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+1 fish warrior

[The Nexus has no shortage of bringing people in from random places and times, and today a small portal seems to open up a few feet away from the question area. Being dumped from said portal is an armor-wearing fish, presumably female, by the long red ponytail she sports. The fish-woman's body seems to be shimming, as if her very body is trying to disappear at any second. Finally, the shimmering aura dissipates, leaving the fish-woman barely alive on the Nexus floor.

She manages to look up, and is taken back by the scenery. This isn't the Underground, nor does she see any monsters around either. Struggling to stand, she musters up a few words to any nearby denizen of the Nexus.]

W-where am I? Is this what it's like to die? Alphys? Asgore? Anyone?

[She's still trying to fully comprehend the situation, but it's clear that she's gravely injured. Help might be something she needs, but isn't willing to ask for.]

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Unfortunately for Undyne's situation, the first person to approach isn't one who is apt at judging one's health from how hard they shimmer. Technically, the first person to approach isn't even a person but a doll passively towering over the collapsed fishperson. She stares deeply at the woman, as if deeply entranced by her...fishy-person-ness. The artificial lifeform kneels as she looks deeply into the woman's eye.

"This is not the afterlife. This is not your end," she intoned with unarguable finality. She was so sure that this wasn't the afterlife. It didn't exist for her after all.

[It takes Undyne a moment to regain her bearings in order to stare at the human? No, something seems off about the girl, even though Undyne is no expert at humans herself. The girl reminds her of those silly training dummies in the Waterfall.]

"Yeah...What proof do you have? You have no idea what I've been through." [She's a bit snappy right now given her recent predicament with a certain violent human child and being thrown into a new world.] "Wanna tell me where I'm at if this isn't the afterlife?"

"Only that which lived can proceed to an afterlife. I am but a doll. As I never lived, where we are now cannot be an afterlife." Her posture unassuming but unafraid, her voice calm and accepting but brokering no contestation. "This is the Nexus, a place between realms, between worlds. It is a place of possibility and chance made manifest, not a place of endings."

"So, what you're saying is, neither of us can be here if we're dead? Damnit." [She manages to stand up, her lone eye resting on the doll's face.] "But if I'm not in the Underground, that means..."

[She turns around to look for whatever door or portal brought her here, but it's gone. Undyne's face becomes angry almost instantly.] "No! That means the child is still alive! And I'm stuck here!" [As if on cue, a blue spear appears in her hand.] "This isn't the hope I had in mind!"

The Plain Doll's head tilts. "I am afraid I do not understand." She utters looking quite perplexed. Underground? Child? She did not understand. "....what is it you desire?" she defaults, something in the other's nature reminding her of newly blooded Hunters.

[The fish is literally shaking, in both anger and weakness, as she turns around sharply.]

"A way back home! There's a human child and they're going to doom the entire world if not stopped! I have to go back and stop them!"

Her sculpted face winces, the volume extolled by the fishie too much for the doll's muted attitudes. "I am sorry...this one has heard of ways back but I do know them not..." The Plain Doll did not need the Nexus' ways to return to her place.

[Sorry, Plain Doll, but it doesn't seem like Undyne is calming down anytime soon. In fact, that spear she's holding gets thrown at a nearby vase, shattering it into pieces. Thankfully it wasn't aimed at someone (but that's what an anti-violence field is for). Consider it a form of stress release instead.]

"Why in the hell are you apologizing? Unless you brought me here, there's no point in taking the blame for something like this." [And she gestures to the Nexus.] "But every moment I stand here, they get closer to ending everything...There has to be a way back."

Hey that vase was made of porcelain, like her! VIOLENCE LIKE THAT GOES AGAINST THE PALE! But no seriously, she's not used to such rapid heady violence in her vicinity and, timidly, she steps back away from her.

"I would not. It is not my place to summon, merely to soothe and aide where I may," she apologetically intones. "From my base understanding, your thoughts would be accurate. From whence a door opened, it may indeed become opened again but in the other way....but, as you are, will you be able to do aught but succumb?"

[Seeing the doll back up makes Undyne actually calm down for a second. Her gestures are very similar to the few and far between monsters who're actually scared of Undyne's strength, like Whimsun. But her confidence seems to shoot back up upon hearing that last comment.]

"Me? Succumb? I'm the captain of the Royal Guard!" [She summons another spear confidently.] "I'll show you true strength..." [And she's about to lob the spear at another Nexus furniture object, but finds her hand shaking violently. The weapon drops to the floor and disappears, causing Undyne to laugh weakly.]

"Huh...Damnit...I didn't think the kid actually did that much damage to me."

Edited 2015-11-28 03:55 (UTC)

At a moment, the doll is at the woman's side, her presence and hand surprisingly steady for one so passive and meek-acting. Curiously for the doll, upon looking at the monster up close, she saw none of the typical marks of both Hunter combat nor mutation. Just what was this strange one? Wordlessly, she supports Undyne, not wanting to intrude on her thoughts or be so presumptuous as to suggest further answers to a 'royal guard'.

