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genessia2017-01-27 01:57 am
brinewitch) wrote in genessia2017-01-27 01:57 am
VIDEO
This thing on? We rollin'?
Sweet, lets do this.
HEYA ladies, gents an' everythin' in between an' beyond. You bored? You ain't got nuthin' ta do? It's a Thirsty Thursday night or a sleepy Saturday?
I got the hottest place in Genessia City fer ya, ain't no where like it. Best drinks, best club an' best entertainment this side of the arches.
One of a kind place.
Who am I?
[The fairy grins, a flashy, wide, showman's smile, bearing a few of those sharp, shark like back teeth]
Well shucks, folks, I'm the entertainment! Once in a life time, ya won't find no singer like me nowhere else.
Ta prove me right, right here right now, one free sample of what ya might be gettin' if ya strut yerself inta ol' VL when the lights turn on.
Try an' contain yerselfs!
[After just a moment, the music starts, the instruments neatly recorded.
It's the vocals that are something else.
No at several points, it's clearly just Kani there, singing, the only person in the room, but there are multiple voices joining in on it, the siren's mismatched eyes flickering blue and green every now and again as doses of magic are infused with each and every word.
The feeling may be instant for some, the urge to dance, the need to get up and move, to listen to more. Happiness and drunken giddiness pulsing with every intoxicating beat of the song-
And then, it ends, and the after glow slowly ebbs as the magic is brought to a conclusion]
Want more? Want a night of that? Ya know where we are, Velvet Lust, one an' only, open from sundown ta sunup!
Sweet, lets do this.
HEYA ladies, gents an' everythin' in between an' beyond. You bored? You ain't got nuthin' ta do? It's a Thirsty Thursday night or a sleepy Saturday?
I got the hottest place in Genessia City fer ya, ain't no where like it. Best drinks, best club an' best entertainment this side of the arches.
One of a kind place.
Who am I?
[The fairy grins, a flashy, wide, showman's smile, bearing a few of those sharp, shark like back teeth]
Well shucks, folks, I'm the entertainment! Once in a life time, ya won't find no singer like me nowhere else.
Ta prove me right, right here right now, one free sample of what ya might be gettin' if ya strut yerself inta ol' VL when the lights turn on.
Try an' contain yerselfs!
[After just a moment, the music starts, the instruments neatly recorded.
It's the vocals that are something else.
No at several points, it's clearly just Kani there, singing, the only person in the room, but there are multiple voices joining in on it, the siren's mismatched eyes flickering blue and green every now and again as doses of magic are infused with each and every word.
The feeling may be instant for some, the urge to dance, the need to get up and move, to listen to more. Happiness and drunken giddiness pulsing with every intoxicating beat of the song-
And then, it ends, and the after glow slowly ebbs as the magic is brought to a conclusion]
Want more? Want a night of that? Ya know where we are, Velvet Lust, one an' only, open from sundown ta sunup!
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The siren's characteristic musical laughter bounced off the walls and filled the room like so many bubbles, refusing to leave the stage and sacrifice his height advantage. On a good day he was six foot four, he liked being taller.
He was used to it.
"Come on up on stage an' dance with me, chief!" Still magic in the tone, it wasn't lying if he just didn't address it after all. Having a soul meant freedom of will.
Freedom to be just as stupid as he wanted to be!
"Just one dance, c'mon!"
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Briefly, he was tempted to step up onto the stage anyway, if only to take advantage of nearly matching the siren for height. He dismissed the impulse, knowing it was probably his brain trying to rationalize the compulsion Kani was flinging at his head. Pooka understood compulsions well enough.
"And why would I do that?" Tannusen clasped his hands behind his back, tilting his upturned head slightly to one side. He was still regarding Kani over his glasses, not actually needing them for regular vision at all. They let him see ghosts, when activated; otherwise they were purely decorative.
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But Tannusen did not climb up with him, which meant that this was going to continue being a thing that Kani apparently felt he had to do right now.
Very important.
"Just ta have some fun, why not? Ain't ya ever had fun before, chief?"
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"Come dance with me!"
More magic in every syllable now, coaxing and cajoling in an attempt to tempt the tiger further.
"No harm in just one dance."
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Then he turned on his heel, and marched away. Whelp.
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Welp.
The siren called out after him, singsong, with a hint of an annoyed edge to his tone.
"Don't go!"
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"Excuse me?"
His own voice didn't carry any sort of magic, but that ever-present purr of his was suspiciously low. Soft velvet draped over cold steel. There were only two circumstances that made him sound like that, and neither involved him obeying someone else's control.
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But that would be embarrassing and he'd look bad.
... Well worse. He looked pretty bad right now, didn't he? Someone had been attempting to teach the obnoxious punk about manners around other males but well...
