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White Sands Blue Sea(OPEN)
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Nov 15, 2021 3:11:11 GMT
At some beach in the Southern Tropics were a pair of Cardmon. The yellow one named Blackjack was under a palm tree as if drawn to it somehow and was trying to understand why. As for his twin sister Harmony, the blue and white Cardmon had been drawn to the water almost instantly upon the siblings reaching the beach and she had dove in and was swiming around her card making for an efficient substitute for flippers or fins as she was able to move gracefully around in the water. Made sense seeing as she was the water based Cardmon. While she swam she observed her brother before she said "Hey, Blackjack, why don't you come swim with me."
Blackjack shook his body which was his and his sister's equivalent of a head shake before he turned to Harmony and said "Maybe later, Harmony. I still don't know why I was drawn to this tree."
"Maybe you were drawn to the tree in the same sense I was drawn to the water. Perhaps you should try climbing it. Wasn't the land Cardmon known for being in trees?"
"You have a point. Alright here I go." Blackjack said reaching out his invisible hands to grasp the tree and began pulling himself up it bit by bit. After climbing a few feet his grip slipped but instead of falling toward the ground his body stuck to the tree. Confused Blackjack bounced experimentally before sticking back to the tree. So he could stick to things by choice it seemed. Pretty cool so he began hopping up and down the tree before he made it back to the sand and hopped toward the water. "Harmony, it seems I can willingly stick to things. Maybe you have some awesome ability regarding the sea or something."
"Maybe. Hold on, I'll dive down and look into that." Harmony said before diving under the water while swimming around soon realizing she was able to swim underwater due to a curious energy field which was allowing her to breathe while underwater.
OOC: Blackjack's passives- Sticky Touch: Allows him to stick to any surface he wishes.(Non combat passive) Phantom Hands: He lifts and carries things with invisible hands and can be mistaken for levitation.(Non combat passive)
Harmony's passives- Deep Dive: Creates a curious energy field around her in a 10 ft. radius that allows her and anyone within that field to withstand great pressure and breathe underwater.(Non combat passive) Phantom Hands: She lifts and carries things with invisible hands and can be mistaken for levitation.(Non combat passive)
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Post by supesman on Nov 15, 2021 4:24:19 GMT
"HEAD'S UP!" A voice shouted from across the beach as the shadow of an object flew over the whtie sand right towards Blackjack before slamming into him with a dense, hollow THUNK. If he chose to try and hold onto it he would find a beachball now clinging to the top of his head, if not then it would bounce off of him and roll down into the sand to one side of him. "My bad little man, didn't know my own...are you alright there kiddo? Sorta looking off into space." Zack said, dressed in a bright yellow pair of swim trunks as he bent down to pick up the ball, holding it in both hands as he looked at the gooey looking ball of a digimon, drooping slightly from the effect of gravity onits body. Blackjack Zack actually had to look down at him in order to look into the little ball's eyes. Unable to stop his heroic mind from acting up he adjusted the strap of a large duffel bag on his sunblock drenched shoulder and considered the smaller digimon's response.
"Daaad! Come on! Throw back the...hey, little man, you good?" She said, making the exact same automatically helpful assumption that her father had. The two of them really were two peas in the same pod. She fluttered down to the sand, her buzzing wings kicking up a tiny plume of particles that twirled around her form before she settled, sinking slightly as the points of her insectoid legs stabbed through the loose ground beneath. She didn't require any change of outfit, she didn't wear anything other than the distinct red muffler scarf around her neck anyway and she didn't need to worry about getting baked to a crisp like her light skinned human father. The both of them looked at him, though Marigold on the ground at least was able to look him in the eyes a little better.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Nov 16, 2021 2:48:47 GMT
While waiting for his twin sister to come up he heard the sudden call of 'Heads up!' only for the softball sized Cardmon to see a beachball flying for his face to late to evade or parry it so the ball struck him sending him hurtling into the sand onto his back. Seeing the one who was the owner of the beach ball, Blackjack glared angrily at the human his card vibrating in his anger as he tried to keep things cool. "Am I good?" he angrily muttered before he outright exploded in his fury vibrating with his rage all the while. "No I'm not good! What makes you think I would be seeing I got knocked to the ground by an object thrown many times my size by an unobservant buffoon. You....You...." He couldn't get anything else out that sounded like words as he was to mad to form them.
