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Walking Lines [Ashai, Tento]
Thu Nov 07, 2024 11:03 pm
The arrancar hummed a little to herself as she lightly thumbed through the pages of a book. Seated against the wall of a building, her gaze shifting through the busy road. So many souls walking through, that she hardly even registered amongst so many bodies.
Just the kind of place to drum up a sale.
Ahhh but she wasn't here for that kind of business today. No, those bright blue eyes scanned the crowds not for the look of someone with a big wallet, but for a very particular man indeed. Someone she'd heard came through this place quite often. A bit of a surprise honestly, she almost didn't believe them. Why would such a man come out to the mid rukongai?
But she'd certainly find out if it was worth the coin.
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Re: Walking Lines [Ashai, Tento]
Fri Nov 08, 2024 10:20 am
Tentō Zefā | The Unrefined Paragon
Tento strolled through the busy streets of the mid level Rukongai, offering friendly waves and greetings to the familiar faces he encountered. Since meeting Tsubine, Tento tried to do better at making sure he was active and present in the further districts. Not just being a force or a fearful sight, but a positive rapport and reputation aiding people rebuild and feel safe. By a byproduct of going to the lower districts, 60 and below, Tento also spent more time in the middle than he had before. His patrols were more than just a duty; they were an opportunity to connect with the community and provide something.
"Morning, Mrs. Yamada!", he called out to an elderly woman selling flowers. "Your garden looks good! Glad you got it back up finally”.
She chuckled warmly. "Thank you, Tento. Always a pleasure to see you around”, she said in a wave.
As he moved further along, he spotted a group of children playing and gave them a cheerful nod. "Hey, you kids stay out of trouble, alright?"
"Yes, Tento!" they chorused back, their faces beaming with smiles. A few letting out playful sighs of exasperation before running off in laughter.
Tento's next path took him past a small market stall where a new friend of his, Akio, was busy arranging his wares. "Akio, how's business today?" he asked, pausing to chat.
"Going well, thanks to the new usual crowd," Akio replied with a grin. "A few people said you recommended the shop. I appreciate it. You keeping everyone safe out here?"
"Doing my best", Tento replied with a shrug beforeclapping his friend on the shoulder. "Take care, Akio. Oh! Lunch later? Phil said he is masking a new stew and needs testers".
“Only if you're buying!!”, Akio replied.
“Aaaaaah”, Tento said with a wave of his hand behind his head as he walked away. When it came ti testung stews, it was either very good or very bad in thr combinations he tried. Eh, Akio shopvjust started up again. Maybe Tento would pay the tab.
Just as he turned to continue his patrol, Tento felt a sudden, unfamiliar spiritual pressure, a distinct Arrancar presence, but not one he recognized from the invasion. His senses sharpened, and his demeanor shifted from friendly to alert in an instant. It was strange, a hollow's energy was usually very easy for him to pick up amongst the plus souls. But…this one was hard for some reason. It didn't feel hostile…or at least hollow hostile. Was it camflouging itself? What was going on?? He scanned the crowd, trying to locate the source of the pressure.
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Re: Walking Lines [Ashai, Tento]
Fri Nov 08, 2024 10:41 am
"Well hey there stranger~"
Just as Tento began to tense up, the Arrancar slipped in with a sudden almost entirely silent sonido, a smile playing across her features as she lightly patted the man's mid-back and gave a little wink as she glanced the same direction he'd been looking. "Looking for something? Name's Ash. Fair Ash if it suits ya. I'm in a real bind now, I hate to impose but I'm kinda looking for a guy, if ya know him? Tall fellow by the name of Officer Zefa." she asked with a sincere smile and a tilt of her head. Long, pale rabbit ears flopping to one side of her head as she looked to him appealingly.
Naturally, this guy DID match the description, but it never paid to assume. Best to be nice, polite, and see if this tall fellow could assist her!
All the while, she'd start walking and gently move her hand so that he would move with her, just so that they weren't standing still out in the middle of the street. No reason to obstruct traffic or anything like that, right?
