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Hellwarming Trio After hearing Utsuho on the radio calling Utsuho a fake and vice versa, Utusho decided to pay Utsuho a visit to prove that Utsuho is not Utusho and that Utsuho is the real Utsuho.

Perfectly clear and logical.

After the last time visitors came to the Hell of Blazing Fires, however, Duo!Utusho's not keen on getting into another fight at work where her master might hear about it and scold her again. That's why, instead, she's given coordinates to a place reasonably further away within range of a warpgate, but far enough from home so as to not get yelled at again.

It's a parking lot. A big one, too, and possibly an abandoned one considering how few cars there actually are in the lot. Duo!Utusho is sitting on one of the cars in question, tapping her foot against the passenger side window while waiting for... Something!
Utsuho Reiuji Utsuho, on hearing someone who sounded an awful lot like her who was talking about bringing something to Orin, made the only logical conclusion: Someone was pretending to be her, and not very well. And Utsuho has been made fun of enough in her time that she's a little sensitive about that.

But now she has the ability to make them stop it.

That explains why Utsuho is approaching at a high speed. She has her wings spread wide but she appears to be at least partially flying by an occasional white-orange jet like a thruster, which is making her far faster than any bird (or bird-woman) could possibly manage on her own. The thruster leaves little wisps of flame in the air behind her that take a few moments to break up and disperse.

She is fuming, and actually seeing the other Utsuho doesn't help any. Utsuho pulls up sharply and then drops about twenty feet before descending more gently to the pavement, her encased foot contacting with a clunk before her actual foot touches down. "You even copied my outfit! Did you steal that? I want it back, you faker!"
Hesinca They say that when you set about a just course, an angel comes down from heaven to bless you and aid you on your quest.

The opposite is true, as wel, of course.

Not long after the fighting starts, a glowing floor tile pops into existence in the parking lot, and a few seconds afterward a demon emerges from it.

Aside from eating loudly from an oversized bag of popcorn, she doesn't really do anything yet.
Hellwarming Trio Duo|Utsuho looks up from her perch atop that car, finally giving that scratched up window a rest as she slides off the sedan to stare at herself.

Immediately, she raises one hand slowly, gauging Solo|Utsuho's reaction while looking her over. "Whoa... You even look like me. And who're you calling a faker, faker?" There's a scowl, but it quickly turns into a grin when she flaps her wings to make that constellation-patterned interior of her cape stand out a bit just to see if that'll set off mirror movements.

"Where'd you come from, anyway? There can't be TWO Hells back home. Unless" Duo|Utsuho tries to reason, completely missing the memo on how the Multiverse actually works. She furrows her brow, then raises her hand slowly. She raises it, then...

Slaps herself in the face. Not Solo|Utsuho herself, but herself herself. "Can you feel it when I do this?"
Utsuho Reiuji "I'm calling you a faker!" Solo Utsuho points her finger accusingly at... well, the other Utsuho. "I don't even look quite like that. My foot isn't that big and my cloak is better."

This is flat-out wrong. The cloak looks the same, complete with starfield, and so does the encased foot. But Utsuho does not look at herself from the point of view of someone else and she's inclined to disbelief anyway.

"There's only one Hell at home, and I work in it. And I don't get into fights there! Don't make me look bad just because ... why ARE you making fun of me anyway?" Utsuho didn't figure out that part. She scratches the back of her neck, looking thoughtful for a moment before irritation reasserts itself. "But if you want to beat yourself up, go ahead! I don't feel a thing!"

Hesnica arrives. "Hey, did you bring a friend? No fair trying to ambush me!" Utsuho whips up her rod-embedded arm to point it at the other Utsuho, almost like it was a gun. She doesn't fire anything, but... it's possibly only a matter of time.
Hesinca "Hey! Enough talking! Start trying to kill each other already!" says Hesinca.

"Besides! My hell is the best one, and whichever ones you two come from probably sucks!"

She winds up and starts throwing popcorn towards them in the hopes that that'll get them to do something interesting. They're birds, maybe they'll go nuts over thrown popcorn. That'd be fun.
Hellwarming Trio Duo!Utsuho narrows her eyes as she looks from her own foot to the other Utsuho's, eyeballing their concrete legs and then their capes to gauge the differences and similarities. From that distance, it's actually kind of hard for her to tell if there is a difference, but she's not about to back down in the face of herself!

