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Player Name: Tomoyo Ichijouji
Player LJ: tomoyoichijouji
Email and/or AIM:
Email: tomoyoichijouji at hotmail[dot]com, AIM: TomoyoIchijouji, YIM: tomoyo_ichijouji
Timezone: EST (occasionally PST)
Other Characters: Fuuka Yamagishi @ gentlepriestess
Character: Dakku (altered from Ahiru because of the AU)
Series/Fandom: Princess Tutu
Deviance: 2
Big change is short to explain -- the characters are all genderswapped, including minor ones with the world and major events being similar to canon.
Age: 14-15ish?
Gender: Male
Species: Duck by birth, Human by magic
Canon Used: Anime (manga is very different, but anime is most well-known and lightyears better)
Appearance:
Expressions 1, Expressions 2, Expressions 3, Expressions 4, Genderswap!post-series!Fakiru;
red-orange hair (duckbutt-style lol) with a giant plume-shaped cowlick at the top; wide, innocent blue eyes; somewhat short in stature
Psychology: Dakku is someone who has always thought of himself as "just a duck", both literally and figuratively. Ever since meeting the storybook princess Story (harhar, our AU's name for girl!Mytho), in a vague span of time that even Dakku himself wasn't sure if it was in dreams or in waking, he wished he could be a prince, who might be able to bring back her smile, protect her, even dance with her. But, as a normal boy (or as normal as a duck boy could be), he is klutzy (physically and mentally), spazzy, easily distracted, and not always particularly bright. But, whether as his much more graceful and eloquent alter ego Prince Coeur (Princess Tutu genderswapped), or as either of his human or duck forms, he has a heart of gold, and a stout will. Not to mention, he's usually infectiously cheerful and energetic.
As Coeur, his personality changes in that he is able to understand other people to the point of being basically a danseur shrink (as funny as that sounds). He has a very princely demeanor and is able to competently protect others that need help (as opposed to when he's non-powered, where *he's* the one most likely to need to be rescued).
Other Skills/Abilities: He is actually a duck by birth, not human. However, even as a duck, he has a curiously human sentience, and has the same personality as a duck as a human, though he's unable to speak human words as a duck, unless you count quacks as words. Thus, he is able to understand, or at least have an affinity with, other birds (this is seen in canon as Ahiru literally talks with the birds outside her window, and they respond).
The brooch that he possesses during the canon gives him the ability to turn into a human from a duck with the splash of water (though an accidental quack would turn him back into a duck, and yes clothing is an issue). When he perceives the need, usually when a glimmer of the brooch indicates that a heart shard of the princess Story is nearby, Dakku can transform into Prince Coeur, a slightly taller (perhaps also slightly older-looking?) and much more majestic version of himself. In this form of Coeur, his dancing is magical (and pretty much flawless), so he can fly through the air by leaping or on flower vines, or magically conjure up storms of flower petals for various purposes, normally as a defense mechanism or in canon contexts it was used to break the princess's fall from a tall building.
Other Weaknesses: hand-eye coordination is poor (i.e. klutz klutz klutz), which extends to most physical activity, especially dancing harhar
History:
(holy crap this is long be warned)
Dakku is, in short, a duck who wanted to save a princess. A princess he saw named Story seemed to have such lonely, sad eyes, and he wanted to do something for her. ...Then he woke up, and he was late for class, again. At first the whole thing seemed like a dream, but he came to realize that in fact, the girl named Story in his school was in fact the princess who had lost her heart to seal away an evil Raven bent on consuming all the hearts the giant bird could get her claws on. Dakku was given a brooch by a mysterious old woman named Madame Drosselmeyer, who told him that he could give the princess back her heart by becoming a human boy and transforming into Prince Coeur, the prince with the power to restore hearts. But there was a catch -- to do so, Dakku could never let the princess know how he felt about her, for if he did, he would turn into a speck of light and vanish, just like Prince Coeur did in the story that Drosselmeyer had written ages ago before she died. (How could Dakku have met her if she had died...?) It wasn't as if she would notice him, anyway -- she already had a boyfriend named Rune, who was a wonderful, graceful danseur, and was the perfect partner for her...it didn't matter. If Dakku could give her heart back, and let her smile again...he could die happy.
