Yeah that's why I asked [Probably something explosive, he figures... And hey, if he's being accused anyway why not:] maybe I'll just ask my bug spy network out there
( she wasn't going to tell him, but since caitlyn, vi, silco, and a few other chosen knows of its existence, she might as well tell him too. besides, they have a truce now so.... the ball will be on his court if he decides to break it after she shows it. )
[Hmmm... that level of smug can't possibly be a good sign.]
yes, damn, how many times should I type it out for you [If it's a letdown after this level of buildup he's going to block her. (He has literally no idea how to block her.)]
( instead of sending another text message, he will receive a sudden hologram that spikes up randomly on his charm. this video/hologram doesn't show her face but it's aimed at her chest, her midriff, and her legs as she sits cross legged. by the looks of this, she is sitting on some wooden platform -- definitely self-made. and the fact there are trees and the bugs everywhere, she is somewhere up high too. so he may be able to put one and one together that she built a little wooden deck hide-out up in the trees somewhere.
she is back to wearing her typical zaun-like attire, no dress (thank goodness) and she seems to be reaching around for something behind her. there's so much suspense she is making for possibly no good reason. or maybe it is. but jinx finally reveals it to him -- her fingers coming to clearer view to show him something very familiar. the last time he saw this baby was when he thought he had it and he gave it to the girls. funny that, huh? )
[He's about to respond again if only to gripe about the drawn out reveal, except...
Ah, shit. His turn to take awhile, needing a second as he silently works through the series of events that had to have happened in order for her to be holding onto the gemstone right now.
It had to be while he was out cold after the Enforcer shot him, right? Before he got up and snatched it back so Vi could go make a deal with the Council to reign in Silco's pet cops in his place—a pipe dream, to save the Firelights from having to fight an unwinnable war on two fronts instead of just one.
He should have checked it (when??) He should have just kept it in his base. Should have, should have, should have. Damn it.
Ekko scrubs a hand over his face, finding himself wondering why she'd be willing to make a truce when she's got that much firepower on hand, now. And then he tells himself to stop thinking about it or hope is going to end up digging hims a hole he can't crawl back out of.
(He's obviously already in that hole, but he's in denial here.)]
ok show-off [Because he can't just give her the satisfaction of acting scared, he has his pride!!] so what are you doing with that
seeing if it still works ok. theres no bumps or cracks so on the surface it seems alright. but when i got here, i couldnt find ANY of my things. they were just scattered all over the place! guess i had a crash landing.
anyway. just want to check on its status. how its doing, how its feeling. buuuuut i have to build a platform for it to sit on.
i put it in fishbones already. but without a rocket, he just lights up.
OH OH! how about ok check this a drum right? its a drum with lil spider legs with a monkey head and the moment u WHACK it or comes within range (dont ask me how it will detect motion sense, IT JUST WILL OK?! ILL FIGURE IT OUT!), itll activate it and THEN IT'LL EXPLODE!!
now think about THAT. 1. good for traps 2. keep away intruders 3. its cool looking.
because people are bozos thats why. look boy savior u don't get it.
ive been here ALMOST as long as vi. sorta. two months i think. do u have any idea when was the last time i shot anything OR blasted anything?!
this whole place is bone dry with scraps. i only have 2 chompers and both pow pow AND my pistol are limited right now.
AND!!! the crapola blacksmith smelts bullets and stuff in such an old fashion GRANDPA way that it makes me want to bash my head in. WHO USES A FURANCE?
old people thats who. just for HIM to make a round for me takes i dont know, days maybe??? a week??
and stupid scott with hot eyes wont use HIS ability to give me my fix because " wAAHH WAAAH what if people get hurrtt? what abboouut the locals that has to clean up the messssSS?" uugh! who cares. things are MADE to be demolished.
im dying here. literally.
( she isn't dying literally. she is just being a drama queen. )
[This is so much, hang on. At least she's only got two chompers and limited bullets? This is why you fight with a pipe, Jinx, a pipe never runs out of ammo.
He's definitely going to have to stop by the blacksmith's place, though.