"Your leg's smaller just because it's not as cool as mine!" She accuses, grunting in annoyance as more inconsistencies start to get brought up. "You can't feel what I'm feeling, you say you don't remember when those outsiders came down to mess with the geyser... Either you're a faker, or your memory even worse than mine!"

Her attention shifts to Hesinca when her presence is brought up, squinting a bit as she tries to connect the face with the voice. "Uh. So she's not with you?" Duo!Utsuho asks of Solo!Utsuho, scoffing at the centaur's comment and when that popcorn gets thrown. "You want some of this, too?! I'll take you both on if you really wanna see who's got the best one!" She starts floating upwards slowly as she keeps her eyes peeled on both Solo!Utsuho and Hesinca, keeping a hand and her control rod pointed at them respectively.
Utsuho Reiuji Utsuho really needs to buy a mirror or something. Either of them. Both of them.

"What geyser? I don't know any geyser!" Though - she could make a geyser, Utsuho thinks. Maybe she should, if only to show off - no! This isn't the right time at all! "And there's nothing wrong with my memory. I know everything I need to."

Hesnica scatters popcorn. Utsuho, who is not facing Hesinca at first, does not notice until one of the tossed kernels bounces off her hair. "What Hell are you from? Are you from the one they still use? What do you even *do* there?" Utsuho pauses a beat, then: "And stop throwing that stuff at me! I'm getting - really annoyed at both of you!"

Utsuho hops off the ground. She doesn't land either, hovering about two feet up in the air. There is a heat haze starting to form around her. "Last chance. You!" She points at the other Utsuho. "Admit you're trying to make me look bad. And you!" This time she jabs the control rod in Hesinca's direction. "Stop throwing stuff! I don't even know who you are! I'm warning you!"
Hesinca Hesinca looks from Utsuho to Utsuho, considering.

"I'm from the hell that doesn't suck," she says.

Then she looks from Utsuho back to Utsuho.

"Name's Hesinca, I'm not with anyone, I'll take you both on at the same time, and..."

"... Hmm..."

She grabs another handful of the popcorn. "Hey."

"Catch it in your mouths," she says, giving the order the force of Demonic Authority, before scattering another handful of popcorn at them.
Hellwarming Trio "Yeesh. Your memory's even worse than mine." Duo!Utsuho laughs at Solo!Utsuho's apparent plight, although she stops shortly afterwards as something resembling a thoughtful look crosses her face. "But... No, that doesn't make sense. Everything else looks right, so how come...?"

She lets out a long, droning hum while trying to figure it all out, eventually giving up with a frustrated yell as the heat starts to build around herself as well. "Gah, this doesn't make any sense! Even a fake me would've noticed all that stuff going on, so where'd you even come from? You know Rin, you have the look, you have the eye and the leg from after eating that god, so how could you not remember all that other stuff Master told me about?"

This time, Duo!Utsuho points her control rod at Solo!Utsuho directly. "You admit whatever it is you're trying to do! Did you just come to mess with my head or something?" She twists around to face Hesinca next, then snaps her head forward to catch some of that popcorn in her mouth.

Chew. Chew. Swallow.

The heat around Duo!Utsuho dies down almost immediately. "... Oh, that's good. Where's that stuff from?" She doesn't seem to notice what just happened to her, as if it just came to her naturally to do that.
Utsuho Reiuji Utsuho cannot actually object to Hesinca's description, because the Hell she is from is a Former Hell, nobody really uses it anymore, and it *does* kind of suck.

But that doesn't mean she doesn't want to. And she's intensely frustrated by the other Utsuho, not to mention confused. "I came because you sound enough like me that I figured you were being a jerk," Utsuho says, "except Orin wouldn't do that and I don't know who else knows enough about me. So answer me this..."

She points her control rod at Utsuho again. "Are you a reflection spirit from behind a mirror? Like some bad image of me? Because that's the only thing I can think of! And - "

Hesinca throws popcorn again. Utsuho does not catch it in her mouth, but that's only because she missed; it actually bounces off her nose rather than going in her opened mouth, which makes her look cross-eyed at it for a moment in momentary startlement. "Stop! Making fun of me!"

