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Illyana Rasputin ([personal profile] soulsword) wrote in [community profile] aterat2022-07-12 08:24 pm

Video

Who; Illyana + OTA
What; Video post at Academy + Beach Shark
Where; Network, new beach, and Academy
When; Throughout the month of July, this is a catch all
Warnings;None.


A. [ V I D E O ]
[ The video feed opens to what some may recognize as the Academy that randomly appeared a while ago. It's not in the greatest condition as shown by the camera moving around. Whose moving the camera? Good question, because it eventually focuses to reveal Illyana floating in the air upside down with her legs folded one across the other.

It's a very normal way to address people. Don't question it. ]


So, I guess we've just got this place now, huh? Clean up crew that came in really could have done a slightly better job. [ No judgement though. Well, maybe some judgement, but that's Illyana: snarky and judgmental. A brief glimpse of her imps working to clean up some rubble can be seen in the background here and there. Followed by a very loud CRASH sound and Illyana snapping: ]

Hey! Be careful back there. [ Is she concerned they'll get hurt? No. Maybe She sighs and then returns to addressing the camera. ]

I was thinking maybe I could teach here. That's what it was used for before right? Not sure how many of you would have the talent, but it'd be something to do. [ And boy is she bored. ]


B. Night of the Shark
Illyana arrived at the beach in the afternoon wearing an actual bikini and giant sunglasses that looked like they belonged in the 80s. Try not to judge her too much, they were in style back when she went to beach parties with her friends. Imagine that, she thought to herself as she walked up to the shore. It felt like it was a different life that she was at a beach with all the other New Mutants. In a way it was, but that was more complicated than she wanted to spend time thinking about. Same could be said for the majority of her life both there and here now. Everything somehow got complicated when you thought about how you felt. Really had a way of killing the mood. Or at the very least for making the mood more sticky and twisty. Yup, that's exactly how she'd describe her weird feelings.

At least this place changed every now and then. That served as a way to at least attempt to find a distraction from weird things like remoistening about the past (she missed her friends) or thinking about the future (why did she want to see him right now?). The fact that the arrival of a beach just seemed to be making her sad was not lost on her as she wandered up and down the shore. She kept away from people as the sun began to set and barely paid any attention to anyone else around. This wasn't what people meant when they suggested she try to be more social. To add to the antisocial look she kept her sunglasses on even as the sun completely set.

That was when she noticed something out of the corner of her eyes that looked suspiciously like a fin.

"Well, well, well, what have we here?" A new project. That's what she'd found here. And so began her nighttime adventures with a landshark. Illyana can be found out at the beach at night sitting on a rock casting some sort of spell. Occasionally she can also be found...riding something. That's right, she's learned how to ride a landshark. Only a bit of it's body can be seen sticking out of the sand, mostly it ends up looking like she's just gliding on some sort of large rock. Gliding on it and having a stupid amount of fun. Not that she's going to admit to that part.

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[personal profile] asthecroweflies 2022-09-10 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"Fair enough." But he's going to take her joining him in the sand as the victory it is, at least for a little while.

"So, Baroque, but I'm not too familiar with Moscow architecture. What do you have in mind?"
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[personal profile] asthecroweflies 2022-09-20 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
He nodded, looking over the illusion before setting to work shaping parapets. They weren't exact, but he was rusty and his father had been a better carver. That and he was desperately out of practice.

"So, does the church have a story or do you just like it?"
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[personal profile] asthecroweflies 2022-09-29 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
"So, you're saying you chose it because it would be hard for me to pull off." He smiled at the idea though, rather than being annoyed. Her constant pushing him was starting to feel more like a game than anything malicious.

"And that's it? No other reason?"
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[personal profile] asthecroweflies 2022-10-07 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
He smiled slightly at her comment, nodding. "I think it says something you still call Russia home." After all she'd been through, it was impressive.

And that second comment brought out a chuckle. "Are you telling me I've never once impressed you? Really?"
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[personal profile] asthecroweflies 2022-10-10 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
"I understand, love, at least in part." He hadn't had many places to call home, either. In fact, he couldn't remember a place that felt like one, not in a very long time, possibly since before his mother passed. "I may not have been raised in a hell dimension, but the house I grew up never really felt like a home, either."

He smiled over to her, empathic to the extent he could be at least. "Yeah. I wonder what that says about me."
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[personal profile] asthecroweflies 2022-10-11 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
He was keenly focused on carving, with the smaller tool she's fetched, the pillars hovering in illusion nearby, and his brow furrowed when she asked. He didn't talk much about his past, but he supposed they had that in common.

"When I was a kid, we lived in south London, and...after my mother passed, da just uprooted us and flew us to the US. 'We need a do-over' he said, but it never really...felt like home, you know? It didn't help that he rarely tried spending time with me or...anything. Maybe that's...normal, I dunno."

He shrugged, smiling slightly without looking over. "We're a pair, yeah?"
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[personal profile] asthecroweflies 2022-10-12 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
"That's...exactly what he was doing, and I got dragged along for the ride." He shrugged. "I still miss London, the way the mist rolls in off the river at night. It always felt like I was being transported to another world. There's just...a mystique there that you can't find in the states, you know?"

He looked over to her then, smiling but thoughtful. "And I dunno. Just a pair. I think I like the sound of that."
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[personal profile] asthecroweflies 2022-10-13 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
"It's not exactly a cheap trip, love, and I was naturalized, so I'm a US citizen, now." He breathed a sigh.

"Red tape and all that." He raised an eyebrow slightly. "Why, do you want to be a pair of something specific?"
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[personal profile] asthecroweflies 2022-10-14 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, too bad." And if they were from the same world, he might just take her of on an offer to go back to England, but they weren't, and that very idea saddened him more than he cared to admit.

"Well, love, I'm fine with just being a pair if you are." He looked over to her, then reached out to take her hand.