#muse: Arganan

[countarganan]

@eternallyserpentinebutterfly liked for a starter!

"Elise?" Arganan had been searching for her, and soon found her after some effort. A sigh left him after, before he made his way towards her, the familiar sound of his cane sometimes echoing as it hit the ground.

"There you are. I've been looking all over for you..."

[summersunsetball]

Mun name: Myst Pronouns: she/her URL(s): countarganan, adeadlysong, and bravelywego Participating muse(s): Tahirah Zakiyaa, Rafaele Baptiste, Arlyn Icia, Nuriel Flame, and the Starling (adeadlysong), Lucius Arganan, Sir Therius, Calista Arganan, and General Asthar (countarganan), Geist Grace and Nobutsuna Kamiizumi (bravelywego). Are you comfortable with non-mutual interactions during this event?: Yes!

Welcome, lovely! We're excited to have you!

~Mod Taea

[industrialpegasus]

Spilling Secrets

@duelingdestiny

It was now morning, and Pegasus knew he had a lot of things to hash out with his guests. They’d already had breakfast, but Pegasus figured that now was sooner to figure out things than later, especially considering what he and Atem had learned about the others over the past two-ish days or so.

“I’d like to assure all of you that Azami is currently locked up in the castle’s dungeon and will remain there until the police come to escort her off the island personally. They’re currently on the way and should be arriving by tomorrow afternoon to pick her up.” Pegasus stated, eyeing the group. The others still seemed a bit tense, but definitely slightly calmer than the other day. “Noa has agreed to work for me, in the meantime. And speaking of other hidden identities and motives...”

Oh, this was going to be hard. Pegasus glanced toward Cyndia and Geist, swallowing. “I have the feeling you two haven’t been honest with who you are.”

Geist’s eyes narrowed, but Pegasus continued. He wanted to get to the bottom of this—now. ��The powers you demonstrated the other day? They’re not something what doctors typically do...and based on what you said at the time, too, it’s not the first time you’ve done this sort of thing before.”

Geist went quiet at first, glancing away from Pegasus, before a soft chuckle left him. The another. 

“Heh...hehehe...hehehehehhahahhahahahhahahaa~! Oh, fuck, was I really that bad at playing the role of the dutiful doctor~?” Geist’s eyes flashed as he looked straight up at Pegasus, a wide, toothy smile coming across his face, and Pegasus noticed Noa and Arganan visibly flinch, Lavinia and Felix both looking slightly intrigued as Geist kept talking. “Maybe I should just show you my usual appearance, hm? See how you like it~?”

Cyndia’s eyes widened, a gasp leaving her. “Geist, you can’t mean—!”

“What?” Geist looked at her with a too-innocent doe-eyed look, as if pleading. “They’re going to see it sooner or later now that I’ve been expooooosed, so I might as well do it. Right~?”

She hesitated, but then a resigned sigh left Cyndia at htat as she crossed her arms, looking away from Geist. “I..fine. Just do it. But you only have yourself to blame if someone faints from seeing it.” 

Geist put a hand to a pendant hanging around his neck—and a flash of light forced Pegasus to look away. When the light faded, Geist’s appearance was drastically different. He wore white clothing—but it was completely bloodstained, head to toe, turning it more red than white. There were even dried blood streaks trailing down his face like tears, dark hair messier than before but it didn’t stop him from gazing at the others with toothy (and seemingly creepier) smile. 

“The bloodsoaked exorcist—Geist the Bloody, at your service~!”

“Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck.” Arganan was immediately backing up, clutching Felix and Lavinia like shields. “Please tell me I’m having a fucking nightmare and I’m that hungover!”

“Oh, dear,” Geist glanced toward him with a shrug, “I’m a walking nightmare. Most people think of me as such...”

“But why?” Pegasus burst out. Okay, he knew that things were about to get freaky but he didn’t expect things to get THIS freaky. “Why do this to begin with?”

“For...safety.” Geist glanced toward Cyndia. “Mainly hers, of course. If it wasn’t for us sneaking onto the island and participating in your tournament, she’d be dead. Or, rather, she was dead.” 

[undefeatablechampion]

“It’s okay babies…” Hana held Sprite, Hoshi, and Grace in her arms as her pokemon clamored around her in concern for her.

