Thom - Depravity: Meeting Leath

[12:01:42] She would sit at the edge of the cliff that was there at the camp of Cinderfall. Her legs dangling across the edge and her face in her arms. Only seeing through the open crevasse of her fingers. She watched the water ripple... It was a calming sensation...

Yet inside her brain wasn't anything but that...

"Maybe I should jump... I can't swim so I'll drown..." She was literally contemplating ending her own miserable existence. "God damn Cinderfall camp... Doesn't even let me go home..." Yet tears weren't shed. There was no such thing as crying for a Malpercian, well... She did cry before but that was due to extreme pain and being a child...

"What's the point of living if they'll take my arm..."

(Leath)
[12:05:58] Depravity!

Once again Thom walked through Cinderfall's camp, glaive at the ready as he approached the north eastern corner. The boy expected the worst, some sort of monster, a vampire, or other dispicable creature to be dwelling there as a result of the feeling of deread in the air. The boy grit his teeth, only recently having gotten the venom out of his body before stopping and shoving his spear in the ground.

"What." The boy said flatly, blinking a few times with his golden eyes to make sure he was seeing this right. Afterwords Thom just gave a sigh. "Why is it that depravity around camp is girls and not.. Bad stuff?" Thom said, perhaps a bit loudly as he had drawn close. Sighing he took a few steps forwards towards the girl.

"Okay so, why are you depraved?.."
(Thom M. Takashi)
[12:09:23] It wasn't hard to notice her Malpercian arm, one she would rise and wave towards him. "Hi, yea arm. Whatever." She would roll her eyes a little and lowered her hand from her face. She wanted to just slip off the cliff right now. Yet the boy did keep her company for now.

"I'm depraved because of the arm, my gift. Your leader wants to take it from me, leave me with one arm and throw me back into the world to be killed at the hands of someone else because they hate Malpercians even more than here. Why do you ask? Have you come to mock it as well?"

"Doesn't matter... If I drown myself they won't have to bother... I'm just a girl - a girl they won't let leave... and a girl they want to keep a prisoner when she knows nothing..."

"And they call it mercy..."

(Leath)
[12:14:30] The orange haired boy lifted a brow, watching as the depraved arm was waved at him. Perhaps he should have been wary, but the boy was on a lucky streak, having yet to truely be hurt other then emotionally. Taking the glavie he had planted on the ground, Thom put it on his back before heading over to the cliff and sitting down.

"Right.. That whole Malpercian thing." Thom said, glowing eyes glancing over the arm with interest. It was monsterous looking.. Which actually drew his attention firmly. The boy would have poked at it if he had less control but did no such thing. "It's probally cause of that other guy with an arm like this. Attacked Maria and Liara. Not a nice dude." Thom admitted.

"But no I don't come here to make fun of you. I came here to talk I think. Really fight bad stuff but you don't seem so bad." Thom said. "By the way don't drown yourself. I mean like.. You'd try and I'd have to pull you out of the water. I don't like getting wet." A smirk, attempting the joke to lighten the mood.
(Thom M. Takashi)
[12:23:02] "You don't have to pull me out..."

The girl would extend her right arm as a small bit of occulism would run down into the water. Making it a bit muddy. But she wasn't a water mage, and this occulism would simply dissolve into nothingness in a matter of a few seconds. "Right? You don't have to be a hero...You don't... You don't!" It was like a certain anger was stemming from inside.

She hated people who played heroes when they weren't... Nobody was a hero! These people were on the side of the Evil Queen that was spreading plagues within her home. Killing people, killing people SHE could have killed. She would huff and shake her head.

"I just want to go home, I don't know why I'm here. I was kidnapped from my home and I have to pay the price."

"That's not fair." But as Liara did say, nothing is fair in life.
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(Leath)
[12:28:09] Thom would have let the girl scream and yell at him, when it appeared he said something, but he just gave her a shrug. "I don't have to do anything. Just cause something happen's doesn't mean you have to do something in return. But I'm going to. Because I wouldn't want someone I just met to drown.. Too many people die. And I don't want more people I know to join them."

