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[espigeonage]

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Because all our characters are the modern reincarnates of the characters we know and love, you need a modern mundane AU! Post your character with a couple details about who they are now. Use a prompt to set the scene! And tag around.

->Stranding Shower Inclement weather has suddenly forced you to take shelter. There's someone else under this overhang or bus stop - this might take a while, so you might as well get to know them.

->Mafia Menace Armed thugs with catlike mutations are attacking someone to tell them to stay out of the metaplot! This will end well!

->Cliffside Calamity Vegas has turned into a city atop a mountain. Things are somehow intact, but now the front door to something you have to get in or out of overlooks a sheer drop.

->Superhuman Sighting You have an interest in seeing one of the numbered - is that one there?

->Superhuman Surprise You felt hollow for a moment, and now you're numbered! Suddenly you're that much closer to canon and manifesting a mutation, a power, or a strange memory! Probably in public!

->Wild Card Combine prompts or pick something less alliterative! Monsters! Cultists! Boring days at the mall!

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The Cat | Tortall Universe

[topurrdivine]

[A cat has taken shelter from the rain, tail curled neatly around its paws. Its eyes are strikingly purple.

...Wait, is that your cat? Surely it didn't have purple eyes before. dude idk if I'm going to play the Cat but if I do, starting as a pet sounds fun. Give me a few lines about the animal's personality, I'll see if I can integrate it into everyone's favorite constellation.]

Lleld Kemberaene | Dragonlords

[satisfactionbroughtback]

[In March Laurel Kendall echoed back a dormant dragonsoul which pushed her to falling out of love. This led to breaking an engagement, and she has been making her way in Vegas in the time since. Now, wracked by claustrophobic Echoes, she's leaning out the doorway of a shitty little apartment building, looking down at quite a drop. She pulls back - and then takes a running leap out into thin air!

Laurel's body barely starts to fall before dissolving into a red mist which spreads and spreads, forming a winged shape - and then there's a red dragon gliding overhead, clearly looking for a place to land.

...man I still can't decide if it's better to start her as tall and she Echoes the height of an "undersized ten-year-old" or start her short. If she's short her dragon form is around elephant size, if she's tall holy shit what.]

[and_taxes]

There is a figure making its way through a crowded marketplace. Unless one is a small child, an animal, a magic user, or an Anthropomorphic Personification it's hard to distinguish any details about it. It's... tall, yes. Probably thin. Definitely blue-eyed. The tracksuit is kind of incongruous. But basically, this is normal.*

The figure has an hourglass and keeps checking it with growing concern bordering on panic. Still, it's grinning.

*Some things are difficult for the human mind to grasp, and so it refuses to accept them. This process is very helpful in maintaining sanity.

Khordeshkhistriakhor | Tales of Kolmar

[akhorishaan]

[I tried this guy out back here. Why not try again!]

The gym where Virgil did his laps was inaccessible now, but the rising of the mountain had also led to great flooding and a huge new lake. One problem solved by something else, and now he wouldn't have to pay gym membership! No one stopped him from swimming here.

But today as he shucked his shirt he noticed some discomfort in his navel and under his fingernails. Prying at both with a pin, he dug out thin dirty slivers of gold from his nails, a kind of minute coronet from out of his stomach.

Ladd Russo | Baccano!

[boxingbuff]

[Ladd Splot was not the luckiest man in the world. His child eloped with some girl, half the force was taken away because of some illegal activities, and now the mafia were trying to take route in the city. Now, Ladd wasn't the kind of person that cared for the Numbered, truthfully, he could give less of a crap about them. But, he still had to do something, right? That was his job.

But now he was a Numbered now. Memories not belonging to him swarmed his mind, clouding it and giving him a heck of a headache.

He sat on a bench in the park, staring down at the ground. He was still in uniform.]

...This damn headache. [He groaned loudly, massaging his temples.] Just what I need on a day like today.

...And who the hell is Lua?

[He's talking to himself, don't mind him.]

Re: The Cat | Tortall Universe

[feastorfamine]

[it's not her cat, but Amy would definitely notice and try to help a poor animal stuck out in the rain. She smiles and kneels down, covering them both with her umbrella]

Hey there little guy. Did someone leave you out here...?

[jasminebloominginshadow]

[for once Jasmine isn't the only thing in the sky that doesn't belong there, and her little jaunt to Vegas to see what was going on has resulted in something... interesting. Namely, a dragon flying about.]

Holy shit...! Did you come out of the mountain or something?!

[seed_of_memory]

[Fuyuka is a magic user, so she notices something... odd about this man right away. It's hard to tell what, though, so she zeroes in on him in an attempt to learn more]

... Excuse me, sir. Are you alright?

[seed_of_memory]

[since the upheaval, Fuyuka had been investigating the area around the mountain. And she came upon this scene, causing her eyes to widen in surprise. What was this man doing to himself...?]

Sir?! What... what are you doing? Is something wrong?