Meanwhile Harmony, who was still underwater and not aware what had happened with her twin, had come up to the surface seeing her brother glaring daggers at a human and vibrating with sheer rage. Swimming swiftly to the shoreline she asked "Blackjack, what happened?" When his only response was to look at her she saw he had scooped some sand onto his card and she floated out of the water realizing what was about to happen as she saw the sand particles were being charged by energy. It was as if he was instinctively acting out and when she got to him, she said "It's okay, Blackjack. Please put the sand down." Blackjack was responding to his twin's calm voice and the sand lost it's charge before it dropped off his card to return to the ground.
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Post by supesman on Nov 16, 2021 3:24:04 GMT
"Hey, HEY! Woah!" Zack said, not taking a step back, indeed taking a step FORWARD to place himself inbetween any attack that Blackjack would make and Marigold. Marigold was growling, digging her legs into the grains beneath them and making an angry buzzing sound as her wings stood ready to shoot her out into the air toward him at a second's notice. "I don't really think and accident with a rubber ball full of air is calling for violence, do you?" Zack said, his tone diplomatic to a point but thrown into a tightly wound, "ready for action" mode at the sudden heightening of tension.
Marigold's body was even more ready, her father might be much more willing to talk down an attacker but Marigold had one goal when it came to someone who would attack her father so firmly out of the blue and that one goal was to put the attacker in the dirt and keep him there by any means necessary.
"Alright. EVERYONE take a breath!" He said, now standing inbetween Marigold and Blackjack as Harmony skated in to try and talk down her own side of the conflict. Zack gave Marigold a very sharp look in her direction that made her grumble slightly, picking herself up in the sand and letting her wings slow.
"He started it over nothing..." She grumbled, making hard eyes at the tiny softball sized Digimon, everyone around almost able to see the lightning flash between their locked gazes.
"I don't care who started it. We're all ending it, Marigold. NOW." He said, planting his feet in the proverbial sand and making sure that she wasn't going to do anything stupid before he turned. "Are you alright?" no excuses or explanations. Just the question
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Nov 16, 2021 3:43:14 GMT
When Marigold glared at Blackjack he ignored her gaze as he wasn't angry at her and between Zack and Harmony he was now much calmer. He was still angry, yes, but not to the extreme he was before. After taking a deep breath like Zack suggested he glanced at how the human was standing between him and his Fanbeemon partner. He found it strange that Zack was basically willing to be in the potential line of fire. Brave, yes, but also potentially worrying. "No a large rubber ball isn't worth fighting about but I was startled when I saw it coming since it was bigger than me. I know that's no excuse for me yelling but I don't know what came over me. I just..." Blackjack said his card drooping now feeling bad for yelling despite still being somewhat angry.
When asked once again if he was alright he replied "Yeah I'm alright. Like I said I was just startled. Sorry for yelling. Sometimes when scared I can at times loose my cool easier and I think if my sister didn't get here I might of attacked you and..." He shuddered at the fact he could of hurt someone innocent but felt relieved at some level that it didn't happen.
"Uhm, excuse me but what happened while I was swimming?" Harmony interrupted looking completely lost which was understandable since she didn't witness what happened.
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Post by supesman on Nov 16, 2021 22:44:51 GMT
"Hey little man, it's alright." Zack said, squatting down so that he was more level with Blackjack's eye line. He even got down onto his knees so that he could fully talk on Blackjack's level. It usually didn't come off so well to talk down to people, especially someone who seemed like he was already having a bad time. "Nobody got hurt, nobody got attacked alright? Everyone's fine. You're fine. I'm fine. Well...I'm more than a little screwed in the head but that's an issue I've had since birth so we can call it pretty close to fine by now." He said, deploying his roughish humor the way he always did, as the defusal of tension. He just wanted to make Blackjack smile in the end so that he'd stop feeling bad. he pushed himself up to his feet, patting sand that was clinging in masses to the thickly blobbed sunblock around his calves.
"I was...playing with the beach ball and I hit it too hard. When I tried to fly after it my wings just kept blowing it away. it got picked up by the wind and well..." She looked away, gesturing at Blackjack. "Sorry." She said in a huff, also explaining what had generally happened to Harmony now that she was on the scene. Her tone of apology maybe left a lot to be desired but she was still more than a little defensive when it came to the little ball digimon. It took her quite a while to come down from any eventuality where she felt like her father might be put in harm's way but she wanted to apologize anyway, a mix of her own hostile nature and her father's better angels. The constant tug of war in her soul.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Nov 17, 2021 1:18:08 GMT
Now Blackjack was finding this human more confusing than anger inducing, though it didn't show on his face, as Zack moved down to his and Harmony's eye level. When Blackjack noticed Zack's rougish smile he brought forth a rougish smile of his own before he said "First, stop calling me little man. It's an annoying reminder that as a Cardmon my sister and I are smaller than the average rookie. Second, the name is Blackjack. I'm a card player and professional gambler extraordinaire."
