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What's In a Premonition? [Mae]
Mae
Official Grader
The Royal Shipper
I'm the oracle that's had enough.
Posts: 608
OOC Name: Bass
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Post by Mae on Jul 25, 2019 10:04:13 GMT
It was true, Mae did have a knack for making her visions and omen sound more akin to tales, fantasies. Perhaps it made them less painful for her to recount, or perhaps she did it to amuse herself. Nobody would be the wiser as to either unless they decided to just probe her mind.
At least she was able to provide...insight? Could it be called that? "It's...It's fine. Grief drives people to act unlike themselves sometimes. To act irrationally. I...I'm not mad at you or anything." The cat's next words actually did hurt a bit more than a simple claw strike to the face, though.
"You don't...need to be sorry for that. Such is the hand I'm dealt. It isn't one that I asked for, but it's one I put up with all the same. It...It's why I do what I do, really...So that joy has a chance to prevail over despair. It's an uphill battle, sure, but..." Mae trailed off, starting to stare down at the ground again.
Syre had actually caught Mae quite off guard with that. Nobody had ever told her 'hey, sorry you see the things you see' before, and it was showing.
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Post by Syre the BlackGatomon on Jul 26, 2019 0:22:56 GMT
Honestly, Syre didn't need Mae to try and make her feel better about what she did... but the cat appreciated it. Despite everything today, Mae was a dear friend, and Syre would have hated to do anything to try and widen that gap. But not two seconds later did the cat have to open her mouth again and put Mae on the back foot.
Berating her power. Calling it a negative and scary thing without weighing the good it could do. All Syre had to do was look and see the sullen look in Mae's face to realize that she stepped over another line.
"Mae..." Syre gave a sigh, shaking her head. "I... look... you know..."
Fuck. What was she supposed to say at a time like this? Syre gave another sigh, forcing herself to stand up, brushing off her legs as she tried to clear her head. "... I need to get better at this shit." She shook her head. "The first thing I did when I learned that mom was going to, well, die... I got angry at dad for not being able to save her. And just now, I got angry at you for the exact same thing. And don't get me wrong, I've been angry at that fucking Wisemon from the very start, but..."
Syre bit her lip. "Mom... mom wouldn't want me to be angry, to blame anyone. I... I guess if I just feel like I have something to pin this all on, maybe all of the pain will go away, for at least a little bit."
The cat blinked.
"But... its not that easy, is it?"
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Mae
Official Grader
The Royal Shipper
I'm the oracle that's had enough.
Posts: 608
OOC Name: Bass
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Post by Mae on Jul 26, 2019 8:02:41 GMT
It wasn't easy. Mae could at least tell that much. But Syre -was- right, even if she did kind of step over a line. Mae thought exactly that of her power. It was something she never wanted, yet something she grappled with on a daily basis. Where would she begin with this...?
"I wouldn't say it is. I'm...Sorry if I'm not being much help. I mean, I kind of know what you're going through, but I've never had to talk anyone through this before. I guess I can say that the anger goes away. The pain goes away, too, but it's not all at once." The Keramon spoke, slowly picking her gaze up from the floor.
"...I'll say this, though. The Seven? They're going to face divine retribution, be it wrought from either of us, or from the others I saw in my visions. It's only inevitable. I'd...rather you not show up in any visions of mine doing anything rash. I really wouldn't...." ...Mae had the feeling she might have stepped over a line right then and there.
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Post by Syre the BlackGatomon on Jul 26, 2019 17:29:01 GMT
"You're being a great help, Mae. Don't worry." Syre managed a small smile - and with a sigh, she'd kneel down, and start picking up fragments of that broken tile, dragging the bin over to start throwing them away. "Mom wanted us to 'go on', to be able to do what we could and live our lives. It... it hurts, but I want to be able to honor that. Through the Knights, and, well, through just trying to live my life."
Soon, that shattered tile was replaced with a square of blank grout, small holes at the top where the claw actually managed to slip through. "Tch, Yukiko's gonna get on my case about this - hm?" Syre's ear flicked, as Mae spoke of the demon lords, of the seven. Assuring her that they were going to face their own retribution. She also spoke of concern about not wanting to see Syre as part of the tale.
"Mae..." The cat gave a blink, not entirely sure hot to take that. But, after a moment, she gave a sigh, the tension just loosening up from her body. "Do you want to go out and get an ice cream or something? We could, um, use a change of pace or somethin."
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Mae
Official Grader
The Royal Shipper
I'm the oracle that's had enough.
Posts: 608
OOC Name: Bass
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Post by Mae on Jul 28, 2019 7:10:27 GMT
Mae moved to help Syre with cleaning up the broken tile. She still felt some responsibility for that, so it'd feel wrong not to help with this. "It's a sensible thing to do--and the easiest thing to do. A person only truly dies when they've been forgotten, and between you, your siblings, and the rest of the world? I don't think the memory of K and her efforts will be lost to time anytime soon. As I said, the pain will eventually fade, but the memory will remain."
