Post by Kimi on Jul 26, 2022 11:26:01 GMT -5
Kimi Ono
a.k.a. "Kimi
Female (SHe/Her)
Twenty-Four
Earth
bio-android (Demon/Human)
Absorption
Intelligence, Makyo Power, Good Bargins, Absorption
ONE TIME USE SPACE POD
brawler
dirty snakes
pansexual
Appearance
Kimi does look like her typical earthling girl her age. There isn't much indication of her fighting prowess, she is neither tall nor particularly bulky. Her dark pink hair is well kept, hardly seen unkempt, almost as if she would never participate in any hard work. There aren't any scars or blemishes that are visible from the little skin that she displays either. Within her day to day clothes, it wouldn't be difficult to mistake her for such an individual.
Underneath her clothing hides her darkest secret. Her left arm and leg are no longer human, instead of in its place are two monstrous limbs. Both are a dark gray in color, ranging from her upper arm to her upper thigh, the human and monstrous flesh molded together crudely. Each finger on the arm is clawed and long, sharp to the touch with a spike protruding from the elbow. The leg has only three toes, each clawed and sharp as well, the knee bending in an inhumanly way. Aside from these limbs, she has other minute details that may give away the fact that she is no loner including razor sharp teeth, forcing her to speak quietly as to not give them away. Her eye’s sclera also begins to turn yellow when angered, excited or ravenous.
Typically both of these limbs are obscured by a black wrap, reducing both to a roughly humanoid shape and hidden behind baggy clothing to show no indication of their existence. Kimi also wears large gloves and boots in order to better obscure the hand and foot of the limbs. Because of the fact that all of them limit her mobility and strength, Kimi generally cast away these sorts of clothing for a red and orange sleeveless dress which gives her better movement in combat, allowing her to unleash her strength with little hindrance.
Underneath her clothing hides her darkest secret. Her left arm and leg are no longer human, instead of in its place are two monstrous limbs. Both are a dark gray in color, ranging from her upper arm to her upper thigh, the human and monstrous flesh molded together crudely. Each finger on the arm is clawed and long, sharp to the touch with a spike protruding from the elbow. The leg has only three toes, each clawed and sharp as well, the knee bending in an inhumanly way. Aside from these limbs, she has other minute details that may give away the fact that she is no loner including razor sharp teeth, forcing her to speak quietly as to not give them away. Her eye’s sclera also begins to turn yellow when angered, excited or ravenous.
Typically both of these limbs are obscured by a black wrap, reducing both to a roughly humanoid shape and hidden behind baggy clothing to show no indication of their existence. Kimi also wears large gloves and boots in order to better obscure the hand and foot of the limbs. Because of the fact that all of them limit her mobility and strength, Kimi generally cast away these sorts of clothing for a red and orange sleeveless dress which gives her better movement in combat, allowing her to unleash her strength with little hindrance.
Personality
Kimi seems to act cool, but polite towards others. While not particularly stoic, she doesn't appear to emote many positive emotions when interacting with others. Generally, she only does so to make herself seem friendlier than she is, but it is rather obvious that it is forced more than anything. By no means is she rude or abrasive, but rather she simply seems mostly indifferent about things. Kimi also tends to be more independent, preferring to do things by herself rather than having others do it for her. While she might express appreciation, she would always comment that she would rather do it to save them from the burden. Upon talking to her though, one is able to delve deeper into her own psyche.
Kimi tends to hold a more cynical look upon life, seeing the universe as an "every man for himself sort of world." Due to this, she doesn't believe in the idea of doing something for the "greater good" but rather, seeing this as more of an excuse than anything. While she does still appreciate those that do acts of good, she will often believe it's also due to another ulterior motive such as bettering their image rather than something pure. As a result, while Kimi might use the terms "good" and "evil", she doesn't believe that the world is so black and white and does not believe anyone could be aligned so properly.
This reflects with Kimi herself. Despite what she might say, she is ultimately selfish. She prioritizes her own life first and foremost with very few exceptions for family members or those that she might be romantically attracted to. The reason why she might even risk her own life isn't for the better good, but simply because of some selfish motive such as not wanting her home to be blown up or to better her self image.
