mightymorphin: (C; dreaming of spring now)
Morph ([personal profile] mightymorphin) wrote in [community profile] expiationlogs2024-07-16 02:16 pm

[CLOSED] got a colony of ants underneath my skin

Who: Morph and Douman, Marco, Scott, Kotone
Where: Around Aldrip
What: Closed event starters for gnosia!Morph being a menace.
Warnings: Violence, potential body horror. Further warnings will be marked.

(Stated days optional, if any of these need to be rearranged let me know! If you'd like to encounter Morph during the event please contact me at [plurk.com profile] evilbo or on Discord.)
laserguy: (okay not bad)

[personal profile] laserguy 2024-07-18 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[Him and Kotone agreed to split up just for a bit, scout around but never straying too far away from each other (that was the idea anyway). After all, it's dangerous as fuck to wander around Aldrip now without a guardian angel. So, it doesn't surprise him too much to hear his girlfriend, even if she sounds a little more worried than usual. Look, he's feeling that anxiety too, so he doesn't think twice before heading in the direction of 'her' voice.

After all, he wants to make sure she's doing okay too.]


Kotone? I'm over here. Is everything okay?

[Scott calls back without hesitation, eyes looking around and generally still being on high alert. He will always feel more safe when she's around, but she's not right here by his side. As such, he keeps a hand close to his glasses as he walks closer to the boarded-up building, trying to find a glimpse of the person he trusts the most here.]
Edited 2024-07-18 15:29 (UTC)
laserguy: (watch me become co-dependent with jean)

[personal profile] laserguy 2024-07-19 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Scott immediately relaxes when Kotone steps into view, his hand lowering from his glasses seeing that she's okay. While the mutant is rather easygoing around most other people, there really is something more open and trusting about him right now, like he's completely let his guard down. They've been through so much together and it's not just this stupid situation, but other times as well. She fought him with at the Tower, they helped each other at the desert, and other things... plus he just loves her that much.

So, her comment only gets Scott to tilt his head with some curiosity, eyebrow arching. Kotone wants to go already? Guess if she finished searching, then there's no need to stick around...]


You've checked around that fast? I haven't finished exploring my end. [And just because it's quiet, it doesn't mean that there isn't anyone else around.]
laserguy: (what do you think)

[personal profile] laserguy 2024-07-20 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Creepy...?]

...You're okay? [He continues to walk closer to her, that affectionate smile turning a little worried. It's just... he's never really heard her describe something in that way before, even though she's still smiling. But that's how Kotone usually deals with difficult situations, with a determined smile on her face that hides any deeper insecurities. They've promised to tell each other everything, of course, but Scott knows it's a little harder for her sometimes still.

So, the mutant finds himself trying to take on a more leader type role, hoping that he can get his girlfriend to open up a little right now. Maybe not the best time, but this is important to him. Checking on her. Even if she wasn't his girlfriend, it's important to know the status of your teammate, right?]


I know this past week has been pretty hard. [Friends being infected, not knowing who to trust. He's just happy that Kotone is still with him.]
laserguy: (so that was you)

[personal profile] laserguy 2024-07-22 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
It sucks a whole bunch.

[He slowly agrees, although uncertainty flashes across Scott's face. She's acting a little odd, not like alarmingly odd, but just enough where he can't fully put this behind him. Should they go back home after this...? They have a single heal and a single protect between them and they both agreed to keep on fighting each day if they have their powers still, but she's not fully herself right now.

It's honestly a nice thought to just stay home with her, to not deal with any of this, but Scott's still not gunning to go back home. He knows that neither of them are willing to just sit back if there's someone out there that they can protect or cure, even if they are tired and stuff. Kotone would definitely still immediately decline such a suggestion from him.]


Kotone, what's really bothering you? [His voice is still worried, but there's something a little more firm in his tone as well.]
orphne: (Kotone 264)

[personal profile] orphne 2024-07-22 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Something's wrong.

