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[omnomsgods]

[ The video shows Okuu, looking as normal as ever about to address the community. Then something catches her attention all to suddenly. She drops whatever she's using as the camera, forgetting about it altogether. ]

There's a click of the tongue from someone off screen, almost motherly. A woman speaks.] My, how thin you look...

[ From the strange angle it records from the floor, the video still captures Utsuho's expression. Her eyes light up, awe-inspired. ]

Hungry, child? It can be made so that you will be empty no longer...

[ If the air is a snake, it seems to coil around the entire chamber, letting nothing escape its suffocating grasp. The speaker loves to make lasting impressions, after all. ]

...With this power, you will fulfill the wishes of both the worlds below and above the surface.

[ And the little bird in question? Animals know when they are threatened, when they are in the presence of someone more dominant. It's clear she realizes she's out of her league, for now. She lets her emotions show plainly on her face: anxious at first, questioning, and then hopeful at the proposal. ] ...Everyone's...wishes-?


[ There's no reply. Perhaps a nod is given, perhaps not. A stifling flash of light is emitted from wherever the Hell Raven looks; she grits her teeth, shielding her eyes for a moment, waiting for it to die down. It doesn't. The feed becomes full of static. It's not the recording that's glitching, rather the picture itself becomes warped. Light bends to something off screen, like from some sort of gravitational lens. The Hell Raven eventually lowers her guard. She becomes drawn to whatever she's seeing; any uncertainty gone and her mouth slightly ajar. She begins to move forward, her wings white-washed with a new light.

Then... darkness as something completely obscures the camera. The stranger voice cautions: ]

Remember to bow your head.

[ OOC: Replies will be ~45 min later. Warning that replies may have disturbing content in terms of body horror and cannibalism. ]

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permavid

[second_star]

[ He wasn't going to lie and say he's said weirder. What...the hell was that? ]

Okuu? Hey, Okuu? [ His voice was calm, if cautious. He didn't have a good feeling about this. ]

same same 1/2

[omnomsgods]

[ The camera flickers on in response. It's dark except for a faint, amber glow. Struggled breathing can be heard. She spits her word out reluctantly. ] W...what?

[ An growl. She's hurting. Frightened at these changes. She doesn't want to be seen. Change is always hard- and what's happening to her... ]

[omnomsgods]

[ Then a light flashes, intensifying around her chest. Dried blood drips from her mouth; even that seems to singe her skin. A glowing eye that is embedded in her chest stares into nothing. Her left arm is swelling, pulsing with something else forming. Every movement she makes looks painful. ] What...?

[ But her voice this time is softer. Tamer. Distracted. It's like she's speaking more to the eye than Yuri. ]

permavid

[windgodgirl]

[huh... Reimu did say that the stupid ones were the most dangerous when given incredible power. she's kinda worried now, to say the least.]

... Okuu? Who was that woman, and what did she come to see you for?

same same 1/2

[omnomsgods]

A... woman? [ Red eyes narrow. The faint glow emitted from them is one of the few things that can be seen. A best she has the distinct imprint that she came in contact with someone divine. But... she can't bother remembering anything else because she has to concentrate. For now, she's struggling to contain- to adapt herself- to the power she has now. To not be able to would mean her own oblivion.

All she knows now is that the Yatagarasu is male. One of the an ancient, named gods. He fills her with information, with truth, with formulas, with images of stars and galaxies and quasars, with atoms, with space, with quarks, with raw energy-

It's appropriate, isn't it? That she has to be "empty" to contain all this. Just like where the stars that play sentinel in space. ]

[omnomsgods]

[ Outer space may have vast stretches of emptiness. The atom may be mostly empty space as well. Yet, this is all overwhelming. She claws at her chest with blistering hands, tearing her shirt. Now the giant red eye can be seen burning its way through pale, clammy skin. ] I... I have power now!

permavid

[goddamnshit]

[so the last time Free saw Okuu was during the virus... when she beat the shit outta him and blasted him into particles.

this isn't very reassuring. he thought she went back to being her birdbrain self after that.]

Holy shit! The hell was that?!

same

[omnomsgods]

What was what? [ A part of her is already relishing the fact that someone is astounded by it all. They should be. She's always had a fascination for the cosmos and such, but now with the Yatagarasu, that wonder was amplified.

That being said, she's worse for wear by the time she gets to this reply. She glares. ] Can't you recognize light when you see it?

[lotuslegend]

Utsuho.

[She speaks only a single word, but it's dripping with venom.]

Permavid

[omnomsgods]

[ She looks up suddenly when she hears her name called, attempting to place it to a name when no face is shown. ] ...Who...? [ That tone of voice, so strict and hateful, is commanding and accusatory enough to make her pause for all but a moment. ] I did nothing wrong! I was... hungry...and I could fulfill a wish...

video;

[denies]

[ .. as she watches, Ange's trying to make sense of it the scene, but.. it's too vague, isn't it? without context, anything at all could be going on, but at least that's enough to draw her attention. ]

'Fulfill wishes'?