Thom would have explained simply, kicking his feet over the side of the cliff into the ocean before leaning backwards and looking up towards the sky. The glowing eyes were quite bright, much like the sun they sort of looked towards.. Not directly of course though.

"What caused you to leave your home? You say you were kidnapped but.. Is there more to it then that? And.. A lot of thing's aren't fair. Life honestly kind of sucks when I think about it."
(Thom M. Takashi)
[12:34:59] She would shake her head slightly. "Leave my home? If you count walking to brighthold and being attacked is leaving. Sure. I left my home and was brought here." She would roll her eyes, and if she could the eye would go out through the back of her head. Yet they couldn't, her head was infact solid.

"Why would I want to go home if I left it? That doesn't make sense. Right, whatever. I'm being kept here to make the leaders feel good about stripping me from my arm.." She would shake her head. "Make-believe heroes." She would sigh and took look up to the sky...

Would climbing a tree and jumping into the water be a faster way of killing herself? Maybe.

(Leath)
[12:40:06] Thom actually seemed suprised at this. "You mean someone attacked you as you were just walking from one city to the next?.. For no other reason then you were walking? That really sucks.." The orange haired youth frowned for a moment, staring at the girl to make sure she wasn't lying or leaving stuff out.

"And no that wasn't what I meant to ask. I mean like.." He sighed and shook his head. "Never mind. And who said they wanted to cut off your arm? Which leader?" Thom inquired, a frown on his face a bit. Honestly cutting off the limbs of little kids didn't sound heroic in the slightest, but at the same time if the alternative was the girl turning out like Valentross.. Neither possiblity seemed good.

".. You said your arm was a gift.. Why?" The question was asked in a curious tone.
(Thom M. Takashi)
[12:46:56] "Well... I asked him to leave - he was in Loranthis territory and one thing happened and then another and we just had a fight... He won, and brought me here."

That was the whole story there, there wasn't really any lies hidden inside of it. Why would she? She was going to die soon enough anyway. If her arm is cut off, Valentross would probably kill her. If she stays, she'll probably kill herself or die trying to leave...

She needed a way to leave this place, dead or alive.

"The draknite one. She was going to cut my hand off, then that nature dude came over, he tried to remove it with magic. My hand nearly fell off and then he stopped and left." She rose her right hand and showed him deep cracking inside of it, as if a thick layer of skin had been cut open and healed on the inside leaving these ridges. "That's from his magic..." She would do her best to describe Quazla...

"It is a gift... Why would we be born with it and give powers that normal people cannot do if it was a curse...? Well, it's both... It's a curse and a gift." She knew what the arm could do - and she was rather proud of it too.
(Leath)
[12:52:03] "That kind of sucks.." Thom admitted, frowning about the circumstances. Honestly, it sounded as if the girl just had a run of bad luck to him.. If not for the limb he would have completely thought about letting her sneak out or something, but sadly that was not an option. But thoughts did come into his head.

"Oh Maria." Thom said, frowning a little bit. Made since especailly since Valentross had attacked her specifically. But the mention of the nature dude caused Thom to blink a little bit. A little frown appeared on his features as he thought about it all, before shaking his head. However when he saw the deep cracking on the hand he seemed to draw an interest, moving closer.

"You you mind if I touch it?" Thom asked, hand barley kept at his side as he looked over the mutated limb closer.

"What kind of powers does it give you? And if it's a gift then how is it a curse?" Thom inquired. The boy himself knew little of the full extent of Malpercian powers..
(Thom M. Takashi)
[12:55:28] She would raise a concerned brow towards Thom... Nobody has asked before to outright touch it - and honestly because he was the first she felt like she should let him. She rose her right hand towards him. The skin leathery and dark purple, the fingers long and slowly going out to form into claws.

"Well, I can't tell you... It's for me to know... And others of my clan. But there are alot of things this arm can do that others cannot. Nobody can except the arm - that's the gift." She would explain. "But it slowly kills me. Well, kind of. It doesn't outright kill me - it just makes me a little more 'insane' with time... Just like Occult magic just faster."

She gave a brief explanation without going into much detail.

"Why are you so interested in it? If you don't wanna let me go then what do you want to know from me... Fu."