Typically, Kimi doesn't like to fight. She would rather solve things with her words if possible, although in most cases this typically means mundane arguments and fights. She fully understands that there are situations where words won't mean anything, and while she might try at first, she will ultimately abandon hope of doing so for good and fight back with her fists. Despite the fact that she doesn't enjoy fighting, Kimi is rather brutal. She doesn't particularly hold back unless it's someone she cares for. Due to her cynical outlook on life, she is also more reluctant in the idea of redemption and mercy and as a result, typically will go for either severely maiming the opponent or the kill.
While in most cases, Kimi is averse to fighting, she secretly enjoys bloodlust. While she typically suppress this instinct, she loves violence and causing pain to others. This is what allows her to ignore her moral compass against murder and harming another living being. Kimi may not rampage indiscriminately, but she doesn't particularly care for any collateral damage either.
In the end, Kimi sees herself as responsible. She is fully willing to take responsibility for her own actions without making excuses. She understands that playing the blame game will not end well and it is better, to be honest to herself more than anything. She will not take responsibility for things other people do though, and will push it on them and only take her part of the issue.
Kimi tends to hold a more cynical look upon life, seeing the universe as an "every man for himself sort of world." Due to this, she doesn't believe in the idea of doing something for the "greater good" but rather, seeing this as more of an excuse than anything. While she does still appreciate those that do acts of good, she will often believe it's also due to another ulterior motive such as bettering their image rather than something pure. As a result, while Kimi might use the terms "good" and "evil", she doesn't believe that the world is so black and white and does not believe anyone could be aligned so properly.
This reflects with Kimi herself. Despite what she might say, she is ultimately selfish. She prioritizes her own life first and foremost with very few exceptions for family members or those that she might be romantically attracted to. The reason why she might even risk her own life isn't for the better good, but simply because of some selfish motive such as not wanting her home to be blown up or to better her self image.
Typically, Kimi doesn't like to fight. She would rather solve things with her words if possible, although in most cases this typically means mundane arguments and fights. She fully understands that there are situations where words won't mean anything, and while she might try at first, she will ultimately abandon hope of doing so for good and fight back with her fists. Despite the fact that she doesn't enjoy fighting, Kimi is rather brutal. She doesn't particularly hold back unless it's someone she cares for. Due to her cynical outlook on life, she is also more reluctant in the idea of redemption and mercy and as a result, typically will go for either severely maiming the opponent or the kill.
While in most cases, Kimi is averse to fighting, she secretly enjoys bloodlust. While she typically suppress this instinct, she loves violence and causing pain to others. This is what allows her to ignore her moral compass against murder and harming another living being. Kimi may not rampage indiscriminately, but she doesn't particularly care for any collateral damage either.
In the end, Kimi sees herself as responsible. She is fully willing to take responsibility for her own actions without making excuses. She understands that playing the blame game will not end well and it is better, to be honest to herself more than anything. She will not take responsibility for things other people do though, and will push it on them and only take her part of the issue.
History
Kimi was born in your typical Earthling family. Like many other Earthlings at the time, she was not born a fighter nor had she had any desire to become one. Instead, all of her family were artisans who held a small but sustainable business of producing furniture. While they did not require their children to grow up to join the family business with them, although her older brother did later join and become the heir to it, they at least wanted their children to become successful in life. The business itself was simply a backup plan if they needed one.
Growing up though, Kimi did not want anything to do with the business at all. She would fool around, leaving the work for her older siblings to do and instead spend her time doing other things to entertain herself. This was where she would discover her passion for music, spending time messing around with guitars from the music class she had at school rather than with tools like her parents were pushing her towards. This led to some heated debates as they did not think a career as a musician was sustainable at all and would continue until she was an adult. This rebellious side of her eventually began to seep into her school life as well. Kimi would neglect her studies, fall into the bad crowd at her school and overall become a delinquent. Every attempt at an intervention failed completely as she would always continue her behavior the next day. At the age of eighteen, her parents gave her an ultimatum: she would either give up her dreams and go work at the family business or she would leave.
Five days later, she would pack up her bags and would begin to chase her dream as a musician in the real world. Kimi had even planned everything out and was so sure that everything was going to be just right. Unfortunately, that was when she realized the real world for the first time. After she was kicked out of her friend’s houses, she was forced to live in a homeless shelter and later on the streets. Her music career failed completely, and later Kimi reluctantly had to go find a job. While she was given the chance to return home whenever she wanted, she ultimately didn’t do so as she didn’t want to admit that they were right. Instead, she lived off odd jobs until she was given an offer.