@eris-the-phantom-thief

Everyone had figured that they just needed to straight-up camp together, exhausted from J's battle from earlier.

Sprite cuddled up to Hana, cooing a bit in concern for her, and Raihan kissed Hana on the forehead.

"I'm just glad that you and the others are okay...."

Leon and Calista were working together on making curry to share with everyone, while Asthar helped tend to the Pokemon. He approached Hana and Raihan, his blue eyes flickering towards the three Legendaries with some surprise.

"I have to say, I'd heard rumors that the Galarian Champion had three Legendary Pokemon. I'm quite surprised to find out it was true!"

Sprite beamed at Asthar, waving, and Asthar chuckled lightly.

"I'm glad that all of you are safe, though."

[countarganan]

@propertyofseagate liked for a starter!

Calista was just in the library, trying to shelf some books that she just found lying around. She didn't work here, it was just - she didn't like them being out there with no one to claim them or read them. What if someone else wanted to find them on the shelves, after all?

She was about to shelve the last book when it slipped out of her hands and hit someone else walking by.

"Oh, I'm so sorry..!" Calista moved to grab the book quickly, looking at them apologetically, blue eyes meeting the other's own. "Are you alright?"

[countarganan]

Lucius nodded in agreement, before he smiled at the kisses at his knuckles. It was a sweet gesture, honestly... He leaned in to give her a kiss on the cheek.

"Maybe I'll find some potential boy names in more books," A chuckle left him after. "Could be fun."

Sothis wrapped both arms around one of Lu’s, and she leaned against his arm, her gaze on his face. One hand did reach down to squeeze his.

“I hope you have another name ready.”

@countarganan

[bravelywego]

No One Escapes The Night...

@ribbedxgloves wanted a horror theme park plot!

“WOOOO!!!! SCREAMPARK, HERE WE COME!”

Kamiizumi couldn’t help but laugh as he looked towards Praline. “Praline, we just got in...”

“Still, though.” She looked down at the special silver wristbands she and Kamiizumi wore. “I’m surprised we got mailed VIP tickets for the opening day.” 

Not only did said VIP tickets get them first in line to get into the park, but they were supposed to give free access to all the rides and food for the whole day that they were here. They were also guaranteed a nice little tour around said park by two actors that would apparently guide them and tell them some of the “lore” of the park, too. 

“Geist is working here tonight.” Janne noted, looking up from his wristband and towards Praline. “We should thank him later for the tickets.”

Kamiizumi knew Janne was right. Geist was the one that got them here. “I’m sure we’ll have time to do so after the grand opening ceremony...” He was still impressed that Geist got a leading role to act a ‘special part’ in the grand opening ceremony that would happen in about an hour from now, though. Good for him.

“Welcome, welcome, welcome~!” The three turned to see two people approach. They had to be actors, given the Halloween-themed attire they wore. The young lady wore an orange and black dress with spiderweb-like lace gloves and leggings to go with her black mary janes, and the man had a more noticeably steampunk-esque attire, or so it seemed with the metal limbs, his wavy blond hair tied back in a ponytail. He wore a scarf over his neck, but Kamiizumi thought he saw scars underneath. “You’re the VIP guests?”

“Uh, yeah, we are.” Kamiizumi showed his silver bracelet off to the woman, who beamed right back at him. 

“Excellent! I believe we’re waiting for a couple more VIP guests to arrive, and then we’ll get started with the tour. Given that the opening ceremony starts in an hour, we won’t be going too far into the park yet. I’m Tahirah, by the way. Happy Halloween!”

“I’m Lucius.” The man offered quietly. His one visible eye examined the group, and then looked to his left to notice others approaching. “And speaking of said other guests...I think they’re here now.”

[adeadlysong]

@guardiansofeternia from here!

Tahirah had a feeling that Edea might come stop her, but it was really hard to when 1. A small crowd of pupils in training had asked her, because they were also training in music and wanted to hear from a pro, demonstrate how to sing while dancing.

2. She really loved music and dancing, and if someone asks her to do so, well...kind of hard to say no. 

She had the Count of Lazulis, Count Arganan, help twirl her a bit. He’d come with her this time to view the sights a bit, see what sort of things Eternia and Gathelatio were specialized in and such for potential future trading deals. However, Tahirah was pretty sure he didn’t expect to be playing half-backup dancer to her. The students cheered as it was going on, and despite the ‘oh shit’ look that Arganan had on his face that he desperately tried masking as calm, Tahirah kept going.

