[it'd be nice to say that he makes this decision because this world is making it abundantly clear that he has to follow this internal logic in order to progress, but it's definitely 80% because it hurts and he has a lot of bad feelings.]
[ BIG MOOD, RUPERT. They're all just being so difficult that we had to get magically tortured into agreeing.
But uh, thanks Hawkmoth. The shadows take over, and he gets a cool ovedramatic supervillain uniform. Maybe? Actually, when the shadows disperse, he appears a little different, minus the giant box around his waist. Everything else is exactly that, though. His mask is gone for the time being, which is hilarious because wouldn't a villain usually have a mask? But nooo. But those closest to him can see his face under the hood and he looks the same, except he has cross-like markings over his eyes. He has an extremely dour and unhappy expression, unlike the reference image. ]
...
[ He hates this so much, wow. Edit nvm I can read yeha bad vibes gone wahoo!!! ]
[bradley and rupert are also overcome by shadows and begin to transform!
the woman with her baby is rapidly running away, pushing the stroller as the baby giggles like this is a fun game. tourists visiting the eiffel tower are staring. one dude, with a distinctly american accent, sidles up to aikawa and angles his phone to get them both on the camera.]
Hey, dude, lemme get a selfie! Twitter is not gonna BELIEVE I met a real akuma!!
[
good morning becks and crow when you see this chaos!]
[That's fair and valid, lady. If something is going to kill you and yours, it only makes sense to run away.
Meanwhile Bradley is wearing an all black outfit himself, complete with many silver, dangling trinkets and feathers. The hood is up, though his face is still plenty visible. Bradley looks the very picture of a wizard (according to the person who designed this specific outfit).
Also he just. Lets this dude have a selfie, I guess?]
[ crow hates all of you and is divorcing this family as soon as they get back. if they get back.
because i think it’s funny for him to be the only non-akumatised one, he’s gonna keep resisting. get wrecked hawkmoth. he may be in serious pain and struggling to keep moving, but he’s gonna keep going as long as he can.
his double saber is here too and he will slash if anyone gets near him. have some injuries as a treat. ]
[crow is the only valid person in this cyoa. rupert doesn't get close to him, distracted by the way his clothes have suddenly changed. did i google evil prince costume and pick the stupidest looking option? maybe so. a mask appears on his face as well for the aesthetic.
once he realizes he isn't in pain any longer, he's standing up, blinking, and just kind of trying to tug the mask off. i assume it does not work like that.]
When the American tourist comes over for a selfie he's just going to shove him at Bradley's direction and stalk off. He didn't push him super hard, just a shove, but he's just. NO THANKS. Just stalking off.
Fine, now that they've done this all they have to do is just keep going, then, so closer to the Tower it is. What can they see about it? Anything off? ]
crow's slash narrowly misses taking off the head of the foolish tourist who was trying to get a selfie, thanks largely in part to aikawa shoving him. he stumbles a little, snapping his selfie. it comes out really blurry.
for his part, he seems more upset over the bad photo quality than anything else.]
Hey, man! Let me try that again!
[rupert is not able to take off his mask. it's just a part of him now. the tower looks pretty normal, actually! there's just a bunch of tourists there, though they look pretty freaked out at the sight of three akumatized villains and one dude with a weapon.
the mask-shaped light forms over their faces, and hawkmoth's voice comes again.]
Now all that remains is to get the Miraculouses...! You'll need to get the attention of the people carrying them, to bring them here.
[crow doesn't hear anything. he just gets bad vibes and more physical pain. they're getting worse and worse.]
Man, people 'round here don't have any sense of self preservation, huh?
[Which means Bradley is taking the tourist by the scruff of his shirt and running off with him. Maybe up on a house. Did his stats get a boost from being villainized? Can he hop onto a roof?
[ yeah no just stab him and leave him there. he's about to yell at the tourist, but luckily bradley is doing a questionable amount of good(?) work, and kidnapping millenial tourists.
crow does a lot of wincing, but ultimately remains where he is for now. the continued shenanigan will be "fuck u hawkmoth" until britt has had enough of me. ]
[he just watches bradley do that. you do you, bradley.
anyways, now that he's not in crippling pain, he'll follow aikawa towards the tower. for like one step, at least, before he just kind of - seemingly disappears? and then reappears in the shadow the tower is casting, ahead of aikawa suddenly. after a second:]]
...Okay, even I have to admit that was kind of cool, wow.
