carnagecarnival: (I wish I’d just stood and let.)
The Initiate Fraysong ♑ (Young GHB) ([personal profile] carnagecarnival) wrote in [community profile] thearena2014-06-18 02:12 pm

Don't fret precious my dear, step away from the window, go back to sleep

Who| Initiate and Kain, Justin & Sigma, Elsa, Orc, and Di (all separate times and threads). ALSO OPEN.
What| DEATH AND MURDER ALL THE WAY THROUGH. Also zombie-family.
Where| The forest/orchard, the amusement park, wherever
When| Week Four! And maybe onward???
WARNINGS| Gore, violence, death, desecration of corpses, language, Initiate, so on

When the people start emerging from the fog, wandering, lost, he doesn't think much of it at first. Sometimes they brought motherfuckers in part way through these things. New blood, new faces. He watches a few pass, keeping low. Maybe "thinking nothing of it" is understating. It's hard not to grow a little suspicious when person after person passes with that same blank-faced, glassy-eyed look. He finds himself gripping his weapon a little tighter than before, eyes narrowed.

But then, just as easy, just as quick, he forgets all that. From the fog emerges a new form, this one with horns. He knows those horns. He would know them if all he were a motherfucker struck blind.

His descendant emerges, looking lost, but it ain't that different than how all he'd been, it ain't that different at all. Just like there were harsh administrations done painful is all just--

He's rolled off the food stand roof he'd been perched on and is landing hard on his feet before he even gets the thought in pan to get such actions done. He's pulled like a fish on a hook, feet picking up speed and carrying him along and then he's there, before him, the descendant he'd never meet without the Capitol (and never have with it).

"Gamzee!" He shouts at the kid. "GAMZEE!" His hands are on the kid's shoulders, shaking him. Gamzee doesn't respond. He stares blankly up at the Initiate, like he doesn't recognize him.

"Motherfucker, speak!" He doesn't. Gamzee doesn't make a sound. He just continues staring blankly right on through. There's a strange hollow feeling in him that the Initiate is only half sure he recognizes. His expression makes to twist but he stops it and hardens it all, making himself colder. He slides the pack off his shoulders and slips it on Gamzee easy, kneeling as he does so. He makes sure it's on good, gives Gamzee's shoulders one more pat as he stares into the kid's unseeing eyes. Then, in a few awkward but quick motions, he gets his descendant's bone thin arms wrapped up around his neck and hoists up the kid's legs, carrying the boy on his back. Gamzee's head rests on his shoulder, his curly hair getting up in front of his eyes and in his paint, but not a thing is evinced, no change in expression at all, just a mere blinking.

He knows a place he can keep the boy safe, deep in the Not-Carnival. Safe in a place where all he can make to come back to. For the first time in any arena, he gets the thought in him to try and beat all everyone. But not for his own self. It'll be easy. Just a quick raking of claws along his own throat. Then, maybe, it could work.

In the back of his mind still cries the Alternian rule; he's a detriment, it's dangerous, he's been made invalid, he's just wiggler bratt, he should be culled, it is duty, It's his duty as subjugglator. He should be culled.

Alternia could get pailed.
dragoon_pride: (all who challenge me...)

[personal profile] dragoon_pride 2014-06-21 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Kain is not in a good state of mind. He's just had to fight the one person he loves most of all. He had no choice. Or so he's trying to tell himself, hoping that somehow he'll start believing it. He has no way of knowing if that person he fought was real, and doesn't really want an answer.

He has no choice now, either. If he wants to survive this arena... he has to keep fighting.

Ever alert for signs of those beasts, Kain is aware of some sound up ahead. He slows his pace as he approaches, becoming more and more certain that it's not a creature he's come across, but another tribute. He grimaces and his eyes widen when he sees who it is. Their last encounter had not ended well for Kain. Wouldn't this be an appropriate time to get a little revenge for that?

Without hesitation, Kain charges into an attack, crowbar aimed toward the Initiate.
dragoon_pride: (my lance is bigger than yours)

[personal profile] dragoon_pride 2014-06-23 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, that's right. Fight him. Kain has been waiting for a chance to get out his rage, this arena, having gone too long with it building up. Now, after what he's gone through, he needs to release it. What better way than to make up for the last encounter with this madman?

Kain is at least prepared enough for a counter-attack, moving evasively before he takes another swing.

"You're going to pay for what you did..." Messing with his head was unforgivable, after all.

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futilecycle: (My heart taken and)

[personal profile] futilecycle 2014-06-18 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Sigma has played the part of a strong, silent Tribute since his first encounter with the Initiate, feigning recovery from a bout of nervousness he had never had (at least, not over the Arena). The cyborg is well aware that Initiate Fraysong is not merciful to other Tributes, and as loathe as he is to face that truth, Sigma decides to meet him halfway. He must personally take a life to turn his back at last on the caring, heart-on-his-sleeve character he pretends had been his persona all of this time. At least his partner seems to understand him in this respect: he meets the Initiate's gaze not with bloodlust but with determination. He nods once.

Turning away from the Initiate and facing their target, expression cold and calm, he extends his hand to him, a silent request to borrow a weapon. His cybernetic arms could easily break the man's neck, true, but it is far less efficient...
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[personal profile] deafscythe 2014-06-22 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Justin's hearing is bad, and he's learned to compensate very well. But here in the Arena, his sixth sense is blinded, and he has to rely solely on instinct, on a constant visual check of his surroundings, trying to catch sight of any movement.

