Posts by xYukirin

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December watched, patiently, as Yoshi attacked, taking a small step back. The ice he'd created from before still shone across the ground, though fissures had marred and clouded it's surface and it crackled in some places underfoot. Drawing his attention away, he decided to use Yoshi's attack to his advantage. Shining, blunt orbs of ice formed around him, clear and barely visible in the light aside from the light that reflected and refracted off of them. Some were more spherelike, while others simply seemed to be round-ish objects, with no regular rhyme to them aside from the fact that there weren't any sharp ends.
He grit his teeth, annoyed - usually, he let his ice form more irregular shapes - as long as they were roughly blade-shaped and sharp, it worked for him. Crafting multiple blunt objects with care to make sure they weren't sharp enough to possibly stab the teacher required a bit more of his attention. However, he would readily switch to his usual spikes and shards if Konani ticked him off enough - that was given. He already wasn't font of their supervisor, and of course had no qualms about holding back if he was given a reason, though it would be a crying shame to be kicked out. Advancing forward himself, a small twitch of his eye sent the ice flying towards the teacher - he hoped at least they would put him down, and maybe would even knock him out.
A grin slid onto his face.
Wouldn't that be a treat?
He strengthened the ice underfoot, aware that it might throw Yoshi off, but more hoping that it would mess with Konani's footing - he relented just enough on his cooling to allow for a thin sheen of water atop the flow, making it almost like a skating rink in quality - perfectly smooth and slippery.

Narunir managed to straighten himself out, flapping his wings slightly as he pressed them back against his hide, slowly backing up and watching the students carefully, resisting the urge to perk his ears up and listen - yes, he was a predator, and of course his senses were heightened - however, his first instinct was to attack anything that might seemed threatening before it could become a threat. It was the reason why the illusions caught his attention so profoundly - his brain triggered muscle memory and he acted. It was an instinct engraved on dragonkind, meant to help them protect their hoards and their hatchlings.
However, listening to the students in this instance was unfair - and, seeing as it was only their first fight, Narunir elected to give them a better chance than he thought they would have had originally. Instead, he settled on watching them, growing unusually quiet as he formulated his own plans - he would have to be careful around Ty, yes. But the little one would have to learn how to properly get out the way, and get out of the way fast. Even if he seemed to be fairly good at dodging, there was no reason why he couldn't become excellent. Nox's telekinesis was concerning - the fact that it had managed to bowl him over made the drake wonder just what the other male was capable off. Regardless, he settled back on his haunches, keeping his slitted amethyst eyes forward, muscles coiled and ready to strike, though he appeared perfectly still and tranquil.

Falkeir hovered just outside of the dorm room, not sure who their teacher was, but tentative to leave - even if his roommate had long abandoned him. He kept his eyes trained on the hallway, not sure where Kurosaki had run off to, but quite sure that his new acquaintance was more than a little odd in the head. He turned pale, silvery brown orbs towards the ceiling, before turning back and entering the dorm room with a sigh, flopping back down on the couch.

bby nox <333

honestly im so excited for forfax and ember to meet you have no idea -- so many scenarios are running through my head right now

[center][font=Minion Pro]Breezepool : [i]Sedgekit, Riverkit, Breezepool[/i]

The dark-furred tom nodded, his whiskers twitching in slight amusement.
"It seems like everyone else is out hunting our on patrol." He mused, flicking his ears forward, before suggesting his own ideas.
"How about I pretend to be a rogue, intruding on TempestClan territory?"

Poppyfall : Mouseheart, Ratwhisker

"I can't complain," She responded gently, noticing his stutter and assuming that perhaps he might be shy. "Prey is running well, we've got lots of kits in the Clan, and we're finally over our big turmoil. It's nice to have times of peace." She seemed to get lost in her thoughts for a moment before she turned her head back towards the tom, one ear twitching.
"Anyways, I'm off to help out the Elders. Their bedding probably needs changed." She stood, shaking out her fur a bit, before padding towards the Elder's den and poking her head in, uttering a cheerful greeting.

(( OOC: Poppy can go bug him :) If Mouse wants to come along that's fine too, I feel bad kind of dropping him like a hot potato :0 ))

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[center][font=minion pro]Yeah. I try to persevere in the worst of times, and God bless my best friend to be honest. I don't know what I'd do without her, even if we're almost polar opposites (lol, seriously. I'm like a very small stubby bean in comparison bc I'm just barely 5'2", 5'3".

and yeah, i don't talk about this much because people on the internet tend to 'pretend' they have it because it's 'cool', but I suffered from/suffer from depression and anxiety. I mean, I can persevere, but it's really hard to do that when your entire being is just full of his intense self-loathing, so much so that you just feel hollow and numb, or an intense bought of fear. I don't even know how to describe it. It's so hard to find the good in things when you literally have no willpower or wants. I really don't want to be in that place again, but I can't keep trying to be the best person I can be and not expect to end up there again.

exercise definitely helps. so do my characters. i mean, i do nothing near as intense as military training (matter of fact i'm very slightly overweight, but a lot of it is muscle?? also i have a bad back and residual pain from an incident in the summer time so i can't do all that much anymore) but i respect you for persevering through that, man.

