DRAIN YOU OF YOUR SANITY

[fakethulhu]

WHO: The Emissary and co. versus everybody
WHERE: Off the coast of Battery Park and throughout the City
WHEN: Just before midnight October 31st (technically November 1st)
WARNINGS: Violence and frightening imagery
SUMMARY: Drawn by Illidan’s magic, a demon from beyond reality has come forth to help the Betrayer doom the world. The battle that saves

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[tastesrainbows]

[ in a fight like this, hopelessly outnumbered by a swarm of enemies, kanaya had a few things going for her. one her own, she wasn't a poor fighter, she had her fists, her fangs, her chainsaw, so when met face-to-face with an enemy of this caliber, she had everything she needed to dispatch it quickly. in facing more than one, her speed and portals also helped, allowing her to misdirect and redirection the flow of the battle. most importantly, perhaps, she had a lack of concern for personal harm to give her enough of a morale boost to throw herself against so many foes without so much as a flinch. too many others to under that threat today.

and so she'd hop from demonspawn to demonspawn, ripping through them as she could, and generally making a mess of her new Official Team Space jacket, and the little fairy wings she wore with it. someone let a small girl on the front line, and she was doing her damnedest to slow the advance, but there were just too many of them ]

[in_likeflynn]

[ In between turns of clearing people out of the City, Kurt's taking moments to clear up the clusters of oncoming creatures from below, as well. He's made the decision to go into all of this armed; blades make for much quicker work than do fists and feet. He supposes he can reflect upon the violence and moral implications later. For now, he just take the things at face value, unholy and deadly, and works with that.

He'd spotted the girls struggle, presently, and teleports directly into the fray. It's messy. It's sad to see. They will dismiss this wave and she will be sent on her way; he is newly determined of that. He tells her so much, even as he slashes upward on the first creature to approach. ]

You should not be here, Miss Maryam.

[tastesrainbows]

[ kanaya makes a leap onto the back of one creature and grips it across its rather large head. she plants her feet to get a better balance and twists as hard as she can until it finally crumples to the ground following the satisfying snap.

hopping from that one to her next target, her chainsaw appears in her hand to help make quick work of it. ]

I highly disagree, Mr. Wagner. There is perhaps no more fitting place for me to be located at present. You, however, stand a far greater chance of being harmed in this, and that would be undesirable.

[in_likeflynn]

[ Kurt visibly flinches at the snap of the creature's neck breaking. It's a sound associated with a terrible memory. It almost frightens him to hear it, every time.

The sudden appearance of the chainsaw, horrific business... Just another thing he won't bother worrying about right now. He's a bit busy weaving around the monsters, attempting quick and deadly blows while he attempts to negotiate the girl from the situation. ]

I do not fear harm. I estimate that you do not, either. Still-- [ Hold on, sorry. He dispatches another and it takes a moment of his concentration. ] You are very young. The general consensus is that young people should not be exposed to such things.

[tastesrainbows]

[ she shreds through one of the monsters as she lands, slicing it nearly in half. another one charges at her, but she whips her hands around to pull the threads she needs, and opens a portal in front of it that redirects its charge into another spawn ]

Were that the case, I'm afraid you're some sweeps late, particularly considering the months I experienced prior to my arrival here in the City. I am no stranger to "such things" as it is, and am in a unique position to handle them that few others are similarly granted.

It is therefore my duty to be here rather than elsewhere. If I am not, than innocents will come to harm, and that I find unacceptable.

[in_likeflynn]

I am no stranger to such lines of thought. [ Slash, slash, flip, jab. The fighting and banter combo is almost comforting. Now if he could only word his counter-argument in a way that would be convincing. ] However... Given any foul circumstance, it is not fair to make soldiers of children. I do not want to undermine your talents nor your noble thoughts, but I really must put my foot down.

[ This punctuated by a hard kick to his opponent of the moment. The thing lurches oddly, but doesn't fall, and Kurt curses under his breath. The horde members seem fairly squishy. Landing a hit that impacts is difficult work.

He opens his mouth to continue speaking, but the thing is upright again and not moving immediately forward, pausing in it path, mouth open... There's the briefest pause as he's unsure whether to follow through with an attack, simply move, or teleport out of the way altogether.

Teleport, he thinks, run it through the skull and stay above them all for a moment. Christ above, what a thing... And, as he thinks it, move, it

[tastesrainbows]

[ kanaya's fought even of these things that she recognizes what that maneuver forecasts, and she likes mr. wagner well enough that she'd prefer he not be hit by it. and so, she quickly pulls a portal open and leaps between kurt and the beast, pulling at its mouth-tentacles in an attempt to keep them closed and to force its head to the left. she lets out a scream as she forces it further to the left than it was meant to go.

she falls to her knees panting as she looks down at her hands, gnarled, torn, and burnt to such a degree one could almost have trouble recognizing what they were. she's glowing like a giant light bulb at this point, but she can't manage to slow her breathing or make the pain stop. really, when she thinks about it, trying to control her glow should be the least of her worries at the moment. ]

[in_likeflynn]

[ Reappearing above the creature, it takes a second to realize what's happening below. Once the realization hits, Kurt is struck with horror at the fact, rage for the monster. He cries out and kills the thing as intended, albeit with more violence than originally planned.

