What's the difference between self discovery and self destruction

[iamtetsuo]

WHO: Tetsuo Shima and YOU
WHERE: Any city; just place it in the subject line or mention it in a thread. He'll be doing a lot of roaming around.
WHEN: Month of September
WHAT: Catchall open log for chaos or general activities - Tetsuo's been unleashed on America and intends to play garrys mod with it. If you wanted an excuse to fight an out of control psychokinetic, here it is
WARNINGS: General villainy (property damage, violence, possible drug use mentions, theft...) and potentially interrupting Kanedas at the end of threads

[It's a brand new month, and a brand new start; and with it comes so many brand new ways to find trouble.

You can expect to find Tetsuo engaged in normal shenanigans, like any ordinary sixteen year old. Things like threatening natives! Causing accidents or generally ignoring all traffic laws! Raiding drug stores! Hanging around on park benches or generally wandering aimlessly! Suffering from extreme migraines! All this and more in your hometown!

He's taken his motorcycle and psychic powers and hit the streets of America on a quest for ... you know what, we just don't know. The good news is, beyond checking churches for Crane, and making sure that his (glove-covered) wrist could say CRIMINAL from here until forever, he doesn't seem to have any set goals in mind on what to do. All that's clear is he can do what he wants, and he's not taking no for an answer to anything.

Feel free to fight him, talk to him, join in, what have you -- you're free to stop him but he's going to either run at the end if it's clear he can't win, or get you out of the way somehow. If you'd like to change this, talk with me and we can work something out.

I'll throw starters out on request, but please feel free to make your own. If you'd like to fight, check out his permissions first, but this is a general invitation to fight without any preamble or excuses.]

Comments

[iamtetsuo]

[Tetsuo's laughter is dark and mocking, even as he further shatters the storefront. Deny him, will they? Ahahaha...

"Still think you can hide?" That asshole - what's he thinking, defying Tetsuo? Doesn't he know what Tetsuo can do - can't he see now?

Of course, it's too late now. The correct answer would be to give him what he demanded, not be difficult. But he just had to demand more money than Tetsuo had - any, by now - and hey. Tetsuo isn't the one who's gonna pay.

He's just found the guy, lifting him up into the air slowly, when someone else decides he can offer up an opinion on his game.

Tetsuo turns halfway to stare at him, furious incredulity written all over his face. Who the hell does this guy think he is?! ]

You wanna join him?

[debauchewy]

No, I'd like our relationship to be exclusive, is that all right with you?

[He won't even glance to the other man, keeping his focus on Tetsuo above all else.]

[iamtetsuo]

[The man drops, mostly unharmed, to the ground as Tetsuo's whole focus shifts, narrowing on the newcomer. He stalks forward a step or two - if Hisoka was trying to get all of the kid's fury instantly aimed at him, he could not have done a better job.

The air feels heavy around them, a couple pebbles and stray objects rising into the air. Tetsuo sucks in air in a sharp hiss.]

What was that.

[debauchewy]

[Well, that was certainly easy. He smiles a little wider and he'll put his aura on the defensive, not that Tetsuo can see it at all. He's not sure what this boy will do, can do, but he'll prepare himself at the start until he can know more enough to let him get more deep.]

Mmmnn--

[A shiver, that pressure rising around them. That feeling, his rage, so good.]

You're looking to unleash on someone, I'm giving you an offer, though I'm unsure if it will matter to you. Will you still feel better if you lose?

[iamtetsuo]

[That's enough to get Tetsuo laughing again, albeit briefly. This guy for real? He looks like a damn carnival freak, what's he gonna do? Threaten him with balloons or something?]

Lose? To someone like you?

[With that, Tetsuo casually extends his mind, aiming to wrap around this weirdo and toss him aside just to emphasize his point. Yeah, right.]

[debauchewy]

[Ha ha. Oh the clown joke just gets so much mileage. But it doesn't matter, if he thinks he looks like a carnival freak now, it'll just anger him more later when he doesn't fight like the joke he apparently seems to be.]

Hmm~

[Smiles a little wider, not at all offended by those words. He feels it though, something tugging at him, grabbing him, folding around him, whatever Tetsuo's power is. But it'll be as if Hisoka is just- stuck

stuck to the ground.]

[He won't lift or move, and his aura spikes a little more, guarding him from that energy trying to wrap around him. He'll chuckle at it, shaking his head a little and raising a hand to wag a finger.]

Buu-buu, not here. I want to be 'exclusive', remember?

[iamtetsuo]

[How. How?! He can feel the pull in his mind - random scattered objects lift around as he pours more and more willpower into this one simple action until the strain makes him wince. What the hell?!

Why is it always clowns...