A mysterious representative had come to the homeless shelter that she was staying at, offering them a lucrative amount of money if they agreed to become a test subject on a relatively harmless experiment by the government. They were even going to provide them food and shelter! However, they were only going to choose ten people, five male, and five female, and had requirements that included being physically and mentally fit, young and healthy. Desperate for money, Kimi did her best to shape her body to meet those requirements and applied for the position. To her happiness, she was one of the five females that were accepted.
Kimi and the nine other subjects were brought to a mysterious lab where they were going to spend the next year of their life. However, all were still in the dark about what the experiment itself was even about, the only indication being that they wanted to see how far the human body could go.
Despite how shady it was, the treatment they received was quite comfortable. They ate great food and slept in a comfortable room and had plenty of free time for themselves. For a few hours per day, all of them were placed under a strict training regime where they all were pushed to their limits. However, all were given enough time for their bodies to recuperate. Soon, Kimi was stronger, faster and had much more stamina than she had before, far surpassing the other female subjects.
After three years was up, Kimi and the top male subject were offered a deal. She could stay another three years here for another study that they had. Having nowhere else to go and see how well her body improved she happily agreed, signing the contract without reading the fine print there was. That would end up being the biggest mistake of her life.
The training she received got harder, along with the treatment that went with it. She was allowed fewer breaks and had less time to recuperate. She was forced quite literally to her limit. Unfortunately, Kimi wasn’t able to opt-out due to the contract that she had signed. But none of it compared to the torture she had to face soon. While Kimi knew that there was going to be surgery involved but she didn’t understand how life-changing it was.
One day, she was forced to go under anesthesia, being told that they were just going to rearrange the muscles in her body but the next thing Kimi knew was that her left arm and leg were gone. Instead, they were replaced by limbs by an unknown creature. Needless to say, she was completely horrified.
The truth soon came out to her, bit by bit while the surgeons thought she was under. The people behind this all weren’t part of the government at all, but rather an organization. This study was in fact a secret operation to see if they could create a stronger human, the ultimate soldier if they were able to transplant demon limbs onto her body. The process of strengthening their body was so she wouldn’t immediately die from the immense strength, which the male subject had unfortunately succumbed to, although her body was still beginning to reject the limbs. She was in immense pain, day and night from the limbs that were not her own. For an entire month, the surgeons did her best to keep her alive, despite the fact she was on the brink of death but after the introduction of magically enchanted wraps which would act as a limiter to their power, she had survived.
Eventually, Kimi slowly recovered the wraps allowing her to live with the new arm and leg. However, her life was forever changed, with the fact that she was now a monster. The limbs themselves were capable of feats that her normal body wasn’t able to catch up with, even with the wraps on. The training after her surgery wasn’t to make these limbs stronger, but rather train her body to catch up. Within this regime, they would also begin to introduce her to martial arts, trying to hone in on the power that these limbs would grant her for the future where she would one day act as their soldiers.
Being the only surviving subject, Kimi was placed under extra care and was forced through plenty of mental conditioning as well. They wanted her to willingly serve her and thus tried to alter her thinking to make her loyal to her. While initially, it was beginning to work, she soon discovered another aspect to the limbs that came with the price of being strong: corruption. Kimi was much more bloodthirsty than she used to be, gaining an intense desire to kill. Most of her negative emotions had increased as well, angry especially. Soon she couldn’t help but feel angry at the people that made her like this.
Despite everything though, they were not able to fully control her. It was an inevitability that her destructive urges would surpass even the wraps, eventually causing her to rampage. That was how she managed to escape the organization, killing everything in its path that threatened its attempts to escape. For Kimi, she had blacked out, completely forgetting all that had happened, waking up surrounded by corpses. But regardless, everyone in the lab was gone and there was no one to stop her, allowing her to return back to the world she left so long ago.
Still, after everything she had been through, Kimi wanted to live a semblance of a normal life. Even if she was a monster, she could always hide those parts of her. And so, Kimi would hide her demonic limbs with the wraps, claiming they were bandages and saying that she was just in a bad accident that affected the left parts of her body. Slowly, after a year, Kimi was able to rebuild a semblance of a normal life but even then her new normal wasn’t the same as before.