[what's up, tower.]
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[ He just looks up at the tower for a bit. Well. It's a nice enough tower, he supposes. Just quietly pulling the hood over his head a little bit more.
Hiya Rupert. You're now his lil villain partner it looks like. Though, when he ends up shadow stepping, he looks a little surprised and maybe a tad impressed. ]
The hell? That was some pretty cool magic... wait, what the hell did I get...?
[ Hawkmoo explain. Anyway, there's a few people around right? We have the power, we can give this city more population than it's budget suggests.
In the most dead voice, he turns around and goes: ]
We're gonna blow up this tower. Your big precious tower. Unless there's someone who can stop us, that is.
[yeah, word of god is that everyone who sets foot in paris is a moron with no anger management skills. so! this tourist is just along for the ride now. bradley - and aikawa and rupert, too - are also in possession of supervillainesque strength and speed, so they can absolutely leap onto rooftops and whatnot.
anyway, this tourist is trying to take another fucking selfie.]
Hey, dude! Make an angry face! Haha, my follower count is going to go way up!
[crow, meanwhile, gets nothing other than an intense burst of pain that will send him buckling to his knees. one of the people nearby calls 112 to request an ambulance because they think he's having a heart attack.
crow will get the sense that if only he had powers of some kind he could make this pain go away.
and the other tourists are now panicking, with aikawa's announcement.]
No! You can't blow up the Eiffel Tower! That's like the soul of Paris! Someone call Ladybug and Chat Noir! Someone call the cops! Oh, wait, I think those are cop cars?
[sure enough, there's lights and sirens. the cops are finally catching up! took them long enough.]
[Bradley, has hopped up to a high enough part of the tower. This looks like it would be fatal for a human, right? Now he's dangling this tourist right over the edge.
You know! For fun!]
Better show up quick! Or this fucker's gonna lose his life.
[ (britt voice) "becks stop being stubborn i have a cyoa to run".
well. the police are here, and apparently there's a ambulance on the way? hope that guy gets fined for wasting the emergency service's time because that is exactly what they are doing.
he huffs a sharp breath out of his nose and forces himself up onto his feet again. slowly, slowly, and like it's all in agony -- because it is. ]
Fine, you petty asshole. But believe me when I say you're going to regret messing around with my head.
[ suddenly he is not so valid anymore. but it's fine? it's fine. it's not the first time someone's messed with his mind and manipulated him and he got to fuck them over too so.
[so here's the thing! he agreed entirely to get rid of the pain and the Bad Feelings, but that does not actually mean he's interested in the offer he was given, or invested in listening to hawkmoth. so he's poofing once again into a shadow near where bradley is holding this poor tourist out over the ledge, frowning deeply at him.]
[ He's so glad got Rupert tbh. Not so hot on the Crow thing, he even glances over at him with a tad of pity. What can he say, he ended up bending first after. As for the panic. ]
Nooo what don't call the cops just call the first two things...
[ Nooo, not the authorities again. He's just shuffling a bit closer to the tower, he is ready to scale this shit to escape if he must. ]
Seriously, don't come any closer or I'll, uh, I'll punch it.
[the tourist takes a pic of himself dangling, posts it on snapchat, and captions it with OH SHIT GUYS THEY'RE THREATENING MY LIFE FOLLOW ME ON YOUT*BE
a fall from this height would most certainly be fatal for this idiot, who still seems amused and not actually scared for his life.
a light mask appears over crow's face again.]
Oh? So we have a deal? [crow will be overcome by shadows and begin to transform! the onlookers shriek with terror. his pain and bad vibes vanish immediately.] You know what to do. Lure out the wielders of the Miraculouses, take them, and bring them to me!
[anyway, the cops are not heeding any of these warnings. aikawa and crow are closest to them, so they rush them. officer raincomrpix is at the front with handcuffs at the ready.]
There will be no punching! Stop in the name of the law!!
[meanwhile, up at the tower with bradley and rupert...
there are two figures in the distance! they're approaching at a rapid clip. one of them is sporting a mouse-themed superhero outfit, a pink-and-grey mask, and has silver hair done up into two buns to look like mouse ears. the other is in an elegant-looking turtle-themed superhero outfit, and has piercing blue eyes and long white hair.]