A smallish (say, volleyball-sized) sphere appears in Utsuho's hand. It's white, surrounded with a corona of fire, and she tosses it at Hesinca angrily, with more enthusiasm than actual aim. "I'm not going to put up with it any more!!"
Hesinca "I've got a movie theater in my pocket dimension, they cook it fresh," says Hesinca.

Then she looks over at Solo Utsuho. "Hey - juggle that-"

The order fizzles out when it gets tossed at her instead, and she gets lightly fried by it.

"... Alright, then," says the demon centaur, walking forward and cracking her knuckles as she goes. "I came for a fight - and I see I'm gonna get one, even if I'm gonna end up having it myself."

She walks forward - not towards either Utsuho, but towards one of the cars in the parking lot, going to grab it, lift it up, and sideball it towards the Utsuho that made the first move on her!
Hellwarming Trio Chew. Chew. Swallow. Duo!Utsuho's a fan of the popcorn, it seems! "Mhm. Mhm. And I figured you'd come so we can figure out how come you sound so much like me, but there's too much missing stuff... Eh? A mirror?"

She looks down at her control rod, then at her foot, then at Solo!Utsuho's control rod and foot. "... Can't be. A mirror would be all flipped around and... Um. You know, with the... Reverse! Besides, if anything, you'd be the bad image if you're missing so much stuff after eating that god."

Puffing up her chest with another confident smirk, Duo!Utsuho whistles lightly as she watches that fireball sailing right for Hesinca. She had been expecting a fight with herself, but she doesn't seem all that bothered by that ire being snagged by Hesinca instead. Taking a seat upon that sedan again, she hollers as one of those cars gets used as a projectile, ready to float out of the way if the fight ends up drawing closer to herself.

"Yeah! Kick her ass, me!" At least she's cheering for the right team. She's also picking up bits of popcorn off the car to munch on.
Utsuho Reiuji So what if being a reflection would mean things were mirrored? Utsuho doesn't worry about that. She doesn't worry about a lot of things.

"Who're you calling bad?" Utsuho draws herself up to her full height, even though she's standing on thin air (well, hovering) at the moment. That is probably a mistake, because it makes her a bigger, easier target for Hesinca pitching an entire car at her.

It can safely be said that Utsuho did not expect that one at all. The car smashes into her, bowling her head over hee until she crashes, tumbling a little further along the parking lot's surface before she manages to catch herself. "ow," Utsuho mumbles to herself, before pushing herself upright. "At least you're taking me seriously. But!"

She jabs toward the other Utsuho one more time. "Don't think you're getting off easy just because you're cheering for me now! You're only cheering for me because you like me better because you're pretending to be me." But more of her attention is on Hesinca, given the whole... car thing.

Utsuho hovers for a moment before accelerating sharply, flying at - no, just above Hesinca. This would be harmless in and of itself, but she leaves a bigger, thicker flame trail behind this time when she does, and it expands, shooting off sparks in her wake. Meanwhile, Utsuho herself turns around at the far end of the parking lot and returns, firing pulses of white-hot energy from her control rod like it was some sort of beam rifle, trying to pin Hesinca down by sheer quantity of shots.
Hesinca "Hey - you should be cheering for me! I have popcorn!" compains Hesinca.

Sparks go off when Utsuho dashes, and then she launches a barrage of white hot energy pulses, forcing her opponent to dodge and manipulate their position, in the finest of danmaku traditions.

That is the assumed intention, anyway.

Except Hesinca doesn't dodge. Hesinca isn't the sort to dodge. Hesinca in a danmaku game would fail on the first screen because she would just try to alpha strike all the foes, waste all her bombs, and then grouse about how she couldn't dps race the bosses.

Instead Hesinca leaps forward *through* the hail of energy pulses, utterly *heedless* of how many times she's getting hit, and close in on Utsuho (the one she's fighting, not the other one) and grab her and suplex her down onto the floor of the parking lot!
Hellwarming Trio Utusho's out of snacks. Sad day.

"I'm calling you the bad one! But kick her ass anyway!" Utsuho cheers herself on while scooting over to get her concrete leg over the passenger side window, waiting for an opportune moment to bust that thing open.

That moment comes with the firing of the control rod. After cracking that window open, she lays on her front to reach in and snatch a wallet off the dashboard, but doesn't bother checking it before pocketing the whole thing.

That'll go right into the vehicle fund.

