A Masquerade ball, what a joke. Sure, it lets her squander in a dress without much to worry about danger, but she was truly here to drink and eat. The people didn't interest her here unless they had some information. Her foxy white hair tickled against her shoulder as she cat walked towards the stairs and up into the main hall. It was beautiful as it should be. Mishiko's dress was long and black-red, long heel boots with lace on the side. She wore long black gloves that were made of satin as well. She had long dangling earrings and a black chocker made of ribbing. In the back, dangled a star, in the front, dangled a sea symbol. These two things had a significant meaning, but commoners such as these wouldn't understand. The further in she went, the more she could her chuckles and people gossiping about. That's what a ball was all about. "The Game", many people didn't know it, but many things happen within them. Sadly, this Ball will have none of it due to the rules of Lisa of "No killing". Doesn't mean people won't cause trouble from drinking too much though. The demigod now was in front of the food buffet table, looking at it all while most either were at the bar, gossiping or dancing. |
Lisa's Grand Masquerade Ball [Jin]
Thu Oct 20, 2022 8:43 am
Thu Oct 20, 2022 2:05 pm
He took a swig of it and leaned onto the counter. he needed to treat this as something different than a dive bar. He stood up straight ready to force himself to mingle when two security guards cupped his arm.
"Sir, whatever this is, is not appropriate. Change, pull yourself together or leave."
Jin gave a half smile and slumped onto the guard, "What does society want anymore? Can't a man wallow in his own sorrow for a bit? A healing mage without the ability to mend his own heart." The guard wiped a tear away and supported Jin with his shoulder. "Even so," the guard said and began to escort the mage out. Jin pointed to the left, "Heathenry," The guard looked away. Jin rose his arms and crouched, slipping free. He darted away from the guards and as he ran, he saw a white-haired woman at the bar. For a moment he gave pause as a familiar air of safety washed over him. But he didn't know who she was. The paladin snuck up to the second level to lose the guards.
Once safe, he pressed his back against a wall and took a deep breath. Even up here there were finger foods abounding.
Thu Oct 20, 2022 5:37 pm
The food looked divine as the bar wasn't so far away. Mishiko was unsure where to start, but as she was thinking she noticed a rather loud familiar voice. Her eyes quickly shifted over to see what was going on. Her black mirror eyes reflected him, the one she had yet to find after the whole death. She could hear the whispers of others, "Isn't that the man that lost his lover? Quillareine, was it?", one group spoke. "She was quite known, mostly in Joya and Fiore," they spoke once more. Mishiko could hear this obviously as she watched him fuss with the guards. She motioned to go to him, but before she could even move an inch she watched him trick the guards and ran upstairs. That was typical of him. She did a small smile and then went back to a more serious face. The guards were looking and so she decided to give him a little hand so they'd stop. She jogged with her hands on each side of her long dress towards the guards. "Excuse me, if you're looking for the guy you had earlier, he ran towards the dungeon room," she innocently spoke as her mirror'd eyes gazed at them. The guards scanned her body naked and then gulped nervously once he looked at her eyes. "What are you waiting for?! He could be doing something Lisa would punish greatly for!", she acted anxiously. "Y-yes, of course! Thank you maddam," He spoke and dragged his guard buddies with him. They were finally gone from the first floor. The dungeons should be big enough to give them time so she went to the bar and got two drinks. "Maybe he'd want another," she assumed, swaying to the second floor and looked at him, "Was it a good watch?", she questioned coldly in her soft voice. She quietly walked towards him to put a drink down on the table where the finger foods were. "Now, why does an interesting man like you need to mend their heart of sorrow?", she continued this act as she was curious. It did hurt her to see him this way, but she truly wanted to know, to be selfish and hear him say how much he felt about her, how much it affected him. |
Thu Oct 20, 2022 9:47 pm
Then the woman pointed in the other direction. Could she be an ally? Whatever it was, he was thankful for it. And she seemed to be a good actress at that. In another time, that may have been a lady he would have tried to flirt with. But not today.
Thinking it was over as the guards left, Jin shoved a sandwich in his mouth. The woman then arrived beside him with a casual question that caught him mid-chew. Half the sandwich was in his mouth when he paused and looked back at her. He pushed the rest of the sandwich in and ate it in a few quick bites.
"Oh uh. Thanks. And yeah you are a quick thinker. I appreciate the help." he said and rose the glass for a quick toast in the air. He took a drink, thinking it was the end of the conversation when the woman fired off a hard-hitting question. He spit some of the wine back into the cup. "Wow. Lady you don't beat around the bush." he looked in her eye, and then turned away. "The same reason anyone does. I lost someone. I wasn't even around for it," he slumped over the railing, resting on his arms.
