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[kenosnpcs]

This is a post where you'll find a header in the comments for Aetós, Agapitos Voreen, and Florence Deshayes respectively.

As a reminder from our course correction, your OOC understanding of their places in their factions should not influence IC reactions, especially to Agapitos and Florence. Aggressive threats and demands are likely to be ignored, because this would be very out of the blue to them! ( You can be mean to Aetós, though. They're a dick, and they just won't respond. )

Timewise, Agapitos and Florence's posts are shortly after Shard-Bearers awake after the repose (roughly a day to give people a chance to get their bearings/go get a haircut/etc), and Aetós's portion is later in the month.


Please note, new tag-ins will not be responded to after April 23rd. However, tagging each other throughout this post is welcome. Threadjack to your heart's content!

Comments

[baltimores]

Talk a big game for someone who's had more than a hundred years to avenge some deaths and still hasn't, huh.

[ Because on at least one of those counts, Amos is still here. He tries not to show it, but that Meridian presence wears on him, exhausting and uncomfortable to the point of pain. There's the sensation of him scratching at a scar, a play of nonchalance, but nope — it bothers him.

Still here, though. ]

You assume my time will come. It won't. [ He speaks with an almost earned sort of confidence, as if he knows this to be a fact. ] I know people in your position got a shelf life though, don't I.

[ okay now he's just being a dick — but he does want to see if he can actually goad Agapitos into anything, so it's very much on purpose ]

[kenosnpcs]

[ Agapitos' fury burns even hotter still. He cannot help it, because this is precisely what he has argued against, this is exactly what he was talking about over a century ago, when he had said over and over again what the crimes of the Zenites were.

This arrogance that it was to be accepted. That their way was right when there was another path. ]

You're right. I prioritized the safety and security of my people over petty revenge. Because of that, I'll have the backing of bearers.

You talk a rather large game for someone who even immediately after the act was dissipated by one of my allies. You may return from dissipation, but perhaps next time I'll make sure they capture your shard, like we did Yura.

[baltimores]

[ A pause. (Gritted teeth at that white hot fury, because there's only so much he can take. It's not real, Amos tries to tell himself, even though it very much feels like it.) ]

You see to keeping your people safe and we got no quarrel, [ said the Exalt. ]

But you even think of keeping me as just a rock, and you'll see what Zenith will do to you.

[ Spoken again with the conviction of someone who knows. He isn't one to play up his standing, but after what he's been through since completing his harmonization he has no doubts in his mind. Anything befalls him, and there will be absolute hell to pay.

An impression left, of pure, striking Zenith — because Cyrus should have shattered his shard. Would have, were it not for that intervening force of Zenith. Or maybe Yima herself; he doesn't know. But something out there refused to let him be hurt, and so a warning: Voreen can make all of the threats he wants but Amos is not Yura; is someone else entirely.

Arrogance, sure. But to him? Truth. ]

[kenosnpcs]

Hah. I would enjoy to see them try. They would have a difficult time.

[ This is said as a promise, even as that white-hot sun begins to wane, as if setting. ]

Watch your back, lest you get caught by us by surprise.

[baltimores]

[ And — he can't suppress that impression of him slumping as that sun begins to set. It was tiring, uncomfortable, and he is, in fact, weak to it.

But though Amos relents as Voreen lets him off the hook, his overall presence remains proud and defiant. ]

You know what? I'll do just that.

[ And along with it, two unspoken impressions: You should also watch yours, considering who he's talking to; and the much less dignified bitch. ]