#fragmenteddeity

[multimusewonderland]

@fragmented-deity sent: Name: Innerste... or Mephiles, I suppose Age: ...Around 200 or so years old... minimum. Do you like to cuddle?: ...Yes. Can we make-out?: If you would like. A night in or dinner out?: Night in is preferred, but if you want dinner out I am not opposed either. Whip cream or chocolate syrup?: ...chocolate syrup. Chocolates and roses?: ...I'm not sure this was meant to be an "and" question, but you would receive both. Though the roses may not be the stereotypical red roses. What makes you a good Valentine?: I am unsure how to answer this, I have never been or had a Valentine. Would you cook for me?: I would try my best to. Would you let me cook for you?: Yes. Where would you take me on a date?: I would take you to see a meteor shower. Who’s paying?: If money is necessary, me. What did you get me for Valentine’s Day?: Snapdragons (grace and strength, deviousness), Coriander (Hidden worth/merit), blue violets (Watchfulness, faithfulness, I'll always be there), and Irises (Faith, trust, wisdom, hope, valor) and dark chocolate covered coffee beans...?

Valentine Applications

"... ... ..."

With the flowers balanced in the crook of one arm and the application clutched in his free hand, Shadow stared at the latter for a long, long time, struggling to process both the words and the sender. He'd need to read it again later to decide if the date was worth it- that was not what he was thinking about.

Innerste was not only a fragment of a god, but he had Shadow's face, and he was-

he was-

Shadow's thoughts, jumbled and tangled up like the inside of a poorly wired machine, came to a sudden halt as he remembered what happened in Tears of Soleanna. If that was real for Mephi- Innerste, then...

Rigidly, he put the flowers aside - Gaia, they really were pretty - before coming back to stand in front of his mirror, trying his best to hide his turbulent emotions.

"Innerste," Shadow started, "did you kill Sonic in your world?"

The way he was staring left "I don't care if he came back to life, I need to know" implied, but still unsaid.

[fortruechaos]

@fragmented-deity said: " you can't understand . not unless you were there . "

Oh for the love of --Shadow rolls his eyes. Is this how he sounded for so long? Everyone so wrapped up in their microcosmic worlds, too infatuated with licking their own wounds to realize the world is still turning, the days are still going, the wars keep raging. It's honestly a miracle no one gave up on him. For every person Shadow meets that sounded just like he did, the more his gratitude for the ones who kept him in his life grows.

"I won't claim to understand the particulars. Just as you cannot understand the particulars of my life. But as the Ultimate Lifeform, I can tell you I probably get the picture." Arms come to fold in front of his chest. "But sure. Make that decision for me. What do I care. Tch." Mephiles has done nothing to deserve his pity, but perhaps it's his self-frustration that spurs Shadow's retort.

[reflections-of-mobius]

[ @fragmented-deity || DM'd for an Event Starter!]

He couldn't stand it. The rage burning through his every vein, the need to destroy, to take out this violence on something- anything. Shadow was trying to just breathe as he marched through the streets, rain daring to fall onto his quills- trying to wet his fur, failing to get to skin.

They'd taken EVERYTHING from him.

Red-orange hues were narrowed. He'd escaped that island-- had they really thought such a thing could contain him? They'd been sorely mistaken.

And he was going to make sure they learned their damn lesson.

A light flashed overhead- blinding him for a moment, sensing something amiss. Vehicles were pulling up- tanks and vans, each with that loathed logo on their sides. A single G, the sign of the one organization he wanted to tear apart. They'd taken what was his. Wasn't it only fair he get his pound of flesh?

"....you tell me what you did to them...or I will destroy you." His voice was quiet- shaking with rage, unable to contain the hateful wrath that burned in his chest. He needed. Needed. Vengeance. Anything--- to give that life meaning. The life he knew was snuffed- what else could that pain have been, that he'd felt before they'd disappeared from his dreams? Right before he'd woken up?

Whether an act of providence or otherwise, Shadow didn't give a single damn what had allowed him to escape such a predicament. So long as he could have his vengeance, so long as he could at least see them off. He didn't doubt these bastards hadn't bothered- what had they gone through? What had they felt in those final moments?

Whatever it was, he'd make these soldiers pay a hundredfold.

"Put your hands behind your--- head!" One of the soldiers tried to command.

