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Character of the Season
Frail in body but dangerously quick of mind, Nikandr is the sort of character who proves that curiosity can be just as perilous as any weapon. A necromancer, inventor, and problem-solver with more ambition than self-preservation, Niki approaches the world like a puzzle box begging to be opened, even when what’s inside has teeth. Blunt, dry-witted, fiercely independent, and carrying a history best left partially buried, he has a knack for making even failure feel fascinating. Whether he’s raising the dead, moving across Caido to King's End, or experiencing a hangover for the first time, Nikandr brings a wonderfully strange spark to Caido, and we can’t wait to see what trouble his brilliant mind wanders into next.
Congratulations, Niki!
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Wessex echoes his laughter in her head once he hurls that disk at her again - because of course, she isn’t up there. She’s at his feet. And she’s abso-fucking-lutely delighted. Turning the fake giant Kitsune to look at Cal, it watches him as the disc spins right through it (and hopefully returns to his hand) and then grins and -
- and disappears, leaving the real kitsune!Wessex to bound towards him, tails flying behind her. But is she really bounding towards him, or is she still sitting there with an open, vulpine grin on her face. He’ll know soon enough, depending on his next choice.
“What?” He breathes, watching the disk slip right through the illusion, brows pinching immediately as his gaze drifts to the rest of it, searching for the flaws that might tell him where she really is. In the meantime, though, it stares at him, and Varus;s body moves into motion once he has the disk back in his hand, watching the illusion fade until Wessex starts bounding toward him.
At least, he thinks it’s her. He can’t really tell – all of it looking so incredibly real that he sucks in a deep breath he doesn’t need but still braces himself, and takes up a rather defensive pose, waiting for the kitsune to either collide with him or pass straight through him.
Part of him hopes that it’s really her, because he’d rather be knocked to the ground and pounced on by the kitsune than to feel what it’s like to have an illusion slip through him.
Perhaps the best thing about Cal’s reaction is that Wessex knows the Captain will be able to do all of this himself once they start biting and sharing powers. He’ll have his own flavor of illusion, different from herself and Neron - and the same will go for all of their siblings; they could be an army of mindfuckery and deception and that thought makes her want to literally inject her magic into everyone’s veins.
But first - no, it is not the General bounding towards him - she’s still sitting there, spitting magic at him. He will feel the weight of the kitsune on him, but there are no more attacks coming, as, yes, it seems to disappear and then reappear with a thump behind him. Looking back a the Captain, the fox seems to wink and then disappear into the darkness.
Without much fuss or fanfare, Wessex shifts back into herself, save for a single black tail and its white tip.
