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december catch-all

Who Atsushi Nakajima + OTA
What: Event Prompts + SoL Prompt
When: Catch-All for December
Where: Varied by prompt

Content Warnings: Child Endangerment mention

(a) Jumping Off An Airship (winter mourning) | CW: Child Endangerment

[Home decor is not supposed to be dangerous, but here he is: Going from carrying a winter mourning to standing in a familiar airship. Granted, it's hard to tell that this is an airship based on the interior alone. It looks more like a luxury hotel with its soft carpets and fancy wallpapers.

But Atsushi knows where he is right away. Distantly, he can hear a beeping sound that raises certain alarm. That tells him when he is too: He's in the Guild's airship, and the entire thing is about to crash into Yokohama City.]

[He's already upset enough to be here on his own. When this happened before, Atsushi was unable to divert the airship using its controls. It was because Kyouka crashed her plane into the ship that it fell into the ocean rather than into the city. But Atsushi doesn't want to relive the moment when Kyouka risked her life because of his failings.

Adding to his stress is the presence of a stranger. Atsushi pales like his blood and reaches for the stranger's hand.]

(b) A Cheerful Party (winter mourning)

[Other times, Atsushi will walk into a more cheerful memory. In this memory, he's an observer rather than active participant. A shame too, because this is a memory that he longs to interact with.

Atsushi and the unlucky tagalong stand in a normal office building, watching as Atsushi and a young girl open a door and walk into one of the rooms. The room has cheerful yellow walls and the desks have been rearranged for a pot luck. Greeting them with party poppers and confetti is a small group of co-workers.

The scene is a happy one. The young girl, Kyouka, is smothered in warm attention and the memory of Atsushi is treated to light teasing. Meanwhile, the real Atsushi stands back against a wall with a look of nostalgia.]

[He's trying not to get emotional. He doesn't want to let himself miss them. Instead, Atsushi tries to focus on more grounding things;]

(c) Trapped By Good Intentions (run, rabbit, run)

[It seemed like a good idea at the time. As a paleblood, Atsushi hasn't felt any of the aggression that many of the others are consumed by. His paleblood impatience hasn't let him off of the hook, though.

Kinda literally?

Because Atsushi has decided that his best hope for diffusing the tension is to disarm the traps set by others. Usually his attempts go smoothly: He's observant enough to spot many of the traps and smart enough to take them apart. But once or twice, Atsushi will instead find himself caught up in a trap. Hooked on the line, if you will.

Like right now. When, with a yelp of surprise, Atsushi goes from disarming one trap to being trapped in another. He's hanging upside-down from a tree, held painfully by one leg. With a frustrated growl, he begins trying to swipe at the rope with his claws.]

[swipe]

[another miss,]

(d) Protective Shopping Spree |Prufrock

[Despite being low on cash, Atsushi has been saving up for a proper pair of gloves. He still doesn't fully understand the dangers of blood, but he can take a warning when it is given. For this reason, he finally winds up at the glove shop.

Atsushi is naturally a stingy person, though. He's glaring at price tags as he browses the wares. Buying expensive clothes is out of his comfort zone already, so he can barely tell what is a good deal and what isn't. Buying stylish clothes is even harder for him, no matter the price. Curiously, he's mostly stressing about gloves while he browses the more decorative and feminine designs. Atsushi already picked out a cheap pair of black gloves for himself.]

[Maybe if he glares enough at the price tags they'll go down???]

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Winter had been getting enough satisfaction from interupting other hunts and stepping in the midst of fights that were decidedly one sided. She had increased her patrols, and luckily with Rei's paleblood abilities she was fairly under control of her own senses. So when she came across a boy hanging upside down she approached cautiously but did not show any hostility.

"If you want to help then you shouldn't be going around on your own."

Said the pot to the kettle. But then Winter was a trained huntress, and the Winter maiden with powers and skills that were far beyond most even in this world.

"Hold still and I'll get you down."

Spotting an approaching figure, Atsushi slowly quit his struggling. His claws even retracted as a peace offering of his own, though his tiger temper was certainly triggered by her words. She wasn't entirely wrong, but that didn't mean she got to go around saying those things! Her offer to help felt more like an attack on his pride in that moment and Atsushi wasn't the most emotionally stable paleblood on a good month.

"I'm fine! No need to get close... I can get free on my own!" Then why hadn't he? Probably because his initial instinct had been to use his claws. But now that he was being a brat, he was also using his brain. Atsushi's legs changed to those of a tiger, with the combination of the Tiger's large muscles and protective fur snapping the trap in two. After landing, Atsushi let himself return to normal.

"Even if I activate the traps, they can't hurt me." There was a slightly prideful huff in his voice, unintentional as it may be. "I know what I'm doing, thank you."

~~"Know" is a strong word.~~

When the other insisted that he was capable of getting free on his own Winter stopped. She didn't leave but instead simply stood and watched, waiting for him to free himself. She watched the transformation, which for a moment was worrying as it almost resembled the besthood transformations that the hunters had warned of, but this boy seemed to be in control of it.

