isleofavalon | Tenth: In the Dead of Night (Oct Catchall)

🧙 WHO: Mukuro Ikusaba & OPEN
⚔️️ WHAT: Working overtime at Forge Ahead, playing with new tactics at the training grounds, fighting a headless horseman and exploring the creepy forest.
🕒 WHEN: Throughout October
🗺️ WHERE: Around and about Camelot
⚠️ WARNINGS: Probably violence and Mukuro being...too calm about everything. Mention of sororicide and abuse in the last prompt. Will update if needed.

Forge Aftermath

Everything that happened in the last month was...a lot. Right now, she wasn't sure how to feel about it all.

Perhaps it was a good thing that she didn't have much time to focus on it all. Not with how busy it all was right now.

Darin was working himself to the bone. And so, for her, the priority was trying to take on as much work as she could herself- doing supply runs, checking equipment, giving Darin a nudge if he passed out at his bench.

So it was that, as well as her usual duties as the Forge's "In-House Model and PR Person", she was busier than anyone had seen her in a while, even if she couldn't entirely drop her act whilst she was at work.

And as chime of the doorbell indicated someone wandering in- whether that was client or one of the other workers- 'Junko Enoshima' called over from where she was grabbing a box of supplies off a high shelf.

"Heeyyy- gimme a second, I'll be right with you-"

Training Grounds

Of course, even in all the chaos, she couldn't let up on her training. So in those few days where work and clearing up slowed down, she headed over to the training grounds to focus on her magic.

She knew it was a weak point for her.

Her fighting prowess was impressive, of course it was, but whatever 'muscle' it was she used to wield her magic was horribly underdeveloped. That, perhaps, was why her stamina burned out against that dragon.

"The question is, how I can use my magic with my weapons better? A flash-bang can stun the enemy and I can manipulate the blood I use for bullets, but there's got to be something I'm not thinking of..."

Don’t mind her. Talking to herself like a strange person.

Don't loose your head Quest

As soon as Mukuro had seen the quest- something about a Headless Horseman harassing people attempting to clean up Celliwig- she knew she had to deal with it as soon as she could. After all, if it attacked Darin whilst he was in a sleep deprived state, she didn't want to deal with that aftermath. She had a new mission to protect the people she cared about here, didn't she? That's what that person she talked to on the network suggested.

Besides, she doubted he was the only one of her friends who'd been making a similar trip. They were all good people, after all.

She wasn’t sure who else would turn up to help her out, but she was glad for whatever backup she could get. And as she heard someone approaching, she turned to give a wave.

"Hey...!"

Forest of the Fachan (tw sororicide/abuse mention)

It was on too-quiet nights like this where the thoughts she'd been trying to suppress started to seep out of all the scars in her body. Telling her what a disappointment she was. Another voice saying that she'd been betrayed. Another still that the plan was to kill her all along. How many times she'd failed to keep her act together, how much she'd screwed up.

Her own voice, realising how it actually hurt to see the people and the world she cared about damaged like this.

...

But she did what she could to focus on the task at hand, mindlessly clearing out the wards and traps. And when night fell, she stayed awake, focusing on keeping watch with an uncharacteristically serious expression.

...It was then she heard that horrible laughter, and her hand flew to her knife.

"Get down, something's...!"

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

What is your magic?

[ Xiao comes to this place daily to train. Seeing other individuals here isn't out of the ordinary. However, seeing them muse and talk to themselves? Yeah, that's a little out there.

He can already know the fact that one of her skills relies on blood magic - she's said as much. But what is the other? ]

Edited 2021-10-11 18:15 (UTC)

Huh- Oh, Light and Blood. How about you?

[She spent quite a few mornings at the training grounds, so she'd seen him around before- but this was the first time she'd spoken to him.]

Healing and Blood.

[ What a combination, right? One mitigates the other. However that does mean he knows what sort of magic she is dealing with. ]

I have seen Light users form shields and barriers. Illusions as well. Such uses are common enough.

Shields, huh? You wouldn't think light would be able to block an actual weapon though, would you?

...Healing's a good one. Least you can heal yourself up if you've overdone the Blood MAgic.

No, but they seem to have worked it out. Somehow.

[ Light isn't his specialty. Even before, it would be the power of Wind. Anemo. ]

As for healing... It is difficult for me to grasp.

[It is a very hectic time in the city of Avalon. With everything that's happened in and around it, it's safe to say that most people are working themselves to the bone. Izuku himself has thrown himself into work and studying and anything else that can keep him busy and helping with tasks around the recovery of the city. This place might not be home but there is a sense of right that he wants to give back, somehow.

And as an alchemist, he tends to tinker and work on his own magical and technical gear these days. This is why when he passes by Forge Ahead he can't help but get curious about the business. He opens the door and goes inside with his eyes going wide at the expanse of materials and magical and non-magical items on display.]

Ah... Hello! Alright, please don't rush. [Under his breath,] Wow... This place is great...

[She couldn't help but smile a bit, seeing the stranger's enthusiasm for all the weaponry around the place- Darin kept the place in good order, after all! This guy certainly seemed like the sort to wear his heart on his sleeve, huh?

Well, once she'd gotten the box in hand- bits of metal ready to be prepped for Forging, she put it out on one of the workbenches and headed over to him.]

Phew- never a quiet moment at the moment, is there? Haha- welcome to Forge Ahead!

T-thank you! ... This is my first time in here, I didn't know there was a shop like this so close by.

[He really is amazed and this shop seems to have exactly the sorts of things that Izuku would like to tinker and use in alchemy. That's why he's looking around with such a sparkle in his eye.]

... What sort of work do you do here?

[Mikasa wouldn't stay away from a quest like that. She doesn't really miss fighting at all, she loves the peaceful life but back home she sure is humanity's strongest soldier from the women's side and she can still fight despite how Avalon's made her... pretty normal girl compared to all of her physical strength and prodigy skills and others things, that she'd have anywhere else but here.

But protecting people is what Mikasa does back in Titan Hell and she wants to continue doing that everywhere else too. And this is about fighting off that thing with local magic, so Elemental sounds really good for that.

Mikasa makes the tiniest wave right back at her, but also nods like that's more her style. It's good to have company in these things, even when Mikasa's more used to doing things alone.]

Hey. [. . . . ] So, do you have a plan for fighting against it?

Oh- hey~

[She hadn't spoken to Mikasa in person yet, so didn't immediately recognise her- and was, of course, still dolled up and acting as 'Junko'.]

I mean I've, like, searched for any signs of the thing but nothing yet- along that perimeter there- figure we need to decide whether we pitch up camp and stay on guard here or go out and confront the thing in a more direct assault, you know?

...Something like that anyway!

[...Not that her act stopped her from actually coming up with strategy like this.]

How about you- oh, didn't introduce myself, did I? Haha- Junko Enoshima! Nice to meet you~

Tenth: In the Dead of Night (Oct Catchall)

Training Grounds

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Forge Aftermath

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Don't loose your head

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