Bamboo
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Post by Bamboo on Apr 8, 2019 19:50:11 GMT -6
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Do you believe in reincarnation?
Bamboo didn't, but that was simply the universe placing irony over her shoulders. After all, Bamboo was the very essence of reincarnation, of someone's soul leaving their mortal body and being passed on to something else. It was an amalgamation of two beings, an unlikely brotherhood between two unrelated mortals which made something greater than the sum of their parts. It was Bamboo.
Sometimes, little snippets of her soul's previous owner showed itself. The being was long gone- the bratty, annoying Child of Nature who strove to be the best person he could possibly be was gone. But someone couldn't just be erased from existence- traces of them would be left through the people they knew, and the people they knew would leave marks on other people they knew. The spiderweb spiraled outwards- no existence was entirely meaningless, all existence had some kind of value.
Perhaps that old Child of Nature had made an impact on people- perhaps he had friends who cared for him and cared if he was gone. Nay- he knew he did. That was why he could fade in peace, with the knowledge that those back home would carry on his legacy.
But the body he inhabited didn't feel the same way.
The body he inhabited was ripe with madness, tainted with an unquenchable lust for battle, an insatiable hunger for trouble, an un-hydratable thirst for conflict. It was a far cry from the boy who wanted nothing more than to water his plants and tend to his gardens, a far cry from the boy who loved his forest so dearly.
Bamboo wasn't here for those reasons. Bamboo was here because this place felt familiar, this place felt like a home, even if it wasn't. Bamboo felt that she needed to come here, needed to figure out what that churning in the middle of her gut felt. She needed to find the people in this place, beat them down, over and over and over and over, and fight them and fight them and keep swinging until this feeling went away. It didn't feel right- it didn't feel like her own feelings or her own thoughts. Bamboo wished to vanish these wishes into nothingness. She would be rid of this familiarity, wrench it free from her body with her own two hands.
That's why she stood in the center of the lookout, surrounded by trees and bushes and flowers of all kind, a legacy that a part of her had left here. She stood, in the middle, and planted her stick of Bamboo into the ground. It was a show of strength, of steadfast resolve, of solidarity. She would leave here with that gut feeling gone, or she wouldn't leave at all, she decided. She would do whatever it took to be rid of the things that weren't her.
She wouldn't scream or make a fuss. She would stand here, vigilant, radiating a familiar aura to those who once knew who she was.
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Post by Nashi on Apr 11, 2019 1:16:10 GMT -6
Nashi maybe sorta a bit believed in reincarnation. Actively there was neither belief nor disbelief, it wasn’t something he had given much thought to, in much the same way that humans didn’t have any particularly strong opinions on Arcose when they didn’t know what that was. He believed in resurrection, though, which was waaaaay cooler.
Nashi walked onto the Lookout proper from that little hut thing in the middle. He stretched his muscles in a way a cat was wont to do and greeted the sun with his utterly shut eyes. He was still sleepy, even after he had a shower in the Lookout (which, now that one thinks on it, was prolly why he as wearing a blue dressing gown with a blue towel with happy cat faces on it over his shoulder), and tried to amend this by having a fly around. He couldn’t be sleepy while flying around because, if he fell asleep, he’d crash into the ground. That was bad and therefore wouldn’t happen, so hence he wouldn’t be sleepy! Nashi was a genius.
When he opened his eyes, he saw a resolute-looking, green-haired girl. Like Synthesia, sort of, but with antlers on the head and a different set of assets.
Darn, now Nashi got himself sad, thinking about what happened to Synthesia.
So, Nashi got up the usual list, the sort of list he’d had to use way too often: this person was either A) trying to find the Kami to have a nice chat, B) wanted to see what all the fuss was about, C) wanted to kill Chime and destroy the Lookout or D) they just stumbled here, despite all probability and reason. Looking at you, early-Kalabas. ”’Sup.” Nashi was hoping for an A. Though, a B wouldn’t be half bad either…
”You a baddie?” Unfortunately, Nashi did not have his Power Pole, his Armour or any senzu beans on him, mostly because having a shower with one or more of those would have been really weird.
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Bamboo
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Post by Bamboo on Jun 4, 2019 16:58:44 GMT -6
|Heretic| - Bamboo's PL: 90,000
"Bamboo doesn't know what a baddie is." Was Bamboo's response, predictably. After all, 'baddie' wasn't a real English word, and while Bamboo didn't know many English words, she certainly didn't know half-English words. Bamboo tilted her head, ever-so-slightly, pondering on what it could mean. "Do baddies like to fight? If they do, then Bamboo is a baddie!" She shot a thumbs-up at the cat through her somewhat stoic vigilance.
"Bamboo's name is Bamboo. Bamboo knows you, but Bamboo doesn't know you. Do you get what Bamboo means?" Despite the various ways one could interpret that statement, none of it was wrong, technically. "Bamboo feels like Bamboo has met you. But Bamboo hasn't met you. This is your first time meeting Bamboo."
