Voice Test

[defendless]

{A}

[If you find yourself in the woods for any reason, and you happen to be preparing food, you might turn around and find yourself with a certain fluffy visitor, staring intently at your meal with his stomach rumbling loudly.]

{B}

[Alternatively you stumble across a man face down on the ground in the middle of fucking nowhere. If you come close enough to check, he does seem to be alive, just unconscious, and actually starting to wake up!]

{C}

[Or there's a Zeno in your setting. Who knows why! (BECAUSE IF ENOUGH YEARS PASS IT'S EASY TO SAY HIS FANTASY SETTING BECOMES YOUR SETTING, MAYBE HUMANITY STRAIGHT UP FUCKING RESTARTED, WHO KNOWS? THIS MAN IS OLDER THAN THE HILLS.) Anyway follow your dreams, feel free to start something more specific or ask me to start something more specific within certain lines, I'm really excited please love me.

Also feel free to just straight up game setting this shit. Court/AFD/QM/LR this shit come at me bros.]

Comments

I GUESS WE'LL FIND OUT

[defendless]

[he is juggling on the sidewalk. this is not a super populated street or anything but he has drawn a small crowd, enough that he doesn't immediately notice Fukuzawa. that isn't to say he doesn't notice Fukuzawa at all, but he's sure not letting that on.]

[allcatsareequal]

[He will in fact just... wait for the performance to end since he has no desire to cause a scene.

But the act of waiting is also just confirming entirely this is definitely a man he killed like ten years ago who doesn't seem to have aged or changed or most importantly, be dead.]

[defendless]

[Zeno tries to wait him out for roughly a half hour, then goes about wrapping up and sending off his spectators, cheerfully making conversation until they clear out.

Then he walks right up to Fukuzawa.]

Good afternoon.

[allcatsareequal]

[Well at least that makes it. Convenient? Hm.]

Come with me.

[Abrupt and curt honestly because this is not a conversation to have on the street.]

[defendless]

Of course. Lead the way, mister. [he's so casually friendly about all this.]

[allcatsareequal]

...

[Yeah okay well he is going to lead Zeno into a dark alley that's very safe.]

[defendless]

Tell Zeno when we get there, all right mister? [you know, like this is fine and normal.]

[allcatsareequal]

[Yeah no just turning to face him.] I killed you. [Blunt.]

[defendless]

Mister certainly did that. How long has it been?

[allcatsareequal]

Ten years. [He's absolutely sure he killed Zeno. He doesn't make that kind of mistake. So how?] How are you alive?

[defendless]

It isn't an insult to your skill. Really, your efficient sort of killing was quite excellent. Zeno's body simply has some complicated circumstances, I'm afraid.

[allcatsareequal]

What circumstances? [Is there such a thing as immortality as an ability?]

[defendless]

Haha, well, immortality is the long and short of it.

[so like, i guess]

[allcatsareequal]

... [It's pretty instantaneous, the way his blade goes from his hip to slashing Zeno's throat open. But instead of considering that that, this time, he wipes his blade off and... Waits.]

[defendless]

[Zeno staggers back into the alley wall, hands clapping over his throat as slowly, ever so slowly, the blood stops streaming from him, and he can clear his (now mostly intact) throat.]

[allcatsareequal]

[He waits until he's done coughing, at least, watching impassively.] What are you?

[defendless]

[he keeps his hands over his throat, not sure the blood is enough to conceal his scales.] Zeno is Zeno.

[allcatsareequal]

That's not an answer.

[defendless]

Zeno is the only one like Zeno, so it's a proper answer and everything.

[allcatsareequal]

It doesn't explain anything.

[defendless]

It can be a proper answer without a full explanation.

[allcatsareequal]

Don't split hairs. [He can't... Really threaten an immortal can he? What even is this?]

[defendless]

Zeno has already answered as well as Zeno is going to.