isleofavalon | OTA | September Catch-All

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OTA | September Catch-All

🧙 WHO: Gokudera and YOU
⚔️️ WHAT: Birthday stuff/ Open and closed prompts/ Catch-all for September
🕒 WHEN: Throughout September
🗺️ WHERE: Various
⚠️ WARNINGS: foul language; mentions of murder; will update as necessary

A. A boy and his leopard

Gokudera doesn't let Uri out very often. For starters, the teenager does not have animal magic and can't tell when his weapon-turned-pet is feeling any sort of way. The young adult leopard is well-fed, growls a lot, and stalks about in his attic apartment, climbing the indoor tree, but he won't deny it freedom. He could put a leash on Uri, but that doesn't seem right. Maybe because he has a collar about his own neck, and this animal is not just some house cat. Uri is... or was an extension of his spirit. To have the Storm Leopard now just a leopard feels unfair. Their connection is lost, and he won't demand the creature stay inside.

Uri hesitates to leave the apartment at first when he welcomes the cat outside, but once he coaxes the cat out, it's staying close, hunkering down, and growling at anyone they pass.

He can be seen walking down the streets of New Camelot with the leopard sticking to his side. Once they are out on the training grounds, Gokudera is sitting down with the big cat, trying to talk with it.

"I hid some food out here for you earlier. You want to find it and take it home to your tree, or should we look for a new tree out here?"

The leopard licks at its paw and gives a rumbling purr before rolling about.

"Uri, you can nap when we get back home. You're supposed to have fun out here..." He pleads, looking apologetic. The leopard doesn't seem upset, though, and gets up before jumping at his back and pinning him down. It's licking at the back of his head, and he's letting out a muffled, distressed yell. That tongue is rough and his neck is sensitive. To anyone who knows anything about his problems with his collar, they can probably tell that this activity probably isn't pleasant for him.

B. Wild accusations | TL;DR Gokudera is accused of being a Selkie

[Gokudera is talking to a man at the Lake, and there seems to be an argument. It seems the boy is arguing that he saved a selkie woman and the man is accusing him of murdering a fisherman who had trapped her.

Aggravated, the boy throws his hands up and turns. He stares out at the water and then stops talking and just walks into the water, further and further in. A few bubbles rise to the surface, then abruptly stop. Five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen. The boy does not come up, there's no sign of him.

But the real Gokudera is looking for anything that may have been left behind by the selkie he and Yamamoto saved some months ago. The late fisherman's house seems in a state of disrepair, relatively vandalized, but still standing and sturdy.

He leaves carefully and quietly with a bag of fabrics, his old bloodied clothes he'd hidden from before. It'd be a sneaky escape, but the man he'd fooled turns and catches him. He's accusing Gokudera of all sorts of things, and then backing the boy into the water of the lake. Gokudera turns and dives in, swimming off as far as he can go until his familiar cloaks him.]

If I ever see you again, I'm taking your skin!

[Gokudera can hear that angered yell over the water and he can be found later on bobbing about in the water. Try to convince him to come out? Ask him what happened? Swim right up to him? The weather isn't cold enough for the water to be too unpleasant, and the angry man is leaving so maybe the boy will get out of the water. He's going to take out his device and ask for help.]

What should I do to prove I'm not a selkie?

[Feel free to put up your own prompt. Also! Prose/brackets are fine! I'll match whichever]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

"Ahaha, I suppose that's true to...He definitely wouldn't go easy on you."

If anything, he might also be insulted that someone was trying to use the same weapon as him. It was always hard to tell.

Tsuna jumps back in a panic as three of the enemies try to corner him. It's not the most graceful action, but he's basically button mashing them away.

"When does he ever?"

Gokudera replies with something almost like a fond smile. Pissing Hibari off is easy and keeps him from feeling too rusty. Even if the bomber gets his ass handed to him every time, it's rewarding to fight the prefect.

"Keep an eye on your ten!" He swings his tonfa at the enemy directly behind Tsuna, leaving him facing two of them, but whatever he can do to help. Gokudera's swipes go through his boss, so there's that. The hitbox on these foes seems a bit smaller than before.

It's a weird sensation, to have Gokudera's swipe go through him, rather than actually hit him. But it's also probably a good thing that friendly fire isn't on. The surprise causes him to un-equip his weapon for a moment, resulting in a flurry of punches towards the other enemies.

Not the most effective, but it's pushing them back at least.

Gokudera is having way too much fun, and he's not really using the tonfa well. It's the same swipe in the same area unless he jumps and combos it, or crouches while striking. There's no good flexibility for him where he's able to strike.

"Do you think we're getting-"

He knocks the enemy down and they vanish before he's helping to take care of one that Tsuna is being flanked by.

"close to the boss?"

"We should be. How many waves of enemies have we faced? There's usually a pattern, like, three and then the boss."

It might not be that amount for this game, but that's usually how it works. And since it's the first level, they're probably not going to encounter a mini-boss or some sort of extra challenge.

"These guys seem tougher. My guess is the boss of this level is up ahead."

Gokudera looks to Tsuna, to see if he's picking up any dropped items or more health.

"Most likely, considering all these health items."

He definitely grabs a few, noticing that his health is starting to get low. Not low enough for a sound effect but definitely getting there.

"I'd like a different weapon though, if you see one."

"Can we trade weapons?"

Gokudera walks right up and tries to offer it, or drop it and have Tsuna pick it up. It just ends up in him striking, and the hit goes right through his boss, but that feels startling.