“For the first time in forever, I’m getting what I’m dreaming of!!!! For the first time in forever, a chance to change my lonely world! A chance to find true lo—oh.”

Tahirah paused mid-twirl, blinking as she caught full sight of Edea, before her voice grew small. “Hi, Edea.”

“I did nothing.” The Count of Lazulis completely managed, looking to Edea despite the fact that he was still holding Tahirah steady with both arms mid-twirl (the left one entirely metal, matching his lower left leg that was also metal). “I was merely a witness to this woman’s shenanigans and got dragged into it.”

Tahirah gave him a little look. “And yet you actually willingly joined in to help me with this demonstration?”

“You gave me doe-eyes while singing. How was I supposed to resist!? Also,” Arganan glared at the students, “They were the ones that asked us to perform for them on the spot. Technically not impromptu and therefore we didn’t break any rules!”

All the students immediately looked away and some whistled, trying to play innocent, but Arganan clearing his throat had all of them flinching with guilt and awkwardly admitting that yes, they asked them for a demonstration. Tahirah looked a bit amused at that, before looking to Edea with a grin.

“Demonstration’s over! It’s all good.” She untangled herself from Arganan’s arms, straightening herself before looking to the fleeing students. “Good to meet you, and good luck with your training!”

Arganan could only sigh, pushing some wavy blond hair out of his face before looking to Edea. “I don’t believe we’ve met. Count Lucius Arganan, of Lazulis Island. Apologies for the disturbance, Grand Marshal.”

[countarganan]

Calista couldn't help but smile as she ate the ice cream from her cone, but she was slightly startled by the question before looking toward Elise.

"I-I heard that they have some beautiful shells at this beach, so I was just planning to wander the area and look for some..what about you?"

@countarganan Beach starter call for Calista.

"Ahhh good old ice cream.These stuff are literally the savior of summer time miss Calista.So where do you want to go exactly if you do not mind me asking?"

[industrialpegasus]

SEND ME A CHARACTER  and I will give you a snippet of how I’d write them (( Yugioh DM : Kaiba or Dartz ? ))

@devoted-souls

Seto Kaiba

Seto Kaiba had ENOUGH of this other opponent using his deck to not only gain lifepoints but also keep depleting his own. But that was going to change—after Seto destroyed the other's silly monster on the field. There was no way it stood a chance against his Blue Eyes White Dragon—and there was no way he was about to let himself get beat by this old man!

"If it doesn't work the first time, blast it with your Blue Eyes again! WHITE LIGHTNING!"

Dartz

The time was drawing near. Soon, he'd have all the souls he needed.

"If it wasn't for that Pharaoh..." He murmured, shaking his head. Not only had the man somehow survived Rafael beating him the first time around, but he was still fighting against his forces.

"No matter. I still have other souls..." A low chuckle left him as he placed his hands together, examining all the tablets containing every lost soul—including one Yugi Mutou.

"He'll join them—soon."

[countarganan]

@eternalbxtterfly liked for a starter!

Arganan stared at Elise with his one working eye. There was a smile on her face, and that usually meant all was well or pure unadulterated chaos was going on.

"...What have you been up to lately...?"

[bravelywego]

Battle of the Ballroom!

@ribbedxgloves is getting this starter ‘cause why not? XD

All was tense in the ballroom, what with Arganan and Ulysses’ coming out dance throwing Azami into a rage, Tahirah vehemently defending her friend while calling Azami out for her ambition to eventually murder Sean post-wedding him, and Nobutsuna wasn’t sure if this could get any worse. Or if he should do something to stop the fight from escalating.

That was when the windows from the side came crashing down, several figures swooping in. They wore armor and cloaks that were dark, but much different than what the guards of Azami’s palace would wear. If one looked carefully...they did not appear to be fully human, given their more scaly-looking skin.

“The Gurak.” Arganan breathed. Damn it, why now!?

One in particular, glowing a red aura around his body, turned and saw Ulysses. He hissed, taking out a spear and pointing it at him. “Traitor! So you linger among these damned humans and fae...?”