She should have met up with Scott already, if something hadn't stopped him. She hadn't heard anything, but that honestly means nothing with the way the Gnosia can attack. Kotone's doubling back, retracing her steps with quick, light movements like she might use for chasing a Shadow through Tartarus. The sound of Scott's voice as she enters an alley to cut through brings a slight, relieved smile to her face -- one that fades instantly with a spike of true fear at the sound of her own voice, coming from the same direction as Scott's.

One hand goes to her heart as the other drops to the holster at her waist; in daily life, she usually keeps her Persona-summoning Evoker hidden in a holster under her skirt, but this is a mission. She has to be able to grab it in a heartbeat.

Peeking out from the alley, she's struck by a sudden premonition, the knowledge that any second, that thing that looks like her is going to try to kill Scott. The hand on her heart squeezes more tightly as she steps out from the alleyway and tries for one of her normal smiles, though exhaustion tugs it down just a bit at the corners. The fake her has to attack so she can protect Scott, and she'll be ready for it.]


Hey. Sorry, am I interrupting?

[The moment, the second it looks like the not-Kotone is going to attack, she'll be ready to drop a protective, semi-translucent veil around Scott to protect him.]
orphne: (Kotone 23)

cw: suicidal imagery i'm sorry for persona 3

[personal profile] orphne 2024-07-23 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
[All of her breath comes out in a rush as several things happen at once. Claws emerge, but that's not a Gnosia attack. Not yet, anyway. Her Evoker is pointed to her temple and she pulls the trigger without hesitation. Her head snap sharply sideways with the force of the impact and blurs her vision of how Morph actually attacks. Claws mean physical, though, and that means she was right to think Tetrakarn as a physical shield.

Opheus Telos appears behind her to cast his protective spell on Scott, and then Kotone's running in to join her boyfriend.]


I think she's Gnosia! We gotta restrain her!
Edited (ok last edit sorry) 2024-07-23 01:46 (UTC)
laserguy: (beginnings)

[personal profile] laserguy 2024-07-23 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[Scott barely has time to comprehend the arrival of a second Kotone, the actual one (it's really so obvious now), before the imposter in front of him swipes with claws that somehow don't look as foreign as they should be. There's a name that he wants to associate with them, but digging through memories and shit isn't really important right now, not as those pointed ends hit a barrier-- the only reason why he's able to react at all. For a brief moment, Scott stares with widened eyes, a flicker of red flashing behind his glasses from how close he was about to die, but as Morph's screams echo throughout the area, the mutant quickly snaps out of it.

Right, no standing around, they're dealing with a threat now. A gnosia attack. And it's--]


Morph-- that's Morph!

[They're the only shapeshifter that pops into his mind, not to mention that strange little familiarity seeing those claws. Maybe he'll explain later, but Scott lifts a hand over to his glasses, hesitating only slightly about using his full powers on another mutant. H-How durable is his future teammate? He doesn't want to kill them, even in this state.

Well, blast towards their legs, right? He'll start with that. He's always been more of a long ranged fighter and creating some distance might be helpful?? Besides, knocking Morph out is the same thing as restraining-- just long enough for him to use his heal on them. With that, he pulls his glasses up to let out those familiar red blasts, still slightly hard for him to control, but he aims at the direction of Morph's legs.]
orphne: (Kotone 23)

[personal profile] orphne 2024-07-24 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
[It's not that Kotone had kept her powers from Morph out of an abundance of caution -- it's just that, like, there'd been no point to bring it up? It's a habit of hers, one that seems to be an advantage at the moment. It's almost funny to be thought of as normal.

But that's something to laugh about with Scott later.]


How do we fight Morph?!

[Kotone's seen Morph change from a chocobo to an idol to her and now to some giant statue-guy, so who knows what the shapeshifter is capable of! Is this new form metal, maybe? She takes a breath and braces herself, bringing her Evoker to her temple once again in preparation to summon another Persona. Then Morph says that, and she can't help but bristle.]

He's not your Scott! [Oh shit, that's a chunk of building. She scrambles out of the way, trusting Scott to dodge in the opposite direction, or blast the chunk out of the sky. Evoker back to her temple, she adds firmly,] My Scott isn't like yours! Odin!