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Re: Walking Lines [Ashai, Tento]
Fri Nov 08, 2024 8:44 pm
Tentō Zefā | The Unrefined Paragon
!
Tento felt a chill run down his spine as the soft touch and soothing voice interrupted his tension. A well bemused saucy voice that suddenly came from behind. He turned his heads lightly to catch a glimpse of who he was growinf to suspect to be the Arrancar. Her presence was different from the rest and most certainly not that of a plus or shinigami. An innate thought of if this was some sort trap and he was about to be attack went away at the sensation of no killing intent. The pat to his back made him wonder if this was a game to sneak up on him. And then the slight wink just…well it seemed he met another Arrancar with a character to say the least.
“I was looking for something, yeah”.
Hopefully better than a certain cat! Her playful smile and genuine demeanor already set her apart in his mind. Her rabbit ears flopped endearingly, and despite his initial suspicion, he couldn't help a bit of…something seeing that smirk. If it wasn't for the faintest sound he wouldn't have been so sure that an Arrancar managed to get behind him so quietly.
"Hello there, Ash," he replied with a slight nod, his eyes subtly narrowing as he assessed her sincerity. "Officer Zefa, huh? I might know a thing or two. What do you need with him-?”, Tento had little time to gather himself before she quickly grabbed ahold of him, with a surprising level of gentle care as well in the speed, pulling him out of the center of the street.
He matched her pace as best as he could, allowing her gentle guidance to steer them away from the bustling street. However with a soft tug of his arm in an attempt to free himself. He hopefully stood before her in a sigh., Tento couldn't shake the feeling that this encounter was far from ordinary. “Hold up hold up. What's the fire bunny chick”.
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Re: Walking Lines [Ashai, Tento]
Sat Nov 09, 2024 5:16 pm
Ashai perked up and then smiled from ear to ear. "That so? Well that's great! We're BOTH lookin for something." She noted enthusiastically, that big warm grin practically radiating mirth from the lapine as she then took a moment to pay attention to Tento's own response. She gave a sheepish smile and a shake of her head as he promptly asked for the reason behind her search.
"I can already hear you're a little suspicious. Eheheh, it's the hole huh?" She chuckled and gently gestured to the inside of her bicep where her hollow hole was set, an admission of why she could figure he was so guarded. "I can understand you probably don't get arrancar walking up to you. I can understand that, and I promise, once I ask you a thing or two, I'll get outta your hair. But you see, I'm real worried." She noted as they finally settled off to the side of the road.
"You see, me and the fellas, a few ragtag arrancar. You probably don't know us, we mostly deal in the ..." She shrugged her shoulders and lightly bumped her thumb out in the direction of the outter rukongai. Well outside of most civil areas. "we help em out a bit here and there. Soul society doens't treat em too well, and well. Sometimes they need stuff, so we move stuff from the world of the living. We make a bit of scratch, it all works out. But you see... running that kind of operation, just a little less than a year and you wouldn't believe.." She leaned in and her voice dropped as she tilted her head a bit to the side, showing off a nasty scar that ran along the inside of her collarbone, almost unnoticeable, a clean little line as if someone had tried to brand her.
"You wouldn't believe, the kinds of things that some people would do, for access to the world of the living. I heard about my friend, that Officer Zefa fella. I heard He's a vizard, been doing runs too." She noted with an urgency in her voice, shaking her head.
"I told my boys, SOON as I heard. We gotta find this guy. LAst thing we want is him to go through the wringer like us. So as you can understand, its VERY important we meet him." She noted as her ears smoothed back, and she put a hand over her chest earnestly.
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Re: Walking Lines [Ashai, Tento]
Mon Nov 11, 2024 3:10 pm
Tentō Zefā | The Unrefined Paragon
Tento stood in front of Ashai as he waited to see what she would try to say. She was so perked up and blessed with herself. Just what was her reason for to be here and even more seek him out. The sheepish smile along with a shake of her head. His careful eyes watching her, “nooooo. Just the fact that a random bunny chick pulled me after sneaking up”, Tento said in response to her statement and raising up her bicep. Yeah he has a suspension that she was an Arrancar, he didn't feel like making it easy for her. He wanted to himself have a bit of fun himself given her amused character so far.