She could never get rid of the limbs and thus would have to live with them for the rest of her life which brought its own risks aside from being seen as a monster. Kimi also was forced to go under training so that she could once again increase her strength so that she wouldn’t die from rejection. She was also forced to prevent the demonic side of her that threatened to overtake her mind, and instead found a medium to protect her mind. She had combat skills from her time in the lab and ultimately decided to become a martial artist to satisfy her thirst for a fight and to further hone her body to become stronger. Ultimately, all she desired was to survive and to live her life as normally as she would possibly be able to do so again.
Growing up though, Kimi did not want anything to do with the business at all. She would fool around, leaving the work for her older siblings to do and instead spend her time doing other things to entertain herself. This was where she would discover her passion for music, spending time messing around with guitars from the music class she had at school rather than with tools like her parents were pushing her towards. This led to some heated debates as they did not think a career as a musician was sustainable at all and would continue until she was an adult. This rebellious side of her eventually began to seep into her school life as well. Kimi would neglect her studies, fall into the bad crowd at her school and overall become a delinquent. Every attempt at an intervention failed completely as she would always continue her behavior the next day. At the age of eighteen, her parents gave her an ultimatum: she would either give up her dreams and go work at the family business or she would leave.
Five days later, she would pack up her bags and would begin to chase her dream as a musician in the real world. Kimi had even planned everything out and was so sure that everything was going to be just right. Unfortunately, that was when she realized the real world for the first time. After she was kicked out of her friend’s houses, she was forced to live in a homeless shelter and later on the streets. Her music career failed completely, and later Kimi reluctantly had to go find a job. While she was given the chance to return home whenever she wanted, she ultimately didn’t do so as she didn’t want to admit that they were right. Instead, she lived off odd jobs until she was given an offer.
A mysterious representative had come to the homeless shelter that she was staying at, offering them a lucrative amount of money if they agreed to become a test subject on a relatively harmless experiment by the government. They were even going to provide them food and shelter! However, they were only going to choose ten people, five male, and five female, and had requirements that included being physically and mentally fit, young and healthy. Desperate for money, Kimi did her best to shape her body to meet those requirements and applied for the position. To her happiness, she was one of the five females that were accepted.
Kimi and the nine other subjects were brought to a mysterious lab where they were going to spend the next year of their life. However, all were still in the dark about what the experiment itself was even about, the only indication being that they wanted to see how far the human body could go.
Despite how shady it was, the treatment they received was quite comfortable. They ate great food and slept in a comfortable room and had plenty of free time for themselves. For a few hours per day, all of them were placed under a strict training regime where they all were pushed to their limits. However, all were given enough time for their bodies to recuperate. Soon, Kimi was stronger, faster and had much more stamina than she had before, far surpassing the other female subjects.
After three years was up, Kimi and the top male subject were offered a deal. She could stay another three years here for another study that they had. Having nowhere else to go and see how well her body improved she happily agreed, signing the contract without reading the fine print there was. That would end up being the biggest mistake of her life.
The training she received got harder, along with the treatment that went with it. She was allowed fewer breaks and had less time to recuperate. She was forced quite literally to her limit. Unfortunately, Kimi wasn’t able to opt-out due to the contract that she had signed. But none of it compared to the torture she had to face soon. While Kimi knew that there was going to be surgery involved but she didn’t understand how life-changing it was.
One day, she was forced to go under anesthesia, being told that they were just going to rearrange the muscles in her body but the next thing Kimi knew was that her left arm and leg were gone. Instead, they were replaced by limbs by an unknown creature. Needless to say, she was completely horrified.
The truth soon came out to her, bit by bit while the surgeons thought she was under. The people behind this all weren’t part of the government at all, but rather an organization. This study was in fact a secret operation to see if they could create a stronger human, the ultimate soldier if they were able to transplant demon limbs onto her body. The process of strengthening their body was so she wouldn’t immediately die from the immense strength, which the male subject had unfortunately succumbed to, although her body was still beginning to reject the limbs. She was in immense pain, day and night from the limbs that were not her own. For an entire month, the surgeons did her best to keep her alive, despite the fact she was on the brink of death but after the introduction of magically enchanted wraps which would act as a limiter to their power, she had survived.