Blackjack leaned around Zack looking at Marigold who admitted what happened. So it wasn't Zack's fault completely as it seemed to be innocent playtime that got out of control. "So it was an innocent accident all along. Ooh this is awkward and I was a jerk that whole time. Sorry you guys." Blackjack said drawing nervous circles in the sand with his invisible hands. To the casual observer it seemed the circles were appearing by themselves.
"Glad he apologized on his own so this makes things easier as my brother can be stubborn sometimes. Oh and my name is Harmony. I'm the elder twin sister of this little rogue known as Blackjack." Harmony said with a smile.
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Post by supesman on Nov 17, 2021 3:03:16 GMT
Zack held up his hand at Blackjack's correction of his intended light terminology. He pushed himself up to stand, trying not to make himself look arrogant and trying to remain friendly seeming as he looked down on the pair. He shrugged, nodding along with Blackjack's correction.
"As you say it, so shall it be. Blackjack and Harmony it is then. I'm Zack and this little pouty thing is my daughter Marigold." he said, reaching one of his feet out behind him, hooking it behind the rear end of Marigold's body and pushing her forward, pressing her forward through the sand even as she tried to push back against his motion. "Say hi, Marigold." He said once she was forced out in front of him, directly facing the pair.
"...hello." She said in a blunt, flat tone. it was the kind of forced apology that could only come out a child who didn't feel like she needed to be the one apologizing in the first place but at least it was something. It also made her glad that she didn't have any cheeks to speak of because she would almost certainly be blushing right now if she did, feeling a prickling heat beneath the flesh of her face.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Nov 17, 2021 3:22:44 GMT
"A digimon with a human father?" Blackjack asked looking innocently confused revealing that he and his sister were still just kids as he did his equivalent of a head tilt by tilting his body to one side as he tried to process the info he learned. The reaction was kinda cute actually. Then he corrected his posture abruptly and floated up to eye level with Zack his sister floating up but remaining a bit back as Blackjack said "Not that there is anything wrong with humans having digimon children. Harmony and I have just never seen such a thing before so it is possible such an occurrence is uncommon."
Harmony picked up the flattone from Marigold recognizing it for what it was but didn't seem put off by it. She had heard that tone from Blackjack before since they started talking to she was used to it from her slightly younger brother. Floating over to Marigold she said "Don't worry about, Blackjack. He's not a bad guy once you get used to him. We shared an egg so I would be the first to know that." Harmony's thoughts went back to when both Zack and Blackjack had shared rougish smiles wondering just what she had found herself in. Sure Zack seemed nice enough but something told the blue and white Cardmon that the human was also a handful.
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Post by supesman on Nov 17, 2021 17:18:37 GMT
"I'm adopted, ok?" Marigold said in response to the question, more than a little sharp and even defensive in her tone as she responded more harshly than necessary than to Blackjack's innocent question. She was still on the back foot, feeling embarrassed about nearly picking a fight where none had been needed. She turned her head away, letting out a wordless grumble. She was screwing up her first impressions and she knew it, that only added to the stress she was feeling about the whole encounter.
"Marigold." Zack said in a cooing, reassuring tone, reaching down and picking Marigold up, his hands wrapped around the thin taper of her midsection. He held her up, turning her to face him, looking into her eyes. "There's nothing wrong with who you are or who you've been, alright? We both know that we're a little non-standard, ok?" He asked, smiling at her.
"Ok..." She grumbled slightly, now more than a little embarrassed at her father taking the time to reassure her in front of these new people.
"I want to here you say it." He said, setting her down gently while prodding her to self actualize the acceptance that he always wanted her to have.
"There's nothing wrong with me. There's nothing wrong with who I am or who I've been." She said, looking down to the sand like a student being asked to present to the class even if the idea behind it wasn't to force her to share but more to make her believe it. "And...yea...mine takes some getting used to also. What's a girl to do right?" She said, her mood picking up as she joked in response to harmony's little peacemaking aside, winking at the blue Cardmon.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Nov 17, 2021 23:46:20 GMT
Blackjack flinched at Marigold's sharp tone knowing he had screwed up without meaning to and said "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to upset you. There's nothing wrong with being adopted." Blackjack was out of his depth even shooting glances to Zack and Harmony as if silently asking for help.
