[log] march stuff! (open!)

[thefinalpower]

Who: Power and anybody!
When: throughout March
Where: all over town!
Summary: Power feeds some cats, makes a scene in the grocery store, and gets in some reading
Warnings: altered perception/reality, compulsion (using two of the TDM prompts), also cats?



CATS!

Really, you need to learn better survival skills. You'd hardly last a day in the wild like this.

[ Power is crouched in an alleyway, feeding pieces of a sandwich to a pair of stray cats that keep winding their way around her ankles. While this may be alarming to anyone who witnessed her feral pigeon-hunting spree during the food shortage a while back, the cats seem perfectly happy to get a free meal, and Power seems much calmer and more at ease than usual. When she can, she gives the cats scritches between their tattered ears.

Cats are always better than humans, even in weird alternate dimensions ruled by fear entities. It's a well-known fact. ]


WAX ON, WAX OFF (TDM prompt!)

The fruit is made of lies!

[ Power spits out a mouthful of apple in the middle of the grocery store, and throws the apple to the ground with force, like she's spiking a football. This gets her some pretty weirded out looks and a few glares from nearby shoppers, but does she care? Absolutely not! ]

What idiocy is this?! How have you all been fooled so easily! Regular fruit is bad enough, but fake fruit is ridiculous!


STORIED SUSSURATION (TDM prompt, possible Chainsaw Man spoilers!)

[ Power has never been a reader. She isn't particularly good at it; half of her reading experience was just hanging over Denji's shoulder while he read manga. It doesn't make sense for her to be drawn to the library, but... indulging a moment of curiousity can't hurt, can it?

Over the next week, Power's trips to the library become more and more frequent, more intensely focused. Anyone currently in the library, or even worse, anyone who has the nerve to stand between her and the history section, will be forcefully pushed aside as she strides through. ("Out of the way, fool!")

If you catch her while she's huddled in a corner, listening to the books, you might hear what sounds like a teenaged boy whispering about someone named Makima. Power herself has a strange, fierce little smile on her face, and a few tears are running down her cheeks (though she will vehemently deny this!). ]


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Comments

[thefinalpower]

I felled a bird for my meal, and he was so awed by my hunting prowess that he gave me hotdogs as tribute. Then he set a garbage can aflame.

[ She is VERY smug about this, and there are... grains of truth in here, but translated, it basically means 'she horrified Donnie with a dead pigeon until he threw hotdogs at her, and then set the pigeon on fire' ]

[neonleon]

So you horrified him with a dead pigeon until he threw hotdogs at you and then set the pigeon on fire. Good to know.

[Sorry, Power, he's just. Like this. He knows his brother too well.]

[thefinalpower]

'Tis as I said. I bested him.

[ This is said with a noncommittal shrug. As far as Power's concerned, that's exactly what happened! ]

[neonleon]

You absolutely did best him. I congratulate you as his closest brethren.

Anyway I'm Leo, the better brother.

[thefinalpower]

You have already proven yourself as such!

I'm called Power, the Blood Fiend. You may tremble before me, if you wish.

[neonleon]

Gonna hold off on the trembling part, I got some stuff I gotta sort out first.

But where'd you get a dead pigeon?

[thefinalpower]

I killed it!

[ Wait, that doesn't answer the question. ]

... In an alleyway! 'Twas during the great power outage, a few months past.

[neonleon]

Huh.

All right, then. Not bad, adapt improvise and overcome, all that.

Did you offer it to him or did he just see it and freak out? I'm betting on the second.

[thefinalpower]

Why would I offer him my kill?

[ Donnie's gotta WORK for those dead birds! ]

You'd think he'd never seen anyone holding food in their mouth, before.

[neonleon]

Nah, it's the dead bird thing.

Don't worry too much about it, he's squeamish.

[thefinalpower]

Tch. He'd never survive in the wild.

[ That said, Power talks a big game, but she would gladly go for ramen noodles over pigeons! ]

[neonleon]

You know, you'd think that? But I think he actually would.

Like, first one of us to go insane, but he'd make it.

[thefinalpower]

The insanity may be an advantage! A drunken old man that I used to know always said that the best in our profession 'always had a few screws loose'.

[neonleon]

Oh trust me, it's definitely an advantage. I agree.

[Nevermind that old guy would kill Leo in a heartbeat no hesitation, WE JUST WON'T THINK ABOUT THAT.]

[thefinalpower]

[ DON'T VISIT CHAINSAW MAN LEO, NOTHING GOOD HAPPENS THERE ]

When your opponent doesn't know what you'll do next, they're easily bested!

[neonleon]

[THEY WOULDN'T LAST A WEEK before probably Leo watching his brothers fall to Makima but yknow.

He snaps his fingers and points at her. YEAH SHE GETS IT.]

That's it exactly, yeah! Can't be too straightforward or thought out!

[thefinalpower]

[ and then Makima takes over the Yokai underworld and everything is terrible! ]

Denji and I tried thinking things out once, and that backfired terribly. It's far better to improvise.

[neonleon]

[It's already terrible BIG MAMA IS DOWN THERE. Ultimate teamup.]

You do get it. Best to go in with a broadstroke idea and then wing it.

[thefinalpower]

[ man she would have Big Mama contracted in a SECOND, and make her think it was her own idea! ]

Yes, exactly! It's more fun that way!

[neonleon]

Oh, you really do get it.

Name's Leo. Good to be workin' with ya.

[thefinalpower]

I'm called Power, the Blood Fiend. It is good to be working with me, I agree wholeheartedly!

[ NOT A SCRAP OF HUMILITY BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM ]

[neonleon]

[He gives a low whistle.]

All right, you went all in for the name department. Legit, and the confidence to boot. All right, Power, whatcha got? What's your deal?

cw: blood!

[thefinalpower]

Blood!

[ She answers WAY too cheerfully, as if that single word explains anything. To Power it does, it describes literally her whole deal, but she's going to be benevolent for Leo's sake and give a quick demonstration.

She holds her hand out, palm upright, and lets a tiny spike of blood about the height of a playing card shoot up from the center before she catches it in her fingers. It's as much as she can manage, on a day when she hasn't been terrorizing the local pigeons and rats. ]

Don't let the size belie you, I am fearsome in a fight.

Re: cw: blood!

[neonleon]

WHOA-

[He watches that, catching the whole thing even as fast as she is about it.]

Oh, trust me, I believe it. I've seen some weird fierce stuff.

[thefinalpower]

Normally I could make swords. Or hammers.

[ She is absolutely not sulking about this - okay, yes, she totally is, but it is justified!! ]