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Varus
Wessex Theskyra
the Wraith
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#1
WESSEX
“What do you think?” the General says as she pushes the double doors open in a ‘grand reveal’ gesture, leading Varus into the vastly bigger space.

To be honest, it isn’t much to look at from the outside. It’s dark, covered up by stone and metal and wood, everything in the exterior intended to be fire-proof, if they’re lucky. The inside is large enough to hold a dragon and her mech shift, easily,  with a couple of pillars at the end that they’ll need to avoid for stability’s sake. And then her office, of course, in the far corner, and racks of salvaged weapons at the opposite end of the building.

They’ll be able to see easily in here - but to anyone else, it’s just another dark cave. She twirls a bit in the middle of the singular room, arms outstretched as if to say see what we’ve done?

It’s a small victory. Something to be proud of, and some place where they can truly play, which is essentially, because Wessex has lots of ideas, post relic-hunting in the Sea of Glass.
No, I’ll be the stone
I’ll be the hunter, a tower that casts the shade
I lie awake and watch it all
Varus Callahan
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#2
// not yet corpses, still we rot //
He isn’t too sure what to expect, honestly, but given the excitement that radiates from the Wraith, Varus can’t help but to flash an amused fanged grin back at the demigod – his metal hand rising to push back the long dark locks from his face to allow his view to be complete when he finally sets eyes on the newly rebuilt training area. “Think you’re a bit excited, Wes.” He offers with a hum of a chuckle.

Regardless, the Captain steps through, eyeing up the place with an almost childish wonder, surprise quickly cascading any playful amusement he’d held before – stepping further in and letting his metal hand run along the edges of the weaponry that’s been salvaged, the spaces where dummies can be put up, the spaces where they could rig them to even fly through the air perhaps.

It’s fucking amazing. But Varus leads Wessex on for a bit as he calculates, figures out what exactly they could do with all of this space, and when it finally hits, he turns to look at her with perhaps the brightest blue eyes he’s had since he’d come back to consciousness in three hundred years. “Godsdamn, I think it’s perfect. Look at all this space?” He gestures with a childish grin, metal arm extending to the space where shifts could fit and where they could rig things to move through the sky for additional target practice.

He steps toward Wessex, reaching up to clasp her shoulder. “Should say that even back before the first war, we didn’t have anything of this caliber.” Another little praise, though the excitement radiates from him as if it’s tangible.
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Wessex Theskyra
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WESSEX
As much as Wessex wants to project the image of someone who gives no fucks, she is unable to hide the flicker of uncertainty as Cal takes his sweet, sweet time examining the space. Everything in her head tells her she’s done something good (at worst, misplaced energy that could have been spent elsewhere) but like trying to get rid of the LongNight monsters and leading her siblings into skirmishes, she’s found that her point of view is not universal.

It’s an unusual place to be, wanting Cal’s approval, but here she is and maybe it’s just a testament to how much she values him.

Godsdamn elicits a face-stretching grin and Gods, Wessex almost squeals. “Right?!” she exclaims, throwing her arms out again. “Azrael drew up the designs. They’re really quite brilliant. And it was a team effort to build, but -” But yes, it had been her idea, which remains unsaid as she cuts herself off with a shrug. Turning to the back, the indicates the racks. “I think we need new weapons. These were all salvaged from the LongNight fire and some are in poor shape.”

But if they’re really on the same wavelength, then he’ll know they aren’t the main attraction. “But like we talked about earlier, I think we should focus on our upgrades. And maybe… well,” she waves that thought away. “I’ve got some ideas for later. If we can just get the others in here.”
No, I’ll be the stone
I’ll be the hunter, a tower that casts the shade
I lie awake and watch it all
Varus Callahan
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// not yet corpses, still we rot //
Does he feel a bit smug at the fact Wessex seems to be awaiting his opinion? Absolutely. Does he show it? Not really. It’s simply nice to feel like your word carries weight and with someone like Wessex who’s absolutely taken the bull by the horns while he’d been readjusting to life centuries later? It’s just that much better. Her grin is bright as his is, both their fangs on display as he chuckles and nods in understanding.

They designed it really well I think.” He offers easily, flashing another amused smile Wessex’s way as he cuts himself off too, gaze following where she indicates. “Sure. Should be easy enough. I can take stock of it and have a chat with the blacksmiths on repairing it.” He says the plan aloud so that Wessex knew what it would be as well – a way he can double ensure he gets the plans right in his mind.

