Time. ...How come you don't know what your thing is yet? Do you have to do some kind of heroic bullshit mission to get it? Is it just an age thing? There are really shitty prequels, yeah. [ he pauses and makes a little face ] Doesn't that imply I'm the leader? I was definitely not the leader.

[ watching him carefully. he goes a little crosseyed doing it because jaune's trying to stick something on his face. eventually, they stay in place. ]

I can't believe you're brangelina-ing us right now. I had no idea the name thing was a requirement. 'Dark Cat' sounds way more up Rose's alley than ours. I think we're more of a... Crab apple.

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Maybe it's because you're so fast. I mean you think really fast. You're too fast for time to catch up. Or you are time. I just gave myself a headache. So we're both knights. Or, you're really a knight. But the team name Weiss and I agreed to is White Knight. No, you don't have to do a mission, and I'm older than Ruby, so I'm pretty sure it's not an age thing. But I don't have as much practice with my Aura as most people who want to become huntresses or huntsman. Most people have a lot of control over theirs and I...don't. But I did something really cool once by accident here so. I'll figure it out eventually. I have to. I thought it was usually the sequels that were a disappointment. I mean-- it doesn't have to in this case? It just sounds cool. You always seemed confident to me, like a leader should act.

[very quiet, soft giggles. he stops and nods in approval at their success, flying about a foot away.]

It's not, I just like it. I feel like it really makes a point to the bond you share. [appalled face.] No, Crab Apple makes absolutely no sense. Unless he's crabby. Then it might work.

[stairsbro]

Ha ha. Gotta go fast. You have a ship name with Weiss? Are you two like... a thing? Totally pale for each other. She kept saying 'sibling' with the pajama costume. How do you practice an aura? Can we kickstart it by just making you hella confident in yourself or something? What did you do by accident? Prequels are usually shit. [ holds a hand up and waves it instead of shaking his head, a rejection ] No. No. Leaders are the people that want to go head first into shit. I'm more of the ...strategy guy. Back-up? I don't want to be in charge.

[ he gives jaune a thumbs up and goes back to hugging his arms while they're folded. ]

Hm. [ big smirk ] Oh, it makes sense. He's crabby and he was raised by a giant alien crab. He had a crabdad. He's the crab and I'm the apple.

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A...ship name? [He frowns in confusion before catching on. His voice starts to rise in pitch nervously.] What? Please! We are not a thing. She doesn't like me like that and she never will and she's really important to me. I mean as a best friend. Who I want to protect all the time but we're not a thing. But we're also not siblings, that was her idea that I didn't agree to. [Waving his hands frantically. It's a complicated topic that he has a lot of mixed feelings from because he doesn't see himself moving forward in that way and after everything Weiss has been through, doesn't know if she will. At the same time, he had a crush on her once and does care deeply for her. He trails off, looking down almost guiltily before meeting his eyes.] Through training and fighting. I've been learning to channel it into my armor and shield. I don't think that's going to work. I'm not that confident. Okay, so--

[Get ready. He's excited.] I was fighting this giant flaming demonic monster once who claimed he was the lord of terror or something stupid, I don't really remember that part, but it was clearly a very one-sided fight. I mean, there's me, I know I'm not the most muscley guy around, and then a towering endgame demonic boss. He took my sword, and I had no choice but to use my shield, which left me without a weapon. So I did the only thing I could do at that point and walked up to him to try and take my sword back. I activated my Aura and there was this bright flash of light--I think he was going to try and break my shoulder, but the light faded he was bleeding monster goop and he just left. I have no idea what I did, but it worked. Sorta. I didn't actually beat him.

But you still watch them anyway. Are they at least funny? [Thinking about what he said regarding leaders.] A knight strategist. I could see that. You're definitely smart enough to. But leaders don't always have to rush in head first, do they?

Now it makes even less sense. How would a giant alien crab raise a human? What about their dietary habits? What about stuff like, how much room there is in the house?

[stairsbro]

Ha ha. Okay. Okay. Dude. You know trolls have this form of romance that's just like being a platonic lifemate? It's fucking rad. It's soulmates but for your BFF. [ poor jaune. he got really flustered there. dave tries to drop it, offering that excuse for the question. he frowns slightly at the first answer but looks pretty curious after ] Oh. Who are you training with?

[ he unfolds his arms to fold them under his chin, resting his elbows on ...air. nothing. there is nothing to lean on but he's floating there posed like he is. ] Holy shit, dude. Do you think it was a fucking laser beam?