Dakku found that the shards of the princess's heart were scattered around the town of Kinkan, and had to be coaxed gently from the people whose hearts' cracks they had found their way into to be able to return them. However, not everyone shared his sentiments. Fakira, an upperclassman at the Kinkan Academy, was Story's constant companion, and ostensibly at first her oppressor, never letting Story out of her sight, and always telling her what she could or couldn't do. When Fakira learned that Prince Coeur had appeared in Kinkan, she brought out the princess's sword that she had apparently kept locked away, and tried (but failed) to take out Story's heart once again, claiming that she was protecting Story by doing so. However, once Fakira realized that this was what Story wanted, she backed off, and begins to trust Coeur, and later Dakku once she finds out they're the same person.
Another, though, could not be similarly convinced. Morde, the Prince of Crows, appeared one day to steal away the shard of Curiosity that Coeur had found in the river, and wanted to keep the princess heartless and prevent Coeur from returning any more of her heart. Prince Morde was actually Rune's alter ego, the son of the Raven herself. When Rune got his hands on Story's Love shard embedded in a ring given to her by Edelstein, he plants a spell in it that would bind whomever it was given to. When this happens to Coeur, he is forced to watch helpless as Morde rips the half-returned Love shard from Story, returning her to a completely heartless state in the process, and kidnapping her out of sight.
Fakira and Dakku go to look for them, and when they find the princess, Morde threatens to have Story cut her Love shard into irretrievable pieces, and Coeur steps in, offering to have each of them speak of their feelings for the princess in the presence of the princess's Love; this would entail, of course, Coeur's disappearance. Coeur is about to agree to this anyway, asking only that Morde would make sure no harm came to Story in his absence, when Fakira steps in, refusing to let Coeur disappear, and instead fighting Coeur's fate by facing hers as the doomed Knightess from the story. But Fakira is defeated and seems to have been killed from the blood rising up from the depths of the lake. Incensed by Fakira's demise, Coeur is determined to face Morde without disappearing, and instead expresses his feelings wordlessly with a dance. This dance awakens the other feelings still residing within Story, and breaks Morde's hold on her. Morde backs away in defeat and the Love shard is left for Coeur to return to Story. On their way out, they find that Fakira has survived the battle, but at the cost of Edelstein's life. Edelstein's final request is to see the prince and princess dance a pas de deux, and so Coeur and Story dance for him.
After this, Story seems to become more and more the gentle, loving princess that she was in the book she came from -- and as she seems more intent on getting her heart back, Dakku is more determined to do that for her. But Story is starting to go crazy: the shard of Love Coeur returned, Morde had soaked in his mother's blood, and it was causing the princess's heart to become corrupted, creating "another princess" within Story, the Princess of Crows, who was intent on stealing the hearts of any she could seduce so that she could offer them to the Raven. Over time, this other personality starts to take over Story more and more, though all that Coeur could do was to convince the potential victims not to succumb to give up their hearts, and to find all the rest of the heart shards in the town.
Yet, even after all those in the town were found, there were some still missing, so said Drosselmeyer to Dakku one day. Dakku went around looking for those last shards, and discovered that they lay outside the town itself. Coeur tries to go beyond the town walls, and find he is unable to. He finds here Fakira being attacked by the Book Dames, who were trying to prevent Fakira from writing a story that might come true (more on this in Fakira's backstory, but she has the same power as Madame Drosselmeyer, being her direct descendant). When Coeur saves Fakira, he is yoinked right out of the world, out of the story, into the Loophole of Dimensions that Madame Drosselmeyer inhabits.
Facing Madame Drosselmeyer, Coeur is questioned as to his motivations for wanting the story to continue. If he returned the last heart shards, not only would the Raven be released, but Coeur would cease to be able to be with the princess anymore; he would return to being the duck he really and always was, and he learns later from Kueru, the child of Edelstein's ashes, that his brooch is Story's final heart shard. Fakira manages to allow Coeur to escape, but this point is when Story has turned into a raven-like creature herself who even Dakku is afraid to approach. Still, to heed the wishes of the princess, Coeur gathers the last shards together, and returns all but his brooch. As even this is not enough to return her to normal, in despair, Story throws herself at the Raven. Rune desperately offers his heart to his mother in Story's place, and this act is enough to return Story back into a human.
However, Coeur still cannot return the last shard. Dakku runs off in his own despair, but Fakira dances with him, convincing him that returning to their true selves is for the best, and that she would stay with him even then, always. With this, Coeur one last time returns his brooch to Story, returning himself to the duck that he is, and returning Story to the princess that she was.