"If you really want to know...My Girlfriend died. I wasn't even there. She saved my life a few times. It hurts that she's gone. And it hurts to think that she didn't even want me with her on whatever dangerous quest she was doing. Maybe I'm too reckless. Maybe she didn't think I could keep up...It's probably...my fault. I couldn't save my men in war," he took a drink of half the glass. "I couldn't save my guildmaster," he finished the drink. "And most of all I couldn't save her." He let his arm dangle that held the drink.
He let his healing light magic dance around his hand and cast away the drunkenness he was building toward, "It's a curse. To be able to heal people and still it amounts to nothing in the end," he sighed. "But, you probably don't want to hear all that...What's your story? Helping out some rogue sap?"
Thu Oct 20, 2022 10:25 pm
"I-..." she started, wanted to reach out for him, but if anything, she feared he would lash out for not telling him that she was here the whole time. She didn't even fear death to the point she became it alongside her mother. She wobbled a little, losing balance due to lack of oxygen from the empowerment of emotions. She thankfully caught herself as she clenched the railing two meters away from Jin. "I'm sorry, I...," she was afraid of losing him and those she did love. What if he didn't welcome the new her? More like, old her as this was her before she became Quilla. Her voice wavered as tears started to form.
"Jin, I..." her head tilted, and bit her lower lip. Mishiko wrapped her arms around herself in a defensive way. "You can hate me if you wish, but I didn't invite you due to the dangers it held and will hold in the future," Mishiko winced as her heart pang pain, "I couldn't tell anyone about me still being alive since I no longer go by that name. Plus..." she started to step away as her mind was telling her to retreat, "How could you tell people that thought you were dead that you did die yet still be alive," her steps slowly backed away one by one as she was now 4 meters away instead of two.
Leave, run, you'll just end up hurt
You don't need him, you have us...
Voices, so many voices...
Sat Oct 22, 2022 9:48 am
"Hate you...who," He stepped closer as she held herself in a defensive way. He placed his hand on the column behind her, to passively bar her way and leaned in closer. It couldn't be. It...the way she talked. The little fluctuations in her voice. "Quill?" he said with relief coming over him as all that mattered was that she was alive. He leaned in closer but pulled away, only by a foot. His hand was still pressed against the column.
"Oh no...I'm not falling for that. You may be an imposter," His eyes narrowed. "IF...you are her...somehow in a new body...Then tell me...Where was how first kiss?"
Sat Oct 22, 2022 10:01 am
She had to find a way to get out of this trap. Her arm snaked about as his eyes were on her. She was trying to search for an item to help her get away as she then heard guards yelling, "I think he's up there! Let's go," as they charged upstairs to spot him trapping a woman in tears with status.
Tue Oct 25, 2022 11:11 pm
He looked over his shoulder as the guards began to yell and storm their way toward them. He looked back at Quilla who was starting to get teary-eyed. He sighed, "Running out of time already. Meet me in the kitchen." He said quickly and kissed her cheek. "And don't go disappearing on me again. Alright." He whispered and then leaped over the side of the railing and fell onto the floor below. The guards rushed to the woman's aid.
Jin rolled back to his feet and ran into the courtyard that had a separate entrance to loop back to the kitchen. As Jin ran out, he bumped into another guard. "Sorry. My Girlfriend just came back to life and I don't have time for games today," he said to the guard, which shot him the most perplexed look of his life. Jin punched the man in the gut and dropped him.
He leaned the guard against the wall and pulled his cap down, before dashing to the kitchen.
Wed Oct 26, 2022 10:01 am
She looked for a worker and went to them, asking where the kitchen was. "Oh, it's by that guard over there," she pointed. "Alright, thank you..." she softly spoke and went to the kitchen. The guard was standing by the other door that Jin didn't go to. Kitchens, they always had two to three doors for large places like this. The guard didn't even bother with her as their boss was a woman, a woman who demanded respect of others, mostly beautiful people. Thankfully, she met that bystander. Once in she looked around and saw no one else in here. "Jin?", she questioned and walked silently to look for him.
Mon Oct 31, 2022 7:52 am
Her voice called out into the kitchen. Jin popped up from the other side of the island to see her in her new body. "Hey," he said with a nod and circled toward her. "So...looks like you've gone through some changes," He spoke in an inquisitive voice. As he spoke he moved closer to her. Still hard to believe she was there. He was a little worried if she would come here or not. With his own recklessness in life, he could hardly hold too much against her.
He turned his head away for a moment and then looked back into her eyes leaning forward with a cocked brow. "So...you snuck away...died... and now you possessed someone's body to live again?" He ran his hand through his hair and looked away. "If I was there, I could have maybe stopped you from dying. Stoped you from becoming a ghost, forced to posses others, so you can live." He spoke in a little dramatic way, half-trying to tease her about it, while dodging the seriousness of the situation.
