Mizuki's October Catch-All

[mooninthewater]

Who: Mizuki and… you!
What: Various misc. October stuff
When: Yeah.
Where: Mhm.
Warnings: The usual Mizuki warnings from his Permissions may apply, but none immediately.

Status Update: Starting this month, Mizuki is going to have small white leaves "sprouting" from his hair. There's not a ton, and only hardly noticeable, but they're there. Whether or not you want your character to notice or not is entirely up to you~!



Open starters:
Sign a card for Zahliya
Psychology questions
Making a new umbrella charm

Closed starters:
Add/Gnosis Science Bullshit
Elsword Apology gifts
Add Hivemind bullshit

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From the moon, to the stars ( Open )

[mooninthewater]

Would you like to sign this?

[ If you just so happen to be walking past the well, Mizuki is holding out a handmade card and pen to you. On the front, it says "To Zahliya:". Inside, if you open it, is a short poem written by Mizuki.

A defender, protector, guardian,
But above all, a friend,
A heart made from purest love,
Upon which we can all depend.

A fondness for us, a defensive spirit,
The best protector, if I may say so,
Our fears and doubts can be soothed,
You're a guardian angel without the halo.

Well…

…

It's certainly not winning awards, but he's trying— ]

I wanted to write a card for Mister Zahliya! Coming back to all of us being here must be real jarring for him, and he said he really like poems. I think it'd be nice if we could make him a little happy.

hi sorry

[neckromancy]

[The card is tilted one way, then the other, as if a shift of the lighting might change the contents. It’s then flipped over, placed on receiving end of a fair bit of examination before the front also gains the same amount of attention.]

Hm.

[It's a thoughtful noise, and he leans his weight back to rest primarily on his left leg, reaching out to pluck the pen from Mizuki's offering hand. It's lifted up to his lips, where he gives the tip a quick little lick before lowering it back to the card. Naturally, his handwriting is as beautiful as it is big, and his signature takes up a considerable amount of space along the bottom of the page. Once finished, he passes both items back over.]

There you are, then. Is that all?

never be sorry he's perfect

[mooninthewater]

[ Well, for what its worth, Mizuki doesn't seem mad when he gets it back. In fact, he gasps and looks up at Astarion with stars practically in his eyes. ]

You're handwriting is so nice!! [ Mizuki's own is... cute, but... maybe not "beautiful" by any means. ] Do you do calligraphy for, like, a living??

[amhran]

[ Compared to Astarion's BIG BEAUTIFUL SIGNATURE, Caoimhe's penmanship is tiny and small. She writes upon it, her signature having never in her life done anything like this. Then adds a handmade talisman to go along with the letter of affection. It is a simple braid of threads, with several beautiful but smoothed rocks attached, then a feather. To keep Zahilya safe! ]

... I would... Love to sing him more songs soon then.

[mooninthewater]

He said he likes songs, too! I was thinking about loaning him my music player sometime. I'm not too good at poems, but I thought, at the very least, this might cheer him up a little.

[amethystic]

( felicity blinks, before looking at the paper- )

Mizuki, do you write poetry?

[mooninthewater]

Um… Not… well? But I wanted to try it, since Mister Zahliya said he likes stuff like this.

…Is it that bad?

[shineprism]

( i'm sleepy but i need to establish, chung will sign the card and also include some wildflowers for mizuki to offer as well- )

[simplicitas]

[me throwing down a comment to say elsword and gnosis will both sign this "wolfie they're literally all your characters" yes well that means i'm allowed]

You can show me the way I follow ( Closed to Add/Gnosis )

[mooninthewater]

[ Upon receiving the Crime Scene Forensics Kit Ages 9+ (Title Pending), Mizuki ends up dragging Gnosis with him to go see Add. He has a "lab" anyway, and he figures that Gnosis and Add can put together what's going on with the ashes from the journal way better than Mizuki can.

"Does Mizuki and Gnosis even have a key to Elsword's place?" Who knows? Mizuki squeezes under the door to let them both in anyway. Privacy who? Never met her.

He'll at least knock on Add's door, though!!!! He's got some manners. ]

[succiduous]

[Gnosis being a filthy enabler says something like "doesn't he keep the door unlocked" shortly before Mizuki schlorps under the door anyway. Okay.png.

Anyway hi they're here in your house now.]