[It's not that she's calling either Scott or Morph Odin, but rather summoning a different Persona with an accompanying crack of a lightning-based attack aimed directly at the attacking mutant, hoping to shock Morph to keep them still.]
Edited 2024-07-24 00:16 (UTC)
laserguy: (optics)

[personal profile] laserguy 2024-07-24 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[It would be a little nice if he glitched into the Scott that Morph knows-- at least he would be familiar with the large armored man that's now standing in front of him! But no, this is his fight, and he can't just rely on some other version of himself to do this battle for him. Besides, he's the one that knows Kotone-- they fought and trained together and that's more important. It's going to be enough. It has to be.

At least focusing on that will also stop Scott from thinking more about what Morph is saying. Did he-- Scott hurt them too? He thought they were family... that's what they said to him over the network. A group misfits that stuck with each other. This is just the infection talking, right? No time to think about it at least.

Although he can't stop the way his heart beats a little faster hearing Kotone defend him.]


Hard to restrain someone that can turn into anything! We'll just knock them out!

[Brilliant strategy, ten out of ten. It's a little more difficult for Scott to be quick with his blasts, when he constantly has to put his glasses back on to see what's happening before taking them off once again to fire them off. Luckily, he still makes it in time to blast the large piece, those concussive beams breaking apart the chunk apart to let them land safely around them.

Maybe he'll be lucky and a piece will land on Morph or block their path.]
Edited 2024-07-24 16:51 (UTC)
nuraridouman: (pic#17310680)

[personal profile] nuraridouman 2024-07-24 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[The feeling of thousands of ants crawling under his skin hasn't left him for days now. Douman didn't resist it, even though he knows that something was trying to influence him. He leaned into the sway instead, hoping that riding the wave might help him figure out what was behind it before it swallowed him. Like what he would do when he was still a human and trying to solve a particularly well-wrought curse.

He always works best when he's pissed off, anyway.

When the inhabitants of this 'world' start to act even weirder than usual, he notes it with almost satisfaction. Douman hadn't been too convinced of the tale everyone seems to be given, so seeing the 'statists' act like the energy powering them is fizzling out? It's validating. He still has no clue if this is some sort of pocket dimension trapping them, a curse, or some other elaborate something at work, but it's something to work with. Right now he knows two things: 1) some of the people here are real and 2) whoever is causing this has to be near, since it's nearly impossible to run such a big setup from afar. Maybe this is even the result of them trying to do just that. They also seem to like to get close and personal with their victims. That crime-nonsense was one thing, but if they think that they can just keep pressing his buttons by continuing to mess with the memory of his late rival... They've got another thing coming.

Nurarihyon might not be a youkai known for his cruelty, but maybe it's time to remind everybody that that is his choice and not something to rely on. Oh yes, somebody is going to pay for dragging him into this mess and underestimating him to the point where they're thinking that they can mess with him-- ]


WH- ?!

[His head jerks around as one of the 'NPCs' glitches into a familiar form for a moment. Tall, dark hair, white clothes, that constant insufferable smile.... The sight has his heart hammering in his chest and his fists clench so hard that his nails are digging into his skin.]

Abe no Seimei... ! [Douman knows it's a fake. Even though they bothered to copy the real one this time - picked that memory out of his mind, didn't they? Oh, he is going to reward them so well for doing that extra work - there is no way Douman would be fooled by a simple appearance like that. But that fake with the simlar scent and spirit energy, the fox and now this; they're clearly itching to make this personal! So why shouldn't he follow the breadcrumbs and see where they lead him. Let's see how well the wolf in sheep's clothing is hiding among the flock, and how tough they still are once he starts taking his mood out on them.... Mmmmmh, yeah, that sounds nice.

