Super Hero RPG

[Hopeflower]

"Why does anyone exist, really?" Ira mused, turning her head to look out the window for a minute before she looked back at Jojo. "I guess I'm not sure what I exist for. As for my name...it's Ira, as Yoruichi said. I was told it means "anger", or "wrath". My father gave it to me to keep the tradition of his family receiving Latin names. His was Cruor. It meant "blood"."

[C S]

The words morphed once again, becoming a jumbled mess as JoJo thought of something to say. In a few moments though, the ink reformed into another line. "If you were not given a reason to exist... then make your own. A reason that Ira exists, like mine is to help those close to me" He had heard parts of the conversation she had with Yoruichi. This was his effort to assist her.

[Hopeflower]

"Unfortunately, I probably don't have a good reason," Ira said with a sigh. "Mentoring Yoruichi will only last as long as there's something I can teach her, and if seeing Zero drop dead is my reason to exist, what happens when he does?" She cradled her chin in her palm, barely wincing as she prodded the half-healed bruise on her jaw. She hadn't been kidding when she said demons healed quickly - the burn on Yoruichi's face was already half-healed too, as was the cut the flame-dagger had left. "Maybe I don't have a specific reason. Maybe I just exist...because life, no matter how difficult and impossible it seems at times, is worth living. It's the small, unappreciated things people take for granted that make it all easier. The sweet smell of smoke, the thrill of flight...a steep dive and a quick stop..." Her voice had dropped to a wistful murmur. "Things almost nobody notices bring a spark to my life." She suddenly stopped talking and looked away, faint pink color spreading across her cheekbones as she realized just what she'd said. "And maybe I'm just crazy..." she muttered, reaching up to nervously play with the fine silver chain around her neck.

[C S]

"Maybe..." The ink reshaped into. "You forget that of the millions of humans that exist on this planet, you, Ira, aren't one of them. That, my friend, means something. I have a feeling you can use your powers for...more, surely" The ebony liquid spelt out, before lifting off the page and trailing back to the tendril that hovered over the page. It wasnt that often he managed to say what he wanted, even if he was mostly silent through it all. A sudden thump got his attention, eyes looking back to the window, barely seeing the fuzzy figure shoot across the house's wall before launching himself at a street sign, landing on the metal that looked over the street before kicking off again towards another building across the street, running up the wall there upon landing...

[Hopeflower]

"True enough,"Ira said, working to get the blush off her face. "But what do you mean by "more"? As in, "more than death and destruction"?" Her eyes narrowed at the noise, the young woman seeing a flicker of motion that was gone before she could pinpoint it to figure out what it was.

[C S]

"Thats for you to find out" JoJo thought, smirking at Ira. The tendril moved to and fro before it lowered back to the page, the ink spreading around to copy his thought, but adding one last sentence. "We live in a world of heroes and villains, people with powers battling for the future. In all of the chaos, where are we?"

SpeedFreak slumped over as he neared the top of the building, kicking off so that he launched into a flip. He slammed his hands onto the ledge of the building and rolled over and onto his feet, using momentum to get upright. He darted across the roof, looking over the edge at the streets below. With one fluid movement, he launched himself off, feeling a sudden rush as addrenline coarsed through his veins. He'd never know what it was like to truelly fly like a bird...but this was pretty damn close

[Hopeflower]

Right in the middle, Ira thought. "I don't know. Getting carried along for a thrill ride that could end up killing us all, I guess," she said, closing her eyes. When she opened them, they flickered blue for barely a second.

[C S]

"The advantage of being a dog... I dont need to think about these questions" JoJo wrote out on the pad. "I could just easilly remove myself from this world of man, woman and mutant. You however, cant. From what Ive seen, you creatures are compelled to take destiny into your own hands...explains why that mutant just sped past the window, huh?"

[Doc 42]

Neeblestrix chuckled to himself and replied "Lets be a bit more ambitious here Scaletail, I'm not talking about a lab to fine tune your creations. I mean a lab to create whole armies of creations. Enough room to house them, to test, and train them. Also, don't forget, something can always be made better." He finished with a grin.

[C S]

The boy landed on the the building across from the one he leapt from in a crouch, taking a breath on the roof. After a moment, he got back upright and walked over to the edge of the building. "Now that got the blood flowing!" SpeedFreak said, cracking his knuckles. He jumped off the edge to a telephone pole, kicking off of it so that he could land on the road. With a dull thump, he landed in the street and then shot off on his way. The day seemed pretty...mellow. The sound of blaring sirens and screeching tires was strangely absent...

[Hopeflower]

"Yeah, I suppose it does. But taking destiny into our own hands usually spells trouble," said Ira. "A friend of mine used to say that trouble doesn't find us. We go looking for danger, for excitement, even unconsciously. I don't know if he was right or not."

[C S]

"Trouble...a word meaningless to a dog..." Appeared as the shifting ink took a form. "There is only life, and those who live it...what they do is their choice. Destiny is determined by what you do... if you do something that results in pain and death..." The sentence trailed off as JoJo recalled Ira was an assasin....

[Hopeflower]

Ira's lip quirked, but the half-smile was grim. "I suppose it wouldn't help if I said I didn't want to kill those people," she said quietly. "In the end, even if I had no choice, I'm still a murderer."

[C S]

"There is no need to live in the past" The sentence said after it reshaped. "What you do now that you're free is what matters... do you wish to remain a murderer hiding from society? Or would you rather choose a side in these...times" JoJo asked. He himself considered the notion...but what could a dog accomplish as a hero?

[Hopeflower]

"I can't choose a side until Zero's goons stop hunting me, and they'll only stop when he's dead. And I can't forget the blood that stains my hands." The redhead paused. "But maybe I won't choose a side, even when all of this is over and done. I'm tired of running. Tired of fighting to stay alive one more day. I just want to be..." She trailed off, for the moment unable to finish the thought. She would never be normal. She would go through her life knowing she was different, even if the humans that surrounded her were oblivious. After a minute of struggling for the right word, she finally went on, "...I just want to be free again. Free to go where I like without having to glance over my shoulder."

[C S]

"You mean... be normal?" The ink dog wrote out. He shook his head at the thought. "I could understand that... but who ever wins in this war of good and evil and what happens there after... rests on the shoulders of complete strangers" He added. A seldom thought, but it was true.

[Hopeflower]

""Normal" will never be a word used to describe me," Ira said, her tone laced with bleak humor. "But as for whatever comes of the war...what will happen will happen, and nothing anyone does will change that. I'll take things one day at a time."

[C S]

"Ah ha" JoJo wrote nodding. "Strange creatures you all are...human or mutant... stranger then, is that I sound more human, with talks of taking sides, and destiny... its a habbit of mine ever since I became...this..." The ink hound wrote out, resting his head on the windowsill...

[Hopeflower]

Without thinking, Ira reached out and ran her head over Jojo's head and down his spine to rest in the middle of his back. "If you were given a choice...would you rather be a normal dog...or a mutant?" she asked quietly, but with curiosity.

[C S]

"What do you think?" JoJo replied in his nonvocal conversation. "If I was still a stray, would I be here, talking to you?"