[center][font=minion pro]Lmao xD I know she's doing it on purpose because she actually talked nastily about me to one of my friends. Um, this sounds pretty unmodest but I have a lot of friends and a lot of people in the school who know me, and I have sort of connections so I find out a lot of stuff I'm probably not supposed to know.

I think that the next time she does it and attacks me instead of my argument, I'm going to tell her that if she has a problem with me, she needs to sort it out outside of class. Honestly I'm not losing marks because she can't get over some stupid grudge. I'm me and if she can't accept me for who I am, it's her loss. What bothers me is the fact that she's slowly turning the majority of the class against me (starting with her friends in the group she sits in).

I will accept that hug though I'm not too big on touching ^^ :3

[center][font=minion pro]Honestly? The whole thing about police officers nowadays really makes me angry. Especially since they weren't allowed in the pride parade in Toronto. I'm aware that there are a few bad apples in the bunch, but I don't think it's right for everyone to automatically jump to the conclusion that police officers are horrible people because, really, look at their job descriptions. That being said, I haven't read the article yet.

After Reading:

Notice that the article does not really go into detail about the actions of the boy, rather it focuses on the actions of the police officer. In addition to that, it uses a fallacy - it inserts the mother's rather over-dramatic quote to gain pity and empathy so that you're more likely to agree with the writer's argument. It continually does this over and over again by quoting the boy and feeding unnecessary information into the article, and using grammar conventions to make it seem more dramatic for the reader. Notice that in the video, they don't talk to the police officer, the department, or say that they tried to get an interview with the police officer but were unable to. Why? Because it would change the bias, and the media doesn't like that.

Would a thirteen year old shoot someone? Absolutely. Would a police officer shoot someone? Absolutely. It has happened before, and it could happen again. If the police officer was being threatened by the kid, I think he had a right to be on edge. Now, I don't agree with completely clobbering the kid over and shooting, but I do not personally know a single 13 or 15 year old boy who is honest and it wasn't right for the kid to shove the police officer first, which it looked like he did in the video. And, reading through the article, and having a 13 year-old sister, it seems very much like his story differs from what happened in the video - almost like he's leaving it out. My sister has said stuff like that to people without really understanding that she's actually threatening them. Also, the kid's accent makes him a little hard to understand - I think that if the police officer was on edge already for whatever reason, mistaking 'Sue you" for "Shoot you" is a very easy mistake to make. Also, I do not think he was shooting at the boy. I think it was more of a warning shot than anything else, that it was meant to scare and subdue, not harm. That does NOT make it right however and I don't think a gun should have been involved in the first place. This could easily have been solved through discussion.

Honestly, all rambling aside - I don't think anyone was in the right here. I think that the police officer responded too harshly - he should have just requested that they get off his lawn, and he shouldn't have drawn his gun unless he thought he was going to be attacked. I think that the kid is leaving things out (twisting the story so he gets in less trouble) and that he and his friends should not have been on the man's property in the first place, nor should they have ganged up on the police officer at the beginning.

[center][font=minion pro]mm. I'll probably reply to the rp later today, because I'm exhausted, but here:

https://docs.google.com/docume…GlorZaVk/edit?usp=sharing

This is a link to a document I made on Google Drive. The sharing has been set to 'anyone with the link can edit', so instead of keeping track of different posts, this document can be posted on the front page or whatever of the rp and we can look at it any time we need to. Anyone with the link can edit it, so we can add and remove people as we need to easily without having to find and then edit posts, and then quote them. Hopefully this makes it easier for everyone...?

[center][font=Minion Pro]Breezepool : Eveningkit, Riverkit, Sedgekit, Sunsetkit

"Of course," the tom agreed with a chuckle. Breezepool lowered himself slightly, puffing out his fur as much he could, his tail lashing teasingly just near the kits. Changing his tone slightly, he mimicked a rogue with an over-dramatic tone of voice.
"Blast - a patrol of strong TempestClan warriors - whatever shall I do?"

Poppyfall : Mouseheart, Ratwhisker

Poppyfall greeted the elder warmly, her tail flicking.
"Just here to offer assistance, as Mouseheart said. Do you need anything?" She mewed, though her eyes sparked with curiosity. She had always retained her love for the stories that the elders passed down, long since kithood. Sheepishly, she added "Of course, if you wanted to tell us a story while we worked, I wouldn't mind," She chuckled slightly at herself.

