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sophie "sentient man-eating barbie" cuckoo ([personal profile] sophielicious) wrote in [community profile] etraya2025-10-25 05:18 pm

UN: JUSTSOPHIE | TEXT

time for the bimonthly NYX report. introductions, i'm sophie cuckoo, your resident telepathic mutant barbie, hopefully it's nice to meet you. anyway, if you're new here, there's a gigantic building in charronway that i run for community strengthening purposes, called NYX. we have classes from swordfighting to demonic magic 101, and we serve homemade lunch and dinner made by our people.

so, as per usual, if there is a class you'd like to take or teach, please let me know and i'll see what i can do. second thing, we need more cooks, so if you want to help out, also just let me know.

place is also available for meetings, gatherings, parties if you're fun and know how to throw one, lectures, or whatever. i'm there during the afternoon, chrissy takes the morning shift, and always go through her first if you need me during that time.

as the end of it, as per usual, as a building exercise, let's do the usual. it goes over so well whenever i do it. tell me your problems, and i'll tell you how to fix them*.

*Neither NYX nor Sophie Cuckoo can be held liable or responsible if you listen to a random person on the internet and do it.
laserguy: (hehe)

[personal profile] laserguy 2025-10-27 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
sounds fake.

although maybe i'd believe that more if you could let me use your sword.
laserguy: (what do you think)

[personal profile] laserguy 2025-10-27 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
uh, to use it? obviously?

just swing it around and stuff. i'm not going to kill anyone if that's what you're worried about.
lingeringshadow: (pic#17997230)

[personal profile] lingeringshadow 2025-10-27 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
You know it's a part of my soul, right?
laserguy: (okay not bad)

[personal profile] laserguy 2025-10-28 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
uh no?? i don't know like anything about you.

so. would i not be able to touch it then??
lingeringshadow: (pic#17997236)

[personal profile] lingeringshadow 2025-10-28 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Nah, you still can. I'm just trying to freak you out.
What do you want to know? Shoot.
laserguy: (what do you think)

[personal profile] laserguy 2025-10-28 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
why would that freak me out that just makes it sound kind of cool.

but sure. what's the deal with your mutation?? you have a sword that's part of your soul and you have demon magic???
lingeringshadow: (pic#18012440)

[personal profile] lingeringshadow 2025-10-28 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Some people get squirmy about it.
The sword and magic isn't my mutation. I can create stepping discs. They're like portals that let me teleport whatever I want through time and space.
Remember when I said I grew up in Hell? It's true, but that's the vague version. When I was six, I was kidnapped to a dimension called Limbo by a demon named Belasco. He tried to use my soul to summon his gods. I learned magic and made the soulsword there, but it also linked my discs to Limbo. I use it as a midpoint.
Echo doesn't like me being able to do that, so she blocked my mutation somehow.
laserguy: (okay not bad)

[personal profile] laserguy 2025-10-28 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[brb grabbing some potato chips.]

damn seriously? so your mutation basically landed you in hell and you were tortured until you had to learn magic and a soulsword to fight back.

that's pretty hardcore.

and echo only blocked your mutation so far huh? not mine or the other telepaths.


[Does that mean Magik is the strongest??]
lingeringshadow: (pic#17997236)

[personal profile] lingeringshadow 2025-10-29 01:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Sort of. The kidnapping happened first, and my mutation manifested while I was in Limbo.
Echo likes to keep the dimension hopping abilities all to herself, I guess.
laserguy: (daily life)

[personal profile] laserguy 2025-10-29 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
why did they even kidnap you in the first place?? just drew the lucky number?

do you miss it? your powers. i mean you still have magic and your sword, so i guess not everything is fucked for you.
lingeringshadow: (x 3)

[personal profile] lingeringshadow 2025-10-29 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Because my soul was "pure" enough for his plans.

And yes. I don't know. I've spent my whole life trying to unlink myself from Limbo, but I never could. It's like


[Like she's irrevocably tainted by it, is what she thinks. She means to delete the half finished thought but accidentally sends the message instead. Ughhh.]

Taking away my mutant power completely feels like a violation.

[And even taking away her link to Limbo without her permission or involvement does, but she doesn't want to look at that part of it too hard.]

Did you miss your powers during the last mission?
laserguy: (big ol' visor)

[personal profile] laserguy 2025-10-30 12:51 pm (UTC)(link)
what a freak.

[Kidnapping young girls is the definition of that, especially in the derogatory sort of way--]

not really? i mean. a little. i haven't been a mutant for as long as you or the others. did i mention that? i had my powers for like three days before i arrived in etraya.

it was kind of cool i guess, seeing everything the way it should be. even if it was all foggy and shit.

but i guess i'm glad it's back??


[Because then he wouldn't be a mutant anymore, right? Would Sophie and the others still accept him? ...Maybe, probably. Yeah.]
lingeringshadow: (pic#18020168)

[personal profile] lingeringshadow 2025-10-30 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait, seriously?

[He's a baby mutant.]

You guess, huh?
laserguy: (yeah sure man)

[personal profile] laserguy 2025-10-30 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah, seriously.

i mean i'm back to wearing sunglasses 24/7, even when i'm asleep.


[Of course, he knows he can ask Sophie to help him see things again, but... it really is different when we can do it on his own.]

but also it felt stupid to swing a baseball bat around when i'm now used to firing beams out of my eyes.

[He can actually fight back again. Maybe even protect the people he's come to care about in this place.]