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jackabeelounge2017-01-28 08:36 pm
agent3) wrote in jackabeelounge2017-01-28 08:36 pm
Ink is Never White or Black
Who: Thida and Thaum
Where: The Octarian Kettles
When: After Cap'n Cuttlefish's kidnapping, but before the final boss in Splatoon's 1st player campaign
Open/Closed: Closed
Rated: PG 13 for violence and themes of racism
What: He's a mimic octopus. She's the secret agent infiltrating his home to dismantle a rebellion. This was never going to end well.
[There had been a touch of coldness to Thida's movements in the kettles after the Cap'n got taken. Instead of the dizzying heights of the platforms making her sick to her stomach, she only pushed herself to jump further, fly higher, aim sharper at the next ledge. Instead of walking into enemy sight on accident, she hid and waited and watched until she could secure a path of attack. It was never in her to wait with a shooter, preferring to make intuitive judgments with a brush instead, but she had taught herself. She had learned. Not just for every Zapfish she saved, but now for the Cap'n too - the only adult in this entire city who cared a lick about the loner squid with nothing to her name, who supported herself on Turf War earnings and couldn't follow a trend to save her life, let alone make a proper friend.
But...was that entirely true? Thaum, she supposed sometimes on the surface, was a peculiar kind of friend. They weren't very kind to each other, often butting heads in battle and in the plaza, but they had always seemed to come together, and through that they had come to know each other. And...he was an Octoling. That made it all the more difficult, it really did, which was why she didn't think of him while in the kettles. She had to think of the Cap'n, well past his prime and her dear mentor. She had to think of the Octoweapons she'd fought before, and the terror and destruction they would bring to the surface if she couldn't stop them. For everything else's sake, she just couldn't think of Thaum.
But perhaps she really should.]
Where: The Octarian Kettles
When: After Cap'n Cuttlefish's kidnapping, but before the final boss in Splatoon's 1st player campaign
Open/Closed: Closed
Rated: PG 13 for violence and themes of racism
What: He's a mimic octopus. She's the secret agent infiltrating his home to dismantle a rebellion. This was never going to end well.
[There had been a touch of coldness to Thida's movements in the kettles after the Cap'n got taken. Instead of the dizzying heights of the platforms making her sick to her stomach, she only pushed herself to jump further, fly higher, aim sharper at the next ledge. Instead of walking into enemy sight on accident, she hid and waited and watched until she could secure a path of attack. It was never in her to wait with a shooter, preferring to make intuitive judgments with a brush instead, but she had taught herself. She had learned. Not just for every Zapfish she saved, but now for the Cap'n too - the only adult in this entire city who cared a lick about the loner squid with nothing to her name, who supported herself on Turf War earnings and couldn't follow a trend to save her life, let alone make a proper friend.
But...was that entirely true? Thaum, she supposed sometimes on the surface, was a peculiar kind of friend. They weren't very kind to each other, often butting heads in battle and in the plaza, but they had always seemed to come together, and through that they had come to know each other. And...he was an Octoling. That made it all the more difficult, it really did, which was why she didn't think of him while in the kettles. She had to think of the Cap'n, well past his prime and her dear mentor. She had to think of the Octoweapons she'd fought before, and the terror and destruction they would bring to the surface if she couldn't stop them. For everything else's sake, she just couldn't think of Thaum.
But perhaps she really should.]
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Nooooonononononono. It can't be her. It just can't. He's going to get closer, and he's going to prove that to himself, right now. He's not even thinking that it might get him splatted, he just has to.
A second shot never comes. Instead, there's the sound of a super jump, and someone lands mere inches away from Thida, charger at the ready.
Thaum looks enraged for only a split second as he reforms, ready to chew this inkling agent out, but that fizzles away as his fears are confirmed.]
Thida?
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...And...it shakes. Just enough so that it's aimed at the space on his right, and not at him. There's a terrible lump in her throat, and cold shame crawling up her back.]
...Thaum...?
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His expression twists from shock, through confusion, and begins to settle into rage and betrayal as he reaches his conclusion.
Of course she wouldn't need to report him. He'd been under surveillance the entire time.]
It was you!?
[There's no shortage of pain in his voice as he shrieks, his own hands shaking badly enough that he can hardly aim and ends up lowering his charger to the side. His tentacles are already unraveling, flaring and writhing behind him in a display that would be comical in any other situation.]
This whole time, and it was... it was YOU?
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Thida steps back at the tone of his voice; it's jarring, and only serves to generate more chilling shame. Even if he does look silly with his tentacles like that, there is nothing about this moment that can make her laugh.]
...S...so? So what?!
[It's all she can think of to say.]