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

Cish I guess idk if this is murderzawa or not

[allcatsareequal]

[Idk what Zeno is doing near Fukuzawa's apartment but Fukuzawa is just stopping to watch this really familiar face for a long fucking minute.]

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]

[theyregooddogs]

[woods, sure, yeah. cooking some recently caught fish over a campfire and jumping up when discovering Zeno, bristling and huffing]

What the he— Uh, um, excuse me, can I help you??

[defendless]

[not even flinching]

Ah, good evening! Sorry if Zeno started you.

[theyregooddogs]

I—If you were really sorry, you wouldn't have done it to begin with. Can't be the first time you snuck up on someone, probably won't be the last.

[taking a harsh shaky breath in then slowly letting it out, rubbing his eyes]

What, what did you need?

[defendless]

[Welllll he's not gonna deny that]

Zeno just came by because your food smells good. Please pardon the intrusion.

[theyregooddogs]

Don't see why that meant you needed to find the source. Unless begging for food from whoever's around in a wide, open forest is also your "thing".

B

[risun]

[ the woods around her house are spacious enough for someone to get lost, but even still she's not entirely positive how she ended up on a path even remotely like this. wasn't she just going for a walk? with -

oh, with somebody who'd be better off elsewhere, if she's looking at what she thinks she is. lisa would lose days of sleep over something like this, so naturally, rea has to be sure. she picks up a fallen branch and prods his side with its end, from a distance.

except he's not for real and actual dead so

wakey wakey ]

[defendless]

Ah? Should I not then?

[Tummy grumble.]

[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.]

[theyregooddogs]

Not if you won't get to the point.

[cautiously leaning to check the fish then rubbing his hands on the front of his jeans, eventually hooking one into his pocket]

I would give you some, but I have a feeling you're just like a stray, following whoever gives you anything home. So, it'd probably be for the best if you found someone else to creep up on.

[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.]

[defendless]

[his stomach grumbles, loudly]