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"Fox" ([personal profile] foxable) wrote2020-05-12 02:07 pm

Open RP Post

Will make this pretty later
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[personal profile] niexiaojie 2020-05-13 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
[She's letting it hold you because to her brother's greatest fury, it just so happens the saber is not her spiritual weapon, Fox. Try to touch the fan though, if you want to lose a hand.

His words bring a frown to her face.]


... I don't like it either. I hate it. But that's how the place was made two hundred years ago and there's nothing I can do about it.

[She looks a bit surprised that he knows her name - but with the clue he has, why would he not know? Indeed, the family was small, and pretty famous for their unorthodox use of magic.]

What gave me away? The braids, or the saber?

[Belatedly, she holds out her hand to get the blade back as she finally leads the way out completely into the forest.]

What's your name? How did you even find this place? And do you often break into other people's ancestral shrines without asking?

... You know I'll have to tell my brother someone broke in, right?

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[personal profile] niexiaojie 2020-05-13 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
... You're Fox? Seriously?

[Her eyes widen, going from him to the fox guardian spirit.]

Well, I guess it's no wonder you managed to get in then. Most people wouldn't even notice the place, and the few that do usually get lost in the maze array and never make it to the door.

[But if he was Fox, 'the' Fox that even the Sect Leaders spoke of with a mix of exasperation and respect, then it made more sense that he'd managed to sneak in and remain undetected for a time.

His question makes her shake her head.]


The protection charms are being remotely monitored. Once they got tripped inside the shrine, it alerted someone back home. They're not going to come here since I didn't send a flare, but they'll know someone was in and I let them out.

I don't have to tell him it's you if you don't want me to but... I'm already going to get yelled at for just letting you out. If I say it was you, I'd have a good excuse as to why I just let you go. I could just say you slipped away once we were out. They'd believe me.

[Everyone always underestimates Huaisang's abilities because of her low proficiency with the saber. And honestly, she prefers it that way. She can use her actual abilities in silence, when needed, and live a more quiet and carefree life the rest of the time.]

Anyway, it's not like my brother can just look for you and find you, right? Just go and don't come back here.

[She's about to turn away, but then faces him again.]

I'm serious about that. You got really, really lucky. If the sword spirits had actually woken up, I probably wouldn't have been able to do anything.
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[personal profile] niexiaojie 2020-05-15 12:13 pm (UTC)(link)
He could try, but I don't think he'd bother.

[Most of the Sect Leaders know about Fox, but they tend to just leave him alone unless he gets too nosy into their business. There used to be efforts to try and find him before, until they collectively decided he wasn't a threat and more of a slightly irritating annoyance most of the time. the Sects themselves tend to be a bit removed from traditional wizarding circles, and it's not like there aren't any rogues among them anyway.

But it'd be easier for them to let him go if he didn't insist on coming to see stuff just for curiosity's sake. Like the Nie saber shrine, or the Lan Forbidden library - she heard that one from Xichen.

She looks surprised as she takes the bit of sleeve and listens to his explanation, and then smiles, holding it up.]


Thanks. I guess with this I can call us even.

[You're still alive, and she won't get yelled at too badly. Definitely even.]

Now go. I have to stay here for the rest of the night, and it'll be more believable too if I finish my shift rather than rush home now.
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[personal profile] niexiaojie 2020-05-18 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[And another cloaking spell. She's not quite sure exactly how many he has on him, but yes, no wonder he somehow managed to slip inside.

But then he's like 'We should hang out' and she doesn't have time to answer and....

Hang out with Fox? The Fox? Her? Well, first she'd have to know where to find him and that in itself is not easily done, as she mentioned... although of course, she is much better at tracking things than anyone else she knows, but...

But it doesn't feel right running after him. She trusts he'll hold to his word and not come back. That's enough trouble for now. If their paths cross again, then they'll see...

She goes home at the end of the night, gets yelled at as she predicted although the burnt sleeve and take help stop that pretty quickly. And then, she's back to slacking at saber practice, skipping classes when she can, practicing her talisman magic in secret instead and training with her fan when no one is looking.

And clubbing, of course.]
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[personal profile] niexiaojie 2020-05-19 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[She is personable and sociable, so Huaisang likes the crowds, and the noise, and the drinking.

She likes the annoying guys a bit less, but they come with the territory, and if she doesn't have Zonghui staring at people menacingly somewhere around, she has people gently reminding them that her last name is Nie and her older brother literally flattens people who look at her too long before breakfast, so usually it works out.

In a throng like this one, though, there's often a few hands that fray, but she's good with the pinching, and she has her fans in case things get real handsy.

It takes a her a little bit to realize the movement of the crowd near her is not natural, and she barely has the time to think, her mind racing, there's someone here with a cloaking spell on, why, when suddenly he appears and she ends up in a pool of quiet, blinking with her mouth open.

Okay, so he did say they should hang out, but she'd figured he was just being polite after she saved him and she hadn't bothered looking for him because int he aftermath of the shrine being broken into it's been a flurry of activity to re-secure it properly.

And now he's here, standing right in front of her and asking her to dance?

She closes her mouth and smiles.]


Sure, okay.

... you give a whole new dimension to the concept of ghosting, you know that?
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[personal profile] niexiaojie 2020-05-22 11:41 am (UTC)(link)
That's nice! I honestly wasn't sure you'd even remember me after you left, to be honest.

