03-27-2022, 02:43 AM
straight for the throat you’re like an animal!
in for the kill, like you're an animal!
Ximen blinked, and suddenly four idiots rolled over. Had he microslept again? Ugh. Stupid brain, not sleeping when he wanted to and sleeping when he didn’t. But he was bored of meditating, stretching, and yawning, so he might as well fight.
“You’re the lion, so the weight class favors you,” Ximen said to Apollyn. Almost yawned again, goddammit.
Then, quick as a heron scooping up a fish, his tail flicked out and attempted to tap Lucinder on the forehead. “If you don’t recognize your uncle who raised you, then I’ll march you to a healer and get your head checked.”
Ximen was half-serious. The mutated cheetah had let Els’s kids run wild after her death, and he probably wouldn’t have noticed if Lucinder bashed his head. Still, he had tried to be a parent. Even if he clearly preferred napping to childrearing.
“As for you two, Seven and Cory, you two could spar amongst yourselves while I make a fool of myself in front of my nephew.”
Ximen shrugged. Ugh. This was turning out more trouble than he was expecting. Maybe he should’ve napped again.
“No claws, no teeth, no serious injuries.” Ximen refocused on Apollyn Narrowing his golden eyes, Ximen telekinetically raised four slender bones. Unlike his real bone knives, they weren’t sharpened or modified; they were rabbit legs from his lunch.
Ximen grinned. His scorpion tail curled behind him, and he relaxed into his stance.
[member=23341]APOLLYON[/member]
“You’re the lion, so the weight class favors you,” Ximen said to Apollyn. Almost yawned again, goddammit.
Then, quick as a heron scooping up a fish, his tail flicked out and attempted to tap Lucinder on the forehead. “If you don’t recognize your uncle who raised you, then I’ll march you to a healer and get your head checked.”
Ximen was half-serious. The mutated cheetah had let Els’s kids run wild after her death, and he probably wouldn’t have noticed if Lucinder bashed his head. Still, he had tried to be a parent. Even if he clearly preferred napping to childrearing.
“As for you two, Seven and Cory, you two could spar amongst yourselves while I make a fool of myself in front of my nephew.”
Ximen shrugged. Ugh. This was turning out more trouble than he was expecting. Maybe he should’ve napped again.
“No claws, no teeth, no serious injuries.” Ximen refocused on Apollyn Narrowing his golden eyes, Ximen telekinetically raised four slender bones. Unlike his real bone knives, they weren’t sharpened or modified; they were rabbit legs from his lunch.
Ximen grinned. His scorpion tail curled behind him, and he relaxed into his stance.
[member=23341]APOLLYON[/member]
UNEXPECTED YET EXPECTED —
— i wanted to hate / i wanted to die / i wanted to see you sacrificed / i had to deal with the fear you gave me / but you fucker never tried to help me / i was jealous and i was scared / nobody ever replaced my pain / to say i’m not evil, to tell I’m not bad / too late, i’m lost in human nature / leave me be / set me free / leave me be / set me free / the hardest thing to me is facing the fear i live / no one can help me now, it’s under my heart / i’ll come to know the living, my demons are inside / i’ll bring them all to light / ———— emerged from the dark I come to life!