Vigilantes
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Character Name: Levenin Refure
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Post by Levenin on Dec 4, 2015 22:06:57 GMT -5
It was yet again time for a noon break, much welcomed after the hectic morning Levenin had. There must’ve been something in the air today that was bringing in more people than he’d seen in a long while. Honestly, it made him worry. This really wasn’t the season for illness to be spreading, but something out there was highly infectious and jumping around quickly.
Of course, his mind always went to it being a plague, like the one he’d read about— a particularly nasty bout of disease that'd decimated the Slums around when he was two or three years old. Being a Middle Class child, there’d been nothing for him to worry about at all. A fascinating read it was: recurring plagues, usually restricted to the Slums and the Lower Class, that seemed to cycle every couple of decades. Amazing how simple bacteria seemed to reign supreme even in the modern age. However, if anything cropped up now, Lev knew he’d be at risk. Bottom of the societal rungs, weak, poor medical care, hungry.
Oh so hungry.
Dwelling on potential clinic threats wasn’t enough to distract him from his hunger, no matter how hard Levenin willed himself to think of anything else. Reprieve from work was great, but breaks were usually for lunch or dinner. It was just too bad Lev didn’t have the money for food. Hadn’t for about two days. As awful as it was to admit it, a flu catching on in the Slums meant more potential donations. Maybe at the end of the week, there’d be enough credits so he could afford a meal.
But that was still a number of days away. Levenin could barely focus on anything else but how much his stomach ached. Even work couldn’t make him forget. He knew they could hear it, the patients and his coworkers. But no one thought to ask him. No one was going to take pity on him.
Levenin stared anxiously at a food stand, the furthest one from any employees he could find. The fruit was clearly outdated, bruising and wilting in the heat of the Novian daytime. The price they were asking was far too much. Nobody would notice one or two missing, probably hardly miss them. He’d be doing the owners a favor by making more space for fresher produce. Besides, it was just this once. This tiny apple was just harmlessly falling into his pocket by itself.
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Preferred Name: Nilo
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Character Name: Bikini
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Post by Bikini on Dec 5, 2015 1:16:47 GMT -5
Wait, so where was she again?
Ohh, maybe she shouldn't of tried to find a way to that good Chinese food place-- though she only saw the name for it on leftover take out in Dante's fridge. The Lucky Panda-Dragon Wok. Wow, what a mouthful. She could of sworn she mesmerized the map before she went from the apartment but-- gosh, she didn't know how to read very well-- no, she might as well call herself illiterate.
She wandered the streets, not sure where she was she didn't recognize anything in the lower class. Lost, and unable to tell where anything was or even where to go back to the slums to recompose her sense of navigation she walked into a building that was well lit with florescent lighting and somewhat clean looking floors. There, it was quiet and hardly any people besides the front desk secretaries, and Bikini wasn't at all afraid of them, for they didn't even look up from their monitors to ask if Bikini needed help. But whatever, it looked rather friendly and warm from the cold streets.
This place... was unfamiliar yet familiar to her, like she had a sense she's been in these kinds of buildings but be couldn't remember any memory of such thing. What the heck was this place? The more she walked in, past the sleepy people waiting in chairs she looked towards a food-stand, possibly meant for the waiting customers, perhaps. Maybe this was a car dealership, but then again it reeked of odd chemicals all around and the atrocious fumes of floor cleaner.
But the one thing that really caught her eye was right in front of her a couple of yards was someone stealing fruit from the stand. Even if she used to be guilty of such thing she was actually surprised for once to see a lower class person steal... even as close by to the slums, she had the wrong assumption that everyone higher than the slums were good people... possibly.
But she wanted to be wrong, and gave the man the benefit of the doubt. It must of been a good reason, like surviving like her. This place did seem a bit odd, perhaps they were expensive. She also didn't want him to be seen stealing, so even if anyone looked his way she came up to him and spread her wings out, the colorful spread distracting enough to not even notice the man anymore.
"U-umn." Bikini blushed, as good intended she was to cover for him although entirely unnecessary, this was the first time she actually came up to someone that wasn't a food vender. "Oh! Umn... d-do you happen to know the time? A-and... and maybe where I am?"
Just tell the bloke you're lost.
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Vigilantes
Smiley Specialist
he's big enough
Posts: 164
Preferred Name: Nama
Character Profile: ♦♦♦
Character Name: Levenin Refure
Main Account: Levenin
Status: On Hiatus
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Post by Levenin on Dec 11, 2015 4:37:32 GMT -5
Her voice was soft, non-threatening in fact, but Levenin still froze in place as it passed his ears. Barely even a few seconds and he’d already been caught. A thought crossed his mind that it couldn’t be anyone too important, like the owner or the authorities. There was no yelling or demands for him to raise his hands where they could be seen. Of course, once his muscles finally gave way, he spun around with the most guilt ridden smile he could muster plastered firmly for this stranger to see. The sudden display of the woman’s colorful wings nearly made him fall over in surprise. Had he been assaulted by a human or a large bird instead?
”I-I wasn’t doing anything, I swear!” Levenin blurted, his arms brushing against the lump in his pocket where the incriminating apple now rested. Surely no one would suspect him with that argument at his disposal. Sometimes he wondered how he'd made a decent living off of Vigilantism.