"You're cocky. These traps may not be enough, but they are becoming more elaborate and deadly, eventually there will be one that will hurt even if you do have something protecting you."

Winter had come to know that many didn't know or think about aura, so mentioning that it was limited and would only go so far was a wasted point she wouldn't make.

"If you knew what you were doing then you wouldn't have gotten snared. And you'd spot the other one you're about to step into."

He scowled, becoming more irritated than grateful. Perhaps it was the Tiger that he had to blame for his temper, but Atsushi felt a frown lining his face. She certainly talked down to him a lot for someone who didn't know him or his power.

"Hurt isn't really a problem for me." Atsushi retorted. Well. Not a problem for the Tiger. He did know better than to do something that might cause him to transform. Noting the trap near his foot, he only ducked down to begin disarming it. "I can regenerate and blades can't break the Tiger's fur. It's safer for me to be out here than someone with a regular body."

Though he wasn't about to cite his reasons for knowing this.

"Maybe, but it's safer for a hunter or huntress who knows how to deal with these and also has an aura to protect them. Also, you're making it impossible to trace who is setting them up and catching the person responsible."

Which was one of the main goals of doing the patrols. If the traps were just destroyed blindly then there was no way to study them and figure out the method of the person setting them up.

"What's your name?"

Atsushi bit his tongue. He knew a few people who were probably responsible and would be happier covering their tracks than getting them in trouble. This wasn’t like them, after all, and most likely caused by the blood effects of the Trench. He had already decided to blame that instead of any people, or his moral compass would drive him insane.

“I already told you that I’m perfectly fine.” He repeated, feeling a irritated tiger growl sneak into his voice. It was becoming clear that he was being underestimated, “I know enough about these kinds of traps to dismantle them.”

Giving his name seemed less like a formality and more like a threat right now. Atsushi’s tone didn’t lighten politely like it usually would when he introduced himself. “Atsushi Nakajima. Yours?”

"My name is Winter Schnee. I'm a huntress, and was a specialist for F.E.A.R. and have been attempting to coordinate efforts in Trench under D.A.R.T."

Though she wasn't having much success due to the disorganization and constant pushback from others against any form of authority. It seemed that perhaps this kid was along the lines of most others in the instant disregard and need to challenge anyone immediately. It was almost like talking to a cat that immediately had its fur on end and did nothing but hiss.

"If you know enough to disable them, I recommend doing so without triggering the traps then. Unless you're trying to get someone's attention."

Again, Atsushi bit his tongue. Make one mistake and these types were all over you. His first impression of Winter was certainly going southward.

“I freed myself just fine, thank you.” He was a hissing cat. Tiger, technically, with frustration itching under his skin. “It’s nice to meet you, Ms Schnee.”

He remembered Vira-Lorr running FEAR in the other town and had been an on-and-off sort of member there. Had he seen Winter..? Most of his time in FEAR was spent in their cells, locked up as the Tiger. Vira-Lorr had been far less condescending, so it had been easy to trust her.

“Don’t they already have a ‘hunter’ profession here?”

Winter had been the one to help Vira-Lorr organize things and tighten up the ship a bit, at least until Ironwood had arrived and then she'd worked with new members and organizing patrols.

"They do, but just like the authority, it's not always our best interest that they have in mind. I haven't seen any of them moving to act with the recent increase in violence, which is causing problems in other ways."

It seemed that Atsushi was volatile, Winter wondered whether his temper would be an issue, and was pretty sure if someone had come along who set the traps there'd have been a confrontation.

"Atsushi?" Vyng looks down at his hand, then at the plush carpets, then suddenly gazes around. Where the hell is that beeping coming from? And more importantly— "Go where?"

... Where are they going?

Atsushi knows that he's supposed to find a parachute and jump. Kyouka will crash her plane into this airship and crash it into the ocean... and he knows that she'll be okay, but still--

"You probably need a parachute. This ship has to be crashed into the ocean!" He's low on proper explanations today. "I can handle that part, but you should get off just in case!"

Vyng arches a brow.

"They're sinking the ship?" Airships aren't exactly a thing where Vyng is from, so a sea-faring vessel is what comes to mind first. He is also weirdly matter-of-fact when he adds: "Well, shit, Atsushi, I can just dive off the deck. I don't need a parachute for that."

"No, you absolutely do-- It's an airship! Air, air!" And a whale, which the ship lets them both know when it makes a whale-like moaning noise. There's a lot going on here. Atsushi gestures to one of the windows for Vyng to look out of. Below them, the cityscape of Yokohama is fast approaching. "They want to crash this thing into the city. I can't let that happen!"

"What!?" No, seriously, what? He can barely wrap his mind around what that even means, much less why there's some soulless whale crying over the incessant beeping. But Vyng knows one thing: "No way. I'm not abandoning you, buddy. Friends stick together!"

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