[ shrugs a shoulder ] They can be funny. Sure. [ pushes the glasses up after they started slipping through his face again. ] Dude, you are quite the flatterer, aren't you? They don't, I guess, but I don't know any that didn't. John and Karkat and I guess fucking Vriska. They were all pretty gong-ho about charging into shit.

[ bigger grin ] I have no idea how a giant alien crab would raise a human. He's not human. Karkat's a fucking grey alien. I did not ask about their dietary habits because I honestly didn't want to know what kind of nasty shit they shoved into their lusus' mouths. His house was pretty big.

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Romance isn't going to happen, Dave. [His smile is brittle. Thank you for dropping it, Dave, he appreciates that.] I train with Weiss the most. She's teaching me how to use Dust. But I'll train with other people, and when she's not around, I practice alone.

[He tries to sit in midair to match Dave, but it takes more effort and he eventually stops.] I don't know. Don't lasers normally work in a line? This was more-- it was more spread out. But I didn't see all of it so maybe you're right.

Do you have the movies here? [He looks a little worried when that happens. He can't help it, okay?] I'm just saying. Karkat charged into battle and you strategized for him?

He's a-- Okay, that's a little easier to imagine. Is he giant too or is he like an alien but with human proportions? I was hoping they would eat dinosaur chicken nuggets. If they have houses they should also have decent food.

[stairsbro]

Just bros for life. [ MOVING ON... ] Dust. Magic dust. Huh. Uh. Are you okay doing that shit alone?

[ he stops sitting himself, not to rub it in jaune's face that he has a little more flexibility with the floating ] A blast?

[ shakes his head ] I can figure out how to get them. I'm sure that wouldn't be monumentally stupidly hard to acquire. [ holding the sides of his head to keep the glasses on it ] Nah. We never fought side-by-side. We tried sparring once but I flipped my lid in the middle of it and that was the end of that shit. But he was the leader of all his aliens before and got them to all work together, despite being like this really fucked up group of twelve super-powered nuts. They actually did everything right and won with him as their leader.

[ holding his hand up for some sort of height reference ] He's regular people size but trolls get fucking huge when they're adults so he might get a lot bigger. It's hard to say because he doesn't fit on their blood chart. Kanaya is like high on there and almost your height right now. Their Empress was about twelve fucking feet. [ grinning ] Oh man. I wish they had them. They didn't have fucking chickens though. Their food wasn't all bad. Some of it was pretty damn good but most of it was really questionable and disturbing. I had to live on that for like three years. I was so fucking messed up from it when I got here. I didn't even realize. I couldn't hold normal food down for like a week.

[aurabble]

Bros for life. Not magic, just energy propellants with certain elements found in nature that can be used to combine with Aura and make different attacks out of nowhere. You know, science. Yeah. I only froze myself once. And it was just my legs. [That's convincing, right?] Besides, I have to be okay with it.

[Aw but he thought that was neat.] More like a blast than a laser. It happened before, too, with this jerk named Cardin. But it wasn't as bad.

We could both figure it out. [that looks uncomfortable.] What happened? Great as a ship but not so much on the same team? He sounds like a pretty impressive guy. Do I want to know what the person who can literally bend space-time considers superpowers?

Blood chart? Hey, I'm not almost twelve feet. [He winces, looking sympathetic.] It's already weird enough ending up here. Must have been hard.

[stairsbro]

So magic dust. Got it. Freezing yourself sounds cool. [ drops his hands to writhe them idly. picking at his shirt sleeves and pulling them over his hands. ] You do, huh. Uh. I guess... if you ever needed help with that. I could help. Or spectate and offer commentary. I'd probably be better at that. Dress like a cheerleader and wave around some fucking pom-poms in moral support on your mission to figure out if you have some sweet blaster beams.

[ s h r u g g i n g ] No, we're a good team. But I kind of hate fighting? So he always held back on me. It wasn't really conductive to actually training in any form. We'd rather just chill on the couch and watch his dumb ass movies so we did that instead. He's impressive and fucking ridiculous and you'd like him. And super powers are super powers. Vriska has mind control and Kanaya's a fucking alien vampire.

It was this caste system based on blood colors. They have twelve different official blood colors and depending on where you were on this hemospectrum, you had a longer lifespan and different features and shit. So the colors with the longest lifespan was considered the royalty and the lowest was the fucking peasants. I wasn't calling you twelve feet but you're taller than my average ass. [ carelessly: ] Yeah. But I'm good.