[It wasn't like a lot of people could come and say they had Fox dropping by to say 'hi', so after some times passed with no news she figured he'd just said that to be polite and moved on. So it's a really nice surprise.

After a while, though, she's going to pull on his hand and drag him away from the dance floor towards the bar, where she orders some shots, and then muscle her way to a table where one side look from her is apparently enough to make the guys sitting there scram to places unknown.

And once the shots are brought she's going to just knock one back straight on.]


Broken into any other interesting places lately? Except here?

[Did he even pay to get in? Probably not. with cloaking that good, none of the people here probably noticed him slip in. She only noticed something strange when he was practically right next to her.]
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[personal profile] niexiaojie 2020-05-22 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Nah. Once I told them it was you and showed them your sleeve, they pretty much forgot about me and got into emergency planning more to reinforce the wards and maze arrays around the place. My brother did freak out a bit, but only because he wanted to be sure I was okay. Like he expected you to have attacked me, or something.

[Her brother can be a little irrational sometimes when it comes to her and her safety.]

So you really had nothing better to do tonight than come say hello to the girl who found you with your hand in the spirit jar a month ago?
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[personal profile] niexiaojie 2020-05-22 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[She knocks back another shot, and then looks him up and down for a few seconds.]

I'm not gonna say you look like you wouldn't hurt a fly... more like you would hurt the fly, but then you'd feel really bad for the fly afterwards. and it's true that from the rumors I'd have expected you to be more.... I don't know. They always make you out to be this spooky, really dangerous guy.

['Really dangerous' she can believe. he'd have to be to get into the sword shrine and stay in undetected as long a she did. But mostly, he just looked like a kid her age who had too much power and time on his hands.]

Heh? Show off? Why do I need to choose an animal? A boar, I guess?

[.... Well, she is a Nie, after all, so hope you were not expecting her to choose something cute like a bunny or a bird, Fox.]
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[personal profile] niexiaojie 2020-05-22 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't even know what you need to protect yourself from. The way the Elders talk about you, you'd think you're the boogeyman or something.

[There is a lot of 'information' floating around about Fox. Huaisang knows better than to believe most of it, and meeting him, she can see she wasn't wrong.

She watches the drawing with curiosity and follows his instructions not to turn around right away, and then when she does she laughs at the panic around, emptying another shot.

And then smiling at him.]


That's cute. But I hope that's not how you show off normally. Even I know how to do something like that and everyone knows I suck at almost everything.

Your cloaking spells are a lot more impressive. I wish I could make mine half as good as yours.

... Does it make a difference, drawing those with alcohol?

[She works mostly with traditional ink, even if she's dabbled in other things, and she knows that in an emergency, a sharpie works just fine. But it's interesting to see, and his rune work is unlike anything she's ever seen.]

You create your own stuff almost from scratch, don't you? I wish I could do that too.
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[personal profile] niexiaojie 2020-05-22 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but you know the difference between flashy and impressive, don't you?

[She certainly does. None of what she can do well is flashy by any means, not in the way the Nie sect is used to being flashy. Blade magic is something that requires flashiness almost as a rule. But she sucks at it and she knows it, so she's focused on other areas and just hasn't told anyone who doesn't absolutely need to know.

And as it turns our, illusion magic is one of her strengths. She smiles at him.]


You're already seeing one of mine. I'm wearing one right now.

[After all, why bother buying super expensive make up - although eyeliner can also be great for tracing runes quickly on skin - when you can just glamour your face the way you want it to look?]
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[personal profile] niexiaojie 2020-05-22 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Is that... a way to see through illusion charms? You tattooed it on yourself?

[Most people she knew would use straight qi or a paper talisman... a tattoo seemed a little excessive, unless he expected to have to use that kind of spell a lot.

She watches his next offering with wide eyes, and even wider when she touches the fabric and tests it between her fingers.]


... You actually can go down to the molecular level? That's... super precise.

[She definitely can't do transfiguration on that level.

Of course, whatever spells he's wearing means no one is really paying attention to them, but by now the noise of the club and the throng of people are just a bother, plus she's starting to get hungry.]


Hey, Let's go somewhere else. Grab some food somewhere quieter.
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[personal profile] niexiaojie 2020-05-22 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[Her eyes widen again as he explain what the design actually does, and dart down to the tattoo himself and then back up.]

.... Should you really be showing me this? Do you know how many people would kill to get this hands on a spell like that? You're crazy!

[They've literally met twice and the first time was when he was breaking into her family's ancestral shrine and now he's showing her something that would put a target on his head three times over if anyone knew he had it?

Boys really are stupid. In some sort of way, because to tell the truth, if he put on his cloaking spell and left she wouldn't be able to catch him but still!

And she knows no one will be listening in, but it still doesn't feel comfortable talking about this here.]


Let's just find a place with good burgers. I'm hungry.

[And unlike most girls her age, dieting is not in her vocabulary. Maybe she's lucky in terms of metabolism - her brother does lament that she can't seem to bulk up or gain the muscle mass needed for the saber. So when she eats, she eats.

She goes to garb her coat at the entrance and slip out after waving good bye to a few people. Once outside, she sighs and looks up at the night sky, then quickly checks her phone before putting it back in her pocket.]


.... You're lucky I'm not as blade-happy as most of my family, I hope you know that. And that I know I don't even have enough qi to work something so complicated. If i were someone else, they might have already tried to cut off your arm.

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