In the ensuing final battle between the Princess and the Raven, Fakira writes the story through Dakku, only able to dance for the townspeople trapped under the Raven's spell. Yet with the hope shining through Dakku's dance, the townspeople reawaken, and the princess is able to rescue Rune and defeat the Raven. With Fakira breaking the machine that tied the town to Drosselmeyer's control, Rune and Story return to the princess's world together with Rune as Story's prince, while Fakira and Dakku remain in Kinkan in days of peace.
Canon Point: Post-series, but with some specific changes in-game: upon coming into the shop the second time, Dakku regains the abilities he had with the brooch, with a brooch that looks like the original but isn't; it's from the Astral Plane, and it isn't the heart shard that it was during the show.
Reality Description: Dakku makes his home in (and as of after the canon show, in the immediate area around) Kinkan Town, a quaint, old-fashioned town completely surrounded by a wall with five towers (which is in fact directly inspired from the actual town of Nordlingen, Germany), where while he had a human form, learned ballet at the Kinkan Academy, a school for various fine arts such as painting, music, and sculpting.
The technology in the town is limited to that of the late 19th to early 20th century, with no electricity and very litte automobile usage (mostly horse-drawn carts). There are catacombs underneath the town that act as secret passages to various hidden places around town, an artificial tributary that runs throughout the town, and a large cathedral in the center of the town. While most of the town is houses side by side on cobblestone roads, there is a portion of the town that is like a small nature area with a creek, pond, and woods, as well as a mysterious clearing with a scattering of stones where a legendary Oak Tree supposedly stood.
As of the end of the show, there is a part of the town, with some houses and an even larger lake and natural area, outside of the walls that before the events of the end of the show was inaccessible to the residents of the town, which is where post-series!Fakira and Dakku could be found. During the course of the show, random magical things and anthropomorphic residents could be found and no one would really make much note of it; this is revealed to be a direct result of the town being under the influence of Madame Drosselmeyer's machine. After the end of the show's canon, such incidents and anthropomorphism disappears with a trace, or any suspicion that it had ever been that way before.
The "Loophole of Dimensions" is where Madame Drosselmeyer, and after canon, Kueru (boy!Uzura) could be found. It is a shadowy enigmatic place of unknown vastness, occupied only by countless gears and cogs, showing the passage of time and the events in the town -- that is, until it was uncoupled from the machine by Fakira at the end of the show.
First Person Speaking Sample:
[omitted in place of his intro post]
Third Person Writing Sample:
Dakku ran about Kinkan Town, searching desperately for the remaining heart shards of the princess. If he could find the last ones...if he could...
What then? Fakira said that once all the heart shards were found, the Raven would be set free...and then...
He bit his lips. Then, we have to defeat her. We have to defeat her and the Raven's blood inside Story, and return her to her true self...
But then after that...what would happen to him? Once he found all the heart shards that belonged to the princess, then...what else could he do?
...Nothing, maybe. He already knew that this was all he could do. Maybe after that, he couldn't do anything.
But still...if that was the one thing he could do, then he would do it. It didn't matter if he couldn't say anything about what he thought of Story...or that he had nothing to do with her...what mattered was Story. That was why he had the brooch in the first place.
He would miss going to school with Lilio and Piquetto. He would miss learning to dance, even if he wasn't any good at it. Heck, he even would miss Miss Cat's constant marriage proposals. ...Well, okay, he could do without those. But Fakira...
...Fakira would have to face her fears, wouldn't she? She'd have to write, when all those bad things had happened to her just because she did...
If she was going to face that to help Story, then well, he'd better get his own act together.
Grimacing with determination, Dakku fingered the brooch on his uniform, and in a twinkle of gold light he transformed into Prince Coeur.
Reaching the tower, he noticed that his winged brooch glowed as he approached it. With a graceful wave of his arms, flowered vines grew up underneath him, and lifted him up above the wall. He could see a mist-covered stretch of grass and buildings, but it was strangely obscured...
"What is beyond the wall?" He leapt lightly from the vines, expecting to land on the ground on the other side...
...But instead, found an invisible wall beyond it. One that if approached, only lead one back from where one entered it.
Coeur landed in fifth position, his expression tinged with bewilderment. "What was that...? And why am I unable to go past it...?"
