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OPEN ➸ May Catchall
Who ⬤ Matoba and you!
What ⬤ Curses. So very many curses- eye attack, haniwa, and... the arcade?
When ⬤ Throughout May
Where ⬤ Around the city, but mostly Sutoku territory
Content Warnings ⬤ Possible light violence from the attack prompt?
1 ➸ Fight Fire With Fire (Substory 4/May Eyeakashi Attack)
[ooc; please read this info/permissions post before replying to this prompt (and feel free to ping me with questions!)]
[A]
[Whatever you happen to be doing when the low, rumbling groan begins to sound from the sky overhead of you, the crowds around you uneasily stop and glance around. Its source is unclear, and others on the street seem equally puzzled-- all but one, a man, who withdraws the paper parasol tucked into his obi and opens it with a smile. Matoba bends over, and deposits something on the ground from a bundle he is carrying- if your eye is sharp, you'll see that they're those haniwa that have been popping up around the city, the ones the Enma specifically said not to mess with. His parasol is left to shade them, like a little house.]
[Are you going to ask what he's up to?]
--
[B]
[If not, he begins to walk away from his little dioarama- directly towards you, it so happens.]
[A mass of black sludge suddenly rockets out of the sky and smashes into the sidewalk moments later, leaving a small crater where the man had been; instead of him, the haniwa are devoured in an instant, absorbing a seismic flash of cursed energy that anyone with spiritual senses is sure to feel. The parasol is left crunching into its formless, toothy mouth before it realizes it has been tricked, and stares into the crowd- directly at Matoba.]
[And you.] OooouuGGGHHhhhhh.... EYE..
2 ➸ Cursoid (Substory 4)
[The trouble with cursed objects was that they seemed innocuous to those that needed to avoid them the most. As more and more of the little haniwa figurines began to appear throughout the city, Matoba had reluctantly taken it upon himself to do what he could to seal and remove them from public spaces, either delivering them to Department of Enma stations or whisking them away to less populated spaces. Those in Enma may find themselves tasked with a sudden delivery, wrapped in strange paper spells as Matoba gives you a skeptical once-over.] ...Are you sure you can handle this?
--
[Those outside the Enma- those who can't leave well enough alone on the streets- get even less benefit of the doubt.]
I'd appreciate if you could avoid touching that. [His tone is more exhausted than sharp, at this point; you might get the sense that he's tired of repeating himself, but with people kidnapping them to dress them in cutesy little costumes and all manner of other absurdities, he's really over it. Maybe he should just let you all get cursed.]
3 ➸ SHMUP is just fun to say (arcade)
[Some time ago, Matoba made the Daitengu a promise. For a while there, it seemed as if that promise would be a fruitless endeavor... After all, why compete against a dead body? Fortunately, news of the Daitengu's demise was highly exaggerated, and so Matoba can be found in the arcades from time to time, his single uncovered eye narrowed in focus.]
[...He is, as Daitengu said, 'in the zone'.]
[Bright lights and colors flash across the screen as explosions and bullets fly across the screen, Matoba's movements precise and automatic. It was pretty different from the old 90's games he'd played growing up in the rural arcades back home- flashier, extra mechanics- but the basic idea was the same, right?]
[Alas, after a tough late-stage boss battle, his ship explodes. Matoba lets out a soft 'tch', finally detaching from the machine to reach into his coinpurse for more yen... When he finally notices you hovering nearby with a slow blink. Forgive his strained eye, it needs to refocus.]
...My apologies, were you waiting for this machine?
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What ⬤ Curses. So very many curses- eye attack, haniwa, and... the arcade?
When ⬤ Throughout May
Where ⬤ Around the city, but mostly Sutoku territory
Content Warnings ⬤ Possible light violence from the attack prompt?
1 ➸ Fight Fire With Fire (Substory 4/May Eyeakashi Attack)
[ooc; please read this info/permissions post before replying to this prompt (and feel free to ping me with questions!)]
[A]
[Whatever you happen to be doing when the low, rumbling groan begins to sound from the sky overhead of you, the crowds around you uneasily stop and glance around. Its source is unclear, and others on the street seem equally puzzled-- all but one, a man, who withdraws the paper parasol tucked into his obi and opens it with a smile. Matoba bends over, and deposits something on the ground from a bundle he is carrying- if your eye is sharp, you'll see that they're those haniwa that have been popping up around the city, the ones the Enma specifically said not to mess with. His parasol is left to shade them, like a little house.]
[Are you going to ask what he's up to?]
--
[B]
[If not, he begins to walk away from his little dioarama- directly towards you, it so happens.]
[A mass of black sludge suddenly rockets out of the sky and smashes into the sidewalk moments later, leaving a small crater where the man had been; instead of him, the haniwa are devoured in an instant, absorbing a seismic flash of cursed energy that anyone with spiritual senses is sure to feel. The parasol is left crunching into its formless, toothy mouth before it realizes it has been tricked, and stares into the crowd- directly at Matoba.]
[And you.] OooouuGGGHHhhhhh.... EYE..
2 ➸ Cursoid (Substory 4)
[The trouble with cursed objects was that they seemed innocuous to those that needed to avoid them the most. As more and more of the little haniwa figurines began to appear throughout the city, Matoba had reluctantly taken it upon himself to do what he could to seal and remove them from public spaces, either delivering them to Department of Enma stations or whisking them away to less populated spaces. Those in Enma may find themselves tasked with a sudden delivery, wrapped in strange paper spells as Matoba gives you a skeptical once-over.] ...Are you sure you can handle this?
--
[Those outside the Enma- those who can't leave well enough alone on the streets- get even less benefit of the doubt.]