Harry Dresden | The Dresden Files

[no_love_potions]

A
[Talk about your sticky situations. Harry had known that trouble was going to find him eventually if he, intrepid reporter that he is, kept poking his nose into the recent rash of mob attacks. And found him trouble had in the form of some augmented mob goons who were intent on roughing him up. He'd evaded them for awhile before they'd caught up with him in a blind alley. It all seemed lost until that weird hollowness struck again and when it cleared, he was holding a six foot length of carved oak in his hand. He didn't have time to think about it, though, when one of the goons came for him. Instinctively, he whipped the staff out and shouted the word that had come to him in a previous Echo.]

Forzare!

[And the blast of force erupts like a cannonball from the staff, streaks across the alley and catches the mobster square in the chest. The impact carries him up and out of the alley and through a window all the way across the street. Whoah, that was... way more than he'd ever thrown into that spell before and for a second, he's just staring across the road with the thugs.]

Whoah....


B
[This time, for once, Harry isn't sticking his nose into things that will get him into trouble. He's actually just out, minding his own damn business, even drinking a coffee when randomly, out of the blue, an Echo comes in.

Spacing out for a few steps, he barely notices the person coming up to him before he bumps into them. Fortunately, the impact knocks him out of the Echo trance.]

Oops, sorry.

[Unfortunately, he's not yet aware of just what this Echo returns and makes the mistake of making and holding eye contact with this person for a split second too long....]


C
[Wildcard. Hit me with one of the other options or come at me with your own. Whatever.]

C

[onecream_fivesugar]

[It had only been a few days since she last saw him... but honestly with everything that had happened since then, it felt like it had been forever. Or that it might not ever happen at all, she for one was incredibly grateful that she'd get the enjoy the simple pleasure of having her dad pick her up again. Just to see him again was a huge relief in her heart.

With two very uncomfortable brushes with the mafia behind her now, she knew one thing. She couldn't keep this a secret anymore. The whole being one of the numbered thing. She'd have to tell him, today would have to be that day.

She stood a good distance further away from the edge of the curb than she normally would while she waited for him. The edge of the road and her didn't really get along at the moment.

...For obvious that reasons most certainly involve kidnapping.]

[no_love_potions]

[Fifty-two hours and seventeen minutes. That was exactly how long it had been since Harry had last seen Robyn, he only realized now that some part of his mind had been counting off every last minute.

Every one of those hours had been filled with a sort of panic he couldn't describe. The last time he'd eaten anything had been only a few hours after that and sleeping was not an option from the moment he'd realized that nobody knew where she was. Phone calls and searching. That was all that had filled his time. Right up until he got that last call.

His little girl was okay and needed him to pick her up.]

[It had taken a conscious effort not to slam the gas pedal to the floor all the way there, but he'd managed it. Even so, he takes that last corner a little too fast and the car lurches to a stop when he sees her there. He realizes a second after the car door's open that he hadn't even bothered with a seatbelt, but that's forgotten soon enough as he rushes around the vehicle toward her.]

Robyn!

[What he saw be damned, he wasn't going to calm down until he had her.]

[onecream_fivesugar]

[She... Well she looked better than when she was trapped in a dingy old warehouse not too long ago. She had borrowed a change of clothes from a friend and had managed to clean up little bit before she called him. That didn't fix everything though, her eyes were still red from hours of crying and she looked absolutely exhausted. Harry wasn't the only one who hadn't slept much in the last fifty some hours.

When she see's the car come around the corner she flinches. It brings back some bad memories as to how this entire thing started a couple days ago. ...But when she sees her dad come out of the car her lips curl into the most sincere smile she's had since she left the house a few days ago.

She tries to match his pace to meet him, but she's still too tired and she wobbles and stumbles every few steps. ...Eventually she just gives up and holds her arms out. She had been through this a couple times over the last few hours.]

B. Hope this works.

[scarlet_devil]

[The collision almost knocks Emilia over, and that earns him an angry curse in Romanian and a demand to watch where he was going. But then eye contact is made...

Her soul gave the impression that it was that of a teen from a rich, European family on the surface, that she had immense pride in her family, and feared to lose things she considered 'hers'. Friends, family, possessions... She kept a hold of them fiercely.

Deep down, there's a sense she is hiding something, though.

Besides that, there is an image of a young girl in a pink dress with bat wings, her skin much too pale.

Just like that, it all fades, leaving a very confused Emilia.]

What...?

[no_love_potions]

[He'd heard people talk about thoughts coming at a mile a minute but never really experienced it himself, until right now. She'd changed clothes somewhere along the line. Those weren't her clothes at all. She looked tired, and hungry. She'd been crying. Somebody had made that happen. Find out who.

But all of that can wait until later. The distance is crossed quickly and he reaches down to grab Robyn and hug her like there's no tomorrow. Because for a little while there was almost worried there wasn't going to be.]

It's okay. You're okay. I've got you...

[It's hard to tell if he's talking to her or himself.]

[onecream_fivesugar]

[Robyn makes a slightly muffled noise as she's pressed against her dad tight in the hug. She wraps her arms around him as tightly as she can and buries her face into his chest. She feels tears coming on again, but these are different than the ones she had cried over the last couple days.

She was just so happy to see him again.]

I-I-Ididn'tthinkIwasgoingtoseeyouagain!

