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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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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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"Well... uh... thanks fer not hittin' me then, boss."
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Tannusen didn't strut around shoving his more domineering qualities into everyone's faces as a matter of course. In fact, he was quite content to be mistaken for a very decorative bartender, most days. It was only when someone tried him, and kept trying him, that he showed his teeth. Even today, he'd tried simply walking away at first, hadn't he?
But it was done, the goal had been achieved, and now he just wanted to move on. There was no point grinding Kani's face in what had happened, like a bad puppy. Not if the siren was going to be smart and learn from it, which he seemed to be.
Tannusen wiped his hands off on the towel he'd brought in here from earlier, and glanced over at the siren through his glasses.
"What's with the do-rag?" It was a very minor curiosity, but with Kani's hat off it was a more obvious distraction than usual. More importantly, it was a completely innocuous topic change.
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"Just keeps the hat from chaffin' that's all. More comfortable ta have it up there than not. Keeps the hat clean too. S'a nice hat, innit?"
It was a nice hat, honestly. Clearly an expensive hat first of all, and second of all clearly an antique hat.
It had the look that it'd had that ribbon replaced a hundred times before, and had been carefully and lovingly repaired several times over. An age that couldn't be told from a distance.
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If Tannusen was surprised the siren was totally bald, it didn't show.
"It looks old," the tiger said instead, of the hat. "No idea how old, I'm no good with that."
Even with some memory of some past lives, it was all a fractured mess and he couldn't pinpoint the centuries. Not that most of his lives had been anywhere near 'civilization'.
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"Yeah it's prolly about a hunnered an' fifty, two hunnered years old now. Washed up on the beach an' I just grabbed it."
There was more to the story of course, but he didn't feel like recounting it right now. It was a private tale that he saved for closer friends.
"Ya like it?"
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But when he brought them forward again, now to start tugging on his gloves, they were completely whole once more. No explanation was given, because he doubted one was needed. Kani was Fae, after all, even if they were from different worlds. Magic was a given.
"Of course, it's quite nice and you clearly take good care of it," Tannusen could understand that impulse. He rarely got attached to anything, but when he did he meant it. Jethro had never missed a single oil change, no matter how penniless the homeless tiger was at the time.