Eventually, Kimi slowly recovered the wraps allowing her to live with the new arm and leg. However, her life was forever changed, with the fact that she was now a monster. The limbs themselves were capable of feats that her normal body wasn’t able to catch up with, even with the wraps on. The training after her surgery wasn’t to make these limbs stronger, but rather train her body to catch up. Within this regime, they would also begin to introduce her to martial arts, trying to hone in on the power that these limbs would grant her for the future where she would one day act as their soldiers.
Being the only surviving subject, Kimi was placed under extra care and was forced through plenty of mental conditioning as well. They wanted her to willingly serve her and thus tried to alter her thinking to make her loyal to her. While initially, it was beginning to work, she soon discovered another aspect to the limbs that came with the price of being strong: corruption. Kimi was much more bloodthirsty than she used to be, gaining an intense desire to kill. Most of her negative emotions had increased as well, angry especially. Soon she couldn’t help but feel angry at the people that made her like this.
Despite everything though, they were not able to fully control her. It was an inevitability that her destructive urges would surpass even the wraps, eventually causing her to rampage. That was how she managed to escape the organization, killing everything in its path that threatened its attempts to escape. For Kimi, she had blacked out, completely forgetting all that had happened, waking up surrounded by corpses. But regardless, everyone in the lab was gone and there was no one to stop her, allowing her to return back to the world she left so long ago.
Still, after everything she had been through, Kimi wanted to live a semblance of a normal life. Even if she was a monster, she could always hide those parts of her. And so, Kimi would hide her demonic limbs with the wraps, claiming they were bandages and saying that she was just in a bad accident that affected the left parts of her body. Slowly, after a year, Kimi was able to rebuild a semblance of a normal life but even then her new normal wasn’t the same as before.
She could never get rid of the limbs and thus would have to live with them for the rest of her life which brought its own risks aside from being seen as a monster. Kimi also was forced to go under training so that she could once again increase her strength so that she wouldn’t die from rejection. She was also forced to prevent the demonic side of her that threatened to overtake her mind, and instead found a medium to protect her mind. She had combat skills from her time in the lab and ultimately decided to become a martial artist to satisfy her thirst for a fight and to further hone her body to become stronger. Ultimately, all she desired was to survive and to live her life as normally as she would possibly be able to do so again.
Techniques
[OT2] Claw Slash: Kimi slashes at her opponent with the claws of her demonic arm. It’s a simple, yet effective move that can leave the target debilitated. [PHYSICAL]
[OT1] Enhanced Strike: Channeling her strength across her body, Kimi is capable of striking an opponent with one powered strike to take them down quickly. [PHYSICAL]
[DT1] Rough Block: Utilizing the rough and tough skin on her demonic limbs to take the brunt of an attack, Kimi is able to defend herself against incoming attacks.
[ST-1] Demonic Wraps [Ki Suppression]: With wraps on her limbs, Kimi is capable of hiding the demonic energy and masking the natural power her body gives off, allowing her to blend in better with a crowd and become more difficult to detect. This flavorfully also reduces her demonic urges. This typically breaks when she gets into combat
[ST-2] Demonic Wraps [Ki Setting]: With her wraps, Kimi is also capable of "setting" her PL, allowing her to fight at a lower level than what her actual power level is on.
Roleplay Sample
"So Miss Ono, is there anything else you would like to ask about our company?"
Yes. Yes, there was actually. But staying here any longer was a risk that Kimi was not willing to take. Everything today had gone eerily smoothly. The commute worked out, she had managed to arrive at the interview on time and for once she wasn't feeling crummy like she wanted to wrap her hand around the interviewer's neck. For now, she could sit there and close smile and her left hand balled up so tightly into a fist to prevent her from acting out. Nothing had set her off so far and everything was perfect. For once, maybe she actually did have a chance at getting a job that could stick and she could turn her life for the better. Still, everything was almost too amazing.
Silently, she hoped that the interviewer thought she was nervously fidgeting due to the fact that this was an interview. Kimi would need to play into the role of the nervous interviewer more, forcing herself to fidget as she tried to find the next words to fit into her mouth. "Yes, what are some of the benefits that may come from working at Burger Mart?" Well, not that she expected anything major. It was a fast food place for goodness sake. She'd honestly be surprised if she could make enough money to get a suitable living. Honestly, if she was even lucky enough to land this gig she still had to find another one which was a whole another nightmare to worry about. Ugh, thinking about it already made her tired, but being exhausted was still much better than having too much energy. This was the whole reason why she kept trying to make sure she wouldn't have too much free time left, especially when boredom seems to be a trigger.