(( OOC: sorry guys, I was bogged down with homework ;-;))

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December faltered for a fraction of a second, surprised, then in a bought of anger honed in on the molecules just ahead of Konani, slicking the ground with a sheet of frozen water.
"Le vent, oui? I'm sure I can find a way to get my ice through that," He mused, half to himself.
Relentless, he pulled up parts of the ice, watching from afar as it built into a small, thigh-high array of large, thick shards that formed a decent enough wall. The goal was to immobilize the teacher, if only temporarily. If Konani didn't slip on the ice, he would have to find a way to jump over or avoid the wall. If he did slip on the ice, well - the wall was an added obstacle to further prevent his mobilization. And even if the teacher managed to dodge the two, December doubted he would be able to do so as quickly as he had been moving - and that was all the sharpshooter needed. While his strong suit lay in shooting arrays of his wickedly sharp ice at his enemies with his pinpoint accuracy, playing 'nice' wasn't a concept he'd explored in a long while. The blonde once again ran over the thought that skewering his teacher was a bad idea.
A wicked grin pulled at the corners of his lips.

Il a dit "Don't hold back," N'il pas?

With that particular little idea dancing around in his head, the fallen stored it for later - just if he gave them enough trouble that he felt it was time to switch to more outwardly offensive attacks than defensive ones. It was truly hard to spar against someone when your attacks were meant to be lethal, however, and December didn't really feel like getting up close and personal enough with his teacher that he would be able to plant ice in his lungs. In addition to that, he knew he himself would be particularly vulnerable at that point due to the sheer amount of concentration his nasty little trump card took.

((OOC:
Was too tired to do the French, but I'm glad I'm back into it. It's especially tricky because I don't think December's thoughts, when explicitly written separately should be written out in English given that it's not his first language.
"Wind, yeah?"
"He said 'Don't hold back,' didn't he?"

Once again, mind that the French is my own so any mistakes on my part are because of lack of practice/lack of knowledge.))

[center][font=minion pro]Same. A lot of December's fighting is rather lackluster because I have techniques in my head, but they would be considered powerplaying, y'know? So I occasionally slip one in, but my goal is always to let the other person have a chance. Even if Konani managed to avoid both obstacles, or if he hit one, there's no guarantee that December would hit him. He could always be deterred by ice - and in addition, he still has that future sense, right?

It's hard for me with Ember because he's not a sculpture - he really is only capable of making rough objects. If you asked him to make you a sword, he might fashion you a sharp object with a blunt 'handle', but it would be far from the real thing, y'know? It would look more like some sort of fancy lumpy icicle (lol).

Especially his 'special attack'. I think I added it to his form, but I was sitting on my bed, exploring interactions between my characters - and I thought that I really needed to give Ember some sort of attack with his ice that would be super effective at close contact, given that in my story he's a bit more of a psychopath than he is here. So, my nasty little brain decided that if Ember could somehow track the water vapor you breathe in, he could create ice in your lungs. Of course I talked to my mother (who is a nurse) about the biological significance of this and I did my own research, wanting to go into the medical field anyways (I want to be a vet, but you have to learn about human biology anyways).
The side effects are wild, besides restricted breathing - even if December removed his ice, there's a chance you would develop pneumonia just from having a foreign object in your lungs, irritating and infecting them. If that wasn't enough, the person would immediately have a cold shock response - they would gasp, which would only increase coughing, and then would begin to hyperventilate, which would be followed by an erratic heartbeat caused by the lack of oxygen - the body is working harder to pump what oxygen it can get into the lungs. In addition, your body would want to warm up your core - so after prolonged exposure you'd start to see lack of blood in limbs and internal organs.
"Freezing lungs" is also something that can happen when you're out running in sub-zero temperatures - the air inside your lungs is so cold that it starts freezing up your mucus and such, creating a dry environment, and your lung cells start to die off because of that. It basically makes you short of breath and it makes it hard to breathe for a little while.

There are more, but the nastier things start occurring past 15-30 minutes of exposure - at most I calculate that Ember could keep it up for 10 minutes, but that would be an extreme and he would likely faint if he held it that long.
Of course, December can only use this if he's been very close to another person, simply because he has to trace the molecules they're actually breathing in. After that, it would take immense concentration to keep track of said molecules and create the ice, which would undoubtedly be mentally exhausting. Even getting that close is obviously incredibly dangerous in a fight - he'd have to be within about a foot of someone, and that puts him at risk for all kinds of injuries - especially given that he would basically be out of it while using the attack.
The attack itself is draining depending on what he wants to do with it, so he wouldn't be able to use it often and would likely only want to use it as a last resort. Of course I'm applying more restrictions specially to this attack to keep it fair in the roleplay - but for our purposes it would likely only ever be used on NPC's or to stop someone on their tracks/interrogations, as terrible as that all sounds.

I swear, I'm not a bad person. I just have a keen interest in biology.

[center][font=minion pro]I'm endlessly fascinated by biology - thousands of cells working together do create an action. It blows my mind entirely!

Today we were looking at live protists under a microscope. I had a cute little algae - I think it was Euglena...? Regardless, it had a little flagellum and it kept going around in circles and squishing it's cytoplasm around. I named it Steve <3

then i left to go get my phone so i could take a picture of steve and somebody literally took my place at my microscope and got rid of my slide?? i was actually so upset lmfao. I was attached to the little guy.