[ well, good news everyone, crow looks like this now. (anna voice) even his abs have abs. you're welcome.
he's also still stubborn, still spiteful, but still sneaky enough to... not openly confirm or deny what it is he's planning on doing. which for the moment is
not being within grabbing distance of the police and those handcuffs. so! away he goes. good luck aikawa, he's leaving you to it. ]
... [ re: bradley: ] What is he even trying to pull? The guy looks like a total moron.
[ anyway! the tower seems like a good bet so... off he goes. good luck rupert, aikawa. ]
[muttered to crow and aikawa, not that they can hear him from up here:]
Cool, you guys just do whatever while I handle this, thanks.
[i, eli, understand that aikawa and crow are valid.
to the (presumed) heroes who just showed up, he gives a little wave! to hopefully convey that he is on their side here. and since he now has cool supervillain levels of strength despite his twink stature, he's just going to try to pull bradley away from the edge while not hurting this poor social media fanatic. the pcs are fightingggg.]
[ He is absolutely not. However, he is also just about to fend off these frickin' cops, so make of that what you will. (Rattles tin) the married gays are fiiiightiiiing!!! ]
Guh -- ! Sorry, but I've got no real intention of heading off to jail, so...!
[ And then he just starts -- scaling up the tower. See ya officer Raincomrpix? How do you say that name I'm in tears. But Aikawa was always pretty agile and good at this kind of stuff, and now with the superpower boost, it's absolutely insane. He is just scaling feet of it in one jump. ]
Wow, I could get used to this. [ Which, internally he tacks on a 'I'm not going to, but'. Right, he has some kind of dumb role to play here, and while hanging off of a part of it, waves down at the cops. ]
Come try to get me if you can! [ Wait, he has to give them a motivation. ] ...Or I'll start taking this tower down bar by bar from... the top!
[ Really ridiculous method of supervillainy? Yes. Stalling for time? Also yes. ]
[well! both of the costumed heroes give bradley a deadeyed stare at that and dart forward, intending to grab for the hapless dude, and unfortunately miss rupert's little wave. the social media fanatic is wriggling a bit to try and get a better angle for his selfie. there's the sound of fabric ripping!
that's the back of his shirt. haha. it's starting to rip. if anyone tries to catch him, roll a d20.
the police yell indignantly as crow and aikawa bail. officer raincomprix says something about how their rap sheet is getting longer and they better watch out!! this is disrespect of an officer of the law!! etc, etc.
crow's progress up the tower is impeded by the sudden appearance of... a portal? a white-haired girl in a rabbit costume with piercing blue eyes appears out of it, blocking his path, and points an umbrella at him.]
Don't move!
[meanwhile, aikawa is just straight up tackled mid-"villainspeech" by a purple-skinned, horned person in a monkey-themed costume. this is definitely not someone you recognize. he's wearing a mask! magic means it's impossible to tell who this purple skinned person is. i'm sorry. i don't make this canon's shitty rules.]
[ sprays bradley like he's a bad kitty. which he is. ]
[ anyway. crow just gives this bunny-girl the most unimpressed look he can from behind his mask. ]
Question for you -- if this guy is constantly trying to steal, what is it, Miraculous-somethings? Which I'm assuming you have something to do with given what he keeps nagging us to do?
Why are you here, exactly?
[ like. ma'am, you've rocked up to a theft where you're the intended target? are you ok? ]
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Fine, I'll do it!
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But uh, thanks Hawkmoth. The shadows take over, and he gets a cool ovedramatic supervillain uniform. Maybe? Actually, when the shadows disperse, he appears a little different, minus the giant box around his waist. Everything else is exactly that, though. His mask is gone for the time being, which is hilarious because wouldn't a villain usually have a mask? But nooo. But those closest to him can see his face under the hood and he looks the same, except he has cross-like markings over his eyes. He has an extremely dour and unhappy expression, unlike the reference image. ]
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[ He hates this so much, wow. Edit nvm I can read yeha bad vibes gone wahoo!!! ]
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the woman with her baby is rapidly running away, pushing the stroller as the baby giggles like this is a fun game. tourists visiting the eiffel tower are staring. one dude, with a distinctly american accent, sidles up to aikawa and angles his phone to get them both on the camera.]
Hey, dude, lemme get a selfie! Twitter is not gonna BELIEVE I met a real akuma!!
[
good morning becks and crow when you see this chaos!]
