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Hayame ([personal profile] warmare) wrote in [community profile] aionlogs2022-06-14 08:29 am

Open Log ➵

WHO: Hayame and YOU(?!)
WHAT: centaur cryptid action, the angriest breeding season ever, archery, a local lurker probably yelling at kids to get off her misty lawn and stop trying to care about her
WHERE: Lohkimareen [Greentruth heights, misty depths, and forest's edge]
WHEN: Beginning of Visoseri (June)
WARNINGS: potential suicidal ideation, mentions of csa, violence, estrus


01 ➵ IN MISTS [FORESTS BELOW GREENTRUTH]➵ 霧の靡に

[The Aions have been provided lodging among the tall, fortified trees of Greentruth... But one potential member of the Pleroma group has not made use of them a single night. In fact, for the more observant types... the centaur who had been among their number that first night through the portal from Godsblood, who had hung around the edges of the welcome banquet silent, brooding, and angrily eavesdropping... has barely been seen since.

There are whispers, though, the occasional bit of gossip amongst the natives. A man who often works one of the freight elevators that transports supplies up from caravans on the forest floor who complains about an occasional extra load who doesn't even tip. Merchants who talk about being watched by a strange monster or spirit in the mist, shaped like some unnatural combination of mount and man. An armorer who laments that as much as they ought to aid the Aions in their mist, there is just this one who keeps taking shortbows- what is she doing to them?

And if someone were to actually seek out that woman... The search will take them to the dangerous mists below the safety of the Greentruth trees, where shadows play across the mist and large beasts roam. But amongst the tracks left behind by reptiles are faint imprints of hoof, there is a hollow tree that seems to have been made into some sort of crude shelter, game hanging to dry high off the ground and half-prepared pelts stretched out over makeshift racks, and when you turn around-

There might be an arrowhead embedded in a tree near your face, the arrow shaft quivering with the force that has punctured the bark.]


02 ➵ FLETCHER [GREENTRUTH, NEAR GODSBLOOD PORTAL]➵ 矢作り

[There is a downside to the intense aversion Hayame feels to using her shard for so-called "communion". Mainly... she has refused the easy way to know where people are across the planet. To her it is normal, coming as she did from a world in the year 1590 where the most advanced technology consisted of woodblock printing, looms, and matchlock rifles, but...

It means she does a lot of waiting in exchange for trying to keep people out of her head, where she has so much less control than she would like people to think. Risk emotion bleed with inexperience into a conversation that, if held in person, she'd at least be able to control? She does not fancy it.

And in waiting for the man she has commissioned a bow from to appear from Godsblood... she stands (glowers) near the portal from the coastal town, hands crossed beneath her tightly bound breasts. After a few hours... she begins to resent herself for the wasted time, and right there, her large body taking up a decent amount of space near the portal...

She just commandeers a table and starts to work, pulling a feathered kill from its place hanging at her harness and beginning to pluck feathers off it right there, squinting at each one and beginning to cut them into arrow fletching. Sorry, did you need to get past her? Wondering why she's still standing there?

She isn't volunteering. She's working.]


03 ➵ NATURAL DESIRE [RIVER NEAR GREENTRUTH]➵ 発情期

[Hayame has always resented the fact that she was born a woman.

From the moment she had been old enough to watch the empty shell of an Armless woman that was her dam be led to the mounting post each year and understand why, she had known what women were best suited for in a breeding stable. Even as she trained herself in bow and polearm and blade, threw her entire effort into making herself a warrior who would be bought by a warlord to bring him victories in battle, the possibility of being sold as a broodmare or "companion" mount had always been a possibility. Always.

And nothing was a better reminder of the femininity she strove to cover with bindings, strength, and harshness than a jinba mare's heats. The urges frustrate her as they always do, turn normal scents in the air to tempting aromas, make her body into a traitor willing to lift her tail with interest at the sight of potential mates, and force her to burn with desire that anyone with a proper nose or eye would notice.

Which is what has led Hayame to the cold mountain river she is now immersed in up to her lower shoulders, letting the water wash away proof of her want and cool her body. Thinking herself alone... she allows herself the luxury of a moment of weakness, letting down her fetlock-length ebony hair and trying to work her fingers through the tangled strands that have grown difficult to handle without her master's women to provide oils and comb.

The sounds of the water, unfortunately, mean that she is somewhat unprepared for visitors. Her bow and knife, however... are still within reach.]


04 ↣ WILDCARD ↣ 鬼札

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[personal profile] recursive 2022-07-29 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
( he actually does have a pretty good idea, just from how often he had nursed smarting bruises from whenever maki had deemed him a little too annoying or considerate or thoughtful or any of those things that she generally found irksome from other people. it's less that he sees the twitch of her fingers and more that he feels it, thrumming through the connection between himself and rika as the cursed spirit coils, her ire palpable, straining desperately at the strands of control that yuuta uses to guide her. if she had it her way, she would have already snapped the bow in this woman's hands by now, but yuuta has been telling her almost non-stop for the last few minutes to stay still and stay hidden.

there's only so much him telling her can do, however, if someone goes so far as to perceptibly attack him.

as soon as the arrow is loosed, a huge, pale hand materializes out of thin air beside hayame and swipes at it; she had wanted to catch it in her hand, but she's only just barely able to brush past the fletching as it whistles towards yuuta. a high pitched screech, like that of a young girl layered with thick distortion, sounds in blistering irritation. the first hand disappears, and another reappears closer to hayame to reach out and attempt to enclose around her forearm and prevent her from drawing another arrow (even if she didn't intend to) — the hands of the spirit are large enough to completely encircle it. )


Don't hurt Yuuta!! ( she roars in that same girlish voice.

at the same time that all of this happened, the arrow had been slightly knocked off of its original trajectory. unfortunately it had actually been knocked more towards yuuta than away from him, so he has to reinforce himself with some cursed energy to get the speed and reflexes to step out of the way. it still grazes past his cheek, but... maybe he'd intended for it to? might as well preserve hayame's intention and show that he can "listen." the force of the arrow sliced through even the reinforcement, opening up a thin line that begins to draw a slow ribbon of blood down the side of his face.

he doesn't think about that right now, instead stepping forward to say in a sudden shift in vocal tone, )
Rika. Let her go. ( the words are firm and authoritative, yet faintly gentle. the spirit clearly hesitates, grip tightening infinitesimally for just a moment before doing as yuuta said and disappearing again. he heaves a sigh, reaching up to swipe the pads of his fingers across where he can feel the blood trickling from his cheek. he doesn't seem all that alarmed by the injury. he could probably seal it up with reverse cursed energy here and now, but there wasn't really much point.

instead he completely devalues what just happened and beams a smile at hayame, snapping right back to his previous mode. )
So, anyways, yeah - moving camps, that makes sense... ( as if he's rationalizing that she was doing so for external reasons like local wildlife rather than the fact that he'd found her here, ) That's fine. I'll just have to search you out again, but that's no trouble.

( yeah he's just not gonna talk about rika even if he's certain she's gonna have something to say about it )