Mon Oct 31, 2022 10:56 am
How will she explain that she had a life before this life and now she was reliving it? She was reborn into her old life. She clenched her fists as she bit her lower lip, now avoiding any gaze he wished to have shared. "I didn't possess anyone and... the killer..." she paused and closed her eyes slowly, "They were probably one of Joya's assassins that got me when I had my guard down. It's not your fault," she assured him. Plus, she couldn't rely on anyone. Even if they wanted her to.
Fri Nov 04, 2022 1:58 pm
"An assassin...from the country," Jin held his head and leaned on the island. The pots and pans gently rattled above his head. "I thought I got into trouble from time to time. But you have assassins after you. And they killed you? How? and how are you back?" He asked, having a lot of questions for the woman that was now back in his life. At least this time they were free of guards. But just like the last time. They were hiding from them.
He looked out in the distance around the room and up at the ceiling thinking about the madness of it all. Every since that attack on the guildhall. Things have gone out of control.
Fri Nov 04, 2022 8:30 pm
"Do you know what it's like to know that your life repeated itself, killing hundreds, to know that the reason people die around you is because you are the Demigod of Death and Madness, imagine, Madness... No wonder," she laughed insanely as she put her fingers through her hair. Her eyes slid towards the corner of her eyes to look away. "And the reason I got that title is because I ended up killing a whole war of demigods and humans hundreds to thousands of years ago," she scoffed at how old she actually was. "Therefore, punishment was to be reborn miserably in a human life. Born as Quillareine," she then took a sarcastic bow and stood up to fix her hair as her black mirror eyes gaze at Jin.
"I died though, I died as Quillareine... after all I did and went through... They found out that the true enemy turned out my actual enemy in both lives... Crazy... right?" she backed into the door as her hand was now against the doorknob. She was going crazy now, her emotions were borderlandishly out of control. So much info she just spatted out and there was so many questions probably within the information she gave. One step back, the door cracked and her heart just wanted to leave, maybe go back away from Earth Realm.
Maybe the title of Madness was within its' own right.
Fri Nov 04, 2022 9:36 pm
"No. I don't know what that's like. But I know what it's like to cause the death of ...." he let his sentence trail off, caught between his own past and the startling revelation that she was speaking about demigods. "Real...demigods and gods? So you are..." He let his sentence trail off again, as she said she was the demigod of death.
She looked back at him and he could see the same pain in her eyes as he did when she was in her other body. Only this time it was laced with more sorrow. One that was cultivated by the truth of her existence.
"Things...make a little more sense now," he replied with a sigh at how heavy it was. And how strange it was to think of her as a demigod of death and yet it didn't bother him.
"Seeing your family must have been tough. And then to find out that you were cast down," he shook his head. "And yet...to be a demigod, and still fear what is in front of you. You keep inching away from me. From love. You may be in a new body. And you may have had a life before Quilla. But even so...you found me once again." He reached his hand out for her to take it.
"I won't try and stop you if you want to go. Or you can share your sorrow with me once more. A demi-god of death, with a man that cannot die." The irony wasn't lost on him. Even though he wasn't sure of the full extent of his ability to rise up from seemingly being dead. But he knew that he still cared about her. She still felt the same as the woman he kissed before. And he didn't want to try and conversate with her on the verge of running out.
Sat Nov 05, 2022 3:55 pm
Amaterasu wanted an agreement that she will marry the son of ..., their son's name was Ayako. The other being Akio. She felt the warmth of his hand while looking up into his eyes. "I want to be with you, but... Are you willing to be with me while I am with others?" she wondered. She knew how most people would answer that question. Not many can live in a selfish polyamorous life. Mentally, words yelled at her to leave, to run away, but she needed to know, HE needed to know what he was getting into. "My... my mother won't mind me being with a human seeing how she created me with a human," she tried to make a light of things.
Sat Nov 12, 2022 2:56 pm
"Guess I'm luckier than the gods then," he smirked playfully. "Now tell me more about this...multiple scenario? Are you in love with someone else," he wasn't sure how he felt about that idea still? What could that mean...and did it happen when she was reborn?
He wanted to turn away and think, but was stuck in her gaze. Her hand was soft within his own. The same hand that had wounded him and loved him. "You never make things easy on me do you...Could you love me if I was with someone else?" He asked, not breaking eye contact with her. Her hand was still in his as he reached for her other.
"Your mother?? The goddess? She is still around? Like watching what you do," he asked while looking around the room as if to catch the watch full eye of a vengeful parent.