(Leath)
[13:00:35] The glowing golden eyes glanced at the hand, touching the leathery mutation, though making sure not to touch directly on the crack. There was a certain amount of interest building within him over it.. Especailly when the girl was keeping him in suspense of what it did. A smirk settled in upon the brown skinned teen's face, perhaps looking a little scary for a moment before drawing his hands back from the claw.

"It looks cool. And why can't you tell me? I wanna know. Please?~" The boy would attempt to look at the girl like a little puppy dog, hoping such might convince her to tell him what it did but afterwords he went back to normal. "So it drives you mad.. Worst ways things can be.. How much faster does it make you crazy though?"

A blink or two from the orange hues however when the girl asked him why he was interested. Honestly.. The boy was unsure himself. "I don't know. It doesn't look normal so i guess I'm just curious? And I don't know the awnser to your other question either.. Sorry."
(Thom M. Takashi)
[13:04:00] She smirked a little bit. "Not fast enough." She answered his question regarding the speed of the mutation. Yet with her sitting here idly it wasn't spreading fast whatsoever. Her progress was halted. Stopped because she was a prisoner and unable to enjoy her feasts as she wished.

"Well, what do you want for the exchange? I'll tell you, if you do something for me that's worth it. You know what I want. I want to leave, for it - I'll tell you what the arm can do." She would nod slightly. Shrugging in the progress of it all. An attempt at a deal was made.
(Leath)
[13:09:07] Thom quirked a brow at her question. "You want to go crazy?" he asked curiously, before hearing her question. What would he give her in exchange for being told what the arm did. Honestly, the best awnser would have been force, but Thom didn't even consider that.

"Well I can't just let you go. But.." Thom thought for a few moments before grinning. "If they're going to chop off your hand I might be able to talk to them about letting you keep it a little while longer. I mean.." once again his golden hues were directed towards the mysterious limb. "I can see if they're willing to let me run a few expirments on it and let you keep it for that time being. No promises but that might be the best I can do."
(Thom M. Takashi)
[13:14:14] "Right..."

She would shake her head slightly. "I mean, you could easily take me for a 'walk' because you 'trust' me, say we had a run in with a Kaor and they took me after a fight. You don't have to do much thinking. Fu." She would shake her head slightly... as a small fire erupted right infront of her - the purple flame iridescent.

Her hand crawled around it before slamming shut. "Well, I mean what's the need for experimenting if you just let go. Right? I don't see the point of the hassle." She shrugged. "But that's just me."

(Leath)
[13:18:30] Thom shook his head.

"Wouldn't work. For one I don't want to lie to Maria and Liara.. They're my friends and my leaders. And number two A kaor would not be able to beat me.. I've fought a lot of them and they tend to go down pretty quickly." A grin settled in slightly on his features as he admitted to such, recalling the rush and the adreniline he felt whenever he fought.

"I'm not going to go against them, but if you can think of something you want that wouldn't do such I'm listening. Being kidnapped isn't good but maybe there's some way to make you more comfortable while you're here." The orange haired boy simply stated. "And if I just let you go anyways how would I learn anything?"
(Thom M. Takashi)
[13:22:46] She would tap her chin...

"You're booorrring." She would comment on his wants of not going against the two leaders. Whatever, he was just being a polite boy - but soon the grasps of his occult magic would make him slightly more insane! Perhaps the exposure to occult depravity radiating from the girl could even aid in this process?

"Well, I can write you a letter. Leave it here, and when you return you can read it. Ain't that fair?" She would shrug slightly. Leaning forward towards the water. "You could say you killed me, or that the arm consumed me. You dont have to go against them - you just have to look sad and what not. Nothing special. Fu."

(Leath)
[13:27:02] Thom frowned. "Boring might be right." The boy admitted, shrugging a little bit. "But it gets what needs done finished and all." Thom explained. Indeed, the occultic power under his possession was likely to erode his mind over time but the boy had already reasoned as long as he kept it under control he would be safe.. As long as he didn't get too far gone..