Hesinca mentions the popcorn, though, and Duo!Utsuho strokes her chin lightly. "... Hmm. She's got a point, yeah. This stuff does taste pretty good. I wonder how much I could get with these America dollars." That gets her reaching for the wallet again, although she pauses when she sees Hesinca charging right through that spray of fire instead of trying to avoid it.

"Gutsy! Heh... Coming onto the surface really was a good idea."
Utsuho Reiuji "What? I'm better than popcorn!" Utsuho didn't get the popcorn. She can be excused for her bad opinions.

Utsuho has never fought anyone who didn't try to dodge before.

Well, check that. Utsuho is enormously powerful, but she has almost never *fought* anyone with her powers. She got them, and now she can fight; she knows it, and she knows what she can do. But she doesn't actually have a lot of personal experience that doesn't involve losing extremely quickly, and all the battles she's watched suggests that dodging is really something you should try to do, probably while shooting back.

She is not expecting Hesnica to physically pick her up and try to slam her into the ground because that is a completely new trick on her, and she is extra surprised when it actually works. Utsuho literally bounces off the pavement - up, down, up again, down again except this time she's managed to touch down on one knee. Utsuho rises, wobbling a little bit. Her face is bright red, whether in anger or embarrassment.

Her pride will not allow her to back down. She straightens, painful as it is, and points one finger straight up. An orb of compressed... something, black with a golden corona, rises straight up about twenty feet before blooming into a sphere of flame with the same colors as the sun. White core, yellow-orange exterior with visible prominences, a corona of burning heat around it -

"This is my power now!" Utsuho hasn't noticed, but the orb in her chest - the third eye - is active; it seems backlit by flickering flame too, making the strange vertical pupil in it more prominent. "You can say sorry if you want." Utsuho flicks one finger, and the thing slowly starts descending toward Hesinca. It's *hot* - and when it gets close to the ground, it starts eating away at it, melting a crater into the parking lot's surface.

Somebody overreacts, apparently. Why is she fighting Hesinca again??
Hesinca "Alright then - you ready to admit defeat?" calls Hesinca after slamming Utsuho.

"I'll be gracious and - oh."

This, finally, gets her to stop.

"Oh dear."

The giant sunball goes flying and hits true.

When it finishes burning through all its energy, there's a crater - and a centaur in the center of it, looking like she's just been through a pottery oven. She looks immobile, at first...

*crack*

... Until bits and pieces start flaking off, and she steps out of the Hesinca-shaped statue she was baked into.

"Hah - you think I'm wearing only one layer of armor?" she calls. "And that I *need* that first layer of skin? Foolishness! Utter foolishness..."

"... Foolishness you will pay for!"

She leaps out of the crater, launching herself at Utsuho. There's no artistry to it if Hesinca manages to get her hands on her - just a flurry of punches, kicks, stomps, two-ton-hip-checks, and utter beatdown await!
Utsuho Reiuji At first, Utsuho is... mildly worried, because despite everything she wasn't really trying to kill Hesinca. Run her off, maybe. Make her say that Utsuho was more powerful than she is and apologize, absolutely! Utsuho knows she's sometimes a little vague on what will kill someone because she's not exactly a normal human being, but -

Oh. She's still moving. Maybe she'll say it now?

...*oh*. She's still fighting.

Hesinca charges Utsuho, and this time Utsuho doesn't try to dodge either. She holds her control rod forward and raises a barrier in front of her; it looks like a flat wall of light, but the sides of it emit plumes of flame backwards, toward Utsuho, giving her about hemispherical coverage. Hesinca slams into it, driving Utsuho back as if she was attached to it (she is, at the arm), the edges of the barrier eroding under the impacts.

She can't hold it against Hesinca's force. The whole thing shatters, catching Utsuho in the backblast. She skids, breathing hard. She hurts. Everything kind of hurts. The eye in her chest is glowing like flame, the pupil staring at Hesinca, and even Utsuho's other eyes look slightly glowy.

"Then I'll show you everything! Come on, Lord Yatagarasu!"

Utsuho raises her control rod arm, bracing it with her other hand like it was a cannon. Because this time, it is. The tip of it glows red, then yellow, then white as some parts of the rod shift around with clicking noises; little prongs, near the end, as Utsuho gathers a charge.

And then - Utsuho fires.