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Meanwhile Bradley is wearing an all black outfit himself, complete with many silver, dangling trinkets and feathers. The hood is up, though his face is still plenty visible. Bradley looks the very picture of a wizard (according to the person who designed this specific outfit).
Also he just. Lets this dude have a selfie, I guess?]
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because i think it’s funny for him to be the only non-akumatised one, he’s gonna keep resisting. get wrecked hawkmoth. he may be in serious pain and struggling to keep moving, but he’s gonna keep going as long as he can.
his double saber is here too and he will slash if anyone gets near him. have some injuries as a treat. ]
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once he realizes he isn't in pain any longer, he's standing up, blinking, and just kind of trying to tug the mask off. i assume it does not work like that.]
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When the American tourist comes over for a selfie he's just going to shove him at Bradley's direction and stalk off. He didn't push him super hard, just a shove, but he's just. NO THANKS. Just stalking off.
Fine, now that they've done this all they have to do is just keep going, then, so closer to the Tower it is. What can they see about it? Anything off? ]
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crow's slash narrowly misses taking off the head of the foolish tourist who was trying to get a selfie, thanks largely in part to aikawa shoving him. he stumbles a little, snapping his selfie. it comes out really blurry.
for his part, he seems more upset over the bad photo quality than anything else.]
Hey, man! Let me try that again!
[rupert is not able to take off his mask. it's just a part of him now. the tower looks pretty normal, actually! there's just a bunch of tourists there, though they look pretty freaked out at the sight of three akumatized villains and one dude with a weapon.
the mask-shaped light forms over their faces, and hawkmoth's voice comes again.]
Now all that remains is to get the Miraculouses...! You'll need to get the attention of the people carrying them, to bring them here.
[crow doesn't hear anything. he just gets bad vibes and more physical pain. they're getting worse and worse.]
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[Which means Bradley is taking the tourist by the scruff of his shirt and running off with him. Maybe up on a house. Did his stats get a boost from being villainized? Can he hop onto a roof?
Byeeee Crow.]
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crow does a lot of wincing, but ultimately remains where he is for now. the continued shenanigan will be "fuck u hawkmoth" until britt has had enough of me. ]
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anyways, now that he's not in crippling pain, he'll follow aikawa towards the tower. for like one step, at least, before he just kind of - seemingly disappears? and then reappears in the shadow the tower is casting, ahead of aikawa suddenly. after a second:]]
...Okay, even I have to admit that was kind of cool, wow.
[what's up, tower.]
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Hiya Rupert. You're now his lil villain partner it looks like. Though, when he ends up shadow stepping, he looks a little surprised and maybe a tad impressed. ]
The hell? That was some pretty cool magic... wait, what the hell did I get...?
[ Hawkmoo explain. Anyway, there's a few people around right? We have the power, we can give this city more population than it's budget suggests.
In the most dead voice, he turns around and goes: ]
We're gonna blow up this tower. Your big precious tower. Unless there's someone who can stop us, that is.
[ This is how it works. ]
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anyway, this tourist is trying to take another fucking selfie.]
Hey, dude! Make an angry face! Haha, my follower count is going to go way up!
[crow, meanwhile, gets nothing other than an intense burst of pain that will send him buckling to his knees. one of the people nearby calls 112 to request an ambulance because they think he's having a heart attack.
crow will get the sense that if only he had powers of some kind he could make this pain go away.
and the other tourists are now panicking, with aikawa's announcement.]
No! You can't blow up the Eiffel Tower! That's like the soul of Paris! Someone call Ladybug and Chat Noir! Someone call the cops! Oh, wait, I think those are cop cars?
[sure enough, there's lights and sirens. the cops are finally catching up! took them long enough.]
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You know! For fun!]
Better show up quick! Or this fucker's gonna lose his life.
Ain't all that super if somebody dies.
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well. the police are here, and apparently there's a ambulance on the way? hope that guy gets fined for wasting the emergency service's time because that is exactly what they are doing.
he huffs a sharp breath out of his nose and forces himself up onto his feet again. slowly, slowly, and like it's all in agony -- because it is. ]
Fine, you petty asshole. But believe me when I say you're going to regret messing around with my head.
[ suddenly he is not so valid anymore. but it's fine? it's fine. it's not the first time someone's messed with his mind and manipulated him and he got to fuck them over too so.
everyone has a great time. ]
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Dude, put him down. [...actually:] On the ledge.