The sweat was already beginning to bead on his forehead. She didn’t look like the police but the fact she was so close, feathers towering over him like a shade, was rapidly worrying him. Would she interrogate him? Report him for theft? Blackmail? Somehow Lev didn’t think any of those possibilities would happen as he studied her face. It was almost like staring down at a lost little child. His heart strings practically tugged themselves.
”I mean, uhh… Time?” Levenin reached into the apple pocket and past the fruit to his old smart device within. Outdated technology, but with a clock. ”About twelve thirty-six…?”
He paused for a moment. ”…Miss, are you lost? You know you’re in the Lower Ring, right? Do you... need to call somebody?”
If that were true, no wonder she seemed so small. Lev wasn’t supposed to be the one who was afraid here.
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Post by Bikini on Dec 13, 2015 21:46:36 GMT -5
Bikini went wide eyed when he reacted in such a way, so guilty... it made her frown a bit.
Bikini though, smiled and nodded when he understood her question and folded in her wings, the tall cover of her plume shrank down to a pom-pom girl with a banana python's tail. However, that smile didn't last long when she blushed and stepped back from him, looking as if maybe he didn't approve of her behavior. "W-well... Yes, I'm lost." She admitted it, and her face turned red. What kind of HUMAN gets lost these days? There was such things as GPS, right? Ohhh, he was gonna tell there was something wrong with her any moment now. Oh gosh, what a FREAK she was--
But then he asked her if she needed to call someone and she blushed again, holding up clothed hands hidden behind big sleeves as she pleaded, "N-no no! Please, don't call anyone--" She realized how crazy she looked and she stepped back again and tried to compose herself again. "I mean-- no. Thank you."
Bikini found herself at an awkward moment between the stranger, and felt compelled to ask him, "...So where is the Golden Panda-Dragon Wok?"
Stomach always comes first. She earned money finally, and she wanted Chinese food, dammit.
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Vigilantes
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Posts: 164
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Character Name: Levenin Refure
Main Account: Levenin
Status: On Hiatus
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Post by Levenin on Dec 18, 2015 21:22:28 GMT -5
The way she frowned told him she knew about his miniature heist. Oh, did she know. Levenin could only imagine how obvious the look of guilt was on his face as she stared at him disapprovingly. But she wasn’t going to do anything. That gave him a chance to redeem himself, even if that meant delaying the gratification of his first meal in days.
”Hey hey, it’s okay!” Lev pleaded, bringing his hands up in defense, only for her to shrink down her wings and her face to turn a beet red. Was he actually intimidating someone for once? He immediately put his arms back down to his sides as the girl backed away, hoping to appear less imposing. ”T-The Lower Class is hard to… It’s c-confusing sometimes. I-It’s not laid out very well and umm…”
Lev stuck his device back in his pocket as soon as she urged him not to call anyone. Did she not have any friends or family to contact? There was always the police but he couldn’t blame her for refusing that option. He and the authorities were not exactly on great terms, and he wasn’t looking to interact with them any time soon.
His stomach growled at the mention of food. ”The Golden Panda…?”
Lost on the way to lunch? Was that it? Lev assumed she’d been wandering around the Lower Ring on her way home or something.
”It’s, umm… I could show you how to get there, if you want?” He felt like a creeper asking to direct her around. However, his worry for her getting lost again overrode that awkwardness.
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Character Name: Bikini
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Post by Bikini on Dec 21, 2015 12:12:30 GMT -5
The attempts to calm Bikini down from giving such a devastating face of disapproval of herself-- it felt oddly familiar. Even the stuttering, it made her calm down a bit. Bikini stepped closer this time, finding this new stranger interesting than she thought. He stole, she saw it and yet he didn't seem all that bad.
But when he offered to show her where the Golden Panda-Dragon Wok was, she smiled so big and her stomach grumbled louder than his did, hopping up and down like a little child seeing an amusement park for the first time. "Really? You'd actually take me there?" She was far too happy to care that he was helping such a monster like her, she loved the week old takeout leftovers in the fridge she was sure she was gonna love the food there when it was fresh! She was just enough money to buy at least a small serving of anything they had-- fried rice even she didn't care.
"Well c'mon then!" She said, hopping backwards and starting off in a run to the door, her tail gently coming in to take his hand to lead him out, but then realized it was improper and stopped, looking down and curling her tail around her in apology, "I-I mean...please, sir?"
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Vigilantes
Smiley Specialist
he's big enough
Posts: 164
Preferred Name: Nama
Character Profile: ♦♦♦
Character Name: Levenin Refure
Main Account: Levenin
Status: On Hiatus
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Post by Levenin on Dec 29, 2015 3:48:17 GMT -5
Lev tried hard not to, but he couldn’t help flinching slightly as she approached him. But how could anyone be afraid of her? Her smile at his willingness to help the girl made his heart skip a beat— but in the good, melting sort of way.
”Y-Yeah,” he said, unable to stop himself from returning the grin before sheepishly scratching at the back of his head. ”I, uh, don’t know where it is exactly. More like… an approximation. But I promise not to leave until we find it.”
