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In like a Lamb (Wide Open to All)

Who: Parsee Mizuhashi

bridge_princess and You!
What: March Open Log
Where: Out and about
When: March!
Content Warnings: Minor Injuries/Burns from a Plant, but otherwise nothing.

1) Confirmation - (Hammerlock Ruins)

Parsee didn't come to the Stadium very often. It wasn't really her thing. But she did explore from time to time, and her Smeargle-like companion seemed to have an interest in it, so she was here today. By and large they were just wandering around, exploring, right up until they found the throne room. It was there that they stopped, quietly looking at the throne.

Names.

There were names of all of them, people she'd met here. Some were people she knew well. Some were people she barely knew. A few were names she'd only heard in passing or never met in the first place. But each crossed out name was both a stab in the back, and also a confirmation. She grunted, fingers hovering over her name, seeing that there'd never been a cross off, not even when she was gone for a week. But Ren's... Kimihiro's...

She thought the house had been quiet lately. Frowning, she glanced back at the creature standing beside her and whoever happened to walk in. "Maybe I'll move into the apartments finally..." Her expression was unreadable, but it wasn't happy.

2) Where's a Hammer Suit When You Need One? - (Takoba Beach) CW: Minor Injuries

Parsee came to the Beach roughly once a day to look for signs of awakened tools. It wasn't out of some desire to collect them so much as recognizing that they could be a problem if they weren't properly tended. They were annoying, needy little brats and she'd much rather deal with them herself because she knew how. So, she made regular appearances around here, and today was no exception.

Of course, right at this moment, they were the last thing on her mind. "GET OFF OF ME YOU LITTLE FREAK!" she was saying, tugging hard at the sleeve caught in one of the new plant's teeth. Her arm was gripped there and there was fire going everywhere, and she was freaking out. Of course, she'd managed to get her hands on a squawking, indignant shovel that did not want to be used this way, and was currently trying to smack the plant silly.

Really, it shouldn't be this funny but...

3) The Bridge Princess is In - (Shrine/Bridge) CW: Minor Injuries

Parsee, her left arm currently bandaged and cleaned to avoid what had happened to Legion, had the arm in a sling while she was working at the shrine. Her companion was taking Bowser's suggestions about the bridge to heart and currently painting a big sign that said "Welcome to the Void" right in front of the torii arch that led from the bridge. A similar sign was posted on the other side of the bridge, hanging from the bridge at the entry torii arches. It was a first effort to get the world to think of this as an entrance of sorts.

She, herself, could be found at the shrine. Sweeping and keeping it clean, she would periodically go to the ley line, drawing on the mana to build her own pool but not using it. She was mostly checking the 'ley line network' for messages of interest and garnering power. She had no real ability to use magic herself, outside of her basic powers as a spirit, but the more power she had, she reasoned, the better she could give blessings. And, the more that she focused on that, the more that she might be ... well, she wasn't going to dwell on what she wanted to be and didn't want to be. She didn't want to dwell on any thought in particular right now. But she was here, and that was what was important.

4) Moving In - (Merlaut Apartments)

Was this a good idea? She was changed now. She could feel it. The powers weren't right. She was still jealous. She was always jealous. She couldn't entirely stop those feelings and there was always an excuse. But here? This place had let the purification take hold, even if Kimihiro was now gone. She wasn't sure she'd ever know how to thank him or how she felt about it. But she didn't know if it couldn't all come back crashing down one day. How her empathy would impact being around others. She was nervous. Very nervous.

But she was here, looking for an empty room. She didn't have a lot of stuff. Just a broom, really, because it had complained about being left at the shrine with the shovel. One arm still in a sling, she looked at the open room, hand hovering in front of the door. "... Do I really want to do this?" she muttered to herself. Was she even allowed? I felt like a boundary was being breached somehow.

5) Wildcard
Toss anything you'd like at me! I'm game for anything!

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"What are you doing?"

asks the gremlin who appears from under a rock as Parsee concentrates on her ley line mana.

"Eavesdropping on conversations? I do it constantly. But it's been pretty quiet the last few hours."

"there's maybe thirty of us Viridi. they're not going to be worshiping all the time." Did she sound like she wished they were? Well, no, but it would be nice once in a while. "Besides, I'm drawing mana. In case I can use it with a blessing or something."