"Ah, one moment please." The interviewer said, flipping through his clipboard. She nodded, not particularly caring what exactly they had to offer, but it would be a good idea to hear them out either way. A swear would soon reach her ears, followed by an intoxicating scent. "Sorry, excuse my language, Miss Ono. I'll be right back." He said, standing up. As he turned around, Kimi soon saw the drop of blood dribbling down his finger, finding herself almost mesmerized by the sight. Her mind, once tracked upon the interview, was completely arrested by the blood. Her stomach growled, clearly unhappy and unsatisfied from the dinner of cheap frozen steaks she had consumed last night. No, animal flesh would never be enough. She needed something human and far fresher. No, she had to help with the kill.
Upon recognizing this, her right hand clenched at her left wrist as Kimi found herself unconsciously raising it towards the man. Even though the wraps, it had managed to defy her sometimes. It knew that it didn't belong to her and it would never accept her as her master, forcing her to get the nutrients that it needed. While she was willing to listen sometimes, for the sake of staying alive, she wasn't about to let this darkness of hers control her life. She especially wasn't about to let it ruin the one chance she had at making money!
But still, sometimes it felt like it had more control than she did, even if it was just a small fraction of her body. Her grip upon her own wrist loosened, as she pushed off her left leg moving towards the interviewer who was fidgeting with a band-aid. For a brief moment, her only goal was to get to the man, sink her hand into his throat, and then finally sink her teeth into his flesh. Anywhere would do, so long as she saw the spray of blood. The act of eating didn't matter as much as the act of killing itself. She needed to take a life with her hands.
"Um, Miss Ono?" The interviewer said noticing how she was advancing toward him. "You can sit down, I'll be alright. We'll continue the interview momentarily." It was funny to think that he had control of the situation. For all she cared, he was nothing more than an easy target that was begging to be eaten. Why else would you flaunt your blood so recklessly like that? Kimi's arm twitched, begging to be released from its prison. An easy victim was right here in front of her, so why did she restrain herself? It would be far easier to give in to her urges. There was no time like the present.
"Yes, maybe in a moment." She mused, her voice taking a different tone. She could see the growing fear in his eyes, and it made her pleased. He was right here. Kimi just had to put a little force in and it would be all over. A fleshy human body could not compete with her form. It was almost unfair. Just as she reached her arm out, as it finally entered her vision, her human hand once again grabbed at her wrist, bringing her back into reality.
She had almost found herself consumed by those thoughts again. While the wraps were great at limiting her power and controlling her thoughts, Kimi had almost forgotten how vulnerable she still was. They couldn't get rid of them completely, especially with external triggers. Still, it was up to her to identify these thoughts and put a stop to them before they went out of control like they just had. No, it was up to her to wrestle control back from the steering wheel. What made it even worse was the fact that this wasn't the first time this happened. Her cheeks turned a bright red upon realizing what happened, forcing her arm back down to her side. "I'm sorry." She said meekly before spinning around. "I'll see myself out."
She wouldn't even wait to hear what he had to say. Kimi was well aware of how much of a fool that she had looked like. However, she was growing used to this song and dance, even if she didn't like it. Failing an interview in this manner was far preferable to taking a life. Even if the hot tears squeezing out of her eyes burned, and she probably wouldn't be able to go to the other scheduled interviews she had after what had happened today (for their safety), this was the life she had lived. It was her dumb fault for getting herself in this mess, and she just would have to live with it. There was nothing else that could be done.
Yes. Yes, there was actually. But staying here any longer was a risk that Kimi was not willing to take. Everything today had gone eerily smoothly. The commute worked out, she had managed to arrive at the interview on time and for once she wasn't feeling crummy like she wanted to wrap her hand around the interviewer's neck. For now, she could sit there and close smile and her left hand balled up so tightly into a fist to prevent her from acting out. Nothing had set her off so far and everything was perfect. For once, maybe she actually did have a chance at getting a job that could stick and she could turn her life for the better. Still, everything was almost too amazing.
