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[day 2] a curious principle [[ echoes vs molly ]] Mar 5, 2022 15:33:14 GMT -5

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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2022 15:33:14 GMT -5

molly whoppings & friend
[ 35 | 35 HP ]

Oh don't mind me, I'm just a delicious and rare variant of eucalpytus vernicosa. That's right, edible! And I'm a beautiful and hardy tree too, my takers always told me that before everything was getting ready. They'd come around and they'd say, "Molly, aren't you looking good today!" And I'd be like I don't know, I don't have eyes!

Or a mouth.

It gets lonely in the garden if I'm being honest. Sure, I got my whole pack of eucalpytus vernicosa otherwise known as weeping varnished gum tree's, but I've always wanted to get out on my own and really see the world, you know? Feel the real sun on my downward facing flower buds that lack petals for inexplicable reasons. The woes of imprisonment, for everything the garden has given to me I long for the day I make like a tree and leaf.

But so these two little tributes come up to us, and normally I'd pull a Molly and start Whopping, but it's been so long I've been looked at that I'm boasting in it. They aren't looking at the other weeping varnished gum trees (scientifically known as eucalpytus vernicosa), they're looking at ME! It's like they see me when I sway in the non-existent wind, and I imagine I'm giving a performance that entices them. Really enthralls the mind, I've been told I'm not like other roots.

No, I'm real- did this bitch just pluck me?

[ molly starts whopping ]
[ flails at parker lachlan's ribs ]
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[ 6179 -- Shallow Cut on Chest -- 4.0 damage ]

[ fellow weeping varnished gum tree backs her up ]
[ belts wes roman on the clavicle ]
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[ 6081 -- Shallow Cut on Neck -- 4.0 damage ]

whip·whip

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[day 2] a curious principle [[ echoes vs molly ]] Mar 5, 2022 16:53:02 GMT -5

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Post by nolan goode 10m / kaitlin. on Mar 5, 2022 16:53:02 GMT -5

The mech is a hulking, lumbering thing. It's heavier than she'd have liked, wishes she'd been able to savage together the lankier, longer pieces; they'd been insect like, elongated in a way most creatures had no right to be. Even just in pieces, it'd been terrible to look at, the kind of thing that made your shoulders hunch and your mouth grimace.

But this one is a challenge. And that's something in and of itself.

The night goes without event, despite Parker's best attempts. She skulks around the Scrapyard and the edges of the gardens, looking for fresh meat to turn into bait, but she's met only with the hollow ringing of the arena eating itself alive. It swells around her, cacophonous too kind a word. She wouldn't be surprised if someone lost their mind last night.

She's almost itching for a fight by the time the morning comes around. She and Wes practice getting around in their suits for the better part of the morning, unable to find any source of the screeches of pain that have been echoing.

It occurs to her that the trees ahead of them are shifting unnaturally, tree branches moving like limbs. The gum on the leaves is an excellent salve for the wounds she suffered at the hands of fools playing hero in the bloodbath.

She weighs her choices, knows there's not really any thinking about it.

"Those things could definitely kill us," Parker says, not looking at Wes. His voice speaks back at her over the intercom. "Last one there collects the supplies tonight," she shouts needlessly, knowing the sound of her voice amplified will deafen him in his suit.

Parker barrels right up to the tree against better judgement, lifts her bear claw and swipes some of the leaves off of the tree and watches where the land on the ground. Without hesitating, she keeps going, gouges claws into the trunk and commands the suit come to a stand.

She'll climb into the boughs, tear it apart from the inside out.

parker attacks weeping gum tree pack, bear claws [ knife ]

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[day 2] a curious principle [[ echoes vs molly ]] Mar 5, 2022 20:48:16 GMT -5

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Post by ᴥ on Mar 5, 2022 20:48:16 GMT -5

He finds himself humming along with a savage symphony. Screams muffled by mouthfuls of blood and fur, he can almost taste the metallic tang of blood seeping down his throat. Hooked claws gouge the earth as the arena wages war with itself. It's not violence that seeks resolution, it's agony for agony's sake. Senseless as Wes prefers most things to be.

He's having a hard time getting used to his mech. There's too many intricacies, buttons and levers whose purpose he once knew but failed to commit to memory. He's not gentle enough for something as fragile as this heap of rotting metal. It rolls forward and he jerks along with it, smashing his face into the control panel with a resonant clang. "Stupid thing!" He finds relief in slamming his palm against the dashboard enough times that his fingers go numb.

"Those things could definitely kill us." Parker's voice pulls him from his tantrum, eyes flicking up toward the trees swaying in a nonexistent breeze. It's unsettling to watch them move with such purpose.