There was another with a blue aura that placed his hand on the red-auraed one’s shoulder. “Calm yourself, brother. We will deal with him shortly after we slaughter everyone else.”

“Very well.” The red-auraed one looked to the rest of the troops with them, calling, “Kill them all!”

Naoto let out a yell towards some of the castle guards to join in fighting the Gurak, just as Tahirah yelled something that sounded like “Paso Doble formation!” to Arlyn and Nuriel, whose arms lit up with ice and fire magic respectively. Sukumara roared, protectively standing in front of Tahirah and ready to fight.

Nobutsuna, however? He knew he wasn’t the strongest, nor the best at magic or anything. But he took out his katana, staying close by Brent’s side. He refused to let his lover get hurt, but he also knew he had to make sure Tahirah and Ariel were okay, too.

“Those are the Gurak my mother was planning to war with! Be careful!”

[industrialpegasus]

duelingdestiny​:

@industrialpegasus continued from HERE

Malice watched in child like delight as everything went sideways at once. The horror on everyone’s faces was priceless. The best thing however was Pegasus’ face and how much Atem was screaming in his head. It was like the sound of sweet summer rain, or when you peeled the skin off the bottom of someone’s feet. Eh, same thing. “Oh calm the fuck down Dr. Finklestien. I saved you didn’t I?” Malice asked looking at his nails. “You’re welcome by the way.” He rolled his eyes hard enough he saw stars. “No one is grateful anymore. That’s the problem with the world today.” He had to snort. “Ding ding, we have a winner. My name is Mal. I’m a friend of Atem’s. Sort of like…His own Yami.” He said offering that as way of explanation, after all, he wanted them to trust him. People didn’t tend to go around trusting people name Malice. Or at least that was HIS experience.

“Alright, Robop, listen I’ve been here for a while now and trust me when I say if I wanted to murderlate all of you I could have multiple times by now. A karaoke party when there’s a killer on the lose. It’s a wonder any of you have made it this far in life.” Malice waited until Felix and Lavinia were done with their spiel and launched into his own. “Not an archdemon, but I am a part of what developed while Atem was locked in the puzzle for three thousand years. Shit gets lonely. I was the only one there with him. We kept each other company. It’s the only reason Atem isn’t a little more Looney at this point. I kept him focused and sane.” That last part might have been a little debatable, but hey, he was going for ally here.

"How come Atem never mentioned you up until now, then?" Pegasus stated, raising a brow as he looked toward Mal. "And besides, the karaoke party wasn't that bad of an idea. I've done worse."

Arganan looked toward Pegasus with an incredulous expression. "How much worse?"

"Don't ask."

"You 'developed' over three-thousand years?" Lavinia blinked several times. "No wonder you used a hammer. Good shot, but it is a little dated compared most normal killing weapons..."

Felix looked toward Lavinia. "Should we really be giving him advice?"

"He did help us kill Faye, sooo..."

“What are we going to do with the body?” Geist asked, gestured to the very-dead Faye. “I mean, if you want her arrested, I could ‘undo’ her death and so on, but...”

“Let’s not.” Everyone else stated, and Geist sighed. 

“Fine, but I’m not cleaning up the mess!”

"What is the Puzzle that you're talking about? Is it a jigsaw puzzle? An ancient Rubik’s cube?" Tahirah was utterly confused, and Pegasus sighed, before giving a quick explanation...or at least as quick as he could.

----five minutes later...---

"And that's what happened. " Pegasus stated, looking toward Geist and the others. "Also the reason why I lost an eye, by the way."

"Millennium Items.” Asthar frowned lightly. “I’d heard about those before, but I didn’t know they were actually real. Though I’d like to hear more information from Atem himself - if you can, er, switch places with him or however you do it with the whole possession thing.” 

“Actually, I would like to hear more details from Atem too.” Pegasus frowned a bit. And also get more information about why he didn’t tell me about something like that! 

@industrialpegasus continued from HERE

Malice watched in child like delight as everything went sideways at once. The horror on everyone's faces was priceless. The best thing however was Pegasus' face and how much Atem was screaming in his head. It was like the sound of sweet summer rain, or when you peeled the skin off the bottom of someone's feet. Eh, same thing. "Oh calm the fuck down Dr. Finklestien. I saved you didn't I?" Malice asked looking at his nails. "You're welcome by the way." He rolled his eyes hard enough he saw stars. "No one is grateful anymore. That's the problem with the world today." He had to snort. "Ding ding, we have a winner. My name is Mal. I'm a friend of Atem's. Sort of like...His own Yami." He said offering that as way of explanation, after all, he wanted them to trust him. People didn't tend to go around trusting people name Malice. Or at least that was HIS experience.