This is who, who we are ( Open )

[mooninthewater]

[ If you thought you could cancel your monthly subscription to "Invasive Questions About Philosophy and Psychology", you'd be wrong. If you're "alone" in a room with him in a corner, camouflaged, he'll suddenly sit next to you excitedly, now visible. Or maybe you're outside by yourself, and Mizuki suddenly grabs your hand with all the stars in his eyes. Or maybe, the normal (and coward) option of him simply waving to get your attention from across the Grove/room/etc. Pick your poison, really, but whatever the case, he's very enthused about picking your brain.

Thus, without even so much as a hello, he'll ask one of the following questions: ]

a. What do you think it takes to overcome a substantial amount of grief?

b. What does a "sense of self" mean to you?

c. Do you think having secrets is important in a relationship, or that they're someone you should be 100% open with?

d. [ Mizuki doesn't actually show up for this one. You're in a room, "alone", and Mizuki will wait until your back is turned or when you're busy with something else and subtly adjust things around the room. Books, pens, jars, rocks - whatever is available, ever so slightly to record if you'd notice or not, and your reaction to it. This experiment would get more obvious as time goes on. ]

d.

[alligatus]

[ Lancelot is VERY use to this behavior actually, way too use... Like the moment something flickers and moves from the corner of his eye. He all but slow turns to look at what it was. He sees it, and after about an hour he will finally speak on it. ]

Enough.

[ Lancer raises his hand with the lance coming into existence within his grip. Then throws it and sends it barreling just BARELY nicking one of the tendrils wiggling about. ]

I've had enough of this and your fae-like games.

[mooninthewater]

[ Eep!!!!! Mizuki drops the camouflage and throws up his hands. He's still not sure how Mister Lancer can see through that so easily!!! He's usually so sneaky... It's his whole thing!!!! ]

Mister Lancer resorts to violence, noted!!!

Sorry, I didn't mean to upset you any. I'm just conducting research...

a!

[shineprism]

( oh hello mizuki, welcome to the kitchen, he was going to make some morning tea- )

Ah- ... would you like some?

( he just woke up. )

Mm... that's a hard question first thing in the morning, isn't it...? ... Really, I don't think it's something to overcome. You just learn to grow with it, over time and with suitable care. Time to cry, and then time to move forward. I think it's something you carry with you forever, otherwise.

[mooninthewater]

It's a hard question regardless of the time of day, I think! That's why I wanted to know.

[ That… and some other things, but Mizuki isn't about to get into it. ]

I'm not sure what you mean, though? Is not accepting your grief and moving forward not the very definition of "overcoming" something?

Everywhere you go, I'll be right there ( Closed to Elsword )

[mooninthewater]

[ It's a weird place to be when you feel awful for making other people feel bad, and then trying not to feel awful because it'll make other people feel bad. It's a gross ouroboros that Mizuki doesn't want to deal with, like, at all. Elsword is getting it the worst, however, so he is going to get Mizuki's immediate attention on it. And by "attention", I mean that he isn't going to talk to him about anything directly because that would make Mizuki feel upset.

So he just ends up leaving a bunch of stuff in Elsword's tent by the river while he's probably feeling miserable in the water. There's two notes next to the stuff, too. The first is the instructions on how to make S'mores with the ingredients provided, and the second is a very short apology note.

Sorry about everything. That you have my emotions to deal with on top of everyone else's. I'll do better.
- Mizuki

Signed also with a jellyfish.

If Elsword wants to find him, Mizuki will be in the white room at the therapy building, covered in paint and spinning around to splatter different colors he's poured onto his rain poncho around. No bad feelings. Just vibes. ]

[simplicitas]

[Yeah, suffice it to say, this month has been Elsword bouncing between home and the river, and ordinarily a normal person might go into the sensory deprivation tank... but it sets off his I-was-in-the-El-dying brain too much, plus he still gets to feel everything, so no. Thus the river. The river at least cools his body temperature when he overheats because people are injured and he's overstimulated and sweating, et cetera et cetera, and to be honest, it's also become his I-am-emotionally-distressed-and-need-a-break spot.

At this point, he practically lives there, which says a lot since his house is only a short walk down the bank and a little north of it overall.

Anyway, he gets back to his stuff and he's shocked when there's new stuff there that he didn't have on him before. He briefly reads over the notes...