As for upgrades and unsaid ideas, he draws closer to her and lifts the metal arm up to rest around her shoulder (it’s a bit of a stretch given they’re an inch apart in height, her having that extra bit of an advantage). “Well, General. Wanna break it in?” And for pure amusement, because he’d noticed the way she’d pushed the unsaid ideas away and he doesn’t want to press her on it, he distracts her with his idea of fun. A spar, to see just how this space worked for them.
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Wessex Theskyra
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#5
WESSEX

“Do I want to break it in?” Said as if there could be no question about what she wants, Wessex snort-chuckles and gives him a look before ducking out from underneath his arm. Backing away slowly, she tries to gauge the amount of space needed for her Escalade-sized shift (it’s a little difficult for her to estimate, given that she has absolutely no size concept of SUVs).

“Aight, let’s see what you think of this. Her body begins to transform, shifting and whirring as her spine expands and the metal in her arms grows, extends, and sharpens. And much like one of those sponge-dinosaurs in a bathtub, she grows exponentially in size, until she looks over at Cal and gives a bit of a scree as a taunt.

She’s not sure she’ll fly in here, but she is curious about what he’ll do.
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// not yet corpses, still we rot //
Tell me you didn’t just snort.” Varus says with a chuckle of laughter himself, sparing a moment to squint at the Wraith as if he can’t believe she’d just done something like that. But she gives him a look and he stills where he is, his heavy metal arm sliding back down to his side as he waits for her to take the space she needs, preparing himself for what she might pull out.

Turns out, it’s nothing at all what he’s expected. She shifts into a giant metal bird thing, and his amusement quickly turns into bewilderment and then finally settling in awe, something quite useless when it comes to trying to be a stealthy assassin. But she taunts him with a loud scree that has him breaking out of it, shaking his head with another laugh. “Gods.” He sighs, but doesn’t give himself much time to psych himself out as he squints at her and then darts over to grab a big worn shield, hooking it to his metal arm and heading back over to her with a grin.

Let’s see how well you can deal with shields to start, huh?” Because as far as he’s concerned, there’s going to be a lot of blocks for a shift like that and she’ll need to be agile with it.
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Wessex Theskyra
the Wraith
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#7
WESSEX

Shields, huh? Good thinking on his part, because there probably isn’t much in here that can hurt the fully metal ensemble she’s sporting (and that’s as much for his protection as it is for hers). Agility, however, that thing she’s rather proud of, is inherently different in this body. And she’s not even the biggest thing out there. You think this is big? Remi’s fucking sea-monster-kraken-thing is just absurd. Unfairly so. How were they supposed to fight it? How were they supposed to fight anything Remi does?

But her focus should be on Cal and not the imaginary-Remi, so Wessex returns her attention to the Captain. The easiest thing to do would be to maneuver so she can shoot a feather at it, but that’s not what she wants to do quite yet. Instead, the General pulls her wings in and tries to makes herself as ‘small’ as possible so she won’t hit anything else, before darting aiming for Cal with her beak and lunging towards him.
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#8
// not yet corpses, still we rot //
Yeah well the Old Gods always have to have the bigger dicks don’t they?” He chides somewhat, making quite the show of rolling his eyes as he goes to grab the shield. He hooks it to the metal arm of his and holds it up, waiting for his General to focus on him so that they can get some practice in with this shift – imagining that between the speed in the dark of the Barracks for the Ascended and the other perks they have, that they might be able to make a game out of seeing just how far Wessex’s abilities go.

Instead, he watches from the edge of the shield as she shrinks herself as much as she can, lunging forward with her beak to try and nab at him but he’s quick to block her with the shield with a small little bonk on the nose. But he’s not done yet, turning swiftly enough to use the shield to try and bat her on the shoulder while keeping himself protected.
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Wessex Theskyra
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#9
WESSEX

A mental chuckle agrees with his assessment about the Old Gods and their dicks. That’s the problem with that kind of desire, it leads to different priorities.

