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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[onegreeneye]

...Uh.

"...What's television?"

[goldeneyeball]

He released Ginko's hand.

"Uh--" Panic rippled across his face. He was in a Different Japan. He was, more or less, a completely harmless world-walker, but he'd seen enough scifi shows to know the kind of impact you could have on a timeline if you did something wrong at the wrong time. "Nevermind. See ya, Clover."

Excuse him while he just starts skittering away.

[onegreeneye]

Hahaha nice try. Ginko is far too nosy, especially if you've got him actively curious, to leave it at this. He hurried after, quietly glad that he had opted to leave his pack in the village.

"Hey-- hang on, what were you talking about? And my name is Ginko, not 'Clover'!"

[goldeneyeball]

MAKIN' HIS WAY DOWN TOWN.

WALKIN' FAST.

FACES PASS AND HE'S-- still being followed. Crap crap crap.

"Sorry, pal, can't tell ya or I'd have to kill ya! Forget you ever met me."

[onegreeneye]

"You-- what?! Why?" He didn't seem to actually believe JW, judging by how he hurried to get alongside him. "You were the one who started talking about all that-- whatever it was to begin with!"

[goldeneyeball]

JW started to break a sweat as he fast-walked away from this guy. He started fishing in his pockets and suddenly whirled around brandishing a strange slick silver device. It was a $15.00 cellphone from Walmart.

"Take one more step or this thing will turn you to ashes!" He mashed one of the keys and made it beep.

[onegreeneye]

For better or worse, Ginko didn't have the cultural context for the idea that this weird silver thing was inherently futuristic and potentially dangerous. But, given that this guy had already been saying weird stuff to begin with, he wasn't sure what to think now.

He stopped anyway, flinching a little at the sudden beep and staring at the phone. "...What is it?"

[goldeneyeball]

"I just told you! It's a deadly weapon! Now back off!" He pressed the 4 key and made it beep a few more times. "I appreciate you savin' me from the well monster, but I got somewhere to be."

[onegreeneye]

Ginko glanced between the phone and the man holding it, and he started to open his mouth like he was going to reply - and then he froze.

His gaze flicked toward something he had caught out of the corner of his eye, a thin, worm-like creature, if JW could see it, moving along the ground on narrow, branching legs that tapped blindly at the soil beneath them.

He finally spoke up, very quietly. "Don't move."

[goldeneyeball]

James quirked a brow. He flinched. Mushi did not give off the same vibe as spirits of the departed. He had no headache, no nosebleed. But there was something. There was also the issue of Ginko and JW knew that if he were in the white-haired man's shoes, he might try to pull a stunt to get the information he wanted.

"I'm not falling for that garbage." He took a step back.

[onegreeneye]

"Stop--" He winced, glancing between JW and the mushi. It paused in its tapping for a moment, the hairlike filaments on its legs waving in the air. It hadn't noticed the source of the movement yet, but it had noticed that something had moved, that much was obvious.

"Listen to me." His voice was still low, set with a sort of cautious intensity not unlike when he had warned James away from the Suiko. "There is a parasitic mushi a foot away from us. If you take another step, it will know you're there, and then you won't be going much of anywhere. Don't move."

[goldeneyeball]

James frowned deeply, unsettled both by Ginko's tone and that tingling. His eyes started flicking around again, searching for any kind of movement. What did this stranger have to gain from him sitting still? Stealing his phone? He didn't look like he had any weapons...but he was no doubt much stronger than JW.

Also he had big hands. He was going to pretend he hadn't been noticing that while Ginko had been busy working away at the algae samples.

"So, what, you wanna play Go Fish until it fucks off?"

At least he'd stopped moving. JW was trying very hard to keep his expression creased in hostility to hide the worry trying to wrinkle his brow. Were the fae in this world invisible? Even if they were closer to animals the way Ginko said, you still had to be able to see a copperhead to avoid stepping on it. He'd bite if anything stepped on him.

[onegreeneye]

He was not even going to ask what that was supposed to mean. "I want you to hold still. With luck, it'll wander off eventually."

