Lean Into the Tailspin
Hotaru Kaito
the Valkyrie
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#1
but now it is a competition of whichever is heavier:
my will, or the pull of gravity into the grave
The thermal drafts are easier to coast along in The Climb than any other place in Caido, which is likely the only positive thing about the place. Warm air buffets beneath her wings, lifting her higher with the smallest twitch of feathers, biddable and eager like a playful companion of the hunt. Her true companion is not far - always within the corner of her vision, and within reach of the bond. She taps into it like a wire, giving the equivalent of a little tug before she speaks. We should be in the right area now. Any ideas you’d like to try for disrupting their camouflage?

Their hunt has a particular target today, but the rock sliders are different than their normal prey fare. Equally predator and prey, they are difficult to spot when still despite their massive size, and while enticing them to attack was a surefire tactic to find one it also offered too great a chance for mistakes. Both Valkyrie and Sword are proficient hunters, but Hotaru does not like to court Caido’s particularly twisted brand of luck.
Hotaru has a passive magic that makes her glow with an internal golden light; it makes her appear youthful and her hair seems to look like moving sunlight. Can only subtly illuminate dark spaces.
Deimos Ignatius
the Resurrected Sword
Warden of Halo / Guildmaster

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#2
DEIMOS
The rush of the drafts accelerated his speed, and the ease of swiftness, of liberation, of deliverance, was not lost in the midst of their Attuned natures. An easygoing mood, despite everything else hovering around – striving to overcome the brewing, brimming sensations of more time slipping away in edges and fringes and bounds; sienna wings brushing over thermals, exalted and providential, just the same. Even a joke hastened from his mind at the inquiry, something likened to a smirk, a snicker, were he not in eagle form. Setting them on fire?

A more serious nature persisted though, and he contemplated the efforts, considering the animals they’d sought. They tend to like larger prey, the Sword angled, turning along a bend, inclined to maneuver around the whips of air a little longer simply for amusements’ sake. We could always provide some bait. Snagging, compelling, or coaxing a few giant rats wouldn’t be much of a bother, and he’d taken out flocks of gore crows recently with relative restraint.
gatekeeper of an endless war
where lines between right and wrong
don't exist anymore
Hotaru Kaito
the Valkyrie
Masseuse / Headmistress

Age: 33 | Height: 5'2 | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Outlander | Citizenship: King's End
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#3
but now it is a competition of whichever is heavier:
my will, or the pull of gravity into the grave
Mutual joviality weave like perfectly slotted threads in a woven tapestry as they fly, the bond open and easy as it tethers them together over the minor distance they keep. His amusement sparks her own, like a cinder that pops over the edge of a fire pit and sets the dry grasses around ablaze. If only, it would be quite the sight. Though I wonder if perhaps they’re used to it living here? Even if they could sling volleys of elemental might down from the heavens in their avian forms, fire is not exactly rare in The Climb.

Watching Deimos bank overhead, Hotaru hums contemplatively. I could lure it in my other form, unless you’d like the honors? I’m more accustomed to the stabbing in the back the other person would need to fulfill, but… her amusement shines through. Sneaking and sleuthing were more her thing, but she’s happy to lure the serpent out on the ground instead of the sky and have it show its literal colors.
Hotaru has a passive magic that makes her glow with an internal golden light; it makes her appear youthful and her hair seems to look like moving sunlight. Can only subtly illuminate dark spaces.
Deimos Ignatius
the Resurrected Sword
Warden of Halo / Guildmaster

Age: 33 | Height: 6'4" | Race: Hybrid | Nationality: Outlander | Citizenship: Halo
Level: 14 - Strg: 72 - Dext: 72 - Endr: 73 - Luck: 80 - Int: 3
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#4
DEIMOS
Electricity then he huffed with the same faint amusements, knowing her capacity for the element, and his newfound prowess in his other set of talons. Regardless, he snorted amidst the haze, quick, sharp eyes taking in the surroundings.

He, of course, had no intention of making himself, or Ru, the bait.

Let me see what I can find by way of a hint of what was to come – compelling, reaching, seeking, searching out different forms of prey. From their vantage points, within the looming abyss and void, they’d be safe from the reaches of any bottom dwellers; and he’d be intrigued by the potential of what these rock sliders could do.

A demand conjured deep in the reaches of his soul – and they came – giant rats, sauntering out from a nameless cavern, shifting and snorting along the obsidian floor.
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Hotaru Kaito
the Valkyrie
Masseuse / Headmistress

Age: 33 | Height: 5'2 | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Outlander | Citizenship: King's End
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#5
but now it is a competition of whichever is heavier:
my will, or the pull of gravity into the grave
You always know how to make my day, she teases lightly, always eager to deploy her original magic, the one that is deeply and irrevocably entwined in her soul. Though she’s admittedly surprised by his vague, promising lead. She has not tried to utilize magic while shifted, wasn’t sure it was even a possibility. Perhaps she had been missing out on possibilities - though normally, the more animalistic qualities were an intentional boon of their own, no magic required.