[Undyne doesn't say anything for a long time, trying to call forth her spears, only to watch them fade into nothingness. She's breathing heavily now, finally noticing the doll at her side, staring. It reminds her of the other humans she's hunted down in the past, but their eyes contained fear, not compassion.]

"Heh...What are you looking at? Never seen a monster like me before?"

Her eyes look down, the balls looking all about, as if trying to fetch an old memory. "I am....not sure...." she murmurs faintly before shaking her head decisively. "It is unimportant. You are hurt." The doll was very good at understatement making while having it sound she was announcing the weather regardless of how horrible whatever she was saying was.

"Damn...you can see right through me, can't you? Just like Asgore..."

[Undyne stands there, one gloved hand running over the top of her battle-scarred armor. She can feel spots where blood is drying up and bones are broken and bruised. Could she really go back and protect anyone in this shape?]

"I've never been the type to sit around and do nothing. Always charging forward with determination. This is a strange feeling right now. To be stuck in another place like the Underground."

To be fair, she has to deal with hundreds petulant Hunters insisting "Its just a scratch" before they explode into blood and dream stuff. She's used to this shit. ~~Eyes on the inside also good for cheating~~

"Then do not sit around and accomplish nothing. Charge forth in thine recuperation with fullest determination. It would do no good to find your returning path if you could not accomplish your goal, is it not?"

[Undyne would most certainly fit the description of one of those hunters. Reckless and strong are two deadly combinations, after all, for the hunter and the hunted.]

"...I hate to admit that you're right. So many people's hopes and dreams are riding on me and damnit, if I can't fight, then what good am I to them?" [She limps herself over to a nearby chair, small drops of blood falling near her armored boots.] "How can a doll like you provide such spot on advice anyways? Do you have a human soul in you?"

Her head shakes demurely. "Nae, I am but a doll...but...what is it that you speak of, a soul?" Silly girl, souls don't exist! Her closest local church only is hype about blood and shooting yourself up with it.

~~Don't mind the little ones gawking wordlessly at you from at the Plain Doll's feet, Undyne. You're only the most interesting fish person they've seen so far.~~

Edited 2015-11-28 04:56 (UTC)

"You don't know what a soul is?!?" [Undyne sits straight up and just stares blankly at the plain doll.] "It's the most important thing ever! People and monsters have souls in order to live! And in my world, we need 7 humans souls in order to break free from our imprisonment!"

[Thankfully, she's not looking at her feet either. No need for creepy paranormal stuff on the day where you nearly died, after all.]

Her head tilts inquisitively. Something so important and yet she had never heard of it before. "So....it is an organ of some sort?" she asks unsuredly, trying to put her more physical knowledge of bodies to work not knowing its a metaphysical organ at all.

~~The little ones aren't creepy! They're cute and sweet and staring at the fishie in rapturous awe!~~

"It's tangible...The appearance looks like a heart. Beyond that, I have no additional knowledge about souls. My job is just to collect them form humans."

[She's rather confused by the doll having no idea what a soul is.] "So, how long have you been in this place?"

A thing that looks like a human heart and yet wasn't? How strange. You're strange. Best to ignore it and move on.

"I am...unsure. The Night of the Hunt still malingers over Yharnam and yet it seems that the sun has risen and set far too often here..." she admits with a fair share of muted confusion.

Here, fish-person, have a white-scaled lizard knight in shining armor. He stoops, extending a gauntleted hand as he muses aloud, "I qualify as 'anyone,' I suppose, although my name does not begin with an A. Are you hurt?"

[Shade is definitely a welcome sight, given he's not a human and is dressed very similar to members the Royal Guard. Alas, Undyne has a sharp tongue and attitude to boot.]

"Doesn't matter if you're name starts with an A or not right now, does it?" [She managed to take his hand with her own armored glove.] "Beaten within an inch of my life, but not dead apparently." [Her pride won't let her say she's hurt.]

The sharp tongue seems to ruffle his scales not at all; he speaks with pleasant, patient serenity. "I could not say whether it might matter," he points out. "Those for whom you asked by name both began with A. It might have been some special preference."

Once Undyne is on her feet, he adds an offer, "I have some little ability with healing magic, if you would like to avail yourself?"

"...Ha, I didn't even notice that until you said something. No, there's not an intentional pattern. Just calling out to my friends, that's all." [She's still a little wobbly from the whole 'diving into the nexus headfirst', but manages to stabilize herself after being helped up.]

"This place is strange. You don't even know me and are offering to help. Are you a monster as well?" [The question isn't meant to sound insulting, since really, all Undyne has ever known is two species: human and monster.]

"I am an Argonian," he answers. "Opinions vary, with regard to the monstrousness of the state. But it has been my experience that greeting the world with an open hand ends well more often than not." With a smile, he adds, "my name is Shade-Seeker. I must agree that this place is strange, but I admit enjoying it all the same."

"Argonian? It's like we're speaking two different languages." [She normally has more pride than this, and getting help from other people would be a sign of weakness in the Royal Guard. But this isn't the Underground and it seems like no one she knows is here.]

"Undyne..." [She sighs a bit, letting her pride dissolve for the moment.] "Shade-seeker. Hope you don't mind me shortening that to Shade. Either way, thanks. You really didn't have to go out of your way to help me."