Just fine

[no_love_potions]

[His apology is cut off abruptly when their eyes meet and the images rush through his mind. No, more than that. For that brief eternity he's there, seeing these things and understanding.]

[And Emilia sees him as well.

Two men. Mirror images, opposites. The first is... the man she sees right in front of her. Good enough, with strong ties to his family and a few rough patches here and there that show that not everything has been perfect. There are scars there, marks where he's seen and lived things most people shy away from and the various hurts that come with living.

The other is... different. The other man stands with his back to her, dressed in black and scarred from battle, holding fire and ice in his hands. The ground at his feet is scorched and littered with remnants of the dead. Slowly, the two start to blend together....]

[And then the vision is over and the regular city street comes back, complete with the tall man who'd just bumped into her sharing the same confused expression.]

What...?

[scarlet_devil]

[She blinks a few times, the images still sharp in her mind, even as she looked away, wondering just what exactly that was. An echo or something?

Now that she's gotten a good look at him, it turns out she just bumped into Robyn's dad... What are the odds?]

Just... what was all that just now?

...Interesting way for us to run into each other again.

[no_love_potions]

[He's not letting go any time soon. Even if he can't see them, he knows when the tears start and he hugs her a little tighter, shaking his head. He blinks rapidly, managing to keep it together mostly for her sake.]

It was never gonna go down like that. [He pulls back a little bit, just enough to look at her.] Not ever, you hear me? No matter what it took.

[onecream_fivesugar]

[She's fine with him not letting go, she's not looking to do that either right now. When he pulls back she looks up at him with tear filled eyes.]

I know... I just- I was just...

[She sniffs and moves to wipe her cheeks and nose against her shoulder. So much for clean clothes, but she really doesn't want to let go right now.]

So scared... it was awful...

A

[boxingbuff]

[Ladd had been spending most of his morning enjoying the peace for once, strolling down the street in his police uniform with nary a care in the world. Even if he had gotten those weird echoes now, things didn't seem that bad. Well, for him at least.

The window in front of him suddenly shatters, as a man is sent rocketing through it. It's enough to make anyone jump out of their skin, but Ladd shows less shock than that. He gives the wreck a confused look before turning to where it came from.]

...What the hell?

[He quickly crosses the street and enters the alley, giving the assembled people, and Harry, a curious look.]

So, I'm guessing one of you monkeys has an explanation for why some guy just entered that store across the street without using the door. [His eyes dart from person to person.] Hmm? Hmm?

Jacob Wilconson / Jib Janeen | Thrilling Adventure Hour

[hiallmybuddies]

A | Transportation | Action

[Jacob- or was it Jib now? Honestly, Jib seemed to have a nicer ring to it than his former name. In any case, Jib glanced around the bus stop, looking for anyone notable.

He wasn't sure why the past version of him was so hellbent on discovering people's secrets. But it suddenly seemed like a great idea. If he was lucky, maybe he'd run into someone from the Network. That'd be a great source of information.

And so he approached the first people he could find, waving giddily.] Hi buddy! How you doing?

B | Network | Video

[Why look, it appears a familiar face has appeared on the network. Who is it? An old friend, an old enemy, who cares? The person Jib is impersonating is a little tied up at the moment, giving him the perfect chance to cause a little chaos.]

Hi all my buddies! Its me! Your pal!

So, bad news guys. I was just minding my own business, as I do, when I was attacked! By a handsome and crafty alien spy! I've got him locked up in the next room, but he's somehow made himself look like me! Its super-duper creepy.

This could mean anyone of us could be a spy! We should hunt down the impostor and hang them! Hang the spies to death! And maybe give them our secrets? Whaddya think?

[Most clever spy ever.]

[no_love_potions]

I know, but everything's okay now. We're going home.

[So much for clean clothes indeed. He makes a mental note to look into who she got those from. It was clear that somebody had helped her out and he owes whoever that somebody is big time. That's the first big question he needs answered right after finding out who took her in the first place and why.]

Here. [He reaches into his coat pocket and comes back up with some tissues he'd brought along just in case and uses them to wipe the tears off of her cheeks. Then he goes and sticks the whole wad of them over her nose.] Blow.

[onecream_fivesugar]

Y-you have no idea how good that sounds right now.

[Robyn normally would put up a fuss whenever he tried to do anything like that. She's give him a hard time and say that she was big girl and could do it herself. Today was different, today she let him dry her tears and tried her best to smile. It was a lot harder to do than it normally was.

When he stuffs the tissues right in her nose however she'll shake her head and pull away a little.]

Daaaaaaad!

[She'll huff just a little, then she'll move in to blow her nose on the tissue. She'd give it to him this time.]

[no_love_potions]

[He knows she'd normally give him hell for it, and despite appearances, he's also aware that she can take care of it herself, but this is far from normal circumstances. Besides, he can't change the past two days, can't unmake what happened. All he can do now is whatever he can to make Robyn feel safe and happy again.

The big questions could wait. Right now, dad has to make things okay. That's his job.]

Robyyyyyyyn.

[He returns the smile, dealing with the whole nose situation and then brings her in for one last hug before straightening up and keeping his arm around her to help with her wobbly legs.]

Come on, let's go.