[a0iakuma]

What sort of comfort was that? Was it even truly meant to be comforting? To his knowledge, the blue whelp didn't even remember him, not really. Time had ways of correcting itself so that there was a sort of reasonable patch to the events when they began over again... without completely taking away the effect of the events on the body. "...Was that meant to help me?" The deity fragment scoffed, huffing. As weak as he is, he's not about to take on the God Destroyer on his own. Especially not in this state. He'd only ever got one lucky shot, after all. And even that hadn't stuck. "I don't expect everyone to have answers." He gets... a bit snippy, the crystalline ears snapping back flat as his mouthless and nose less features do their best to attempt an irritated, angry look. "I expected there at minimum to be some form of... remnants." He muttered cryptically. But, of course, there wasn't. Mentions of his whole self were... sparse, damaged, or otherwise unrecognizable. He was lucky they existed at all. As his removal from the timeline had been after a long period of existence. And truly, at this point. That was all he wanted. To exist. continued from here / @fragmented-deity

Was that meant to help me? “ Yeah..? ” The line usually works, it works for someone like Tails! This may be more of a head-scratcher. His blue ears twitched a bit, pondering while looking at the other. Sonic had a strange sense of deja vu. Weird. Where has he seen that look? ( or lack thereof ).

Ah well, if he can't remember it then surely it's not important right? But the whole deja vu feeling may bother him for a while. Sonic stares at the other, staring at supposedly a grumpy look? Yeah, that's a grumpy look.

“ I've been around here now and again and I know the best information you can get is from the older generation. Younger people can help so much, you know? And elders probably would love to catch your ear off about something that even younger people don't know about. Just my two cents. ”

But he was sure there's answers somewhere. Yeah, nobody had all the answers. But it's not fully gone yet.

“ You just got to look deeper, or maybe the answers aren't solely in Soleanna. ”

[timeclipsed]

🕯️- @fragmented-deity (Innerste go brrr)

send me 🕯️to hear my character's inner thoughts about your character. (status — closed!)

Oh goodie, they're multiplying. Because the thing this multiverse needs most is multiple variations of Shadow per timeline. Or... I mean, is this guy even Shadow at all? What's his deal?... Whatever, they're spawning like Dollar Generals. Or that one kid who interrupted the Game Awards. And I hate that. I swear, if this guy has some stupid tragic anime backstory that I have to sit through too, I'm gonna eat my shoes.

[segagrls]

“why do you have that look on your face?” - @fragmented-deity (could be bc he looks like Shadow but is Not Shadow. For Surge!)

random dialogue prompts || ACCEPTING // @fragmented-deity

⚡"...What look on my face?" They genuinely were mostly just trying to decipher why the other looked different. But then again, there was something different about the air to the electric using tenrec. Their ear flickered slightly as they stayed where they were, arms crossed as they leaned against a nearby wall.

[chaossensitive]

@fragmented-deity asked:

Innerste promptly flops in front of the two hedgehogs. There is no preamble, he just flops down, face-planting on the hard ground with a muffled noise that sounds vaguely tired.

Out of the two hedgehogs, only one of them vaguely recognized the shape of the one that fell onto the ground before them. Long enough to stop the hero from racing forward right away to check and make sure the other was alright. Worry and confusion held deep in emerald hues as they went from the form to Shadow and back.

"Shads. Come on. They could be hurt..." A little more coaxing before he relented and both approach. Only the speedster knelt. "Hey... Ya okay? What happened? Do ya need us to call ya an ambulance?"

Rapid fire questions as a tan hand reached out to give a gentle nudge to one shoulder.

[multimusewonderland]

Ah. Right. The application. Right. Right. That- right.

"...Okay. I'll admit the thought was there, but I don't know what will actually end up happening. Happy now?"

What thought? He's not admitting that.

“YOU TALKED ABOUT IT, THO.”

Stare of not taking his shit™️

“ACCEPT WHAT YOU ARE YOU GAIADAMNED GAYASS”

[thepickyprincess]

“Beauty or Brains? F*ck that, it’s not a dichotomy. Let’s not act like mascara glues girls eyes so shut that they can’t read a word of Dickens or solve a trig problem. Let’s talk about how no boy has ever been asked if he’d rather get his Bachelor’s or get married; no boy has ever been told that he’s too handsome to run for office. So why cover up my tits so you can take me seriously? Beauty or brains? I’ll take ‘em all, thanks." —Gabrielle (tumblr-user @fragmentedd) Happy #InternationalWomesDay To all of you beautiful and brainy BadAsses out there! #thepickyprincess #womensday #InternationalWomensDay2020 #feminist #beautyandbrains (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9fYOwKBGhO/?igshid=rvblfloy90tq

[multimusewonderland]

@fragmented-deity sent: 🕯️- Innerste/Mephiles in relation to Shadow (or any other Sonic muse you may have high muse motivation for!)

Inner Thoughts

"Mephiles... It's unsettling to think that the character I played as for a movie is, in some other universe, real. It's a good thing we aren't filming anymore. Unless I've just "jinxed it", and Silver's father decides he needs a sequel."

"Regardless, I'm glad that he does not act the way he did in Tears of Soleanna. Yes, even if he still steals my appearance."

"...I wonder if he would find humor in the movie version of him. Most likely not. I should at least ask him how to pronounce his name. Maybe I'll remember this time. Hah."