Dropping the attack now that he's started means admitting he can't make this work. He's got to make this work! It's his damn power, why is nothing happening?!]

Screw off!

[debauchewy]

[Hn... That pressure building up around him makes something squeeze up in the lower pits of his stomach, it feels grand- but he won't emote as such. His inner whines and gasps stay as that, inside, and outside he keeps a calm facade. Though the hand he had on his hip, it tightens a little.]

Screw off? I see, is that how you deal with your problems?

[Smiles, cocking his head to the side.]

Or is the idea of a challenge too much for you? I don't mind helping you improve, and I imagine that is all a fight with me will do. You certainly won't be able to defeat me now as you are.

[His eyes slim.]

But power means something to you, doesn't it?

[iamtetsuo]

[It's how he deals with problems that won't get out of his way!! What the hell does this guy know about how he is now, anyway...

Though, the fact that nothing's happening whatsoever is enough to jar him out of acting out of pure reflex. Enough to get him to pause in his attempted onslaught. And the second that happens... the power slips away from him little by little without focus behind it. Clearly, he lacks control.

Tetsuo doesn't say as much, but he doesn't need to. His face says it all - power's everything. Isn't it to everyone? After all, there's only two kinds of people in this world... those who have powers, and those who just don't matter.

Also, he's really itching for a chance to wipe the floor with this asshole now, and it's extremely infuriating to not be able to.]

[debauchewy]

[Knows enough that you're not strong enough to sweep past him when he has rather weak Ken activated with his aura. So you're not quite there yet- still, he doesn't know if he'll ever be there. Perhaps this is the furthest this boy's potential will reach? Or maybe it'll make a monster of him some day. He'd like to see for himself though, before he leaves and doesn't bother with him anymore. But that look in the boy's eyes, that fire. It was nice.]

So?

[A calm gesture of a hand out, outstretched as if to take Tetsuo's hand, but is no where near enough.]

Will you show me what you can do?

[iamtetsuo]

[Fine. That doesn't work? FINE. There's more ways than just lifting someone to hurt them. There's throwing stuff into their face, for example. Tetsuo tilts his head a little, surreptitiously trying to take stock of exactly what's around. Look for something that'll serve as good ammo...]

Yeah... I'll show you exactly.

[It's practically growled.]

[debauchewy]

Then let us go somewhere better fitting for a fight, hm?

[Somewhere like some run down building you can pull pieces off, possibly? Maurtia Falls was very good for that. And hey, if he did enough destruction to it, maybe it'd get into the paper! Wouldn't that be fun? Though Tetsuo will probably already make it in there with his little tantrum.]

But don't let me force you. You'd be following along with someone you can't win, so feel free to back out now.

[A smirk, and he'll turn and lead him elsewhere. If he follows anyway.]

[iamtetsuo]

[Let this make news, who cares?

There is no way that Tetsuo's not following. None.]

Like hell!

[debauchewy]

[What a good boy.]

[The smile Hisoka has is near shit eating. Children were always so easy, maybe that's why he continued to favour his interactions with them. It was often he could get what he wanted without too much of a struggle. The older though, the older and stronger? That's when things could get tedious, sometimes so much more so than others.]

[Hisoka will be quiet as he walks, seeing no need to bother speaking with him unless Tetsuo starts it- we he talk at all either?]

[iamtetsuo]

[Tell him what he can't do, and Tetsuo will try. In the end, he's very much a teenager.

Tetsuo doesn't say anything. There's nothing to say - aside maybe from asking why they don't just have this out here instead. What's so special about the location? This guy trying to delay dying or something?

That said, he's paying close attention to where they're going. If this ends up leading somewhere weird he's out.]

[debauchewy]

[He'll just make comment at it being 'better', but no real reason why. The truth is, it's more private, lacking in prying eyes, and has an arena fit for a little destruction. Hisoka will end up leading them into a less occupied industrial area of Maurtia Falls, from when the city had more blood pumping through it. Not ruins or anything of course, this wasn't that sort of country, right? But the buildings were old, some condemned, and for the most part uninhabited- or at least unlived in by anyone that would 'tell' on them. The homeless would rather just stay out of the trouble, and these two imPorts looked it.]

[Wandering in further, he'll stop by a particularly large building and look up before gesturing to it and looking to Tetsuo.]

Shall we?

[Said with a smirk, and he'll walk forward- and up. The incline of the building, standing up straight as if the side of the building was ground, his feet sticking with every step. he walks just as casually up it as he did here.]

[iamtetsuo]

[So, he knows a trick or two. Big deal- he already revealed that when he stayed stuck to the ground earlier.

Hmm... not many cars around...

The first thing Tetsuo does isn't to directly attack. He takes a step backward, lashing out at the building closest to him, aiming to break enough of it to get some pieces he can work with. How many of these can he block, huh?]