(He is not going to question what apparently explosive scott with hot eyes even means.)]
you need better hobbies, crop top and if you blow up that hex gemstone you'll be back to where you started why are you even out there in the forest? that's got to be the only place more boring than this tiny little village
well playing with u was my OTHER hobby. oh please. im not going to blow it up. have a lil faith in me. privacy and exercise. i like to outrun the monsters that are out here from time to time.
its so cute when ure stupid. ok read carefully. i made a DEADLY weapon called fishbones. there's a lil compartment where u stick the stone in. stone + missile = SUPER WEAPONIZED MISSILE MEGA BOOM SPLAT!!!
stone - missile = fishbones will glow. no MISSILE MEGA BOOM SPLAT. get it now?
oh they got something alright. let me see if i can get close to one without it spreading its gross breath on me.
right and when you do have a missile with the gem that's one time and then you're back to where you started without it hard to have faith you won't blow it up when the first thing you do is stick it in fishbones that's all I'm saying
ok definitely don't get that close [Because yikes!]
come onnnnn ekkiiiiiii. theres only ONE enforcer here that i want to rip to shreds. everyone else are just ants to me that i watch under a magnifying glass. no harm!
ill get a tiny bit close.
( then after that, a hologram/recording starts. he will get his point of view given that she wears her charm like a necklace. so here she is approaching something very carefully -- it looks like a weird bush from a distance until, it spins around at the sound of her footsteps. it roars at her while flailing its tendrils, drooling from its fangs before rushing over. and jinx doesn't seem to move at all as it charges at her (in her opinion, it's moving very slow), but when it spits out green-like gas -- that's when she jumps up high to the nearest branch to perch on. )
Hehe, aren't these gross looking? ( she says to him in the recording. )
( — and naturally, her "jinx" catches up to her when that monster climbs up the tree rather abruptly in full speed with its tendrils. )
Whoa-oh.
( she braces herself to bolt up to another tree branch but when she peers over her shoulder, there's another one that just so happens to be camouflaged with the tree bark. and all this commotion seems to be disturbing its slumber as it jerks its head/mouth right at jinx in a snarl. )
Shitshitshit!
( she scoots away as much as she possibly can without breaking the branch she's on. )
Nice... monster...things. — Eh heh...
( thankfully though, jinx is good at jumping so before either of those things chomp at her arms or legs, the girl does a leap for another tree -- a really rough landing with her holding on to a branch with one hand. )
[Oh my god??? He's typing out his reply when the hijinx (haha) begin, then something looking like it crawled out of a nightmare about a Cultivair rocks up, and...
Okay, it's extremely embarrassing how worried he immediately gets, dropping the release mechanism for a flower grenade that he was fiddling with and staring at the little hologram of events unfolding like he's going to be able to help at all from however far away he is right now. He absolutely shouldn't be, like... trying to prolong her life or anything. It's bad enough that he couldn't kill her when he had the chance, but to go out of his way to want to help her has to be way worse, right?
But he's not thinking about any of that right now, because now there's two of of the monsters now and by the time she jumps to the dubious safety of a second tree, he's got his coat and his mask on, his recently-repaired hoverboard under one arm. He hesitates in the doorway of his new little house, before switching to video as well because it's easier than typing.]
Are you trying to get eaten?? [Because he can't just express concern like a normal person, it has to be a little rude.] Where even are you? [Directions please!]
C'mon, Boy Savior. Like I'll get rid of that easily. ( a grunt and body weight, jinx swings herself back and forth like a chimpanzee would to leap over to another tree branch. again, it's not... gracefully but she makes it a-okay. )
Duh, forest? Not too far in. Just go straight for a lil' while and that's it.
( she's clueless why he wants to know, but if she had to guess, maybe to study the monsters on his own than via charm. the hologram does give out a strange... video quality. the teen feels relevantly safe as she uses her upper body strength to yank herself up from dangling. but little does she know is a plant monster (another camouflaged one) seem to be on that particular tree she's on too. and like the other one, the rustling is quite noisy and it's disturbing its peaceful sleep. irritated, the monster uses its large mouth to chew on the branch jinx is dangling on to snap in half.
and before her mind can even process that its even there and what's happening, she is already falling. even with her plummeting, her thoughts are a million miles behind what's occurring to her. why is she falling? what is causing her to fall? she doesn't remember losing her grip so how is this even happening? ... is she about to die right now? jinx is way too stunned to scream, but life seems to flash before her eyes -- powder's carefree laughter echo in her ears, vi's words of encouragement, and silco's lectures that stuck with her. there's two firelight bugs that zip by through her vision and seeing them somehow is making her world go in funeral pace. a conversation between her and ange reaches her mind, on how if ange were to die -- it'd be from falling just like this. if she survives this (she doesn't have high hopes), maybe she can tell her all about what this was like for her.)
