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located in Kazetani London Office, a part of The Weight of Soul, one of the many universes on RPG.

Kazetani London Office

In character debriefing.

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Character Portrait: Miyoshi Kazetani Character Portrait: Claire Stanfield Character Portrait: Cyril Noël Character Portrait: Geoffrey Lee Walker
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Cyril breathed through his teeth at the depressing result of his seventh attempt to tie a necktie. He wasn't too adamant about wearing formal attire, but has gradually become more comfortable in such apparel. His only qualm with the set was the piece of entropy-abiding set of apparel striking out in rebellion. It was constricting and frankly a liability. At any given moment somebody could grab him by the silk shell and have an instantaneous leverage if an altercation were to develop from there.

The clothing was forced upon him by his higher-ups as a means of making him operate in a more professional manner. Since Cyril believed it would expend too much effort to raise a voice of opposition, he went with their wishes and has sported the suit and tie ever since, in spite of his personal stance. After giving the fabric one last tug, he paced his way through the flat and rounded the corner into the main room. There, standing in rays of light that all focused on the room's center was a girl with her hands tightly clasped together and her eyes shut. She remained there quietly while she offered praise to the deity she held in such high regard. Anybody would naturally be captivated by the sight. The way the sun gracefully fell onto the girl's skin, how shallow her breaths were due to being preoccupied with praying, the whole spectacle would leave one speechless regardless of religious affiliation. Or maybe because of the two cat ears that kept up a presentable form too.

But Cyril wasn't one for common courtesies and even with his taciturn demeanor still intruded upon the her prayer, ”So, did He pick up or were you put on hold again?” He asked in a spiteful tone to evoke some chagrin, ”You know, maybe you should try sending Him a letter. Kind of like how kids always write to Saint Nicholas?” The girl tried her best to maintain her composure, but unseeable from Cyril's perspective, her brow had become visually furrowed. ”Actually, Sinterklaas has become more prevalent recently. After the Nazis enacted Gleichschaltung in the Netherlands a few months ago, the R.A.F has recently started rewriting his rhymes. They dropped candy over occupied land to one of them. How'd it go again...? Ah, right. The Saniwa took a deep breathe and delved into a recitation, taking a portion of the sunlight to bask in himself. ”R.A.F. Kapoentje, Gooi wat in mijn schoentje, Bij de Moffen gooein, Maar in Hol-”

And just like that, the last straw turned to cinders. The girl unwillingly placed her morning prayers on a halt as she whirled around to face Cyril, flames burning wildly in her eyes. In response to this agitated display, the young adult blankly looked at her. ”Hey, weren't you just in the middle of something important?”

”Look who the hell is tal- eep!” Wulf realized her mistake and sent a barrage of apologies into the sun. This was how the days of the socially declined Cyril Noel and his faithful Artifact Wulfetrud went. The comical exchange of words through scorched air was only but the tip of the iceberg. After preparing for the day before them, the duo would head to a diner that sat on the edge of Donkmeer Lake. Cyril and Wulfetrud unanimously agreed the view was the best thing to start the day with, that and a cup of coffee and tea respectively. And if his morning had been especially shitty, a glass of wine.

They would then continue on with their jobs at that very diner, where Cyril managed its resources while Wulfetrud served as a waitress. She marketed off her extra ears under the guise that they were rather than legitimate parts of her body. With her ingenuity, the girl entrenched herselff deeper in the role and altered her speech. She got into the act of ending off her sentences with “mew” or “meow”, or her fans' favorite, straining out any word containing the syllable “per”:

”Thank you, devoted patron! Don't worry, your meal will be just puuuuurfect~!”

Bleugh

Cyril was thankful for the fact that he rarely bared witness to this performance. It was impossible for him to make the connection between the voice filled with amity and its deprecating counterpart. Although Cyril tended to be the only recipient of the latter.

After work was done for the day, they would report in to the local Saniwa who presided over the district and distributed missions like they were coupons to gentlemen's clubs. In the case that the two were graced with a day off, which was nearly impossible since the area appeared to always be a cesspool for activity. But if this instance ever rose, they made sure to savor every morsel. Their free time was usually spent aimlessly strolling around Ghent, stopping by shops that especially caught Wulf's eye, and reclining at a pub Cyril frequented. Though the girl may have looked incongruous in an establishment chock full of burly men, albeit her partner wasn't all that much to look at, the two resonated with the drunken community. It was even more entertaining for the girl to watch as Cyril contested alcoholic veterans and wiped the floor with them, and since it was a pretty undemanding task to get him home, she let the young adult drink to his threshold. Although he never admitted it, he always called it quits just before he's crossed over from sobriety. The blond cared for his artifact's frame of mind, despite the fact that any valid evidence has yet to leave his mouth.