Tento remained calm on the outside but ready to fight on the inside. He would rather things not come to that. After all, they were surrounded by other people in the Rukongai. If Tento chose to fight her here for one reason or another, he would be putting these people in danger. The release of spiritual pressure alone would be trouble. Not getting Arrancars walking up to him was an understatement l… Just a few years ago he would have felt nervous. But now he was so much stronger and even more so dealt with so much more. The arrancars he saw, and faced in battle. They tested him in resolve as much as strength. He felt a cautious pull whenever he saw one but…fear was becoming less and less. He had no time to.
What good was an Arrancar's promise though?
It did…sound like she and her group did what he had been doing though. It was, something that made him raise an eyebrow. There wasn't a lot hollows needed, but when they became Arrancars they became more human. Thus desire for mundane items made sense. That what he got from meeting Amaranta and Kanako at least. What did she and her group want money for though??
Tento listened intently to Ashai, his initial suspicion easing as he absorbed her story. He understood the challenges and dangers she and her group faced, and her earnestness and the scar she revealed added weight to her words. She had been dealt with a bit of stuff. The concern within though was…who? Who had the means to try something like that? They had to have power and influence. “I suppose people need things and have to make their means. Its better than them stealing from each other or killing”, Tento said, his tone thoughtful and calm. "As long as you're group isn't causing trouble…”, he added in a bit of firmness.
“I heard that Officer Zefa has been through a lot. I think it's important to make sure he doesn't face the same dangers you have”. Tento took a deep breath, “I will pass the message to him”, his eyes meeting Ashai's earnestly. “Now…what is in it for you?”.
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Re: Walking Lines [Ashai, Tento]
Mon Nov 11, 2024 3:32 pm
Ashai raised a brow slightly and canted her head to the other side, her ears now flopping the other way as Tento gave a uh.....rather Naive idea of just how the economy worked. As if smuggling would have anything to do with people being shitty to eachother. But that wasn't her business. "IN it for me? HAHAH!" She chuckled and turned to elbow an unseen nobody, wiggling her brows at the wall as if to appeal to anaudience just how amusing what Tento had asked was.
"He's a hollow. Just like us. I get that maybe you shinigami don't get it. You're not really a race or nothin. And Hollows dont get it either. Not regular ones at least. When it comes to reaching the top, Hollows will eat eachother, almost as quick as souls will. But us hybrids? Well. You don't seem too green around the ears. But there was a time when being a Mix was against the law. And us Arrancar? IT was on sight." She pointed out, folding her arms.
"Plenty o shinigami treat their hollow side like a damn curse. But if a Vizard's willin to show that hollow side of them aint so bad? Thats all the better for us. Besides. If he got.......acquired by some... noble or kingpin. Well...you know how competition is. They'll start hunting US even harder." She stated simply. "So, its in my best interest that you get a heads up, Mister Zefa." she noted calmly, winking at Tento, making it clear that she knew it was him the entire time.
"Nooormally I'd offer you a spot in the sandwings. But well. You seem like the kinda guy who prefers working for the shinigami than helpin out in the slums. Heck, I bet those upstarts probably already offered you a spot in their clubs. Just you make sure they don't go exploiting you. To them, you're only HALF a soul reaper. They may not say it. But make sure you don't let them fuck you over."' She murmured, her ears flattening against her head as her voice grew quiet. Not in menace, but a soft, rueful knowing.
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Re: Walking Lines [Ashai, Tento]
Wed Nov 20, 2024 6:02 pm
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Tento's comment may have sounded naive to her but to him. The majority of people in the Rukongai did not have any or enough spiritual pressure to require a need to eat. The ones that did needed and fought for resources. Others fought or desired luxurious goods because they wanted to. The nice allude of comfort was there regardless if you needed to eat or drink or not. When it came to such things in existence, their number and quality was scarce. Gaining more and more of a state the further in the districts you went. The most criminal, insane, and cruel lived there. But it was a cesspool for sin and betrayal.