Jinx— [Ekko is grateful for the pitched voice modulation in his mask which hides the emotion in his voice. He doesn't even watch the end of her transmission because he's off on his board, sending it screeching into the trees from his chosen home right at the forest's edge, adrenaline making him stupid. All manner of animals and insects and birds scatter from the sound of his hoverboard engine suddenly tearing through the foliage, all except the firelights which seem to light his path: the forest is harder to navigate than even Zaun's most winding, cramped quarters, but he veers around trees and ignores the branches catching the edges of his clothes, flying straight until—
There. She's hard to miss, all blinding bright colors, ocean blue against the browns and greens of the trees. He doesn't have time for finesse, so he just rams into her side as she careens towards the ground, grabbing her around the middle from a crouch and not slowing down or stopping his board. Woken by the sound of its engine, two more huge plant monster mouths yawn open nearby before Ekko decides it's a bad idea to stay at their level and climbs them almost purely vertical to break through the canopy, instinctively curling around Jinx when their trajectory starts getting them battered and scratched by branches and leaves. He's got a lot more layers on than she does, after all.
When they finally breach into the open air and explosion of birds follows, and Ekko's brain slowly catches up to the series of events that just occurred. He awkwardly tries to set her weight down at the front of his board, leaning back to keep the board level so it doesn't dip forward and send them back down into the trees.]
( the more she falls, the more it sinks that she really is done for. and it would be like her "jinx" that she dies right here when she just got silco back. but... this is probably what she deserves. if her and silco can not coexist for whatever reason, she'd take the dive so he could continue on to live peacefully in this new world. after all, she owes him that much for ending his so abruptly. jinx doesn't voice it out to anyone (beyond ange), but living is painful in her opinion. people get hurt, people lie, and there's so much despair and dread lurking in every corner. who would want to live if life is this cruel, especially to her? this curse she carries is proof that she wasn't meant to exist, vi was suppose to have a different sister and yet she came instead. imagine how everyone's life would be if she wasn't around at all. it's with this in mind is why jinx never really fears death like she should, to why she throws herself into dangerous situations without thinking -- because life is heartless and the afterlife must be something so beautiful.
but her approaching the afterlife won't be today as she feels something or someone crashing at her side, a yelp leaks pass her lips due to the impact. what in the world was that?! her mind is still lagging behind, but the roaring of engines sound so familiar though. and whatever or whoever has her, she clings to them in impulse to hold on desperately as they speed off through the trees with monsters yearn for flesh or whatever there is for hunger. but when her mind comes back to speed, when everything stills and calms -- jinx feels herself getting set down and she clumsily tries to balance herself on the board. and that's when she realizes what she is standing on. the hoverboard, ekko's hoverboard. her gaze darts quickly over to him, her eyes large and shines over the boy with his mask. )
( he... he saved her. ekko saved her. but why would he do that? is it because she has the possession of the gemstone and he was concern for that? he did seem so uptight over the fact she wasn't using it the way he wanted her to. but he could had easily shovel in her pockets and then drop her if that was the case. and didn't he hate her guts? that look he gave her with his fist pulled back on the bridge spoke loud and clear.
... but.
her heart is hammering out of her chest and into her ears, suddenly unable to breathe with him being a few inches apart from her. jinx feels she should say something to fill the dead air, but words are running entirely dry. her eyes are too locked onto the mask in which she wishes he or she could remove so... she can see if those brown eyes are looking the same way she is to him. a hand hesitatingly reaches out to him -- not entirely sure why but her body is reacting on its own at this point. her fingers find themselves gripping onto his sleeve, maybe to just hold onto? to keep her balance? to feel... that he's real? who knows, but she doesn't break away the stare she has on his mask. )
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is that a bad thing? [Firelights are cool af, actually!!! And they clearly like trees, so.]
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im TRYING to work out here. tell them to lay off me.
( because surely he can speak in their language. )
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What are you working on in the forest? [First Jinx in a dress, now Jinx in a forest. Weird.]
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( she wasn't going to tell him, but since caitlyn, vi, silco, and a few other chosen knows of its existence, she might as well tell him too. besides, they have a truce now so.... the ball will be on his court if he decides to break it after she shows it. )
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yes, damn, how many times should I type it out for you [If it's a letdown after this level of buildup he's going to block her. (He has literally no idea how to block her.)]
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she is back to wearing her typical zaun-like attire, no dress (thank goodness) and she seems to be reaching around for something behind her. there's so much suspense she is making for possibly no good reason. or maybe it is. but jinx finally reveals it to him -- her fingers coming to clearer view to show him something very familiar. the last time he saw this baby was when he thought he had it and he gave it to the girls. funny that, huh? )
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Ah, shit. His turn to take awhile, needing a second as he silently works through the series of events that had to have happened in order for her to be holding onto the gemstone right now.
