[while whatever crow is feeling makes him move forward, whatever rupert is feeling makes him stop in place entirely, swallowing thickly and looking behind him.]
Is there anywhere to go other than the tower? I just - are we making a mistake?
[ Alright I will do a serious tag now maybe. Thanks for the overwhelming feeling takeover, Aikawa is effectively immobilized as soon as they get a certain degree of close to the tower. He keels over and makes a noise of pain and -- coughing up something? Well isn't this maybe a familiar sight, except whatever's dripping on the ground is a bit too dark to be blood. It's almost black, and sludge-like.
He's also just slowing down and in general not struggling as much. Exhausted and weak. ]
Fuck... I'll fucking kill you... [ Whomst. ] Stop this -- please. I'll listen, just make it go away.
[ Hawkmoth it's your time to shine I guess. Tch. ]
That's a secret. But once you've retrieved what I've asked for, I'll come to you so that we can make both our dreams come true. Do we have a deal?
[meanwhile, crow's bitterness and spite may be spurring him on, but good luck with continuing that! because overwhelming physical pain will overtake him as he gets closer and closer to the tower. much pain, such suffering. wow.
rupert is treated to the same deal.
but they'll both get the sense that this would just stop if they only had some kind of power... if only there was someone who could give them that...
meanwhile, with aikawa, his light-mask comes back, and he'll hear hawkmoth's voice in his head again.]
You'll listen? So... we have a deal, then? You'll retrieve the Miraculouses for me, and I'll make sure that you're the only one in your own head?
[meanwhile a woman who is taking her baby out for a walk in a stroller screams when she sees that sludge-like thing he's coughing up and shouts for someone to call an ambulance.]
Yes, fuck! Don't play with me! [ He is reaching desperate. Because if Hawkmoth won't do anything for him, he just might do something drastic by his own hand, so yes, Mr. Hawkmoo, spare him from this.
Sorry random lady with the stroller I hope that's the baby from the clip actually. ]
[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.]
Edited (i can't be expected to remember basic details ig) 2021-07-15 20:15 (UTC)
[ 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.
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Is there anywhere to go other than the tower? I just - are we making a mistake?
[hmmmm. anyways please drag him along.]
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He's also just slowing down and in general not struggling as much. Exhausted and weak. ]
Fuck... I'll fucking kill you... [ Whomst. ] Stop this -- please. I'll listen, just make it go away.
[ Hawkmoth it's your time to shine I guess. Tch. ]
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That's a secret. But once you've retrieved what I've asked for, I'll come to you so that we can make both our dreams come true. Do we have a deal?
[meanwhile, crow's bitterness and spite may be spurring him on, but good luck with continuing that! because overwhelming physical pain will overtake him as he gets closer and closer to the tower. much pain, such suffering. wow.
rupert is treated to the same deal.
but they'll both get the sense that this would just stop if they only had some kind of power... if only there was someone who could give them that...
meanwhile, with aikawa, his light-mask comes back, and he'll hear hawkmoth's voice in his head again.]
You'll listen? So... we have a deal, then? You'll retrieve the Miraculouses for me, and I'll make sure that you're the only one in your own head?
[meanwhile a woman who is taking her baby out for a walk in a stroller screams when she sees that sludge-like thing he's coughing up and shouts for someone to call an ambulance.]
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[He's thinking about it.]
Promise me you'll see me in person.
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Make - make it stop...
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Sorry random lady with the stroller I hope that's the baby from the clip actually. ]
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I promise.
[to rupert - who now has a light-mask over his face again:]
I can make it stop, little prince. But you'll have to do me one favor in return...
[and then to aikawa... he chuckles.]
I'll be counting on you.
[he's overcome with shadows and begins to transform! the bad vibes and the pain fade away.
also that was definitely the baby from the clip. said baby is now babbling and pointing at aikawa excitedly while his mother looks on in horror.]
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Let's go with the first thing.
[Stealing power.]
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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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