You really think you're something, don't you?!

[Selecting a piece here..]

[debauchewy]

[He's had rocks coming at him before, don't ya know. But the more rubble around the better for him as well. He smirks, watching Tetsuo take his time with that building side, and in it's weakness, it will break and crumble a bit for him. The wall will lurch out and relent a few larger pieces to be used should he want that.]

[Hisoka mean while will remain unphased, gesturing up a hand idly with his fingers spread as he speaks to him in return.]

What I am doesn't interest me right now, I'm here for you. Can you tell me your name?

[iamtetsuo]

Why not? It's Tetsuo.

[Tetsuo's been experimenting with his power here. He's got a decent idea on how large a thing he can manage to lift - generally something about the size of a car. There. That's the one he'll start with - a large metal beam.]

You're gonna die anyway -- might's well know who did it!

[A large metal beam, along with multiple smaller objects, flying right at his opponent. He'd ask what the guy's name is but he reaaaally doesn't care.]

[debauchewy]

I'm going to die, I see. It's a good thing I'm prepared then.

[A wide smile and he needn't ever ask his name, it wasn't really important either. Besides, Hisoka might not even give it out, why bother? Not unless this boy proves to be enjoyable enough as a waste of time.]

[The flecks of smaller objects are scattered and he'll crouch a little and punch them away before they hit him, turning them into small pieces and dust. But the main event is that beam and he hardly sees an issue with avoiding one large object, so he'll be a show boat about it.]

[He leaps up, lands on it mid air, and runs up along it and towards Tetsuo, sending a fast punch in his direction, aiming to strike at his face.]

[iamtetsuo]

[He'd been so sure that'd be the end of it somehow - in hindsight, he really shouldn't have been.

He has a long way to go when it comes to actually learning to fight, and it shows - Tetsuo's one who relies on sheer power above any other strategy. And it's never so evident as now, when his expression shifts to thorough surprise but his body remains rooted to the spot. What the-

He hasn't had many fights that he had to work to win.

THEN Tetsuo flinches back, arms moving to block, trying to flick his shield up before the guy got there, but he's likely too late to stop the punch from connecting.

Okay, really shouldn't underestimate this guy.]

[debauchewy]

[And all Hisoka's every really done with his life is learn how to fight, is perfect himself, body and mind. Power could be good, but it wasn't all you needed to get around things, to win. Sometimes power could just as easily be someone's downfall. Still, it could be such an alluring thing.]

[Whether his hit connects with face of Tetsuo's arms, it doesn't matter, the boy will fly back unless he takes some sort of precaution to glue himself in place. Hisoka doesn't really mind which his hand connects with either, as long as he hits him, block or not.]

[He'll jump back after that, a high leap into the air, a flip, and a spectacular landing. He leaped up of the ground high enough to get high and up over-

the steel beam now flying back at Tetsuo.]

[He won't see it, not unless he tries to really focus on seeing it, but Hisoka attached his aura to the beam, and then attached the other end using his fist to either Tetsuo's face or arms. Like gum, or a rubber band, the aura he connected to either was then 'activated' by him, and yanked the steel beam back and towards Tetsuo. Now might be when you try and dodge!]

[iamtetsuo]

[He flies back with a startled cry, hitting the ground hard and rolling before he manages to get his feet underneath him. But Tetsuo's taken all kinds of beatings before; that's nothing. He's up and ready to keep going ...

..just in time to see his weapon flying right at him.

NOW he acts defensively, fire flaring silver-hot in his mind and manifesting around him in a sphere of destructive energy. He's not going to dodge that beam; his shield's going to disintegrate or repel it. It doesn't matter which.]

[debauchewy]

[Both which is fine by him. Hisoka will land on the ground just as the beam has met it's demise, breaking off into a metallic dust and glimmering in the air as Hisoka stares back.]

[His eyes wide, his smile spreads, and he feels his whole body tighten up a little at the sight. Ah-

if only he honed his strength. He just needs time to perfect it. Should he train and put in the effort, this boy surely could be something. That raw power, ready and wanting to be something molded and perfected...

Nngh--, a pleasure snarls up and goes heavy in his lower gut and his fingers twitch slightly, hands dangling at his sides.]

So impressive, a defensive shield? Do you have name for it?

[iamtetsuo]

[The longer he holds onto it, the brighter it gets, the hotter it burns into his skull until he can't take it. Fortunately, he doesn't have to sustain for long; the beam's gone in a matter of seconds.

He lets it drop, feeling it fade away almost instantly. Braces for an attack that doesn't come, or to press on an attack after - but it doesn't. Instead, what happens is the last thing he'd expect: a compliment. Huh?]

What's it need a name for? It's just my power.