He kept watching it, his gaze latched onto that seemingly empty spot on the ground. The mushi kept picking its way along the ground on its slow, waving path.

[goldeneyeball]

James let out a huff the same way a little kid being told to hold still for Christmas photos huffs and, surprisingly, held still. Very much like the deer he resembled.

"Where is it?"

[onegreeneye]

He nodded toward it, a very slight movement of his head. "You might not be able to see it. A lot of people can't see mushi."

[goldeneyeball]

His brows creased and he turned his head ever so slightly. He couldn't see anything at all. He didn't like this. He was used to being the one who saw all the weird things while other people flailed.

"That explains the well, I guess..."

[onegreeneye]

"Actually, Suiko don't look any different from water even for those who can see mushi. It's mostly a matter of looking for their effects..."

Apparently the imminent threat of the thing crawling around them (and occasionally towards, and every time it moved closer he had to resist the urge to show any sign that it had) was not enough to deter him from needlessly explaining things.

[goldeneyeball]

JW managed to focus both eyes on Ginko and stare at him. That was fascinating and all, but he'd rather hear about magical ghost water after the invisible death worm has gone.

"Right, right, is it gone yet?"

[onegreeneye]

"Uh..." Right, that. Ginko glanced at the mushi again. "Not quite. I think it's started to move away, though. Should be safe soon."

He keeps watching it, and, a couple minutes later, seems to relax slightly. "...Alright. Think it's wandered off."

[goldeneyeball]

The whole time, JW kept trying very very hard to see this horrible death worm. When Ginko gave the all clear, he heaved a sigh and lowered his arm. His shoulder popped. He wished he hadn't taken 'don't move' so literally.

"Ow."

[onegreeneye]

"Sorry about that. Those things are pretty uncommon, too..." He frowned slightly, apparently lost in thought for a moment.

Maybe it was a good thing that he had already gotten around to checking all the wells in the area; it could have just been coincidence, but he didn't want to risk that the parasite's presence could have to do with his own.

[goldeneyeball]

"Are they now." He could never be sure. His thumb slid over a different button on his phone, causing it to snap a photo. It startled him into dropping it and he bit back a swear, reluctant to show how rattled the little invisible worm event had made him. He stooped to grab it up. "I'm outta here."

[onegreeneye]

Ginko jumped slightly when the camera went off and at JW's dropping it, suddenly reminded of the threats of it being a weapon... and then nothing happened.

He stepped forward again, frowning. "Hold on, you never explained what you were talking about earlier."

[goldeneyeball]

Straightening up, James made a face.

"Ugh. Flattering." He turned the device around and upon the tiny screen was a very startled photo of the tall man. He snapped the device shut and stuck it in his pocket. Then he sighed and shifted his weight from one foot to the other.

He tried so, so hard to leave as little evidence of his passing in these places as he could. But he sort of owed the guy. At least a little. What harm could telling one guy do? Also either JW wasn't nearly as good at bullshitting as he thought he was or this Clover character was some hella brave for facing off with a mysterious device he's never seen before.

"Fine, but don't go spreadin' it around, alright?" He waved for Ginko to follow him and JW walked until he found a large stone. He double checked with Ginko, watching that green eye, trying to look where it looked, before planting his ass on the rock.

"I'm not from your world.America probably isn't even a thing yet. I've been to some far back places but never this far back..."

[onegreeneye]

Ginko blinked in surprise at the image on the phone. How--? Before he could ask, though, JW was moving on, and Ginko followed behind him hurriedly, half-expecting him to change his mind.

The spot James picked was relatively free of mushi; there were no dangerous ones to be seen, at least, and Ginko just glanced briefly at a few floating and crawling here and there before sitting down nearby, listening quietly to the explanation.

He blinked, raising his eyebrows slightly. "America? No, I've heard of that, though..." Then he frowned. "...Are you saying you're from the future."

It... wasn't really that he didn't believe him. Ginko had seen some odd things before, though not anything like this... and it was certainly true that this guy had said (and shown) some very strange things already. Mostly, he wasn't sure what to think of this new development at all.