isleofavalon | Intro and beyond

🧙 WHO: Nezuko Kamado
⚔️️ WHAT: Arrival and more
🕒 WHEN: February
🗺️ WHERE: All over
WARNINGS: Mentions of violence and death

The Lake [Nezuko swam to shore with little grace and flopped herself on the ground like a beached whale. With a muzzle made of bamboo in her mouth, she looks out of place even amongst those pulled from stranger worlds. After a moment she gets up and dusts herself off and looks around. After a moment of calm, she panics a little. As she cannot find her brother anywhere she feels lost. Unsure what to do, she attempts to communicate with her fellow travelers by flailing a bit and making muffled noises with her mouth.]

Rent-a-ride [Since her arrival, Nezuko has calmed down a bit. She had been unable to find her brother, and thus remained a bit on edge, but finds some comfort after being told to retrieve her things. Among them is a large wooden box with belting for its use as a carrier of a sort. Roughly big enough to hold a child in, the box brings comfort to Nezuko as she hitches to her back and waits for the caravan to arrive. While not chipper, she seems at least a bit happy to have the box in her possession raising her mood and stopping her from panicking once more. She will even attempt to communicate with others via her body language and facial expression even if it doesn't get her very far.]

C. Network [Nezuko's first use of her shiny new phone did not go well, resulting in a variety of garbled text messages being posted to the network in a short period of time. It takes some explaining from others for her to finally grasp how these things worked. But eventually, she figures just enough to post something with substance.]

Hello. I am Nezuko Kamado. I am sorry I cannot talk. But I can send messages like this.

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[Samatoki has concluded his business and is heading back to Camelot. Without the assistance of Riou, that means taking the caravan like he had when he first arrived. The man intends to ignore the newcomers, hitch a ride and go about his life.

But, much like his first day here when he saw Lily standing alone, he can not ignore the young girl with the box strapped to her back. For all his gruffness, Samatoki is a good man at heart and a big brother who loves his little sister above all else.]

Oi, you alright?

[he has not seen her speak to anyone, he does offer less of a barking tone that demands an answer and offers some middle ground that comes off as inquiring.]

[Nezuko had been kept to herself because it was what she was used to. Most of her days were spent in seclusion waiting till the moment she could come out of her box. Here she didn't have that luxury, however. So she would have to make do "speaking" for herself for once.]

[Upon being spoken to, Nezuko attempts to mime that she cannot speak. Pointing to her muzzle and crossing her arms in an "X" formation. She then tries her best to express that she is all right by looking cheerful. It may or may not be clear.]

[Okay, at least she does not look at if she is in distress, but that muzzle has his eyebrow going up. He won't just reach out to take it off but ....]

Need help with that?

[He points at the muzzle, it's downright cruel to see on a young woman, of course, he does not realize how it is in her world or that she may need it. He just sees a young girl carrying a box with a muzzle and it makes the Yakuza's blood boil.]

[Nezuko nodded no. But how to convey that the muzzle was there for the sake of others? She thought for a moment before digging up the phone from the folds of her kimono and pointing at it.]

[Samatoki gets what she means and pulls out his own device, turning it he opens up the text app and points.]

How about that, you type I can read it, right?

[Nezuko nodded happily. She then began to type on her own phone.]

Yes. That is exactly it.

[Samatoki reads her message.]

Alright, we can do that but this place, it's weird kid, takes whatever ya was back home and magics it, ya might be alright to take that thing off even if ya think ya can't.

[He figures it can't hurt to try and frankly the big brother him just can't walk away from this.]

[Hijikata isn't very active on AOL. He checks it and reads (or watches, in case of video chat recordings) interesting conversations, but rarely comments on anything. But somehow this short post catches his attention. It's such a brief message, without a request for information or anything, that it makes him wonder if the author might be a lost new arrival trying to connect with just anyone. So he responds. As a policeman he feels a sense of responsibility.]

Hello Nezuko. I'm Hijikata. Are you new here? Do you need help with anything?

I am.

I was trying to learn how this works. This way I can communicate without talking.

Yeah. I assume your world doesn't have phones?

[There should be regular courses held for people from such worlds, really. Maybe he should have taken the caravan home to teach at least some of them on the long road, but he wanted to train at the cliffs once the coast was clear of new arrivals (he had meant to help as many of them out of the lake as possible, but running into one of his subordinates from home got him side-tracked).]

Are you on your own here? Is there nobody else from your world?

Yes. These things are new to me.

[She's more than a little lonely without her brother and his friends.

I'm all alone here.

[He increasingly wonders if he's talking to a child... if so that's no good. But even an adult new arrival from a world without technology would be intimidated by being stranded here alone.]

Would you like to meet up downstairs in the lobby? I can show you around a little and help you with the basics, if no one else has done that yet.

[He normally shies away from looking after people since he doesn't have the best social skills (read: a short fuse and a potty mouth), but this situation just doesn't sit right with him!]

[Nezuko was more or less a child. One who could rip a demon to shreds with her bare hands, but a child nonetheless. She could use all the help she could humanining really.]

That would be nice. I'd be lost trying to wander around by myself.

[If only Hijikata knew! Despite his nickname of "Demon Vice-Commander" he's always been human... though it's debatable if he'll be the best-suited person to help Nezuko out, considering his many ~~abnormal~~ odd habits and lifestyle choices.]

Okay, I'll go down and wait by the reception. I'm a man with a sword.

[Very descriptive... but really, once Nezuko heads to the lobby there probably (hopefully) aren't any other men with swords at their belts around, and Hijikata clearly looks like he's waiting for someone. When he spots her he beelines towards her.]

Nezuko-chan?

[Japanese habits coming through... he's usually pretty rude and simply drops honorifics, but he wants to be polite to such a young girl at least.]

There's nothing to apologize for Nezuko-chan!

(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

[ Wow is it possible he's even dumber and more excitable when you're texting with him?? ]

Thank you!

I am still new but I'm learning quickly.

Have you made any new friends to text with? Besides me, I mean!

Hello, Nezuko. Is this your first time using a phone?

[Not that he's going to judge, because things didn't go much better the first time he tried to use his.]

Hello. It is. They do not exist where I'm from.

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