Parker's words send a pleasant thrill throughout him, almost painful as he takes in their surrounding with renewed hunger. Wes often forgets that he's fucking starving - Parker is surprisingly good at reminding him. That's why he likes her.

"Promise?" His grip on the the mech's motion control tightens, throwing it into drive the second he chokes out his response. He can't help but laugh at the thought - Wes has never felt more fucking invincible. "Because I bet we'll kill it first."

If he closes his eyes he can see dainty fingers wrapped around a knife's hilt, carving an oath into Pope Vanburen's throat. From now on, it's all or nothing. As Parker's voice blares over the speakers, overwhelming to the point of painful, Wes knows his answer already.

They're going to carve their names into every fucking inch of this arena.

"Cheater." He whines, wincing as a branch carves a thin line into the skin below his neck. "I demand a rematch, let's raise the stakes. Whoever kills this stupid plant never has to collect supplies again."

[wes attacks molly - knife addon]
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[Shallow Cut on Cheek -- 3.5 damage +2 = 5.5 damage]

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[day 2] a curious principle [[ echoes vs molly ]] Mar 6, 2022 0:25:04 GMT -5

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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2022 0:25:04 GMT -5

molly whoppings & friend
[ 20.5 | 35 HP ]

And this? Mama, this is climate change.

Even if I had a mouth I don't think I'd be apologizing right now - I get it! I'll own up to my mistakes, I made the first swing here and that's on me. My second mistake was not swinging harder, I think I broke myself more standing up for myself than if I just let this girl pluck me bald. It could've been a serve, but I'm realizing even the fiercest weeping varnished gum tree would have it tough against these two.

Who gave the meat-bags robo-suits? Um, kinda unfair, here I am slapping my twiggy branches against metal like I even had a chance. Oh well, cue the sob story, writing's on the wall and I won't be here next season. Listen, I've seen the show, these tributes are gonna fuck me up and the best bet I have is to take one of these girls down with me. Maybe afterwards I can make a ghost appearance on Panemerica's Next Top Muttation or something as a fierce broc-ally.

If I stab a branch through this kid's skull, I might just get an all stars invite! This y'all? This is just the first appearance.

[ smacks parker lachlan's mech HEAD! ]
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[ 6192 -- Garrote -- 10 damage ]

[ whacks wes roman on the bellybutton ]
whip
[ 6052 -- Shallow Cut on Right Thigh -- 3.5 damage ]

whip·whip

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[day 2] a curious principle [[ echoes vs molly ]] Mar 6, 2022 13:35:17 GMT -5

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Post by nolan goode 10m / kaitlin. on Mar 6, 2022 13:35:17 GMT -5

The mech suit saves Parker's life.

She's not above admitting it. There are worse things that recognizing that you made a bad call; Parker is aware of that, even if it stirs that same feeling killing Pope had stirred in the bottom of her stomach. She'd done the thing that she wanted, barreled right in towards the tree and egged on Wes to do the same because it seemed like more fun. She didn't care to think much about the strategy of it, and the tree branch shoots through the left eye of her bear head, her own skull the clear target.

It catches on her hair, rips away from her temple there. She can feel blood starting to pour from the wound already, hot and muddled together with the ripped strands of hair that managed to hang on. She lets out an awful holler of pain, and then clamps her mouth back closed. She bites down her pain, ignores the aches and pains across her body that she refuses to let heal.

Her body will not hold her back.

Nothing will.

"Gimme a boost," Parker says over proximity chat, then lumbers towards Wes in his own mech suit. She expects him to try and sort out the best way to use one of his limbs to launch her, but she should know better than to expect logical strategy out of the boy from Two. It's like he curls into a tighter ball instead, and with a heavy leap, she plants one of her mech feet on the back of Wes's spider, shoots herself upwards and towards the lowest branches. The sound of rusted metal on rusted metal is almost as heinous as the squelching sounds of beast against beast they'd listened to all night.

The pain pushing her forward, she lands up in the tree and thinks about the explosives she has strapped to the back of her suit. She should've set this whole goddamned garden ablaze.

Up in the branches now, she swipes with her claws, pulls branch from trunk with bear teeth and roars.

parker attacks weeping gum tree pack, bear claws [ knife ]

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2168, 8.0 + blades

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[day 2] a curious principle [[ echoes vs molly ]] Mar 6, 2022 14:03:24 GMT -5

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Post by ᴥ on Mar 6, 2022 14:03:24 GMT -5

It's only after Parker has has sent him rolling several feet backwards that he discovers the stupid machine had legs all along. It's dumb luck, which Wes is quick realizing is the only luck he ever has, that his frantic scrabbling over the control panel deploys them. The sudden shift of momentum is only accented by an errant branch catching him square in the gut.