He barely bothers trying to take a swipe at the people as the image of Seimei glitches in and out over them, leading him on a merry wild goose chase through streets that are darker and more narrow than they were only days before. Is it an illusion or real? Unimportant. He doesn't care as his eyes finally catch the illusion do something else than just glitch like a faulty tv image. No, this time it shifts and that is all the hint he needs to know that he's found the real one. Finally. The perpetrator. Seimei. The one bringing Seimei back.

They are trying to bring Seimei back, but this time he isn't going to let them. Not even if they pretend to be the same. He just needs to kill... feel their warm blood cover his skin like Seimei's.... peel their mind open and take their knowledge and skill like he did his... ]



Nnnnnnngh! GET! OUT! OF! MY! HEAD!!!

[The curse sizzling within his kuji-kiri is too strong, making it too destructive for being used in a public street. But it's already too late. Douman's attack is searing in the form of a deadly grid of light right towards Morph, aiming to strip them from any spiritual power ...and quite possibly a lot of life if it hits.]
orphne: (Kotone 24)

cw: suicidal ideation

[personal profile] orphne 2024-07-24 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, that strikes a little bit closer to home than Morph even realizes. Kotone herself has had that thought; after everything she'd gone through, all the loss she'd learned to accept, shouldn't she be allowed to rest? She'd laid down in preparation for it after a month of struggling to just exist, only to be hurled into this place more than a year ago.

But now isn't the time to think about that. The way Morph's goo-like skin seems to show through looks promising, but once they transform into something else, they're way too fast! Scott has enough trouble aiming his optic blasts at a moving target already, plus she has no idea if she can land a hit on something that fast, so-

Again her Evoker goes to her head, and with that same flash of blue light, Orpheus swims back into view behind her.]


People like us don't get to rest. Masukukaja!

[A boost to Agility for both her and Scott. In Tartarus, it had meant that foes were more likely to miss, or her teammates were more likely to evade or land hits. Maybe she's imagining it, but even in the real world like this, even if it's not as pronounced, she feels just that little bit lighter on her feet as she dashes toward Scott himself to get a little closer.]
Edited 2024-07-24 23:46 (UTC)
laserguy: (no i can't see)

y'all need to chill

[personal profile] laserguy 2024-07-25 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[As Scott places his glasses back on, he starts preparing himself to use his healing powers. Morph's on the ground with sparks emitting from their metal form, he has a chance-- but it's already too late, not as Morph's already starting to shift once more. Although, perhaps what's even more startling than that are the words that come from them.

.......

Morph wants to die? Do they really feel that way?? Hearing yet again someone sort of close to him experiencing death in some way gets Scott to swallow uncomfortably. Why is it that he keeps on meeting people like this? It's so exhausting. Draining.

Shake out of it, Summers. There's no time to think about it, especially not now. Not as Morph shifts into another unfamiliar person and bursts straight towards him. Oh fuck. He needs to get out of the way now--

The sudden boost to his own movements certainly help his legs to dodge out of the way, but maybe it still won't be enough to fully clear the other mutant's charge. After all, Morph is fast, moving quicker than anyone Scott's seen before.]
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[personal profile] nuraridouman 2024-07-25 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Tsk! Again -! How vexing.

[The voice comes from above, only seconds before a heeled boot comes down dangerously close to Morph's fingers with a violence that can only be intentional. Even though Douman hadn't moved after his initial attack while their eyes had been on him, he is now on the ledge of the roof they are hanging from, staring down at them. He is still wearing the same gold-colored Okina noh mask as always, but the visible burning hunger in the cold eyes beneath it ruins the gentle carved smile of the old man's face.

Beneath them furniture crashes and glass keeps splintering as his curse digs itself deeper into the building before Douman cuts it off with a cutting swipe of his pointer and middle finger through the air in a typical Onmyoji fashion. He only wastes half a thought on how it's a good thing that the store had been closed and empty as he considers what to do with his catch.]


I really should adjust my grit to include animal shapes as well.

[He knows what they mean, though. He knows. But wouldn't that not be also a grand disguise? The culprit, sitting right among the victims, pretending to be one of them. He can't be certain. He needs to be certain. So he starts chanting a spell under his breath again.]

Is that so? I wonder . . .

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