Drifting in Deimos’ tailstream she watches the cracked and scorched crags below, waiting for his compulsion to seek out all manner of local critter to play as their bait. Working smarter, not harder. Watching the giant rodents emerge, Ru ramps down on the hunter’s urge that swells inside, knowing there was better prey to be had if only she is willing to be patient. And it appears that patience pays off swifter than planned - below, a sudden appearance as of from the blink of an eye has her heart jumping with the immediate urge to counter even from above. But all it does is strike swiftly for the massive rodent that had been closest to it, the squeak of the prey audible even from above. That was quick. On your lead? It’s lightly teasing, even in genuine offer. Giving up the first blow is like a courtesy for beings like them who find such joy and fulfillment in the hunt.
Hotaru has a passive magic that makes her glow with an internal golden light; it makes her appear youthful and her hair seems to look like moving sunlight. Can only subtly illuminate dark spaces.


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#6
bones, bones, bones, bones, bones, bones, bones, bones, bones, bones, bones, bones, bones, bones.

You've encountered the OG random event! This allows you to skip one levelling requirement with the character in this thread. (Unfortunately does not count for characters over level 10, how sad.)
Deimos Ignatius
the Resurrected Sword
Warden of Halo / Guildmaster

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#7
DEIMOS
Something teasing, taunting, almost made it through his mind and back to her, but on a better thought, the Sword simply kept it to himself, a silent reel of deep rumbling laughter still managing its way through. He’d leave that enigmatic volley for her to riddle and muck about.

He was more invested in the action of the hunt anyway, watching and waiting as the compelled rats made their way outward, and as the rock sliders’ intentions became clear. Swift and rapid, keen and complex, perhaps the other predator could’ve been something admired for its abilities.

Instead, they used it as a challenge.

Acceptance of the inevitable reigned anyway – his own carnivorous instincts, never dormant, kicking into habitual space as the inquiry was all he needed. His own descent was maddening and hellbent, extending his talons to surprise and ensnare the serpent. Its own prey would be left behind in the confusion, the dropped, lifeless rat flopping to the floor, and the slider thrashing in his grasp soon after. I can toss it to you he mused; were they in human form there would’ve been a Cheshire grin marked along his mouth.
gatekeeper of an endless war
where lines between right and wrong
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Hotaru Kaito
the Valkyrie
Masseuse / Headmistress

Age: 33 | Height: 5'2 | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Outlander | Citizenship: King's End
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#8
but now it is a competition of whichever is heavier:
my will, or the pull of gravity into the grave
His amusement is a flit of color between the gaps of vines, nothing more than a red-breast flash on a sparrow passing through. She chases after it, no closer to ascertaining the reasoning for it, but delighted by the challenge it presents. Surely he can sense the intrigue and playful grumbling of irritation that doesn’t coalesce into real words, the same as she can sense his teasing withholding of what he deemed to say.

The hunt is not too dissimilar from that sensation. The swoop of the belly as they dive, the giddy glee of success that thrums between them like a taut wire, Deimos’ emotions feeding into her own and making her talons ache with desire to rend and tear. I’m ready, she assures, all savage glee, circling tightly around him and sipping a short length below to account for the throw, ready to pluck the slider from the air with cruel accuracy. Delighting in the game they make of the hunt.
Hotaru has a passive magic that makes her glow with an internal golden light; it makes her appear youthful and her hair seems to look like moving sunlight. Can only subtly illuminate dark spaces.
Deimos Ignatius
the Resurrected Sword
Warden of Halo / Guildmaster

Age: 33 | Height: 6'4" | Race: Hybrid | Nationality: Outlander | Citizenship: Halo
Level: 14 - Strg: 72 - Dext: 72 - Endr: 73 - Luck: 80 - Int: 3
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#9
DEIMOS
His amusements ceased to fade; remaining even bolder, ever heightened, by her silent grumbling and irritation. And while the exasperation was unlikely to last long, he still included it in his boyish, juvenile taunts, in their quiet, hushed measures, while his talons slunk around the serpent.

It might have strived to resist, coil around his limbs, hasten some pending doom and damnation, but the eagle would have none of it. Waiting for Hotaru’s acceptance, the hints of a smirk were all she’d receive before he hastened to a greater, grander height, and effectively tossed it down to her.