"Did it work?" He pushes matted hair out of his eyes, the chalk and blood flaking off on his fingertips. Fragile fantasies bending beneath the weight of reality. His eyes stick to the blood pouring down Parker's skull and somehow, it does little to make her seem anymore mortal. If anything she stands stronger than she did before, as if her refusal of death has only proven she is something more.

Her bear's claw drive themselves deep into the bark and he's fucking grinning. "Oh hell fucking yeah it did!" His mouth is full of too many teeth, rushing forwards and away from the willow at his back. Look, Wes isn't a master strategist by any means, but two on one felt safer than going it alone. Especially when she was at his side, all crimson glory. He casts a glance at Parker before he strikes, eyes pleading -

make me into a monster, too.

It seems a wonderful thing to be.

[wes attacks molly - knife addon]
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[day 2] a curious principle [[ echoes vs molly ]] Mar 6, 2022 14:58:20 GMT -5

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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2022 14:58:20 GMT -5

molly whoppings & friend
[ 8 | 35 HP ]

Okay, this is rigged behavior.

Can I de-evolve and just go back to being a regular tree again? I mean, I didn't even ask for this life. Once upon a time I was just a regular eucalyptus vernicosa just like the other girls, I was a back extra in the 77th and the 81st, I used to be a model! I'll never see the light of day again, it'll just forever be me and these broken twigs and... well, Patrick.

Patrick is the other weeping varnished gum tree next to me, he's got my back and we're flat mates and all that, but I just don't like the guy. He's always standing too close to me and photosynthesizing right in my ear like, get some space? There's all of the outdoors and you just so happened to intertwine your roots with mine? No, I don't buy it, not for a second.

And now here we are, getting beaten down to sawdust and broken things, the mech suit stomps on my bush growth and I feel my chlorophylls start to clog. I didn't even know I could feel pain like this - sentience is truly a bitch!

I knew when I got transferred here that being cut down was a possibility, but I didn't expect it so quickly. Which, you know, was kind of dumb considering mutt fights always come on day 2. Everybody knows that, I just don't know what I was thinking, I should have just been a background character like last season. I may not be long for this world, but I'm gonna go out just how I came in: Molly Whoppins style.

[ sweeps at parker lachlan's feet]
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[ 6136 -- Shallow Cut on Right Calf -- 3.5 damage ]

[ bodunks wes roman into next week ]
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[ 6139 -- Shallow Cut on Right Forearm -- 3.5 damage ]

whip·whip

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[day 2] a curious principle [[ echoes vs molly ]] Mar 6, 2022 16:10:37 GMT -5

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Post by nolan goode 10m / kaitlin. on Mar 6, 2022 16:10:37 GMT -5

The tree tries to take her out by the legs, but Parker is already lumbering up even higher. The branch slicks itself across her ankle and it's like a cut from a shaving razor, measly, an annoyance, something to push through. Hands wrapped around the controllers with a death grip, she finesses the buttons, urges the suit to push up higher.

She looks down, catches sight of Wes through the shade of her goggles, and he looks at her and sees her. It makes her stomach flip flop.

She is the devil on his shoulder, but she'd never been addicted to the gamble until she wanted to watch him toss in a coin. His voice over proximity is loud, and Parker isn't sure even Wes realizes that he's laughing, grinning through the whole thing. Ten feet up now, she can see the glint in his eyes even from here. It's like they're competing against one another to be heard. Most people turn up their music to hide the noise, but Parker turns up the volume in her mech and hopes it's so loud that Wes's voice echos back at him. Arms race against each other, for each other, Parker isn't sure; all she knows is that he's affecting her as much as she's affecting him.

It makes her stumble, and instead of her claw gouging into the branch above and pulling it down, she has to catch herself on the trunk. Paws clenched, hands tighter around the controls, she looks away.

parker attacks weeping gum tree pack, bear claws [ knife ]

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[day 2] a curious principle [[ echoes vs molly ]] Mar 6, 2022 16:22:38 GMT -5

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Post by ᴥ on Mar 6, 2022 16:22:38 GMT -5

His blade glances off the bark again and he can feel tight threads of frustration woven around his fingertips. Making him a marionette to impulse, his mind goes blank as red becomes all he's capable of seeing. "Fuck this stupid fucking-" He sounds like a child and it's lucky he's shameless enough not to be the slightest bit embarrassed by that.

Stars erupt behind his eyes as it catches the back of his head, nearly somersaulting in his mech and straight into an adjacent tree. It's not so fun now, feeling out of control as adrenaline spikes. He's past the point of being able to help himself, in the realm of blacked out nights and stupid mistakes.

"You know what?" He retracts his mech's legs, cranking up the speed to max. It's engine sputters pathetically as it tries to meet the weight of Wes' ambition.