Player LJ: tomoyoichijouji
Email and/or AIM:
Email: tomoyoichijouji at hotmail[dot]com, AIM: TomoyoIchijouji, YIM: tomoyo_ichijouji
Timezone: EST (occasionally PST)
Other Characters: Fuuka Yamagishi @ gentlepriestess
Character: Dakku (altered from Ahiru because of the AU)
Series/Fandom: Princess Tutu
Deviance: 2
Big change is short to explain -- the characters are all genderswapped, including minor ones with the world and major events being similar to canon.
Age: 14-15ish?
Gender: Male
Species: Duck by birth, Human by magic
Canon Used: Anime (manga is very different, but anime is most well-known and lightyears better)
Appearance:
Expressions 1, Expressions 2, Expressions 3, Expressions 4, Genderswap!post-series!Fakiru;
red-orange hair (duckbutt-style lol) with a giant plume-shaped cowlick at the top; wide, innocent blue eyes; somewhat short in stature
Psychology: Dakku is someone who has always thought of himself as "just a duck", both literally and figuratively. Ever since meeting the storybook princess Story (harhar, our AU's name for girl!Mytho), in a vague span of time that even Dakku himself wasn't sure if it was in dreams or in waking, he wished he could be a prince, who might be able to bring back her smile, protect her, even dance with her. But, as a normal boy (or as normal as a duck boy could be), he is klutzy (physically and mentally), spazzy, easily distracted, and not always particularly bright. But, whether as his much more graceful and eloquent alter ego Prince Coeur (Princess Tutu genderswapped), or as either of his human or duck forms, he has a heart of gold, and a stout will. Not to mention, he's usually infectiously cheerful and energetic.
As Coeur, his personality changes in that he is able to understand other people to the point of being basically a danseur shrink (as funny as that sounds). He has a very princely demeanor and is able to competently protect others that need help (as opposed to when he's non-powered, where *he's* the one most likely to need to be rescued).
Other Skills/Abilities: He is actually a duck by birth, not human. However, even as a duck, he has a curiously human sentience, and has the same personality as a duck as a human, though he's unable to speak human words as a duck, unless you count quacks as words. Thus, he is able to understand, or at least have an affinity with, other birds (this is seen in canon as Ahiru literally talks with the birds outside her window, and they respond).
The brooch that he possesses during the canon gives him the ability to turn into a human from a duck with the splash of water (though an accidental quack would turn him back into a duck, and yes clothing is an issue). When he perceives the need, usually when a glimmer of the brooch indicates that a heart shard of the princess Story is nearby, Dakku can transform into Prince Coeur, a slightly taller (perhaps also slightly older-looking?) and much more majestic version of himself. In this form of Coeur, his dancing is magical (and pretty much flawless), so he can fly through the air by leaping or on flower vines, or magically conjure up storms of flower petals for various purposes, normally as a defense mechanism or in canon contexts it was used to break the princess's fall from a tall building.
Other Weaknesses: hand-eye coordination is poor (i.e. klutz klutz klutz), which extends to most physical activity, especially dancing harhar
History:
(holy crap this is long be warned)
Dakku is, in short, a duck who wanted to save a princess. A princess he saw named Story seemed to have such lonely, sad eyes, and he wanted to do something for her. ...Then he woke up, and he was late for class, again. At first the whole thing seemed like a dream, but he came to realize that in fact, the girl named Story in his school was in fact the princess who had lost her heart to seal away an evil Raven bent on consuming all the hearts the giant bird could get her claws on. Dakku was given a brooch by a mysterious old woman named Madame Drosselmeyer, who told him that he could give the princess back her heart by becoming a human boy and transforming into Prince Coeur, the prince with the power to restore hearts. But there was a catch -- to do so, Dakku could never let the princess know how he felt about her, for if he did, he would turn into a speck of light and vanish, just like Prince Coeur did in the story that Drosselmeyer had written ages ago before she died. (How could Dakku have met her if she had died...?) It wasn't as if she would notice him, anyway -- she already had a boyfriend named Rune, who was a wonderful, graceful danseur, and was the perfect partner for her...it didn't matter. If Dakku could give her heart back, and let her smile again...he could die happy.