Fortunately Zack was working on calming Marigold down by picking her up and began talking to the upset Fanbeemon. It was a sweet sight to witness between the father and daughter. Even though Blackjack wasn't always the mushy type but even he thought it was adorable.
When Marigold spoke to Harmony the blue Cardmon giggled in return and said "Yes but I'm sure your father is a bit of a handful judging by his earlier rougish grin. I guess we're both stuck with boys who are potentially trouble."
"Hey!" Blackjack squeaked out at Harmony indignantly before he said "I may be a handful but at least I don't cheat when I play cards."
"I know, Blackjack, I know." Harmony said giggling as Blackjack began to pout.
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Post by supesman on Nov 18, 2021 4:06:42 GMT
Zack could only shrug and smile again as he was playfully admonished by the pair. he kicked up a little bit of sand, placing his hands into the pockets of his swimwear, hooking his thumbs along the outside. he shifted the weight of his bag on one shoulder.
"I have no defense. I'm a big ball of trouble who has to be kept out of a coffin by my own kid. I yam what I yam." he said, doing an exaggerated winking expression that made Marigold chuckle though perhaps the Popeye reference would be lost on the digital world pair as earthy pop culture often seemed to be. "Here, to put as all on better ground with each other, how about we all take a walk back up to the snackbar? My treat." He said, going back to the common denominator of making friend with any digimon in the digital world. Find a way into their stomach and exploit, exploit, exploit. He was nearly one hundred percent sure that they would accept that one the spot.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Nov 18, 2021 4:29:33 GMT
Sure both Blackjack and Harmony were understandably confused by the Popeye reference as they shared confused looks with one another before giggling. Zack seemed rather silly to the young Cardmon siblings. Harmony looked at Marigold and asked "Is he kidding? Just how much trouble does your dad get into anyway?" Meanwhile Blackjack was just as confused but didn't say anything as Harmony had voiced his thoughts perfectly.
The two Cardmon's eyes lit up at the mention of food as it seemed Zack understood that digimon loved eating almost all day. It was just how many digimon were so neither twin thought to much about it. Floating into the air Blackjack's card twitched excitedly as he said "Food sounds good to be. I don't think I'm the only one who wouldn't mind something to eat."
"Translation. Yes, Zack, I would love some food. Thank you." Harmony said with a snort before bursting into laughter. Blackjack stuck his tongue out at his sister before joining her in laughing.
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Post by supesman on Nov 18, 2021 20:57:28 GMT
"My father and I have certain...uhhh extracurricular activities that I would explain but I feel like there's probably a better time. Knowing our luck the circumstances to show you what I'm talking about will probably find us on their own before too long." She said, shrugging her front limbs with a resigned sigh. The deadpan resignation in her voice made it clear to the twins that she was dead serious in what she was talking about. She reached out, patting the duffel bag her father carried, perhaps causing greater curiosity to its contents as she turned and began to walk with the rest of the group, buzzing off the ground like the pair of cardmon.
"Hey you guys don't have to tell me twice. I'm a human trying to keep a growing digimon fed. I know that food is kind of an "every two to three hours" affair." He said, unzipping one of the side pockets of the duffel to show a large bundle of jerky, cheeses, trail mix, granola bars and other quick snacks to keep Marigold on the level between huge, scarfing meals.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Nov 18, 2021 23:08:49 GMT
"Judging by those words and your shrug, why do I get the feeling you and your father's extracurricular activities don't mean going out and playing sports?" Harmony said with a surprisingly wise tone for being so young but with a twin like Blackjack someone not only had to be the voice of reason but also have the wisdom needed for such a thing and Harmony had that to spare. Though concerned about what Marigold meant by trouble it was washed from Harmony's mind as she looked at her brother while Marigold was touching the duffel bag.
Apparently the curiosity brimming in the twin Cardmon regarding the bag was handled when Zack opened a side pocket of the bag revealing various snacks inside. "Yeah not all digimon have easy access to snacks on the road as we have to search for food while risking being attacked by stronger digimon. Makes me remember that Harmony and I are still fairly low on the food chain not being able to reach champion yet."
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