"She might, but I'll stick my neck out for you if I need to. Um...Ice cream would be nice. Know any places?" At least she wasn't asking what kind. Plus, this would...actually be quite a good place to look into the future. Even if the reasoning behind it would be quite silly--after all, there's a lot of possible places to get ice cream at...
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"...And no, I'm not gonna try guessing where you're gonna pick."
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Post by Syre the BlackGatomon on Jul 28, 2019 17:48:38 GMT
"Heh... mom definitely wasn't one to live a 'quiet' life, really." Syre managed a small, somber chuckle, finally managing to level herself out, the tensity leaving her, that rage she felt in her head seeming like a distant memory. Really, just how could she have blamed Mae minutes prior? She was keeping her held upright, through all of this.
An ice cream was the least she could do! "Yeah, a couple - I'd ordinarily say its a bit of a walk, but..." She clicked a button on her D-Tector, and after a few moments, a portal would open up - the hot-and-humid air of Whitewater on the other side. As they stepped through, they would hit the pavement, and be able to turn the corner to Whitewater's market, food carts and stands stretching across the entire street.
Including an ice cream cart, third on the left. Her ear gave a twitch.
"Right, because you guessing 'vanilla cone' is going to be some grand revelation?" She teased, even butting her elbow against the Keramon's side!
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Mae
Official Grader
The Royal Shipper
I'm the oracle that's had enough.
Posts: 608
OOC Name: Bass
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Post by Mae on Jul 29, 2019 5:59:01 GMT
"Perhaps she wanted one in the end...? I don't know. Suppose I'll never know now." There wasn't really any way to quantify the relief Mae felt with Syre seeming to loosen up, relax. It meant that perhaps her efforts had paid off after all, hadn't they? Plus, they didn't even have to walk or fly that far.
...Mae kind of forgot that D-Port existed and could be used to do things. Mae slinked on through the portal to be greeted with the heat of Whitewater. "What a pleasant change of scenery!" She snickered, before wobbling some from that joking elbow on the side. "Yes, actually! It's the grand revelation that Occam's Razor--the simplest option is applicable even to ice cream." Mae took a pause. "I was expecting something like strawberry. Or the mythical purple ice cream. Whatever flavor that could be."
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Post by Syre the BlackGatomon on Jul 29, 2019 23:08:52 GMT
Woop, was that a bit much? Syre was a bit more used to Mae as a Mecoomon than a Keramon, so she had to remember to be a bit more mindful with any sort of roughhousing. Still, Mae seemed to bounce right back up, and even seemed to speak about... um... psychological theory?
"Yeah, sometimes I just like to take a portal out here and just see what's new in the market. And... hm. I think I've read about Occam's Razor exactly once, in one of dad's old math books or something." And far be it from Syre to actually remember something like that. As they walked on, her ear gave a flick, Syre giving a chuckle as they came up to the cart. "See, now that would have been thinking too much. Purple? I'd say 'grape' but somehow that doesn't really come across as an ice-cream flavor-"
"That's because its not! Purple's cactus fruit!"
Eavesdropping merchants! Syre gave a blink and looked up to the cart, seeing a Gazimon hold a sample cup of the 'mysterious purple ice cream' to the likely curious Keramon.
"... See, told you this place was good."
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Mae
Official Grader
The Royal Shipper
I'm the oracle that's had enough.
Posts: 608
OOC Name: Bass
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Post by Mae on Jul 31, 2019 23:38:43 GMT
"Is there usually anything new in the market or does it like...differ on a seasonal basis?" Mae inquired. "...Man, that book probably has a new edition or two out, I'm sure of it." The Keramon had definitely not been about to reveal that she read about this entirely by chance within the Library. The discourse about whatever the hell purple ice cream could taste like, if it even existed in the first place, was swiftly halted by, what else?
Eavesdropping merchants.
"Cac...Cactus fruit?" She repeated. What? What did that even taste like? The Keramon stared at the sample cup that she was offered, and after gingerly grasping it with the freakishly large hands that Keramon had been known for, glanced towards Syre. "I didn't doubt it was good, I just wasn't expecting purple to actually exist."
And with that said, she licked a piece of the purple ice cream off. "...Woah, this is a very literal kind of sweet." The Keramon noted. She didn't seem to dislike it, at the very least!
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Post by Syre the BlackGatomon on Aug 1, 2019 0:25:53 GMT
Interesting question! "Um... kind of both?" Syre tilted her head as she started to think about it. "I mean there's stuff that only comes around once every Digital year, and then stuff that comes around once every human year - so that comes along very slowly. But then there's just stuff that's here all the time, like the ice cream."