Dakku found that the shards of the princess's heart were scattered around the town of Kinkan, and had to be coaxed gently from the people whose hearts' cracks they had found their way into to be able to return them. However, not everyone shared his sentiments. Fakira, an upperclassman at the Kinkan Academy, was Story's constant companion, and ostensibly at first her oppressor, never letting Story out of her sight, and always telling her what she could or couldn't do. When Fakira learned that Prince Coeur had appeared in Kinkan, she brought out the princess's sword that she had apparently kept locked away, and tried (but failed) to take out Story's heart once again, claiming that she was protecting Story by doing so. However, once Fakira realized that this was what Story wanted, she backed off, and begins to trust Coeur, and later Dakku once she finds out they're the same person.
Another, though, could not be similarly convinced. Morde, the Prince of Crows, appeared one day to steal away the shard of Curiosity that Coeur had found in the river, and wanted to keep the princess heartless and prevent Coeur from returning any more of her heart. Prince Morde was actually Rune's alter ego, the son of the Raven herself. When Rune got his hands on Story's Love shard embedded in a ring given to her by Edelstein, he plants a spell in it that would bind whomever it was given to. When this happens to Coeur, he is forced to watch helpless as Morde rips the half-returned Love shard from Story, returning her to a completely heartless state in the process, and kidnapping her out of sight.
Fakira and Dakku go to look for them, and when they find the princess, Morde threatens to have Story cut her Love shard into irretrievable pieces, and Coeur steps in, offering to have each of them speak of their feelings for the princess in the presence of the princess's Love; this would entail, of course, Coeur's disappearance. Coeur is about to agree to this anyway, asking only that Morde would make sure no harm came to Story in his absence, when Fakira steps in, refusing to let Coeur disappear, and instead fighting Coeur's fate by facing hers as the doomed Knightess from the story. But Fakira is defeated and seems to have been killed from the blood rising up from the depths of the lake. Incensed by Fakira's demise, Coeur is determined to face Morde without disappearing, and instead expresses his feelings wordlessly with a dance. This dance awakens the other feelings still residing within Story, and breaks Morde's hold on her. Morde backs away in defeat and the Love shard is left for Coeur to return to Story. On their way out, they find that Fakira has survived the battle, but at the cost of Edelstein's life. Edelstein's final request is to see the prince and princess dance a pas de deux, and so Coeur and Story dance for him.
After this, Story seems to become more and more the gentle, loving princess that she was in the book she came from -- and as she seems more intent on getting her heart back, Dakku is more determined to do that for her. But Story is starting to go crazy: the shard of Love Coeur returned, Morde had soaked in his mother's blood, and it was causing the princess's heart to become corrupted, creating "another princess" within Story, the Princess of Crows, who was intent on stealing the hearts of any she could seduce so that she could offer them to the Raven. Over time, this other personality starts to take over Story more and more, though all that Coeur could do was to convince the potential victims not to succumb to give up their hearts, and to find all the rest of the heart shards in the town.
Yet, even after all those in the town were found, there were some still missing, so said Drosselmeyer to Dakku one day. Dakku went around looking for those last shards, and discovered that they lay outside the town itself. Coeur tries to go beyond the town walls, and find he is unable to. He finds here Fakira being attacked by the Book Dames, who were trying to prevent Fakira from writing a story that might come true (more on this in Fakira's backstory, but she has the same power as Madame Drosselmeyer, being her direct descendant). When Coeur saves Fakira, he is yoinked right out of the world, out of the story, into the Loophole of Dimensions that Madame Drosselmeyer inhabits.
Facing Madame Drosselmeyer, Coeur is questioned as to his motivations for wanting the story to continue. If he returned the last heart shards, not only would the Raven be released, but Coeur would cease to be able to be with the princess anymore; he would return to being the duck he really and always was, and he learns later from Kueru, the child of Edelstein's ashes, that his brooch is Story's final heart shard. Fakira manages to allow Coeur to escape, but this point is when Story has turned into a raven-like creature herself who even Dakku is afraid to approach. Still, to heed the wishes of the princess, Coeur gathers the last shards together, and returns all but his brooch. As even this is not enough to return her to normal, in despair, Story throws herself at the Raven. Rune desperately offers his heart to his mother in Story's place, and this act is enough to return Story back into a human.
However, Coeur still cannot return the last shard. Dakku runs off in his own despair, but Fakira dances with him, convincing him that returning to their true selves is for the best, and that she would stay with him even then, always. With this, Coeur one last time returns his brooch to Story, returning himself to the duck that he is, and returning Story to the princess that she was.