[fortruechaos]

@fragmented-deity

"You know, Innerste," Shadow begins, eyeing the green eyes in his shadow, "When you came out to talk to Knuckles yourself, I didn't think you would fall over like that. Aren't you supposed to be a god." Less question more sentence. A joke, even. The noodle-like proportions of mobini had really come out when Innerste had decided it was safe enough to talk with the Guardian himself, and it had taken Knuckles all of a second or two to go from being surprised to laughing over it. At least he'd agreed to help...

[multimusewonderland]

@fragmented-deity sent: "Throw a Pokeball at" + Shadow Innerste is going to (carefully, so he doesn't give the hog a concussion) use a Fast Ball. He figures Shadow's speed at least has to be high enough for the four times increased catch rate to work.

Catch them if you can!

Innerste throws the Fast Ball! Shadow's speed is definitely high enough for that increased catch rate.

It shakes once, lingers for a while, then shakes a second time.

... ... ...

... ... ...

... ...

...Click! The wild Shadow has been caught! It... admittedly helps that the Pokeball wasn't thrown at him so violently.

[multimusewonderland]

@fragmented-deity sent: Woe, Innerste upon the dark hedgehog. He's gonna pick him up, hands wrapped around Shadow's hips to lift him from that point. Krrrkrkrr... There's a very slow clicking sound as Innerste purrs.

"--!!!"

Shadow instinctively wriggled as hands wrapped around his hips from behind and lifted him away from the ground, putting his own hands over them, star-shaped quills bristling. Maybe if he was someone else, he would've picked up on Innerste's scent.

As it was, Shadow's sense of smell of was far too weak; he instead had to rely on looking back...

"Oh."

...and relaxing significantly, especially when Innerste began purring, the sound pleasant to his ears. Still, Shadow didn't understand what seemed to be so appealing about picking him up. Why did it keep happening? Was it because his status as the "Ultimate Lifeform" made it funny to manhandle him, or was it something else?

"...Hello, Innerste," the hedgehog greeted the god fragment all the same, "I didn't know it was you."

[multimusewonderland]

"... ... ..."

What a day. He's going to go hide on Angel Island until his thoughts stop being spaghetti from certain things.

[a0iakuma]

A sheepish smile immediately plastered on his face when the other pointed it out. Yeah, he had no idea. Not to some extent. However, it doesn't stop him from trying at least. If someone needed help, then Sonic would do his best. He's definitely no stranger to doing errands here and there. He had stories of the things he had to do. ( Including finding a soulmate for some girl in Mazuri. )

“ Heh. I suppose not, but... ” His words paused, a gloved hand scratching at the back of his head; in between the quills.

Then he frowns. He'd seen things lost to people, an entire city destroyed by water. So many things water-logged, nothing can survive that. So he can understand. Losing something and knowing it was beyond repair and survival. Can't blame him for feeling upset in the moment.

“ I've been around the world so many times that I can't even count. I just don't have that much religious knowledge. If even the Churches of Soleanna don't contain records. Then... I don't know what you can do? Unless. ”

An idea popped into his mind like a lightbulb. The sudden thought caused his ears to poke up straight. As if the idea both alerted him and excited him.

“ Go back in time? If something isn't in the present, then it should be in the past? As long as you don't step on any butterflies. Though maybe it'll be tricky. Considering the time stones. Or something more powerful. I swear... I remember something else working but I can't put my finger on it! Fuck. ”

Despite his weakened state, somehow the pun makes him want to punch the blue whelp. Not that such will get him anywhere but possibly tossed back out of the timeline.

"... You have no idea what I am looking for, do you?" Mephiles is blunt in his question, a huffing sigh leaving him as he switched to a less energy consuming form, now looking more like a desaturated version of Shadow.

The blue hedgehog wouldn't remember him, but clearly something remained in his subconscious, as he did notice the way the other peered at him, like he couldn't put his finger on where he'd seen him before.

It was for the best. If Sonic remembered him... well, he doubted the blue hedgehog would be allowing him around without taking him down. Threat in this state or not.

"...I am looking for records regarding the Sun God and God of Time, Solaris. The deity is associated strongly with Soleanna. Hence my... narrow search." Mephiles revealed, leaving out that he was a fragment of said deity.

There was no need to reveal such information. Not yet, at least.

"What I have managed to find is usually... damaged beyond repair. Illegible." He tries, and fails, to keep the upset tone out of his voice. What deity fragment wouldn't be upset knowing that all traces of you from previous records had been rendered illegible?

[multimusewonderland]

What way do you like Innerste, Shadow?

"... ... ..."

You couldn't just ask him that. Not when he was still disentangling everything in his mind, especially when it came to Innerste's appearance mirroring his, and trying to figure out if this - whatever "this" was - was a good idea.

How the hell was he supposed to answer that?

Shadow opened his mouth, then shut it again. He was still digging for a sensible answer that he wouldn't come to regret later.

"...I don't know," he finally admitted, "I'm still trying to find out."