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[devwocean]

Attention citizens.

You havve made the stupendous mistake of kidnappin one Commander Orphaner Dualscar, destroyer a wworlds an' scourge a the stars.

In light a your obvvious ignorance, and the admittedly pleasant surroundins, I'll be generous. You havve half an hour to explain wwhere I am, howw I got here, and wwhy, and to showw me the exit. It's the ocean, I can make my owwn wway from there.

I'm wwaiting. Don't fuckin disappoint me.

One last wwarnin: I'm not a vvery patient troll.

[OOC: I'm happy to do action tags/prose in the comments, too. Anyone who wants to run into him in person can find him wandering the main thoroughfare around the Lamufao, using his starfish phone thingy to monitor the network]

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[devwocean]

[Oh that] I'm a military commander wwhere I come from. I command a fleet a ships, an I'vve been in many wwars an battles in servvice to the Empire.

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[ninthserenade]

Seriously? ...That's so freakin' cool, dude. What's it like?

_{[A beat, and he stops at the elevator to wait for the doors to open, then he's stepping inside and waves the troll in.]}

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[devwocean]

[He steps in a bit warily, looking about the inside of the cubicle. This could be some kind of trap, but...why?]

It's a difficult, demanding an rewwarding position. I havve the favvour of Her Imperious Condescension herself.

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[ninthserenade]

_{[It'd be the best trap he could ever come up with, that's for sure. Going uuuup!]}

Whew, the perks gotta be good if you're under someone with 'Imperious' in the name. Is she the top troll in uh... Alternia, right?

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[devwocean]

Yes. [He is watching their surroundings as they rise] In all a the galaxy, actually. Her Empire goes beyond just the cradle a our civvilization, an she rules it all.

[His eyes land on Demyx again] Wwhat is your wworld like?

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[ninthserenade]

I'd hate to get on her bad side.

_{[He pauses.]}

Well... The one I lived at before coming here was always really dark. We'd get rain every now and then too, but I usually stayed inside the castle or I went to another world for a change of scenery. There's only so much white a guy can take before he starts to go a little crazy, yanno? But before that place, I lived underwater--kinda like this, but without the whole... _{[He waves a hand.]} Barrier thing. Long story short, I used to be half fish. Humans call 'em 'merfolk'. Some things happened and I got shunted outta that world and found myself with a pair of legs.

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[devwocean]

[He listens with some curiosity] So humans havve a sea dwwellin' vvariant, too?

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[ninthserenade]

Eh, I guess you could say that. In some worlds merfolk are kind of a myth, but that's all fine and dandy with me. Who knows what some people would do to us, yanno? We usually keep to ourselves.

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[devwocean]

Wwhere I come from, wwe sea dwwellers rule. [He shrugs] But wwe havve certain advvantages, that maybe your race lacks.

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[ninthserenade]

Really? Like what?

_{[Yep. He is going to learn all the things.]}

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[devwocean]

Wwell, for one, the Empress of our race has the ability to cull entire blood colours wwith a wwhim. If the lowwbloods get antsy, it's not hard to get them back under control.

[Are they close to the surface yet? He's curious to see this island]

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[ninthserenade]

How does that blood thing work, anyways? I mean without cutting someone, how do you guys know who has what color blood?

_{[Speak of the devil, there go the doors--just look at all that sand and beachfront!]}

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[devwocean]

[He steps outside and looks around, wincing away from the light, but at least it's not blinding to him.]

Our eyes, for one. An our symbols, for another.

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[ninthserenade]

Man, I'd be one weird mix of blood in that case. My, uh... sign thing is Pisces, my eyes are kinda this greenish-blue and my blood isn't exactly normal either.

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[devwocean]

[He's heading down to the water's edge]

Wwhat's abnormal about your blood?

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[ninthserenade]

Lots of things, really. I'm not on that blood-spectrum thing and I don't even bleed normal unless I'm cut pretty deep.

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[devwocean]

Hmmm... [He eyes Demyx thoughtfully] Wwhy don't you bleed? Is that normal for your species?

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[ninthserenade]

It just comes out as some sort of like... Smokey-stuff. I think it's pretty normal for most Nobodies though.

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[devwocean]

Interesting. Wwhat strange physiology you must havve.

[He glances around and unhooks his cape, then begins to remove his armour, revealing a skin-tight sleeveless shirt underneath, with a deeply scooped back. A spiney fin is folded tight against his spine.]

I'm going to take a bit of a swwim an check things out.