In the ensuing final battle between the Princess and the Raven, Fakira writes the story through Dakku, only able to dance for the townspeople trapped under the Raven's spell. Yet with the hope shining through Dakku's dance, the townspeople reawaken, and the princess is able to rescue Rune and defeat the Raven. With Fakira breaking the machine that tied the town to Drosselmeyer's control, Rune and Story return to the princess's world together with Rune as Story's prince, while Fakira and Dakku remain in Kinkan in days of peace.
Canon Point: Post-series, but with some specific changes in-game: upon coming into the shop the second time, Dakku regains the abilities he had with the brooch, with a brooch that looks like the original but isn't; it's from the Astral Plane, and it isn't the heart shard that it was during the show.
Reality Description: Dakku makes his home in (and as of after the canon show, in the immediate area around) Kinkan Town, a quaint, old-fashioned town completely surrounded by a wall with five towers (which is in fact directly inspired from the actual town of Nordlingen, Germany), where while he had a human form, learned ballet at the Kinkan Academy, a school for various fine arts such as painting, music, and sculpting.
The technology in the town is limited to that of the late 19th to early 20th century, with no electricity and very litte automobile usage (mostly horse-drawn carts). There are catacombs underneath the town that act as secret passages to various hidden places around town, an artificial tributary that runs throughout the town, and a large cathedral in the center of the town. While most of the town is houses side by side on cobblestone roads, there is a portion of the town that is like a small nature area with a creek, pond, and woods, as well as a mysterious clearing with a scattering of stones where a legendary Oak Tree supposedly stood.
As of the end of the show, there is a part of the town, with some houses and an even larger lake and natural area, outside of the walls that before the events of the end of the show was inaccessible to the residents of the town, which is where post-series!Fakira and Dakku could be found. During the course of the show, random magical things and anthropomorphic residents could be found and no one would really make much note of it; this is revealed to be a direct result of the town being under the influence of Madame Drosselmeyer's machine. After the end of the show's canon, such incidents and anthropomorphism disappears with a trace, or any suspicion that it had ever been that way before.
The "Loophole of Dimensions" is where Madame Drosselmeyer, and after canon, Kueru (boy!Uzura) could be found. It is a shadowy enigmatic place of unknown vastness, occupied only by countless gears and cogs, showing the passage of time and the events in the town -- that is, until it was uncoupled from the machine by Fakira at the end of the show.
First Person Speaking Sample:
[omitted in place of his intro post]
Third Person Writing Sample:
Dakku ran about Kinkan Town, searching desperately for the remaining heart shards of the princess. If he could find the last ones...if he could...
What then? Fakira said that once all the heart shards were found, the Raven would be set free...and then...
He bit his lips. Then, we have to defeat her. We have to defeat her and the Raven's blood inside Story, and return her to her true self...
But then after that...what would happen to him? Once he found all the heart shards that belonged to the princess, then...what else could he do?
...Nothing, maybe. He already knew that this was all he could do. Maybe after that, he couldn't do anything.
But still...if that was the one thing he could do, then he would do it. It didn't matter if he couldn't say anything about what he thought of Story...or that he had nothing to do with her...what mattered was Story. That was why he had the brooch in the first place.
He would miss going to school with Lilio and Piquetto. He would miss learning to dance, even if he wasn't any good at it. Heck, he even would miss Miss Cat's constant marriage proposals. ...Well, okay, he could do without those. But Fakira...
...Fakira would have to face her fears, wouldn't she? She'd have to write, when all those bad things had happened to her just because she did...
If she was going to face that to help Story, then well, he'd better get his own act together.
Grimacing with determination, Dakku fingered the brooch on his uniform, and in a twinkle of gold light he transformed into Prince Coeur.
Reaching the tower, he noticed that his winged brooch glowed as he approached it. With a graceful wave of his arms, flowered vines grew up underneath him, and lifted him up above the wall. He could see a mist-covered stretch of grass and buildings, but it was strangely obscured...
"What is beyond the wall?" He leapt lightly from the vines, expecting to land on the ground on the other side...
...But instead, found an invisible wall beyond it. One that if approached, only lead one back from where one entered it.
Coeur landed in fifth position, his expression tinged with bewilderment. "What was that...? And why am I unable to go past it...?"