Levenin had vaguely heard of the restaurant. He’d assumed it to be one of those places that based their cuisine on the old American-Chinese food of the past, from a time before the Great War. Whipping out his smart device, he hoped he could find it soon, anyway. Leading around another person on a wild goose chase was one thing but so was using up what precious time he had before having to return to work.
On second thought, maybe this promise wasn’t such a good idea. According to coordinates, the map that flashed on screen directed him some distance away. On foot, this seemed daunting.
However, Lev wouldn’t back out now, especially not after seeing the joy it’d brought her. So what if he was a little late getting back to the clinic? He nodded before taking the lead, resisting the urge to ask what it was like to have a prehensile tail such as hers. ”Of course!” More than happy to leave the scene of the crime, Levenin kept close beside her as he weaved in and out of the store crowds.
”Umm, I’m Levenin. Err, Lev, if you like that more,” he said, trying to start a polite conversation.
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Character Name: Bikini
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Post by Bikini on Jan 10, 2016 17:13:54 GMT -5
Bikini giggled as she added bounce in her step, her tail bouncing along with her as she kept to the side of Levenin. "Levy!" she said, liking that name better for him. Oh well, she'll stick with that so he better like it too, the poor guy. "I'm Bikini." she said, even if her name was a piece of undergarment she said it proud.
As they walked, the innocent Bikini scared of hospitals never realized that the ran into a clinic as finally out of it, following Levenin and looking at his strange device. it reminded her of a smaller version of the tablet that Dante and Isaac would teach her with, but it seemed that his had some kind of mapping and navigating device on his. "What is that?" she asked, stepping close enough to touch her sleeves and arms to him to get a better look at what he was holding. Her red hair could of easily got in the way, the pigtails of utter poofyness would blind anyone if she moved her head into their face. "Ohhh, is that little thingy us?" she asked, pressing on the screen until she accidentally shuffled the page away, then back ed up and curled her tail around her, looking like a bad puppy. "I-I'm sorry.... did I break it?"
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Vigilantes
Smiley Specialist
he's big enough
Posts: 164
Preferred Name: Nama
Character Profile: ♦♦♦
Character Name: Levenin Refure
Main Account: Levenin
Status: On Hiatus
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Post by Levenin on Jan 15, 2016 5:53:20 GMT -5
Levenin pursed his lips, smiling but also intrigued. “Levy?” There was one he’d never heard before, but hers was even more unusual.
”Bikini…?” he parroted back at her, quickly stuttering once he realized how rude he must've sounded. A strange name, yet oddly very fitting for her. As if he could judge anyway. ”T-That’s… unique. Umm, I’m not very good at nicknames so I hope you don’t mind me just using that.”
Lev's attention focused back on their path as he lamented how fast the battery was wearing down on his smart device. It seemed every step they took only served to sap it in tandem. A replacement was needed, but with what money would he get one? A squealing of his stomach served to remind him that he didn’t even have the funds to eat. A good thing that Bikini’s curiosity quickly distracted him from that thought.
Worrying for his device’s safety, mainly from him dropping it in surprise of her fiery hair looming into view, Levenin held it closer to himself. He pointed to the flashing icon on screen. ”Yeah, this is us. Err, well, this thing is calibrated for my NUIP so the red dot is just me. B-But please don’t…”
Somehow, whatever Bikini had touched sent him back to his home screen and she cowered away almost immediately. Lev tapped it a few times before showing her again, right back to the local map they'd been traveling by.
”It’s fine. See? It takes more than a few pokes to break one of these. Though, uh, I’d rather you not try to.”
Levenin chuckled, attempting to diffuse the situation before something occurred to the man— this was standard technology. And his version wasn’t even a recent model. A few things didn’t really add up and he couldn't explain it. ”…Uh, you do know what this is, right? You act like you’ve never had one.”
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Preferred Name: Nilo
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Character Name: Bikini
Main Account: Rakuen
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Post by Bikini on Jan 20, 2016 11:36:41 GMT -5
"Don't worry! I just like Bikini." she beamed at him, walking with a bit of bounce in her step.
She was happy that she didn't actually hurt his device, looking that he could just come back to the page he was on and it would be just where it was before. Bikini liked his device, it was interesting and she didn't see those being used not very often... actually, pretty much not at all! She even thought it was just for math problems. Maybe she wasn't looking hard enough at other people to notice that certain device in everyone's hand, it looked rather useful...
Levenin asked a question that made her why again, looking shamed and brought down. She curled her tail inwards as she walked, her wings tightened hard down on her back and she pulled up her collar of her dress to hide her face a bit, the blush noticeable around her sapphire blue eyes. "Umn... Am... am I supposed to have one?" she asked, feeling so bad. she shook her head and looked down, "I've seen them before, but no.... I don't have one. All I have is my chips, my dress, my mini top, my panties--" she all said pointing tot hem, except her panties she knew by now that was inappropriate, until-- "and my coin anklets--" she said, bending down to point at them too, not doubt her big tail lifting up her skirt of her dress and accidentally showing something else.
All in a life of Bikini, the girl named after panties.
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