Then, he barrels directly toward the tree. Impact is not pretty but it is damn satisfying. He feels the moment the gum tree uproots, bending beneath his will as he keeps pushing forward. His mech's engine billows blackened smoke, the stench of burnt wood overwhelming his senses.

When he finally relents, it hangs, mostly toppled, connected to the earth by a few pitiful veins. In spite of his body's protest, he rams the mech forward again until he hears the crash of leaves upon the ground. A shattered victory for the boy from two and the devil from four.

"Did you see that!?" Involuntarily, he seeks out Parker. Eyes wild with adrenaline and pride, "Please tell me you saw that!"

[wes attacks molly - knife addon]
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[day 2] a curious principle [[ echoes vs molly ]] Mar 10, 2022 18:23:49 GMT -5

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Post by nolan goode 10m / kaitlin. on Mar 10, 2022 18:23:49 GMT -5

Parker feels like big brother, peering down at Wes from the branches.

It's absurd, really, the ways in which they reflect each other, the mirrors they have held up to one another and begged to look. Parker doesn't want Wes to be more like her, and he doesn't want her to be more like him, and yet there they both are nonetheless. Wes barreling towards the other tree at full speed, he uproots the thing from the base. The sound of his mech hurtling towards the truck at full speed and colliding with it is enough to echo through the garden, but it's only made louder by the sound of roots ripping from the earth.

A part of Parker expect to find solid metal underneath all of those roots, see a grate of titanium or something on which the entire arena is planted. After all, no matter how quote unquote real all of this is, even if those bullet holes in the Scrapyard were from real guns shot out of outdated machinery in a war long forgotten, this place is still an arena at the end of the day.

There's an element of falseness to all of it.

But Wes—there's nothing fake about the way he searches for Parker's approval. He'll be glad to find it tenfold, girl glowing among the branches of her own gum tree. Bolstered by his success, she takes a note out of his book and clambers her way up to the top of the tree. Her mech is clunky and heavy, and the branches tremble and bend under her weight as she scrambles among them. She breaks as many as she can as she get higher, feeling the things instinct already starting to kick in as its comrade has fallen. With an unpracticed leap, she thrusts the mech's full weight at the top of the trunk, feels it bend and bow to her.

With a heavy thud, the tree falls half on top of the one that Wes fell. Branches tangle and catch on each other, ripping and shredding the trees into thousands of smaller branches. Parker's mech lands with a heavy thud on the ground, and she's manic with laughter, ripping through the branches she got stuck between as she fell with the tree.

"Stole your idea," with a broad grin. "Looked like fun."

Big Brother pulling rabbits out of his hat, Wes enthralls Parker with his gracelessness, keeps her enraptured.

She takes a step backward, arched eyebrow taunting.

"Should we find another?"

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[day 2] a curious principle [[ echoes vs molly ]] Mar 11, 2022 22:41:16 GMT -5

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Post by nolan goode 10m / kaitlin. on Mar 11, 2022 22:41:16 GMT -5

The go to lumber out of the gardens at full speed, no stealth, all fearlessness. It's the liquor lacing their blood, she tells herself, gin bottle stashed back in her pack.

"Last one there's a rotten egg!" she shouts as they head towards bigger prey, but as Parker challenges him, her mech fails underneath her. It takes away from the grace her, the shift under each of her steps. The shoulder disconnects from the neck and the head sort of twists to the side, the weight of it catching on gravity and tugging.

"Shit goddamn," she mutters aloud, teeth grinding together on instinct. She wonders if Wes can hear it when she sleeps. She hops out of the thing quickly, disengaging from the spot where she lays inside of it and lands on her feet quickly. She taps the side of her head gingerly, pulls her hand away and sees the fresh blood mangled and mixed together with blue chalk, still running.

Parker wouldn't hurt a fly.

She remembers when that used to be the running narrative with startling clarity, childhood memories that long should have glazed and fogged over sitting at the back of her head, sharp as cut glass. The first boy that she dated told her that was why she didn't cry when her mom died, matter of fact and point blank just like that. She didn't cry because she could remember everything that her mother had ever done to her.

The thing is, Parker would hurt a lot of things.

She never had much respect for family, for the ways in which she was supposed to cherish them simply for the sake of shared blood. She learned later on that she loved her brother, in spite of himself perhaps, but loved him nonetheless. Would hurt a fly for him, though.

Looking at the mech and the mangled mess of trees, Parker knows she would hurt. It's in her blood, a part of her, this instinct. As much as she's seen it in Zeke, she sees it in herself. Just quieter.

She swallows, shakes it off.

Parker hurts.

Parker takes the toolbox and sets to work rewiring the bear head onto its shoulder, patching together the damage done. Gin bottle in one hand and copper wire in the other, Parker emotionally disconnects.

we doin heals and drinkin gin

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