Sat Nov 12, 2022 5:17 pm
He brought up and asked about her mother. "Actually, I have some of my mother's abilities. The magic you've heard about is called 'Takeover,' she put a little part of her soul in my magic so now she can see the human realm," she expressed while now turning away from him, her back towards him as she had to break contact with him after what was said. Her mind had a lot of thoughts going on at the same time. Her mind was filled with questions and answers to them in different voices and ways. "Jin..." she was about to say, but she felt it was pointless.
She wanted him, but will she have to choose between the lover of her past or her present? She turned back to face him with a tear in her eye, a color of light red. "I can't control my emotions, my feelings, the way I am, as I cannot control you and your choices. My feelings for you and my connection with you are real. Yet, I can have that with others without even trying or wanting to. And when I try to break that connection, it kills me inside; it destroys me piece by piece. So. Once again, I..." she places a hand against her heart.
"I want to be with you, but if you cannot accept it all, then we cannot be, and I will disappear from your life in the light," she stood straight and gazed away, holding her wrist with her other hand. "I will always be truthful to you, always make sure it's okay, and if you do not want this, then I will always be by your side even if you're not by mine - in the dark.", she couldn't hold her expressions; her words were mixing.
Wed Nov 23, 2022 7:01 am
"Death Goddess magic huh...sounds dangerous...and a bit exciting maybe," he spoke aloud. "I guess you two...worked things out then?" He replied while her back was still to him and his eyes gazed up to the ceiling with his hands behind his head. That single tear in her eye tugged at his romantic heart.
"No one can have complete control over their emotions," he sighed and once again stepped closer. It seemed she was really taken by this moment. And remembering how she was on the battlefield, he knew that she could get lost in her emotions easily.
"All I hear, is that you want to be with me," he took her hand that was on her heart. "Love doesn't have to be bound to one person. And I do want to be with you, even with all that. If you want us to be able to experience that with other people too. That's fine."
He moved to pull her a little closer to him now. "As long as we don't have to go on any double dates," he joked with a cocked brow and a slight tilt of his head. He cared deeply for her, and the idea of seeing other people didn't bother him much. As long as the time they had together was for them. He just took a moment to look into her eyes, and wait for her response.
Wed Nov 23, 2022 10:54 am
When she felt her hand being taken by his and now closer to him, she tilted her head up to look at him. Her mirror eyes took his in as they were now close enough to have only a few inches in free space. If he decided to sleep with other women, will her mentality be able to handle it? Probably not, she was hoping for the selfish case of him just wanting her. Her possessive instinct will most likely kick in.
She gave a half-chuckle and smile, "No double dates... Of course, if that's what you wish," her body slowly leaned into his as her body felt tired from the strain on her emotions and mentality. He felt warm and now she just wanted to stay with him like this. "I will answer any questions you have," she softly spoke, crackling with her earlier tears and sorrow. Her forehead rested against his body as she waited.
Thu Nov 24, 2022 7:48 am
'If that's what you wish' her words rang out. There was a lot to take in but Jin tended not to dwell on things too intently. Not matters such as this. All he wanted was to be with her in whatever form that was going to be. "Good," he chuckled along with her response. He leaned his lower back against the island in the middle fo the kitchen, easing her to rest against him so they both had support.
"Demi-goddess huh? I suppose...let's start there," he asked, as it was still setting in that she was something more than human now. All this talk about gods and descendants...it was almost a whole new world to him. One that he had only touched on when Odin had confided in him about the goddess that he worshipped.
Thu Nov 24, 2022 4:24 pm
"Before the whole punishment into being resurrected, I was already quite old in terms of human years, took many years from that point to be resurrected as well," she hated the math, but there was a lot of history. Due to being the Goddess of death, madness and beauty, even if just a demi-god for now, she was still worshiped by secret temples that she has yet to find out about. To Mishiko, she was just some forgotten Demigod who was once important to the culture. Her history was erased in a sense that books didn't include her, scrolls that had her in them were hidden from the human eyes.
O'beloved, beautiful death child that became mad...
Sun Nov 27, 2022 9:54 pm
"So this is what you really look like? I like it," he nodded his head to the side with a smile. It was a whole new form but she was still as cute as ever.
Then she talked about being old and having another life. He hadn't even thought about the timeline of things. "How does it feel to have uncovered all of that?" He asked and still held her close. His hand massaged her back in case all this was troubling or hard to talk about.
"You know whatever happens. I got you." It didn't matter if she was surrounded by death or not. Nor if being with her brought some anger from the divine parent she came from. If she still wanted him, he'd be there for her. But he had to think how all this may change her path too. Would she decide she had a different goal in life now knowing all of this about herself?
Tue Nov 29, 2022 11:47 am
She suddenly heard an announcement about some afterparty, but the Mansion was closing to any visitors. "We should probably go," she looked up at him now and gave a light smile for him. She led him away as they would escape out a window or some unknown door. No matter what, they always found a way to whatever they want.
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