OPEN RP POST (wip)

[onegreeneye]

This is a general catch-all post for anyone who wants to thread with Ginko in his original setting - or at least something resembling it. Want to play an AU? Post-jamjar? Unexpected interdimensional travel? It's all good! In addition, if you want to thread something with mushi and such but in a more modern setting, I'm totally open to modern-day AU's. I'm fine with prose, brackets, whatever.

Please note that I'm totally open to using this post for action, fluff, whatever, but not smut. If you have any additional questions about the setting or types of mushi, just message me on this account!

(here's a placeholder for if i ever get around to putting actual prompts on here)

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[solperierat]

No, no no no, this can't happen, not here--Ed struggles and chokes back a scream as the arms start burrowing into his shoulder, but he isn't ripped apart like he expected to be. The Gate is reaching for something else, something past him--

--the light vein. It's trying to take the light vein.

Before the Gate can start to break Ginko apart, before it reaches even halfway into that deep darkness Ed can somehow dimly sense, Ed wrenches is arm free of the mass and slams it down onto the circle again, twisting the tide of the transmutation to pull it into himself. It struggles against his will, but just when it seems like his control will slip there's a vision of...something. A ring of lights or odd cloaked figures, Ed can't really tell, and suddenly something breaks and everything is rushing in--

It's over in a matter of seconds. The black arms freeze before all rushing to swarm Edward with something like an echo-y scream that isn't quite there. They surge into the stump of is arm and leg twisting and reforming themselves into a new, surprising shape. Ed collapses unconscious, his new black stone arm and leg just as boneless as the rest of him. He'll be awake again in a few moments, but the shock of that rebound was intense.

[onegreeneye]

Ginko can't quite make out a lot of what happens - all he really notices is sound and movement, those arms clinging to him. He barely sees Ed slam his hand to the ground again, the arms surging toward him, and terror stops his breath in his throat as he watches, fully expecting the younger man to be doomed--

Seconds later, it's all over. Ginko lies there for a moment, his eyes wide and his breath ragged as he tries to figure out what just happened.

That moment of overwhelming, motionless confusion only lasts for a couple seconds, then Ginko bolts to his feet, stumbling a little as he moves to Ed's side, grabbing his shoulder. "Hey, are-- are you alright?!" He doesn't even notice the new limbs at first, and when he does he pauses, staring at them in confusion.

[solperierat]

He is breathing, at least, and when Ginko grabs Ed's shoulder he stirs faintly. He cracks an eye open, feeling like he was just hit by a freight train and wincing from the burning pain in his shoulder and leg. Still a little out of it, he mumbles a response in Amestrian. "Good...you're okay..."

It wasn't a bloodless joining, on those limbs. Closer to the point of connection the illusion of flesh breaks down into many small tentacles woven around and merging with one another. At the join itself some of them creep out over Ed's skin and end in a small, grasping hand, but most plunge into the flesh to bury in and take root, and blood oozes out from those points. Some of those little tentacles still try to move, but something seems to be restraining them.

[onegreeneye]

Ginko blinks, his brow furrowing slightly at the unfamiliar language before his attention moves back to Ed's shoulder. He leans in a little, frowning as he examines the joining point, but he isn't sure what to do about it, or... if he should do anything at all.

For the time being, he wraps his arms around Ed to drag him out of the circle - maybe it's not necessary, but just in case. He leans him up against the nearest tree before more or less collapsing to sit against it himself, his legs shaking slightly from the exertion and lingering fear of the incident.

[solperierat]

Edward groans and shakes his head, only half aware as his brain sorts itself back out. Why had the Gate appeared like that? He hadn't done anything that should summon it, and he's never seen it act like that before. It had only been reactionary before, even when Dante had been running free with summoning it before!

He reaches up to rub his head with his right hand, wincing a bit from the movement. "Goddamnit, what the hell--" The complaint cuts off when Ed realizes just what it is he's moving, letting out a startled shout and trying to scramble back on instinct. With the imbalance of weight due to the stone he only really succeeds in falling over again, but he does at least start talking in Japanese again. "What the fuck is this?!"

[onegreeneye]

Ed's outburst draws Ginko's attention all over again; he turns to face the alchemist, tensing slightly as he tries to get up and... promptly falls again. Ginko winces a little in sympathy, but right now, he doesn't really have the energy to move over and check on him.

"Beats me." His exhaustion shows in his voice, but he does examine the limbs with some curiosity. "Does it hurt?"