"I don't wanna sit by myself."
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The tiger smoothed his expression and turned, walking back over. Not striding, not prowling, just walking. Maybe Kani had won?
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Which meant he had a small, but healthy bit of paranoia in him.
Though the body language appeared to be lax and calm, for Tannusen it'd be hard not to sense the hackles raising in the siren like a threatened, upstart pup.
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His usual faint smile was back in place, but no, he wasn't exactly trying to sell it.
"Well? No more orders to give me in my own territory?"
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HE FUCKED UP.
He wouldn't have been so eager to pull this stunt with a fairy he was familiar with, Tannusen was a bit outside the mold, but that was no excuse.
As he recalled, someone had told him to just not start shit at all, but where was the fun in that?
... Apparently the fun in that was not getting confronted by an angry tiger. The one saving grace was that there wasn't anyone else around at the moment to witness this, so at the very least if he was going to be dumb, he was going to keep his stupidity between himself and Tannusen.
... THERE'S NO RULES.
The 'words' that came flowing out of the stubborn siren's mouth were in no definable human language, it was more like a series of emotions in the form of sound.
And now it was less of a request to dance aaaand slightly more of an order to GO AWAY.
Yes he could have walked out himself but that would be admitting he was outclassed!
... Which he was.
He really was.
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At this point, it would be much kinder if Tannusen simply lashed out with a fist. Instead, he was of a mind to make a point, lest this nonsense ever happen again otherwise.
He was a fucking tiger. The embodiment of the royal bengal.
And he would not bow just because some uppity young fish demanded it.
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He wasn't even in water so hell, no fins to billow around and put on a big fancy intimidation show.
He'd fucked up. With his shoulders rising in lieu of any actual threat display, he took a hesitant step back, bearing a mouth full of now sharpening teeth.
No he actually didn't intend on fighting. Had Tannusen just been human he would have just laughed at him.
But good god, the anxiety was starting to eat at him, and if Tannusen wasn't going to swing-
Well someone had to swing.
WHICH HE DID, but rather, instead of actually attempting to make contact with the tiger, the second it seemed like that fist might actually land, Tannusen was greeted with a cold splash of water.
The siren had choked, and the frantically moving puddle of salt water was already zipping under a door.
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So, he unclasped his hands from behind his back, and stepped back off the stage before striding to the bar for a towel. The cold water hadn't exactly snapped him out of his simmering anger.
Fucking fish.
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In fact, until an hour before they opened their doors, the usual time that he'd be showing his ass around the preforming area.
Where ever Tannusen might be... Kani tried to make it a point to politely be on the other side of the door to that area, rapping on the door politely to get attention.
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In truth, there was a portal passage open to the secret basement, but even Kani couldn't see that without an Enchantment. They may both be Fae, but the differences were vast enough past that point.
The tiger appeared calm enough. "Hello, Kani." Like they hadn't nearly come to blows just a few hours ago.
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Before Tannusen had opened the door and spoken, he looked pretty shamed already, but at the first word, the hat was tugged off and respectfully held in his hands.
"... I didn't mean ta get ya worked up before, Tannusen."
Oh. Real name this time.
"That... that was awful dumb."
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Good, maybe they wouldn't have to do this again in a few weeks. It was so nice when people actually learned. Rare, these days, but nice.
"And now you know better."
On the surface, the words were kind of harsh, but the message buried in them wasn't so bad. Kani had learned better, so now they could move on. If Tannusen had washed his hands of someone, he wouldn't give a damn what they'd figured out unless it was a potential threat.
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He fucked up.
He may have gotten smacked about by a friend too, though at this point he'd have done well enough to wipe any mark of a more conventional approach to dealing with him away.
Cassian wasn't big but he had one hell of a hook.
"Yeah yeah, I do... I won't try it again, sir, I promise."
Which was... important really. Even if Tannusen wasn't aware of the gravity of a promise from Kani, breaking one was as good as lying.
Couldn't do that.
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No, he really wasn't mad anymore. A few rounds with the heavy training bag below them had blown off most of the steam, and Kani's lack of fight upon returning neutralized the rest. Had the siren come marching in for round two, Tannusen's ire would have sparked that much faster than earlier.
But he hadn't, so... it didn't. He just felt tired in the wake of all that anger.
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He knew when he'd been beat, there was no sense in causing any more trouble for Tannusen. The pecking order had now been firmly established. If Tannusen ended up ensnared by magic again, it wouldn't be on purpose, and the siren would surely halt if he found out what he was doing.
"Didn't mean no harm, sir."
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Honestly, he was used to people poking at him to see if they could take him down a peg, put him under their control. Something about the tiger just had that effect on others, Fae or otherwise. "You get points for learning on the first try. Most people don't."
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"I woulda stopped."
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