The beam is wider than Utsuho is tall and sufficient to leave a melted furrow in the pavement all the way across the parking lot. It melts two cars, explodes a third that is kind of in the corona but not in the direct line of fire, and is aimed pretty much directly at Hesinca. Her control hisses afterwards, venting plasma out from the tip in a reddish cloud of heat. "CAN YOU DO THAT," she yells at the other Utsuho, half-deafened by standing behind the beam.
Hesinca "Show me everything, then!" roars Hesinca, not letting up, even as Utsuho prepares to fire she's charging again, arm pulled back to continue beating on her-

The beam goes off. Hesinca is in the middle of it.

Once again the ground underneath her melts.

What's remaining is... shambling. Crispened. Bits falling off. No more armor - across wide swathes of her body, no more *skin*.

"I'm..."

She inhales - lungs taking in air that's not full of nuclear plasma for the first time.

"I'm not - done, yet!"

She starts moving, slowly at first, but then increasing as she forces baked and fried muscle groups to start working again, just by sheer force of will.

"I'm a badass! I'm demon nobility! I'm a force of nature - a natural disaster! AN EARTHQUAKE!"

She starts stomping her hooves as she emerges from the melted furrow - and with each step, the ground shakes.

The entire ground. Not just the immediate floor that they're on, not just the garage structure, but *everything*.

"IF THAT'S ALL YOU'VE GOT, I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT I GOT - I'LL BRING THIS ENTIRE PLACE TO THE GROUND!"

And she does. Support pillars start giving out. Walls start cracking. Cement rumbles, and steel groans.

And the whole parking garage collapses in on itself like a sandcastle meeting an ocean wave.
Utsuho Reiuji Utsuho has to vent again. She's running *hot*; she can feel the fire inside her, and she's still surrounded by a haze of heat and wispy flames. She spreads her wings, beating them to try to fan herself, and everything around her, without taking off. "And I'm the strongest hell ravel that ever was! Maybe you're an earthquake, but I'm the sun!"

It leaves her open - it's her inexperience showing rather than her lack of power. She has a lot of that, but it's barely restrained. There's not a lot of finesse there yet.

When Hesinca brings the walls in on her, Utsuho's response is - reflexively, without thinking about it - to surround herself with a bright shield of heat and fusion plasma. It does stop her from getting crushed by the entire place, at least; some of the stone vaporizes when it hits it. But, critically, not all of it.

A particularly fast-moving piece of pillar hits Utsuho upside the head, and she wobbles for a moment, clearly dazed. Her bubble wavers. "Yataga - " Another steel piece clips her, and that's the end of that.

When the collapse stops, Utsuho - the singular one - is on one knee, holding herself up with her control rod. She is clearly trying to stand up and just as clearly not really managing it. Her teeth are grit as she holds Yatagarasu in. "Truce?" she gets out, her voice rough. "You're good. But..."

"...I really want some popcorn..."
Hesinca "..."

A fresh bowl of popcorn gets tossed and lands neatly in front of her.

"Yeah, truce," says Hesinca. "I... actually forget why we were fighting."

"Want to go get patched up and hit the spa?"
Utsuho Reiuji Utsuho remembers...

...some of it. A lot of it just seems to have fallen out of her head. She picks up the bowl of popcorn. "Okay," she says, before yelling, in case her duplicate is still listening, "BUT YOU'RE NOT INVITED. Just, what's a spa?"

"...hey, this *is* good."
Hellwarming Trio Despite things falling to pieces and/or melting around her, Duo!Utsuho is having a blast watching it all. She's long since had to abandon the car she was using as her seat, content to float around to watch the fighters in action while her seat collapses beneath her. "So that's what I look like when I'm doing that... Heh. Not bad. Maybe I should try twisting a little, though..."

As the fight comes to a close, Duo!Utsuho doesn't actually abandon the parking garage. Instead, she just collets enough energy into herself that the stuff that does fall on/near her gets incinerated, leaving her nice and clean by the time the rubble stops falling.

"... Yeah, you're real alright." Duo!Utsuho speaks aloud finally, gliding over slowly to try and stach some of that popcorn for herself. "But if you're me and I'm me..."

Duo!Utsuho turns to Hesinca. "... Then who're you?" A beat, and then she huffs at Solo!Utsuho. "Well, fine! I'll just go to that hot spring myself, then!"