Easily deflected by the bonk of the shield, Wessex comes to the quick conclusion that she this form, while a bullet in the sky, is ungainly on the ground. Cal has the upperhand here, in the dark. And it shows, when he’s able to buffet her shoulder, too. Squawking a bit, Wessex hops back on a diagonal and fans her wings, splaying the razor-sharp feathers to keep the Captain at bay. And then for good measure, she aims one at his feet, shooting it off with a sharp zing.
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// not yet corpses, still we rot //
Oh she’s tricky, and the way the shield vibrates against his metal arm is enough to make his teeth clench tight, but not enough to deter him from smacking the edge of it onto her shoulder. He darts back, recentering himself, focusing on the silver avian-like creature she’s become, peering up from over the edge of the shield, keeping himself mostly crouched.

The wings are a nice touch, though, and he can see the way she uses it as if to ward him away. Which, consider the warning heard – especially when he jumps with the knife feather that launches at his foot. It’s sharp as hell and it zips easily through the leather of his boot like it’s nothing but room temperature butter.

But he isn’t unprepared, because he unlatches the disk from his thigh, activating it with the bright glowing blue hopefully bright enough to take her a moment to get used to the light of it when surrounded by such dark, and he plants the shield by his feet to protect his appendages, popping up and over the top of it to launch the disk at the side of her wings, hoping to bounce the disk off of it.
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Wessex Theskyra
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WESSEX

There’s no indication that her feather sliced through anything important, so Wessex doesn’t pause to check; instead she matches his crouching - or tries too, drawing her wings in front of her torso. Truth be told, she’s not too worried about anything that isn’t metal or lightning or magic doing damage to her, but best not to assume.

She is, at least, momentarily distracted by the thing that all of a sudden glows brightly and looks like her chakram - but isn’t. And when he throws the disc, it’s easy to hit her. Clinking against the metal feathers, it spins off to one side, and that’s when she takes an opportunity for an invisible strike. Sending a biopulse towards Cal, she uses one of the few upgrades at her disposal while in this form.
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#12
// not yet corpses, still we rot //
It’s nothing a little bit of visiting a cobbler can’t fix, and truthfully? Varus has had worse. She’d remember when he stumbled upon her with a torn up, mangled to hell and back arm after all. Either way, it sets him up perfectly to focus on blocking himself behind the battered shield he’d picked, grabbing his disk so that he might be able to throw it.

And it works. He can hear it plink against the metal of her wings, peeking up over the shield to see where she is because he’s left himself open well enough to lose her. He doesn’t, but he does see the way the disk spins off and he’s hit with something far more intense. Luckily, it doesn’t affect too much like if he were human, but it certainly sparks his sensors with a vibrant blaring alarm that everything is off.

It makes him stumble when he tries to stand up fully, a growl leaving him through his clenched fanged teeth. “Ah, so it’s gonna be like that, huh?” He teases her, even if the sound is sharp and touchy. He pokes out sluggishly from behind the shield and points the fingers of his metal hand toward the ground in front of Wessex, letting his laser upgrade draw a line in the sand as if to warn her from approaching closer.
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Wessex Theskyra
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#13
I know, I fought you in the dark
It is going to be like that, but only for the very near future. This brief practice session has shown her some more of the limitations of a grounded bird, so it’s time to change it up a bit. Not… quiiiiite… she retorts with a cheeky tone before the bird starts to shrink and it isn’t long before a black and silver fox sits before him. Only this one has nine tails.

And it starts to grow - bigger and bigger, until it’s  eighteen feet tall and looking down at the Captain with an expression that can only be called amusement. Because the fox isn’t that big - not at all - but if she can fill the space the way her bird could, why the fuck wouldn’t she? Unfortunately for Wessex, she can’t talk to Cal while fully shifted, so she just licks her lips and chomps at the empty air.
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WESSEX
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#14
// not yet corpses, still we rot //
Not quite? What does that even mean?

His thoughts are cut short as the metal shifts to something else, groaning in the dark silence of the Barracks, Varus’ eyes watching as Wessex’s form grows bigger and bigger and he slowly rises from the cover of his shield, staring up at her with confusion and wonder, a bit bewilderment and surprise. It’s pretty impressive, honestly, as are most of the things Wessex has in terms of her new fancy shiny things.

And he chuckles a loud booming sound as she snaps her teeth at the air. The metal arm lifts the shield and he unhooks it, putting it against the wall as he grabs the disk again and shuts it off so that its sides aren’t as sharp, deciding they can use this time to work on her catching abilities, perhaps. Nothing like a giant fucking fox thing with a bajillion tails to snatch Attuned out of the sky, right?

Catch!” He calls out a split second before he throws the disk toward the side of her head like it’s some sort of frisbee.
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