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Nooo what don't call the cops just call the first two things...
[ Nooo, not the authorities again. He's just shuffling a bit closer to the tower, he is ready to scale this shit to escape if he must. ]
Seriously, don't come any closer or I'll, uh, I'll punch it.
[ Kill him. ]
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a fall from this height would most certainly be fatal for this idiot, who still seems amused and not actually scared for his life.
a light mask appears over crow's face again.]
Oh? So we have a deal? [crow will be overcome by shadows and begin to transform! the onlookers shriek with terror. his pain and bad vibes vanish immediately.] You know what to do. Lure out the wielders of the Miraculouses, take them, and bring them to me!
[anyway, the cops are not heeding any of these warnings. aikawa and crow are closest to them, so they rush them. officer raincomrpix is at the front with handcuffs at the ready.]
There will be no punching! Stop in the name of the law!!
[meanwhile, up at the tower with bradley and rupert...
there are two figures in the distance! they're approaching at a rapid clip. one of them is sporting a mouse-themed superhero outfit, a pink-and-grey mask, and has silver hair done up into two buns to look like mouse ears. the other is in an elegant-looking turtle-themed superhero outfit, and has piercing blue eyes and long white hair.]
Put that guy down!
And do it safely!
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Bradley CONTINUES TO DANGLE THIS DUDE. His grip is great, so this kid is only going to drop when he thinks the heroes are close enough to catch him. ]
If yer so worried, better come up here and stop me.
What kinda hero trusts a villain like that, hm?
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he's also still stubborn, still spiteful, but still sneaky enough to... not openly confirm or deny what it is he's planning on doing. which for the moment is
not being within grabbing distance of the police and those handcuffs. so! away he goes. good luck aikawa, he's leaving you to it. ]
... [ re: bradley: ] What is he even trying to pull? The guy looks like a total moron.
[ anyway! the tower seems like a good bet so... off he goes. good luck rupert, aikawa. ]
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Cool, you guys just do whatever while I handle this, thanks.
[i, eli, understand that aikawa and crow are valid.
to the (presumed) heroes who just showed up, he gives a little wave! to hopefully convey that he is on their side here. and since he now has cool supervillain levels of strength despite his twink stature, he's just going to try to pull bradley away from the edge while not hurting this poor social media fanatic. the pcs are fightingggg.]
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Guh -- ! Sorry, but I've got no real intention of heading off to jail, so...!
[ And then he just starts -- scaling up the tower. See ya officer Raincomrpix? How do you say that name I'm in tears. But Aikawa was always pretty agile and good at this kind of stuff, and now with the superpower boost, it's absolutely insane. He is just scaling feet of it in one jump. ]
Wow, I could get used to this. [ Which, internally he tacks on a 'I'm not going to, but'. Right, he has some kind of dumb role to play here, and while hanging off of a part of it, waves down at the cops. ]
Come try to get me if you can! [ Wait, he has to give them a motivation. ] ...Or I'll start taking this tower down bar by bar from... the top!
[ Really ridiculous method of supervillainy? Yes. Stalling for time? Also yes. ]
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that's the back of his shirt. haha. it's starting to rip. if anyone tries to catch him, roll a d20.
the police yell indignantly as crow and aikawa bail. officer raincomprix says something about how their rap sheet is getting longer and they better watch out!! this is disrespect of an officer of the law!! etc, etc.
crow's progress up the tower is impeded by the sudden appearance of... a portal? a white-haired girl in a rabbit costume with piercing blue eyes appears out of it, blocking his path, and points an umbrella at him.]
Don't move!
[meanwhile, aikawa is just straight up tackled mid-"villainspeech" by a purple-skinned, horned person in a monkey-themed costume. this is definitely not someone you recognize. he's wearing a mask! magic means it's impossible to tell who this purple skinned person is. i'm sorry. i don't make this canon's shitty rules.]
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And now that he can aim well enough, he attempts to steal the mouse powers. It's the cat in him. ]
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[ anyway. crow just gives this bunny-girl the most unimpressed look he can from behind his mask. ]
Question for you -- if this guy is constantly trying to steal, what is it, Miraculous-somethings? Which I'm assuming you have something to do with given what he keeps nagging us to do?
Why are you here, exactly?
[ like. ma'am, you've rocked up to a theft where you're the intended target? are you ok? ]
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