Ah, no, Mizukiiii it's not your fauuuult— There's a very brief flicker of something like... guilt? Maybe? Before it quickly passes, not because of Elsword not caring but because the El Brainrot tells him to stop that.

Luckily, finding Mizuki isn't that hard. He's wearing both rings, one on each hand, and boy is there something weirdly addicting about just spinning these. Hm. He Understands now. So, he enters the paint room, careful to avoid any wayward splatters as he slowly opens the door and pokes his head in.]

Mizuki?

[mooninthewater]

[ Everything is currently just a mess of colors now. There's some pink that seems to be splattered here and there, some lime greens… but mostly blues and purples. It doesn't really look like anything specific yet. It's pretty, though, if a little disorienting. ]

Mister Elsword! Sorry, did you come to use the room? We can step out for a moment, it'll reset.

Preemptive CW for yandere bullshit. It's not here yet but it will be ( Closed to Add )

[mooninthewater]

[ After thing died down from their visit to the Church, Mizuki had left Add be. He had a lot to get done. Mostly with Nene. That whole eye business didn't look too good, and there's also Add's very concerned boyfriend. He'd stuck around for just a little bit to see Elsword fretting over Add, but ultimately left to go sort his own thoughts in his bathtub for the night. He… had a lot to think about. He also had the business with his hand? It didn't hurt anymore, at least, but to have a whole chunk taken out of it was worrying. He wonders how it would've felt, had he not been pain shared with others to only have him feel roughly a sixth of that pain?

Maybe he doesn't want to think about it, actually. You know what he does want to think about? Dynamo. Those strings he saw connecting Add with the little drones. The AI mixed with the neural link they had with Add. How absolutely baffling it is that the very person Mizuki's taken so well to is the very same person who has the capability to do something like that? He… wants to know if it's something Mizuki can do, too. Surely, surely, surely, something like this is the closest Mizuki's every going to get to becoming one with someone that isn't Genesezoic? He wants, wants, wants to ask. He needs to know. He's normally so patient, but right now he's just…

Mizuki doesn't sleep that night. Doesn't need to, as far as he's concerned. He feels great! So full of energy. So full of questions. Adrenaline. Want. No, need. Need, need, need…

It's why he's at Elsword's place so early, why he waits very impatiently just outside Elsword's room, spinning the umbrella around in his hands to pass the time. You know. Normal behavior.

The second Add opens the door: ] Doctor Add! [ Hi, hello, Mizuki isn't regarding the personal bubble rule at all, he's suddenly very close— ] Did you rest well? More importantly, were you heading off to do something? I was hoping I could have a word with you in private.

[harmacy]

[Add doesn't remember falling asleep in Elsword's room, but evidently that's where he ended up. He yelps in embarrassed surprise at the Mizuki jumpscare, as if it is somehow still a secret that he and Elsword are dating and sharing a bed and maybe even kissing in there... he collects himself a moment later, clearing his throat.]

Good morning, Mizuki. [Add is keeping it professional here but he is also still wearing tiger pajamas... don't make fun of them or he'll cry

Now, realistically, he should tell Mizuki he isn't even dressed yet and that whatever it is can wait... but he trusts Mizuki's judgment (maybe a little more than he should?) and surely he wouldn't be waiting for Add this early if it wasn't important? He pauses, stepping out of the room and quietly closing the door, Dynamos trailing by his feet.]

I can spare some time, sure. Let's talk in my office. [aka the room right next to this one]

1/2

[mooninthewater]

[ To Mizuki, there's nothing more important in the whole world, so it really all depends on who you ask. He tails excitedly after Add, not bringing up his PJs even a little because they're very cute and he is, at least, grateful he didn't catch Add in just his underwear or something. In hindsight, he should've been more mindful of that. After all, Add seems all too keen to undress Elsword, so who's to say he doesn't just sleep topless? Mizuki would like to not die of embarrassment this early in the morning, thanks.

He is ready to be a yandere piece of shit, though. Which is precisely why he's almost immediately running his mouth again when the door is closed. ]

It's actually about some things you mentioned while we were on the mission. There was more pressing matters at the time, of course, so I didn't think it was a good idea to get into it… [ Also, Irene was there, and that was actually the main reason— ] However, I didn't want to wait too long, else I'd lose everything I wanted to say, or have a poor recollection of what you had said.