"Sorry! Drop it, maybe..."

Another swipe.

"Drop..."

Nope, swiping again.

The rezzing feeling that goes through Tsuna is a weird one and he startles with each swipe.

"Doesn't look like it. We'll have to just keep our eyes open for more items on the way."

He looks down the street.

"Ready?"

"Maybe something better will show up once we defeat the boss." That makes sense, right? Gokudera is still staring at his own tonfa in irritation, as if they were swiping at the Tenth and not him.

"Yeah. Let's go."

Tsuna nods. That's usually how it works, but to do that, they'll actually have to beat the boss. He grips his quarterstaff, and with a deep breath to try and steady his nerves, he heads down the street. He shouldn't feel nervous, but he does and tries to remind himself that it is just a video game.

They reach what seems like a dead end until the wall in front of them cracks and a large, burly man bursts through, flexing his muscles and stalking towards them.

"Okay, he should have a pattern of some kind. We just need to catch on to that!"

Gokudera is probably going into this underestimating the boss they have to fight. It's the first boss! How hard can it be?

He can't even figure out his attack combos, so they may be in for a real challenge. The bomber checks his health and wonders how many strikes from this boss either of them can take. If his health runs out, will he regenerate, or will it be game over? He can't let his boss fight this guy on his own!

"He looks bulky... We should stay out of his reach."

"Right, yeah," Tsuna says, a little wobbly, and he backs up. He might have taken a hit, trying to rush in with his quarterstaff.

"There's gotta be something we can throw at him then, or a way to get behind him?"

"Oh! I can get behind him using one of those crates as cover, then we can flank him!"

Gokudera points to one of the crates, suspecting it may have items in it, but right now it can be useful unless the boss destroys it. He rolls forward and crouches behind it, the water in the dish of his head splashing about and leaving some of the ground wet. He grins at it and watches the boss target Tsuna.

"If he tries to hit you, make sure you block!"

"Right!" Tsuna calls back and there's a weird moment of his sprite running through commands as Tsuna tries to remember what button that is. Now it's just a matter of timing and figuring out attack patterns.

The boss lets out a laugh and then charges forward in a rush attack and Tsuna can only yelp and throw his hands up to block.

Gokudera isn't going to waste his time in attacking while the boss is distracted. He's landing some pretty smooth melee combos that utilize the tonfa. There are moves his kappa avatar lands that he has never attempted before, and now he's wondering if he could perform some of these acrobatic hits.

"When he turns to me, take your chance, Tenth!" Gokudera encourages, then glances about, as if searching for a health point bar above the boss.

"Right!" Tsuna yells, wincing. While he'd managed to get the block up in time, he still lost some health and has to dive out of the way to avoid a couple punches before the boss turns his attention to Gokudera.

He lets out another laugh and then uses the same charging move. It seems to be a set pattern.

Gokudera dodges early, and it works. He has to get up quickly, though. While the boss may not have a long distance hit, he seems surprisingly agile, swinging his fists about. A hit lands, and Gokudera manages to block too late, taking some damage as he gets up and starts to block, roll, and dodge, waiting for the moment he can try to land his own hits.

Tsuna shakes his head and recovers, charging in with his quarterstaff to land a few more hits. It's not an especially sophisticated attack, definitely closer to button mashing than anything else, but with Gokudera's combined attacks it's whittling down that health bar.

"He's turning back on you!"

Gokudera is trying an attempt at a charge attack, or a special. He isn't sure, but he has his own attack bar that he's maxed out, and just needs to use the right moves to execute it. There's a sort of vivid aura that surrounds him and he's striking with the tonfa, throwing the other, and water splashes about in the dish in his kappa head before he's holding both his weapons, striking a little pose, and saying gently "That'll teach you."

Huh.

It seems to have done more damage than most of his melee attacks.

"Hiee! Was that a special attack, Gokudera-kun?"

There's another flurry of movements from Tsuna as he attempts to figure out how to unlock his.

"That was really cool!"

The boss, however, yells and seems to move a bit fast, clearly going into his last ditch effort mode.

“I guess so!”

Gokudera can’t say it felt good to land a hit like that, but it certainly looked cool and did a bigger chunk of damage than he’d anticipated.

“It has a charge! Yours may have to do with your weapon specifically!”

He’s moving over to Tsuna, blocking as many hits as he can and trying to encourage his boss to dodge.

“Try throwing it?” It felt like the game took over his movement for him, or played a little cut scene. Gokudera would try it again, but he has to let it build up. Maybe it’s more of a matter of how many combo hits in a row that land?

Tsuna quickly sidesteps out the way, which turns into a less than graceful roll. When he gets up, he nods, though a part of him is reluctant to let go of the weapon, considering the boss's attack.

"Do I have to strike a pose to charge it, or is it all ready to go?"

Because he'll throw if he has to. For now, he just picks a stance that he hopes looks cool.

“I think it’s all ready to go? I just felt like it was the best timing!”

So he’s basically telling Tsuna to do what he feels will work. Gokuders’s never had a weapon like the one his boss is holding. Then again, he’s also never used tonfa. Not hard to hit something with a stick, though.

Tsuna nods, kind of wishing that his Vongola Intuition would help with something like this, but instead he goes for another charge, while also flailing his stick in a hopes that something will activate.

And as the stick connects, it does. There's a smooth series of spins and strikes that add up to a combo attack as Tsuna lands in an automatic pose. "That was nothing" says a little voice.

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