"Alright, Robop, listen I've been here for a while now and trust me when I say if I wanted to murderlate all of you I could have multiple times by now. A karaoke party when there's a killer on the lose. It's a wonder any of you have made it this far in life." Malice waited until Felix and Lavinia were done with their spiel and launched into his own. "Not an archdemon, but I am a part of what developed while Atem was locked in the puzzle for three thousand years. Shit gets lonely. I was the only one there with him. We kept each other company. It's the only reason Atem isn't a little more Looney at this point. I kept him focused and sane." That last part might have been a little debatable, but hey, he was going for ally here.

[adeadlysong]

Dance of Defiance!

@ribbedxgloves from here

Sukumara gently shook Brent’s hand in return, offering Brent a reassuring grin.

“Of course I wouldn’t just seduce someone and steal them away, let alone Prince Nobutsuna.” He managed. “I don’t think I’m that strong in seduction compared to others I know of…”

He took a deep breath as he thought through it all. His proposal to Tahirah, their eventual arrangement and agreement to marry Brent and Nobutsuna so those two step-brothers-to-be could still be in love with each other and together...and it was all coming together, now. He chuckled softly. “I think I’m ready for that. And I can tell you’re ready, too.”

“Uhhhhh, about that marriage?” Sukumara turned to see Maria rush over. “Queen Azami might’ve found out about the arrangement before we had a chance to tell her. She wants to speak to you, Countess Tahirah, Prince Nobutsuna and Prince Brent just outside the ballroom right now.”

“But what about Arganan’s coming-out dance!? He’s performing it in a minute from now!”

“Oh—he’s basically stalling her.” Maria looked back towards the rest of the ballroom, and then looked to Brent and Sukumara, “I think he’s calling her out on her shit right now before he has his performance. The prelude to chaos, I call it. Wanna watch?”

Meanwhile in the main part of the ballroom, a lot of people gasped and stared as one Count Lucius Arganan of Lazulis Island stared down Queen Azami Yukimura. Never before did he look so simultaneously pissed off and passionate at the same time. He had good reason to, however. 

“I find it rude that you’re leaving your own party so randomly. Also, I haven’t had a chance to perform my coming out dance,” Arganan snapped at Azami, “And I want you to watch.”

“Your what now?” Azami looked confused, but Arlyn stepped in.

“Allow me to explain.” The icy advisor flipped his hair. “’Tis a Melodian tradition for people to come out by dancing with a partner or partners of the same sex during balls such as these. I don’t see a problem with something as harmless as this.”

“Well, I certainly have a problem,” Azami started, glaring at Arlyn. “You—”

Max put a hand on Azami’s shoulder, whispering to her. “If we interfere, this is going to make you look bad and give them a chance to accuse you of homophobia. We need the Melodians on our side right now, and Count Arganan is a close friend of Countess Tahirah.”

“This is my fucking engagement ball, Max. How dare he—”

“We. Have. No. Choice. You have to back off.” 

Azami hissed, but glared at Arganan, who simply smirked. Once afraid of Azami, but now he was confident. He knew which partner he wanted, and he knew that no one could stop him in what he was about to do. Looks like this dance might work out, after all.

“Now that we’ve settled it,” Arganan turned, before extending a hand to Ulysses. “Mein Liebe, will you dance with me?”

Watching a couple feet away, Tahirah simply smiled. 

[generalxasthar]

Asthar is an embarrassed mess right now because @elysiahellfire TOTALLY MADE HIM BLUSH AND HE’S INTERNALLY SCREAMING NOW XDD

Asthar: O///O DAMMIT

Arganan: I WILL FIGHT HER

Asthar: No, NO YOU’RE NOT GOING TO 

[thedesignatedvillainesses]

“And how do you expect I can patch things up with my nieces?”

“Let’s see—how about, treat them better than I did with my own, to avoid catastrophe in the future?”

“...Fair start. And I don’t think I quite did that too well when I first met them, but I should try.”