It had to be while he was out cold after the Enforcer shot him, right? Before he got up and snatched it back so Vi could go make a deal with the Council to reign in Silco's pet cops in his place—a pipe dream, to save the Firelights from having to fight an unwinnable war on two fronts instead of just one.
He should have checked it (when??) He should have just kept it in his base. Should have, should have, should have. Damn it.
Ekko scrubs a hand over his face, finding himself wondering why she'd be willing to make a truce when she's got that much firepower on hand, now. And then he tells himself to stop thinking about it or hope is going to end up digging hims a hole he can't crawl back out of.
(He's obviously already in that hole, but he's in denial here.)]
ok show-off [Because he can't just give her the satisfaction of acting scared, he has his pride!!] so what are you doing with that
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but when i got here, i couldnt find ANY of my things. they were just scattered all over the place! guess i had a crash landing.
anyway.
just want to check on its status. how its doing, how its feeling.
buuuuut i have to build a platform for it to sit on.
i put it in fishbones already. but without a rocket, he just lights up.
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you can't be serious
why waste a power source like that on an explosive?? Plenty of shit explodes
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it's magic
you could make a machine that does something that's never been done before
come on at least think about it
[Why is he trying to talk Jinx of all people out of making more explosives?? Who can say.]
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ok check this
a drum right? its a drum with lil spider legs with a monkey head and the moment u WHACK it or comes within range (dont ask me how it will detect motion sense, IT JUST WILL OK?! ILL FIGURE IT OUT!), itll activate it and THEN IT'LL EXPLODE!!
now think about THAT.
1. good for traps
2. keep away intruders
3. its cool looking.
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sounds real one-time-use
Who would ever whack a spider drum they've never seen to trigger it
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look boy savior
u don't get it.
ive been here ALMOST as long as vi. sorta. two months i think. do u have any idea when was the last time i shot anything OR blasted anything?!
this whole place is bone dry with scraps. i only have 2 chompers and both pow pow AND my pistol are limited right now.
AND!!! the crapola blacksmith smelts bullets and stuff in such an old fashion GRANDPA way that it makes me want to bash my head in. WHO USES A FURANCE?
old people thats who. just for HIM to make a round for me takes i dont know, days maybe??? a week??
and stupid scott with hot eyes wont use HIS ability to give me my fix because " wAAHH WAAAH what if people get hurrtt? what abboouut the locals that has to clean up the messssSS?" uugh! who cares. things are MADE to be demolished.
im dying here. literally.
( she isn't dying literally. she is just being a drama queen. )
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He's definitely going to have to stop by the blacksmith's place, though.
(He is not going to question what apparently explosive scott with hot eyes even means.)]
you need better hobbies, crop top
and if you blow up that hex gemstone you'll be back to where you started
why are you even out there in the forest? that's got to be the only place more boring than this tiny little village
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oh please. im not going to blow it up. have a lil faith in me.
privacy and exercise.
i like to outrun the monsters that are out here from time to time.
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you already admitted you tried strapping it into your rocket launcher!
[huff]
monsters?
have u recorded any of them with the charm?
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huh? no. why? do u want me to record one for u?
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& Yeah I want to see.
What do they even look like out here where there's no toxins?
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stone - missile = fishbones will glow. no MISSILE MEGA BOOM SPLAT. get it now?
oh they got something alright. let me see if i can get close to one without it spreading its gross breath on me.
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hard to have faith you won't blow it up when the first thing you do is stick it in fishbones
that's all I'm saying
ok definitely don't get that close [Because yikes!]
1/2
everyone else are just ants to me that i watch under a magnifying glass. no harm!
ill get a tiny bit close.
( then after that, a hologram/recording starts. he will get his point of view given that she wears her charm like a necklace. so here she is approaching something very carefully -- it looks like a weird bush from a distance until, it spins around at the sound of her footsteps. it roars at her while flailing its tendrils, drooling from its fangs before rushing over. and jinx doesn't seem to move at all as it charges at her (in her opinion, it's moving very slow), but when it spits out green-like gas -- that's when she jumps up high to the nearest branch to perch on. )
Hehe, aren't these gross looking? ( she says to him in the recording. )
2/2
Whoa-oh.
( she braces herself to bolt up to another tree branch but when she peers over her shoulder, there's another one that just so happens to be camouflaged with the tree bark. and all this commotion seems to be disturbing its slumber as it jerks its head/mouth right at jinx in a snarl. )
Shitshitshit!
( she scoots away as much as she possibly can without breaking the branch she's on. )
Nice... monster...things. — Eh heh...