[aurabble]

Didn't I just say it's not magic? Yeah, it really helped me chill out. [Wondering how this ghost thing works. How come his clothes are apart of him but not his shades when he wears his shades all the time? Oh well.] You sure you're okay with that? Both times it's only happened once I got beat up a lot, so I'm not sure how to just...do it like Weiss uses her glyphs. But you can be a cheerleader if you want to.

[He looks pensive.] Can I ask you a question? He sounds pretty cool. Maybe he'll end up here and then I can meet him. Neither of those super powers seem very pleasant. Good to know aliens have movies too.

No offense, but that's stupid. [Yeah no anything where some people are treated as less just because of something that is out of their control is terrible.] I was going to say Weiss-sized, but okay. I guess I can just sympathize. On my way to Beacon, I threw up on Yang's shoes.

[stairsbro]

Everything you do is magic to me, bro. Heh. [ he's wondering the same thing. probably has to do with the fact that he woke up as a ghost and he wasn't exactly sleeping in his shades. ] Sure... I'm not going to beat you up but I want to help you with things if I'm capable of doing it. I make a really hot cheerleader. Entire teams want to bone me while I'm jumping up and down on the side of the court. The goalie coming up to me with bad baseball pick up lines. Hey babe, I wanna touch you down with my iron club.

[ wiggles eyebrows then cocks his head ] Yeah, sure. Go for it. Maybe. Kanaya's pretty cool but yeah. Not to have used on you. That mind control shit doesn't extend to humans with her but their empress fucking mind controlled Jade once because Jade's part dog. They have a Will Smith too.

It's hella stupid. I agree. Karkat basically got rid of it. His entire group was one of each color. Fuck that noise. [ eyebrow raise ] Weiss wears heels. How do you even know her true size? She might be cheating always. And her flats are secretly like covert platforms. ...Also. Wow. That is a horrible introduction.

[aurabble]

But you're so much cooler. You can rap, fly, you're smart and you time travel. Thanks... [He cringes.] Dave you're the younger brother I'm proud of and want to protect if there's a team hitting on you that's a problem. And aren't touch downs for football?

Uh. I don't know how to put this delicately, but if there's anything I can do, that makes you uncomfortable...why don't you like fighting? Jade's a faunus? [Gasp!] They have their own Will Sand? I mean Smith. Will Smith.

Wow. He's definitely a hero. [He's glad Dave has someone who deserves him.] No, because one day I-- You know what, she'd probably kill me if I told you. She does wear heels but you're closer to her height than average. Yeah. You know what they say about first impressions and how not to ruin them.

[stairsbro]

Damn. You have such a fanboner for me. [ puts his hands on his chest ] Aw. I'm pretty sure touchdowns are for soccer.

[ dave looks at him with knit brows. he huffs out a breath, which maybe isn't even a breath? something else to think about with ghosts. ] Jaune, you're not going to fucking trigger me. Calm down. ...And I just don't. I've had to do it all my life and I don't want to anymore. That's your animal people, right? Yeah. She's got dog ears. [ a little upturn of his mouth ] Oh man. I think Will might be a universal fucking constant. Holy shit.

Yeah. He is. He's also a fucking dick. What a great guy. [ leaning forward ] What? She can't kill you. You're currently some kind of supernatural being. ....But that saying is bullshit, right? My first impression of a lot of people was fucking awful.

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A-- I have a what? [shakes his head.] I don't know much about soccer, but I'm pretty sure that's football.

I'm just... Okay. You're right. So you're sick of it. After doing it all of your life, I guess I could see why. People with animal features. Is it just her, or does that happen on your world too? [There's a small light in his eyes.] Of course he is. If anyone would be a constant, it's him. Do you have a Spruce Willis too?

Heh. You're cute together. [He sounds totally innocent when he says it, which he might have learned from having so many sisters.] What, so I'm immortal? [He's actually considering what he can do if he is.] I don't feel very immortal though. [Yawns.] Really? I didn't think so when we first talked.

[stairsbro]

Don't you slamdunk a football? [ sports: what are they? ]

I don't think you could do anything wrong with me. You're way to considerate for that. If you need help and I'm capable of it, I'd do it. ...Yeah. It- Yeah. [ he looks down then back up with a small half smile ] Just her. But there was a bird me around because of alternate timeline shit. Like, I had big ass crow wings. We have a Bruce Willis. What about Stiller? Tell me you have a Ben Stiller.

Oh my god. You've never even seen us. [ dave's transparent ghostliness temporarily gained a little red hue. he covers his face for a moment. ] What do you feel like? Are you tired? I think our first impression went okay.