She glanced back, over at the goddess and raised an eyebrow. "What about you, what're you doing?" Hiding under rocks like the little gremlin she was. She had half a mind to try and see if she could get a bead on her emotions...

(OOC: Speaking of, you mind if Parsee makes use of that new fangled Empathy tric she got for being purified?)

"I'm terraforming."

Viridi responds a little gleefully, such that Parsee might not even need to use her trick. A pillar of earth shoots up from the ground and assumes the form of a beach chair underneath Viridi.

"Nice to actually you know, be the Ruler of the Earth instead of just talking about it. Although it's still kinda weak."

She shakes her hands as if warming them up.

"And we're down to twenty-five. I was counting yesterday, and I realized I was out of people to curse."

((Sure! Viridi is pretty chipper today owing to the return of elemental powers.
There's a vague hint of worry somewhere back there as well as the everpresent joy in being annoying.))

"Stop making words up to sound important." Parsee was, as per usual, not up on modern lingo. She grunted while she glanced over the goddess, almost relieved to see that in so many ways she was exactly the way that she seemed. Viridi never struck her as the deceptive sort. "Neat trick." Totally a little jealous.

"It shifts a little, I've noticed. I'm trying not to dwell on it. It'll send my head in the wrong direction. That sounds about right." At least certain people were still here, though she was having a little trouble over Ren and Akechi.

"Parsee, please, don't be ignorant. Anyone with any earth powers whatsoever says 'terraforming' even if it's completely scientifically inaccurate. It just sounds neat."

Though, to be fair, Viridi had probably assisted in actual terraforming way back in the day. She continues on cheerfully, oblivious to whatever it is Parsee is doing - to be fair, Viridi has never had any qualms whatsoever about sharing her Feelings (which are the only Feelings that matter, of course.)

"I am dwelling on it. Every time someone goes, I pray real hard that it's going to be me next." As do many people. "...Wait, don't comment on that."

"Ah, so it IS a cool sounding word to make it sound neat. Ok, at least we're being honest there," she muttered and laughed to herself for just a second. She just watched her doing whatever it was she was doing, which seemed more like she was just showing off her earth moving powers, but hey. Go her, right? Might as well use them.

...

"You don't really want the recovering spirit of jealousy dwelling on it. I think you know that." Mutter mutter. "Don't get weird about this. I don't really want you going next." She gave her a look that said 'don't you dare get weird about this you little gremlin.'

"Too late. I heard a declaration of love." Viridi made it weird. "I knew that you cared. Don't worry, Parsee. When I go, I'll leave you my shrine decorations in my will."

Viridi gestures vaguely over to the shrine, which has been brightened with some tasteful Parsee-excreted-rose-petal arrangements in recent days.

She snorted and gave her a withering look. "You are no Rinoa," she said, hoping sincerely that that statement made her just a little jealous. It would serve her right. "But this place would be a lot more quiet without you around to make a nuisance of yourself."

The rose petal decorations weren't exactly what she wanted to see, but ... they were at least pretty. "Just love rubbing that in don'tcha? I did finally talk to her, by the way. We're... figuring out how she feels now. She's taking time with it."

Parsee will... not sense much jealousy in that sense from Viridi. She has no romantic inclinations of that sort. There is a faint hum of the general jealousy of wanting to be liked, of course, which Viridi contrarily enacts by pushing people as far away from her as possible.

This makes sense if you are Viridi. And probably if you are Parsee.

"Oh? So you finally told her your real feelings? I definitely want blow by blow deets."

Weirdly? She was focusing her attention away from the jealousy. Yeah, she felt the tiny wisps of it, how little there was. However there was novelty in her empathy noticing other things. It was kind of weird, but at the end of the day Viridi was definitely easier to understand at times. They were both little trolls after all.

"Yeah. There's not much to it. I was weak and breathing in rasps, apologizing or making her wait for this. Eventually, we finally got it out and the plants started dying. She agreed she was going to think about it, like she'd promised. I'm not a great storyteller you know."

"...Yeah that was terrible."

Her thirst is not quenched.

"So what, you just like, sat awkwardly nearby each other until it was too much for you and you spilled the beans? I want drama here. Weak, fluttery gasps until with your dying breath, you whisper her name and the words, 'I love you' escape from the pneumy depths of your choking lungs."