( thankfully though, jinx is good at jumping so before either of those things chomp at her arms or legs, the girl does a leap for another tree -- a really rough landing with her holding on to a branch with one hand. )
Ha! Easy peasy...!
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Okay, it's extremely embarrassing how worried he immediately gets, dropping the release mechanism for a flower grenade that he was fiddling with and staring at the little hologram of events unfolding like he's going to be able to help at all from however far away he is right now. He absolutely shouldn't be, like... trying to prolong her life or anything. It's bad enough that he couldn't kill her when he had the chance, but to go out of his way to want to help her has to be way worse, right?
But he's not thinking about any of that right now, because now there's two of of the monsters now and by the time she jumps to the dubious safety of a second tree, he's got his coat and his mask on, his recently-repaired hoverboard under one arm. He hesitates in the doorway of his new little house, before switching to video as well because it's easier than typing.]
Are you trying to get eaten?? [Because he can't just express concern like a normal person, it has to be a little rude.] Where even are you? [Directions please!]
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Duh, forest? Not too far in. Just go straight for a lil' while and that's it.
( she's clueless why he wants to know, but if she had to guess, maybe to study the monsters on his own than via charm. the hologram does give out a strange... video quality. the teen feels relevantly safe as she uses her upper body strength to yank herself up from dangling. but little does she know is a plant monster (another camouflaged one) seem to be on that particular tree she's on too. and like the other one, the rustling is quite noisy and it's disturbing its peaceful sleep. irritated, the monster uses its large mouth to chew on the branch jinx is dangling on to snap in half.
and before her mind can even process that its even there and what's happening, she is already falling. even with her plummeting, her thoughts are a million miles behind what's occurring to her. why is she falling? what is causing her to fall? she doesn't remember losing her grip so how is this even happening? ... is she about to die right now? jinx is way too stunned to scream, but life seems to flash before her eyes -- powder's carefree laughter echo in her ears, vi's words of encouragement, and silco's lectures that stuck with her. there's two firelight bugs that zip by through her vision and seeing them somehow is making her world go in funeral pace. a conversation between her and ange reaches her mind, on how if ange were to die -- it'd be from falling just like this. if she survives this (she doesn't have high hopes), maybe she can tell her all about what this was like for her.)
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There. She's hard to miss, all blinding bright colors, ocean blue against the browns and greens of the trees. He doesn't have time for finesse, so he just rams into her side as she careens towards the ground, grabbing her around the middle from a crouch and not slowing down or stopping his board. Woken by the sound of its engine, two more huge plant monster mouths yawn open nearby before Ekko decides it's a bad idea to stay at their level and climbs them almost purely vertical to break through the canopy, instinctively curling around Jinx when their trajectory starts getting them battered and scratched by branches and leaves. He's got a lot more layers on than she does, after all.
When they finally breach into the open air and explosion of birds follows, and Ekko's brain slowly catches up to the series of events that just occurred. He awkwardly tries to set her weight down at the front of his board, leaning back to keep the board level so it doesn't dip forward and send them back down into the trees.]
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but her approaching the afterlife won't be today as she feels something or someone crashing at her side, a yelp leaks pass her lips due to the impact. what in the world was that?! her mind is still lagging behind, but the roaring of engines sound so familiar though. and whatever or whoever has her, she clings to them in impulse to hold on desperately as they speed off through the trees with monsters yearn for flesh or whatever there is for hunger. but when her mind comes back to speed, when everything stills and calms -- jinx feels herself getting set down and she clumsily tries to balance herself on the board. and that's when she realizes what she is standing on. the hoverboard, ekko's hoverboard. her gaze darts quickly over to him, her eyes large and shines over the boy with his mask. )
( he... he saved her. ekko saved her. but why would he do that? is it because she has the possession of the gemstone and he was concern for that? he did seem so uptight over the fact she wasn't using it the way he wanted her to. but he could had easily shovel in her pockets and then drop her if that was the case. and didn't he hate her guts? that look he gave her with his fist pulled back on the bridge spoke loud and clear.
... but.
her heart is hammering out of her chest and into her ears, suddenly unable to breathe with him being a few inches apart from her. jinx feels she should say something to fill the dead air, but words are running entirely dry. her eyes are too locked onto the mask in which she wishes he or she could remove so... she can see if those brown eyes are looking the same way she is to him. a hand hesitatingly reaches out to him -- not entirely sure why but her body is reacting on its own at this point. her fingers find themselves gripping onto his sleeve, maybe to just hold onto? to keep her balance? to feel... that he's real? who knows, but she doesn't break away the stare she has on his mask. )