Maybe it was a cruel gesture, playing with their food; more like cats than birds. But sometimes that was who they were as people, as individuals, as characters, and so his predacious, carnivorous gaze watched as the beast descended at a rapid pace, flailing about, lacking any grace in its upcoming death knells.
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Hotaru Kaito
the Valkyrie
Masseuse / Headmistress

Age: 33 | Height: 5'2 | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Outlander | Citizenship: King's End
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#10
Her voice is a fearless proclamation of protection
She lives what's within her out loud
Their cruelties and predations are replicas living in different bodies, unashamed of their natures in the same way animals are not. Even in their human flesh they know what they are. Killers, hunters, champions over scorched earth and lesser beasts. What shame is there to be had in it all? Especially when instead there can be fun.

He spirals higher, grandiose and dark against the sooty sky, and below her own pale golden figure hovers in preparation for their prey. It wriggles and spasms helplessly in the air as it’s thrown, entirely useless away from its element. Ru plucks it from the air in a snap of her talons, letting the plunge take her into a flashy roll for the sake of getting some of the energy out. The rock slider struggles harder, and she dashes it upon the rocks, stunning it brutally. Gold on gold on gold transforms and shimmers from feathers to fur, and the mountain lion that emerges swiftly pierces down against the tough hide with powerful jaws. Your turn, her voice trills cheerily, and with the lower vantage point she throws the slider hard into the air with one massive paw, like an oversized cat flinging a toy. It is nearly dead now, stunned and limp, and by the eager flick of Ru’s tail she’s excited to watch her brother end it fully. If he can catch it of course, though she has full faith in him.
Hotaru has a passive magic that makes her glow with an internal golden light; it makes her appear youthful and her hair seems to look like moving sunlight. Can only subtly illuminate dark spaces.
Deimos Ignatius
the Resurrected Sword
Warden of Halo / Guildmaster

Age: 33 | Height: 6'4" | Race: Hybrid | Nationality: Outlander | Citizenship: Halo
Level: 14 - Strg: 72 - Dext: 72 - Endr: 73 - Luck: 80 - Int: 3
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#11
DEIMOS
Oh, giving in to the carnivore urges had never been a dilemma – each and every one of his shifts designed essentially for the purpose of driving onslaughts and dominion into prey. Even more so when that’s how they’d been before, before, before, angled and contorted to be beasts on the battlefield, lacerating and plunging into enemies, adversaries, without a second thought. Amusing, for those distorted, pernicious moments.

He waited as he often did; observant, keen, fervent, avian eyes watching as feathers turned to fur, permitting a low rumble of mirth to wage its way through all the other raptorial tendencies. The serpent truly had no chance, and one could see the end was nigh as it ceased to fight – and then it was flung skyward again, back to him.

Accepting the challenge, almost like a small child given a balloon and told not to let it hit the ground, the eagle dove. Swift and rapid, an instant volley of movement spiraled, talons outstretched and gleaming in the torrential haste, he wasted no time in snagging at the diminished prey, before the claws caught over.

Severing; no longer intact.

Content, he dropped a piece purposefully towards the lion below. One for you, one for me.
gatekeeper of an endless war
where lines between right and wrong
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Hotaru Kaito
the Valkyrie
Masseuse / Headmistress

Age: 33 | Height: 5'2 | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Outlander | Citizenship: King's End
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#12
Her voice is a fearless proclamation of protection
She lives what's within her out loud
Her toss is far lower given the nature of her landlocked form, but like a spry kitten with a toy ball the limp creature is flung a respectable distance overhead. Hotaru never doubts Deimos’ abilities, and for good reason - she watches as he descends in a dark streak, wings tight about his body, silent in his controlled freefall. It is done in moments. The snap of talons around flesh that gives too easy, the rend and tear of a sharp-edged beak. Another life snuffed out between the two kindred spirits, as hundreds of others have been before it.

Hotaru rises on golden haunches to swipe the portion from the sky that he lets fall down to her, the morsel far more appetizing in her current form than human shapes and contortions. Good hunt, she purrs from below. Easy, perhaps, but fun. Eyeing the dead rodent they’d used to attract the rock slider in the first place, Ru stretched and leisurely wanders over towards it, sparks of a beginning plan in her head. Turning back to her brother in the sky, her grin can be felt even if it cannot translate to her feline features. I’ve got an idea. Follow me. Plucking the limp body in her giant mouth, she goes bounding off like a kitten, eager for further destruction.

- FIN <3
Hotaru has a passive magic that makes her glow with an internal golden light; it makes her appear youthful and her hair seems to look like moving sunlight. Can only subtly illuminate dark spaces.


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