[solperierat]

Ed groans a reluctant affirmative, staring in confusion at the hand and toes he flexes as if they were perfectly normal flesh and blood. He feels something shift in his shoulder and hisses, clapping his normal hand over the join.

"That damn thing is supposed to take limbs, not hand them out. It shouldn't have even appeared, I wasn't doing anything that should have summoned it!"

[onegreeneye]

"You've seen that before?" His eyes widen slightly, looking back up to Ed's face. "What... was it?"

[solperierat]

"...that thing is what I need to go through to get home."

Ed sighs and his shoulders go slack. "It's called the Gate. It...regulates alchemy, and extracts tolls from alchemists that break the taboo of reviving the dead."

So, you know. There's another thing to worry about with this strange child, Ginko.

[onegreeneye]

That... does raise some questions.

But now doesn't really seem like the time to ask Ed if he's tried to bring someone back from the dead. Ginko slumps back against the tree.

"...Huh." And then, possibly against his better judgement, "Sounds kind of like something we have here."

[solperierat]

His head snaps up and he looks over at Ginko in alarm. Oh hell, another thing like the Gate? "There is? What is it?"

[onegreeneye]

"It's... a little difficult to explain."

How do you explain the circle of light to someone who's never seen it? (Which, of course, Ginko doesn't know that Ed has.)

"For all I know, it might have existed in your home as well, but..." But at this point he's not really willing to make any assumptions as far as similarities between his world and Ed's. "It has a few names. The circle of light, the natural order. It's essentially the will of nature itself."

[solperierat]

Ed is quiet for a few long moments, looking down at his new arm and leg.

"I...I think I might have seen it. When I was trying to stop the Gate from going after the light vein. I was trying to turn it all back on me, and then a bunch of things surrounded me before..."

He shakes his head--it's too difficult to describe.

"I guess it doesn't like the Gate very much."

[onegreeneye]

Ginko listens thoughtfully. Sounds like something the circle of light might do, alright: Confusing, seemingly inexplicable, but in the end...

It was protecting the light vein.

"I guess not. Not when it's going after what the circle is supposed to protect, at least."

[solperierat]

"Nnnh. Well, I sure as hell won't be messing with the vein again." Ed slumps back against the tree, running his flesh hand over his face. "It's not worth pissing that off."

Of course, that puts Ed right back to square one all over again.

[onegreeneye]

"It really isn't." And, now that the danger is passed and they've had this little conversation, Ginko shoots Ed a brief, disapproving glare.

"You're lucky that this turned out to be something that could be fixed without you getting hurt for it."

[solperierat]

Ed frowns and shoots Ginko a look right back. "I was being careful! It's not my fault everything decided to go tits up!"

[onegreeneye]

"Unless I'm remembering incorrectly, I specifically told you not to tamper with the light vein anymore." His tone is harsh and strained, his brow furrowed. "Would you mind explaining to me how, exactly, trying to contact it directly again is 'being careful'?"

[solperierat]

Ed slouches lower and crosses his arms, glaring off in the opposite reaction with a sulky look. "I was putting back what got taken from it. That's what it needed to heal, wasn't it? I did everything I could think of to make sure the transmutation wouldn't disturb the rest of the thing."

[onegreeneye]

"It doesn't react well to humans trying to interact with it, regardless of their intentions, believe me. You're lucky that the natural order apparently considered that 'Gate' a greater threat than it did you."

[solperierat]

He slouches a little lower, but huffs and shrugs. "I said I wasn't gonna do it again, didn't I? ...is there any left on me?"

[onegreeneye]

"Good. Don't."

He glances over Ed thoughtfully, then shakes his head. "Looks like it's gone. So there's that, at least."

[solperierat]

"Good. I need leads and I've exhausted what drew me here." Ed flexes his new leg experimentally, and then tries to push himself up--before flopping right back down. "Oof! Shit."

[onegreeneye]

"You alright?" Ginko doesn't try getting up just yet; he doesn't quite trust his own legs to work.

He does, however, eye Ed's new limbs questioningly. "What are those made of? Do they... work?"

Well it's not like there's really a polite way to ask that.

[solperierat]

"Yeah, it's just fuckin' heavy. Kinda lost my muscle mass the last couple years."

He crosses his legs and rubs the black knee, then flexes and stretches his right arm. "I...think it's stone? It's hard, but it still moves right. Sure as hell don't feel much from 'em, but they seem to work."