✧ THE DUALITY OF NOMU ✧

Takamagahara West

Choices were made, some independently and others in cooperation. Yet in the heat of battle even the most tried and tested teams could get in each other's way. Arc, Farrin and Jack did not boast this advantage of having ingrained each other's patterns in their minds through battle after battle, they had to learn on the fly.

With less than a minute having passed since the battle began there had hardly been time for that.

Scales flew through the air in a wild barrage prompting an immediate response from every combatant. Farrin's projectiles shattered scales as they flew through the air, perhaps a perk of his experience dealing with speed alterations around incoming attacks. Impromptu teamwork was where the cracks began to show however. Boosting Jack's speed far above the human limit would undoubtedly worsen his internal injuries, yet bravado meant Farrin was perhaps unaware of those prior to attempting to assist and in the heat of battle one rarely had the opportunity to verify further, no, they could only trust in their teammates' capabilities to tell their own limits. 

Jack's own attempts to shoot away scales were far less successful, for a large miscalculation had been made. The speed field certainly sped him up, yet his speed was not what Stagnation had affected. Shot after shot was fired yet they did not fly far, hanging just in front of Jack and detonating all at once when scales came to them setting off a chain reaction. Little more than shards of the scales would reach him as a result, if even that, but the dragon mutant's quirk did as chaos energy did. Within the span of a split second the force of every single shot he'd fired came his way. 

When Arc leaped up in the air it seemed like the right call to make at first and certainly, it had an effect. Yet once more it was their lack of teamwork that caused the trio to get in each other's way.

When incendiary rounds came flying at the paired Nomu Stagnation's head turned to take it on the bottom of it's jaw, the motion enough to briefly force its eyes to scan for more danger and break its gaze at the same time as Arc's jacket obscured Progression's eyes and the incendiaries covered the head and cloth alike. 

Twin pained whale calls rang out through the clearing at such a high volume they hit with nearly physical force just as Arc landed on top of the burning head. 

As if the calls had been the starting signal both of the heads moved at the same time. Stagnation's eyes went from Progression to Arc and from Jack to Farrin, the way they affected the pair very different from each other.

When Stagnation's gaze fell upon Arc all efforts of Progression were undone, the hardened blood liquefying once more and refusing to harden, for stagnation locked it to its standard state. For Farrin this happened in a much more literal manner, as just like Progression had been moments before he'd find himself locked in place and invulnerable for so long as he kept his personal speed field active. 

Progression at the same time writhed in pain, blindly charging at Jack and Farrin with its maw wide open while trying to shake Arc off. Stagnation was taken along for the ride, being dragged above and behind it as the Nomu sped towards their prey.


TL;DR:
-Farrin manages to shoot down scales and land incendiaries on both Progression and Stagnation and uses a speed field to further cripple an ally.
-Arc blinds Progression and then proceeds to jump into the fire
-Jack hits himself with a Hellzone grenade
-Stagnation's gaze lands on Arc and Farrin. For Arc it locks his externalized blood into a liquid state, for Farrin it turns his personal temporal field into an immovable object.
-Progression charges at Jack and Farrin with its maw wide open while trying to shake off Arc.

Current Targets of Progression's Gaze:

Left eye: None

Right Eye: None

Current Targets of Stagnation's Gaze:

Left Eye: Farrin

Right Eye: Arc

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OOC: Welcome to Takamagahara Phase 2! First of all thank you for signing up!! It's gonna be a blast! Remember you have to post at least ONCE per round, but you can skip one round if you have to. A second skip will result in no tokens being given. There are going to be 4-5 rounds total.

Remember to include a TL;DR at the end of your post! <3

Additionally, if you want to plan a cool character moment ahead of time, like making a heroic sacrifice or setting up a team attack, but want to keep it a surprise to the other people in the thread until it happens, feel free to sneak into my DMs so we can plan out the details! This is not mandatory, but we want to make sure every character shines and looks their best during this thread!

Remember that victory is NOT guaranteed. Teamwork, cooperation and communication (both IC and more importantly OOC) will be required to prevent defeat. Good luck and have fun!

✧ THE DUALITY OF NOMU ✧

Takamagahara West

Progression and Stagnation. Two opposing forces, like chaos and order, past and future, life and death. Yet neither were ever found in isolation, one leading to the other and the other leading back to the one over and over for the entirety of existence. As the trio began to react to the intertwined Nomu they would soon begin to experience just what these all-encompassing concepts were capable of.