It's about Dynamo. Or, more specifically, that link you have with them. They're able to act on their own and such, yet still have a mental connection with you, right? That's more or less how they work? [ He glances to them, then back to Add. ] I saw… in the goggles, when you handed them to me, there were these dazzling purple lines that connected them with you. It reminded me a bit of a constellation, actually~. It was very pretty.

… I'm getting a little ahead of myself, sorry. I guess, to get right to the point…

New friend ( Open )

[mooninthewater]

[ If you happen upon the inn's lobby at various times of the day, a few days after the forest crew returns with Nene, you'll happen across Mizuki in there as well. He seems to be busying himself with… something. There's papers balled up and strewn across the floor as he attempts perhaps his thirtieth attempt to make some kind of doll? It's simple, and really doesn't need all the attempts that Mizuki seems to have done to create the little guy, but…

…

He frowns, crushing another one in his hand and throwing it to the ground, then gets started on trying to make yet another. It's just a little ghosty friend with two eyes? How is he struggling this much?? ]

cw: auto-cannibalism (Closed to Elsword)

[mooninthewater]

[ Mizuki has had a weird relationship with the pain share marks they've received. He imagines most people were unhappy with him, but there's a mix of things that Mizuki feels for them. On the one hand, the obsessive side of him was so enthralled by the concept that he could "feel" other people. That there wasn't a moment he was "disconnected" from any of them, even if all he was feeling was the bad stuff. And isn't it still exciting? Isn't it nice to know that no matter what they do, every hit, every panic attack, every feeling of loneliness, every sorrow… it's all his, too? He's never felt so connected. So… one with others. Aside We Many, of course, but…

On the other hand, this isn't what he wanted. He doesn't want to share just the pain. He wants people to be happy. He's never wanted anything other than people being happy and experiencing goodness… This is the opposite of that. This is just meant to make people hurt. This is just meant to make them suffer. There's some merit to feeling other people's pain and being able to empathize with them, but this is… too much. It's different when people are always suffering, right? Happiness is so fleeting here. The creature in the forest just wants them to hurt.

Mizuki presses one of the marks to his mouth — one against his arm, just below his wrist. It's funny. He thinks the mark is about the same size as his mouth is? Wouldn't it be interesting to see what would happen if he bit down and tore it off? Wouldn't it be interesting to see if he felt more pain in tearing this away from him, signaling he's managed to sever one of these ties? Mizuki looks down to the river water, contemplating for a long time with his arm against his wrist. If it hurts, he can shove it in the water and wrap it around with one of his stingers. He'll heal.

It's not a bad idea, right? The pain won't be so bad because of the pain share, and also maybe get rid of it. If it works, then that's good news! Maybe they can figure out a way to get rid of them fully, then! If it doesn't, then now they know!!!! And… hm.

Mizuki opens his mouth, putting it around the mark, and he bites down. Hard. How funny, his flesh is no harder to tear into than anyone else's. He tastes a bit strange, he notices. Not as iron-y. Maybe that's why his blood isn't red? It hurts, but he persists until his teeth meet one another and he pulls away to tear off the skin and flesh from that area around the mark.

…

That's a lot of blood, actually. He wasn't expecting there to be that much? Oh no. Oh no?? He shoves his arm into the water and whimpers a little. Maybe he bit off more than he can chew (teehee). ]

[simplicitas]

[Meanwhile, there's Elsword, less overstimulated today now that everything with the mission is over and—

Nevermind. One second, he's talking to Moder, and then the next he's suddenly doubling over in pain, grabbing his wrist and sucking in a sharp breath through his teeth. Sharing pain with people sucks; a bite injury (or what Elsword thinks is a stabbing, because what is he supposed to think, he's not there) should cause him minimal pain, but he lacks his usual hardiness when it comes to what other people are feeling. Urgh.

He excuses himself from the conversation and tries to find Mizuki. Luckily, the spots Mizuki frequents are the spots Elsword frequents (although he does check the therapy building first, stops at the house, and only then does he see a familiar flash of blue at the river).

His fucking arm burns.]

Mizuki— hey, are you okay? Let me see.

[That

sure is blood around Mizuki's lips, isn't it? It's blue like a fruit gusher, but...]