I'd appreciate if you could avoid touching that. [His tone is more exhausted than sharp, at this point; you might get the sense that he's tired of repeating himself, but with people kidnapping them to dress them in cutesy little costumes and all manner of other absurdities, he's really over it. Maybe he should just let you all get cursed.]
3 ➸ SHMUP is just fun to say (arcade)
[Some time ago, Matoba made the Daitengu a promise. For a while there, it seemed as if that promise would be a fruitless endeavor... After all, why compete against a dead body? Fortunately, news of the Daitengu's demise was highly exaggerated, and so Matoba can be found in the arcades from time to time, his single uncovered eye narrowed in focus.]
[...He is, as Daitengu said, 'in the zone'.]
[Bright lights and colors flash across the screen as explosions and bullets fly across the screen, Matoba's movements precise and automatic. It was pretty different from the old 90's games he'd played growing up in the rural arcades back home- flashier, extra mechanics- but the basic idea was the same, right?]
[Alas, after a tough late-stage boss battle, his ship explodes. Matoba lets out a soft 'tch', finally detaching from the machine to reach into his coinpurse for more yen... When he finally notices you hovering nearby with a slow blink. Forgive his strained eye, it needs to refocus.]
...My apologies, were you waiting for this machine?
----
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[As quickly as he has that momentary thought, though, the frown soon fixes itself into a bright smile for Izuku's benefit, although it doesn't do a whole lot to fix Matoba's entire ...well, appearance, which was far from normal. Then again, in hell, what was?] Oh, are you a fan of this game? I suppose I've just been at it quite a long time. I want to make it to the top of the scoreboard, after all.
[He glances back at his game, and frowns, but he lets the countdown reach zero. He'll try again some other time, when he has had time to think about what he did wrong. His execution? Is there a better way to tackle that level...?] It seems like many of these games have changed a lot from when I was going to the arcades...
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Still, he does reach up to ruffle his green hair slightly. Trying to somehow make it neater. Wait- Why should he care if he looks neat or not? He stops.]
To be honest I've only tried this game out a few times today. But when I saw you ... That was amazing.
[He nods...]
Some games are very advanced these days. These ones look like the ones back in my city.
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[For a moment, it seems he lets out a tiny sigh. True, he came from a very old and traditional background where many things seemed as if frozen in time, but... he had been a kid once, nonetheless. He can allow himself just a moment to lament that he's no longer hip.]
[An old man, at 22. How time flies...]
Well, at their core, all of these shooting games are the same. If you memorize the patterns dutifully, then you will do well at them in no time.
Consider it something like cramming for a test, hm?
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and been tasked with stopping a wareverything's just been a blur. Maybe getting a chance to stop and play some dumb arcade games is a blessing in disguise.]Ah! That's true, once you've learned that game's specific mechanics it probably repeats as well. Still, you had great reflexes.
[He holds his chin in thought.]
Do you mind if I take the next turn to play?
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[He offers Izuku a pleasant smile, and glances back to the machine before stepping aside.]
...Not at all. I wonder how the youth play this sort of thing? I shall observe.
[His quickness, that is.]
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[Or maybe he can train those up with more video games. Not a bad idea...
Izuku nods and steps up to the game machine. Putting a coin or two in makes it vrmm back to life and lights and sound start to click and whirl. Izuku starts and since he's seen this game a few times now it's an easy thing for him to adjust. He starts clicking and shooting away. And he's doing a pretty good job at it!
But as the level gets harder and faster Izuku does his best to keep up. He becomes so focused and so analytical of the patterns and mechanics that he becomes hyper-focused! Gritting his teeth and smashing the buttons harder.]
C-come on! And then...! If I can get this booster in the next area... it should triple... the score. There! With this, I get the rapid-fire for longer and my numbers will... Once I get to this part of the level if I just make sure to keep the chain going...
[What is Izuku doing?? Muttering under his breath? He's getting hard to understand! But as he gets so into it there seems to be a crackle of green electricity at his fingers! He's smashing the buttons harder! The machine... cracks a little?? Is this classic nerd rage???]
And then...!! Almost there...!! I have to keep going!
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[There were times where Matoba could not yet perceive why a Lost Soul had been recruited by this clan or that. In those times, he wanted to test; put them under a microscope, under some stressful condition, and see what it was that truly made them tick.]
[It seemed that this boy certainly has his reasons.]
[What was more curious was whatever this build-up of aura was, that begins to manifest itself as his concentration increases. ...Far be it for Matoba to interrupt something so interesting, even if the machine is going to eat it and all those lovely scores stored in its memory are going to be lost............ Oh well, as long as the game cart in the back wasn't destroyed, it was probably fine, right...?]
Hoh, you're at the 2nd boss stage already... Well done.
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Another crack of the buttons and Izuku smashes through the second boss with ease! It's the beeping of victory before some static glitching happens because of the abuse that makes Izuku clue back in and he sweatdrops!]
Ah?! S-sorry! I think I was getting a little carried away...!
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[A power he couldn't control, or something like that? Matoba glances down at him. The next stage was starting up, though... Maybe it would be fun to let him keep going, at least to see how far he could go.]
Mind yourself, now.
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[His quirks have been so out of wack since coming here! Sometimes he can't control how his power comes out and it seems that it's deciding to manifest alongside Izuku's hyperfocus on the game. He swears sometimes his hands just start crackling green electricity out of nowhere! Now the machine is crackling and he sweats a little. This is embarrassing...?!]
Maybe I should stop?
[He's doubting himself! He doesn't want to break it even more. At least right now it still seems playable.]