Progression. The advancement of all existence. When the Pale head locked its gaze on Farrin the time-turner's field appeared as normal but the effects were far from the same. They did not slow the approaching projectiles. They sped them up. Shooting forward so fast that they were but a blur anything that the globules passed by would find the very life drained from them, the increased speed fortunately sparing one from being exposed to their effects for long enough to truly take grievous damage. What it would do however was make them feel weary, like they'd just run a marathon or had forgotten to drink for an entire day. Their skin might dry and their lips might crack depending on how close they were, the sensation of being in a desert without water appearing and vanishing along with the globules, only the aftereffects staying. One thing was clear. They had left their mark on the path they passed. Stripes of desiccated grass meters across, completely brown and dull for any that were uninterrupted and partially drab yellowy for the ones that had passed through the field.

Stagnation. The slow end of the entirety of creation. The Dark Green head's stare honed in on Jack, chameleonic flicks of the eye letting its observance persist through teleportations. When the draconic mutant would teleport the first time it would take just the slightest bit longer, stagnation holding him in place, tearing and ripping at every molecule that was teleported as motion warred with stillness. The strain it caused could be masked by adrenaline, the heat of combat turning focus outwards instead of inwards, but the mistake was made. One that would reveal another facet when a laser was fired, or attempted to be fired at least. For the laser did not travel far once it left Jack's control. In fact, it moved so slowly that it detonated right beyond the point where it'd left his hand moments later. When he teleported a second time it was even slower than the first, stagnation's metaphorical claws grasping tightly to halt all motion and creating an almost second long delay before he snapped over to Farrin. Nearly a second of being torn between two locations. Adrenaline might just be enough to maintain composure for a moment, the pain too being slow to arrive, but it was a flimsy shield. Such damage could not be ignored for long.

During the actions of the trio of combatants the Nomu did not stay still, their motions seeing them coil and curl further as they hovered above the ground, sometimes orbiting each other horizontally, sometimes vertically. The Pale head of Progression's right eye turned away from Farrin and towards Arc as its head turned with its form, the gaze beginning to fully solidify his bloody constructs as he approached. Right after the Dark Green head of Stagnation's right eye turned upon the Pale head of Progression causing its motions to suddenly grind to a halt and both the projectiles fired by Farrin to harmlessly clink off its head and the rapidly hardening blades of Arc to bounce off like stoppable forces that had met an immovable object.

From above the bulwark of the frozen Pale half the Dark Green side's scales bristled, shaking for a moment before a rain of them fired in all directions as if a pinecone had just exploded. Dozens upon dozens of scales flew in all directions, their edges sharp enough to cut steel and with enough force to penetrate half their two inch long length into the ground. Wherever they landed the immediate area around them began to stagnate, grass swaying slower and anyone that would find themselves hit finding the place they took damage responding with less alacrity than before. The effect radiated no more than a few inches away from each scale and should the scales be shattered they'd fade but as it was they created a veritable hazard zone full of tiny 'bubbles'. Trying to rush through them would be akin to kicking a cement ball or getting one's foot caught on a cord unexpectedly, an unpleasant experience to be sure and potentially deadly in the heat of combat.

The trio's first attack had failed, one could only hope the next attempt would be more successful.

TL;DR:
-Progression's gaze causes Farrin's slow field to become a speed field sending the projectiles hurtling at their targets faster
-Stagnation's gaze causes Jack's teleportation to rip and tear while slowing his laser enough they detonate on the spot.
-Progression's eye switches from looking at Farrin to looking at Arc, beginning to solidify the blood that's been externalized.
-The second eye of Stagnation gazes upon Progression turning it into an immovable object that is seemingly immune to damage.
-The Dark Green head of Stagnation then proceeds to dozens of sharp scales all over the place, capable of cutting deep and slowing the area several inches around them (slow effect vanishes if the scales are broken), creating a hazardous field of slow 'bubbles' from any scales that miss the trio.

Current Targets of Progression's Gaze:

Left eye: None

Right Eye: Arc

Current Targets of Stagnation's Gaze:

Left Eye: Jack

Right Eye: Progression

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OOC: Welcome to Takamagahara Phase 2! First of all thank you for signing up!! It's gonna be a blast! Remember you have to post at least ONCE per round, but you can skip one round if you have to. A second skip will result in no tokens being given. There are going to be 4-5 rounds total.

Remember to include a TL;DR at the end of your post! <3

Additionally, if you want to plan a cool character moment ahead of time, like making a heroic sacrifice or setting up a team attack, but want to keep it a surprise to the other people in the thread until it happens, feel free to sneak into my DMs so we can plan out the details! This is not mandatory, but we want to make sure every character shines and looks their best during this thread!

Remember that victory is NOT guaranteed. Teamwork, cooperation and communication (both IC and more importantly OOC) will be required to prevent defeat. Good luck and have fun!

☆ MISSION SUCCESS ☆

Proper communication, love to see it.
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