"Nah cause what if you write the letter and I get back and it says nothing on it? Or you call me boring on it again. Then I don't learn something, I lie to the leaders, and I get away. You see why thats not fair right?" Thom asked, a slight pout on his face as he admitted such. "And it would be lying which is going against them. I'm not going to lie to Maria and Liara. Not even for secrets."
(Thom M. Takashi)
[13:33:00] She would shrug slightly. "Stop trying to tell me what's wrong with the plan if you don't intend on going through with it. That's stupid and ridicules. Why would I not put anything into the letter if you'd be saving my life? So it's very silly." She would shrug slightly.

"I think it is fair, you're not going against them. I bet you're stronger than that leader of yours anyway. What? Do you let her tell you what to do because she's a holy user? Fu, you're kind of bad at being an occultist." Of course she could smell the magic from him. There wasn't any real hiding it from her!

(Leath)
[13:37:16] Thom thought for a few seconds before he would shrug himself. "Sometimes people lie.." The words came out much sadder then the ones before had before once again his tone went back to normal. "And I'm just trying to help you come up with a plan that works.. I don't want to do anything that will get me into trouble with the leaders. Still want to help you though." Thom explained.

"And even if I am stronger then my leader I'm not the leader. I'm not the one that five thousand people put their trust in. And maybe I'm bad at being an occultist because I didn't get it so I could be hurtful anyways." Thom said, frowning a little bit. The insult had it a little deeply it seemed.
(Thom M. Takashi)
[13:39:50] "People choose to go into the holy to heal, people go into the occult to kill and destroy? Why did you do it then?" She rose a brow asking a serious question of the boy. A rather personal one at that, one she was kind of hoping he wouldn't reveal and weight it against her chest.

"Well, do you have any better ideas? I think me escaping in any way shape or form will result in you getting in trouble. So you're not helping me here. Are you?" She rose a brow. "But I know, you have your rules yaadaa yaadaa. You won't go against your holy leader because logic. I 'unno." She was being a child, thinking that her logic was unbeatable...! It wasn't! Her logic was the best! HMPH!
(Leath)
[13:50:04] The golden haired youth stared at Leath, aiming to stare directly into her eyes as he spoke. "I learned occultic magic so I could become a hero. I learned occultic magic so I could destroy anything that threatens that I want to protect. You don't need to know holy magic if you kill What would have injured what you want to protect in the first place." Thom stated. "Because no matter if you want to be good or bad you destroy. Occultism just makes it easier."

Though when asked if he had any better ideas the boy just shook his head. "I can think of ways to help but they wouldn't be freeing you completely. Especailly if your home is Loranthis.. You know there's a war that's going to hit that place don't you? If we let you go now you'd get caught up in it anyways."

"And yeah I got rules. I bet even you have rules if you think about it. Just cause my rules mean I won't hurt my leader doesn't mean that they're bad."
(Thom M. Takashi)
[13:54:20] "Right, Occulism makes the destruction of things easier. That's all. Not the protection. I don't see how an art that is there to destroy can protect, but I guess it's what you destroy. Right?" She would raise a brow looking back at the boy. Her amethyst jewels twinkling in the light.

"Anyway, I dunno what you want from me. But you know what I want. Talk to me when you have a plan if I'm not gone yet. I don't intend on staying here for much longer." She would shrug. "I'm sure one of the leaders will let me leave eventually."

She would stand up, she seemed to have made a bit of an ally, perhaps this wasn't going to end so badly. The suicide thoughts were over. "Anyway, I wanna sleep. Cya." She would crawl into her own tent which actually wasn't that far from them at all.

(Leath)
[13:58:36] Thom frowned a little bit. The boy would have considered going off and giving a rather large speech on how he was going to use occultism to protect people but the girl spoke before hand, saying that she needed to sleep. The orange haired boy blinked a few times before deciding to let it pass and nodding.

"That's the thing. You don't need to protect anything with occultism. Why would you need to save someone if what was going to hurt them is already gone?" Thom asked, before nodding, hearing her words to talk to her again when he had some sort of plan or idea. "Alright I'll do that. Try not to lose your hand before we talk again." he say, the closest he was likely going to get to 'good luck at this time.

"Sleep well." The youth himself decided to remain by the sea side for a little while longer, watching the waves roll against the cliff.
(Thom M. Takashi)