Constantly being on edge is exhausting, even for a Death Scythe, and combined with the fog brings and the pain radiating from an infected bite on his right shoulder, the boy is less aware than he could be. He's got a backpack full of supplies, and a heavy length of chain held in his left hand. The chain was a stroke of good luck, because he knows how to fight with it.

It's another stroke of good luck that he actually catches sight of the Initiate, a flicker of movement out of the corner of his eye that gets the priest turning around.

"Ah, hello again." Justin knows what's about to happen, of course. He can see that it's two against one. But he keeps his voice friendly, keeps a calm expression, and waits for his opponents to make the first move.
futilecycle: (Where it comes and where it goes)

[personal profile] futilecycle 2014-06-24 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Sigma pities the boy. The Doctor could see he was in terrible shape, but had no intention of rolling over and letting them kill him. He knows how terrible it feels to fight against death with the odds against one's favour - perhaps if they ended it quickly, it would put the young man out of his misery.

Accepting the pickaxe with gratitude, Sigma allows the Initiate to do the talking as the boy is a stranger to him. He wonders what his companion speaks of, and makes a note to ask him later.

Once the first move has been made, Sigma rushes forward and tries to get behind Justin, swinging his pickaxe as he went so the child has no choice but to dodge - trying to box him in, control his movements so the battle will have Justin in the middle, flanked by his enemies.

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[personal profile] frozenfractalsallaround 2014-06-21 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
She should have known things wouldn't be good forever. She had been excited when her powers returned, only for them to go away again shortly after because of Starkiller. After that, things were a blur. She and Dave were separated and it seemed like everything was stacked against her.

In a way, she wasn't surprised.

She'd barely managed to make it out of an attack from one of the monsters in the arena, but it had injured her pretty badly, a nasty gash across her chest that was bleeding extensively. Elsa was shaking, trying not to cry. She wouldn't give them the satisfaction.

"Dave?" she called out, hoping beyond all hope that he might hear her. If she could just find him again, he felt like things would be okay. Even if... they probably wouldn't, because of how injured she was. In the back of her mind, she knew she would probably die but she wanted to see Dave again, regardless. "Dave, is that-"

When the figure stepped out in front of her, her voice caught in her throat. It definitely wasn't Dave, and they definitely had a weapon. She stared at him like a deer caught in the headlights, unsure of what to do.
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[personal profile] frozenfractalsallaround 2014-06-21 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Elsa's heart just about stops when he smirks, because it's that moment that she realizes that he's a threat, and that she probably won't make it out of this. Fear washes over her, and if her powers were working, this would be when a blizzard starts forming. And then he starts yelling, and while she has a difficult time understanding what he's saying, she understands what he's saying.

Her legs feel like jelly, but she doesn't want to die now. Not when she's done so well this arena, not when she could still help people if her powers come back.

So she does the only thing her mind can fathom doing- despite the pain in her chest, she turns and starts running as hard as she can.

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Re: Disciple

[personal profile] disciplewhomsignlessloves 2014-06-19 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
For what it was worth, she would have had the same thought, just less colored with vulgarity. As it was though, she was trying very hard not to scream as she managed to pull away from that faceless creature only to find her leg did not come with her. This made higher thought and noticing her surroundings all very low on her priority list.

The pain was blinding, agonizing. It made it hard to concentrate, think. Some part of her brain knew she should be climbing higher in this god forsaken tree but she was too dazed, too focused on keeping her pain trapped inside her to do something smart like that.

She couldn't scream, she couldn't whimper. Noises would only bring more.

So it's with a bloody green stump of one leg and the other tucked to her chest that she sees him. Grim Reaper, death in troll form--no, her mind is wandering and she can't remember if he hates her a lot or just a little right now. Either way, he'll keep walking on. He doesn't owe her a thing.

Below her, the creature stalks, waiting for a limb to fall within reach once more.

Well wasn't this just her luckiest day.
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It happens before her mind can process it. He's there and then he isn't, her reflexes too shot to follow his movements. There's a monster and then there isn't. Skull split, head torn off and tossed, it's dead, gone, no more threat. Her mind processes this. The strange combination of arena food and dead insect hasn't exactly made her thoughts the sharpest or easiest to follow. Not that she would even realize that's why.

"...I don't think Terezi would have blaimed you." Because that's all she can think of. Are they that close, saving her? It must be Terezi, must be something else. Or perhaps they ended on a better note than she recalled, with their last conversation. She grabs the branch she's sitting on and lets herself slide, swing, dangle for a moment before the leg she has finds the ground.

The pain is still screeching but her mind has more strange things to worry about than that. Or perhaps shock is finally settling in and she can't really process it. Maybe that's why she can speak without letting her words falter too much. Without having to remark head on about the strangeness of this act.

"No fire either, just a water bottle and weapons."

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[personal profile] paidinbeer 2014-06-18 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Orc was furious.

He hadn't felt this sort of anger in a long while. It boiled in his stomach like toxic sludge and he felt it poisoning his blood.

Teeth were set in a firm clench as dried black blood clung to the pebbles on his hands and fingers.

The Capitol had crossed another line. It had shaken him out of his sleepy stupor.

He needed to hurt something. He was hunting for monsters.
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The first blow is a glancing one.

In his furious state Orc is only barely quick enough to hear the running and to turn to face his attacker. The blade strikes his arm and scrapes off some pebbles scattering them revealing a thicker layer of stone just under them. That stone is smoother and pale.

With a snarl Orc swings one of his gorilla like arms to try and backhand the creature who's decided to have a go at him.

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