An interesting thought, but hardly why the cat was here! Syre gave a chuckle as the Keramon took the sample, chuckling at her confusion. "Ah, Vanilla, please. One scoop?"
"One scoop for the cat." He gave a nod, getting out a small cup - it was really too hot for proper cones - and gave Syre a nice, generous scoop in exchange for a few bits. As to Mae's point, the Gazimon gave a nod. "Mhm. Some call it 'tart', definitely hard to explain Whitewater Cactus in just a few words. It doesn't get a lot of water so the sugar and flavor gets very refined. Barely have to add sugar on our end to finish the product." Not able to tell if the Keramon was sold, the Gazimon tapped at the menu.
"We got normal stuff here too, of course. Anything you fancy?"
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Mae
Official Grader
The Royal Shipper
I'm the oracle that's had enough.
Posts: 608
OOC Name: Bass
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Post by Mae on Aug 1, 2019 13:46:47 GMT
Oh. Of course that'd be the case with ice cream. No matter what time of year it was, there had usually been a time to enjoy that. Except maybe winter, why would you get something cold in the winter? Nonetheless, the Keramon kept eating her ice cream even as the Gazimon continued to extrapolate on the intricacies of Whitewater Cactus Ice Cream™.
"Yeah, uh...A scoop of that? The cactus fruit one, I mean. I know I said it's really sweet, but I do kind of like it." If there had been anything to learn from today, it was what ice cream flavors that Mae might fancy above others. Of course, she also did just go for the purple because she really didn't know what else counted as normal aside from vanilla and chocolate. Or strawberry.
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Post by Syre the BlackGatomon on Aug 2, 2019 0:01:31 GMT
Hey, if Mae liked it, she liked it! The Gazimon gave a grin: "And one scoop of Cactus Cream to the Keramon!"
One exchange of bits later, and Mae would have a cup of that dark, purple ice cream, and a little wafer of waffle cone to go along with it. It wouldn't take long after for the pair to find a good place to enjoy their treats, a bench about a block away and out of the heavy traffic drawn by the food carts.
"Well, I guess at this time of day, all the tables are pretty much staked out..." Not that they really needed anything like that for ice cream. Taking a healthy scoop from the top, Syre would start on her treat, mulling through her head about something to talk about.
"Mm... so you're squatting at the club like me, right? Not actually a member?" Syre gave a blink. "How'd you end up with all of us? My dad's in, so that's how I'm there..."
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Mae
Official Grader
The Royal Shipper
I'm the oracle that's had enough.
Posts: 608
OOC Name: Bass
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Post by Mae on Aug 2, 2019 23:10:33 GMT
Mae spent the entirety of the time it took to find a place to sit (however far away from the stand it was) lapping away at her ice cream. In all fairness, she did have to eat it fast before it melted thanks to the heat Whitewater had been known for. "Yep, but we don't really need tables, do we?"
The Keramon gave a blink right back at Syre as she asked about how she ended up at the club. "Oh. Um...It's not that elaborate of a story at all. I don't have any family within the club. Nor did I really have anywhere else to go. Um...One of the other people 'squatting' at the club took me in after they ran into me making smores alone on the Plains. A spirit wielder trapped here named Wakako. That was...A human year ago. Yukiko's basically my mom because of that..."
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Post by Syre the BlackGatomon on Aug 3, 2019 1:01:20 GMT
Yes, there was hardly any table manners to be had with rapidly melting ice cream! Syre got through quite a bit of her own before they would finally sit down, Syre giving a shrug and a nod to that remark about tables.
The club, of course, was far more interesting. "S'mores alone in the Plains? Where did you even find the stuff..." The cat gave a blink as she listened to the rest of that short story. Interesting, but fairly unremarkable - except for that bit about Mae calling Yukiko her mom.
The cat blinked, trying to process that - before she let out a small chuckle. "S-sorry, I don't mean anything by it... it... its just, growing up with an actual mom and dad, I just sometimes forget that my case is not how most families work in the Digital World. Either way, well, I'm glad it all worked out for you. You're fun to have around."
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Mae
Official Grader
The Royal Shipper
I'm the oracle that's had enough.
Posts: 608
OOC Name: Bass
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Post by Mae on Aug 3, 2019 5:13:33 GMT
"Well, funny you should ask. Turns out, people were willing to sell to a Keramon more than a Meicoomon. If they'd even entertain the company of one. Usually they just threw stones if I dared show my face in that form. " Mae then realized how...uh. Sour the subject had turned. "Uh...Sorry." A hasty apology, admittedly.
Wait. Mae was...fun to have around? The thought seemed to elicit some amount of surprise from the Keramon. "...You really think so? I-I'll admit, while it's worked out far batter than I can imagine? I could probably stand to hang around the club a little more lately. Most of my time's been spent up in Luminas helping clean up what's left of the old regime..." She took yet another pause, before... "I think you're fun too, Syre. We should hang out more."
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