Permavid;

[omnomsgods]

[ Her skin is badly burned, a giant eye is searing its way through her chest, and her arms and legs are going through what looks like a horrible metamorphoses. But her smile is crooked now.

Ah, right. She was promised that. Or told that. Of course she doesn't fully know what it means. Right now, others' wishes have almost completely vanished from her mind. All this is now is about herself and what she ate. ] Everyone's. Everyone's lives will be more comfortable!

[ When they don't even exist, that is. ]

[video]

[docfoul]

[Scratch enjoys watching things come together, be it in his world or others. Sometimes his fascination is fuelled by ego; other times, as is somewhat more frequent in the community, it's the mild annoyance of not seeing what's next and wanting to know.

Sometimes he likes to nudge things just so. It's not against the rules; it's what he does.

And it's not like it will change what is to happen anyway.] Are you afraid?

[And although such a comment might be ordinarily out of place, it makes enough sense in a tag by a near-omniscient being: the original post was also viewed by one Shelly de Killer, who felt mildly concerned but decided it best to wait for further, less vague developments.]

Permavid;

[omnomsgods]

[ That same voice is always jarring to her- how it seems to come from nowhere and it fills her mind. It reminds her of her master, sometimes. Which brings her back for a moment- did she do something wrong? Eat something she wasn't supposed to? So his question immediately converts from 'are you afraid' to you should be afraid. ]

[omnomsgods]

[ Like hell she's going to allow herself to show that fear now. She doesn't have enough foresight to be wary of the long term repercussions, anyways. Right now, she's only filled with the pain of this transformation, of this fusion with the god. The eye on her chest glows; the skin around it blistered and peeling already, her white shirt soaked through with her blood.

Still, she wipes away the blood on her mouth- the blood of the god she has just eaten- in defiance. ] Don't... underestimate me!

[ She doesn't need a master. She could be her own. Or is that the god's thinking, that he doesn't need to answer to anyone? ]

[handwritten]

[lifeisbrief]

Are you alright, miss?

[omnomsgods]

[ At one point in time she was interested in learning how to become more literate. Others told her practice.

But now she doesn't have time or patience to attempt reading anything. That requires effort and concentration- two things she should be using on herself right now. So when she hears the notification, she ignores it. ]

[Video]

[4daladies]

[Okay...that was not something he's seen before. Still he simply stares at the feed, a bit of worry passing through his eyes.

Are you alright?]

permavid;

[omnomsgods]

[ She looks up when she hears the notification, instantly recognizing the young boy on the screen. No, don't look at her- damaged and weak as she is, with skin turning black from burns and boiling, and the red-hot eye on her chest emerging violently through flesh.

But she knows, Ferb. The god she swallowed fills her will all the information to the workings of stars, gravity, of nuclear physics, of the subatomic particles. She wish she could share this information with him- what he could build with this information!- but her mouth is kept shut through sheer pain. ]

[sandinmyboots]

That sounds interesting. You ok, Okuu?

Permavid;

[omnomsgods]

[ By the time he replies, she eye has already burned it's way through her chest. It now sits on blistering skin, staring at the camera. Now, it's her right arm that's undergoing an most heinous transformation. A cannon of some sort, or a control rod. Both, by the looks of it. But that hurts too, because the processes itself involved every bone breaking down into something else, and every ligament and fiber being rearranged. ] I'm... I'm fine!

[ Ah- that's right. He actually congratulated her on destroying Gensokyo during the virus. Well, she was already aiming to do it again. ]

[precursorstone_gun_nest]

Utsuho? [He never did actually find out her nickname. Light doing weird things is never a good sign, especially not with mysterious voices involved.]

You okay?

[omnomsgods]

[ asdghjkl text. Nope, she is no where near in any mental state to attempt to put more energy into reading something. ]

[spiritually]

[ Much confusion is happening right now. Generally the light and dark lights show isn't something good, but he doesn't know what happened. It might be. If it's something that could grant wishes, maybe it isn't all bad?

Or it could be one of those 'be careful what you wish for' situations. Natsume's not going to assume either way though. He assumes she's okay, at least, if only because Okuu seemed to lower her guard. ]

What happened?

[omnomsgods]

[ What is... reading at this point in time? Her mind is filled with new formulas and theories, equations that haven't been developed yet, and much more information that she can make sense of for now. It makes her overwhelmingly nauseous. ]

[aburningspirit]

Kid?

Permavid;

[omnomsgods]

[ The video may be on, showing a writhing, bloody Utsuho as she struggles with the transformation she's undergoing. There's a giant eye burning through skin and bone, welding itself to her chest. Her arm is morphing into something much more cylindrical. One of her legs is swelling horribly.

With this going on, she hears the notification.... But. She can't use up any extra effort in an attempt to reply at this moment, especially to text. ]