Cyril backpedaled from the girl and made his way to the entrance where a coat rack resided. ”You're not continuing to pester me. Something's up, right?” Wulf abruptly called out, lids still closed shut and palms pressed tightly together. Yep, that’s what caught her attention. The Saniwa peaked his head from around the corner to offer the girl an ambiguous answer, his own definition of the word courteous, ”...Maybe.” He picked up the faint sound of the girl clicking her tongue and blindly plucked a flat cap from a limb. The young adult then backtracked his steps once again and stopped at the girl's side. A pair of friendly yet mildly agitated eyes looked up at Cyril as he gently placed the article of apparel over his partner's ears. ”Comfortable enough?” He queried in an affable voice which Wulf was unable to determine to be false or genuine. The girl responded with a composed nod before she adjusted the hat with her hands. ”Good.” Cyril curtly spoke as he began to make his way out of the open room. The artifact finally remembered her original question and opened her mouth in preparation, but even before a syllable could be vocalized the young adult had already answered, ”The city of rain and tea.”




”Leave me... Go on, save yourself.” Cyril managed to croak out as he lied there on the cobblestone, his face ashen to the point that blood no longer seemed to flow through. ”C-Cyril, please.” She begged with a gaze drowning in distress. The Saniwa rolled over to his side, gravel and dust ground against his body through every muscle movement, while his back faced Wulfetrud. ”You have to finish the mission. Do it for me... Don't worry, I'll be okay.” He was a lost cause, his life force comprised of a mere twenty-one grams was but a fleeting memory. ”Cyril... Come on. We're in public. J-Just get up from the sidewalk already. People are staring.”

That was indeed true,with the ambiance of car engines and horns that filled the streets. Passersby simply did just that, only daring to steal a glance before racing off, since they obviously didn't want to be involved with a doubled over Belgian and a girl who actually fitted into the setting. ”We have to get to the me- ARE YOU SERIOUSLY THINKING OF READING RIGHT NOW?!” She hissed as Cyril produced a book with the subtly of an otter afloat. Wulf believed that the bookworm had sewn pockets into his jackets just for the written word.

”Alright, there has to be a specific reason why you don't want to go. At least Maria and Basilio are there, so it's not like the whole entire team consists of strangers.” Her words were charged with static on the brim of electrocuting the supposedly esteemed Combat Saniwa lying on the dampened sidewalk.

”Because there are people there.” He suddenly blurted out to justify his defiant nature. A look of disbelief overcame her complexion as she dared to even process the words that just left the Saniwa's mouth. She managed to contain herself once a palm was applied to her face. "And...?” She ventured to implore him to expand on the vague answer.

”And they’re alive.”

”And?”

”And they're people.”

”Why does this argument sound painfully tenable?!”

”Because we're socially inept.”

”...I hate you.”

”That makes the two of us.”




Just as the two arrived at the office Wulfetrud suddenly grabbed the fine fabric of his suit, ”Wait a second.” She forced Cyril around to face her and began to fix his tie in meticulous adjustments, to which the Saniwa only rolled his eyes, ”What? You have to at least look somewhat presentable. There are some big-time figures in there, right?” She gave the silk one last tug and stepped back to observe her masterpiece. She took a few scant seconds to determine whether it symmetrically sufficed, during which Cyril decided to slip in a retort, ”Right, I'm sure they're keeping a keen eye out for lackluster dressers. Oi, no hats indoors. It's improper etiquette.” He spoke in a cold voice as he yanked the cap right off from her her head. Flustered couldn’t even dream to describe the shade of rosy red that filled her cheeks at such a swift rate. The girl flailed her arms as she hoped to bridge the gap of their height difference yet to no avail was unable to reach it. Besides, the cat ears would help her leave more of an impression. Given how unapproachable her partner was, at least somebody needed to be remembered as an actual existence. Then again, she wasn’t exactly much of a social butterfly herself. She felt unnerved by these new horizons, and the fact that Cyril was acting his usual indifferent self wasn’t helping either. Perhaps underneath that blasé mug was a tinge of worry. ”Well, shall we? Might as well get it over with?” His irritated temperament that she was all too familiar with was the thing that brought her out of her muse. The pair of apathetic eyes staring back at hers urged her to answer, ”Leave me… Go on, save yourself.”

The girl almost broke out in laughter at the ravine that formed between his brows.

The slam of the door behind them denoted the point of no return. Once they had digested the room and its current denizens in its fullest, the two thought together in perfect unison, ”Well fuck.”

The office itself was actually quite anticlimactic, mundane really. Cyril was expecting a room embellished with a wallet that had to compensate for something else. The duo’s noses picked up the trace of cigarette smoke, which the younger of the two met abrasively with a scrunched up face. The girl wondered if everybody in this team besides Maria and her artifact were smokers. It was probably not far from the truth, much to her dismay. The Saniwa didn’t even make an effort to alert the others of his presence. A few of them were already engrossed in conversation, so rather than intruding on that oh so picturesque moment, Cyril shot the head honchos a nod. His gaze specifically rested on Yuuki before he turned himself around to set two cases next to the door. The proper thing to do in this scenario was to introduce himself and report in. Unfortunately, any driving force to do this had long since been expired, as made clear when the blond popped open Friedrich Nietzche’s Human, All Too Human and picked up from where he left off. The floor seemed to have met his standard for seating. As if this scene had played out many times, his artifact sat down next to him and read along, occasionally holding the page by the end for a few sparse moments to catch up.