Then he does what he should have done in the first place, curse him for a fool, and he grabs up the girl and teleports away. Somebody else can slow the advance for a moment. They're now atop the nearest building, knee-jerk point of safety. ]

Gott im Himmel, mein Kind! Sie sollten nicht-- Ach! Are you mad?! Are you... I will not ask if you are all right. You are going to a doctor.

[tastesrainbows]

[she is in a lot of pain right now and trying not to go into shock, so the last thing she needs is to fuss at someone for fussing over her, but kurt just cut her off from her best chance at healing, and that is enough to get her freaking out ] No! You have no conception of what it is you're-- [ but she's cut off by the BAMF.

on top of the building, she breaks free with a surprising strength and hesitates at the ledge, what's left of her fingers being unable to grasp the threads to open a portal below. she turned before fully absconding, shouting back at him: ] I have no need of a medical professional!

[ and with that she dove off the roof, slowing her fall by hopping between facades and sliding as she could. it would be much easier if she had use of her hands, but she'd just have to make do. it wasn't her choice to travel to the top of the roof and away from the easiest prey

[in_likeflynn]

Wait!

[ Again, sudden actions surprise him, and there's another wave of panic as his watches her dive from the roof. Even in other worlds, full of people from even more other worlds, one's conceptions of how things work don't easily change. Young girls should not be made to fight monsters, if avoidable, they shouldn't have their hands burnt off, and they shouldn't dive from buildings.

All in all, it's turning out to be a dazzling attempt at forcing his own logic onto the situation. He's at something of a loss by the time she lands and immediately... What? Feeds upon one of the things?

The impulse is, again, to teleport in and assist. He recognizes a healing factor (or something like it) when he sees one, at least. The monsters will be held off to the best of his ability until she's finished this gruesome business, and then... ]

I still advise strongly that you see somebody! Or at least move out of this mess!

[tastesrainbows]

[ the process of reconstruction had begun, though while she now had all ten fingers again, it was by no means complete and she wouldn't yet be able to make much use of those fingers just yet. this left her with only her feet and fangs, but perhaps the healing would be quickened if supplied with additional blood, so she didn't shy away from using either. ]

That would be inadvisable.

If I were absent, someone else would need fight in my stead, someone unlikely to have my same capabilities with responding to harm. Perhaps even you.

[ hold on she's gotta tear this thing's throat out and it's impolite to talk with your mouth full ] For me to shirk my duties would result in another's suffering, or even death. I'm incapable of dying again, I can withstand the harm, it's better for that suffering to be inflicted on me.

[in_likeflynn]

Again, we have similar viewpoints, but only in certain matters. [ He's already stated that he doesn't care about coming to harm. Coming to death, even... He wasn't sure he minded that, either, whether or not he was most likely to turn up in this place again. ]

The area has been largely evacuated. There are more willing to fight and, I assure you, they are plenty capable. The absence of one will not determine the outcome here.

[ More slicing. He knows, still, that the argument is not very convincing. One cannot simply tell stubborn children that they'd rather not see them hurt, not when there was a good deal on the line. ]

Aside, I think your abilities might be put to better use in moving people around.

[tastesrainbows]

And again, those willing others would be subject to further harm in my absence. This isn't an acceptable alternative, it's only practical to feel that it would be preferable that I would to face this harm instead.

[ she will absolutely not budge on this point. on the list of kanaya maryam's priorities, she isn't at the bottom because she didn't even make the cut. no topic could possibly be more irrelevant to her than self-preservation

she risks the strain on her hand to open a new portal, swinging on the thread to give her a good position to kick a monster behind kurt in the head ]

As for my dominion over Space, one might raise a similar question to you, Mr. Wagner. For myself, I have previously participated in the evacuation as one in my position could, but given the situation as it is, my duties here take priority until such a time as bystanders and spectators in the path of destruction should occur. I will by no means neglect them in such circumstances, but for the time being I'm where I'm most needed.

[in_likeflynn]

[ Ach, fine. Good God, what point is there in his trying to convince a soul of anything, least of all that a student should stop cutting down horrific monsters for the sake of his concern? Never mind that she'd just practically burned her hands off.

Realization of the conversation's lost cause rings (a little bitterly) true to home. Again, he slices into the next monster with more gore resulting than is perhaps necessary, and he pulls the feet of another from under its body with his tail before running it through. He is an obsolete man with obsolete ideals. Silly him, of course, for thinking that even odd and powerful children from other worlds should not be subject to this.

And now there is... What? Compromise? Should that even be acceptable? ]

I have been evacuating those who remain, yes. I stopped here predominately out of concern for your well-being, but I see it is not completely warranted.

[tastesrainbows]

Believe me, Mr. Wagner, there's nothing more pointless to be worried over than my well-being.

[ it's okay kurt that is in fact exactly as fucked up as it sounds, but nothing will make fussyfangs here any fussier than when you fuss at her about it.

and with the test she'd made with the portal being successful, she feels confident enough to take her chainsaw back out and cut a bloody swath out of the approaching enemy ]

[seeingeyespit]

[and at some point she is joined by another small girl as Terezi arrives to help her kick some ass. she carves a path to Kanaya with her cane sword, dispatching enemies left and right with her customary cackle ringing as the last sound they hear.]

Kanaya! Need a hand?