"So that's why Bamboo needs to fight you and get rid of you, so please- oo!" Momentarily, Bamboo's eyes and hands jumped to the happy cat faces on it. She, with an impressive burst of speed, poked a happy cat face, her identity crisis momentarily abandoned for a far more enjoyable act. She giggled at the cat faces, tilting her head back and forth. Then, she grew whiskers out of her face, and her antlers turned to ears. Did you know she could do that? She can do that, according to her [UT] Wild Child.
"Bamboo is a cat too, cat man. Bamboo can become many things. Like cats." She could also transform into Big Cats, which Nashi also technically was, but not really. Maybe one day, when he had enough tails, he could graduate his cat-class into a bigger cat-class. "W-Wait, stop distracting Bamboo!"
Slap slap! She didn't slap Nashi, but herself, to snap herself out of her momentary distraction and remember why exactly she made the effort to come out here in the first place. "Bamboo is here to destroy you! You will fight Bamboo to the death! You will die!" Bamboo grr'd, withdrawing her trusty Bamboo pole from her back. It had less free A1's and SU1's, but it had more cool points, which was all that really mattered in the end.
She then pointed the stick at Nashi, prompting him to duel her.
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Post by Nashi on Jun 22, 2019 5:06:20 GMT -6
It was true: ‘baddie’ wasn’t a real English word. It was a word, though, certainly so, just not an English one, for English was not a language that existed, for the English were not a people that existed. Nashi shook his head. ”No. Baddies do evil things. Like kill people, and evil things.” Very informative. Thank you Nashi, very cool.
‘Bamboo’, huh? Nashi thought it was a rather silly name but didn’t make any comments regarding this, lest he hurt the feelings of a potential friend. ”Well, I’m Nashi. And… I don’t know what you mean.” How could you know someone and not know them? Wasn’t that a direct contradiction in terms, like being powerful and powerless or good and not blindingly handsome? Think, Nashi, think! What could it mean? ”Maybe you’ve seen me on TV?”
Oh, we’re fighting now? OK. There was something weird going on with cat faces— Nashi wasn’t going to pretend he had even the slightest idea what any of that was about— and he antlers went away and suddenly there were whiskers. ”Neato burrito.”
She slapped herself a few times (presumably for a reason or two, but at this point it was hard to say) and declared that Nashi was to die! ”Nah.” A fight, though? A fight would be fun, and throughout it he could have a good crack at trying to get her to calm down. Nashi got out his Powe— wait, no, never mind, he didn’t have it on him due to that shower. Darn, shame… it had way way more cool points than the Bamboo pole, anyway, so perhaps it was for the best. You know, to even the playing field. ”We’re gonna duel, huh?” Hopefully she isn’t absurdly powerful. If she couldn’t blow up the planet with a sneeze, I can prolly beat her. ”Welp, OK, here goes…”
Nashi entered the Leopard Kung Fu stance. But, then, he would move so quickly it was as if he had teleport! And where did he seem to but not actually teleport, you ask, rapt in attention, you handsome bugger you? Well, where else but directly behind Bamboo, with a Leopard Blow (read: fancy martial arts strike/punch) to the back of the neck? |
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Bamboo
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PL: 185,000
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Post by Bamboo on Jul 1, 2019 22:17:25 GMT -6
|Heretic| - Bamboo's PL: 270,000
Ah, the old classic. It could've only been more classic if Nashi had told her that it wasn't personal after he teleported behind her, but of course, this must have been very personal to the villain Nashi. Bamboo had no quip to respond to his movements- that was because when Nashi hit her in the back of the neck, she had all the wind knocked out of her, and she fell forwards, the force of the blow nearly rendering her unconscious. Of course, this was because Nashi attacked her before she had the chance to power up, and since he wanted to always be at his max output, he overpowered her. Fortunately, Bamboo recuperated and rolled forwards, landing on her feet (much like a cat.) She growled a little, gasped for breath, and then let out a shock wave as her energy tripled. Aha! No more cheap shots now. Score 1 for the plant-people. "Not fair! You're a cheater! Bamboo hates cheaters! Bamboo is gonna make sure you double-die!" That's right, not just one die, two dies. Like Yogu.She pounced forwards, with a much more fair and much less edgy direct approach. She pulled her arms back and released a savage dowwards swing right for Nashi's head!
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Post by Nashi on Jul 9, 2019 18:01:07 GMT -6
It was true: Nashi was always at his maximum power output. But it was also true that Nashi was always at his minimum power output… and his only one. Nashi only had one Power Level (not including Battle Armour ‘cos that’s cheating), and therefore was really really weak. Clearly.
”Winning isn’t cheating. What that was, just there, was winning! And it’s not gonna stop!” At least he wasn’t dying three times, or even four. Like Koramund.
Bamboo charged at Nashi with unexpected speed, but still Nashi was faster!.. or, at least, he thought he was. Still, he could manage to turn what might have been a savage blow into an almost-graze upon the shoulder! It wasn’t an almost-graze because it missed, it was an almost-graze because it would leave a bruise without actually— you get the picture. ”That sorta hurt. You’re gonna be hurtin’ more!”
Nashi would jump back and, in his mid-air motions, would extend a sweeping Power Pole to hopefully trip Bamboo. He had been practicing retracting the weapon very quickly, so it was doubtful that Bamboo could grab the weapon if she tried. And many have. |
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