"I didn't say I love you, dumb dumb. I'm old enough to know it isn't love yet," she snapped, giving her oh such a look and folding her arms. God this woman sometimes. Still, saying it quite like that was enough to get her to clarify so there was that. "I told her that I wanted her to look at me like she did Squall. And as long as she's here, I wanted to be the one she thought of like that. And if that isn't romantic enough for you she climbed all the way up the mountain to see me in the middle of the snow. There, nice snowfall confession for you."

She really was awful at storytelling.

"'I want you to look at me the way you do Squall...!' Now there's a line straight out of a romance novel. Not bad, Parsee."

Slightly quenched.

"Aaaand what did she say to that? I mean, I imagine if she's already with this Squall character it would feel to her like she's not being faithful, even if the circumstances are what they are."

Probably not helping.

"It was kind of seriously embarrassing to put it that way, you know." But it had actually made the point to Rinoa, really hit home that in the end she might have to decide between them. Not everyone got to win.

"Well, they're dating, not married... but she didn't just jump in my arms if that's what you're asking. She said she needed time to think. Like you said, if she's with me, she's deciding that she's moving on. It's ... I'm actually glad she's thinking about it."

Why? Because it meant if she said yes, she probably fully understood what she was doing, which was what Parsee needed. Parsee was not big on cheating. She'd essentially asked the girl to consider breaking up with him for her. She'd been just as surprised that she even had a shot. But, then again? It was getting close to a year they'd been here and ... Squall wasn't here.

"On the other hand, of course, if... the man is never here, and the two of you don't remember this place once you return home, then... you could make the argument that it's the fulfillment of a primal human need without causing harm to any party."

A faint pause.

"Primal human and jealousy spirit need. ...What's so attractive about her, anyway? She wasn't especially scintillating conversation or anything."

"Liiiittle close to asking her to cheat on his memory," she muttered before sighing. "But you're not completely wrong. It's sort of what I've asked her for. Unless she stayed her whole life, she'd eventually go back."

She grunted. "It's... complicated. She's a very kind person, and she's one of the only people I know who really doesn't judge me for what I am. More than anyone but Cole or Legion, and they're sorta special."

"I don't judge you for what you are." Viridi says cheerfully. "I judge you for who you are."

This is probably true.

"You know, not to be mean, but that's kinda low standards. You're going to fall in love with anyone who's not weirded out by you being a whatever spirit?"

"So sue me, but my low standards are surprisingly hard to achieve at times. I couldn't explain it in words, but you not judging me isn't quite the same as her not judging me. Cause you're still a little troll of an Earth goddess either way." She snorted and laughed at her, managing a little wink.

"I think... part of it is... look, she wouldn't even be thinking about it right now if she wasn't at least a little interested. Do you know how long it's been since someone was honestly interested in me despite the whole jealousy thing?"

"Eh."

Viridi gives a big shrug.

"I don't know. Time is meaningless; reality is an illusion; buy gold. 10000 years? Do you keep track of time? I kind of stopped and let it all become one big blur."

Viridi is a fairly asexual creature.

"You haven't actually told me any traits about her you admire, though, you know.
'Tolerating you' is like, a bare minimum. What gets you going?"

Edited 2021-03-26 04:06 (UTC)

Parsee, meanwhile, wasn't a hugely sexual creature, but she was a deeply hurt romantic one, which explained why she still focused on these things after all this time. "I envy your ability to take things so blase."

"But I guess, if you want to know what I like about he. She is a very kind-hearted person, who sees the best in everyone. She has a bit of a gift for making you feel special when she wants to do it. She's really passionate, and a lot braver than I am. And she wears her heart on her sleeve, without trying to push it on others." That, yeah. That actually sounded like good traits, and it definitely sounded like Rinoa.

...

"And, ok. She's really pretty. I'm vain enough to admit that I find her physically attractive."

"There's the good stuff."

Viridi has flopped on the floor stretched out with both hands supporting her head. Somehow, she's pulled a notebook out of her dress so that she can take notes.

"Of course, her bizarrely symmetrical features have nothing on my otherworldly beauty. But I guess she's good enough for a human. It's funny - I thought you would go for someone with a 'good sense of humor' or something like that."

Considering her own trolling.

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