"Argonians are my people, the swamp-dwelling lizard-folk. As opposed to elves, or humans, orcs, or khajiit," he explains, suggesting, "perhaps the usual array of peoples is different where you come from."

He smiles genially as she thanks him. "You are quite welcome, Undyne, and the abbreviation troubles me not. I wished to know if I could help, and to be of help if I could--such is my nature, and was no departure from my way."

"Never heard of any of 'em, except for lizards. Where I'm from, you're either a monster or a humans. But monsters range in appearance and shape, from dogs to bears."

[She's not sure where to go from here, allowing Shade to do the leading instead. But having the extra help is definitely well-appreciated.]

"Help...It feels weird being on the receiving end of it, instead of helping someone else."

He listens, then tsks sadly. "That seems a somewhat unjust dichotomy. Unless 'monster' has a different connotation in your world?" He isn't going far, but after the fall perhaps Undyne would like someplace to sit? There is ample seating to be had.

"We all need help, sometime. I myself have quite often had to rely upon the kindness of others, not the least when I found myself here. It is good to hear that you are in the habit of giving it, as well."

"It's the term we've always known. Maybe something the humans labeled or as...I'm not sure." [She takes a seat on a nearby Nexus couch, her armor creaking as she sits down.]

"Yeah, lots of monsters had their hope riding on me, after all. Until that human showed up..." [Her voice drifts off.]

He sits as well, clinking quietly in turn. "What happened?" he asks gently. His hand glows with a wholesome silver-white light--the offered healing magic--though he holds it up for the moment, waiting for implied or spoken consent to bestow it.

"...It's a long story. Hope you don't get bored with it."

[Despite being injured, she's still wondering just how she got this lucky in meeting a creature of similar appearance and nature. The growing hand causes her to tense up, uncertain at what magic or power Shade possesses. However, he doesn't seem like the type of person who would harm an already injured fish. She nods to him, a signal to let him proceed with the healing.]

"I came from a place called the Underground. Many years ago, monsters and humans lived on the surface world, but a war broke out, and the humans defeated us. As punishment, the humans sealed us underground with a magical barrier. Our king, Asgore, found out that humans souls could be used to break the barrier. So we began collecting the souls of humans unfortunate to fall into the Underground, so that one day, we could break the barrier and be free again."

His healing touch is a gentle thing; aches ease, pain fades, and wounds close without scarring. He keeps it up until Undyne is fully healed--he seems to have some way of knowing.

He listens as she tells her tale, before interjecting a polite question: "how did the humans circumvent the barrier?"

[Feeling the healing magic seep through her armor, Undyne expects it to feel like a bad medicine, bitter and uncomfortable. Instead, the light is warm and starts immediately to heal her cuts and wounds. She sighs in relief as the pain subsides.]

"...I'm not sure how it worked. Humans would fall into the ruins, but it seems like they couldn't escape the barrier once inside." [She shakes her head.] "7 souls to collect. We only needed one more to be free. Then they came along. A young human, but one with the intent to kill. They began murdering every monster in the Underground without thought."

He tsks softly; he's not sure he likes the business of shackling people's souls (though he counts Undyne no less a person--and, he's obliged to admit, he captures goblin and ogre souls for his own use without pangs, so he is in little position to lob criticism), but he certainly doesn't approve of wholesale murder, either. "I am sorry," he offers. "Perhaps, if you have found your way here, you might guide your people here in turn, and so escape the humans' prison and predations."

"...? What are you apologizing for? It's not like you brought that fate upon us." [Although it's rather ironic that the monsters hunting humans has turned into a reverse-case scenario. She lowers her gaze to the floor.]

"That's wishful thinking. A good chunk of the monsters were completely murdered before I even got here. The human is probably on their way to kill the rest right now." [But even as she looks down at the Nexus floor, she smiles.] "But...I have hope that my friends will be able to stop the human, or at least guarantee the safety of everyone else."

"Then I join you in your hope. But... if my wishful thinking should not be so far from the truth, and if you need another pair of hands in holding your enemy at bay while the remainder of your people escape, you may call on me, and I shall do what I can for you."

"...No. I appreciate the healing, but I would not risk your life in any way. That human already killed me once, or came very close to doing so. I was brought here right before death."

[She nods her head a little.] "If you want to provide aid, maybe giving me some pointers on how to survive in the Nexus could be a good thing."

He inclines his head, gratified by her regard for his well-being. "I would be pleased to. Will you be seeking a way back, a place to stay...?"

"Both, I guess. This is foreign territory to me."

[Her voice sounds frustrated, as if still annoyed by the fact that she's stuck in the Nexus until further notice.]

"Gonna need food and water to stay healthy. Also room and board. Can't really live without either."

He nods thoughtfully. "There are inns, and restaurants, and kind people. Will it be troubling for you if some of them are human?"

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+1 fish warrior

*A* undynnnnneeeeeee

happy someone knows who she is

best fishperson. also irony considering my char's VA also has someone who watches a Nexus :V

awesome :)

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A undynnnnneeeeeee