Silently, she hoped that the interviewer thought she was nervously fidgeting due to the fact that this was an interview. Kimi would need to play into the role of the nervous interviewer more, forcing herself to fidget as she tried to find the next words to fit into her mouth. "Yes, what are some of the benefits that may come from working at Burger Mart?" Well, not that she expected anything major. It was a fast food place for goodness sake. She'd honestly be surprised if she could make enough money to get a suitable living. Honestly, if she was even lucky enough to land this gig she still had to find another one which was a whole another nightmare to worry about. Ugh, thinking about it already made her tired, but being exhausted was still much better than having too much energy. This was the whole reason why she kept trying to make sure she wouldn't have too much free time left, especially when boredom seems to be a trigger.
"Ah, one moment please." The interviewer said, flipping through his clipboard. She nodded, not particularly caring what exactly they had to offer, but it would be a good idea to hear them out either way. A swear would soon reach her ears, followed by an intoxicating scent. "Sorry, excuse my language, Miss Ono. I'll be right back." He said, standing up. As he turned around, Kimi soon saw the drop of blood dribbling down his finger, finding herself almost mesmerized by the sight. Her mind, once tracked upon the interview, was completely arrested by the blood. Her stomach growled, clearly unhappy and unsatisfied from the dinner of cheap frozen steaks she had consumed last night. No, animal flesh would never be enough. She needed something human and far fresher. No, she had to help with the kill.
Upon recognizing this, her right hand clenched at her left wrist as Kimi found herself unconsciously raising it towards the man. Even though the wraps, it had managed to defy her sometimes. It knew that it didn't belong to her and it would never accept her as her master, forcing her to get the nutrients that it needed. While she was willing to listen sometimes, for the sake of staying alive, she wasn't about to let this darkness of hers control her life. She especially wasn't about to let it ruin the one chance she had at making money!
But still, sometimes it felt like it had more control than she did, even if it was just a small fraction of her body. Her grip upon her own wrist loosened, as she pushed off her left leg moving towards the interviewer who was fidgeting with a band-aid. For a brief moment, her only goal was to get to the man, sink her hand into his throat, and then finally sink her teeth into his flesh. Anywhere would do, so long as she saw the spray of blood. The act of eating didn't matter as much as the act of killing itself. She needed to take a life with her hands.
"Um, Miss Ono?" The interviewer said noticing how she was advancing toward him. "You can sit down, I'll be alright. We'll continue the interview momentarily." It was funny to think that he had control of the situation. For all she cared, he was nothing more than an easy target that was begging to be eaten. Why else would you flaunt your blood so recklessly like that? Kimi's arm twitched, begging to be released from its prison. An easy victim was right here in front of her, so why did she restrain herself? It would be far easier to give in to her urges. There was no time like the present.
"Yes, maybe in a moment." She mused, her voice taking a different tone. She could see the growing fear in his eyes, and it made her pleased. He was right here. Kimi just had to put a little force in and it would be all over. A fleshy human body could not compete with her form. It was almost unfair. Just as she reached her arm out, as it finally entered her vision, her human hand once again grabbed at her wrist, bringing her back into reality.
She had almost found herself consumed by those thoughts again. While the wraps were great at limiting her power and controlling her thoughts, Kimi had almost forgotten how vulnerable she still was. They couldn't get rid of them completely, especially with external triggers. Still, it was up to her to identify these thoughts and put a stop to them before they went out of control like they just had. No, it was up to her to wrestle control back from the steering wheel. What made it even worse was the fact that this wasn't the first time this happened. Her cheeks turned a bright red upon realizing what happened, forcing her arm back down to her side. "I'm sorry." She said meekly before spinning around. "I'll see myself out."
She wouldn't even wait to hear what he had to say. Kimi was well aware of how much of a fool that she had looked like. However, she was growing used to this song and dance, even if she didn't like it. Failing an interview in this manner was far preferable to taking a life. Even if the hot tears squeezing out of her eyes burned, and she probably wouldn't be able to go to the other scheduled interviews she had after what had happened today (for their safety), this was the life she had lived. It was her dumb fault for getting herself in this mess, and she just would have to live with it. There was nothing else that could be done.
Original Art from Ishida1694, ArtsyKitty and Mokaya
