[Thread] The Games We Play

[powerfulbeauty]

Characters: OU!Sho Minamimoto, AU!Chiaki Hayasaka
Where: The park
When: During the not-so-killer tomato attack; shortly after this
Summary: Chiaki's challenged Sho to see who can kill the most tomatoes.
Warnings: Snark, violence against semi-sentient fruits. Maybe some petty name-calling? Oh, and just general Sho-isms.

Chiaki crouched a ways away from

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[grtstcmmnfactor]

Oh, Minamimoto would Sho alright. In fact, he appeared crouched on the very peak of the heap itself, a gleam of arrogance in his eyes, which was partly guarded by the rim of the hat he'd just picked up from the area, courtesy of a certain pink polydrafter. He watched the feline at the bottom, who had arrived in the park sometime before he did, and it wouldn't be long before he would make himself known to her by riding down the sloped side of the heap like a slide and jumping to a stand-still before he crashed at the ground.

[grtstcmmnfactor]

"Don't let it get to your head. Yeah, I saw your little permutation from cat to girl and then in reverse; it's nothing Leo-Cantus can't top. But you did manage to slow my velocity for a few nanoseconds there, so props to you."

[powerfulbeauty]

"You've only seen a handful of my tricks. It'd be stupid of me to show you them all so soon." Again, that smile pushed at the fabric of her mask and her eyes gleamed deviously. "Besides, at least I don't rip my clothes all to shreds changing shape, and I'm not limited to what shapes I can take." Chiaki was quiet for a minute or two, allowing her form to shift again; this time to look like Sho. From the top of his hat to the soles of his shoes, she looked exactly like the ex-Reaper did. "So zetta tall..." She commented offhandedly, even managing to imitate Minamimoto's voice as she looked down at the new shape of her body. Indeed, he was even taller than she was.

[grtstcmmnfactor]

"...?!" he visually exclaimed, his eyes widening in shock as he took a small instinctive step backwards away from his doppelganger. "Inverse matrix! You zetta look like me! We're like terms! Zetta creepy... but strangely amusing. You imitating icosahedron..."

[powerfulbeauty]

Chiaki-Sho grinned with pleasure at his reaction; a somewhat maddened smile he'd recognize as his own. "Mm, you say that like it's a bad thing~" Lifting one blackened hand to adjust the hat she now wore, the shapeshifter laughed darkly. "I can look like anyone I've seen before; or I could just make it up. Depends on how I'm feeling at the moment." It was a perfected ability, too. Sho could look and look until his eyes got tired and never find a single flaw with his imitator. Down to the most minute detail, they were alike. Zetta creepy indeed.

[grtstcmmnfactor]

"... Heh..." Minamimoto observed closely as the Chiaki-him motioned with his copied form, visibly displeased by this point, though still regrettably impressed. "Yeah, that's all zetta sexy and whatever, but you can go ahead and alter back now. This mathemaniac is 1 of a kind! Can't have people thinking I'm just the latest trend or something. Then all these tasteless hectopascals will end up dressing like me and using my words. The arm tattoo was supposed to be Shoriginal!"

[powerfulbeauty]

"As you wish." She sighed, going back to her Nekomata state, tomato stains and all. It seems that changing shape didn't alter the conditions of whatever forms she'd left. "Better?" Without waiting for him to answer, though, she continued on. "Trends or not, nothing beats the original. Or, Shoriginal, in your case. Having a loose frame of existence is so useful, though. I can be anyone at all; no one ever has to know the real me." Which meant no one would ever get close to the real her; no one would ever be able to see through to her true weakness and reliance on others when it counted the most. As long as she could hide, no one could break her.

"What will you do now that you've won, King?" A bit of an idle question, as it didn't matter much either way if- or what- he answered with, as long as it steered the conversation in a new direction.

[grtstcmmnfactor]

Lucky for her, Sho was never one to dwell on such insignificant emotional matters. Consider the conversation successfully steered away. "Heh!" he let out again, this time in a more optimistic tone than before. "This dullsville needs less vegetation and more decoration. I'm thinking something big! Something so creatively extreme that it'll shake the hearts and souls of everyone in Econtra with it's beauty and magnificence!"

[powerfulbeauty]

Well, that certainly had her attention. "Sounds exciting. Care to share what's on your mind for that, or am I just going to have to wait and see?"

[grtstcmmnfactor]

"Meh. Just put 2 and 2 together," he said, gazing up admirably at the junk heap in the near distance.

[powerfulbeauty]

She followed his gaze, understanding almost immediately what he'd meant. Four! Of course; it was so obvious. "...You know, I like the way you think."

[grtstcmmnfactor]

"So do I, but that's irrelevant. Want in on this, pussy cat?"

[powerfulbeauty]

"You bet I do." She laughed under her breath. As if he even had to ask! No way was she missing out on this.

[grtstcmmnfactor]

"Of course, heh... OK, kitten, it's simple. These yoctograms can't seem to appreciate my fine, fine art unless they can relate to it. No way in helix a bunch of zetta lame 000s are ever going to connect to my masterpieces on a desirable level unless I make them, myself. What better way to do that then to incorporate the yoctograms into my opus? So here's what I need you to do, kitten. Create a diversion so I can jack their junk for building blocks."

[powerfulbeauty]

A few thoughts as to how that would be possible crossed her mind already, and she nodded. "No problem. I'll give 'em something to keep occupied with." Hardly a difficult task for someone of her skill, but that was fine. It just meant everything would likely be much more smoothly pulled off. "Just say when and I'll draw them out for as long as you need."

[grtstcmmnfactor]

The Reaper chuckled deviously and grinned. "I knew I could count on you, cat. Just do what you do best and I'll give these ingrates a minamimonument or four to remember." Lulz, more name puns.