In Tento eyes, the lack of eyes on them as well as resources made it a perfect place for people to harm each other; just because they wanted to and because they wanted something. So, in the end, doing business with this arrancar was better than them killing and stealing all day. By all means there was a lot more that played into it but that was just a start to his thought. He did wonder how easy they paid for stuff though.
As Ashai raised an eyebrow it was easy to guess she had some thoughts about what he said. Tento ended up raising an eyebrow of his own as she erupted into laughter. Turning to elbow a random person passing by. He dropped it and just blinked though as she watched her escalating cartoonist reaction. Wait…d…did she just wiggle her eyebrows???
Her response was more than enough to shock him to say the least. Tento’s eyebrows furrowed together, one slightly higher than the other, as his eyes darted back and forth between her eyes ans lips as if he was searching for them to reveal a type of clarity. His mouth parted slightly, as if he were about to ask a question but couldn't find the words. There was a slight tilt to his head, the kind that showed he was trying to make sense of something utterly perplexing. He blinked rapidly again, almost as if hoping that clearer vision might also bring clearer understanding. The corners of his mouth twitched, caught between a bemused smirk and a frown, making his expression a blend of bewilderment and unease amusement as a soft cough scoff came. “A hollow like yall eh...?”.
Such a declaration made Tento want to burst out in words but he held his tongue. He was a hybrid, yes, but it was not the same. He was a Shinigami, who's soul and being became corrupted by a hollow. An arrancar, was a being, a hollow that had wetn far into the life and evolution of a hollow. Eventually meeting A crosswords path where they could continue on that empty hungry path trying to seek or find something more, or were lucky enough to be blessed by the itch of humanity clinging through their mask before surfacing once again in the act of their mask being broken. For the Arrancars that were peaceful or interacting I'm the human world not causing issues, Tento sid feel a far weak kingship. Perhaps from his desire to have realistic peace with someone who had a consciousness and did HAVE to eat souls anymore. Perhaps it was from one of many other reasons.
She made it sound oh so easy. It was easy for an inner hollow to not be seen asa curse if it wasn't so out to taking over his body. Even in the progress he had made taiming Acosador, Tento was far from befriending the pain in the butt let alone understanding it. It seemed to loved fighting and refused to die. If Tento keot the bloodlust down then it was an easy task of using his power so they didn't die in battle. Ascosador hated enough being defeated or mocked against another Hollow.
He wanted to shake his head side to side in an exasperation but her last words made him stop. He had been so focused on working and doing good that he didn't out the reality of that possibility in his mind. How many knew he could open gargantas now? If the people of the Rukongai could whisper this information to a random Arrancar, why couldn't a noble do so too? And if a bad one wanted him, he needed to be prepaded to handle snakes slithering.
“Fair enough. Just a preventive measure then for your own survival”, Tento responded simply. The sandwings huh? “I work for the balance of the cycle, peace, justice, and wellness of all souls. As long that is the case I care little for the name. The biggest difference is what matters”, Tento responded in a flat short response. Finding a job was something he probably should do. There was only so much time he could get by By taking payment for delivering goods. Slaying hollows eating souls and helping in reconstruction was good stuff by all rights, but he wasn't getting paid for that. people's good will could only go so far. He appreciated the heads up about the competition and the potential threats from nobles or kingpins. It's a harsh reality, but one that needed to be faced.
To try to deflect her words and kill tension given this WAS an Arrancar that snuck up behind him in the middle of a semi populated area. Tento tried his trade mark goofy flirt not flirting. “Hmmm. I dont know. Being around a ptetty lady is in my cup of tea. But i dont think working with a person i dont know and that is so happy to sneak up my back is good for my health”.
He understood her perspective and the weight of her experiences, especially regarding the hybrids and Arrancar. Whether he could trust her or not was one thing. And he would rather not due to the events that's been happening as of late. But it had merit to concern. Tento's gaze softened, his voice growing quieter but firm. "I'll keep your advice in mind. If that is all. I dont have much to speak about”.
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