[OPEN] RV Park Party

[eirs]

WHO: Any and all OUTSIDER personnel that wants in and their respective campervan companions. Or maybe you wandered out away from your group and found this commune.
WHAT: The gang parking together at night to swap information about the things they've found in their investigations, night watches around a fire, ghost stories......? General tomfoolery in the desert where there's no one else for miles. Cooking their hunts in successes and mishaps?
WHERE: The Mojave Desert
WHEN: Mid to Late May
WARNINGS: Will be updated or tagged in the thread as needed!

Comments

[blastedass]

Shut up.

[But he'll take his minute.]

... I'm glad you're here with me.

[eyescar]

Me too.

[ Yuji closes his eyes, softening against Katsuki and relaxing, some of that final tension bleeding away. ]

I'm glad we were able to meet.

[blastedass]

Hmph.

[It's nice to feel the tension softening. Nice to have let Yuji have a peek into his world. He'll tell him more.

But finally nudges his shoulder so they can both separate.

Backflip. Katsuki stands up, dusts his butt off, takes a quick stance, and jump backwards. No problem at all, legs tuck up, body rotates, and he lands on his feet easily.]

Ha! How's that?

[eyescar]

[ The separation makes him pout for a moment before he realises what's going on, and then he's shifting to the side to watch.

Katsuki flips, and Yuji cheers. ]

That looked so cool!

[blastedass]

[You're such a dork, Yuji. Katsuki's grinning like a gremlin because he's awesome.]

I learned that when I was five.

[eyescar]

You were that kind of kid.

[ Yuji nods his head sagely. ]

That makes sense. I was too busy running around to practice that kind of thing.

[blastedass]

Isn't that part of running around?

[Katsuki returns to sit next to Yuji. Little kid stuff, learning kartwheels and flips and all those things.]

[eyescar]

I guess, but I was busy as a kid too.

[ Helping out his grandpa and everything. ]

[blastedass]

Looking after your grandfather and attending school, huh.

[Katsuki knows Yuji's parents are gone.]

[eyescar]

Yeah, exactly.

[ He nods. ]

You can dare me back, now.

[blastedass]

[Hmm... Dare...]

You can make hard items out of blood, right?

[eyescar]

[ Yuji watches him, a little suspicious now. ]

I can try... Why?

[blastedass]

[Katsuki holds his hand up and a few sparks pop and snap above his palm.]

Rudimentary grenade.

[eyescar]

You want to try that again? I was bad last time.

[ Yuji is tempted, though... ]

[blastedass]

Last time we just mixed blood with sweat. This time, try to form a hollow, hardened sphere.

[Might as well get a bit of work in.]

[eyescar]

Right.

[ Yuji sighs, and then reaches out to lift his hand to his mouth and just... Bite. Hard. Hard enough to draw blood, barely wincing at the pain before he tries to start manipulating it. ]

Let me try...

[blastedass]

[While Katsuki doesn't like to see Yuji hurt, he knows the guy has to get his blood out and he trusts his reverse cursed technique to heal something this minor without a problem.

This may be a dare, but this also is a minor preparation for what might be lurking out in the desert later...]

You're getting better each time.

[eyescar]

Practice. I didn't have a lot of time for that before.

[ His eyes narrow as he focuses, trying to mould the blood into shape. He's improving, but Noritoshi hadn't bothered to teach him too much since they didn't think he needed it. ]

[blastedass]

[As long as he has the properties of condensing it, even if Choso's a bad teacher, Katsuki can work with "the properties" when talking to Yuji. He watches the other boy work at moulding the blood.]

If you can just keep its shape, that's fine.

[Katsuki can actually help with the second half.]

[eyescar]

[ Yuji nods, focus intense as he starts to try and shape the blood, moulding it - and he wonders, absently, if Choso can feel him doing this, is aware of it in that strange way he always is. ]

Something like this?

[ It's wobbly, still more liquid than solid, but it's forming. ]

[blastedass]

Yeah. That's good.

[Katsuki holds both his hands a little bit away from the rotating shape. Charging up the explosions in his palms isn't too much an issue, but rather than detonating them, he regulates the charge to simply exude heat.

It's not the mot comfortable technique, compared to popping and snapping off smaller controlled explosions, but it works to form a sort of convection oven between his hands. Not hot enough to burn the blood, but enough to quickly start to dry it out. First the very outermost layer, then slowly working its way further in.

So long as Yuji keeps the blood in that shape, it's going to dry out and solidify into, yeah, that shape. Likely not as effective as the sorcerer hardening it himself, but it's certainly usable.]

[eyescar]

Woah…

[ Yuji watches it all happen, eyes wide and curious as Katsuki uses his quirk, solidifying the blood and making the shape more solid. Their abilities work together in tandem, and Yuji leans down to watch, getting as close to it as he dares.

It’s impressive. Everything about Katsuki is impressive.

Leaning back, he grins, expression wide and excited. ]

That’s so cool!

[blastedass]

[He won't take full credit for this. The blood manipulation and keeping it circulating and shaped while Katsuki does the dry out is all on Yuji's part.

There's something inspiring about seeing the control the guy does have, even if he's still learning through the first proverbial chapters. Knowing how fast Yuji learns, it's pretty damn incredible he's come this far already. Yuji's amazing.

Please don't blow your face of, Gari Head...]

Heh, damn right. Leave a hole in the top.

[eyescar]

[ It's taking almost all of Yuji's focus just to do this, and his expression shows it off, a focus that only really comes out in him when he has to fight or do something dangerous - his attention is on the blood and nothing else.

Flexing his fingers a little, he breathes out. This is hard, and if his concentration breaks for even a second... ]

Yeah, I got it... Like this...

[blastedass]

[Katsuki eases off the heat of his hands as he pulls them back, leaving the hardened blood hovering above Yuji's palm. There shouldn't be too much left but to make the little hole in the top as he asked. Rather than just break it in with a push of his finger, it's better to let Yuji practice reshaping the hardened blood. If there's not much difference between dried-out blood and cursed energy concentrated-and-hardened blood...]

Good. Let it go.

[He'll either catch it or it'll fall into Yuji's palm once the boy stops concentrating on it.]